It is not coming any time soon, as it is scheduled to arrive to the small screens sometime next year, but Prime Video wanted us to tell you that they have finished shooting their new series MALICE which actually pits Jack Whitehall against David Duchovny with Carice van Houten as his wife.
THE INTRIGUING STORY
of this psychological thriller series sees Jack
Whitehall in the role of Adam Healey, a charming ‘manny’ who infiltrates
the brash, wealthy Tanner family in order to destroy them.
Set in London and Greece, the series is full of dark family secrets,
manipulation and betrayal, asking the question: Why does Adam despise
Jamie Tanner so much?
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
The X Files star David Duchovny stars in the series as head of the wealthy family Jamie Tanner, Carice van Houten as Nat Tanner, Jamie’s wife, and Harry Gilby, Teddie Allen and Phoenix Laroche will portray their three children.
The cast of the new series also includes ChristineAdams as Nat’s best friend Jules, Raza Jaffrey as Jules’ husband Damien and newcomers Rianna Kellman and Jade Khan as Jules and Damien’s daughters.
With the October 11th streaming date slowly approaching as we head towards the last month of summer, Apple TV + has published some new images from Cate Blanchett's new series DISCLAIMER which was directed, written and produced by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron and also stars Kevin Kline based on a book by Renee Knight. Gemma Jones, Lesley Manville, Indira Varma, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge, Leila George also star in the series that will premiere at Venice Film Festival. The series will then premiere in October with two episodes and will stream the rest of the seven episodes weekly.
DISCLAIMER IS A GRIPPING psychological
thriller in seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate
Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy
Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER is based on the bestselling
novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine
Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and
transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown
author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a
story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced
to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her
relationships with her husband, Robert, and their
son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Indira Varma is the narrator of the series. Kevin Kline plays a widower who wrote the novel.
Inspired by extraordinary true events, this award winning drama follows a charismatic teacher whose progressive outlook transforms the lives of a
The film played at Spanish Film Festival
group of young students on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, but places him in the crossfire of local authorities.
THE TEACHER WHO PROMISED THE SEA is set in 1935. Idealistic Catalonian educator Antoni Benaiges (Enric Auquer) is appointed as the new schoolmaster of a small, isolated village in the province of Burgos. With an innovative approach, he soon wins over his reluctant pupils, a group between the ages of six and twelve who are used to being taught by the strict local priest. Inspiring his young charges to hope and to broaden their horizons, Antoni even promises to show them the ocean for the first time…
Meanwhile, 75 years later, Ariadna (Laia Costa) is attempting to uncover what happened to her great grandfather - a man who disappeared during the war - leading her to discover the emotional story behind Antoni’s promise.
Married couple Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero are starring in their son Carlo Gabriel Nero's drama movie THE ESTATE and today you
First look at the married couple in The Estate
can see the first image of the couple in it. It finished shooting recently in United Kingdom, following the story of the Wellsleys, an aristocratic family unable to save their ancestral estate because of debts. As they struggle to find a solution, a series of disturbing apparitions begin to haunt them, forcing the Wellsleys to confront the deep injustices they and other landowners, past and present, have wrought. Bob Barrett, Jennifer Wiltsie, Julian Rivett, Julian Firth, Barbara Leon, Lillian Nero, Phoebe Marshall, Jonny Lavelle, Tom Chapman, Susanna Dalcielo and Paul Hilton will all also feature in the cast of this social drama thriller movie.
As you
all probably well remember your trusted spy was among the first ones to
inform you about this one and then kept you informed throughout the years about
Hagen starts his battle in cinemas this October
it, but now we can feast our eyes on our lieblings Jannis Niewohner in the brand new trailer from movie adaptation of HAGEN epic
fantasy saga inspired by the Nibelung myths! If I got it right, the film will arrive into German cinemas on October 17th titled HAGEN - IN THE VALLEY OF THE NIBELUNGS (HAGEN - IM TAL DER NIBELUNGEN) and directed by Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert, and will then stream sometime next year on German streamer RTL+ in the form of an epic mini TV series that will continue and expand the story from the film and will after that hit linear RTL channel in Germany also as a series. Freemantle is handling worldwide distribution.
THE STORY OF HAGEN EPIC TV SERIES
follows Burgundian weapons master Hagen von Tronje (Gijs Naber) who has his hands full ensuring that the kingdom does not collapse under the weight of many crises. As his dark past seems to become more and more apparent, he fights against his suppressed feelings for the king's daughter Kriemhild (Lilja van der Zwaag). And as if all that wasn't enough, the famous dragon slayer Siegfried von Xanten (Jannis Niewöhner) also shows up in Worms and causes a lot of chaos. But the new, young King Gunter (Dominic Marcus Singer) sees Siegfried as an opportunity to save the empire. His plan is for him to take the unpredictable Valkyrie Brunhild (Rosalinde Mynster) as his wife. When Kriemhild finally falls in love with Siegfried, Hagen has to make a decision. Is he following his heart or his responsibilities?
WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?
The cast also includes Jördis Triebel, Jörg Hartmann, Bela Gabor Lenz, Alessandro Schuster, Johanna Kolberg, Emmapreisedanz and Maria Erwolter. You will remember that our favourite German star Jannis led Maximilian epic TV series, Turncoat WW2 drama and Narcissus und Goldmundmedieval movie and Felix Krull. He has also starred in a number of English language films in recent years as their most sought after star.
News from BritBox say that the British streamer is set to produce LYNLEY series, a revival of the old BBC show to be penned by Sherlock writer Steve Thompson and directed by Ed Bazalgette.
Our dearest
Leo Suter who is currently leading Vikings: Valhalla and Sofia Barclay (from Ted Lasso) will be leading the brand new small screen adaptation, playing DI Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers, an aristocratic police detective and maverick sergeant from a working class background. Together, the mismatched duo become a formidable team, bonded by their desire to see justice done, while the series tackles issues around personality, gender and class. The series will have four 90 minute episodes.
It has been two years since the first glorious season aired, but Prime Video is finally preparing August 29th as the start date of the brand new season of the epic THE RINGS OF POWER series from the Lord of the Rings universe and today we are celebrating it
with a magnificent first trailer which you can feast your eyes
upon below.
SAURON
(Charlie Vickers) has returned. Cast out by Galadriel (Morfydd Clark),
without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own
cunning to rebuild his strength and energy and oversee the creation of the mighty Rings of
Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to
his sinister will. Season two plunges even its most beloved and
vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each
to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of
calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as
friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of
good will struggle ever
Second season arrives August 29th
more valiantly to hold on to what matters to
them most of all…
each other.
WHO ARE THE NEW FACES IN THE CAST?
Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin Eldon, Will Keen, Selina Lo, and Calam Lynch have join the series in the second season which was shot over in United Kingdom. Joseph Mawle was replaced in the role of evil Orc leader Adar with Sam Hazeldine.
The reasons are not known, but Mawle did not take part in promotional
activities for the first season either. New faces joining the second
season in undisclosed roles also include Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour, Ben Daniels, newcomer Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, and Nicholas Woodeson!
The show set thousands of years before the events from the Lord of the
Rings movies, will, according to rumours, also have our dearest Jack Lowden in the cast and he will share the role of Sauron with Charlie Vickers. Confirming its status of the most expensive television series ever, the second season was shot on over 120 different physical sets with over a hundred make up artists doing make up to over a thousand orcs that appear in this season. Check out the wildly insane second season trailer below and tell us what you think about it. Are you excited to tune into the story again after the terrific first season when it hits the screens at the end of the next month?
Just two weeks ago I told you that Anthony Boyle will play Arthur Guinness in Netflix and Steven Knight's period set series HOUSE OF GUINNESS about
James Norton has joined the cast
one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness Family and now we can reveal that James Norton will be his co-lead. Set in 19th century
Dublin and New York, it will focus on the consequences of the death of
Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of
the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on
the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as
well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the
growing juggernaut that is one of the most beloved alcoholic drinks
today. I told you in our previous post that David Wilmot will be Bonnie Champion with Louis Partridge also in the cast. Danielle Galligan, Seamus O’Hara, Jack Gleeson, Michael McElhatton and Fionn O’Shea will join them as well.
Arriving next month to Netflix, August 21st to be more precise, is streamer's epic new documentary series WYATT EARP AND THE COWBOY WARS about the legendary feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton which unfolds through vivid reenactments in this gritty docudrama about the gunfight that defined an era.
THIS SIX PART DOCU-DRAMA
directed
by Patrick Reams, is narrated by Ed Harris and has Tim Fellingham,
Edward Franklin, Jack Gordon, Peter O’Meara, Christian Mackay and
Christina Leonardi starring in the live action parts of the documentary
series based on the life of Wyatt Earp, a lawman and gunfighter who
waged a battle against Clanton and gang, who were infamously
called 'The Cowboys'. Tensions arose between Earp, his brothers Virgil
and Morgan, and a friend, Doc Holliday, while trying to disarm Clanton
and his gang for alleged robbery and murder in 1881. This event was
followed by a big gunfight at the OK Corral.
Earp managed to escape attempts on his life after killing Billy Clanton,
Tom McLaury, and Frank McLaury!
If you loved him in Ted Lasso and are missing him, you will be happy to hear that Brett Goldstein has a new movie premiering at this year's Toronto Film Festival and we have the first image from it also featuring Imogen Poots. William Bridges directs this love drama, a stirring near-futuristic romance about best friends who harbor an unspoken love for one another even after a test matches one of them up with their supposed soulmate. Brett will also star next to Amy Adams in At the Sea movie drama in which returns to her home near the sea after a rehabilitation.
Almost three years ago I told you that Prime Video is planing a Spanish language series adaptation of Isabel Allende's THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
in which Eva Longoria is supposed to play Blanca Trueba, one of the passionate women who lead the family’s destiny across generations,
Juan Pablo Raba and Alfonso Herrera will lead the series
and now we have the rest of the cast as the shooting is about to start down in Chile. Alfonso Herrera, Dolores Fonzi, Nicole Wallace, Juan Pablo Raba and Fernanda Castillo will star. The
popular literary classic is a family saga that follows the extraordinary
lives of three generations of women in the
Dolores Fonzi and Nicole Wallace will star in the series
Trueba family. Set in a
remote South American country, this timeless drama, with tints of
Magical Realism, takes us on an epic journey of fortune, intrigue, love,
and fate throughout the 20th century. The book was previously adapted
into an Oscar winning film with Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave.
Prime Video has unveiled full cast for their TV series adaptation of Harlan Coben's LAZARUS in which the story will revolve around a man who returns home after his father's suicide and begins to have disturbing experiences that can't be explained. He quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father's death and his sister's murder 25 years ago. Our dearest Sam Claflin will lead as Laz, a well-respected forensic psychologist who has spent his whole life running from the pain of his past. It is only now when he returns home that he is forced to finally face up to it.
BILL NIGHY WILL BE DOCTOR LAZARUS
Psychologist
and father to Laz, Jenna and Sutton. A beloved figure within his
community, he shares his son’s charm, dry humor, and charisma. In death,
he wants his son to understand that they are more similar than Laz
thinks.
ALEXANDRA ROACH IS JENNA LAZARUS
Since her sister’s murder Jenna has buried herself in a world of spiritual practice but now when her brother returns home and starts experiencing unexplained phenomena, she is forced to confront secrets from her own past. David Fynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Curtis Tennant and Roisin Gallagher will also star.
Max has released a new trailer for their new science fiction series DUNE: PROPHECY
after the early teaser that we got in May. We still don't know the exact date but we now it will arrive this Autumn set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul
Atreides. Over in UK it will air on Sky,
Emily Watson is Valya Harkonnen
while in Australia it will be available on Foxtel and Binge. It follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat
forces that threaten the future of humankind and in turn establish the
fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit.
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
Olivia Williams and Emily Watson
star as Tula and Valya Harkonnen, two sisters who have risen to power
in the Sisterhood, a secret organization of women who will go on to
become the Bene Gesserit !Mark Strong stars as Emperor Javicco Corrino, a man from a great line of war-time Emperors,
who is called upon to govern the Imperium and manage a fragile peace. Jodhi May is Empress Natalya, a formidable royal who united thousands of worlds in her marriage to Emperor Corrin, while Travis Fimmel
is Desmond Hart, a charismatic soldier with an enigmatic past who seeks
to gain the Emperor’s trust at the expense of the Sisterhood! Sarah-Sofie Boussnina
is Princess Ynez, an independent young princess dealing with the
pressures of her responsibility as heir to the Golden Lion Throne.
Shalom Brune-Franklin is Mikaela, a strong-willed Fremen woman who serves the royal family while longing for a home planet she’s never known.
Faoileann Cunningham is Sister Jen, a fierce, unpredictable acolyte in training at the Sisterhood School who rarely reveals her emotional core. Aoife Hinds
is Sister Emeline, a zealous acolyte descended from a long line of
martyrs, who carries fervent religion to her training at the Sisterhood.
Chloe Lea is Lila, the youngest acolyte at the Sisterhood School with a deep empathy beyond her years. Jade Anouka is Sister Theodosia, a talented and ambitious acolyte who harbours a dangerous secret about her past.
Chris Mason is Keiran Atreides, a Swordmaster to a Great House
whose ambition to live up to his family name is disrupted when he forms
an unexpected connection to a member of the royal family. Josh Heuston is Emperor Javicco’s illegitimate son Constantine Corrino, Edward Favis is scheming political Harrow Harkonnen, Tabu stars as Sister Francesca, and Jihae is Reverand Mother Kasha! See the new teaser below: