PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE AERONAUTS PERIOD SET ADVENTURE WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES, VINCENT PEREZ, TOM COURTENAY, ANNE REID

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AIM HIGH REACH FOR THE SKY

The movie hits Amazon Prime around Christmas

The two of them starred together for the first time in The Theory of Everything five years ago and both Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones were nominated for Oscars that year for their roles in that one, and now they are working together in THE AERONAUTS but it is safe to say this one won't be in the running for Academy Awards. It is ready, though, to premier November 4th in United Kingdom, and then from December 6th in USA and December 20th on Amazon Prime, following daredevil pilot Amelia Wren and weather scientist James Glaisher who find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon.

  Inspired By True Events
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in

This is the second time Redmayne and Jones are starring together

history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

Erased For Being A Man?

Although James Glaisher was the real historical person, Amelia Wren is a fictional character who replaces his real life assistant  Henry Tracey Coxwell with a female version. Wonder what would feminists have to say on

The film is based on Richard Holmes book Falling Upwards: How We Took To The Air

that? They say the aim was to inspire girls that they can go on adventures too, but if that did not really happen isn't it a despicable case of fabricating history for the sake of modern agenda in which a real life hero Coxwell gets totally

The movie was directed by Tom Harper

erased just because he wasn't a female? While portraying Glaisher, Eddie Redmayne has a serious ankle injury and had to wear a cast! With Tom Harper from BBC's War and Peace directing, the cast also includes Tom Courtenay and Anne Reid as James' parents, Vincent Perez as Amelia's husband. 

EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES SOAR THE SKIES IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR AERONAUTS HOT BALLOON 19TH CENTURY ADVENTURE!

      'AERONAUTS' TRAILER TAKES 

EDDIE REDMAYNE TO THE SKIES

It is one of the films that will hit both this year's London film festival and the one in Toronto, Tom Harper's skyfaring adventure AERONAUTS which has just set flight to its first trailer. Eddie Redmayne plays famous

Aeronauts is directed by Tom Harper

meteorologist James Glaisher at the end of the 19th century, while Felicity Jones is Amelia Wren, his fiercely loyal copilot who harbours a penchant for science as much as she does being a showgirl. Inspired by the story of Glashier’s 1862 excursion with fellow aeronaut Henry Coxwell (whom Wren replaces in the film), the movie, as EW reports, charts the pair’s dangerous mission to study the earth’s natural patterns from the sky as they attempt to travel higher than any human before them in a massive hot air balloon — an event Wren clearly wants to publicize as a meeting of science and spectacle to generate interest in their work, while the no-nonsense Glaishier anchors his

The film will have a limited cinema releases to get in the awards race

approach in curmudgeonly determination. Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez and Anne Reid also star in the film that hits theatres December 6th ahead of the awards season and then streams on Amazon Prime December 20th.

1ST 'AERONAUTS' PERIOD SET ADVENTURE PHOTO WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES! 'WHAT MEN WANT' TRAILER WITH TARAJI P. HENSON! 'DESIGNING WOMEN' CLASSIC SITCOM GETTING A REBOOT

   'DESIGNING WOMEN'

SITCOM GETTING A REBOOT!

The reboot will be a reimagination, methinks

The latest classic sitcom to get a reboot is DESIGNING WOMEN which finished airing almost 30 years ago! Airing for seven years at CBS (often next to Murphy Brown) it followed the lives of four women and a man working together at an Atlanta interior design firm! Sitcom's original creator is back, but it isn't known if any of the original cast (Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Delta Burke) will be back!

  1ST 'THE AERONAUTS'

PHOTO WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES

Just a few weeks ago I showed you the first set photos of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Tom Harper's historical adventure THE AERONAUTS in which they play pilot Amelia Wren and scientist

Click on the photo to see it in bigger size!

James Glaisher who, back in 1862, find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon, and today you can check out the first official photo above! Tom Courtenay and Vincent Perez also star.

   'WHAT MEN WANT' TRAILER

STARRING TARAJI P. HENSON!

Max Greenfield also stars in the movie

In the trailer department, you can check out the first trailer for new comedy WHAT MEN WANT with Taraji P. Henson!  When Ali is passed up for a well deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world… until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest to the test.

MAMMOTH SCREEN & POLDARK'S WRITER TO ADAPT ALEXANDRE DUMAS' 19TH CENTURY NOVEL 'COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO' INTO EPIC TV SEREIS! 1ST EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES PICS FROM 'AERONAUTS' HISTORICAL ADVENTURE

 'COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'

NEW TV SERIES FROM POLDARK'S WRITER AND PRODUCERS

Cry not Poldark lovers, not because the series is returning again next year with season five, but because its producer Mammoth Screen is preparing

Poldark's scribe is working on the new series

another epic saga for us! They are currently working with Poldark's writer Debbie Horsfield on adapting Alexandre Dumas' 19th century novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

As 'Deadline' reports, the story, will be set between 1815 and 1839 in France and Italy. It follows the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe of France ahead of the Hundred Days period, when Napoleon returned to power. It is an adventure story following a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

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SET PHOTOS WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES

Speaking of epic things, check out the first photos that have appeared around the net of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Tom Harper's historical adventure THE AERONAUTS in which they play pilot Amelia

This is the second time they star together after The Theory of Everything

Wren and scientist James Glaisher who find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon.

CASTING NEWS: EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES TO GO ON AN 19TH CENTURY ADVENTURE IN 'THE AERONAUTS'! LIU YIFEI TAKES THE LEAD IN DISNEY'S LIVE ACTION 'MULAN' MOVIE

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EDDIE REDMAYNE TO FLY BALLOONS WITH FELICITY JONES!

Tom Harper will helm Aeronauts!

Casting news today, beginning with Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones who will team up again after The Theory of Everything in THE AERONAUTS a period adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists in which, as Deadline reports, Felicity Jones will play balloon pilot Amelia Wren and Eddie Redmayne will be scientist James Glaisher. In 1862, they embarked on an extraordinary journey to discover the secrets of the heavens. In the process, they fly higher in an open balloon than anyone ever has – either before or since. They make breathtaking discoveries, but as they ascend to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, they are forced into an epic fight for survival. War and Peace BBC mini series helmer Tom Harper is directing the movie.

DISNEY FINDS ITS 'MULAN' 

IN CHINESE STAR LIU YIFEI

Liu is also a brand ambassador for Dior and Garnier

Disney, who is in the process of turning a lot of their animated movies into live action ones, has found their lead star for MULAN live action remake to be directed by Niki Caro! The role of the daughter of a legendary warrior who impersonates a man in order to fight in the lines of the Han Dynasty armies against a Hun invasion in the fifth century China, has been given to young Chinese actress Liu Yifei also known as Crystal Liu. As The Hollywood Reporter writes a team of casting directors visited five continents and saw nearly 1,000 candidates for the role, which requires credible martial arts skills! Hollywood Spy is no stranger to Liu as we've mentioned her many times over the years when she starred in epic movies Forbidden Kingdom, alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Outcast, opposite Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen and earlier this year in Once Upon a Time.