KEELEY HAWES TO LEAD CROSSFIRE CANARY ISLAND HOTEL SHOOTING MINI TV SERIES FOR BBC ONE! NICHOLAS HOULT JOINS ANYA TAYLOR JOY, RALPH FIENNES IN THE MENU THRILLER

  KEELEY HAWES TO LEAD  

CROSSFIRE SERIES FOR BBC

Our favourite British actress Keeley Hawes is set to lead a new mini series CROSSFIRE over at BBC One. She will also produce the series

Keeley will also produce the new mini series

about a major hotel shooting. The three part series is set in a luxurious resort in the Canary Islands and centers on Jo (Hawes), who is enjoying a dream vacation with her family and friends. Sunbathing on her balcony, the tranquility is thrown into turmoil when shots ring out across the complex from gunmen wreaking revenge. A story of survival and resilience, Crossfire is a nail biting thriller with an emotional, intimate, and relatable core. With the unsuspecting and vulnerable holidaymakers and hotel staff forced to make split second life or death decisions, regrets will linger long after the final shots are fired.

  NICHOLAS HOULT ADDED  

TO THE MENU IN THE MENU

We have already told you that Anya Taylor Joy and Ralph Fiennes will lead THE MENU dark comedy movie, and now Nicholas Hoult has been cast as well.  In this darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of

Nicholas Hoult has joined Fiennes and Taylor Joy!

eccentric culinary culture, Anya and Nicholas will be a young couple who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu. Fiennes is the chef!

MATT BOMER TO LEAD NETFLIX ECHOES THRILLER TV SERIES WITH MICHELLE MONAGHAN! BRUCE WILLIS, JESSE METCALFE, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY IN THE FORTRESS ACTION MOVIE TRILOGY!

THE FORTRESS MOVIE TRILOGY

BRUCE WILLIS, JESSE METCALFE, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY CAST

Isn't that a handsome cast? James Cullen Bresack is currently shooting first two films of the planned movie trilogy THE FORTRESS and he has cast Bruce Willis, Jesse Metcalfe and Chad Michael Murray as leads. The

The Fortress movies are currently shooting in Puerto Rico

story revolves around a top-secret resort for retired U.S. intelligence officers. A group of criminals led by Balzary (Murray) breach the compound, hellbent on revenge on Robert (Willis), forcing the retired officer and his son (Metcalfe) to save the day.

 

   MATT BOMER TO LEAD  

MICHELLE MONAGHAN'S ECHOES SERIES OVER AT NETFLIX

Matt Bomer will take the male lead

Netflix has cast Michelle Monaghan as the lead of their new psychological thriller series ECHOES last week and now Matt Bomer is joining her as the male lead. She plays identical twins Leni and Gina, who share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina secretly have swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: They share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing. Matt Bomer will play Jack Beck, Leni’s husband. He is the boy next door who grew up to be the husband everybody wishes they had; soulful, a loving father and a valuable member of the community who runs a successful veterinary practice and horse farm on the land that has been in his family for generations. When his wife Leni disappears mysteriously, it’s Jack that has the most to lose as her secret life comes to the surface.

JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD AMC'S MOONHAVEN TV SERIES WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN! STUDIOCANAL TO TURN CULT GRAPHIC NOVELS CORTO MALTESE INTO A PERIOD SET TV SERIES

  JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD 

AMC'S MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

The utopian series focuses on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds

Joe Manganiello will lead Moonhaven series

herself accused of a crime and marooned on MOON HAVEN, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective, Paul Serno (Dominic Monaghan), to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Joe Manganiello will play Tomm Schultz. An ex-military with a philosophical bent, Tomm is the right hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the Moon, who finds his ambitions changed when he’s injected with a mind-altering Moon drug.

 

  CORTO MALTESE TV SERIES  

IN WORKS AT STUDIOCANAL

Speaking of new television projects, your trusted spy has recently heard rumours that one of our favourite European studios Studiocanal is

There were a few movie adaptions before

preparing a small screen TV series adaptation of famous cult comic book CORTO MALTESE. Based on the graphic novels by Hugo Pratt it will follow the stylish sea adventurer who has become something of a sex symbol over the decades. Corto Maltese is an enigmatic and laconic sea captain who lives in the first three decades of the 20th century. Born in Valletta on the island of Malta on 10 July 1887, the son of a sailor from Cornwall, and a gypsy from Seville. In his adventures full of real world references, Corto has often crossed with real historical characters like the American author Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Hermann Hesse, the American outlaw Butch Cassidy, the German World War I flying ace Red Baron, and many others.

JAI COURTNEY JOINS CHRIS PRATT, TAYLOR KITSCH, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER IN TERMINAL LIST TV SERIES! SEE AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY IN THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT WW2 MOVIE

  THE TERMINAL LIST SERIES  

JAI COURTNEY IS THE VILLAIN

It already had three stunning boys and now it will turn into a total hunkfest with Jai Courtney joining THE TERMINAL SERIES mini series as a

Jai Courtney will play the villain

villain! Amazon's series already has Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch and Patrick Schwarzenegger in the cast. It follows James Reece (Pratt) 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 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. Jai Courtney will play Steven Horn, the billionaire kingpin behind Capstone Industries, an enormously successful global fund with its hand in everything from pharmaceuticals to fashion. But his bread and butter is capitalizing on the latest military trends and innovations. Horn’s hubris and

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Taylor Kitsch, Chris Pratt also star

influence are equally threatening, and will put him squarely in the crosshairs of Navy SEAL James Reece!

 AUSCHWITZ REPORT TRAILER 

AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY

The film was Slovakia's representative in Best Foreign Film Oscar race this year and it is currently moving slowly through European cinemas. THE

The movie was Slovakia's Oscar candidate

AUSCHWITZ REPORT starring John Hannah, is the true story of Freddy (Noel Czuczor) and Walter (Peter Ondrejicka) - two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives. Emaciated and hurt, they make their way through the mountains back to Slovakia. With the help of chance encounters, they finally manage to cross the border and meet the

The movie is currently circling around European cinemas

resistance and The Red Cross. They compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.

 

JACK LOWDEN'S PERIOD SET BIOPIC BENEDICTION ON WW1 HERO AND POET SIEGFRIED SASSOON TO COMPETE AT TORONTO AND SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVALS!

 JACK LOWDEN'S BENEDICTION

DOING A FALL FESTIVAL RUN

While we are waiting for the first trailer, Terence Davies movie drama BENEDICTION has announced a festival run this Autumn: it will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival (September 9-18th) and will then compete at San Sebastian (17-25th September). Jack Lowden leads the

Jack Lowden plays famous WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon

biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, one of WW1's leading poets, which will detail his rise to acclaim for his unsparing, often satirical descriptions of trench warfare. After serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he was known as “Mad Jack” on account of his suicidal feats of bravery, he spoke out against the war

Jeremy Irvine is Sassoon's lover Ivor Novello

and narrowly escaped being court-martialled. The film will also recount his closeted post-war life, when being gay was still a criminal offence in Britain. He had an affair with composer and actor Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), and later married and converted to Roman Catholicism. During his life he met

Terence Davies drama will premiere at Toronto Film Festival

pretty much met all of the 20th century's most famous people! Gemma Jones, Kate Phillips, Ben Daniels, Geraldine James, and Anton Lesser also star in the movie. Toronto will, meanwhile, also see the world premiere of Kenneth Branagh's Belfast with Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds and Jamie Dornan. Venice is, meanwhile, filled with Hollywood crap this year.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NINE PERFECT STRANGERS TV SERIES WHICH BEGINS NEXT MONTH ON HULU WITH LUKE EVANS, NICOLE KIDMAN, MELISSA MCCARTHY, MICHAEL SHANNON, BOBBY CANNAVALE

  NINE PERFECT STRANGERS 

ON A STRANGE NEW THERAPY

Back in 2018 when Liane Moriarty's book was published it became a bestseller, so the expectations are that the series NINE PERFECT

Strangers gather on Hulu August 18th

STRANGERS based on it will also score success on the small screens when it launches August 18th on Hulu with first three episodes available at once and then the rest airing each week till the end of September. The eight episode series is created by legendary TV producer David E. Kelley! 

 

  NINE PERFECT STRANGERS follows nine strangers from the city who gather for a 10 day retreat at Tranquillum House, a secluded health and wellness resort which promises to transform and heal the guests who stay there. However, the resort is not what it seems to be and the guests are about

The series will air in eight episodes

to discover many secrets about each other and the resort's host, mysterious wellness guru Masha (Nicole Kidman). As healing begins, the guests begin to doubt the retreat’s unconventional methods. They came for massages and relaxation, not to face their own mortality.

 

Nine strangers on this even stranger therapy include Frances (Melissa McCarthy), Lars (Luke Evans), Tony (Bobby Cannavale), Carmel (Regina Hall), Napoleon (Michael Shannon), Jessica (Samara Weaving), Ben (Melvin Gregg), Heather (Asher Keddie) and Zoe (Grace Van Patten). The cast also includes Tiffany Boone and Manny Jacinto as Tranquillum House employees.

ORDINARY JOE TRAILER FOR NBC'S NEW TV SERIES GIVES JAMES WOLK THREE DIFFERENT LIVES BUT THEY ARE ALL EXCITING, UNPREDICTABLE AND BEAUTIFUL! LA BREA NEW NBC SHOW TEASER OPENS A PREHISTORIC SINKHOLE IN LA

 ORDINARY JOE SERIES TRAILER

GIVES JAMES WOLK THREE DIFFERENT LIVES

NBC has released a trailer for their new TV series ORDINARY JOE which will start September 20th starring James Wolk in three different stories with the same character. Life is all about the choices you make - and sometimes, what you do in a single moment can change everything. This new

Ordinary Joe will launch September 20th after The Voice

heartfelt, life-affirming drama follows Joe Kimbreau, who faces one of these decisions at his college graduation. The three parallel stories that diverge from that night find Joe and the people around him with different careers, relationships and family lives, showing the unexpected ways that things change - and stay the same. In one scenario, Joe asks out a girl (Natalie Martinez) at graduation and then becomes a rock star, while in another, he

In one of the parallel lives James Wolk will be a rock star

marries his best friend (Elizabeth Lail) and works in a hospital. The third choice sees Joe following in his father’s footsteps as a police officer. But when it comes down to it, there is no "right" choice; no matter what happens, Joe's life is always messy, exciting, tough, unpredictable... and beautiful. Adam Rodriguez will also star as a young congressman.

 

  LA BREA SERIES TEASER 

OPENS A SINKHOLE IN LA 

NBC has also unveiled a thrilling first teaser for another of their new Autumn series LA BREA which will also arrive September 28rd! An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in

Eoin Macken and Nathalie Zea lead the cast in La Brea

find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.

 

AMAZON UNVEILS POSTER & RELEASE DATE FOR WHEEL OF TIME EPIC TV SERIES! MICHELLE MONAGHAN TO PLAY DUAL LEAD ROLE IN ECHOES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SERIES AT NETFLIX! CHANNEL 4 REVEALS CAST FOR THE BIRTH OF DANIEL F. HARRIS COMING OF AGE TV DRAMA

 THE WHEEL OF TIME POSTER 

AND AIRING DATE UNVEILED!

Amazon Prime has set November as the airing month of their sprawling new epic fantasy series THE WHEEL OF TIME which has already been

Wheel of Time will start this November

renewed for a second season.  Based on Robert Jordan’s best selling fantasy novels, the series is set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists and only certain women are allowed to access it. The story follows Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a member of the incredibly powerful, all female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world spanning journey with five young men and women, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn, who will either save or destroy humanity. Daniel Henney and Josha Stradowski also star.

 

 MICHELLE MONAGHAN TO LEAD

Michelle Monaghan will take two role in the new seriess

ECHOES SERIES AT NETFLIX

And her lead role will be dual! In mystery thriller series ECHOES Michelle Monaghan will play identical twins Leni and Gina, who share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina secretly have swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: They share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing. Born identical twins, each sister is unique; Leni is the sister that is content to stay home, marry her childhood sweetheart, raise her daughter and help run the beautiful horse farm where everyone lives together rooted in their long shared history. Gina is the rebellious sister that turned her back on all that and escaped to Los Angeles where she rose to quick fame writing about a darker undertow that informed her Southern childhood.

THE BIRTH OF DANIEL F. HARRIS

CHANNEL 4 REVEALS CAST

Production has started on Channel 4's coming-of-age drama THE BIRTH OF DANIEL F. HARRIS. The eight part, half hour drama will see Lewis Gribben starring as Danny, an 18 year old whose mother was killed in

Lewis Gribben will take the lead role

a car accident when he was a baby. Overwhelmed with grief, his dad Steve (Rory Keenan) bought a house in the middle of nowhere and locked Danny in, telling him the world outside was full of monsters waiting to take him away. Just like they took his mum. For 18 years they lived a happy existence together, listening to Benny Goodman records and watching old movies with no sad endings. And that’s how Danny grew up. It was all he knew, all he needed - him and his dad against the world. But when Danny turns eighteen, everything he’s ever known explodes in an instant. Danny is taken to live with his well meaning but stressed out aunt Sue (Lisa McGrillis) and cousin Aaron (Samuel Bottomley) who is a shy and awkward eighteen year old, desperately in need of a friend, but his very strange cousin definitely wasn’t

Rory Keenan and Samuel Bottomley will also star

who he had in mind. While Aaron grew up watching YouPorn and YouTube, Danny was raised on a diet of The Lavender Hill Mob and Brief Encounter. Living with Danny is a massive eye opener for Aaron, seeing the world through his strange cousin’s eyes. And slowly, tentatively, both Danny and Aaron start to emerge from their shells together - as Danny tries to find the real monster, the one that killed his mother!

TOM WESTON JONES, BEN LLOYD HUGHES, ALEXANDER VLAHOS JOIN SANDITON PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON TWO! 1ST THE LARKINS ITV SERIES PHOTO WITH BRADLEY WALSH, JOANNA SCANLAN

  SANDITON SEASON TWO ADS  

TOM WESTON JONES, BEN LLOYD HUGHES, ALEXANDER VLAHOS

Well, it won't have fan favourite Theo James from the first season but SANDITON period set series has cast a trio of our favourite boys - our dearest Tom Weston Jones alongside Alexander Vlahos and Ben Lloyd

Tom Weston Jones will be the new male lead

Hughes. In the second season, which will air on BritBox and PBS Masterpiece, Tom Weston Jones (whom we enjoy currently in Warrior and Shadow and Bone shows) will portray Colonel Francis Lennox, who will be vying for Charlotte’s (Rose Williams) affections, facing competition from Ben Lloyd Hughes as a mysterious new resident with a complex family history. Alexander Vlahos will play flamboyant artist Charles Lockhart, who arrives to paint portraits of Sanditon‘s wealthy elites, while Frank Blake joins the cast as courageous Captain Declan Fraser. Rosie Graham will play Alison Heywood, the younger sister to Charlotte, who quickly becomes acquainted

Ben Lloyd Hughes, Frank Blake and Alexander Vlahos

with the charming Captain William Carter, played by young Maxim Ays.The story of the second season picks up nine months after the events of the first series, with Sanditon growing in popularity, but the secrets of the

Rosie Graham and Maxim Ays will play a young couple in love

dysfunctional Denham family continue to be a threat to its future. The Army arrives to make Sanditon their new base and with them bring potential new romances, friendships and challenges for the residents.

   THE LARKINS ITV SERIES  

FIRST PHOTO WITH MA AND PA

Although  they gave up on Sanditon, ITV has a whole slate of new projects, among them THE LARKINS which just got the first photo released showing Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan as the leads in the reboot of

Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan as new Ma and Pa

classic series Darling Buds of May. The heartwarming series, set in the idyllic countryside follows the charming farming couple and their family, including daughter Mariette (Sabrina Bartlett) and her lover Charley (Tok Stephen). Their house is always filled with love, laughter, mischief and good hearty food! The series will premiere this Autumn.

LIAM CUNNINGHAM'S PERIOD SET HORROR THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER SETS PREMIERE DATE! SEE THRILLING FIRE: NO ESCAPES RUSSIAN DISASTER MOVIE TRAILER!

  THE LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER 

UNIVERSAL SETS PREMIERE DATE

Universal has set a January 27th, 2023 premiere date for their period set horror film THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER starring Liam

Liam Cunningham will be the captain of Demeter

Cunningham. Adaptation of a single chilling chapter, “The Captain’s Log” from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, it tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo, fifty unmarked wooden crates, from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew. Liam Cunningham will be the ship’s captain, David Dastmalchian his first mate. Corey Hawkins will be a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, and Aisling Franciosi an unwitting stowaway!

 

  FIRE: NO ESCAPES MOVIE 

SUPER THRILLING TRAILER

Fire is available around the world from this week

You can also check out a very thrilling trailer for Russian disaster movie FIRE aka NO ESCAPES aka OGON, which played in Russian cinemas last Christmas, but is available everywhere around the world from this week. Konstantin Khabenskiy, Roman Kurtsyn, Andrey Smolyakov and Irina Gorbacheva are leading the cast. It is a heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come to fight against merciless forces of nature.

The film was directed by Alexey Nuzhny

Given it aired during covid pandemics, the film has earned a rather nice sum of almost $15 million in cinemas around the world. Check out the exciting action packed trailer for the disaster movie below and tell us what you think:

HUGH BONNEVILLE TO COOK THROUGH FRANCE IN BERNIE'S GIFT MOVIE AND STAR WITH GEORGE MACKAY, KELLY MACDONALD IN NETFLIX FIRST UK ORIGINAL FILM I CAME BY

  NETFLIX THRILLER I CAME BY 

CASTS GEORGE MACKAY AND HUGH BONNEVILLE AS LEADS

To be directed by Babak Anvari, Netflix thriller feature movie I CAME BY will star George Mackay, Hugh Bonneville and Kelly Macdonald. Netflix' first UK original will be a London set neo-noir thriller following a

I Came By will stream on Netflix next year

rebellious young graffiti artist who targets the homes of the wealthy elite but discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

Hugh Bonneville will also star in BERNIE'S GIFT movie as celebrity chef Bernie Marsden who, in an attempt to preserve his recipes and revive his reputation, employs a wedding cameraman and a runaway waitress to record his culinary expedition through France... discovering en route his own life's missing ingredient.

MARTIN COMPSTON, RUPERT PENRY JONES TO LEAD ITV'S NEW THRILLER SERIES OUR HOUSE! RUSSIAN TRUE STORY SERIES DEAD MOUNTAIN: DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT SELLS AROUND THE WORLD

  ITV'S OUR HOUSE SERIES  

CASTS MARTIN COMPSTON AND RUPERT PENRY JONES!

The word over at ITV today is that they are preparing new four part thriller series OUR HOUSE and they've cast Tuppence Middleton and Martin

Martin Compston plays the husband

Compston as estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson and Rupert Penry Jones as enigmatic Toby! Fiona Lawson arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house. With all her family’s possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes there’s been a huge mistake and insists her home isn’t for sale. With events spiralling beyond her control, her panic rises as she can’t reach her estranged husband, Bram. As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her family had made a life together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her husband has disappeared. With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun. Intertwining the present day with flashback scenes of Fiona and Bram’s life

Rupert Penry Jones will be the mysterious Toby

together, their separation and their new relationships with Toby and Wendy (Buket Komur), OUR HOUSE gradually unravels unexpected secrets and shocking revelations, culminating in a nail-biting finale. The series is an adaptation of Louis Candlish novel.

  DEAD MOUNTAIN TV SERIES 

DYATLOV PASS TRUE INCIDENT

Speaking of European productions, I've mentioned this one before, but Russian thriller series DEAD MOUNTAIN: THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT will debut for US audience on Topic from September 2nd, it is

Topic will air the series in USA

currently airing in Germany on Fox, and will air on HBO Max in South America and SBS in Australia. January 1959, Soviet Union. In the icy Ural Mountains, a group of nine students sets out on a ski trek. Even though they all are well experienced hikers, they never reach their destination. As their bodies turn up a month later, it leaves local investigators puzzled. Their tent was cut open from the inside, they are found frozen stiff in their underwear spread around the camp, some are even partially mangled. Whom or what did they run from? Why did they die, and how? When Oleg (Egor Beroev), a KGB major, arrives in the province, his inquiry is to be held strictly confidential. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around

Beta Film is distributing the series around the world

as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. With the help of Katya, the local medical examiner, Oleg is hell-bent on finding the truth. But the more he learns, the more it becomes clear: The reason the students died will never see the light of day. No one can ever know what really happened. No one. Except him.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON JOJO MOYES' MOVIE ADAPTATION LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER WITH CALLUM TURNER, JOE ALWYN, FELICITY JONES, SHAILENE WOODLEY

 LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

SAYS LOVE IS TIMELESS

Last Letter hits Netflix next Friday

There really isn't a lot of new movies waiting for us this summer and those that are arriving will have a really strange way of coming to the audience -  few days in the cinema and then straight to streaming, but LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER will have an even stranger way - it will first hit Netflix next Friday, July 23rd and will then circle British cinemas in August. Go figure. We will certainly watch it as it comes from our favourite Studiocanal and stars our boo Callum Me Some Turner! The cast also includes Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley. Ben Cross, who died last year, gives his last role ever in this one.

  LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

adapted from Jojo Moyes’ best selling novel, is a passionate, dual narrative love story set in the French Riviera and London during the 1960s and present day. It tells the tale of elegant Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and

Callum Turner and Joe Alwyn lead the male cast

how her life becomes inextricably interwoven with that of Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones) in life changing events which connect them across almost half a century. Jennifer lives a luxurious life with her wealthy and powerful husband Laurence (Joe Alwyn). When an unfortunate event wipes her

The movie adaptation was directed by Augustine Frizzell

memory, she struggles to find her identity until she stumbles upon wistful love letters hidden in her home. The passionate notes unravel a star crossed love affair she had with foreign correspondent Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner) and ultimately lead her to discover her true self. Jennifer’s story becomes

The film is based on Jojo Moyes ultra popular bestseller

intertwined with that of Ellie, a whip smart journalist in contemporary London, who discovers and becomes enthralled by these love letters from a bygone era. As she begins to piece them together with the help of archivist Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan), she sets off on a journey that will entangle the two women’s lives forever.

SF SATURDAY: AYELET ZURER TO RULE THE MOON IN AMC'S NEW SF SERIES MOONHAVEN WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN! SEE IAIN GLEN IN THE TRAILER FOR SF ACTION MOVIE THE COLONY AKA TIDES

  MOONHAVEN SF SERIES  

 CASTS AYELET ZURER AS THE LEADER OF THE MOON

Believe it or not, Ayelet is 51!

It is sf all the way today, starting with AMC's new sf series that I mentioned a week ago when Dominic Monaghan was cast in it, but now MOONHAVEN has also cast Ayelet Zurer in the story that follows Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Ayelet Zurer will be Maite Voss, the political leader of Moonhaven. Chosen and beloved by its citizens, Maite embodies the lunar mission to save humanity from self destruction. Haunted by a troubled past, she is drawn into a madness that risks the future of Earth.

   THE COLONY TRAILER  

WILL EARTH WAIT FOR US?

You can also check out the trailer for science fiction action movie THE COLONY aka Tides, starring Iain Glen and directed and written by Tim

The Colony will hit cinemas this August

Fehlbaum. The movie which, set in the distant future, follows a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long decimated Earth, who must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace, will start its roll through cinemas from August and September, first in Germany and Russia. As the official synopsis says: In the not too distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets. The English language movie was shot in Germany as it is a co production between Germany and Switzerland. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

BETA FILM PREPARING RISE OF THE RAVEN EPIC TV SERIES ABOUT JANOS HUNYADI'S VICTORY IN THE 15TH CENTURY BATTLE FOR BELGRADE

 RISE OF RAVEN EPIC SERIES

ON THE 15TH CENTURY WARRIOR JANOS HUNYADI 

As Variety reports, Robert Lantos and our dear Beta Film have joined forces on RISE OF THE RAVEN, a big budget epic TV series about famous Janos Hunyadi, a fearless warrior who defeated the vast Ottoman army anddefended Europe in 1456 at the Battle of Serbian capital Belgrade. The ten

The series will follow Janos or John Hunyadi

episode series will be an adaptation of Bán Mór’s ten bestselling novels about Hunyadi, with award winning director George Mihalka as the show runner. The casting and negotiations with European broadcasters are currently underway. 

SIEGE OF BEL GRADE

was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred in July 1456. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror rallied his resources to conquer Smederevo, the mediaeval capital of Serbia and Belgrade, the main Hungarian fortress in the South, and thus subjugate the Kingdom of Hungary. John or Janos Hunyadi, the Count of Temes and captain general of Hungary, who had fought many battles

An epic moment from the Siege of Belgrade

against the Turks in the previous two decades, prepared the defenses of the fortress together with the soldiers sent by Serbian despot Dyurady Brankovic. The siege escalated into a major battle, during which Hunyadi led a sudden counter attack that overran the Ottoman camp, ultimately compelling the wounded Mehmed II to lift the siege and retreat. The battle

Hunyadi had just around 30,000 men vs Sultan's 100,000!

had significant consequences, as it stabilized the southern frontiers of the Kingdom of Hungary for more than half a century and thus, together with the heroic resistance from Serbian people in the south, considerably delayed the Ottoman advance in Europe. The series will be a saga of bravery, love, perseverance, the fight for freedom, and the eventual victory over forces that threatened not only Balkans but the rest of Europe.

DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR PREDRAG ANTONIJEVIC PREPARING SERBIA'S FIRST EPIC FANTASY HIGH END TV SERIES BASED ON BASH TCHELIK FAIRY TALE

 BASH TCHELIK EPIC TV SERIES

BASED ON SERBIAN FAIRY TALE

Last week I informed you that Predrag Gaga Antonijevic, the director of Serbia's Oscar representative Dara of Jasenovac, is planning a

The series will shoot in 2023

historical adventure movie Janissary with Christian Bale and Sharon Stone, but he is also preparing first ever high end Serbian epic TV series based on their popular fairy tale BASH TCHELIK (in Serbian True Steel). The start of the shooting is planned for 2023. 

IN BASH TCHELIK

A king has three sons and three daughters. On his deathbed he makes his sons swear that they will marry off their sisters to the first person who asks. One night a booming voice demands that one sister be given to him. The two older brothers are reluctant, while the youngest (the Least of Three) heeds his father's dying request and hands her over. The same thing

These gorgeous pics come from Petar Meselgia

happens for the next two nights, until all the sisters are given away to mysterious strangers. The three brothers then decide to go and search for their sisters. Throughout their travels, each brother fights many headed serpents, the youngest tossing the serpent into a lake putting out their camp fire; so he has to go out alone to find fire, and using his wits he defeats nine giants that were terrorizing the region. Finally, he rescues a princess from the giant's village and is allowed to marry the princess. He lives in her castle and is allowed to visit any of the rooms, except one which is bound with chains (the One Forbidden Thing). When his wife is away from the castle, he goes inside the room and finds a man bound in chains. The man calls himself BASH TCHELIK and he begs for three glasses of water. Every time BASH TCHELIK drains a glass, the prince receives an extra life. When the third glass is handed to him, BASH TCHELIK regains

Series will be done with the help of Serbian Telekom

his massive strength, breaks the chains, spreads his wings, and flies away with the youngest son's wife. Now the prince sets out on a new quest to rescue his wife. On the way, he discovers that his sisters were married to the Lords of Dragons, Hawks and Eagles. He visits their castles and is welcomed. But when he tells each Lord of his plans to defeat BASH TCHELIK, they try to stop him, telling him its impossible. The young prince refuses to listen, so each Lord gives him a magical feather that when burned will summon their armies. He tries to rescue his wife but each time, fails and loses his life. On the fourth time he fails again and dies, but not before he burns the feathers and his body is saved by his brothers-in-law. They resurrect him using the magical water from River Jordan. At this point the prince's wife learns that BASH TCHELIK cannot be killed, because his life is in a bird that is in a heart of fox in a forest of a high mountain. Helped by the Lords, the prince finally slays BASH TCHELIK and rescues his wife.

HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD THE ROSIE PROJECT MOVIE! EPIX REVEALS CHAPELWAITE PERIOD SET HORROR SERIES TRAILER AND AIRING DATE WITH ADRIEN BRODY!

   HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD   

THE ROSIE PROJECT FILM

Beside The Witcher and the lead gig in the remake of Highlander, our dear Henrylicious Cavill will also lead THE ROSIE PROJECT movie

Henry Cavill is being a very busy boy

directed by Steve Falk. It follows an unlucky-in-love university professor who creates an elaborate questionnaire in an effort to find a wife and meets an unconventional woman who doesn’t match any of his “requirements,” but might be the perfect woman for him. He will also lead Matthew Vaughn's spy movie ARGYLLE based on Ellie Conway's novel about the world’s greatest spy Argylle as he is caught up in a globe trotting adventure. Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Bryan Cranston will also star.

   CHAPELWAITE TV SERIES   

TRAILER AND AIRING DATE!

Epix has revealed the first long trailer, poster and airing date for period set horror series CHAPELWAITE which will arrive August 22nd based on

Adrien Brody is leading Chapelwaite

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

Chapelwaite will air in eight episodes from August 22nd

protests, Rebecca applies to be governess of 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.