We haven't heard anything about this one before which is strange given how stunning the trailer below looks along with these breath takingly beautiful posters for new Chinese epic fantasy adventure JADE DYNASTY which will enchant its way into cinemas this September in Motherland! The man behind
Jade Dynasty will ascend into cinemas September 13th
the helm, the director of the movie is Ching Siu tung, who has well over twenty films behind him in his rich film making career. JADE DYNASTY (or Xiao Zhan in Chinese) was shot last Autumn and Winter in Mandarin on locations in Beijing, Sichuan, Henan, and Hebei!
THE STORYAfter the massacre of his village, Zhang Xiaofan (Sean Xiao), a kind
hearted and pure village boy, is taken in by the Qing Yun sect where he
begins his journey of cultivation. When he finds out the truth behind
the deaths of his parents, he succumbs to his rage and demonic
tendencies and becomes the enemy of Qing Yun sect.
The cast also includes other gorgeous Chinese young stars from Li Quin, Meng Mei Qi and Tina Tang to Li Shen and Qui Xin Zhi in the potential new end of summer hit based on a popular Chinese novel by Xiao Ding.
It is one of the films that will hit both this year's London film festival and the one in Toronto, Tom Harper's skyfaring adventure AERONAUTS which has just set flight to its first trailer. Eddie Redmayne plays famous
Aeronauts is directed by Tom Harper
meteorologist James Glaisher at the end of the 19th century, while Felicity Jones is Amelia Wren, his fiercely loyal copilot who harbours a penchant for science as much as she does being a showgirl. Inspired by the story of Glashier’s 1862 excursion with fellow aeronaut Henry Coxwell (whom Wren replaces in the film), the movie, as EW reports, charts the pair’s dangerous mission to study the earth’s natural patterns from the sky as they attempt to travel higher than any human before them in a massive hot air balloon — an event Wren clearly wants to publicize as a meeting of science and spectacle to generate interest in their work, while the no-nonsense Glaishier anchors his
The film will have a limited cinema releases to get in the awards race
approach in curmudgeonly determination. Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez and Anne Reid also star in the film that hits theatres December 6th ahead of the awards season and then streams on Amazon Prime December 20th.
Beside the info that Sky will air its Catherine the Great series from October 3rd (October 21st on HBO), there is another epic treat for you today: first
World on Fire will air sometime this Autumn on BBC One
trailer for BBC One's World War II series WORLD ON FIRE which will air its seven episodes sometime this Autumn and then also on Masterpiece in
Jonah Hauer King takes the lead male role in the series
USA. The emotionally gripping drama will star Jonah Hauer King, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison, Arthur Darvill, Brian J.
The story of the series is set in four different nations
Smith, Max Riemelt, and Helen Hunt. From the siege of Warsaw, to Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the battle of Britain, the series will be covering the first year of the war spanning four different nations.
WORLD ON FIRE TELLS
the hidden human stories within the big
historical events we think we know. From Harry, a young English
translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations
Sean Bean also stars in the new World War II series
with the Nazis and trying
to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl
who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory
Lesley Manville is no stranger to period set drama series!
worker who
will come to take all the opportunities the war can offer to live a
different kind of life. To Nancy, a female US war correspondent who
can’t find
Julia Brown also stars in the series next to Hauer King
peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in
Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to
protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi
regime. These are the stories of the ordinary
The series covers only the first year of the war
people who shaped our
world. Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes,
stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary
times.
It will have its world premiere at Venice Film Festival next week, and will air later on this year on Netflix and in some selected theatres as well in
The film will hit Netflix this Autumn
Northern America and UK, but today you can watch the trailer for historical drama THE KING with Timothee Chalamet as King Henry V! In the film, he first appears as Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, who has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father (Ben Mendelsohn) dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life, including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel
Robert Pattinson is Henry's enemy, the stubborn Dauphin of France
Edgerton). The cast also includes Robert Pattinson as the dauphin of France. It definitely isn't a very promising cast and the acting looks as bland as Chalamet, Edgerton, Pattinson usually get in their constant lack of any acting expressiveness, but you can judge it for yourself below:
Disney has announced a new animated movie with the first concept art from it: RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON will take place in the fictional Kumandra, a reimagined earth inhabited by an ancient civilization that venerated the mythical dragons for their power and their wisdom. Kumandra’s
Frozen's Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins are directing the animated adventure
five distinct clans form the Land of the Dragon, but dragons are long gone and Kumandra has since been invaded by a dark, sinister force. Raya is the hero, a lone warrior on a quest to save her world, determined to find the last dragon who she believes has the power to save Kumandra.
'DICKINSON' COMEDY SERIES
UNVEILS THE FIRST TRAILER
Apple streaming service has revealed the first trailer for their period set comedy series DICKINSON starring Hailee Steinfeld as the 1800s poet Emily Dickinson! It will audaciously explore the constraints of society, gender
Dickinson will air on Apple's new streaming service this Autumn
and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet, Emily Dickinson. Set in the 19th century, Dickinson is a coming-of-age story that finds Emily Dickinson to be an unexpected hero for our millennial era (the trailer looks as bad as anything millennial gets).
Poldark is finally ending forever, spylings, tonight and tomorrow night (which is probably for the best given how embarrassingly atrocious the final season has been), so what are we going to watch now when it comes to period
We are all heading to the summer resort of Sanditon tonight!
set dramas? Well, SANDITON of course, which starts tonight at ITV clashing in the prime time spot with Captain Ross and his constantly nagging wife. SANDITON is, as I informed you before, the small screen adaptation of
Click on the photo to see the main cast in all their regency finery!
Jane Austen's last book, and it will also air sometime later this year at PBS for the American audience. The cast includes Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid, Kris Marshall, Kate Ashfield, Jack Fox, Adrian Rawlins, Turlough Convery, Mark Stanley, Matthew Needham, Alexandra Roach, Leo
Theo James and Rose Williams are the love birds of the town!
Suter, Kevin Eldon and Adrian Scarborough! Andrew Davies, who brought us Les Miserables and War and Peace, is in charge of the adaptation! The series will also feature Austen's only black character (a rich heiress whom all
Kris Marshall is the ambitious Tom Parker in the series
the gents want to seduce in Sanditon) and it will also feature lots of male nudity (and not from the hunks in it, but naked bums from all the unexpected members of the male cast LOL). They are apparently trying to make good old
The Denham family rules Sanditon with their wealth!
boring Austen raunchy out of a sudden. But I'm sure there will be other offensive liberal agenda stuck within a fully nonliberal era just for the sake (or joke) of it. Austen herself has finished only 11 chapters of the novel before she died in 1817.
THE STORY OF SANDITON
follows the impulsive, spirited and
unconventional Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and her spiky
relationship with the charming Sidney Parker (Theo James). When a chance
accident transports her from her rural
I think this is Theo James' first time to topline a British period set drama
hometown of Willingden to a
would-be coastal resort, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and
dalliances of a seaside town on the make. The drama takes
Charlotte will meet the Parker family thanks to a coach accident!
viewers from
the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London and exposes the hidden
agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself and
ultimately find love.
THE INHABITANTS OF SANDITON!
In the eight part drama, Anne Reid will play Lady Denham. Two husbands dead and gone, Lady Denham received money from the first and a title from the second and expects to be treated with a great deal of deference.
Jack Fox and Charlotte Spencer are Edward and Ester Denham
Notoriously tight-fisted, she seems to delight in the power that she wields over the town, particularly those waiting to cash in from her death. Playing the head of the Parker family, Kris Marshall stars in the eight part series as Tom
Lady Denham and Tom Parker are Sanditon's business partners
Parker, an enthusiastic and happily married man with a vision of putting Sanditon on the map. Jack Fox is Lady Denham's nephew, villainous Sir Edward Denham, while Charlotte Spencer plays his sister Ester.
It is definitely a Disney weekend with Disney + new streaming service revealing trailers for its new movies and shows! The live action version
New Lady and the Tramp streams November 12th
of their classic LADY AND THE TRAMP will stream on November 12th and now they've announced the first trailer and poster.
The story of the film centres on a pampered house dog named Lady
(Tessa Thompson) whose comfortable life slips away from her. Following a
series of tense circumstances, Lady finds herself on the loose in the
street. She manages to befriend a tough stray mutt named Tramp (Justin
Theroux, but the dog itself was actually cast among real strays). A
romance begins to blossom between them. However, their many differences,
along with more drama in Lady's life, could threaten to keep them
apart.
Speaking of Disney classics and dogs, Disney has also revealed the first look of Emma Stone as young Cruella de Vil from CRUELLA live action movie which will depict her youth. It looks offensively terrible. Beside dalmatians, the photo also reveals her costars Paul Walter Hauser and Joel Fry! That one hits theatres in May 2021!
'NOELLE' TRAILER
BRINGS US SANTA'S DAUGHTER!
Anna Kendrick is Santa's daughter!
Also streaming there on that very same date is festive comedy movie NOELLE in which Anna Kendrick plays Santa's daughter! The story of the film revolves around the daughter of the real Santa Claus, Noelle, whom she plays. When her father decides to retire, and her brother gets cold feat just before his first Christmas Eve, Noelle must take up the family business. Beside her and Bill Hader as her over pressured brother, legendary Shirley McClaine is also in the cast as Elf Polly, and elf nanny! The movie is directed by Mark Lawrence who also wrote the script for it!
'THE MANDALORIAN' TRAILER
FOR NEW STAR WARS TV SERIES
The highlight of the day for most sf lovers was of course the first trailer for Star Wars universe set TV series THE MANDALORIAN which will
Mandalorian was directed by John Favreau
also start streaming on Disney + November 12th. Pedro Pascal plays the title role in the series set after the Return of the Jedi when the Empire was destroyed giving way to the New Republic. Mandalorian is, however, a citizen of the underworld, a lone gunfighter from the far corner of the galaxy, who operates outside the jurisdiction of the New Republic.Disney has also announced Obi Wan Kenobi series with Ewan McGregor returning to the role. The Jedi Knight series will start shooting next year. Since Disney is always milking the cow until it kills it, they are also preparing a third series which would focus on Diego Luna's Rogue One character Cassian Andor.
What can be better than four things we absolutely adore combined together: Australia, Studiocanal, Josh Lawson and Rafe Spall! The British star is already Down Under shooting Australian romantic comedy LONG STORY SHORT produced by our favourite Studiocanal! Zahra Newman, Ronny Chieng, Noni Hazlehurst, Dena Kaplan and Australian actor Josh Lawson also star in the movie which Lawson also writes and directs.
LONG STORY SHORT follows Teddy (Rafe Spall), who wakes up the morning
after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping
Brisbane actor Josh Lawson stars in, directs and writes the movie
forward to the next year of his life. He must use every precious moment
wisely to keep from losing the love of his life, and to learn to love
the life he’s losing.
'I STILL BELIEVE' TRAILER
WILL BRING YOU TO TEARS!
The movie arrives to theatres next March
Speaking of weddings, there is one in new true story romantic drama I STILL BELIEVE which depicts the life of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope. K.J. Apa portrays Jeremy Camp in the heartbreaking drama, while Britt Robertson plays his ill girlfriend. The cast also includes music icon Shania Twain and Gary Sinise as his parents. The concert scene that dominates the trailer below was shot in front of live concert audience at a music festival in Alabama. The movie is out next March!
I almost forgot about this one, but it seems it is still well in production! Netflix is preparing a fantasy series similar to the fan favourite Firefly, called
Elena Satine joins Cowboy Bebop series
COWBOY BEBOP which already has John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda and Alex Hassel announced in the cast, but now they are joined by Elena Satine who will obviously have a role similar to Morena Baccarin's in Firefly.
COWBOY BEBOP is a space western sf series, the jazz inspired, genre
bending story of a ragtag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their
pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals.
They’ll even save the world — for the right price.
Chris Yost, who wrote Thor movies, is writing this one, and Elena Satine will play play Julia. With a sultry beauty and a voice to die for, Julia is the dream-like object of Spike Spiegel’s (John Cho) desire. She struggles to survive in a violent world.
'LIFE LIKE' SF TRAILER
TOO PERFECT TO BE HUMAN!
Speaking of science fiction, check out the rather intriguing trailer for sf thriller LIFE LIKE which already aired in US cinemas this summer starring James D'Arcy, Steven Strait, Drew Van Acker and Addison Timlin. The last two play an idealistic attractive young couple which acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever.
Here's a new fantasy series for you (if it ever gets made, that is): as Deadline reports, Cavalry Media has bought TV series rights on YA fantasy novel
A search is currently on for a writer!
BLOODLEAF from Crystal Smith. It was published in March with second part Greythorne out next year. It follows Princess Aurelia a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Fearing her magic, the people have turned against her. After an assassination attempt, Aurelia must flee her country and disguise herself as a commoner in a distant land. As she hides in plain sight and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, exposing a wicked plot that only she can defeat and forcing her to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life.
'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?'
THE PITFALLS AND PLEASURES OF
The movie is out this September!
TELLING THE TRUTH
And I totally forgot to update you on this one: a new romantic comedy which will get a limited Northern American release this September! CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET, starring Tyler Hoechlin and Alexandra Daddario is a big screen adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's best selling book. Dadario plays Emma who, thinking they're about to crash, spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger... Until she later meets Jack, her company's young CEO, who now knows every
Alexandra Daddario and Tyler Hoechlin play the lead roles
humiliating detail about her. The movie, directed by Elise Duran, has already, for some reason, hit Turkish cinemas! Check out the trailer below:
Medici: The Magnificent was definitely a far cry from the marvellous first season Medici: Masters of Florence, having none of its great cast and masterful storytelling, as its lead star Daniel Sharman showed a rather shocking lack of acting chops, charisma and any kind of expression or even screen presence, but RAI's most successful international project is still getting the third season and we have first photos from the sets revealing not only a new longer hair look for Sharman's Lorenzo Medici, but also Sanditon's Rose Williams who is joining the season in the role of Caterina Sforza Riario, a historical figure known as the Renaissance lioness whose defiance and ruthlessness have made her a tyrant.
Rose Williams is joining the cast as Lady Sforza Riario
She was a daughter of the Duke of Milan and the wife of Girolamo Riario (Jack Roth), Pope Sixtus IV's nephew. Reign's and Last Kingdom's Tobi Regbo is also joining the cast as painter and architect Peruzzi.
MEDICI: POWER AND BEAUTY
Daniel Sharman's Lorenzo will be in his 40s in the series
will be arriving to RAI this Autumn, under that new title, and will probably air later on at Netflix too. The
story will be set after the terrible Pazzi Conspiracy
in which Giuliano Medici (Bradley James) lost his life. Lorenzo is
tormented by the desire for revenge against Pope Sixtus IV (Raoul Bova),
who authorized that bloody attack, and towards Count Riario, the last
survivor among the conspirators. His beloved wife Clarice (Synnove
Karlsen) tries to convince him to find peace with a compromise that
would save both his soul and the city. He does not see much hope even
after the discovery that Giuliano left a son, Giulio, who is welcomed
into the family. Lorenzo is determined to save his family and Florence
even at
Synnove Karlsen returns to the role of Lorenzo's unloved wife Clarice
the price of losing his soul. As the bank's situation becomes
increasingly unstable, politics pushes Lorenzo to give up the ideals of
the past and his relationship with his wife Clarice also suffers,
especially after he meets beautiful lady Sforza. He also continues to
finance the world of art, meeting
Toby Regbo will be the new friend of the Medicis, painter Peruzzi
the great artists such as Leonardo
and Michelangelo. In affirming his ever-increasing power, however,
Lorenzo clashes with an unexpected enemy, the Dominican friar Girolamo
Savonarola (Francesco Montanari), who inflames the
people of Florence with his sermons against the tyranny of the Medici.
ITV and AMC have released first photo from new Who Wants to be a Millionaire? scandal TV series QUIZ they are doing together. It follows Charles Ingram (Matthew MacFadyen), a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way
Sian Clifford and Matthew MacFadyen play the Ingrams in the movie
to winning £1 million on the game show! It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial. Michael Sheen plays the quiz host.
'HIGH GROUND' PHOTO
SIMON BAKER IS BOUNTY HUNTER
First photo is also out for a new period set Australian movie HIGH GROUND starring Down Under's best boys Simon Baker, Ryan Corr and Callan Mulvey.
In a remote corner of a wild country a bloody war rages in
Simon Baker plays bounty hunter Travis in the new movie
the 1930s. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Djumbatj is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
JUDY AND PUNCH PHOTO WITH
REVENGEFUL MIA WASIKOWSKA
Speaking of Australia, check out the first photo of Mia Wasikowska in JUDY AND PUNCH, a period set crime drama set in
Seaside (nowhere near
Mia Wasikowska is avenging her dead baby in the movie
the sea), where puppeteers Judy (Wasikowska) and Punch (Damon Herriman) are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob rule.
This one has just finished its four episode run over at Australian Foxtel who produced it, but if I'm not mistaken it is also airing on HBO's inter national cable channels so most of you can probably catch it there: Gothic thriller mini series LAMBS OF GOD starring Essie Davis, Emmy Award winner Ann
Dowd and Sam Reid in a four part drama which centres around three eccentric, secluded nuns, each a generation apart, living on a
You can catch the series on HBO international cable channels
remote island in a dilapidated monastery, forgotten by time and the Church – until a priest unwittingly happens upon them. Unfortunately for him, it seems, judging by the poster and the trailer below!
LAMBS OF GOD FOLLOWS
the journey of three Catholic nuns, Sisters
Iphigenia (Essie Davis), Margarita (Ann Dowd) and Carla (Jessica
Barden), who are the last
Essie Davis plays sister Iphigenia in the series
remaining members of the enclosed order of St
Agnes. They have forgotten the world outside until a young priest,
Father Ignatius (Sam Reid), pushes his way through the undergrowth in
the hope of finding prime real estate. What
Ann Dowd plays sister Margarita in the series
unfolds is a psychological
and frightening game of survival; a thrilling ride in which the nuns
become criminals and Father Ignatius is forced to confront his own
personal weaknesses.
FERAL NUNS IN A MONASTERY
The mini series is actually a small screen adaptation of a captivating Marele Day novel, in the form of a very atmospheric and highly stylized, a lush,
evocative drama that is both ancient and incredibly modern, with its
timeless
Jessica Barden is the youngest sister Carla
message of resilience, and the power of storytelling as a
redemptive force. Written by Sarah Lambert, this epic and fantastical tale of faith, love and redemption was directed by Jeffrey Walker.
