SF TUESDAY: SHEKHAR KAPUR TO HELM FUTURISTIC 'ELIZABETH THE DARK AGE'? 'MUTE' SF TRAILER WITH ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, PAUL RUDD, JUSTIN THEROUX! SAM RAIMI TO HELM 'KINGKILLER CHRONICLE' MOVIE?

  SHEKHAR KAPUR TO PRODUCE

'ELIZABETH: THE DARK AGE'?

Elizabeth Dark Age would be a futuristic movie

Most of you know that some of your spy's favourite movies are marvellous historical dramas Elizabeth and Elizabeth Golden Age (that one especially) and that their helmer Shekhar Kapur is one of my fave directors (at least before he produced that hideous crap of series Will), and now it seems we might get a continuation ELIZABETH THE DARK AGE. Well, sort of. Speaking to Variety he said it will be a futuristic movie about Elizabeth in the future, the state of the monarchy and civilization, based on a dystopian view of what will happen in Europe and what will happen in the U.K. and the western world! It will follow a 19 year prostitute who is put on the throne of the monarchy, which has long since been dead and gone.

  'THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE'

SAM RAIMI TO DIRECT? 

KingKiller Chronicles have been sold in millions

Speaking of fantasy, rumour has it that Sam Raimi is negotiating with Lionsgate to direct their adaptation of sf classic THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE based on novels by Pat Rothfuss with Lin Manuel Miranda serving as creative producer. The project follows an adventurer and musician Kvothe, who survives a tragic childhood to become a notorious household name. Working as an innkeeper he tells the story of his life in a three day narration. The project is planned as a trilogy with Showtime planning a TV series which would expand the world from the novel.

  'MUTE' SF TRAILER

WITH ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, PAUL RUDD AND JUSTIN THEROUX

Mute airs on Netflix February 23rd!

First trailer has been revealed for Duncan Jones science fiction movie MUTE which is out on Netflix February 23rd! Berlin, the future, but close enough to feel familiar: In this loud, often brutal city, Leo (Alexander Skarsgard), unable to speak from a childhood accident, searches for his missing girlfriend, the love of his life, his salvation, through dark streets, frenzied plazas, and the full spectrum of the cities shadow dwellers. As he seeks answers, Leo finds himself mixed up with Cactus Bill (Paul Rudd) and Duck (Justin Theroux), a pair of irreverent US army surgeons on a mission all their own. The movie imagines a world of strange currencies in which echoes of love and humanity are still worth listening to.

TRAILERS AND POSTERS FOR 'HURRICANE HEIST' WITH RYAN KWANTEN, TOBY KEBBELL, BEN CROSS, 'SUBMERGENCE' WITH JAMES MCAVOY, ALICIA VIKANDER DIRECTED BY WIM WENDERS

  'THE HURRICANE HEIST'

$600 MILLION STOLEN AT 600MPH

The heist begins this Spring in cinemas

What better way to refresh your Monday than with some hurricane? New poster and trailer have been released for catastrophe action movie THE HURRICANE HEIST which should storm into cinemas this spring (February in some parts of Europe, March USA, April the rest of Europe including UK).

Our favourite Australian hunk Ryan Kwanten stars alongside Toby Kebbell and Maggie Grace and 80's TV superstar Ben Cross in an action packed story about thieves who attempt a massive high tech heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.

  'SUBMERGENCE' TRAILER

STARRING JAMES MCAVOY AND ALICIA VIKANDER

The movie is based on J.M.Ledgard's novel

There is also a new trailer and poster for another action drama SUBMERGENCE starring James McAvoy and overly present Alicia Vikander and directed by Wim Wenders. It is out in cinemas this May.

In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 1920'S EPIC TV SAGA 'MOROCCO: LOVE IN TIMES OF WAR' AIRING WORLDWIDE ON NETFLIX!

  NEW EPIC SERIES 'MOROCCO:

LOVE IN TIMES OF WAR'

The series is currently airing worldwide on Netflix

I know that your trusted spy often presents you with programmes you can't really catch on your respected networks and TV stations, but here is something that is currently airing on Netflix worldwide! New Spanish historical saga MOROCCO: LOVE IN TIMES OF WAR,  a thirteen episode series set in 1921, following nurse trainees from Madrid's upper class who open a hospital in Melilla for Rif War soldiers, finding friendship and romance while saving lives.

This Spanish saga has 13 hour long episodes

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS
In the 1920s, the Spanish Queen sends a group of barely trained young ladies of nobility to Morocco to provide much needed medical support for the wounded in the Spanish Moroccan war. Young, beautiful, ambitious Julia is one of these young upper class nurses who clash with their lower class colleagues once she arrives. But unlike all her female companions (and rivals), Julia is completely untrained and really only wants to find her fiancé and her brother, both Spanish soldiers and missing in combat. Secretly embarking on the mission but soon caught by unyielding head nurse Carmen, Julia has embarked on a life changing journey. Confronted first hand with the strife of the wounded and the hardships of the medical work at a field hospital, Julia and her fellow nurses Pilar, Magdalena and Veronica are forced to redefine their morals and priorities and come to a much deeper understanding of who they really are and what they really want from life …and love.Amaia Salamanca, Alex Garcia and Veronica Sanchez lead the cast.

NEW PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET PROJECTS 'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' WITH SAOIRSE RONAN, MARGOT ROBBIE, 'OUTLAW KING' WITH CHRIS PINE, 'MEDICI MASTERS OF FLORENCE: MAGNIFICENT' EPIC SEASON 2, 'VANITY FAIR' WITH OLIVIA COOKE!

  2018 EPIC PROJECTS PICS

'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS'!

Photo updates from some of our most anticipated 2018 period set projects this Saturday, people! The spy has found a few new photos from MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS which arrives (or possibly rides as you can see in one of

Notice the intricate details on Mary's gown!

the photos) into theatres this September starring two current Oscar nominees Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as English queen Elizabeth

Mary Queen of Scots riding a horse in a magnificent blue gown

depicted at the time when the Scottish queen plotted against her cousin Elizabeth in order to take over her throne which only led to her own demise.

Jack Lowden (left) plays one of Mary's husbands

Jack Lowden, David Tennant, Guy Pearce, Martin Compston, Brendan Coyle and Joe Alvyn also star. Spy on it more here!

  CHRIS PINE'S 'OUTLAW KING'
Beautiful horses and strange hairdos can also be seen in two new photos from the sets of THE OUTLAW KING from Netflix in which Chris Pine plays

Chris Pine plays legendary Scottish hero  Robert the Bruce

Scottish legend Robert the Bruce who, back in the 14th century, tried to bring his country freedom from English oppression. Aaron Taylor Johnson is his

The movie will feature a lot of riding scenes and battles

right hand another Scottish hero James Douglas with Florence Pugh and Callan Mulvey also in the cast. Spy on it more here!

ITV'S 'VANITY FAIR' EPIC SAGA

British ITV has, meanwhile, revealed key art for their new period set series VANITY FAIR featuring Olivia Cooke as the lead heroine Becky Sharp who

Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp from Thackeray's Vanity Fair

back in the 18th century tries to win better social status by hanging around aristocrats. Tom Bateman also stars. Spy on it more here!

  'MEDICI: MAGNIFICENT' SEASON 2
And a new photo arriving from Italy from the second season of MEDICI MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNIFICENT airing sometime this

Alessandra Mastronardi as Lady de Medici in the second season

spring. The new photo shows Alessandra Mastronardi who stars in the story of Lorenzo de Medici (Daniel Sharman) who is now the star of the show alongside his brother Giuliano (Bradley James). Spy on it more here!

SAM CLAFLIN TO GO 'ADRIFT' WITH SHAILENE WOODLEY & TO STAR IN 19TH CENTURY 'THE NIGHTINGALE' DRAMA! NEW TRAILER & POSTERS WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY FROM 'JOURNEY'S END' WW1 DRAMA

  SAM CLAFLIN TO STAR

IN 'ADRIFT' AND 'NIGHTINGALE'

Sam has also become a father last year!

You absolute adored him last year in heartbreaking Me Before You (for which he did not even get an Oscar nomination), Their Finest and in My Cousin Rachel, and this summer, in June, you will watch Sam Claflin in disaster thriller ADRIFT from director Baltasar Kormakur in which Shailene Woodley plays the female lead opposite Sam. They play avid sailors who set out on a journey across the ocean and encounter one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. Later this year, you will also watch lovely Sam Claflin in period set darma THE NIGHTINGALE set in 1825 Tasmania. A young convict woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family, takes an Aboriginal male outcast with her through the interior and gets much more than she bargained for.

  'JOURNEY'S END'

FINAL CHARACTER POSTERS

Sam Claflin leads his soldiers into battle

Speaking of our dearest British chap Sam Claflin, you can also check out new character posters and also a new trailer for his war drama JOURNEY'S END which is out in Europe next week exactly 100 years after the events of the Spring Offensive which it depicts! He plays heroic captain Stanhope in the big screen adaptation of the famous theatre play by R.C. Sherriff  alongside cast that also includes Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield and Tom Sturridge.

Saul Dibb directed the WW1 movie

IN FACE OF FEAR THEY FOUND STRENGTH IN EACH OTHER  
March, 1918. A dugout in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, northern France. Six soldiers from a British Army infantry company have four short days left before they climb over the top and charge, hopelessly, helplessly, into the waiting, heavily armed, enemy lines. It’s obvious suicide. The men know it. They feel it in their bones. And they spend their last four

The movie was shot to mark First World War Centenary!

days on Earth shifting between quiet contemplation, drunken rage, recrimination and eventual resignation — always undercut and underpinned by profound, and profoundly moving, brotherly love.

SKY & HBO MAKING 'CATHERINE THE GREAT' RUSSIAN 18TH CENTURY EMPRESS MINI TV SERIES WITH HELEN MIRREN! PARAMOUNT TV TURNS MARGARET ATWOOD'S 'MADDADDAM' SF SAGA INTO TV SERIES

  HELEN MIRREN TO RULE

Helen will portray the late life of the empress

AS EMPRESS 'CATHE- RINE THE GREAT'!

While they're currently enjoying the success of their Roman era series Britannia, which has been sold in over 120 countries around the world, and while we're waiting for the second season of their epic saga Jamestown to start in two weeks, British Sky Atlantic has just commissioned a new historical series CATHERINE THE GREAT and they hired Helen Mirren to lead the cast as the legendary Russian empress who came to power by throwing down her insane husband and then went on to make Russia's territory bigger than it ever was before! There were recently two series over in Russia on her!

The four part saga about the 18th century monarch will start shooting later this year written by Nigel Williams (Elizabeth I) and directed by Philip Martin (The Crown)! The story will depict Catherine at the end of her reign and her affair with Grigory Potemkin. HBO will air it in USA.

  'MADDADDAM'

ATWOOD'S SF SAGA TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

Paramount TV is producing the new series

And while you're waiting for the 2nd season of A Handmaid's Tale and watching Alias Grace, another of Margaret Atwood's works will be turned into TV series - her sf trilogy MADDADDAM! It is a story of a global pandemic and the end of mankind, and the small group of survivors who are left to shepherd a new race to inherit the world. The series follows Jimmy, a young boy disillusioned with the all powerful corporations who rule civilization, whose best friend will develop the drug that wipes out humanity; Toby and Ren, two members of the cult “God’s Gardeners” who fight to survive on the margins of society; and Zeb, one of the founders of “God’s Gardeners.”

CBS & NBC ORDER NEW MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS 'HISTORY OF THEM', 'I MOM SO HARD', 'LIKE FAMILY', 'SO CLOSE' , 'ABBY'S', 'PANDAS IN NEW YORK', 'FAM' AND 'FRIENDS IN LAW'! 'MURPHY BROWN' TO RETURN WITH NEW EPISODES! 'ALEXA & KATIE' SITCOM 1ST PICS

  2018 MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS

 CBS ORDERS 5 NEW COMEDIES

It's that part of the year when networks are starting to order pilots for potential new multicamera sitcoms, and here's what got ordered this week: CBS will do HISTORY OF THEM about how two friends, Luna (Ana

Lisa Vidal is mother of the family in History of Them

Villafane) and Adam (Brett Dier), meet and fall in love using their social media as a guide! Felix Solis, Lisa Vidal and Amit Shah also star. They've also ordered a pilot for I MOM SO HARD starring Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, in which two moms illustrate how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers. CBS has also announced a 13 episode return of MURPHY BROWN with Candice Bergen! Pilot for PANDAS IN NEW YORK follows a family of Indian doctors in New York whotry to arrange their youngest son’s life, unaware he’s made plans of his own. Aaron Kaplan's FAM follows a woman’s younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their train wreck of a father.

Felix Solis is father of the family in History of Them

FOUR NEW AT NBC
NBC has ordered pilots for multicam sitcoms LIKE FAMILY from Will & Grace Sean Hayes, about Aubrey and Artie who formed the tightest of sibling like bonds growing up together in foster care, but are discovering that such closeness makes adulthood even more complicated. SO CLOSE, from Will & Grace and Friends Greg Malins, centres on two hopeless romantics who, at crossroads in their separate lives, are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates. ABBY'S, from New Girl and Superstore writers, is set at an unlicensed bar in San Diego where the regulars

Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley from I Mom So Hard!

enthusiastically enforce a unique set of rules that give them a sense of community and allow them to avoid the frustrating behaviour found at other establishments. Coming from Cosby Show and Roseanne producer Tom

Gorgeous Brett Dier takes the male lead in History of Them sitcom

Werner FRIENDS IN LAW follows two men who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.

NETFLIX'S 'ALEXA & KATIE' PICS

Netflix has revealed 1st photos from their own new multicam sitcom ALEXA & KATIE which will start airing its 13 episodes from March 23rd! Created by Heather Wordham (Hannah Montana, Reba), it follows best friends Alexa

Tiffani Thiessen plays Alexa's caring mother.

(Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. Despite the fact that Alexa is

Heartwarming new sitcom starts March 23rd on Netflix

undergoing cancer treatment, her outgoing personality and enthusiasm for life never falter, especially with her loyal, quirky and awkwardly adorable best friend Katie by her side.Netflix has also renewed their best viewed comedy FULLER HOUSE for season 4!

'THE MERCY' CHARACTER POSTERS WITH COLIN FIRTH AND RACHEL WEISZ! 'THE MEG' PREHISTORIC SHARK MOVIE PHOTOS WITH JASON STATHAM!

  'THE MERCY' POSTERS WITH

Colin suffered hip dislocation during the shooting

COLIN FIRTH & RACHEL WEISZ

New character posters have been released featuring Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth from THE MERCY a true life drama movie scheduled to premiere this February from The Theory of Everything director James Marsh!

 ALONE AT SEA 
Colin plays yachtsman Donald Crowhurst whose disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account

The movie was directed by James Marsh

of travelling the world alone by sea. The adventure ended in disgrace and tragedy, after he duped family and race organisers (since neither him nor his boat were ready for the ocean crossing, he started sending false reports on his locations over the radio struggling to keep up the pretence), finally taking his life. Rachel Weisz who plays his wife is also joined in the cast by talented British thespians you love David Thewlis and Sam Hoare! Kate Winslet was originally supposed to play the role Weisz was given later on. Colin Firth is actually twenty years older than Crowhurst was when he started his race around the globe! Our

The Mercy is sailing into cinemas at the beginning of February

favourite Studiocanal is producing! Johann Johannsson who composed the music in Theory of Everything is doing the score for this movie as well!

  'THE MEG' PHOTOS WITH

JASON STATHAM & LI BINGBING

Shark arrives this August!

Also out are the first photos from the set of Jason Statham's action underwater drama THE MEG which is a sort of an aquatic Jurrasic Park since the main villain is a prehistoric shark megalodon! Based on a Steve Alten book it is out this August !

A PRE HISTO- RIC MEGA- LODON! 
A deep-sea submersible, part of an international undersea observation program, has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific with its crew

The movie was shot over at New Zealand!

trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to

Jason Statham and Li Bingbing lead the cast!

save the crew, and the ocean itself, from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying

It took more than 20 years for the book to find its way to the big screens

creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below… bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.

STUDIOCANAL TO ADAPT CHILDREN'S CLASSIC 'THE SECRET GARDEN' INTO A MOVIE! 'HURRICANE' WW2 MOVIE WITH IWAN RHEON, SAM HOARE, STEFANIE MARTINI

  'THE SECRET GARDEN'

TO BLOOM ON SCREEN AGAIN!

The new adaptation will be helmed by Marc Munden

Studiocanal, whose Paddington 2 is getting perfect scores currently in cinemas, is bringing us another delightful family project onto the big screens! As 'Deadline' reports, they have hired Marc Munden to direct a new movie version of famous classic novel THE SECRET GARDEN

Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett back in 1911, the story follows Mary Lennox, a troubled, sickly, little orphan who is sent to live with an uncle in England when her parents die in a cholera outbreak. Initially sour and rude, Mary begins to explore the grounds of her uncle’s estate and befriends a robin. After hearing of the walled garden, she sets out to find it, discovering it to be more magical than she ever could have imagined.

  'HURRICANE: SQUADRON 303'

A BRAVE NEW WW2 STORY

The movie will be out sometime next year

You can also check out the 1st poster for new war movie HURRICANE: SQUADRON 303 which has a rather British cast lead by Iwan Rheon, Sam Hoare and Stefanie Martini, alongside Mel's son Milo Gibson and Polish star Marcin Dorocinski. It is the story of a group of brave Poles who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed under Germans. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived.

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH 2018 TEENAGE FILMS + TRAILERS & POSTERS FOR ENCHANTINGLY BEAUTIFUL 'LOVE, SIMON' WITH NICK ROBINSON, DAVID LEVITHAN'S 'EVERY DAY' & 'PLEASE STAND BY' WITH DAKOTA FANNING, TONI COLLETTE

  HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE

 THROUGH 2018 TEEN MOVIES

You will see a lot of teenage novel big screen adaptations in the fresh 2018, people, from latest Maze Runner movie to the movie versions of Ernest

Jennifer Niven's book was translated by yours truly

Cline's Ready Player One from Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Bracken's Darkest Minds, Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places (with Elle Fanning), Garrard Conley's Boy Erased (with Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe), Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before and Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow.

DID YOU KNOW?

  Emily Danforth's The MisEducation of Cameron Post with Cloe Moretz is out this month too! John Bellair's The House with a Clock in Its Walls will star Cate Blanchett! Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle will star Alexandra Daddario! Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines movie is out December!

  'LOVE, SIMON'

1ST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMANCE

Nick Robinson is Simon in love!

Probably the most anticipated YA adaptation to arrive this year is movingly beautiful adaptation of Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda called LOVE, SIMON in the movie version which is hitting big screens this April starring lovely Nick Robinson in probably the first big studio romantic drama ever with two gays as the pair in love. Directed by Greg Berlanti LOVE, SIMON also stars Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner as Simon's parents, alongside Colton Haynes and Katherine Langford as his friends.

Love, Simon is out in cinemas this April

LOVE, SIMON wants you to know that everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it's complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous classmate is that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, scary and life changing. The movie comes from the same producers who brought is The Fault in Our Stars! The actor who plays Blue, the boy Simon is in love, is being kept a secret!

  'EVERY DAY'

FROM DAVID LEVITHAN

David Levithan's Every Day is out April

Based on David Levithan's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, EVERY DAY tells the story of Rhiannon (Angourie Rice), a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named "A" who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and "A" to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make. Also starring Colin Ford it is out this April!

  'PLEASE STAND BY'

 STARRING DAKOTA FANNING!

The first one out, as soon as next week January 26th is touchingly beautiful PLEASE STAND BY in which Dakota Fanning plays a young autistic

Enchantingly warm and beautiful Please Stand By is out next week

woman who runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition. Toni Collette also stars.

DISNEY'S 'SWORD IN THE STONE' LIVE ACTION REMAKE FINDS ITS DIRECTOR! PAUL BETTANY TO PLAY PRINCE PHILIP IN 'CROWN'? 'SIREN' MERMAID TV SERIES CAST PHOTO AND TEASER SWEPT ASHORE!

  'SWORD IN THE STONE'

DISNEY'S MOVIE FINDS DIRECTOR

It is based on T.H.White's book

As you already know Disney is doing a lot of live action remakes of their famous animated classics and one of them is also SWORD IN THE STONE which has just found its director in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later)! The 1963 animated hit was, as 'The Hollywood Reporter' writes, the final movie released by the studio before Walt Disney’s death!

The movie takes a light hearted view of the famous mediaeval legend of King Arthur, focusing on the young Arthur being mentored by the magician Merlin. This is not to be confused with another Disney's project on the same topic The Merlin Saga which might be helmed by Ridley Scott. That one follows young Merlin. Is generally grim and dark Fresnadillo the right director for this job?

   PAUL BETTANY TO PLAY

PRINCE PHILIP IN SEASONS 3 AND 4 OF 'THE CROWN'?

Over at Netflix, the latest gossip coming from Daily Mail say that Paul Bettany is currently negotiating to replace Matt Smith in their THE CROWN series playing a mature age Prince Philip. The 1970s and the 1980s

Paul Bettany is negotiating to play Prince Philip in seasons 3 and 4

in the life of the British monarch will see Helena Bonham Carter playing Princess Margaret and Olivia Colman taking over the role of queen Elizabeth II.

   'SIREN' TEASER

FOR NEW FREEFORM SERIES

FreeForm has released cast photo and a teaser for their new series SIREN which starts March 29th set in Bristol Cove, known for its legend of once being

Siren comes out of the ocean March 29th on FreeForm

home to mermaids! It is turned upside down when a mysterious girl (Eline Powell) appears and begins wreaking havoc upon the small fishing town. Using their resources, marine biologists Ben (Alex Roe) and Maddie (Fola

Alex Roe leads the cast of the new series

Evans-Akingbola) must work together to find out who and what drove this primal hunter of the deep sea to land, and are there more like her out there?

SENSATIONAL TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR CHINA'S MOST EXPENSIVE EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE EVER 'ASURA' OUT THIS SUMMER!

  FIRST 'ASURA' TRAILER

CHINA'S MOST EXPENSIVE FILM

The movie hits cinemas next summer

Some time ago, I have shown you the first pictures for a movie that has Oscar winning costume and set designers working on it and is considered to be the most expensive domestic movie ever produced in China with the costly budget of $100 million and today we have spectacular new posters and first absolutely mind blowing teaser trailer too! ASURA is an epic fantasy film loosely based on Buddhist mythology! Although done in Chinese, the movie will have an international cast and crew lead by director Peng Zhang who worked so far

Leo and Zhang are the leading couple in the movie

as a stunt coordinator in Hollywood movies. The rest of the international crew also includes Lord of the Rings Oscar winning costume designer Ngila

Lei Wu, known as Leo, left, is the newcomer to the big screens

Dickson,  sound designer Martín Hernandez  and visual effects supervisor Charlie Iturriaga who worked on Deadpool and Furious 7! Our dearest Trevor Morris is composing the score!

  WAR IN HEAVENS
The story is set in Asura, the dimension of pure desire according to ancient Buddhist mythology. The mythical realm is threatened by a coup from a lower heavenly kingdom and the story follows from there.

AN INTERNATIONAL CREW

As The Hollywood Reporter writes, sixteen year old Chinese rising star Lei Wu plays the film's young hero, alongside Hong Kong veterans Tony Leung

The movie is the second most expensive in all Asia!

and Carina Lau. Eighteen year old newcomer Zhang Yi Shang is the female lead and love interest. The international cast members include

Asura is dimension of desire in Buddhist mythology

American actor Matthew Knowles who is fluent in Mandarin and stars in Chinese TV series, Dragon Blade's Joel Adrian, Damien Walters, Caitlin

The movie has been shot all over China

Dechelle, Chinese Zodiac's Paul Philip Clark, Gigi Feshold, Warriors' Gate's Ron Smoorenburg, Jeannine Derbez, Joseph Castillo...  Shot all over China,

Most Chinese blockbusters don't go over $50 million in budget

the first movie of the possible trilogy, should hit cinemas this summer looking to break records that Monkey King 3 will most probably make next month during Chinese New Year!