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Sunday, February 28, 2021

PAULA BEER TO LEAD PERIOD SET DRAMA LADY NAZCA ABOUT INTRIGUING NAZCA LINES IN PERU! 1ST IMAGES OF VICKY KRIEPS AS EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE & CLAIRE DANES IN VICTORIAN SERIES ESSEX SERPENT

  LADY NAZCA MOVIE 
SENDS PAULA BEER TO PERU
European updates this weekend, starting with Screen Daily's report on Paula Beer and Guillaume Gallienne who will lead the English language biopic LADY NAZCA about German mathematician Maria Reiche who pioneered research into Peru’s mysterious Nazca lines in the 1940s, and then
Paula Beer will topline Lady Nazca period set drama
fought for their preservation throughout her life. The Nazca lines, a 50 square km area in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, are a mysterious group of geoglyphs, forming geometric designs and the shapes of birds and animals when viewed from the sky. Reiche first moved to Peru in the 1930s to work as a governess after studying mathematics and languages at university in her native city of Dresden. She became fascinated by the lines after a trip to the Nazca Desert in the early 1940s and made it her life’s mission to research their meaning and protect them. This passion brought with it trouble and danger but also give her a sense of peace. Gallienne will play her co-archaeologist Paul Kosok in the Damien Dorsaz helmed movie.

 1ST IMAGE OF VICKY KRIEPS 
AS EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE
Screen Daily has also published the first photo of Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer's movie CORSAGE. Shooting till July, the movie will depict the empress famous for her beauty during the short period of her life around Christmas 1877 when she
First Look at Vicky Krieps as Austrian vain empress Sisi
turned 40, an age considered old for women at the time. Florian Teichtmeister plays her husband Emperor Joseph, Manuel Rubey is cousin and close friend Ludwig II, King of Bavaria and Katharina Lorenz is lady-in-waiting and confidante Marie Festetics.

 1ST IMAGE OF CLAIRE DANES 
IN THE ESSEX SERPENT SERIES
Over in Britain, Claire Danes is shooting period set TV series for Apple TV + THE ESSEX SERPENT which is a small screen adaptation of  Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel about newly widowed Cora (Claire Danes) who, having
First look at Claire Danes in The Essex Serpent television series
being released from an abusive marriage, relocates in 1893 from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local
Claire Danes in Victorian garb at the set of the new series
superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area. The book itself won a number of awards back when it was published over in Britain.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

NETFLIX UNLEASHES SHADOW AND BONE EPIC FANTASY SERIES TRAILER! JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN, CONNOR SWINDELLS TO LEAD BBC'S MASSIVE WAR SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES

   SAS: ROGUE HEROES 
BBC'S EPIC NEW TV SERIES
Written by Steven Knight, it will be a massive epic war saga about the brave soldiers, founders of Britain's Special Air Service. Jack O'Connell is set to lead the cast as Paddy Mayne, who had many heroic deeds on the battle field. SAS: ROGUE HEROES will follow the band of brothers who were turned into an elite commando unit that unleashed havoc on the enemy. They operated behind German lines, sabotaging ships, planes, tanks and fuel depots. In one raid, Mayne was credited with destroying 47 aircraft. According to Daily Mail, the cast will also include Alfie Allen, Connor Swindells and Jacob McCarthy. The six episode series which starts production next month is based on a Ben Macintyre book.
 
 SHADOW AND BONE TRAILER 
FINALLY RELEASED BY NETFLIX
Netflix has finally released a trailer for their new epic fantasy series SHADOW AND BONE based on the books by Leigh Bardugo. Slated for April 23rd streaming date,  it takes place in a war torn world where lowly
New series will stream this April on Netflix
soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li's lack of charisma is painfully visible in the trailer) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of
Ben Barnes is General Kirigan in the new series
charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive. Ben Barnes is general Kirigan. The rest of cast is made of equally inexpressive unknowns. 

Friday, February 26, 2021

IT'S A BLUE AND SUNNY SUMMER IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR DISNEY PIXAR'S NEW ITALY SET ANIMATED ADVENTURE LUCA

  PIXAR'S LUCA TRAILER 
FOR NEW ANIMATED ADVENTURE
Luca will swim into cinemas this June
Sometime last year you saw the first photo from Pixar's new animated movie LUCA and now we have both a poster and a trailer. Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film LUCA is a coming of age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca (Jacob Tremblay) shares these adventures with his newfound best friend (Jack Dylan Grazer), but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they are both sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface. To be released this summer, the film was directed by Enrico Casarosa

Thursday, February 25, 2021

ZOE SALDANA TO BATTLE 19TH CENTURY PIRATES IN THE BLUFF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE AT NETFLIX! TAYLOR KITSCH JOINS CHRIS PRATT IN AMAZON'S TERMINAL LIST MOVIE

  ZOE SALDANA TO BATTLE 
PIRATES IN THE BLUFF FILM
Zoe Saldana will lead The Bluff adventure
Netflix and director Frank E. Flowers are preparing a new historical adventure movie THE BLUFF and they have set Zoe Saldana as the lead. Apparently, several streaming services battled for the project set in the Cayman Islands in the 1800s in which Saldana plays Ercell, a Caribbean woman whose secret past is revealed when her island is invaded by vicious buccaneers. As Deadline writes, the intention is to blend visceral action and historical fiction to create a real action vehicle as the heroine fights against the atrocities committed by the pirates.  The movie will also have another strong female who is part of the vigilante campaign, and also the nasty lead pirate so stayed tuned for the casting updates for other of the leading roles.

 THE TERMINAL LIST SERIES 
TAYLOR KITSCH JOINS CHRIS PRATT IN AMAZON TV SHOW
Over at rival Amazon, the small screen adaptation of Jack Carr's best selling novel THE TERMINAL LIST has just added Taylor Kitsch next to Chris Pratt who plays James Reece, just after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his
Taylor Kitsch and Chris Pratt will lead The Terminal List
culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves. Kitsch will play Ben Edwards, a former SEAL and Reece’s best friend. Now a member of CIA Ground Branch, Edwards uses his intelligence access and operator skill set to help Reece seek his vengeance.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

SAM HEUGHAN AND TOM HOPPER IN ACTION IN SAS: RED NOTICE MOVIE TRAILER! IT'S A SUMMER CAMP FILLED WITH MUSIC AND HEARTBREAK IN NETFLIX MUSICAL A WEEK AWAY!

 SAS: RED NOTICE TRAILER 
SAM HEUGHAN & TOM HOPPER
Two new films streaming next month today, starting with action movie SAS: RED NOTICE which will hit Sky Cinema March 12th starring Sam
The notice will be red on March 12th
Heughan and Tom Hopper alongside Tom Wilkinson, Andy Serkis. A small army of well trained criminals led by Laszlo Antonov have hijacked the Eurostar deep beneath the English Channel. Now with 400 hostages, the plan is to blow up the English Channel declaring economic war on a government with plenty of their own secrets. Little do they know, they have one too many hostages, as SAS operator Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan) is hidden somewhere, injured, on the train. With the woman he loves and an unborn baby also on board, Tom has one chance to stop Laszlo and his band of criminals. And he will unleash all he has in order to save his love and the rest of the passengers. 
 

 
 A WEEK AWAY TRAILER 
FOR NETFLIX NEW MUSICAL
A Week Away will dance into your homes this March
If you are more in the mood for something lighter, cheesier and with even worse actors as leads than Heughan above is, check out the trailer for musical family drama A WEEK AWAY which will stream on Netflix from March 26th and will either make you dance or puke. Nowhere left to go, Will Hawkins finds himself at camp for the first time. His instinct is to run, but he finds a friend, a father figure and even a girl who awakens his heart. Most of all, he finally finds a home. Kevin Quinn and Bailee Madison star in this upbeat musical featuring songs written by Amy Grant, For King And Country and more.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

BAKER STREET IS USING UNDERAGED GANGS TO HELP SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE FIRST TEASER FOR NETFLIX PERIOD SET SERIES THE IRREGULARS! STREAMING DATE AND PHOTOS

   THE IRREGULARS TEASER  
NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIES
Irregulars are out this March at Netflix
Here to launch your new week is the first and rather cheap and unimaginative teaser for eight episode period set series THE IRREGULARS which will stream on Netflix from March 26th as a creepy (the original poster is actually so bizarre and sick that I decided not to promote it here at the spy's so I'm giving you the second one which isn't much better but at least it is not scandalous and evil) new version of Sherlock Holmes whom we don't see in the teaser, but we do have first photos showing the rest of the cast, namely a gang of Victorian street teens who are manipulated into solving a series of crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson
Harrison Osterfield is the leader of the Irregulars Leopold
(who is now, of course, blackwashed and played by Royce Pierreson) and his mysterious business partner, Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd Hughes). 

THE IRREGULARS ARE SET IN
Victorian London, and they follow a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his
Royce Pierreson is the blackwashed and suitably woke Watson
mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

WHO IS IN THE GANG?
The cast also includes Thaddea Graham as Bea, Darci Shaw as Jessie, Jojo Marcari as Billy,  Mckell David as Spike and  Harrison Osterfield in the
The series was created by Tom Bidwell who is also executive producing
lead role of Leopold the leader of the Irregulars, with Clarke Peters as The Linen Man. Aidan McArdle is famous Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Inspector Lestrade.

Monday, February 22, 2021

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RUSSIAN EPIC TV SERIES THE PRISONER WITH ILYA MALAKOV AND IVAN BOSILJCIC SET AT THE COURT OF OTTOMAN SULTAN MEHMED THE CONQUEROR

  RUSSIAN PRISONER 
NEW RUSSIAN EPIC SAGA
The new series arrives sometime later this year
After the insane success of Turkish historical series The Magnificent Century on sultan Suleyman and his wife Hurem, which was feverishly adored in Arabic countries, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Russia has been trying to create their own historical drama which would repeat similar success, but they weren't overly successful even though their own shows on Catherine the Great, Golden Horde and Boris Godunov had nice ratings. Now they've decided to set one of the new series directly in the dark Ottoman empire and we can expect a lavish new 12 episode
Ilya Malakov, right, plays the title role of the Russian prisoner
television series THE PRISONER (Русский пленник) to arrive to the small screens via Russia's national broadcaster sometime later this year. Beside our
Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic is sultan Mehmed
dearest Ilya Malakov (whom you remember from their historical movie Kolovrat or Furious) in the lead role, the cast also includes actors from Serbia
Maya Tzetzhladze is sultana Safiya in the new series
making it a panslavic project. The shooting started back in the summer of 2019 so it was a very long production process. The story is set at the end of the
Serbian actress Milena Radulovic is Zuleika in the series
15th and the beginning of the 16th century so beside the infamous Turkish sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic), the series will
The series will have scenes set in the harem of the Turkish sultan
also include Russian tzars Fedor Ivanovich (Vladimir Koshevoi) and Boris Godunov (Artur Ivanov). Samvel Tadevosian, controversial Serbian
Vladimir Koshevoy is Russian tzar Fedor, son of Ivan the Terrible
actress Milena Radulovic, Arina Zharkova, Richard Lepers also star. Ivan Shurhovetzkiy, who helmed Kolovrat, is also directing this one. A whole city was built in Turkey for the needs of the production.

THE STORY OF THE PRISONER
Alekha (Ilya Malakov) is an honest, strong, freedom loving Cossack who decided to fulfill his father's last will. As a result, he goes to a foreign land in
The series was shot in Turkey and Russia in 2019
order to bow to the Virgin Mary. By the will of fate, he finds himself in the palace of the Sultan Mehmed (Serbian star Ivan Bosiljcic) of the Ottoman
Prisoners underwent a very harsh treatment to become Janissaries
Empire. Here the Russian is taken prisoner and sent to become one of the evil Jannisaries (sultan's elite squads made from the children and prisoners taken
Alekha will be trying to return to his love in Russia
from the enslaved regions of the empire). In an instant, not only plans, but also the life of the protagonist goes downhill. The man tries to fight fate, but
A whole historical city was built for the production of the series
the circumstances are stronger. As a result, he becomes an Ottoman prisoner who must serve the hated sultan. Here Alekha will face many trials and
It is expected that the series will be offered to the foreign markets as well
hardships. But during the whole journey, he does not give up on the feeling that one day he will return home - to his native land. In parallel, he finds the
Thousands of authentic costumes were made for the series
love of his life. But even here difficult tests await him. But for a real Cossack there are no barriers when he loves. He is ready to give his life for his beloved,
Jannisaries in the line in front of the grand vizier of the empire
because in a true Cossack, love for a woman is equated with love for the Motherland. Check out the annoucement clip below and tell us what you think:

Sunday, February 21, 2021

WE HUNT THE FLAME FANTASY NOVEL SAGA TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES! 1ST PHOTOS FROM SPELLBOUND AND LUCK APPLE'S ANIMATED ADVENTURES WITH JANE FONDA AS A DRAGON

   WE HUNT THE FLAME  
TO BECOME A TV SERIES
The sequel was released last month
We're bringing news for the younglings today, starting with STXtv who have bought rights on Hafsah Faizal's fantasy adventure novel WE HUNT THE FLAME and will turn it into a television series. Published in 2019, the novel, as Deadline writes, has the story set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient Arabia. The fantasy novel follows a female hunter and an assassin prince who are put on a collision course full of adventure, darkness and romance as they find themselves on opposing quests to return magic to their kingdom. The sequel book We Free The Stars was published last month and she already has a new saga A Tempest of Tea set over at MacMillan.

 LUCK ANIMATED ADVENTURE 
FIRST PHOTOS FROM APPLE+
Over at Apple + Television, they've just released first photos from their new animated adventure movie LUCK which they are producing together with Skydance Animation. Also in their coproduction is another animated movie Spellbound, and both were previously meant to have theatrical release in 2022. LUCK, helmed by Peggy Holmes, revolves around an unlucky girl who, after stumbling upon the never-before-seen world of good and bad luck, must join together with magical creatures to uncover a force more powerful
Jane Fonda will lend her voice to dragon in Luck animated movie
than even luck itself.  Jane Fonda will lend her voice in it to a Dragon, the exuberant CEO of Good Luck and undisputed luckiest ancient being in all the land. Her character is elegant, stylish and as persuasive as she is powerful. The only thing better than good luck is more good luck, so when bad luck starts to
Spellbound will also air over at Apple + TV streamer
spin out of control, she must face her fears or risk losing good luck forever. SPELLBOUND is, meanwhile, an animated musical with an original score from Alan Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater and it centres on a young girl who sets out to break the spell that has divided her kingdom in two. It will be directed by Vicky Jenson!

Saturday, February 20, 2021

TOM RILEY JOINS KRISTEN BELL'S MINI SERIES THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE AT NETFLIX! MICHAEL CAINE, GLENDA JACKSON TO LEAD THE GREAT ESCAPER FOR OLIVER PARKER

  TOM RILEY TO STAR IN 
THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE
While we are waiting to see his role in new Victorian fantasy series The Nevers at HBO this April our dearest Tom Riley has already lined up a new
Tom Riley is taking the male lead
gig: he will take the male lead in THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE mini series for Netflix. Kristen Bell is the female lead as heartbroken Anna, for whom every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder… Or did she? Riley will play Bell’s new neighbor, a charming and handsome single dad. But is this undeniably sexy widower too good to be true? Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf are show runners. 

    MICHAEL CAINE   
IS THE GREAT ESCAPER
Amazing British director Oliver Parker is preparing a new feature film and he has set two time Oscar winners Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as leads. As Screen Daily reports, THE GREAT ESCAPER, inspired by true events, will see Caine play octogenarian Bernard Jordan, who escaped from his care home in the summer of 2014 to attend the 70th
Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine will lead the new drama
Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France. Glenda Jackson (who has recently returned to film after a 15 year long career as a member of British parliament) will play his wife of 60 years, Irene, in this story which follows Jordan’s 48-hour adventure as he slipped out of his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. 

Friday, February 19, 2021

MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS TO LEAD NEW ITALIAN WESTERN TV SERIES DJANGO FOR CANAL + AND SKY! MONICA BELLUCCI TO LEAD SICCITA MOVIE ON A FUTURISTIC ROME LEFT WITHOUT WATER

  NEW DJANGO TV SERIES 
MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS TO LEAD
Matthias will take the lead in new Django
Toplining our global news updates today is something coming from France: Matthias Schoenaerts has been set as the lead of the new wild west set ten part TV series DJANGO which will air on Canal + in French territories and on Sky channels around Europe. Created by Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravaglia it will offer a fresh new take on the Western genre with a contemporary and psychological twist. The story is set in the Wild West in the 1860s and 1870s. Sarah and John have founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts, full of men and women of all backgrounds, races and creeds, that welcomes everyone with open arms. Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django is still looking for his daughter, believing she may have survived the killing. He is shocked to find her in New Babylon, about to marry John. But Sarah, now a grown woman, wants Django to leave, as she fears he will put New Babylon in jeopardy if he stays. However, Django, believing the city is in danger, is adamant that he will not lose his daughter twice. The English language series will start shooting in May.

 MONICA BELLUCCI TO GET 
 
Monica Bellucci will try to survive the drought
STUCK IN ROME WITH OUT WATER 
Meanwhile, down in Italy, as Cineuropa reports, Paolo Virzi is shooting DROUGHT (Siccita) a futuristic movie which imagines the Italian capital stricken by a water shortage, wreaking havoc on rules and customs! Monica Bellucci and Valerio Mastandrea play two of the lead characters in the film that imagines a version of Rome where it hasn’t rained for three years, resulting in a water shortage which upends rules and habits. Circulating within this city overcome by thirst yet drowning in prohibitions is a group of characters who are both young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are interlinked in one tragic and mocking design as each of them searches for personal redemption.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI IS AN ARTIST IN A STRUGGLE IN ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY'S HISTORICAL MOVIE DRAMA 'SIN' ARRIVING TO CINEMAS THIS WEEK

   SIN MOVIE TRAILER  
ON FAMOUS MICHELANGELO
Continuing our week of international projects, today we have a trailer for historical drama from famous Andrei Konchalovsky SIN a movie on legendary painter Michelangelo which has already played in Europe but is
The movie is out February 19th
arriving to USA cinemas February 19th. Alberto Testone leads the  the film which depicts the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is interesting that Vladimir Putin gifted Pope Francis an early cut of the film in the summer of 201. 
Florence early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contempo- raries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist's
All the sets and costumes were made from materials authentic to Renaissance
loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission - the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favour with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations,
Andrei Konchalovsky spent more than eight years working on the film
leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings. Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Il Peccato (Sin) is a gripping reflection on the agony and ecstasy of individual greatness, and the profound humanity behind the legend of the Renaissance.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

NORDIC EPIC ADVENTURE AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION WITH PAL SVERRE HAGEN AS THE FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER GETS A USA RELEASE!

 AMUNDSEN EPIC MOVIE 
THE GREATEST EXPEDITION
Amundsen will hit cinemas this spring in USA
It played over in Norway two years ago, but thanks to Samuel Goldwyn films AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION will arrive to USA on VOD and in theatres this April. Pal Sverre Hagen leads the film set in Norway,1926. The Norwegian and English language film charts Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the North Pole which haunts him throughout his life. He is obsessed with the idea of discovering the last unchartered lands of the world. While he wins the race against Robert Scott and becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole. 
 
THE STORY OF THE MOVIE  
After reading in a newspaper about Roald Amundsen's missing in the North Pole, his brother Leon (Christian Rubeck) leaves his house to walk next door to the Roald's house, to await news. Taking him wrongly as a thief,
The movie was directed by Espen Sandberg
Leon is hit by Bess Brigads (Katherine Waterston), Roald's younger love interest. Introducing each other, Bess learns from Leon about the childhood of Roald Amundsen, who rose with a happy family with his parents and other three brothers fascinated by North and South Pole, after the unknown and uncharted lands due to the extreme conditions of survival by the so much below zero temperatures. When their father died during one of his usual sea voyages and their mother died by disease some time later, Roald and Leon strengthened their bond in their wish to be the first men to arrive to North Pole, where Roald would be the explorer and Leon the financier to get a team and the enough money for the travel. But in 1908 Frederick Cook's claiming to have arrived North Pole forced them to change the plans.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

THE KING AND I TO GET NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION! GERARD DEPARDIEU, CECILE DE FRANCE, XAVIER DOLAN, BENJAMIN VOISIN LEAD PERIOD SET MOVIE ADAPTATION OF BALZAC'S LOST ILLUSIONS

  THE KING AND I GETTING  
A NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION
The many times adapted story of  Anna Leonowens who sets sail from England for Bangkok, the capital of Siam, to take the position of schoolteacher for the royal court of the King of Siam, will be made into a movie by
The 1956 original movie was famous for Deborah Kerr's ballgowns
Paramount. The scary thing is that the producers plan " to reimagine this classic story with a contemporary perspective that explores diversity and the contrasting worldviews of the characters by drawing from real history and the musical." God help us all!

   LOST ILLUSIONS   
NEW BALZAC ADAPTATION
Speaking of period set dramas, check out the first photo from new French movie LOST ILLUSIONS an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel
The movie is coming this October
"Les illusions perdues" or Human Comedy. Directed and written by Xavier Gianolli, it sees Benjamin Voisin playing Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower class poet, who is madly in love with the baroness Louise de Bargeton. The risk of scandal forces them to flee to Paris where they hope to live and love freely. Lucien soon finds rejection and loses the baroness’s support. He finds himself alone, penniless, hungry, and humiliated until the day he seeks revenge by writing controversial – yet banal – articles. Inside the Paris he so coveted, he finds a cynical world where everything – and everyone – can be bought and sold. Can he find his way and remain faithful to his hopes and
First photo from the new movie adaptation of Lost Illusions
dreams? Gerard Depardieu, Cecile de France and Xavier Dolan also star in the film scheduled for October 21st release.

Monday, February 15, 2021

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BEHIND HER EYES NETFLIX THRILLER MINI TV SERIES WITH TOM BATEMAN AND EVE HEWSON

   BEHIND HER EYES   
NEW NETFLIX TV SERIES
If you are in the mood for some spooky mystery do not despair as Netflix is bringing you psychological thriller series BEHIND HER EYES, a small
This new mini series starts February 17th
screen adaptation of the novel by Sarah Pinborough. The six episode series will stream from February 17th. The series did not have production problems with the covid as it was shot back in 2019.

  BEHIND HER EYES 
 sees Simona Brown playing Louise, a single mother who, tired of her unfulfilling role as a secretary, begins an affair with her new boss David (Tom Bateman). In a strange turn of events, Louise begins a friendship with David’s wife, Adele (Bono's daughter Eve Hewson). The unconventional love triangle leads Louise to become
The series was created by Steve Lightfoot
embroiled in a dangerous web of secrets, as no one and nothing is what it seems. Check out the confusing trailer below and tell us what you think. I hear the ending of the book itself is very unpredictable.