STACEY HALLS' THE FAMILIARS 17TH CENTURY WITCH TRIAL NOVEL TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES! NEANDERTHALS ARE ALIVE IN SUPER INTRIGUING WILLIAM MOVIE TRAILER WITH WILL BRITTAIN

  'THE FAMILIARS' BESTSELLER

TO BE ADAPTED INTO 17TH CENTURY TV SERIES

Production house The Bureau (Lean on Pete) have bought small screen rights on THE FAMILIARS novel by Stacey Halls and will turn it into epic TV series about 17th century witch trials in Lancashire!

It follows Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a 17 year old pregnant noblewoman, who finds herself caught up in the witch trials when her midwife, Alice Gray, is

Nine major publishers auctioned for the novel in 2017

accused of witchcraft. Shuttleworth is pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn’t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. Then she crosses paths by chance with Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the north-west, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Soon the two women’s lives will become inextricably bound together as the trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood’s stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.

  'WILLIAM' TRAILER

 UR PAST WAS 35,000 YEARS AGO

William has limited release April 12th

I also have an exquisitely interesting trailer for you for new drama WILLIAM which hits cinemas next month following  star academics, Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan, who fall in love with each other and with the idea of cloning a Neanderthal from ancient DNA. Against the express directive of University administrators they follow through on this audacious idea. The result is WILLIAM (Will Brittain): the first Neanderthal to walk the earth for some 35,000 years. William tries his best to fit into the world around him. But his distinctive physical features and his unique way of thinking set him apart and

Super dashing Will Brittain plays the lead role of William

provoke fear. William's story is powerful and unique, but his struggle to find love and assert his own identity in a hostile world is universal and timeless. 

APOCALYPSE IS HERE IN THE SILENCE TRAILER WITH STANLEY TUCCI, MIRANDA OTTO, KIERNAN SHIPKA, AND MIGHT BE HERE SOON IN THE TOMORROW MAN TRAILER WITH JOHN LITHGOW, BLYTHE DANNER

  'THE SILENCE' TRAILER

The Silence hits Netflix worldwide next month

FOR SCARY NEW NETFLIX FILM

Trailer time today! First up, the one for Netflix' new post apocalyptic movie THE SILENCE starring Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, John Corbett and Kiernan Shipka which opens April 10 worldwide. It follows the story of a family struggling to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who have bred for decades in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system, hunting only

The Silence is based on the best selling book by Tim Lebbon

with their acute hearing. As the family seeks refuge in a remote haven where they can wait out the invasion, they start to wonder what kind of world will remain when they're ready to emerge.

  'THE TOMORROW MAN'

 HEARTWARMING TRAILER!

The Tomorrow Man arrives this May

Admittedly, a much prettier one, but also with an element of a possible apocalypse, is trailer for THE TOMORROW MAN in  which John Lithgow plays a man called Ed Hemsler who spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Blythe Danner is, meanwhile, playing a woman called Ronnie Meisner who spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff. The movie should North American theatres May 22nd this year.

RICHARD MADDEN, MARK STRONG, COLIN FIRTH, ANDREW SCOTT JOIN SAM MENDES' WW1 FILM 1917! THE DARK AGE EPIC TV SERIES SET IN A WORLD WITHOUT METAL

WW1 MOVIE '1917' ADS

 RICHARD MADDEN, MARK STRONG AND  COLIN FIRTH

This will be a great cast, indeed! Director Sam Mendes has lined up dashing British gents Richard Madden, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott and Mark Strong to star in his World War One drama 1917! The war drama will

Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Richard Madden have joined the movie

actually have George MacKay and Dean Charles Chapman as lead stars since the story of the movie with follow them as two young British soldiers during a single day at the height of the terrible war a year before its end.

George Mackay and Into the Badlands star Dean Chapman will lead the cast

Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Duburcq round up the rather stellar cast. This is Sam Mendes' first film after his work on James Bond movies and it also marks his return to Dreamworks. Shooting for the film scheduled for Christmas 2019 release, starts on Monday!

  'THE DARK AGE' SF SAGA

A WORLD WITHOUT ANY METAL!

Armory Films and Knightfall co-creator Don Handfield will turn THE DARK AGE, a sf comic book series to be published by Red 5 Comics, into TV series about the collapse of contemporary civilization in the wake of

The Dark Age is yet to be released as comics

mysterious calamity that transmutes every piece of workable metal on earth (tools, vehicles, guns, circuits, girders, etc.) into crumbling piles of rusted dust. Staggered by the loss of technology, humanity plunges into chaos until a violent feudal system takes shape and the surviving pockets of civilization are dominated by knights who wield weapons of wood and plastic. The story begins with Ethen Riker, an archaeology professor, his pregnant wife, Helen and his daughter Jonnie, enjoying a quiet lunch at a campus cafe. When his stirring spoon, then the table, then the metal foundations of the building itself suddenly crumble, Ethen rushes his family outside to witness the world quite literally coming to end. We flash forward thirteen years post-metal as he struggles to protect his family in this new paleo-plastic world and unravel the dark mystery of why metal disappeared.

ALEX PETTYFER, THOMAS JANE, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, ALICE EVE, RUPERT EVERETT, ANNABELLE WALLIS IN WARNING SF MOVIE! BLOOD & TREASURE ADVENTURE SERIES WITH MATT BARR GETS MAY DATE

SF MOVIE 'WARNING'

CASTS A TON OF SINFULLY GORGEOUS BLOND STARS

Well, if this ain't a rather gorgeous cast I don't know what is! Arnold's son Patrick Schwarzenegger has just joined the cast of Agata Alexander's (she is a music video director and this is her feature debut) science fiction

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Thom Jane & Alex Pettyfer will lead Warning

thriller WARNING which already includes Rupert Everett, Tudors star Annabelle Wallis, Alice Eve, Alex Pettyfer, Thomas Jane, Charlotte Le Bon, Kylie Bunbury, Benedict Samuel, Tomasz Kot  and Garance Marillier.

Alice Eve and Annabelle Wallis will lead the female part of the cast

The story of the sf thriller that will be shot over in Poland, explores the meaning of life when disparate lives collide in interweaving stories set in the near-future earth.

'BLOOD AND TREASURE'

ADVENTURE SERIES STARTS MAY!

CBS has revealed first photos and also the airing date for their new epic adventure summer series BLOOD & TREASURE which will have its two

Blood and Treasure starts this May on CBS

hour premiere launch on Tuesday, May 21, starring Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas. The story of the new series revolves around a brilliant antiquities expert (Matt Barr) and a cunning art thief (Sofia Pernas) as they track a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure. As they crisscross the globe hunting their target, they unexpectedly find themselves at the centre of a 2,000 year old battle for the cradle of civilization. Anna Silk also joins the cast as a skilled international tracker and fighter, Alicia Coppola will play a world renowned adventurer and archaeologist; Katia

Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas take the lead roles as ex lovers

Winter will play a smart, tough Interpol investigator specializing in the dangerous world of blood antiquities. Michael James Shaw joins as a ruthless and charismatic arms dealer, while James Callis will be a refined and roguish antiques broker.

APPLE REVEALS MAGNIFICENTLY SPECTACULAR LOOK ON JASON MOMOA'S EPIC FANTASY SERIES SEE AND DICKINSON PERIOD SET COMEDY! DURRELLS FINAL SEASON TRAILER AND AIRING DATE

APPLE'S SERIES REVEAL!

EPIC FANTASY SAGA SEE!

The biggest media event yesterday was the gala announcement of the new programmes by Apple, new streaming service that will start this Autumn. In the trailer below you can catch a glimpse of many spectacular new shows that

Hera Hilmar, Christian Camargo, also star in the series

they're preparing for us, and some are from our genre - fantasy and history. The one that stands out in the trailer with its stunning magnificence and lavish

Alfre Woodard plays powerful priestess Paris

splendour is definitely epic fantasy saga SEE with Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard which takes place in a world devastated by a virus, and the few survivors were left blind so they have to find new ways to interact, hunt, build,

The series is supposed to have ten episodes in the first season

survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins with sight is born! Jason Momoa plays Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian, while Woodard is Paris, an advisor and priestess.

PERIOD SET COMEDY DICKINSON
The clip also shows rather lavish footage from DICKINSON period set half hour comedy series which tells Emily Dickinson’s coming-of-age story about

Dickinson will be a half hour period set comedy series

the famous poet's fight to find her voice. The show stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jane Krakowski and Matt Lauria.

'THE DURRELLS' SEASON 4

FINAL FAREWELL TO CORFU!

ITV has, meanwhile, released the first teaser for the fourth and final season of THE DURRELLS family drama which should hit the small screens in UK next month April 7th following the story of a woman who back in the 1930

The final season sends The Durrells home ahead of WW2

decides to move her family over to Corfu! In season four, the future is looking bright for the Durrells, with all of the family channelling their heartbreak in different ways. Choosing to keep herself busy, Louisa (Keeley Hawes) has opened the doors of the family villa as a guest house, but with Basil as their

The Durrells are ready to say final goodbye to Corfu ahead of WW2

 only paying guest, the business is still to find its feet and customers. Meanwhile, Larry (Josh O'Connor), struggling to get his risqué Black Book published, is enjoying the love of two ballet dancers, whilst heartbroken Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) has thrown himself back into his job and shooting.

Will Louisa and Spiros have a happy love ending?

 True to form, Gerry (Milo Parker) continues to collect animals, ambitiously planning to open a zoo with a new owl and some lemurs joining the menagerie, and Margo (Daisy Waterstone) seeks a new challenge, starting her own beauty salon.

A+E ORDERS PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE WITH KATE PHILLIPS AS LONDON'S FIRST 19TH CENTURY FEMALE DETECTIVE

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

FIRST LADY DETECTIVE IN THE 19TH CENTURY LONDON

A+E Networks International has officially ordered new epic series MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE in which Kate Phillips will play the first ever female detective in 19th century London! The six part mini follows Eliza

The six part saga shoots this June in Ireland!

Scarlet.

When her father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she has an ace up her bonnet – her father’s business – a private detective agency. Eliza knows all the tricks of the trade but as a genteel 19th century lady she’s never been allowed to put them into practice. To operate in this man’s world, she needs a partner. Step forward Detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as “The Duke”, drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

NEW 2019 SITCOMS: BRENT MORIN JOINS DENNIS QUAID IN MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER, DAVID WALTON & ELIZABETH ALDERFER IN THE US PROJECT, KATHERINE HEIGL TO LEAD OUR HOUSE, WILL SASSO, CHRISTINA VIDAL IN UNITED WE FALL, STEVEN WEBER IN FRAN DRESCHER'S UNINSURED, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ADS CAST

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

BRENT MORIN JOINS QUAID'S MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER

Our dearest Brent Morin returns to TV sitcoms!

In one of our previous reports on new multicam sitcom pilot orders I told you that Netflix has placed an eight episode order for the first Christmas season of MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER comedy in which Dennis Quaid will play Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch who must balance the demands of his complicated family with the stress of the Christmas season when his youngest daughter comes home for the holidays with a new boyfriend. Now one of our most favourite comedians Brent Morin has joined the cast together with Bridget Mendler. They've already played a couple in one of the best sitcoms ever Undateable, and now he will play her boyfriend, a struggling musician from LA who will have his hands full as he meets his girlfriend’s imposing father and close knit family over a stressful and emotional Christmas break. Ashley Tisdale, Adam Rose and Hayes MacArthur will also star, Tisdale as the other daughter, Rose as her husband and Hayes as the only son in the family.

DAVID WALTON TO LEAD THE US PROJECT AT CBS
CBS has found leads for their new hybrid sitcom THE US PROJECT in which Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton will star opposite Parker Young, Vanessa and Laura Marano! It will be a comedy told through

Elizabeth Alderfer (Disjointed) and David Walton (9JKL)

interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. Alderfer plays a woman who is not sure her current boyfriend is the right one just when she meets Walton's Kevin, a divorced father of two teens who will transform the next decade of her life.

KATHERINE HEIGL IN OUR HOUSE!

In the slate of new multicam sitcoms with biracial couples as leads, the biggest one is OUR HOUSE also over at CBS which has just cast Katherine

This will be Katherine's first sitcom ever!

Heigl as lead opposite Malcolm Barrett. The story follows a devoted dad, Shawn (Barrett), and mom, Bridget (Heigl), who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture. Heigl’s Bridget tries her best to be a laid back, progressive parent like her therapist husband, but often finds herself reverting to the old school style of her parents. Now that she’s moved back into her childhood home, surrounded by her parents and crazy siblings, finding a balance between these wildly different parenting styles is going to be more difficult than she imagined.

UNITED WE FALL AT ABC
Rival ABC has tied Will Sasso and Christina Vidal as leads of their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural comedy that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children

Will Sasso will be married to Christina Vidal!

and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. I've already told you that Jane Curtin will play Bill's difficult mother and Jason Michael Snow Bill's brother!

STEVEN WEBER 2BE UNINSURED

Steven Weber will be Fran's husband!

Definitely one of the most exciting news of the season is that Fran Drescher is returning to the small screens in NBC's UNINSURED sitcom which revolves around young parents Dave (Adam Pally) and Rebecca (Abby Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, Elliot and Linda (Drescher) who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt. Now they've cast Steven Weber as Dave's father Elliot! Weber will still play in three other series in which he has regular roles!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 
I've also told you that CBS has cast Briga Heelan and Michael Angarano in TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a

Michael Cassidy and Raymond Ablack have joined new sitcom at CBS

list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Raymond Ablack, Michael Cassidy, Taylor Dearden and Ana Villafañe have joined the comedy as his friends. This one will also have a biracial couple as Ablack will play Briga's boyfriend.

SF SATURDAY: SAM STRIKE IS ROLAND DESCHAIN IN AMAZON'S THE DARK TOWER STEPHEN KING SF SERIES! KRYPTON SF SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER IS HERE!

SAM STRIKE TO LEAD

THE DARK TOWER SF SERIES

Sam Strike will be the young Deschain!

I'm a bit late with this one, but according to this week's news, Amazon has cast young Sam Strike as the lead star of their THE DARK TOWER fantasy series which is getting a pilot order even though the movie version was a rather big flop two years ago. He will play famous gunslinger Roland Deschain in the small screen adaptation of Stephen King's famous sf saga. As Deadline reports, it will be independent from the film and is meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. The story should take place many years before the events in the film focusing on Roland Deschain’s origin story – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger. As another addition to the cast, Jasper Pääkkönen has been cast as Marten, a man Roland is out to kill.

  'KRYPTON' SF SERIES

SEASON 2 TEASER IS HERE!

SyFy has released the trailer for the 2nd season of their KRYPTON epic series which follows the youth of Superman's grandfather back on their home planet. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its

Blake Ritson stars as evil Brainiac who almost destroyed Krypton

freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) has to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope

The new season will probably start this spring, possibly next month.

to their beloved planet. He will first have to escape the Phanton Zone prison, where he’s been trapped with Brainiac (Blake Ritson) There is also the arrival of ultimate villain Doomsday and intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo (Emmet J. Scanlan).

BILL NIGHY, JOSH O'CONNOR, CALLUM TURNER, JOHNNY FLYNN, MIRANDA HART, GEMMA WHELAN JOIN ANYA TAYLOR JOY IN NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION OF JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA!

JANE AUSTEN'S NEW 'EMMA'

ROUNDS UP A STELLAR CAST!

Anya Taylor Joy will lead the stellar cast!

You probably remember that last Autumn your trusted spy told you that a new big screen version of Jane Austen's famous novel EMMA is being prepared and that Anya Taylor Joy will play the female protagonist, and now they've added the rest of the cast and I must say it looks rather stellar! Johnny Flynn joins the Focus Features Working Title movie as George Knightley, legendary Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse, Les Miserables star Josh O’Connor as Mr. Elton, War and Peace star Callum Turner as Frank Churchill, comedian Miranda Hart as Miss Bates, Mia Goth as Harriet Smith, Rupert Graves

Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor will lead the male cast!

as Mr. Weston, Gemma Whelan as Mrs. Weston, Amber Anderson as Jane Fairfax and Tanya Reynolds as Mrs. Elton.

JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA  
 period set movie will be directed by Autumn de Wilde (her first one ever) with the story following Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs by match making. She is

Rupert Graves and top model Amber Anderson have also joined the cast

perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. She often tries to find a suitor for her best friend but fails because the suitors usually fall for herself. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings and is not considering her own happiness in love!

1ST LOOK AT EVA GREEN IN BBC'S 19TH CENTURY EPIC TV SERIES THE LUMINARIES! NOAH CENTINEO WANTED AS HE-MAN IN MASTERS OF UNIVERSE?

'THE LUMINARIES'

FIRST LOOK AT EVA GREEN

BBC 2 has released the first photo of Eva Green from their new six part period set series THE LUMINARIES which also stars Eve Hewson, Himesh Patel, Ewen Leslie, Marton Csokas, Erik Thomson,

Eva Green takes one of the lead roles in the new series

Benedict Hardie, Yoson An! Set in the 1860's years of New Zealand's Golden Rush it follows defiant adventurer Anna Wetherell (Hewson), who has

The series is based on Eleanor Catton's book of the same name

sailed from Britain to begin a new life. There she meets the radiant Emery Staines (Patel), an encounter that triggers a strange kind of magic that neither

The series is currently shooting over at New Zealand

can explain. As they fall in love, driven together and apart by fateful coincidence, these star-crossed lovers begin to wonder: do we make our fortunes, or do our fortunes make us?

MASTERS OF UNIVERSE

WANTS TO GIVE NOAH CENTINEO

Noah Centineo could be the new He-Man

THE THRONE OF GREY SCULL?

Something that was met with mostly negative reactions today around the web is info that Noah Centineo is wanted for the lead role in the epic movie adaptation of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE in which he would play Prince Adam who turns into He-Man. The movie was previously supposed to be made in a very rich and epic Lord of the Rings style by David S. Goyer but he left the project which is now being directed by Aaron and Adam Nee. Noah Centineo is only known for starring in Netflix comedies To All the Boys I've Loved Before and How to Build a Better Boy! Adam, the prince of Eternia is a blond haired muscly mediaeval Nordic type of hunk with a massive sword in the comic books and animated movie, so no one knows why they've opted for a very dark type as Centineo.

CATHERINE THE GREAT SCRIBE PENNING NEW THREE LIONS EPIC SAGA ON RICHARD I & ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE! STEPHEN MOYER, JOHNATHAN RHYS DAVIES TO LEAD G-LOC SPACE ADVENTURE

STEPHEN MOYER

TO LEAD G-LOC SF ADVENTURE

Stephen Moyer will lead new sf adventure

In latest science fiction news, Stephen Moyer has signed on to star in British sf movie G-LOC, a space adventure directed by Tom Paton. Production is already under way for the film in which Moyer potrays a man who flees Earth through a portal called The Gate to find a hoped for home on the planet of Rhea. The cast also includes Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien and Johnathan Rhys Davies! Speaking of sf and Rhys Davies, he recently confirmed that he and Jerry O'Connell have had talks with NBC about the possible reboot of their cult 90s sf series Sliders to see if it could be revamped in any way.

'THREE LIONS' EPIC SERIES

ON RICHARD I AND HIS HEIRS

While we are waiting for his epic series Catherine the Great to air at HBO sometime this year, Nigel Williams has, as Deadline reports, teamed with

The series will have international cast!

European Wild Horses on an epic period drama focused around King Richard I.

THREE LIONS would be a ten part 12th century series which begins when King Richard I is shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of Trieste and his disappearance starts an epic struggle across Europe for its most powerful crown. His lawful heir Prince Arthur is being denied the throne of England by his own grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine who, as Regent Queen, has no intention of relinquishing her power and wants to keep the Regent position by putting her other son John Lackland on the throne. But Arthur’s mother, Duchess Constance, the ruler of Brittany, will certainly stand in her way. To claim the crown and become the most powerful King in Europe Arthur needs to stay alive, outwit the opposition and choose his friends wisely. Meanwhile the Machiavellian King Phillip of France sees an opportunity and is manoeuvring to take advantage of the English crown for himself. The series will be shot next year in Europe with an international cast!

FIRST PHOTOS FROM SF FILMS ARCHIVE WITH THEO JAMES & 2067 WITH RYAN KWANTEN, KODI SMIT MCPHEE & ITALIAN WW2 DRAMA FREAKS OUT!

FIRST PHOTOS FROM NEW FILMS

ITALIAN WW2 DRAMA FREAKS OUT

First photos from a few small films, today, starting with Italian WW2 drama FREAKS OUT which follows Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario who are like siblings when the tragedy of the WW2 hits Rome where they work in a circus.

Freaks Out has a very picturesque set of characters

Israel, the circus owner and their putative father, disappears in the attempt to find a getaway overseas for them all. Our four friends are in disarray. Without anybody looking after them and without a circus, the four protagonists have no place in society. They feel only as freaks, lost in a war-torn city.

2067 SF MOVIE STARRING RYAN KWANTEN AND KODI SMIT MCPHEE
First photo has also been released for Australian science fiction movie 2067 set in a deforested and oxygen-deprived world reeling from climate change.

Kodi Smit McPhee will lead the cast in the new sf movie

Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Ethan Whyte, a narcissistic underground tunnel worker who embarks on a journey through time while Ryan Kwanten plays Jude Mathers who serves as Ethan’s protector and conscience.

ARCHIVE WITH THEO JAMES

There is also the first look from another new sf movie, ARCHIVE starring Theo James as  a man working in a remote secret facility developing true,

Theo James plays a scientist in Archive sf movie

human-like artificial intelligence. His latest prototype is almost complete, but he has an ulterior motive that must be hidden at all costs: to be reunited with his dead wife. Toby Jones, Stacy Martin and Rhona Mitra also star.

FULL TRAILER FOR BBC'S 19TH CENTURY SAGA GENTLEMAN JACK IS OUT WITH SURRANE JONES! AMAZON TO TURN PORT OF EARTH COMIC BOOKS INTO SF TV SERIES

'PORT OF EARTH' 

TO BECOME SF TV SERIES

Two totally different things your spy has for you today: first up, some science fiction! Amazon will turn PORT OF EARTH comic book series by Zack

Zack Kaplan's comic book will be adapted at Amazon

Kaplan, into TV drama. It tells the story of an alien alliance called The Consortium that has come to Earth with a business proposition: open Earth as a space port for our customers to use and receive advanced technology upgrades in exchange. When rogue aliens break the Port restrictions and wreak havoc in different cities, however, the terms of the deal begin to change. Soon it is up to the Earth Security Agents to send them back to the PORT OF EARTH. With The Consortium representing thousands of alien planets the series delves into political issues of exploitation, occupation, espionage, duplicity, technology and leverage, all in a gritty sci-fi setting. 

'GENTLEMAN JACK' 

FULL TRAILER IS HERE!

BBC One has released full trailer for their new epic series GENTLEMAN JACK in which Surrane Jones plays a 19th century woman who dresses up, acts and loves like a man governing her late father's estate. She portrays

Gentleman Jack will air this spring on BBC in eight episodes

 real life person Anne Lister who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall. The cast also includes Joe Armstrong, Gemma Jones and Sophie Rundle. The series will hit HBO in USA April 22nd!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MARTIAL ARTS 19TH CENTURY SAGA WARRIOR WITH ANDREW KOJI, KIERAN BEW, TOM WESTON JONES, DEAN JAGGER, JOE TASLIM

'WARRIOR' EPIC TV SERIES 

THIS ISN'T CHINA, BUT CHINATOWN

Are you in the mood for some period set martial arts, spylings? If you are, Cinemax is ready to give you their new action packed series WARRIOR

Warrior hits Cinemax April 5th!

starting April 5th! The ten episode saga stars Andrew Koji, our dearest Kieran Bew, Olivia Cheng, Langley Kirkwood, Christian McKay, always amazing Tom Weston Jones, Joe Taslim, Dean Jagger, based on the writings of the legendary Bruce Lee!

WARRIOR
 is action packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. After proving

The new epic series will air in ten episodes

his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, one of Chinatown's most powerful tongs (Chinese organized crime family). Befriended by Wang Chao (Hoon Lee), a fixer and profiteer in Chinatown, Ah Sahm is taken under the wing of Young Jun (Jason Tobin), the hard partying son of the Hop Wei's leader, Father Jun (Perry Yung), who is facing an imminent opium war with a rival tong. As he is indoctrinated in the rules of Chinatown gangs, Ah Sahm wins the confidence of a canny brothel madam, Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), revealing to her the true intentions of his journey to America. Over the course

Andrew Coji is incredibly charismatic and handsome as Ah Sahm

of the season, Ah Sahm crosses boundaries inside and outside Chinatown, bringing him into contact with tong rivals Mai Ling (Dianne Doan), a

The series is executive produced by Banshee's Jonathan Tropper

beautiful and ruthless Chinese woman who has achieved a position of power in one of the tongs, and Li Yong (Joe Taslim), a tong lieutenant and Kung Fu

Dean Jagger plays the leader of Irish labourmen!

master. As violence erupts, Sergeant "Big Bill" O'Hara (Kieran Bew) and Richard Henry Lee (Tom Weston Jones), a transplanted southerner and

Warrior wasn't filmed in San Francisco, but actually in Cape Town, South Africa

rookie cop, are tasked with forming a Chinatown squad. Meanwhile, working class leader and tough Irishman Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger) is fighting for all

Tom Weston Jones absolutely shines as righteous cop Richard Lee

Irish labourers by trying to inflict as much damage as possible on the Chinese immigrants he says are stealing their jobs. Amidst the strife, power hungry San Francisco Mayor Samuel Blake (Christian McKay) and Deputy Mayor

Kieran Bew is unrecognisable as corrupted cop Big Bill O'Harra

Walter Buckley (Langley Kirkwood), who has his own political aspirations, engage in widespread corruption, while the mayor's young wife, Penny (Joanna Vanderham), finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage.