DEER BOY GOES ON AN EPIC ADVENTURE IN NEW FANTASY TV SERIES SWEET TOOTH STARTING NEXT WEEK ON NETFLIX

  SWEET TOOTH TV SERIES  

THE END OF OUR WORLD IS THE BEGINNING OF HIS

This one will be the first new series to arrive to us this June, and yes, it is June already next week. SWEET TOOTH will stream on Netflix from

Sweet Tooth will stream from June 4th

June 4th. Based on the popular DC comic book it will be a post apocalyptic fairytale about a hybrid deer boy and a wandering loner who embark on an extraordinary adventure!

  THE STORY Ten years ago “The Great Crumble” wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrids - babies born part human, part animal. Unsure if hybrids are the cause or result of the virus, many humans fear and hunt them. After a decade of living safely in his secluded forest home, a sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus (Christian

Little Christian Convery takes the lead role in the new series

Convery) unexpectedly befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd (Nonso Anozie). Together they set out on an extraordinary adventure across what’s left of America in search of answers about Gus' origins, Jepperd's past, and the

The series will air in ten episodes over at Netflix

true meaning of home. But their story is full of unexpected allies and enemies, and Gus quickly learns the lush, dangerous world outside the forest is more complex than he ever could have imagined.

NEW TRAILERS FOR JUNGLE CRUISE AMAZON ADVENTURE WITH EMILY BLUNT, DWAYNE JOHNSON AND CHRIS PRATT'S NETFLIX SF MOVIE THE TOMORROW WAR

  NEW JUNGLE CRUISE TRAILER  

WITH EMILY BLUNT & ROCK

Two new trailers I forgot to show you this week, starting with the last one for JUNGLE CRUISE adventure which will arrive to theatres and Disney +

Jungle Cruise arrives July 30th

July 30th. It is an adventure filled, rollicking thrill ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt). Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila, his ramshackle but charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities, possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on this epic quest together, the unlikely duo encounters innumerable dangers and supernatural forces, all lurking in the deceptive beauty of the lush

The film was directed by Jaume Collet Serra

rainforest. But as the secrets of the lost tree unfold, the stakes reach even higher for Lily and Frank and their fate, and mankind's, hangs in the balance. Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, Paul Giamatti also star.

 

  THE TOMORROW WAR TRAILER  

FOR CHRIS PRATT SF MOVIE

Netflix has released a second trailer for their science fiction movie THE TOMORROW WAR which streams on their platform July 2nd. The story of the film begins when the world is stunned by the arrival of a group of time

The Tomorrow War was paid 200 million by Netflix

travelers who travelled from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

DELIGHTFUL THE DUKE TRAILER WITH JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN, MATTHEW GOODE! JEREMY IRVINE, FINN WITTROCK TO LEAD HBO'S GREEN LANTERN TV SERIES

    HBO MAX GREEN LANTERN   

CASTS JEREMY IRVINE AS LEAD

HBO Max is preparing a DC Universe series based on beloved hero GREEN LANTERN and they have set Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock as leads. Coming from Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame Smith, it will reinvent the classic DC property through a story

Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock will take the lead roles

spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Jeremy Irvine), and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Finn Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns, from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.

 

  THE DUKE TRAILER IS HERE  

WITH JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN AND MATTHEW GOODE

This one was delayed for a long time due to corona, but Roger Michell's movie THE DUKE is finally arriving to UK cinemas this September with Jim Broadbent leading the true story of Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi

The Duke finally hits cinemas this September in UK

driver, who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren play the lead roles

on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge -

Matthew Goode plays a lawyer in the new movie

Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. Helen Mirren plays his wife, Matthew Goode his lawyer. 

MICHIEL HUISMAN JOINS LUKE EVANS IN ECHO 3 THRILLER TV SERIES! DREAM VACATION TURNS INTO NIGHTMARE FOR JILL HALFPENNY AS THE LEAD OF CHANNEL 5'S THE HOLIDAY THRILLER SERIES!

 

  MICHIEL HUISMAN JOINS  

LUKE EVANS IN ECHO 3 SERIES

What a hunkfest will that be! I already told you that Luke Evans will lead ECHO 3 thriller series at Apple and now he is joined by another of our crushes Michiel Huisman. This ten part drama is set in South America and follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, who is the emotional

Luke Evans and Michiel Huisman will lead the series

center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother (Luke Evans) and her husband (Michiel Huisman), two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts, struggle to find her in a layered, personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.

 

 THE HOLIDAY THRILLER SERIES

CHANNEL 5 SETS LEAD CAST

Channel 5 has been probably the only British channel to give us something to watch during the corona year, and now they have set the cast for

Jill Halfpenny will take the lead role

THE HOLIDAY thriller series, an adaptation of TM Logan's popular novel which I announced last year. Jill Halfpenny who lead their Drowning this spring, will also lead this one as Kate, a woman who discovers that her husband is having an affair during a luxurious holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. The troubled couple are sharing a villa with four of Kate’s closest friends, one of which is the adulterous partner, but she doesn’t realise that the guilty party could be prepared to kill in order to keep their secret safe. The four part series will also star Owen McDonnell as Kate’s cheating husband Sean, while Lara McDonnell and Aidan McCann play their children, Lucy and Daniel. Liv

Aidan McCardle and Andrew Macklin will also star in the series

Mjones and Siobhan Hewlett play friends Jenny and Rowan, with Aidan McCardle and Andrew Macklin as their respective husbands, Alistair and Russ. The supporting cast will also include Molly McCann, Cat Simmons and newcomer Shaun O’Callaghan Wade.  

IT'S DRAMA AND OPULENCE IN MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH HISTORICAL MOVIE TRAILER WITH TRINE DYRHOLM, JAKOB OFTEBRO! SVETLANA KHODCHENKOVA TO LEAD NETFLIX' 1ST RUSSIAN SERIES ANNA KARENINA

 MODERN ANNA KARENINA 

AS NETFLIX 1ST RUSSIAN SHOW

Svetlana Khodchenkova will take the lead

We are international today, starting with news from Netflix who have cast crazy gorgeous Svetlana Khodchenkova whom you have seen in Wolverine and numerous Russian blockbusters over the years, as the lead for their first Russian original series ANNA K a contemporary version of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. It will be a lavish retelling of the literary classic, set in modern Russia. It centers on Anna Karenina, the wife of the soon to become governor of St. Petersburg, who enters a life changing love affair with Vronsky, the dashing heir of an aluminum empire. Their affair quickly careens out of control, threatening the delicate balance of their familial bonds and social relationships. Set between cosmopolitan Moscow, historic St. Petersburg, and Russia’s rugged countryside, the drama explores themes of passion and loyalty. Stay tuned for casting news on Vronsky! Will it be one of our favourite Russian gents? Rinal, Petrov, Markov?

 

  MARGRETE: QUEEN OF NORTH 

FIRST EPIC TRAILER IS HERE!

I was probably among the first ones to inform you about this one last winter but now we have the first trailer

Margrete will hit Scandinavia this Autumn

and poster for Danish epic movie MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH about their famous queen who united Denmark, Norway and Sweden into one kingdom.  It is the untold story of Margrete I (Trine Dyrholm), a visionary monarch ahead of her time. The year is 1402, and Margrete I has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace orientated union, which she single handedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and Princess Philippa of England. An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an

Trine Dyrholm takes the lead role in the historical drama

emerging European power, but a breathtaking conspiracy is under way that could tear Margrete and all she believes in apart. Directed by Charlotte Sieling the film, also starring Norway's Jakob Oftebro, arrives this September.

CHAPELWAITE GOTHIC MYSTERY SERIES TEASER IS HERE WITH ADRIEN BRODY AND AIRING DATE BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S HORROR STORY!

 CHAPELWAITE TEASER TRAILER

FOR ADRIAN BRODY PERIOD SET GOTHIC THRILLER TV SERIES

I gotta admit I am still worried we won't have anything to watch this summer, but if it is any consolation Epix is promising us this:

Chapelwaite arrives this August to Epix

CHAPELWAITE series based on Stephen King's famous story Jerusalem's Lot (prequel to his Salem's Lot) which will air this August in ten episodes with Adrien Brody in the lead role of a man from the 1850s who relocates his family to his ancestral home in Maine, but the question is - does the house really want new guests ?

      CHAPEL WAITE 

 is set in the 1850s. It follows Captain Charles Boone (Adrien Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to

Adrien Brody is leading the ten part horror series

end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Emily Hampshire plays Rebecca Morgan, an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College, and has returned home

Emily Hampshire takes the female lead as the governess

with an advance to write a story for the new and prestigious Atlantic Magazine. Her writer’s block lifts when Boone arrives in town with his children, and despite her mother’s protests, Rebecca applies to be governess of

The series is based on a story by Stephen King

the infamous Chapelwaite manor and the Boone family in order to write about them. In doing so, Rebecca will not only craft the next great gothic novel, she’ll unravel a mystery that has plagued her own family for years.

COSMO JARVIS, HIROYUKI SANADA TO LEAD SHOGUN EPIC TV SERIES AT FX! VICTORIAN COOKERY NOVEL MISS ELIZA'S ENGLISH KITCHEN TO BECOME TV SERIES!

  COSMO JARVIS TO LEAD  

FX' SHOGUN EPIC TV SERIES

We thought this one was scraped three years ago, but it seems it is alive and kicking: Cosmo Jarvis (whom we watched in Lady Macbeth and Raised

Cosmo Jarvis will take the lead role

by Wolves) and Hiroyuki Sanada will be two of the three leads in SHOGUN TV series adaptation over at FX set in feudal Japan. Based on James Clavell's novel, it depicts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), a risk taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties who must prove her value and allegiance. The series is set to shoot as soon as this summer.

MISS ELIZA'S ENGLISH KITCHEN

TO BECOME A TV SERIES

This one hasn't even been published yet (it is out this Autumn) but Annabel Abbs's Victorian novel of cookery and friendship MISS ELIZA'S ENGLISH KITCHEN has been nabbed by CBS for a TV series adaptation!

The book is out in bookstores this Autumn

The book tells the story of an English poet, Eliza Acton, who dreams of seeing her words in print. However, when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she’s told that “poetry is not the business of a lady.” Instead, they want her to write a cookery book.England in 1837 is awash with exciting new ingredients, from spices to exotic fruits, and that’s what publishers want from women. Despite never having cooked, Eliza is determined to learn. To assist her, she hires 17-year-old Ann Kirby, the impoverished daughter of a war-crippled father and a mother with dementia. Over the course of 10 years, Eliza and Ann develop an unusual friendship that crosses social classes. Together, they break the mold of traditional cookbooks, changing the course of cookery writing forever. Abbs was inspired to write the book after she inherited a collection of antiquarian cookery books

ARE YOU READY? WORLD'S MOST BELOVED TV SERIES EVER FRIENDS IS RETURNING NEXT WEEK WITH THE REUNION FEATURING THE WHOLE CAST AND SOME STAR STUDDED SPECIAL GUESTS!

   FRIENDS: THE REUNION   

IS HAPPENING NEXT WEEK

Earlier this week we said the final goodbye to TV's most wholesome sitcom ever Last Man Standing which ended for good after ten years on air and almost 200 episodes, and next week the cast of another beloved classic

The Reunion is happening next week!

sitcom FRIENDS is coming back but not for a scripted return: it will just be a reunion with actors reminiscing on the beautiful years they've spent shooting world's most popular show ever. HBO Max will air THE REUNION May 27th and Sky, which aired the show back in the days, over in UK. In Canada it will stream on Crave and Foxtel, on Binge in Australia, and on HBO cable channels in Europe. Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer will go back together to Friends’ original Burbank studio. People who created Friends and served as their executive producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane will also be back behind the cameras.

WHAT'LL HAPPEN AT REUNION? 

Our favorite friends are back on the set that started it all. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, and special guests reunite to discuss everything from their

All the cast is both returning and executive producing the event

casting process to whether or not Ross and Rachel were really on a break. Witness the unbreakable bond of the group that perfectly captured the moment in life when your friends become your family. Guest stars set to join

The reunion will air literally all around the world

them include David Beckham, Justin Bieber, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould (who played the father of Ross and Monica), Kit Harington, Tom Selleck (who played Monica's older lover),

The original production crew will also be behind the cameras

Reese Witherspoon (who played Rachel's irresponsible sister). A day before, on Wednesday, HBO Max will air a red carpet event featuring guest star appearances!

HOLD YOUR KILTS! HENRY CAVILL WILL WIELD THE SWORD AS HIGHLANDER IN A NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION!

  HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD  

NEW HIGHLANDER ADAPTATION!

Well, he certainly has experience with swords and looks good with them, right? The best news we've heard this spring is that our Henrylicious Cavill will lead a brand new movie version of famous HIGHLANDER and will wear

Henry has confirmed the news himself

a kilt in it, of course! Chad Stahelski will be helming for Lionsgate. Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Adrian Paul have played the character before.

It is the character of Connor MacLeod a Scottish warrior who is good with the sword and, although he was born in the 16th century, has to fight other immortal enemies in our present times so that they could not steal the power of all eternal beings of their kind.

 There can be only one was the main catch phrase from the original movie. Ryan Reynolds was at some point attached to star, but that project died. The original 1986 movie was actually a massive flop at the cinemas, but became a cult hit later on in video

The new movie will be directed by Chad Stahelski

market spawning four installments, books, TV series and games. Henry is currently filming the second season of Netflix' most popular series ever The Witcher. He has confirmed his Highlander role personally.

GUILLAUME ARNAULT TO LEAD NEW FRENCH 19TH CENTURY TV SERIES AND THE MOUNTAIN WILL BLOOM! EDOARDO PONTI TO DIRECT ELIZABETH STREET PERIOD SET TV SERIES ADAPTATION

AND THE MOUNTAIN WILL BLOOM

NEW PERIOD SET FRENCH SERIES

Guillaume Arnault will take the lead role

While we are waiting for new period set French series Germinal and Diane de Poitiers to arrive to the small screens later this year, another one has just started shooting down at the beautiful French Riviera. AND THE MOUNTAIN WILL BLOOM (original title Et la montagne fleurira) will be a six part series produced by Storia Television in a collaboration with French public broadcaster France Television. Eleonore Faucher will direct the series that she also wrote and that will star Guillaume Arnault, Claire Duburcq, Philippe Torreton, Constance Dollé, Hélène de Fougerolles, Ophelia Kolb, Julien Boisselier, Chloé Astor, Anne Brochet, Catherine Allégret, Rio Vega, Eva Danino, David Kammenos and Michel Jonasz. 

THE STORY OF THE NEW SERIES

Based on Françoise Bourdon’s novel “Le Mas des Tilleuls,” the series is a six episode family saga set in 1837 in Provence and follows a man, Jean Baptiste (Guillaume Arnault), who was banned from this childhood home

Phillipe Torreton, Julien Boisselier, David Kammenos will also star

by his father after being wrongfully accused of having abused his step mother, Seraphine (Hélène de Fougerolles). Jean Baptiste runs away to live with his aunt and eventually become a merchant of rare flowers and finds love with

Constance Dolle and Helene de Fougerolles will also star

Lila. But his happiness is crushed when a revolt spreads across Provence, forcing him to reclaim rights over his family property and confronts wounds from his childhood.

 ELIZABETH STREET TV SERIES 

COMING FROM EDOARDO PONTI

Meanwhile, their Italian neighbour Edoardo Ponti (Sophia Lauren's son) will direct a TV series adaptation of Laurie Fabiano's 2010 historical

Elizabeth Street will become a TV series

bestseller ELIZABETH STREET for Sony Television. Following Fabiano's great grandmother's epic struggles, the series is set in New York’s Little Italy at the dawn of the 20th century. It follows Giovanna Pontillo, an Italian immigrant reeling in the wake of personal tragedy. Arriving in America, her survival and success on the streets of Old New York soon draws the unwanted attention of the notorious Black Hand, the earliest form of the Italian-American Mafia. As the stakes grow higher, Giovanna desperately fights to save what is important above all else – family. Fabiano said it took her twenty years to extract the story from her grandmother and ten more to write it.

ALICE ENGLERT, NICHOLAS DENTON TO LEAD STARZ DANGEROUS LIAISONS COSTUME SAGA! REBECCA FERGUSON TO LEAD WOOL DYSTOPIAN SERIES! EWAN HORROCKS JOINS LAST KINGDOM FINAL SEASON

 REBECCA FERGUSON TO LEAD 

WOOL DYSTOPIAN TV SERIES

After The White Queen, Rebecca Ferguson will lead another small screen series: the TV adaptation of WOOL dystopian novel by Hugh Howey over at Apple TV + and she will also executive produce it. Self published by

Rebecca will both star in and produce the series

the author himself back in 2011, the book is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Rebecca Ferguson will star as Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer. There were at least two previous efforts to adapt the book at other studios. Speaking of epic TV series, Amazon has just renewed The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series for a second season even though the first one has not been released yet. 

DANGEROUS LIAISONS SERIES

STARZ CASTS LEAD STARS

Earlier last year I told you that Starz is preparing a prequel TV series to famous DANGEROUS LIAISONS and now they have set the stars for it. As

Nicholas Denton will be young Valmont

Deadline reports, Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton will play the notorious lovers Merteuil and Valmont in this reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th century novel! It tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont meet as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of revolution. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the couple rises from the slums of Paris and scales the heights of the French aristocracy, seducing and manipulating both the nobility and each other to survive. Marquise Camille is a beautiful young

Alice Englert will play the female lead

woman from nowhere with a mysterious past who seeks revenge on the wealthy aristocrats who led her to ruin. Betrayed by her lover, Valmont, she turns heartbreak into empowerment as she strategizes to gain status, power and freedom. Pascal Valmont was driven to regain the title and status stolen from him by his stepmother after his father’s death. Without status or money, he must seduce and blackmail to get what he wants, even if it risks losing the one he loves most – Camille. The series has already started its preproduction down in Czech republic. 

  EWAN HORROCKS JOINS  

LAST KINGDOM FINAL SEASON

Speaking of epic shows, the fifth and sadly the final season of everybody's favourite mediaeval series THE LAST KINGDOM at Netflix has added Ewan Horrocks to the cast. The youngster who is currently

Ewan Horrocks has joined The Last Kingdom

starring in Sky's Domina series will play a character named Aelfweard! Filming is underway in Hungary on the final ten episodes, which will continue to follow the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexan-der Dreymon) a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England. Charged with training King Edward’s first born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s ambition will have an even higher purpose. But to achieve this destiny, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss. New cast members also include Patrick Robinson as Father Benedict, a holy man with a troubled past; Sonya Cassidy as Eadgifu, a smart and openhearted Saxon who arrives in Winchester; and Harry Gilby as Aethelstan, a young man trained by Uhtred to follow in his footsteps.

BBC RELEASES FIRST PHOTOS FROM JAMIE DORNAN MYSTERY TV SERIES THE TOURIST, ANNOUNCES THE GALLOWS POLE 18TH CENTURY SET TV SERIES

  FIRST THE TOURIST SERIES  

PHOTOS WITH JAMIE DORNAN

BBC has released the first images from their new six part mystery thriller series THE TOURIST in which Jamie Dornan stars as a British man who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, being

Jamie Dornan leads the six part thriller series

pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and

The series will also air on ZDF, Stan and HBO Max

unforgiving outback. Full of shocking, surprising, funny and brutal turns it is set in a world populated by quirky, enigmatic characters and off-beat comedy punctuates high-stakes action. At its heart however, is a story of self-discovery with a ticking timebomb underneath: as The Man starts to uncover the

The entire series was shot down in Australia

mystery of who he was, he’s also forced to ask who he is now - and fast. Will he unlock the secrets of his identify before those who are trying to kill him catch up with him? The series which will also air on ZDF in Germany, Stan in Australia and HBO Max in USA, will also star Damon Herriman who replaces Hugo Weaving in the cast.

BBC'S THE GALLOWS POLE SERIES 

BBC will turn Gallows Pole into series

Speaking of BBC, they have also announced a new period set series which they've just ordered. THE GALLOWS POLE will be an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers bringing the remarkable true 18th century story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, a community of weavers who made fake gold coins to supplement their incomes. It follows a group of very naughty men and women who started clipping and counterfeiting coins out in the Moors, as a way to keep themselves and their community alive! But their revolutionary criminal enterprise will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.

SIGOURNEY WEAVER TO LEAD LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART TV SERIES ADAPTATION AT AMAZON! DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOL TV SERIES TRAILER IS HERE WITH ASHLEY ZUKERMAN

  SIGOURNEY WEAVER TO LEAD  

THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART TV SERIES ADAPTATION

This is one for the ladies. Sigourney Weaver is set to lead the seven part TV series adaptation of Holly Ringland's book THE LOST FLOWER OF ALICE HART over at Amazon. The story of the Australian novel follows a

Amazon will turn the book into TV series

young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a tragic and mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past. Set against Australia’s natural landscape, and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, the family drama spans the decades as Alice grows from a child into a woman, is epic and visceral. Her journey builds to an emotional climax as Alice, once again, finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves.

  THE LOST SYMBOL TRAILER  

FOR PEACOCK SERIES ADAPTATION

If you are one of the 200 million who read Dan Brown's bestseller THE LOST SYMBOL Peacock has just released a trailer for the series that comes soon based on it. It follows the early adventures of famed Harvard symbologist

Ashley Zukerman is leading the new TV series adaptation

Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman), who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy. Valorie Curry, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Eddie Izzard and Beau Knapp also star.

SEE HENRY GOLDING AND ANDREW KOJI GO INTO ACTION IN SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS TRAILER

 SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS 

TRAILER WITH HENRY GOLDING

Snake Eyes hits cinemas July 23rd

Well, this has two of our favourite Asian hunks so we will be sure not to miss it: first trailer has been revealed for SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS the famous franchise spin off with Henry Golding and Andrew Koji. Golding stars as Snake Eyes, a tenacious loner who is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir apparent. Upon arrival in Japan, the Arashikage teach Snake Eyes the ways of the ninja warrior, while also providing something he’s been longing for: a home. But when secrets from his past are revealed, Snake Eyes’ honor and allegiance will be tested – even if that means losing the trust of those closest to him.  Andrew Koji stars as Storm Shadow, Úrsula

Henry Golding takes the lead role in the new movie

Corberó as The Baroness, Samara Weaving as Scarlett, Haruka Abe as Akiko, Tahehiro Hira as Kenta and Iko Uwais as Hard Master. The film is out July 23rd! It will stream on Paramount + a month after the premiere.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ARTHURIAN LEGENDS HISTORICAL FANTASY THE GREEN KNIGHT FILM WITH DEV PATEL, JOEL EDGERTON, ALICIA VIKANDER

     THE GREEN KNIGHT    

IS ARRIVING THIS SUMMER

I'm not entirely sure why they keep trying to convince us that Dev Patel is, with his utter lack of screen presence, a lead star material, let alone a knight material, but he obviously has friends in high places. He leads another

The film should arrive to cinemas at the end of July

shamelessly revisionist take on history and myths in THE GREEN KNIGHT historical fantasy which will arrive to cinemas only July 30th. They've released new trailer too, and it looked to me like a parody or a bad comedy, but I don't think that was their goal. 

WHEN COURAGE MADE KINGS An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-

The film was directed by Pete Dragon's David Lowery

skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his

Alicia Vikander leads the female part of the cast

character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger. From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

As you can see in some of the character posters (which are still the ugliest ones we've ever seen for any film), the rest of the equally bland cast also includes Ralph Ineson as the Green Knight himself, Joel Edgerton as

Although the legends itself is not violent, the film is R rated

Lord, Alicia Vikander as Essel, Sarita Choudhury as Mother, Sean Harris as King, Kate Dickie as Queen! The film has been postponed a couple of times and will hit theatres this summer.

FANTASY WEEKEND: AZTECH FORGOTTEN GODS TO BECOME A SF ADVENTURE MOVIE! EION BAILEY, HAROLD PERRINEAU TO LEAD EPIX' SF HORROR SERIES FROM ABOUT TOWN THAT TRAPS ALL WHO ENTER

  AZTECH FORGOTTEN GODS  

TO MOVE TO THE BIG SCREENS

A bit of fantasy today, starting with the movie adaptation of upcoming Aztech Forgotten Gods video game simply titled AZTECH. In this revisionist historical telling of Aztec history, European powers never arrived on the

Aztech will be turned into a sf movie

shores of ancient Mesoamerica. The story takes place in a future where the Aztec empire was never conquered, and flourished into a hyper advanced, cutting edge civilization. The Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlan, has thrived for centuries as a stone metropolis, techno- logically elevated yet heavily rooted in the ways of those indigenous to the land. That is, until supernatural beings suddenly start to converge on the ancient city, duping those who live there by masking themselves as ancient Aztec gods like the Feathered Serpent deity Quetzalcoatl

The video game itself will be launched later this summer

or Mictlantecuhtli the Lord of the Underworld. Their goal is to enslave the inhabitants. Seeing through their ruse is an unlikely twenty something heroine named Achtli, whose arm has been replaced with a powerful gauntlet-like ancient stone weapon. She leads the opposition and uncovers the mystery behind these beings.

 EPIX' HORROR SF SERIES FROM 

ADS EION BAILEY AND HAROLD PERRINEAU AS LEADS

Epix has, meanwhile, set their leads for new sf series simply titled FROM which unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that

Eion Bailey will take the lead role in From

traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down. Eion Bailey will play Jim Matthews, who, along with his wife, is struggling in the aftermath of a personal tragedy and suddenly finds himself and his family trapped in the town. Harold Perrineau will be Boyd Stevens, the sheriff whose Draconian rules have held the fragile town together, even as he searches for a way to escape this seemingly inescapable nightmare. Stay tuned for additional casting.