And it will be a true story! As Deadline writes, our dear Brandon Sklenar will take the lead in THE OLYMPIAN from director Tony Tost.
Brandon Sklenar will join the Olympics
The story will follow Brad Alan Lewis, a blue collar, California outsider, who after losing the Singles trial, is cut from the Ivy League dominated Olympic camp. With time running out, he teams up with a fisherman from Seattle, beats the camp selected boat at the national trials, and goes on to win a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Pic will follow Brad’s journey and contentious relationship with the Olympic team coach, ultimately winning the US its first gold medal in rowing in 50 years.
ABC has given a January 8th start date to Tim Allen's new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen
starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car
restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage
kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia.
After the Toronto world premiere of Peter Cattaneo's THE PENGUIN LESSONS movie set in 1976 it will hit cinemas in April and today we have the first trailer. Tom (Steve Coogan)
lands in Buenos Aires to take up a teaching position at a prestigious
English boarding school. The city is in the midst of political violence,
but the headmaster (Jonathan Pryce) insists his school simply keep calm and carry on. That suits Tom just
fine. When a coup d’état shuts down the school, he hops next door to
Uruguay to party. A romantic foray leads to a walk along the beach,
which leads to the sight of a penguin drenched in oil from a spill.
Against his better judgment, Tom rescues the bird, which unlocks its
undying loyalty. He's forced to sneak the flightless beast back to
Argentina, and thus begins a strange and beautiful friendship.
Netflix has set a December 6th streaming date and has given us the first trailer for their MARY biblical movie with Anthony Hopkins. Through Mary’s eyes, this coming-of-age biblical epic tells the story of one of history’s most profound figures and the remarkable journey that led to the birth of Jesus. Chosen to bring the Messiah into the world, Mary is shunned following a miraculous conception and forced into hiding. When King Herod orders a murderous hunt for her newborn baby, Mary and Joseph, go on the run – bound by faith and driven by courage – to save his life at all costs. You can check out the trailer below the post and tell us what you think, will you be tuning in next month when it premieres or maybe during the holidays?
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
Noa Cohen leads the movie as Mary of Nazareth, with Ido Tako as Joseph.
Anthony Hopkins stars as Kind Herod, Stephanie Nur as Salome, Susan Brown as Anna the Prophetess, Ori Pfeffer as Joachim, Eamon Farren as
Satan, Hilla Vidor as Anne, Mili Avital as Mariamne, Gudmundur
Thorvaldsson as Marcellus, Dudley O’Shaughnessy as Gabriel, Keren Tzur
as Elizabeth, Mehmet Kurtulus as Baba ben Buta, and Mila Harris as a
young Mary. D.J. Caruso has directed the film.
Paramount Plus has released a trailer and first images from their new mini series THE ROAD TRIP which will be available in UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia December 26th with our dearest Laurie Davidson in the lead role. It is based on a Beth O'Leary best selling book.
THE SERIES FOLLOWS Addie (Emma Appleton)
and her sister Deb on a road trip to a friend’s wedding in Spain. When
they are forced to offer a ride in their camper van to Addie’s ex Dylan,
his irrepressible best friend Marcus (David Jonsson) and complete stranger Rodney (Angus Imrie),
the group must confront their buried history as secrets and revelations
cause many a bump in the road. Cutting between the past and present,
flashbacks revisit Addie and Dylan’s intoxicating love affair two years
earlier, which started as a heady holiday romance. The journey to the
wedding then proves to be an unforgettable ride as everyone in the van
has one question on their lips – what exactly was the real reason behind
Addie and Dylan’s breakup?
A 1000-mile road trip with your ex… What could go wrong?
Original series #TheRoadTrip, based on the novel by Beth O’Leary, is streaming 26 December on Paramount+ UK & Ireland, Australia, and Canada pic.twitter.com/qNCCUfduqn
Channel 4's internationally set (from Bangkok and Bulgaria to Istanbul and London) series IN FLIGHT has announced Katherine Kelly in the lead as a flight attendant whose son is serving a fifteen-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears he did not commit. Jo is approached by a gang who know all about her son and is blackmailed into using her job to smuggle drugs.
She soon finds herself pulled into a murky underworld of corrupt cops and hired killers, forced to carry out their orders with no escape in sight. However, no matter how far Jo finds herself from her old life, her mission remains the same, to keep her son alive. Stuart Martin will play Cormac, a key member of the criminal gang.
We have first trailer from new retelling of Odysseus and his story with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in THE RETURN
movie which is out December 6th. After 20 years away, Odysseus
The movie is out in cinemas this December
(Fiennes) washes up on the shores
of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has finally returned
home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the
Trojan war.His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche)
is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious
suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), who
has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who
see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the
kingdom. Marwan Kenzari plays Antinous, the lead
suitor for the hand of Penelope. Uberto Pasolino directed the movie. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, I wasn't overly impressed, sadly.
The series started airing this October on Rossiya 1
Straight from Russia we have a gorgeous trailer for their new historical TV melodrama PRINCESS OF MERCY (Княжна милосердия) which has started airing October 21st on their national broadcaster with our gorgeous Denis Nurulin in the lead role joined by Sofia Priss, Maria Poroshina, Alexander Baluev, Dmitry Ulyanov, as well as Turkish actors Aysun Güven, Edip Zeydan and Tolga Mendi. After
shooting in Russia and over on mountain Elbrus in the icy snow at an
altitude
of 1890 meters above sea level, the crew moved down south and continued shooting in Istanbul in Turkey and nearby villages. The sixteen episode series also streams on Smotrim one of the biggest and most popular streaming services over in Russia. You can check out the series trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching the series if you catch it somewhere as some of their series do end up on broadcasters around Europe.
THE SERIES IS SET IN 1878
At the end of the Russian-Turkish War, Prince Alexei Raevsky (Denis
Nurulin), who was fighting on the Balkan front with the rank of major,
goes missing. His young wife, Princess Sophia (Sofia Priss), does not
believe in the death of the prince. She takes an accelerated nursing
course and goes to the front to find him. Having overcome many trials,
Sophia rescues her husband from Turkish captivity and returns to Russia
with him, but Raevsky’s enemies accuse him of betraying his homeland.
Only Sophia can save the prince from hard labor. To do this, she will
again, surrounded by true friends, have to go on a trip to the East.
We continue our international weekend moving from Russia today over to Spain, but don't worry we will go back tomorrow again. ENA: QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA is a new six part historical series from Spain's national broadcaster RTVE that has been presented at this year's MipCom. It is a heartbreaking story of Victoria Eugenia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, despised by her husband, annulled by her mother-in-law, ridiculed by the court, ignored by her subjects, and punished by her children - a woman no one loved. The series is currently airing in Spain on Monday evenings.
ENA IS THE STORY
of a queen and also of a woman. Of a young Englishwoman
who had never dreamed of being what she was: queen of Spain. On the
journey, Victoria Eugenia (Kimberley Tell) leaves behind her family, her
customs, her culture and has to renounce her religion to live in a
strange land, where the first thing she suffers is an attack on her
wedding day.
She never felt accepted or loved, but she never gave up and always
fought to achieve both. Modern in a traditional environment, she was an
icon of fashion and of the liberation of feminine customs: she smoked,
wore pants... When she discovered the continuous infidelities of King
Alfonso XIII (Joan Amargos), she did not give up her role as queen. And
she did so with discretion and, above all, resilience. She suffered the
curse of transmitting hemophilia, to her husband's sorrow in view of the
difficult dynastic succession that this entailed. In exchange, she
improved the health of many Spaniards with a work which has gone down in
history: the reconstruction of the Red Cross.
Ena was a woman who fought to be happy with all her strength in a bitter
period, in which she witnessed two world wars, a civil war and the
deadly Spanish flu. For all these reasons, Ena, as a series, not only
tells the story of Victoria Eugenia's life, it is also a portrait of an
era that changed the world. Check out the short video below:
Backin June last year, exactly a year ago, while Hollywood
was sleeping, either due to the strike of the writers, or due to the
embarrassment of many of the well promoted movies flopping real hard
at the box office, I transferred you over to Matushka Rossiya with the first set photos from their new historical epic movie EVIL CITY (Злой город) which gave us the first look at what the costumes will look like in this movie directed by Konstantin Buslov who is currently working on the post production. Aleksandr Metyolkin, Aleksey Guskov, Vladimir Sychyov, Viktor Dobronravov and Yuriy Chursin
are just some of the names in the cast. Today you can feast your eyes
on a trailer for this epic adventure which finished production
last summer in a full scale city built for the purpose of the movie with
over 40 buildings and more than 1000 costumes for the actors. The movie
is hitting cinemas in Russia January 23rd, 2025.
WHAT IS THE STORY?
During the invasion of Rus' in the 13th century, Batu Khan spent two
months trying desperately to take and capture the city of Kozelsk,
losing thousands of soldiers and siege weapons. And when, having killed
all the defenders, among whom were women with children, he finally took
the city, he ordered that the name of the city should be forgotten
forever and henceforth be known only as the "Evil City". But Kozelsk has
remained for centuries a model of stamina and courage, worthy of being
told about it. You can check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
Over from Russia your trusted spy has managed to dig out the first images from their ambitious and expensive fairy tale movie A TALE OF TSAR SALTAN based on the famous folk story which has just finished shooting the first part of production and will continue next summer with a February 2026 release date set. The role of Tsar Saltan was given to Pavel Prinyulny,Alexey Henzhen is Prince Guidon, Elizaveta Moryak is Queen Mother with Alice Kot as the Swan Princess. A massive 6,000 square meter palace and city were built for the film and more than 500 costumes were sewn for the actors and extras in this enchantingly lavish movie adventure based on a beloved story that most of us have listened to in our childhoods. Sarik Andreasyan is directing.
WHAT IS THE MAGICAL STORY OF THE FILM? Tsar Saltan, who was staying in a village house, was lucky enough to fall in love with a sweet, kind, simple girl - Annushka. Annushka was lucky enough to marry the Tsar and give birth to his son. Her sisters and stepmother were lucky enough, as if by magic, to follow Annushka to the royal palace. But the sisters and stepmother did not appreciate their happiness, they desired more and started an intrigue. While Saltan is away, they change the letter and expose Annushka and the newborn heir to the Tsar in a bad light. Saltan is furious, but orders him to wait for his return. However, the letter with the order is replaced again. As a result, the queen and her son are sealed in a barrel and thrown into the ocean to certain death...
