SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM NAOMI WATTS, BILL MURRAY DRAMA MOVIE THE FRIEND

   FIRST THE FRIEND  

MOVIE IMAGES WITH NAOMI WATTS

Also premiering over in Toronto beside all the period set movies I told you about, is THE FRIEND starring Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, and a charismatic Great Dane named Bing who propel this wise and insightful character drama

The film will open September 8th in Toronto

based on the acclaimed novel by Sigrid Nunez and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. The cast also has Owen Teague, Constance Wu, Ann Dowd and Carla Gugino.

THE FILM FOLLOWS 

Iris (Watts) has had a long, complex friendship with Walter (Bill Murray). Walter is an irresistible charmer, a brilliant author, a lover of many women, and a master at letting down loved ones. When he dies suddenly, Iris is left to deal with all he left behind — three ex-wives with unfinished business, his interrupted literary legacy, and his beloved beast Apollo (Bing). It's not that Iris doesn't like dogs, but this is Manhattan, and she’ll get kicked out of her building if they find out she’s pretty much trying to house a horse.Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding to the animal, she begins to come to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life.

 

MOVING TRAILERS FOR PENGUIN BLOOM TRUE STORY WITH NAOMI WATTS AND ANDREW LINCOLN AND COWBOYS DRAMA WITH STEVE ZAHN, ANN DOWD

  PENGUIN BLOOM TRAILER  

AN INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY

We've been announcing this one for at least half a decade and now we finally have a trailer for PENGUIN BLOOM true story movie with Andrew

Penguin Bloom arrives later this month

Lincoln and Naomi Watts. Coming to Netflix January 27th, it is based on the best selling book of the same name, and it tells the story of Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts) a young mother whose world is turned upside down after a shocking, near fatal accident leaves her paralyzed. Sam's husband, (Andrew Lincoln), her three young boys and her mother (Jacki Weaver), are struggling to adjust to their new situation when an unlikely ally enters their world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin. The bird's arrival is a welcome distraction for the Bloom family, eventually making a profound difference on Sam's life, teaching her how to live again. 

 

  COWBOYS MOVIE TRAILER  

WITH STEVE ZAHN & ANN DOWD

Cowboys arrives this spring!

Speaking of deeply moving stories, check out the first trailer for drama movie COWBOYS which arrives to cinemas April 15th starring Steve Zahn as a troubled but well intentioned father who has recently separated from his conservative wife and who runs off with his trans gender son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife's refusal to let their son live as his authentic self. Meanwhile police detective (Ann Dowd) pursues them, but her resolve about the case is tested the more she learns about Joe's family. The tale of rescue, family betrayal and a father and son on the run was written and directed by Anna Kerrigan.

 

ARMIE HAMMER IS MARRIED TO A GHOST IN FIRST TRAILER FOR NETFLIX REBECCA WITH KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, KEELEY HAWES, ANN DOWD, SAM RILEY

     'REBECCA' TRAILER

STARRING ARMIE HAMMER

Cannot say I'm overly excited by this one, because the lead is just meh to me, and plus the previous adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier novel

Rebecca arrives October 21st at Netflix

wasn't really good (My Cousin Rachel), but here's the trailer for the latest movie version of her REBECCA which is hitting Netflix October 21st!

REBECCA follows a newly married woman (Lily James, who's as expressive and lively as a bowl of lukewarm yoghurt) who, after a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with her new husband, Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), arrives at his imposing family estate on the English coast. She is naive and inexperienced, but begins to settle into the trappings of her new life. However, she finds herself at odds with the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and

Ben Wheatley has directed the latest adaptation of Daphe du Maurier's novel

refined Rebecca. Maxim's former wife has a haunting legacy that is kept alive by Manderley's sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). The better part of the cast includes Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd and Sam Riley!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MACABRE MIND BLOWING THRILLER MINI SERIES LAMBS OF GOD WITH ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWD, SAM REID

     'LAMBS OF GOD' 

EVERY FAIRY TALE HAS DARK SIDE

The series is based on Marele Day novel

This one has just finished its four episode run over at Australian Foxtel who produced it, but if I'm not mistaken it is also airing on HBO's inter national cable channels so most of you can probably catch it there: Gothic thriller mini series LAMBS OF GOD starring Essie Davis, Emmy Award winner Ann Dowd and Sam Reid in a four part drama which centres around three eccentric, secluded nuns, each a generation apart, living on a

You can catch the series on HBO international cable channels

remote island in a dilapidated monastery, forgotten by time and the Church – until a priest unwittingly happens upon them. Unfortunately for him, it seems, judging by the poster and the trailer below!

LAMBS OF GOD FOLLOWS
 the journey of three Catholic nuns, Sisters Iphigenia (Essie Davis), Margarita (Ann Dowd) and Carla (Jessica Barden), who are the last

Essie Davis plays sister Iphigenia in the series

remaining members of the enclosed order of St Agnes. They have forgotten the world outside until a young priest, Father Ignatius (Sam Reid), pushes his way through the undergrowth in the hope of finding prime real estate. What

Ann Dowd plays sister Margarita in the series

unfolds is a psychological and frightening game of survival; a thrilling ride in which the nuns become criminals and Father Ignatius is forced to confront his own personal weaknesses.

FERAL NUNS IN A MONASTERY

The mini series is actually a small screen adaptation of a captivating Marele Day novel, in the form of a very atmospheric and highly stylized, a lush, evocative drama that is both ancient and incredibly modern, with its timeless

Jessica Barden is the youngest sister Carla

message of resilience, and the power of storytelling as a redemptive force. Written by Sarah Lambert, this epic and fantastical tale of faith, love and redemption was directed by Jeffrey Walker.

KEELEY HAWES, SAM RILEY, ANN DOWD JOIN ARMIE HAMMER IN NEW REBECCA AT NETFLIX! ANEURIN BARNARD JOINS CHRISTIAN COOKE, DAVID THEWLIS, MARCIA GAY HARDEN IN BARKSKINS 17TH CENTURY NEW FRANCE EPIC SERIES

  'REBECCA' AT NETFLIX

Keeley Hawes joins the cast of Rebecca

ADS KEELEY HAWES, SAM RILEY AND ANN DOWD

I've told you already that a new movie adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's REBECCA is being prepared and that Armie Hammer will lead the cast together with (sadly) Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas (both of whom are as charismatic and lively as a doornail), but now they have new cast additions in lovely Keeley Hawes from UK, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley and Ben Crompton. To start shooting as soon as next week over in France and United Kingdom, REBECCA, directed by Ben Wheatley, tells the story of a newly married young woman who, on arriving at her husband’s imposing family estate on a bleak English coast, finds herself battling the shadow of his dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca, whose legacy continues to haunt the house.

  'BARKSKINS' EPIC SAGA ADS

ANEURIN BARNARD AND OTHERS

Aneurin Barnard is the new Barkskins cast member

Casting additions have also been made for National Geographic's new period set series BARKSKINS based on Annie Proulx book.  Aneurin Barnard, Thomas M. Wright and Tallulah Haddon have joined the series about a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization, 1600s New France, where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.

IN BARK SKINS Aneurin Barnard will be Hamish Goames, a clean cut Hudson Bay Company man in search of his lost comrade and Thomas M. Wright will play Elisha Cooke, a cut throat English barrel maker, who has schemed his way into New France, set on growing the crown’s stake in the region. Tallulah

Thomas M. Wright is also in the cast

Haddon will play Melissande, a sharp tongued, ambitious Fille Du Roy, a real program where young French woman got to pick a husband to populate and settle the new land. They join already announced cast Marcia Gay Harden (as Mathilde, the innkeeper who knows everyone’s secrets and a burgeoning power player in town as she learns how to use them), David Thewlis (as Monsieur Claude Trepagny, a wealthy landowner with grand visions for New France), Christian Cooke (as Rene Sel, a strong willed, morally sound indentured servant, signed to Trepagny) and James Bloor (as Charles Duquet, a scrappy, industrious scoundrel, also signed to servitude under Trepagny).

SAM REID, ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWD TO LEAD 'LAMBS OF GOD' GOTHIC EPIC PERIOD SET MINI SERIES! CHRIS EVANS TO FACE CATACLYSMIC DISASTER IN NEILL BLOMKAMP'S 'GREENLAND'

  CHRIS EVAN TO FACE

 DISASTER IN 'GREENLAND'!

We continue with casting news from Cannes this week as well, after a short break which we used to announced the newly ordered comedies. The hottest

Chris Evans is leading Greenland!

Avenger of them all, and also an amazing director in his own right, Chris Evans will star in Neill Blomkamp's new disaster movie GREENLAND! Not much is known about the film, except that it will be a character driven, high concept narrative about a family’s fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Before this, you will watch Chris in THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT next to Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman (talk about a hot hot hot cast) Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley, about the rescue of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to Israel in 1981.

  'LAMBS OF GOD' EPIC SERIES

 SAM REID, ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWN LEAD PERIOD SET MINI

Sam Reid will play the priest who suddenly arrives

While we're waiting for the premiere of their Picnic at Hanging Rock costume series, Australian Foxtel is already planning another interesting period set mini drama: their four part LAMBS OF GOD will star Emmy winner Ann Dowd and White Princess star Essie Davis in a dark, gothic story about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever. With Jessica Barden playing the third nun, our favourite boy Sam Reid will play the dangerous stranger.

AH, THAT NAUGHTY PRIEST    
Sisters of St Agnes must defend their lives, existence and beliefs when the handsome priest, played by Sam Reid, attempts to sell their dilapidated

Ann Dowd and Essie Davis will play the smitten nuns!

monastery. What unfolds is an epic and fantastical tale of faith, love and redemption which weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and the mysteries of the natural world!