Here is the latest period set movie for you: as Deadline reports, Haley Bennett, our boo Leo Suter, Tom Sturridge, Anson Boon and Sam Riley will star in CLICQUOT, Thomas Napper's movie adaptation of novel The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman
Sam Riley, Leo Suter, Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge
Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo! Already shooting in France since last week, the movie chronicles the gritty journey in the early years of the Veuve Clicquot vineyard in 19th century France and brings to life the fascinating young woman behind the iconic orange label.
Officially the last series of October, together with Marie Antoinette which starts tomorrow in France, is period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series, which starts
The series starts October 30th on BBC
tonight on BBC One and will later on air on Epix in USA as well, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West,
in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary
circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest
and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create
mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team
are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are
astonishingly brave and heroic. On Epix it starts November 13th, on Canal Plus in France December 1st.
MEET DAVID STIRLING
Connor
Swindells is David Stirling in the series, the real-life founder of
the SAS, who when we first meet him in the series is an eccentric young
officer serving with 8 Commando. He is frustrated with the military
authorities and their handling of strategy. This is Connor's first
series lead.
MEET PADDY MAYNE
Jack O'Connell is Paddy Mayne in the series, he was a real-life British army officer and a founding member of the SAS. He is portrayed in the series as something of a live-wire, who is won round by Stirling. O'Connell led The North Water series last year.
MEET JOCK LEWES
Alfie
Allen plays Jock Lewes in the new series. Lewes was the real-life
founding principal training officer of the SAS, who at the start of the
series shares with Stirling his idea of parachuting units of men into
the desert to attack by surprise! Alfie starred in Game of Thrones.
MEET MIKE SADLER
Tom Glynn Carney, who currently can be seen in House of the Dragon as Prince Aegon Targaryen, portrays Mike Sadler in the new series based on a book by Ben Macintyre and will air till a week before Christmas. He was also a real-life figure and one of the first officers to join the SAS.
MEET BILL FRASER
Stunningly
handsome blond hunk Stuart Campbell will portray Bill Fraser in the
new series which was shot during the hellish summer heat of over 50*C down in Morocco
where the crew experienced the same climate as the real SAS soldiers!
Bill was a real-life member of the SAS in the Second World War.
MEET EOIN MCGONIGAL
Dashing Donal Finn, who previously had small roles in other epic shows such as The Wheel of Time and The Witcher, will portray Eoin McGonigal in this new series from BBC and Epix. Like the others, Eoin McGonigal was also a real-life member of the SAS in World War II.
Beside the news that Serpent Queen is getting a second season and that Henry Cavill will be returning as Superman, there is another delicious info this Saturday:
Henrylicious Cavill will lead the new movie
the same unnaturally handsome hunkster will lead THE MINISTRY OF UNGEN TLEMANLY WARFARE WW2 historical movie adventure from Guy Ritchie. Eiza González will also star in the Jerry Bruck heimer produced flick.
To start shooting in Turkey this January, the movie, inspired by real
events, will chart UK PM Winston Churchill’s and James Bond scribe Ian
Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. The clandestine squad’s
unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against
the Nazis helped change the course of the war and in part gave birth to
the modern Black Ops unit. Based on war correspondent and military
historian Damien Lewis’ popular book of the same name, the movie will
also feature a whole gallery of colourful characters.
LIAM HEMSWORTH
TAKING OVER THE WITCHER
Liam will be the new Witcher
Speaking of Henry, Netflix has just confirmed that he will be leaving their THE WITCHER epic TV series after season three that has already been shot, and Liam Hemsworth will take over the role in season four. Season three is returning next summer. Here is what Cavill said: "In my stead, the fantastic Mr. Liam Hemsworth will be taking up the mantle of the White Wolf. As with the greatest of literary characters, I pass the torch with reverence for the time spent embodying Geralt and enthusiasm to see Liam's take on this most fascinating and nuanced of men. Liam, good sir, this character has such a wonderful depth to him, enjoy diving in and seeing what you can find."
We are all festive today, starting with a poster and trailer for holiday comedy movie SPIRITED with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell which arrives to Apple TV Plus on November 18th! Written and directed by Sean Anders and John Morris, it is a musical version of the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens.
A miserly man who treats everyone around him with terrible selfishness
finds himself on a fantastical adventure into the three phases of time:
past, present, and future, in order to discover how he ended up so
miserable and alone. Aimee Carrero, Octavia Spencer, also star in the third collaboration of Will Ferrell and Sean Anders & John Morris, after the two Daddy's Home movies.
SANTA CLAUSES TRAILER
FOR TIM ALLEN TV SERIES
The Santa Clauses start this November
Disney Plus has released a new trailer for holiday TV series THE SANTA CLAUSES, a follow up to the classic film with Tim Allen, with Elizabeth Mitchell asCarol Calvin/Mrs. Claus, and David Krumholtz back as Bernard the Elf, the head elf of Santa’s workshop in the original films.
THE STORY
Scott Calvin (Allen) is ready to step down from his
Santa duties and provide his family a new life south of the North Pole.
With his 65th birthday on the horizon, Scott — whose Santa magic is
beginning to fade — searches for a replacement Santa Claus suitable
enough to manage the workshop and take care of the elves. After
announcing his plans to retire in the teaser, Santa interviews NFL hall
of fame quarterback Peyton Manning for the position. The two episode
premiere will be on November 16th on Disney Plus! The team behind Tim's beloved sitcom Last Man Standing is
also behind this one. Check out the trailer below:
If you were wondering what is Galadriel up to these days, she has just joined Jai Courtney in THE FOX fantasy comedy movie from Australia. He will play the heir to a vineyard dynasty who takes drastic action after discovering his fiancé (Morfydd Clark) is cheating on him. He decides to follow the advice of a fox, who promises him a way to transform his doomed relationship, which involves pushing his loved one down a magic hole. According to Screen Daily, the film from Dario Russo will shoot in mid 2023.
1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTO
FROM LEE WW2 MOVIE
First image arrives of Kate Winslet from the set of WW2 drama movie LEE in which she plays Lee Miller, the pioneering photographer who covered WWII in Europe for British Vogue. A popular model in her youth, she later on used her camera to give a voice to the voiceless in the war. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant of the second world war. Alexander Skarsgard has replaced Jude Law in the cast that also has Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg...
Earlier this year your trusted spy was one of the first ones to inform you about Spanish historical epic fantasy movie IRATI which was shown this May at Marche du Film at Cannes Film Festival coming from director Paul Urkijo Alijo
who also penned the story himself beside sitting behind the helm, and now we have a trailer as well!
THE STORY
of this dark historical fantasy, which features battles,
mythological creatures and fantasy elements in a mix of Basque legend
and historical events, is set in
Paul Urkijo Alijo directed the movie
8th century A.D. A group of Christian
and Muslim warriors journey through the forests of the Pyrenees in an
attempt to recover the treasure that Charlemagne lost at the Battle of
Roncevaux pass. Irati, an enigmatic young girl from the area, will guide them in an ancient and pagan
mythological world where everything that has a name exists. The movie
shot in Basque language is expected to be released in Spain sometime next February. IRATI stars Eneko Sagardoy, Edurne Azkarate, Elena Uriz and Itziar Ituño.Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
According to Deadline, our favourite Studiocanal will turn documentary THE LOST LEONARDO into a mini series which will explore the origin and surreal journey of the now famous painting called the “Salvator
Documentary will be turned into limited series
Mundi.” Discovered in an estate sale in Louisiana in 2005 by enterprising art dealers and purchased for $1000, the painting took on a life of its own when it was restored and authenticated as a true Leonardo Da Vinci. After several real-life twists and turns that saw the painting travel through the underbelly of the international art world, it eventually sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for $450 million, the highest price ever paid for a piece of art, and it was purchased by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The series endeavors to discover whether the “Lost Leonardo” is the greatest art discovery of our time, or a scam that escalated beyond imagination.
IL PRINCIPE DI ROMA
PERIOD SET COMEDY TRAILER
While we are in Italy, you could check out a trailer for their new period set comedy movie IL PRINCIPE DI ROMA which will bring laughter to their cinemas
The movie is out this November
from November 17th. With Marco Giallini in the lead role, Giulia Bevilacqua, Filippo Timi, Sergio Rubini, Denise Tantucci, Antonio Bannò, Liliana Bottone, Massimo De Lorenzo, Andrea Sartoretti and Giuseppe Battiston round up the cast. An adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous "A Christmas Carol", it tells the story of an avid rich man living in the 1820's Rome who wants to recover some money so he can make a special deal with a prince and then marry the girl of his dreams. A surprising voyage through space and time. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
Netflix has unveiled the first trailer photo for their new spooky period set horror series 1899 which is scheduled for streaming start from November 17th. The eight part series follows the
mysterious circumstances around the voyage of an immigrant ship from
Europe to New York across the cast and treacherous Atlantic. The passengers of Kerberos, all of different backgrounds and nationalities,
are united in their hopes and dreams for a new century and for a new
future abroad. But when they discover a second ship adrift on the open
sea that had gone missing for months, their journey takes an unexpected
turn and
It will consist of eight episodes
their voyage to the promised land becomes a journey into a
nightmare.
Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Maciej Musial, Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, Rosalie Craig, Clara Rosager, Maria Erwolter, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier, José Pimentao, Isabella Wei, Gabby Wong, Jonas Bloquet, Fflyn Edwards, Alexandre Willaume and Anton Lesser
lead the pan European cast and all the actors will speak in their own
languages. Check out the trailer below and you can also study the new
posters for the upcoming, deeply immersive series from the creators of Dark:
After our visit to the royal mistress Diane de Poitiers and then to The Three Musketeers, we are finishing our glorious French week with her royal majesty MARIE ANTOINETTE who has just left the imperial palace Schonbrunn in Vienna and is off to join the royal court in Paris where she is expected to arrive October 31st with new historical series which will air on Canal + and then on BBC 2 in United Kingdom later this year and BBC First in Australia basically almost everywhere where Versailles aired as well. The good news for all you Americans is that the series has been sold to PBS for airing next March. The 8 part series, starring Emilia Schulein the lead role follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. Louis Cunningham stars as the dauphin and the future King Louis XVI and James Purefoy as his father Louis XV who at some point tried to have sex with his new daughter in law! The scandal! Marthe Keller, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Gaia Weiss as the king's favourite and professional whore Madame du Barry with whom Marie did not get on well, Crystal Sheperd, Caroline Piette, Oscar Lesage, Roxane Duran, Liah O’Prey, Jonas Bloquet, Nathan Willcocks, Laura Benson, Nicola Perot, Paul Bandey, Maximilien Seweryn also star in the international cast.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
was
barely 14 years old when she left Austria and her mother empress Maria
Theresa to marry the Dauphin in France. She is still a stubborn and
dissipated young child who must comply with French rules, which are
numerous and complicated. The young princess quickly suffers from not
being able to live her life as she sees fit. She is constantly under
pressure to carry on the Bourbon line. A mission more complicated than
expected: even if the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI improves over time, it will take them seven years to consummate
their marriage. From the young runner-up to the queen of style, a true
fashion icon, Marie Antoinette quickly impresses with her charisma and
naturalness. She will gradually understand the codes and secrets of the
French court and completely recreate Versailles in her image! But her
success stirs up jealousy and rivalry. Defamatory pamphlets and
persistent rumors about her private life undermine her reputation. It
will take a lot of courage to defeat her numerous enemies at
the Versailles court.
THE STORY BEHIND THE SET
Given that the show has been written by an all female team you can
expect a feminist agenda stuffed into the times where they did not know
an F about Feminism. The 1770s set show was shot in authentic historical
locations including the chateau of Versailles from which Marie went on
to have her wigged head chop chopped after advising the starving masses
to eat some cake if they don't have bread. Of course, the show will
depict such a person as not frivolous but strong, empowering, emancipated and
independent. I know, I know, I am laughing too... or maybe I am crying.
What is known to be true is that she did break down the etiquette
established by Louis XIV whom we watched in Versailles series created by
the same team as the new series. The court will also include Joseph
Bologne de Saint-George, a Creole virtuoso violinist and conductor who
was part of Marie-Antoinette’s entourage and who is soon getting his own
movie. The series was shot on the sets that took more than two months to built and with the crew that had almost 800 people! The second season is already being written!
PREPARING MILADY ORIGINS AND BLACK MUSKETEER SHOWS
First movie will hit cinemas next April
While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE THREE MUSKETEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has teamed up with Disney Plus in making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a few years ago. As Variety reports, both “Milady Origins” and “Black Musketeer,” which will shoot in French, will build on the experience gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga based on Alexandre Dumas' work.
Two movie saga has a $80 million production budget
Judith Havas and Simon Jablonka are co-creating “Milady Origins” while Thomas Mansuy and Mathieu Leblanc are co-creating “Black Musketeer”!
3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN will,
meanwhile, follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon,
who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being
The movies will be followed by two spin off TV series
kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his
attackers. He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a
real war
Vicki Krieps plays French queen Anne in the movies
where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos
(Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three
musketeers of
First look at Eva Green as Milady da Winter in the movie saga
the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity,
D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu
(Eric Ruf). But it is when he
Vincent Cassel's Athos and Milady in one of the scenes of the movie
falls madly in love with Constance
Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicki Krieps) confidante, that
d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
After Karen Blixen biopic The Pact, Bille August has prepared new period set movie THE KISS
and today we have the first trailer from it. THE KISS , out in Denmark next February, is epic romance set in
1913 Denmark, on the eve of the First World War, following a noble
young man training to be a cavalry officer. He meets a baron’s
daughter, a beautiful young woman in a wheelchair following a tragic
accident, and can’t figure out if his growing feelings for her are out
of true love or pity. Based on Stefan Zweig novel it stars out dear Esben Smed, Clara Rosager, David Dencik, Lars Mikkelsen and Rosalinde Mynster!
THE LAND OF DREAMS
TRAILER WITH GEORGE BLAGDEN
If you were wondering where did our dear George Blagden disappear after Versailles and Vikings, we do not really know, but one of his projects, done
The movie is out in Italy next month
years ago, is finally arriving to cinemas November 10th, at least in Italy.
THE LAND OF DREAMS directed and written by Nicola Abattangelo, sees
Katsiaryna Shulha playing a young immigrant named Eva living in New
York during the 1920s who dreams of becoming a singer and falls for a
pianist with an active imagination. Beside George Blagden, the movie
also stars Kevin Guthrie, who was wonderful in The English Game series
but then got himself locked up in jail, sadly. Although produced by
Italy, this is an English language movie shot in Bulgaria with
international cast.
Straight from the French court arrives new French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS which follows the life of the infamous French courtesan
The series is streaming on Salto
who held the French king in her wicked clutches for decades. Also known as THE KING'S FAVOURITE this costume drama is already streaming on French streamer Salto and will hit their France 2 channel from November 7th! The series has our dearest Hugo Becker as King Henry II, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France Catherine
de Medici looking not very happy. Both Catherine and Diane look totally different than the ones depicted inThe Serpent Queen series which is currently successfully airing over at Starz. The cast also has Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Joey Starr as Comte de Kervannes, Olivier Gourmet as Charles Quint, Guillaume Galienne as Ambroise Paré, Samuel Labarthe as François 1st, and Jeanne Balibar as Marguerite de Navarre! The project is also being offered to international buyers
as two 100minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one. You can also check out a clip showing the king fondling Diane while they are preparing poor Catherine for their first wedding night.
IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES about
the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the
Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name
is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty
fueled rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her
death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son
of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the
powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred
for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici definitively
compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare
herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself
predict Diane's future? Can a simple
courtesan escape the suspicions of
the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches?
Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable
firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.
