While we are waiting to see whether his latest series The Bodyguard will replace Poldark in the primetime slot on BBC next Sunday (I have a feeling it
Richard Madden will play Elton John's manager
will), our dearest Richard Madden will try to get a few gigs set for Elton John!
As 'Variety' reports, he will play his manager John Reid in ROCKET MAN
musical movie about his life. You already know that the latest Robin
Hood Taron Egerton is actually playing Elton John in the film (and
singing too), while Jamie Bell is also on board to play song writer Bernie Taupin!
Reed, legendary music manager in the ’70s and ’80s who also helped with
Queen’s rise to fame was John manager for thirty years till 1998. At
some point they were also lovers, but their romance ended after five
years following the leak of a letter from John’s accountants detailing
Reid’s spending. The two would continue to work together professionally
until 1998.
ROBBIE AMELL'S 'UPLOAD'
GETS FULL UPLOAD ON AMAZON
Robbie Amell will lead new fantasy sitcom
Speaking of handsome gents, here's another one for you this Monday: Robbie Amell's new science fiction comedy series UPLOAD has been picked up by Amazon to series! This new mix of a sitcom and fantasy series, will take place in the near future, where people who are near death can be “uploaded” into a virtual afterlife of their choice. In 2033, secretly romantic Brooklyn born Nora (Andy Allo) works customer service for a luxurious virtual reality environment. When handsome L.A. party boy Nathan’s (Robbie Amell) self driving car crashes, his high maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.
It is almost around the corner, spylings, new heartwarming family adventure CHRISTOPHER ROBIN will bring Pooh and his friends into cinemas August 3rd, which is next week! With Mark Foster (who isn't a stranger when it comes to movies based on writers or book characters) behind the helm, this mix of live action movie and CGI was inspired by the creator of the popular children's story A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's book Winnie-the-Pooh! Ewan McGregor leads the cast in the new Disney movie!
Mark Forster directed the new movie
THE STORY OF CHRIST OPHER ROBIN
follows an adult Christopher
Robin, who is now focused on his new life, work, and family, but he
suddenly meets his old friend Winnie the Pooh, who returns to his
unforgotten childhood past to help him return to the Hundred Acre Wood
and help find Pooh's lost friends. Christopher Robin is in trouble
himself as he has lost all sense of
Ewan McGregor leads the cast
imagination obsessed with constant
work and is even in danger of losing his wife and kids if Pooh doesn't
awake the child in him again.
CAST OF CHRIST OPHER ROBIN
is lead by Ewan McGregor as Christopher Robin, a businessman who was once an imaginative boy, with
Orton O'Brien appearing in the film as young Christopher Robin!
Hayley Atwell, meanwhile, is Evelyn Robin, Christopher's wife.
Bronte Carmichael appears as Madeline Robin, Christopher's daughter with Mark Gatiss as Giles Winslow, Christopher's boss. When it comes to voices of Robin's friends,
The Animals from the Hundred Acre Wood are here to help Robin again
Jim Cummings lends his to both
Winnie the Pooh, a honey loving plush toy bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood, and Tigger, a toy tiger who loves to bounce on his tail like a spring.
Brad Garrett is Eeyore, a toy donkey who
The movie is dedicated to composer Johann Johannson who died during production
always loses his tail and talks with a deep depressing voice and tone.
Toby Jones is the wise Owl, while
Nick Mohammed is Piglet, a diminutive toy pig who is afraid of everything but has a big heart. Sophie Okonedo is Kanga, a toy kangaroo!
REVENGE STORY STARRING JIM BROADBENT AND HUGO WEAVING
Black 47 should hit cinemas in UK this September
A bunch of new trailers and posters today, first up historical revenge thriller BLACK 47 which has a rather thespian cast including Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, Moe Dunford with James Frecheville playing an Irish Ranger during the Great Famine of 1847, who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, but abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family. He swears vengeance. His old British Army
comrade Hannah
The movie was directed and written by Lance Daly
(played by Hugo Weaving) is then dispatched to put an end to Feeney's uprising! The movie based on a story by P.J. Dillon hits British cinemas September 28th and Irish ones a few weeks before.
'AN ACTOR PREPARES' TRAILER
AND POSTER WITH JEREMY IRONS
An Actor Prepares to come out next month!
New poster has also been released for another stellar movie AN ACTOR PREPARES starring Jeremy Irons, Matthew Modine and Jack Huston! After suffering a heart attack, a famous, hard drinking actor, Atticus Smith (Jeremy Irons) is forced to drive across country to make it in time for his daughter's wedding. Atticus’ only hope of making the wedding lies with his estranged son, Adam (Jack Huston), who wants nothing to do with him. As they set out on their trip, they become closer realizing they're more alike than they thought. This one hits Northern American cinemas August 31st directed by Steve Clark!
'THE HAPPY PRINCE' POSTER
WITH RUPERT EVERETT & COLIN MORGAN & COLIN FIRTH
The Happy Prince finally arrives to US cinemas in October
A new trailer and a poster have also been released for Rupert Everett's (he stars, directs and writes) THE HAPPY PRINCE period set drama on famous Oscar Wilde, ahead of its Northern American release in October! The movie also features delightful Colin Morgan as his lover, famous poet Alfred Bosie and gorgeous Edwin Thomas as Robbie Ross. Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Colin Firth also star in the untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humour.
Continuing our presentation of new multicam sitcoms coming to the small screens this Autumn, today you can check out new photos and trailer for the return of MURPHY BROWN which comes back to CBS September 27th with new episodes decades after the original series was ended!
MURPHY HAS A SON! The revival of the ground-breaking comedy about the eponymous
broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a
world of 24-hour cable, social media, and a vastly different
political climate will see Candice
Jake McDorman will play Candice Bergen's son in the new episodes
Bergen taking the lead which made
her famous.
Amid a divided nation and chaotic national discourse Murphy decides to
return to the airwaves and recruits her FYI team: lifestyle reporter
Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), investigative journalist Frank Fontana (Joe
Regalbuto), and her former
Faith Ford and Grant Shaud also return to the news business
wunderkind news producer Miles Silverberg
(Grant Shaud).
Joining them is social media director Pat Patel, who is tasked with
bringing Murphy and the team into the 21st century. Murphy's millennial
son, Avery (Jake McDorman), shares his mother's competitive spirit and
quick wit, and is
Joe Regalbuto returns, the series will have a bar owner too in the cast
following in her journalistic footsteps — perhaps too
closely.
The team still lets off steam at Phil's Bar, now run by his sister,
Phyllis. Now back in the game, Murphy is determined to draw the line
between good television and honest reporting, proving that the world
needs Murphy Brown now more than ever.
'LAST MAN STANDING' TRAILER
I THINK I'VE SEEN A FOX!
Another beloved classic that returns victorious to TV after a year and a half long political exile from ABC, LAST MAN STANDING has a rather
Mike Baxter returns September 28th! On Fox!
delightful teaser announcing its move to Fox where it will start airing its brand new seventh season September 28th, Friday! Tim Allen returns as Mike Baxter, a sole man in the house with a wife and three daughters. Beside Allen and Nancy Travis as his wife, most of the old cast returns from Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders, Jordan Masterson, Jonathan Adams, to Hector Elizondo. There are news that Molly Ephraim and Flynn Morrison, who played Mandy and Boyd, will not be returning. But I also heard
that Eve, who has gone to air force academy, will be back but only as occasional guest star. Mandy will be
LMS ruled Friday evenings for six years and it returns to Friday evenings
recast. Which means that Mike has married off two of his daughters and sent the youngest to college, so he can now enjoy his wife alone in the house in their empty nest :) The Baxters will be joined, though, by a foreign exchange student from China!
MAX GREENFIELD ARRIVES TO CEDRIC ENTERTAINER'S HOOD!
Neighborhood will have 13 episodes in its first season
The spy is updating you with this Autumn's new multi camera sitcoms, starting with the new trailer and cast photos for NEIGHBOUR HOOD which starts airing at CBS Monday, October 1st in their new comedy lineup! Max Greenfield plays Dave (taking the role over from Josh Lawson who was cast in it in the pilot), the nicest guy in the Midwest who moves his family into a tough neighbourhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighbourliness. Cedric the Entertainer is his
Cedric The Entertainer and Tichina Arnold are the Butlers!
next door neighbour Calvin Butler, who regards the new family with disdain and as a pack of interlopers, with Tichina Arnold as his wife who judges
Beth Behrs and Max Greenfield are the lead stars
them by their knowledge of Scripture (non existent) and their church attendance record (shockingly poor!). Beth Behrs plays Dave's wife Gemma.
'HAPPY TOGETHER' TRAILER
NEW DAMON WAYANS JR SITCOM!
Also hitting CBS this Autumn, October 1st, is new multicamera sitcomHAPPY TOGETHER about a 30 something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star
Airing from October 1st, Happy Together will have 13 episodes
(Felix Malard) drawn to their super ordinary suburban life unexpectedly moves in with them. Jake (Damon Wayans Jr.), an accountant, and his dream wife, Claire (Amber Stevens West), a restaurant designer, are very
Amber Stevens West, Damon Wayans and Felix Malard lead the cast
comfortably settled into their marriage, enjoying evenings together on the couch watching TV and scheduling time to change their outgoing voicemail message. Their tame routine gets a makeover when Jake’s client, exuberant
Happy Together is produced by pop star Harry Styles
music superstar Cooper James, arrives on their doorstep looking for refuge from the paparazzi following a high-profile breakup with his girlfriend. Jake and Claire quickly discover there’s no way they can keep up with their world-famous houseguest’s effortlessly cool, fast-paced lifestyle. Cooper, however,
Chris Parnell, Victor Williams and Stephnie Weir star in Happy Together
enjoys Jake and Claire’s more relaxed way of life, discovering that a touch of ordinary can be extraordinary for all three of them. Stephnie Weir stars as Claire’s mother, Bonnie; Victor Williams stars as Claire’s father, Gerald; and Chris Parnell stars as Cooper’s agent, Wayne.
After a number of photos and a teaser, we finally have the first trailer and character photos from ITV's new period set series VANITY FAIR which will
Olivia Cooke the star of Spielberg's Ready Player One takes the lead
start airing this September in United Kingdom! Brand new costume drama based on William Thackeray's
famous novel, has the story set in the
First look at the lead cast of the new Vanity Fair series!
Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played
by Olivia Cooke. Check out the trailer below and first cast photos!
NEW VANITY FAIR The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen,
is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic
Wars, and follows
After airing on ITV in UK, Vanity Fair will air on Amazon too in US
modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw
her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her
story of villainy, crime,
The saga is based on William Thackeray's classic novel
merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing,
cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of
King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing
fortunes as she goes.
A RATHER STELLAR CAST INDEED
Her main love interest daft Captain Rawdon Crawley is played by Tom Bateman with Charlie Rowe as poor soldier George Osborne, Johnny
Claudia Jessie is Becky's confidante Amelia Sedley
Flynn as Dobbin, Martin Clunes as Sir Pitt Crawley, Frances de La Tour as Miss Matilda Crawley, Suranne Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton and
Charlie Rowe as George Osborne and Johnny Flynn as William Dobbin
Michael Palin as Thackeray himself. Claudia Jessie will play Becky’s confidante Amelia Sedley, with Simon Russell Beale and Claire Skinner
Vanity Fair will air in seven hourlong episodes
as her parents, and David Fynn as her brother Joss.Shot on locations around United Kingdom and Hungarian capitol Budapest, the series will later on also air on Amazon in USA!
FROM 'THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD' MOVIE
Dev Patel plays David Copperfield in the film
ADAPTATION
Period set delights for you today, beginning with photos arriving from the sets of Armando Iannucci'sbig screen version of THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD based on Charles Dickens’
semi autobiographical chronicle of the life of the iconic title
character! They show Dev Patel who takes the role of the titular hero. The story follows Copperfield in the 1840's as he
navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his
unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and
writer, all the while on a journey full of life, colour and humanity.
Dickens actually modelled the character after himself. You can also see Aneurin Barnard in the photos,
Aneurin Barnard, who is no stranger to period set projects, also stars
who is in the cast next to Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Ben Whishaw, Morfydd Clark, Anthony Welsh and Rosalind Eleazar!
1ST 'PETERLOO' TRAILER
FROM NEW MIKE LEIGH DRAMA
There's also the first trailer for another historical drama waiting to hit cinemas November this year - Mike Leigh's PETERLOO which charts the
This is Leigh's first movie after 2014 drama Mr Turner
1819 Peterloo Massacre when British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester where government backed cavalry charged into
At least 15 innocent people were left dead in the massacre
a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gathered to demand democratic reform. Maxine Peake, our dearest Nico Mirallegro and Rory Kinnear lead the cast!
The second trailer arrived this
weekend at Comic Con, for ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. The big screen adaptation of the popular manga comes from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez and has Rosa Salazar playing
the powerful cyborg but her face has been rendered with CGI to give her
the specific look. The movie comes out December 2Oth in parts of Europe, and then moves to North America a day after, to hit Russia and rest of Europe from January!
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
is an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the
Rosa Salazar plays an unusual cyborg Alita
scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz),
a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to
his clinic. When Alita
Ed Skrein plays a villain named Zapan
awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does
she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything
is new to Alita, every experience a
Jennifer Connelly is also in the cast of the movie
first. As she learns to navigate her
new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield
Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart
Alita will discover she's a battle angel next July!
new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson),
offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection
develops between the two until deadly forces
Oscar winner Mahershala Ali also stars in the movie
come after Alita and
threaten her new found relationships. It is then that Alita discovers
she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the
Alita has been made on a very risky massive $200 million budget
friends and family she's grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth
behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to
take on the
James Cameron left Alita's helm to direct new Avatars
injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that
one young woman can change the world in which she lives.
You know your trusted spy doesn't do superheroes, but we do believe DC has always been profoundly superior to Marvel and this one certainly looks brilliantly entertaining and visually majestic. The star of this weekend's Comic Con was definitely the first stunning trailer for AQUAMAN which is ready to swim into cinemas December 21st! The $160 million underwater adventure (two thirds of the film take place in the ocean) was directed by James Wan who wanted to make the movie less dark adding to it tons of romantic adventure and humour as well
The movie was directed by James Wan
STORY OF AQUA MAN Following the events of DC's previous all star hit movie Justice League, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa),
the reluctant ruler of the vast underwater kingdom of Atlantis, is suddenly caught in a fierce
battle between surface dwellers, that threaten his oceans, and his own
people, who are ready to lash out and invade the surface.
ARTHUR CURRY HEIR OF ATLANTIS
Arthur Curry is played again by Jason Momoa for the third time, he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis who must step forward to lead his
Aquaman's Atlantis consists of seven different underwater kingdoms!
people and to be a hero to the world just as his brother, Orm seeks to unite the seven kingdoms against the surface world. He has the ability to manipulate the
Jason Momoa is the heir of the crown of Atlantis!
tides of the ocean, communicate with other aquatic life, swim at supersonic speeds, and possesses superhuman strength. Kaan Guldur portrays a 9 year old Arthur Curry, and Otis Dhanji portrays a 13 year old Arthur.
PRINCESS MERA OF XEBEL
Mera, a warrior and daughter of the king of the Atlantean tribe of Xebel, is played by gorgeous Amber Heard. She was raised by Queen Atlanna and
Amber Heard is Mera, princess of Xebel, who can control water
groomed to become queen. Mera possesses hydrokinetic and telepathic powers that allow her to control her aquatic environment and communicate with other Atlanteans.
ORM THE OCEAN MASTER
Orm, also known as Ocean Master is played by America's best thespian Patrick Wilson. Aquaman's Atlantean half-brother and ruler of Atlantis
Patrick Wilson is Orm, Ocean Master, Aquaman's brother
seeks to unite the seven underwater kingdoms to declare war on the surface world out of belief humanity polluted the seas!
THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTIS The movie also includes Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Atlantis'
counsellor and Aquaman's mentor, Dolph Lundgren as King Nereus: The
Orm actually wants to united all seven kingdoms and become Ocean Master
king of the Atlantean tribe of Xebel and Mera's father.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as David Kane also known as Black Manta:
A ruthless treasure hunter and a high-seas mercenary with a flair
for creating deadly technological
Nicole Kidman's Queen Atlanna is actually dead in the movie!
innovations.
Nicole Kidman is Queen Atlanna: The Queen of Atlantis, mother of
Arthur Curry and Orm. Ludi Lin portrays Murk, the Captain of the
It has been revealed that the movie won't be a love story between Aquaman and Mera
Men-of-War, the frontline army of Atlantis, while Temuera Morrison
portrays Thomas Curry: Arthur Curry's father and a lighthouse keeper!
Djimon Hounsou, Natalia Safran, and Sophia Forrest play the
The warriors of Atlantis ride battle sharks and also sea dragons!
Fisherman
King, Fisherman Queen, and the Fisherman Princess whom Orm creates
alliance with as part of his plan to unite the seven kingdoms!
