As Deadline reports, the team behind The Brutalist is preparing a new period set musical movie ANN LEE and have set Amanda Seyfried as the lead of an epic fable about religious leader Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by her followers as the female Christ and went on to build one of the largest utopian societies in American history. Lee and her followers worshiped through exuberant song and dance. She was born in England in 1736 but in 1774 she and a small group of her followers emigrated to New York where Lee continued to become a prominent and powerful figure. Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson are also in the cast.
We've really missed him after the end of The Royals, but our dear Tom Austen is finally coming back with the lead role in Marvel's HELSTROM ten
Tom Austen takes the lead role in the series
episode series. In the Hulu series, he and Sydney Lemmon will play the supposed serial killer offspring Daimon Helstrom and Ana Helstrom! Plagued by their family background they will pursue the world’s vilest of the vile – with some family drama of their own. Elizabeth Marvel, Ariana Guerra, Robert Wisdom, June Carryl and Alain Uy will also star.
Tom Austen will play Daimon Helstrom, a professor of ethics who
moonlights as an exorcist, and has no illusions about saving a world he
has no patience for; he just hopes he can help a few of the people
closest to him. In his battle against a hidden world, Daimon is
determined to root out demons as they arise, and will not stop until
they’re vanquished.
Sydney Lemmon will play Ana Helstrom, by day, she runs a successful auction house and suffers no fools, but her true interest lies in hunting down those who hurt others. Traumatized by her father as a child, Ana is driven to rid the world of those like him, even as she secretly worries her father will return.
JAMES NORTON TO LEAD
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN
James Norton will lead the new Netflix movie
Speaking of our favourite blond haired boys, 'Deadline' reports that James Norton has joined Amanda Seyfreid as the male lead in THINGS HEARD AND SEEN, a movie adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage's book All Things Cease to Appear over at Netflix. Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter and Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham will also star in the movie to be directed by Oscar nominees Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman who also wrote the screenplay which centres on a Manhattan couple who move to a historic hamlet in the Hudson Valley and come to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals their new home’s history.
Idon't have much for you today other than a gorgeous new poster for family movie THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN which will draw a tear or two from you
August 9th when it will bark its way into cinemas, based on a novel by Garth Stein which has been sold in millions of copies worldwide!
MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN Told from the point of view of a witty and philosophical dog named
Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), this heart warming movie follows Enzo’s
best friend and owner Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), an aspiring
Formula One race car driver, through Denny’s journey of life, love, and
loss — again, all through the eyes of his dog. Amanda Seyfried plays his
wife. The Simon Curtis directed flick also features Gary Cole and Kathy
Baker!
MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN
Your trailer for today is a rather cute one for new family movie THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN which will draw a tear or two from you
Racing in the rain starts August 9th!
because it has cute dogs in it. Based on a novel by Garth Stein which has been sold in millions of copies around the globe, the movie will bark its way into cinemas August 9th!
Told from the point of view of a witty and philosophical dog named
Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), this heart warming movie follows Enzo’s
best friend and owner Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), an aspiring
Formula One race car driver, through Denny’s journey of life, love, and
loss — again, all through the eyes of his dog. Amanda Seyfried plays his
wife. The Simon Curtis directed flick also features Gary Cole, Kathy
Baker, and Martin Donovan in the cast.
You can almost hear the sound of Abba's greatest hits as MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN is ready to dance its way into cinemas this weekend! And speaking of those songs, you will again hear Waterloo, I Have a Dream, Dancing Queen, Fernando and of course, Mamma Mia in the sequel too! Directed by Ol Parker, it is opening July 20th set after the events of the first film with flashbacks to 1979 to tell the story of how Donna came to be on the island of Kalokairi and trying to figure out who fathered her daughter, Sophie.
DONNA IS DEAD! Five years after the events of Mamma Mia!, on the Greek island of Kalokairi, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is pregnant with Sky's (Dominic Cooper) child while running her mother's (Meryl Streep)
villa. Her relationship with Sky has been turbulent for some time,
giving her cause to doubt that she can survive without her mother,
Donna, who had passed away one year prior. With Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie's (Julie Walters)
guidance, Sophie will find out more of Donna's past, including how she
fronted The Dynamos, started her villa on the island from nothing, met
each one of Sophie's dads (Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, and Colin Firth),
and raised a daughter, without a mother to guide her. She also has an
unexpected visit from someone she has never even met: her grandmother,
Ruby Sheridan (Cher).
WHO ELSE IS IN THE FILM?
With the flashbacks featuring rather heavily in the movie with the main character from the original 2008 movie now dead and gone, the cast will also include younger versions of the leading stars and thus Lily James joins the movie as young Donna, Jessica Keenan Wynn as Young Tanya, Alexa Davies as Young Rosie. When it comes to boys, Jeremy Irvine joins the cast as Irish American architect Young Sam, Hugh Skinner as British banker Young Harry and Josh Dylan as Young Bill, Swedish sailor and travel writer! Andy García is Fernando Cienfuegos, the manager of the Hotel Bella Donna, old friend of Ruby’s! Celia Imrie is Vice-Chancellor! The movie was shot last year in the wonderful seaside of Croatia where Game of Thrones is also being shot!
First photo has been revealed from Laika's new animated adventure MISSING LINK which boasts a stellar voice cast including Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Timothy
Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson will lead the voice cast!
Olyphant, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Jackman is charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters, but his small-minded high-society peers don’t recognize
First art from new Laika's animated movie Missing Link
this. His last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America’s Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man’s primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.
'MAMMA MIA 2' FINAL TRAILER
STELLAR CAST RETURNS AGAIN!
Mamma Mia returns this July!
When it comes to trailers, check out the final one for this summer's MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN which is out in cinemas this July, and there is also a new poster revealing the whole cast! Meryl Streep is dead in the sequel, but she will appear in flashbacks, while Cher arrives as Amanda Seyfried's grandmother while the movie reminisces on the youth of her mother and her three possible fathers played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. Since she is now also pregnant and very young like her mother was when she had her, she realizes she will need to take risks like her mother did.
Lily James plays young Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper is Amanda's husband, Julie Walters
The movie will feature other Abba songs which weren't used in the first film
is her aunt. Jeremy Irvine and Hugh Skinner play her dads when they were young, with Andy Garcia also in the cast.
A few weeks ago I posted the beautiful first trailer for THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY which is out this April starring Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Tom Courtenay, Penelope Wilton and Lily James and now we have the first poster too.
A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton and members of THE
GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY with them sharing their
experiences of Nazi Occupied Guernsey. When an idea for a book catches
Juliet she goes to visit the island, making lifelong friends and taking
life changing steps along the way. A beautiful story of love, friendship
and the sadness of friends lost.
1ST 'BOOK CLUB' PHOTOS
WITH CANDICE BERGEN, JANE FONDA, DIANE KEATON
Entertainment Weekly has published today first photos from BOOK CLUB movie in which Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton and Mary
The four friends see their lives turn into chaos thanks to Christian Grey
Steenburgen play four lifelong friends who have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club. A rather stellar
I'm guessing we can expect a trailer real soon maybe even this week
cast also includes Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, Alicia Silvestone, Don Johnson in the film which is out this May.
'ANON' INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
ANDREW NICCOL'S NEW SF FILM
First international trailer has been released for Andrew Niccol's sf thriller ANON set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. Our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to
Amanda already starred in Niccol's In Time with Justin Timberlake
exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) stumbles onto a young woman (Amanda Seyfried) who appears to
Amanda Seyfried and Clive Owen lead the cast which also has Colm Feore
have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
Continuing the prefestive week of exclusive new trailers for next year's films, today you can enjoy MAMMA MIA HERE WE GO AGAIN trailer. Arriving exactly ten years after the first movie it will sail into cinemas next July!
CHER AND ABBA! After Amanda Seyfried's character Sophie (who is now pregnant and
realises she needs to take risks like her mother did) got married on a
Greek island to the sounds of Abba in the first movie also discovering
that her mother Donna (Meryl Streep) does not know who Sophie's father
is (Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard return as the
three possible candidates),
The original movie has earned more than $600 million around the world
the sequel now, since Donna has apparently
died after the wedding, focuses on Donna's youth with Lily James,
Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies playing the young Donna and her
group the Dynamos who were played by Christine Baranski and Julie
Walters in the original film.
The film will have some of the Abba songs that weren't used in the original
Dominic Cooper returns as Sophie's husband
Sky, while Jeremy Irvine, Josh Dylan and Hugh Skinner play younger
versions of her possible dads. Cher also appears as grandmother in the
movie which was shot last summer in Croatia!
If you ask me - one of the very few of the true American thespians, our dearly beloved Patrick Wilson has just joined AQUAMAN movie in which Jason Momoa will play master of the seas! It seems his whole family will be in it, since, beside Amber Heard who will be playing his wife queen Mera of Atlantis, Patrick will be playing his evil brother and the main villain in the movie. He will be his half brother Orm, or Ocean Master. He is fully human, extremely powerful and wants the throne of Atlantis himself. In other words, he is AQUAMAN's Loki. Willem Dafoe is also in the cast and will be playing scientist from Atlantis Nuidis Vulko! The movie will surf up October 2018. almost two years from now.
CHRIS EVANS'S 'JEKYLL' TO
BE HELMED BY RUBEN FLEISCHER I can't believe it, but another true American thespian and another of
our favourite hunks, Chris Evans, is in the news today as well, talk
about a hot post: Ruben Fleischer has been brought to direct him in
JEKYLL based on BBC's TV series. It is the modern
version of the doctor with split personality who lives in a fortified
basement with a psychiatric nurse as his ally. She watches him transform
into an alter ego who rages, shows heightened strength and speed and
can be a charming, flirtatious scoundrel as well. The two personalities
try to co-exist, even though one doesn’t remember what the other does
while in control of the body. They use a micro cassette to leave
messages for each other. As you know, Universal is preparing another
JEKYLL project with Russell Crowe.
'THE LAST WORD' TRAILER
WITH SHIRLEY MACLAINE ANDAMANDA SEY- FRIED
And here's the first trailer for March 3rd comedy movie THE LAST WORD in which Shirley MacLaine plays a very successful retired businesswoman who needs to control everything. So she goes to her local newspaper’s obit writer (Amanda Seyfried) with a plan: she basically will co-write her own death notice — you know, to be sure it gets done the right way. But there’s a catch: She isn’t exactly the town’s most popular resident.
Another reboot that will plague us some time in the future, the remake of the most popular adventure saga ever THE MUMMY, this time with Tom Cruise in the lead role, has just got itself the female lead: gorgeous Annabelle Wallis from THE TUDORS (although she played the queen in it, in next year's KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE: KING ARTHUR she will be just a maid) and PEAKY BLINDERS will take lead female role in the modern day set movie. Sofia Boutella was announced previously for the title role of the monster. Cruise will play an ex soldier, while Annabelle will be, according to 'Variety' an archaeologist! Alex Kurtzman is helming the second movie in Universal's Monsters series, started by Luke Evans' DRACULA UNTOLD. Johnny Depp has already been announced as the lead in THE INVISIBLE MAN movie, while VAN HELSING and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN are also in plan.
AMANDA SEYFRIED JOINS
CLIVE OWEN IN SF 'ANON' Since it seems we're having a blond beauty day, 'Deadline' reports
that Amanda Seyfried will work with sf director Andrew Niccol again
after Justin Timberlake's IN TIME a few years ago. She has boarded ANON,
a sf thriller in which Clive Owen plays a detective in a world
with no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. All our lives are transparent,
traceable and recorded by the authorities. It’s the end of crime, it
seems. However, when Owen’s character stumbles on a young woman (Amanda Seyfried)
with no digital footprint and invisible to the police, he discovers it
may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Owen is also shooting Luc
Besson's sf epic VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS.
LUKE ALLEN GALE TO LEAD
'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC TV SERIES
Earlier last week I reported that Australian actress Laura Brent has been cast as female lead in CW's upcoming new epic TV series TRANSYLVANIA and now 'Deadline' writes that DOMINION's Luke Allen Gale will take the male lead. Canadian actor Evan Stern has also been cast.
TRANSYL- VANIA is set in 1880 and centres on Victoria (Brent), a
headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from
NYC to Transylvania where she teams with a wrongfully disgraced
Scotland Yard Detective, Inspector Godfrey (Allen Gale), and together
they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in
history. Stern will play Igor, a gentle hunchback known for his
technical genius.
Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!
TELEVISION HEADLINES
'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES ABC Family (which will be renamed into
Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY
rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means
the popular sitcom with its almost 100 episodes is close to
syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane,
Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched
TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights! NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS But
over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both
Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's
SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode
order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of
space in NBC's new schedule.
'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS'
TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL
And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS!When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching dramawith Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe
plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and
father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown
daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should
arrive to theatres next month around Europe.
QUEEN ANNE'S COURT AS 'THE FAVOURITE' OF THE MONARCH
Although only a brief time ago I've reported that Kate Winslet will star in Yorgos Lanthimos period set drama THE FAVOURITE, it seems that after she accepted the role in WW2 movie THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER, her role might go to Rachel Weisz who already worked with the director on THE LOBSTER. She would play countess Sarah, THE FAVOURITE confidante of Olivia Colman's Queen Anne while Emma Stone would be an impoverished, distant relative of Sarah, who gains a position at court tending to the Queen! Weisz already has another period set movie MY COUSIN RACHEL among her future projects.
THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE The movie follows the political machinations and the fight for
influence at the court, behind the scenes during the reign of Queen
Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts, taking place between the
end of the 17th century and first years of the 18th century!
'LOVE THE COOPERS' TRAILER
DIANE KEATON, JOHN GOODMAN, ED HELMS, AMANDA SEYFRIED, OLIVIA WILDE ALL STAR!
A new trailer and a poster have been released for Christmas family comedy LOVE THE COOPERS which is out next month following the titular family who gather to celebrate the holidays together bringing all kinds of secrets with them which will turn everything upside down. John Goodman, Amanda Seyfried, Ed Helms, Olivia Wilde and Diane Keaton star!
Casting news to start the week, people, beginning with our dear Jonathan Rhys Meyers who always chooses deeply spiritual roles and this new one isn't different: according to 'Deadline' he will lead the cast in SHAMBHALA in which the story follows the sole survivor of a plane crash in the mountains of Pakistan who must deal with that trauma against the backdrop of an alien culture and language. The story will be told non chronologically, emphasizing themes of enlightenment and redemption. Australian/ Indian actress PallaviSharda and HOMELAND's Akshay Kumar will also star! You will next watch Meyers in Roland Emmerich's STONEWALL!
'THE LAST WORD' DRAMA
STARRING SHIRLEY MACLAINE AND AMANDA SEYFRIED Meanwhile, Mark Pellington will helm comedy drama THE LAST WORD
starring ShirleyMacLaine and Amanda Seyfried. The story will follow a
retired businesswoman named Harriett (Shirley MacLaine) who wants to
control everything around her until the bitter end and decides to write
her own obituary to make sure her life is told the way she wants it to
be. But when Anne (Amanda Seyfried), a young writer at the local
newspaper, is assigned to the task, she refuses to follow the script and
instead insists on finding out the true facts about Harriett’s life.
The pair then set out to uncover the ups and downs of Harriett’s life,
initially as reluctant partners, and what begins as an attempt to shape
her own legacy turns out to be a reawakening of passions for Harriett —
and a life altering friendship for Anne.
STAR STUDDED 'BIG STONE GAP'
ASHLEY JUDD, PATRICK WILSON, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, JENNA ELFMAN, JANE KRAKOWSKI
A lovely and exquisitely star studded trailer has been released for BIG STONE GAP drama which is out October 9th! Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) is
the town's self proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist
with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable
life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978
when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she
was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting
off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting
celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime, a trip that could
change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Jane Krakowski, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, Jenna Elfman, Anthony LaPaglia all star!
Two book adaptations today, starting with the news coming from 'Deadline' on Conn Iggulden's famous EMPEROR novels being bought bySummit Entertainment for big screen adaptation as a trilogy about the rise of Julius Caesar and his best friend and eventual mortal enemy Marcus Brutus. EMPEROR will be based on Iggulden's 'The Gates Of Rome' and 'The Field Of Swords' — that establish the relationship between Caesar and Marcus from boyhood. The books cover their rise to the top of the Roman Empire, and the political and romantic entanglements that culminate in the Roman Senate. The final novel covers the revenge taken on Caesar’s murderers by Octavius and Mark Antony. In the first film, Julius and Marcus bond at boyhood and grow into warriors who become politically ambitious and powerful enough to be regarded as threats by the establishment.
'EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING'
TO BECOME A MOVIE AT MGM The second one is coming from my publisher who just nabbed the rights
for my country and MGM who will turn Nicola Yoon'sEVERYTHING
EVERYTHING hit YA novel into a movie written by J. Mills Goodloe who
earlier this year wrote brilliant AGE OF ADALINE! The book which is out
next week and has already been sold in 21 countries, follows Maddy, a
teen who has severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare disease that
causes her to be allergic to practically everything. She’s spent 17
years hiding out in her home, only seeing her mother and her nurse,
Carla. But when a boy named Olly moves in next door, Maddy begins to
fall in love. The story is told through vignettes, diary entries, texts,
charts, lists, illustrations...
'LOVE THE COOPERS' TRAILER
OLIVIA WILDE, DIANE KEATON, ED HELMS, AMANDA SEYFRIED
And your trailer for today is for new star studded family comedy arriving into cinemas this November. LOVE THE COOPERS follows the Cooper clan who comes together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, when a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday. Diane Keaton and John Goodman are the parents. Olivia Wilde's Eleanor has been having trouble finding the right guy, so she coerces a soldier (Jake Lacy) to pretend to be her boyfriend for just one night. Her sister Emma (MarisaTomei) is searching for the perfect gift, although she seems to have issues with shoplifting. Their brother Hank (Ed Helms) is a single dad, who is trying to get his daughter to break a hilariously inappropriate habit. Amanda Seyfried is their fourth child.
Lee and her followers worshiped through exuberant song and dance. She was born in England in 1736 but in 1774 she and a small group of her followers emigrated to New York where Lee continued to become a prominent and powerful figure. Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson are also in the cast. 
Lee and her followers worshiped through exuberant song and dance. She was born in England in 1736 but in 1774 she and a small group of her followers emigrated to New York where Lee continued to become a prominent and powerful figure. Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson are also in the cast. 
