New trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser's new World War II movie PRESSURE which is out May 29th with him playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the final days before the planned Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
I told you back in September that Emily Blunt will lead WALK THE BLUE FIELDS romance movie from director John Crowley and now we now that she will be joined by Tom Cullen, Ciaran Hinds and Andrew Scott in the cast. In the film to be shot in Ireland, Blunt will play a woman who on her wedding day is confronted with a heart-wrenching decision as a love triangle from her past threatens to be revealed.
A trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser's new World War II movie PRESSURE which is out May 29th with him playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the final days before the planned Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It only also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
MAKES ANDREW SCOTT AND PAUL MESCAL SHARE MORE THAN A KISS
The movie is out this December in USA
Searchlight Pictures have finally released a trailer for fantasy romance movie ALL OF US STRANGERS from director Paul Haigh in which Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal fall for each other. Based on a novel by Taichi Yamada, the movie starts one night in a near-empty tower block in contemporary London, where Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before. The movie is set to hit US cinemas December 22nd as a Christmas gift, with UK release from January 26th.
A December 22nd opening date and first image have been released for ALL OF US STRANGERS fantasy drama movie from Andrew Haigh. One night in his empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) that punctures the rhythms of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
FAIR PLAY TRAILER
FOR NEW NETFLIX MOVIE
Netflix has released a streaming date and first poster and trailer for their new thriller movie FAIR PLAY starring Alden Ehrenreich and Eddie Marsan.
Fair Play is out October 13th!
The movie which will be available for streaming from October 13th, follows thriving New York couple Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich), who, hot off the heels of their new engagement, can't get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition. Sebastian de Souza, Sia Alipour, Brandon Bassir, Buck Braithwaite and Abe Fark are just some of the hot hunks also starring in this film.
After The Railwayman with Colin Firth we are getting a new movie on the horrors of infamous railway in Burma during World War II! As 'Deadline' reports, director Justin Kurzel has boarded Freemantle's small screen adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed novel THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH which has the story set against the backdrop of the horrific Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II. The mini series will chart the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.
NEW '1917' POSTER
TIME IS THE ENEMY
Speaking of war, check out the new poster for Sam Mendes directed WW1 epic 1917 which DreamWorks is currently pushing like crazy for the Oscar race.
It follows
Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake, two young British soldiers during the First World War, who are given a seemingly
The movie, out next January, was shot to look like a single take in real time
impossible mission. With time against them, they must deliver a message, deep in enemy territory, that will stop their own men, and Blake's own brother, walking straight into a deadly trap. Shot to look like one long single take, the film also stars Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong and Colin Firth!
First harrowing trailer has been released today for World War One drama 1917 directed by Sam Mendes and starring George Mackay, Richard Madden, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Daniel Mays, and
The movie was apparently filmed as one long shot!
Dean Charles Chapman, who together with Mackay plays two soldiers who are given an impossibly difficult, yet crucial mission: They must traverse enemy territory in a race against time and deliver a message that will stop an
The film will get a Christmas 2019 release ahead of the awards season
attack on hundreds of soldiers, who have no idea it's coming, and the brother of one of them is amongst them. Shot in England, the film will reach cinemas Christmas in USA, and then January (UK, Germany, Europe) and February (Russia) around the world.
This will be a great cast, indeed! Director Sam Mendes has lined up dashing British gents Richard Madden, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott and Mark Strong to star in his World War One drama 1917! The war drama will
Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Richard Madden have joined the movie
actually have George MacKay and Dean Charles Chapman as lead stars since the story of the movie with follow them as two young British soldiers during a single day at the height of the terrible war a year before its end.
George Mackay and Into the Badlands star Dean Chapman will lead the cast
Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Duburcq round up the rather stellar cast. This is Sam Mendes' first film after his work on James Bond movies and it also marks his return to Dreamworks. Shooting for the film scheduled for Christmas 2019 release, starts on Monday!
'THE DARK AGE' SF SAGA
A WORLD WITHOUT ANY METAL!
Armory Films and Knightfall co-creator Don Handfield will turn THE DARK AGE, a sf comic book series to be published by Red 5 Comics, into TV series about the collapse of contemporary civilization in the wake of
The Dark Age is yet to be released as comics
mysterious calamity that transmutes every piece of workable metal on earth (tools, vehicles, guns, circuits, girders, etc.) into crumbling piles of rusted dust. Staggered by the loss of technology, humanity plunges into chaos until a violent feudal system takes shape and the surviving pockets of civilization are dominated by knights who wield weapons of wood and plastic. The story begins with Ethen Riker, an archaeology professor, his pregnant wife, Helen and his daughter Jonnie, enjoying a quiet lunch at a campus cafe. When his stirring spoon, then the table, then the metal foundations of the building itself suddenly crumble, Ethen rushes his family outside to witness the world quite literally coming to end. We flash forward thirteen years post-metal as he struggles to protect his family in this new paleo-plastic world and unravel the dark mystery of why metal disappeared.
Although not much is known about its plot, other than it being inspired by the famous Wham! classic, LAST CHRISTMAS has revealed first photo of Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic drama. So far,
Emma Thompson is also writing the movie beside starring in it.
we know that in the 2016 Brexit set film Emma Thompson will play her mother from ex Yugoslavia, Clarke will be a hopeless girl who works as an elf in a Christmas shop, while Golding will play Tom, a night-time courier who volunteers at a homeless shelter and does not fit into the modern world.
'HEART OF DARKNESS' SENDS
MATTHEW RHYS, ANDREW SCOTT & MICHAEL SHEEN INTO JUNGLE
A cast of actors who will lend their voices in the animated adaptation of Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS has been revealed: Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott will star in the story that follows
Director Gerald Conn will use an animation technique which involves sand
the voyage of an idealistic seaman Charlew Marlow up the Congo River into the heart of Africa and his obsession with the mysterious ivory trader (Sheen)! Scott will voice the Russian sailor Harlequin, while Rhys will be Marlow's relative whom he meets during the journey!
WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON! A little bit of Shakespeare for your enlightenment today, starting with Anthony Hopkins' TV movie KING LEAR which will air on BBC Two Monday 28th May! You can check out the trailer below the post!
THE BURDEN OF BEING A KING
Set in the fictional present, the 80 year old King Lear (Anthony Hopkins) divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril (Emma Thompson), Regan (Emily Watson) and Cordelia (Florence Pugh) - according to their
The new adaptation was directed by Richard Eyre!
affection for him.
Cordelia refuses to flatter him, so he banishes her. Having acquired power, Goneril and Regan expel their father from their homes. At the
Hopkins was mistaken for a homeless man during the shooting
same time, Lear's prime minister, Gloucester (Jim Broadbent), is betrayed by his son Edmund (John Macmillan) and his other son, Edgar (Andrew
Tobias Menzies is also the part of the stunningly stellar cast
Scott), is forced to go into hiding.
Lear becomes mad, Gloucester is blinded: both the kingdom and the family descend into chaos and warfare.
NEW 'MACBETH' MOVIE
Macbeth aired in UK cinemas in March
WITH MARK ROWLEY
Speaking of Shakespeare's works done in a new light, check out this one: MACBETH entirely shot on green screen and reinvented by director Kit Monkman starring The Last Kingdom's Mark Rowley! Monkman’s unique adaptation successfully bridges the gap between theatre and film by exploiting the capabilities of the green screen to portray the vast world of make-believe while maintaining the traditional values, language and themes of Shakespeare’s original theatrical play.
Super hunky Mark Rowley plays the lead role
A BRAVE NEW VISION OF THE OLD STORY Brilliant young general MACBETH pulls off a glorious victory in
battle before returning to an indolent court where honours are dispensed
by whim. Spurred on by prophesying drifters and an ambitious wife,
MACBETH sets his sights on the throne. In Kit Monkman's adventurous new
adaptation, this compelling tale of unchecked ambition, soured
friendship, lost intimacy and the descent into nihilism is encountered
in a strange and claustrophobic territory partly conjured by the mind. The movie is currently available to stream and download on Amazon.
We're all posh British today, with BBC's announcement of a slate of their future projects! They are planning to turn Ian McGuire's novel THE
Andrew Haigh is directing the series
NORTH WATER into a five episode period set thriller series. Set in Hull and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s it follows Patrick Sumner, a disgraced surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax, the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
WW2 DRAMA 'WORLD ON FIRE' Together with Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen, they're also
working on epic WW2 landmark drama WORLD ON FIRE telling the story of
WW2 through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global
King Lear will air on Amazon Prime too!
conflict. The 7 part saga tells the story of the first year of the war,
starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending
with the Battle of Britain. It follows a young translator in Warsaw, a
factory worker in Manchester, a war correspondent, a family from Berlin
etc.
NEW 'KING LEAR'
BBC has also officially confirmed their work on new TV movie KING LEAR. Hollywood Spy was among the first in the world to announce this project which, set in the fictional present, sees Anthony Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Emma Thompson, Emily Watson and Florence Pugh are his daughters. Jim Broadbent is Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Scott is his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan his illegitimate son Edmund.
Jim Carter is Earl of Kent, Christopher Eccleston is Oswald, Tobias Menzies is Duke of Cornwall. Karl Johnson is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool.
RICHARD MADDEN'S 'BODYGUARD' BBC has revealed the 1st photo from their 6 part drama BODYGUARD
that tells the fictional story of David Budd (Richard Madden), working
as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist
Protection Branch
Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes in Bodyguard
of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary
Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes), whose politics stand for everything he
despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs.
Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?
Sticking to our period set projects week, your first info for today comes from Netflix's epic adventure movie OUTLAW KING which has just cast Florence Pugh as the female lead next to Chris Pine and Aaron Taylor Johnson! As I've informed you before, Chris Pine plays legendary Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule of England in Scotland! Aaron Taylor Johnson is, meanwhile, set to portray his right hand man, another 14th century Scottish legend James Douglas! Florence Pugh has become famous this year with her role in Lady Macbeth movie and will also play King Lear's youngest daughter Cordelia next to Anthony Hopkins in another take on Shakespeare on BBC! She's obviously used to historical costumes.
'QUACKS' BBC SERIES
A PERIOD SET SITCOM INDEED
Speaking of BBC, they've released a trailer for their new period set comedy series QUACKS which will air on BBC 2! It's a raucous medical comedy set in Victorian London about four pioneers, friends and rivals -
Rorry Kinnear is Doctor Robert Lessing
fighting to make a mark on the world and save lives. Starring Rory Kinnear, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basden, Lydia Leonard and Rupert Everett.
MEDICINE AT ITS INFANCY The 1840s: a time when doctors were just as likely to kill their
patients as cure them, when the medicine that we take for granted today
was in its infancy, and when doctors experimented on themselves and each
Matthew Baynton plays a nervous psychiatrist
other. It’s an era when dentists numbed the pain with brandy, the
insane were chained up, and the operating theatre was full of spectacle
and showmanship where people would come to watch a surgeon beat his
Tom Basden will play a hedonistic dentist
amputation speed record.
Robert (Rory Kinnear) is an extraordinary, ambitious showman surgeon who
can take a leg off in 92 seconds. William (Mathew Baynton) is a
nervous, kind psychiatrist (then
Rupert Everett will hate his patients as Dr Hendrick
called alienist) looking to transform
mental care. John (Tom Basden) is a wild, hedonistic, dentist turned
anaesthetist.
Caroline (Lydia Leonard) is the headstrong, intelligent wife of Robert,
who is
Lydia Leonard is Robert's intelligent wife
determined to fight against the male prejudices and patriarchy of
Victorian society to realise her own medical ambition. Finally, there’s
Dr Hendrick (Rupert Everett) - the President of the hospital and
Robert is a skilful, arrogant and quick witted showman
Physician to Royalty. He hates innovation and young people. And women.
And patients. Andrew Scott will guest star as Charles Dickens.
Literary Monday for you today, minions, starting with an info coming from Great Britain about a very lesbifriendly movie project on Virginia Woolf! Yes, I'm not kidding. Gemma Arterton is set to portray a famous novelist in a biopic titled VITA AND VIRGINIA which wants to show a different side of Woolfe. It brings a fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville West and literary icon Virginia Woolf! Last I've heard Vita will be played by Gemma while The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki is to play Virginia Woolf. As 'Daily Mail' reports the film is based on Eileen Atkins’s adaptation of her epistolary play, which she created from the almost 20 years of correspon- dence between Woolf and Sackville West. Virginia, apparently, based her famous androgynous titular character Orlando on Sackville West which is why Vita's son called the novel the longest love letter in history.
BBC'S NEW 'KING LEAR' CASTS
ANTHONY HOPKINS, EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON, JIM BROADBENT AND OTHERS Speaking of British drama, 'Daily Mail' also reports that Anthony
Hopkins will play the lead role in BBC 2's TV movie on Shakespeare's
BBC2's King Lear will be a contemporary version
KING LEAR! British thespians Emma Thompson, Emily Watson and Florence
Pugh will play his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Famous
director Richard Eyre has also cast Jim Broadbent and Downton Abbey's
Jim Carter to play Lear’s war ministers Gloucester and Kent! Andrew
Scott will be Lear’s secret protector Edgar, while Christopher
Eccleston will play Oswald in the story of the Shakespeare's old King
now set in the fictional present with the tyrannical Lear using the
Tower of London as the base for his military dictatorship!
deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
