StudioCanal has released first trailer for the third installment in their beloved movie series PADDINGTON IN PERU which will arrive next January in
The movie will hit European cinemas this November
US and in November around Europe. Stellar cast is led by Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton, Antonio Banderas, Jim Broadbent, Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw as Paddington himself.
THIS TIME Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who
now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in
tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an
unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain
peaks of Peru. Check out the trailer below:
Although this one was originally supposed to be released in 2018 and then this summer, PUSS IN BOOTS sequel THE LAST WISH will now paw
Puss returns December 21st!
its way into the cinemas around holidays, in the Christmas week to be more precise. It has been eleven years since Antonio Banderas first landed his voice to the smooth talking sword wielding feline bandit and now he is back in the voice cast together with Salma Hayek and Joel Crawford as the director.
STORY OF PUSS IN BOOTS SEQUEL
This winter, everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling,
fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade,
Dream Works Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as
daring outlaw Puss in Boots
The original film was released in 2011
discovers that his passion for peril and
disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through
eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting
those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet.
Antonio Banderas returns as the voice of the notorious Puss as he
embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical
Wishing Star and restore his lost lives. But with only one life left,
Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former
partner and nemesis: the captivating Kitty Soft Paws (Salma Hayek). In
their quest, Puss and Kitty will be aided, against their better
judgment, by a ratty, chatty, relentlessly cheerful mutt, Perro (Harvey
Guillén). Together, our trio of heroes will have to stay one step ahead
of Goldilocks (Florence Pugh) and the Three Bears Crime Family led by
Papa Bear (Ray Winstone), "Big" Jack Horner (John Mulaney) and
terrifying bounty hunter, The Big Bad Wolf (Wagner Moura). The producers wanted to make it more unique as a storybook than a comic. Using new technology, the team at DreamWorks focused more on a painterly style design, to make it feel like you’re in a fairy-tale world! The first half hour of the movie was shown earlier this week at Annecy International Animation Film Festival where the critics deemed it much darker than the original. It is interesting that Dream Works hasn't released an animated movie in December for more than twenty years!
Since Hollywood is still enjoying its post Christmas slumber and drowsiness, your trusted spy is again doing what you like best: taking you into international waters with interesting movies from around the globe! This time a project that gathered actors from different corners of the world, coming straight from mother Russia where it already played earlier this year (it is currently hitting certain European DVD markets) - Aleksandr Boguslavskiy and Francesco Cinquemani directed fantasy action movie BEYOND THE EDGE starring Antonio Banderas and
Serbian actor Milosh Bikovic is playing the lead
Serbian actor Milos Bikovic who recently became a rather big star in Russia!
BEYOND THE EDGE
is set in contemporary Moscow. A talented
gambler gathers a team of people with superpowers to win big at a
casino. But at the game he finds himself up against a much stronger
mystical rival and ends up in a deadlock putting in danger himself and
his team that he has grown to love. To save his friends and his
girlfriend the lead character will have to go above and beyond. During
the shooting, the producers consulted the experts and advisers who help
casinos establish better protection from various types of fraud.
In the first season of National Geographic anthology series GENIUS last yearGeoffrey Rush played Einstein, and this year the second season
The series starts April 24th worldwide
will focus on Pablo Picasso with a whole new set of actors in addition to some of the characters that appeared in both of their lives! Today you can enjoy the posters with Antonio Banderas and the rest of the cast.
GENIUS: PICASO Set to air April 24th later this year on National
Geographic, the new period set television series will see its ten episodes exploring how the famous Andalusian
artist’s passionate nature and relentless creative drive were
inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous
marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and
personal alliances. Picasso produced around 50,000 artworks during his
life.
CHARACTER GALLERY
The cast is led by Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich who play the painter in his older and younger years. You will also watch Clémence Poésy (as French painter and author Francoise Gilot, who had two children with him), Robert Sheehan (as Carlos Casagemas, a poet, Picasso’s closest friend), Poppy Delevingne (as Picasso's lover and muse Marie Thérèse Walter, the mother
of his first daughter Maya), Aisling Franciosi (as Fernande Olivier, a French artist and model who Picasso painted more than 60 portraits of) and Sebastian Roché
(as Francoise’s tyrannical father)! Some of the stars
from the first season will return to the cast like, for example, Samantha Colley who will again play Dora Maar! Seth Gabel is also in the cast. Check out the beautiful new trailer below:
EMMA THOMPSON, BANDERAS, MICHAEL SHEEN, RALPH FIENNES
Universal Pictures is gathering a rather stellar cast for their live action adaptation of THE VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLLITLE which will see
Doctor DoLittle is set for April 2019 release!
Robert Downey Jr playing the famous doctor who can speak to animals. Antonio Banderas will apparently play his enemy, a pirate named Rassouli while Michael Sheen is set to play Mudfly! Meanwhile, British thespians Emma Thompson and Ralph Fiennes will lend their voices to some of the talking animals alongside young Tom Holland! An adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic book from the 1920's the movie is viewed as the potential opening for a whole franchise.
NEW EPIC SERIES CASTINGS
JOSEPH QUINN JOINS 'LES MISERABLES' AT BBC
Les Miserables will air sometime next year!
Casting news from the period set TV series world today, starting with
our lovely chap Joseph Quinn, whom we'd discovered in Dickensian and
continued to love in that horrid borefest of Howards End. He has now
joined another BBC production, the six part series on LES MISERAB- LES
which already has Dominic West as Jean Valjean, Lily Collins as Fantine
and David Oyelowo as Javert and Olivia Colman as Madame Thenardier.
Quinn will play Enjorlas, a revolutionary who dies for his beliefs in
the June Rebellion.
MICHAEL EMERSON JOINS 'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
Italian Rai is preparing the new epic series
I've already told you
that Italian RAI is preparing $30 million epic series based on Umberto
Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE and that John Turturro (As William of
Baskerville) and Rupert Everett (as Inquisitor Gui) will lead the cast,
and now they're joined by Michael Emerson who will play The Abbot, an
ambiguous, greedy, over sensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey! To
start airing its eight episodes at the beginning of next year, it
follows William of Baskerville, a 14th century
Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of unusual deaths at a
remote monastery! Damian Hardung
will be William's apprentice, Benedictine novice Adso.
Two period set series for you today. 'Deadline' reports that George Clooney will topline Hulu's new WW2 series CATCH 22 based on Joseph Heller's book. Set in Italy during World War II, it is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger Yossarian, a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of CATCH 22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specified that people who were crazy were not obliged to fly missions, but anyone who applied to stop flying was showing a rational concern for his safety and was, therefore, sane and had to fly.
'GENIUS: PICASSO' TRAILER
WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS
Genius: Picasso will start airing in April
A month or two ago I showed you the first photos from the second season of anthology series GENIUS which will now describe Picasso's life and today we have a trailer too! Antonio Banderas, who was born in the same Spanish town as Pablo Picasso, portrays famous painter from his 40s until 1973 death.
TV SERIES GENIUS: PICASSO
set to air April 24th later this year on National
Geographic, will see its ten episodes exploring how the Andalusian
artist’s passionate nature and
Antonio Banderas was born in the same Spanish city as Picasso
relentless creative drive were
inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous
marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and
personal alliances. Picasso produced around 50,000 artworks during his
life. Clémence Poésy will take on the role of French painter and
The series will air in ten hour long episodes
author
Francoise Gilot, who had two children with Picasso, with Poppy
Delevingne as Picasso’s lover and muse Marie Thérèse Walter, the mother
of his first daughter Maya. Alex Rich plays the young Picasso with
Robert Sheehan, Seth Gabel also in the cast.
Among the many exclusives in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly was also the first photo of Antonio Banderas in the second season of anthology series GENIUS in which he is playing Pablo Picasso! In the National Geographic's series Alex Rich will portray the young Picasso, while Antonio Banderas will be portraying the artist from his 40s until his death in 1973 at the age of 91! He lived most of his life in Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including Coco Chanel, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque and Jean Cocteau, so you may expect them in the series too!
'FULLER HOUSE' TRAILER
FOR 2ND PART OF SEASON 3!
Speaking of television, a trailer for the second part of the third season of Netflix' FULLER HOUSE is out announcing what will happen in the new episodes that are available from December 22nd! As you know, they're all
The rest of season three has nine more episodes for festive binge watching
flying to Tokyo for Steve’s (Scott Weinger) wedding, which DJ (Candace Cameron Bure) might stop because she feels he is her true love, but she might get married to another one as Matt (John Brotherton) is gonna propose to her!
'READY PLAYER ONE'
Ready Player One comes out next March
FIRST TRAILER OUT!
1st trailer has been released for Steven Spielberg's sf movie READY PLAYER ONE which, out next March, is set in 2044 and stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts, who finds the first clue in a race to find the hidden Easter Egg in a massive VR game called the Oasis, created by a now-deceased genius. Whoever finds the Egg will inherit the creator’s $240 billion fortune.
ANTONIO BANDERAS AND ALEX RICH TO PLAY PABLO PICASO
If you enjoyed the first season of National Geographic anthology series GENIUS in which Geoffrey Rush played Einstein, you will be happy
Alex Rich will play a young Pablo Picaso
to hear that they have the cast for the second season which will focus on Pablo Picaso! Antonio Bande- ras and Alex Rich will play him older and younger. Cléme- nce Poésy (as French painter and author Francoise Gilot, who had two children with him), Robert Sheehan (as Carlos Casa- gemas, a poet, Picasso’s closest friend), Poppy Dele- vingne (as Picaso's lover and muse), Aisling Franciosi (as Fernande Olivier, a French artist and model who Picasso painted more than 60 portraits of) and Sebastian Roché (as Francoise’s tyrannical father) will also star! Some of the stars from the first season will return to the cast like, for example, Samantha Colley who will again play Dora Maar!
'KRYPTON' SF SERIES
BLAKE RITSON IS BRAINIAC
Blake Ritson will be a villain in Krypton
While we are still waiting for SyFy to announce the airtime finally
(it is not happening any time this year) their KRYPTON series is casting
new names! Da Vinci's Demons' Blake Ritson will be a baddie again
playing Brainiac, a parasitic, hyper advanced alien android of immense
intelligence, one of Superman’s oldest and most dangerous foes. As you
know, KRYPTON is set two generations before the destruction of the
legendary Man of Steel’s home planet following Superman’s grandfather
(Cameron Cuffe), whose House of El was ostracised and shamed, as he
fights to redeem his family’s honour and save his beloved world from
chaos. Paula Malcomson has also joined the cast as Charys, the matriarch
of House El who helps her son Seg navigate the treacherous pitfalls of
Kandor City, their Kryptonian home embattled with oppression and revolt.
It is interesting that the cast already has another Da Vinci's Demons
star Elliot Cowan. The pilot was shot last year in Serbia.
Now if this isn't a superhunky series of cast additions to a movie I don't know what is: as 'Deadline' reports, three of our favourite Hollywood hunks have joined the long postponed big screen adaptation of THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY and those are Glen Powell, whom you've recently seen in Hidden Figures, our beloved Dutchman Michiel Huisman, whom you adored in The Age of Adeline, alongside Matthew Goode, and two British ladies Penelope Wilton and Jessica Brown Findlay, who now join Lily James and Tom Courtenay in the adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows international best selling epistolary novel which has been sold in millions of copies in almost 40 countries around the world!
A WW2 STORY The lead role originally meant for Kate Winslet, back when Kenneth
Branagh was supposed to direct, now goes to Lily James portraying a
journalist Juliet Ashton who forms a bond with a secret book society
formed during German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII. The
free spirited Ashton forms a life changing bond with the eccentric
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write
a book about the club. Mike Newell (Prince of Persia, Love in the time
of Cholera, Four Weddings and a Funeral) is directing!
'BLACK BUTTERFLY' TRAILER
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS VS ANTONIO BANDERAS
Only a week ago I showed you a poster for the remake of French
thriller Papillon Noir by Herve Korian now titled BLACK BUTTERFLY and now we have the first, very thrilling, trailer as well.
Antonio Banderas plays Paul, a down on his luck screenwriter who picks
up a drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay.
However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to
write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Piper Perabo and Abel Ferrara also star in the movie which is out
sometime later this year.
Small movies Monday for you today, starting with the first trailer and poster for the movie adaptation of CARRIE PILBY a best selling novel from Caren Lissner in which Bel Powley plays a girl of high intelligence who struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex and leaving her apartment. Beside Powley in the title role, the cast also includes Nathan Lane as her shrink, with William Moseley, Gabriel Byrne and Jason Ritter also in the cast. The movie should be out in US cinemas beginning of April.
'BLACK BUTTERFLY' POSTER
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS VS ANTONIO BANDERAS The
first poster has also been released for the remake of French
thriller Papillon Noir by Herve Korian now titled BLACK BUTTERFLY.
Antonio Banderas plays Paul, a down on his luck screenwriter who picks
up a drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay.
However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to
write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Piper Perabo and Abel Ferrara also star in the movie which is out
sometime later this year.
'THE DINNER' TRAILER
RICHARD GERE & STEVE COOGAN
First trailer and poster have also been released for intense drama
thriller THE DINNER the movie adaptation of Herman Koch's novel.
Starring Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Chloe Sevigny and
out this May it offers a look at how far parents will go to protect
their children.
Well, I certainly wanted him in a new historical series, but I guess we should be lucky to see him in anything new as long as he is on our small screens on a weekly basis: British thespian James Norton will play a Russian man again after War and Peace, this time in new BBC series MCMAFIA.
The story delves into how, with the rise of globalization, the
corporate has become criminal and the criminal corporate and how, driven
by the global demand for cheap products, everyone is complicit in some
way.
Norton will play Alex Godman, the English raised son of Russian exiles
with a mafia past. Godman has spent his life trying to escape that
shadow, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his
girlfriend. But when his family’s past murderously returns to threaten
them, Alex is drawn into the criminal world and forced to confront his
values to protect those he loves. He soon finds himself embroiled in an
underworld that stretches from London to Moscow, Dubai to Mumbai and
Africa to the Americas!
'FINDING ALTAMIRA' TRAILER
WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS
Sometime ago I've shown you the international one, but now you can check out the first, rather gorgeous, English trailer for Antonio Banderas movie FINDING ALTAMIRA! Also starring Rupert Everett it tells the true story of a little girl and her father Marcelino Sautuola who discovered the now famous pre-historic cave paintings at ALTAMIRA.
However, the find brought disgrace on the family and the wrath of the
Catholic church, who thought that the claim of ten thousand year-old art
was an attack on the ‘truth’ of the Bible. Looking for the truth, Sautuola spent the rest of his life fighting to prove that those paintings were real, trying to restore his innocence from the accusations of falsehood launched against him.
Poster day today, people, starting with the new one for epic adventure DRAGON BLADE which will finally hit US cinemas this September following the fight for the Silk Road, where East and West collide. When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius (Adrien Brody) arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An (Jackie Chan) and his group of trained warriors teams up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius (John Cusack) to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new friends, Huo An gathers the warriors of thirty-six ethnic nations together to fight Tiberius in an incredible epic battle.
NEW 'TALE OF TALES' POSTER
SALMA HAYEK AS THE QUEEN Another epic story to get a new poster is Italian bizarre, yet
visually stunning, fairy tale drama TALE OF TALES based on a 17th
century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile! The movie weaves realistic and fantastical elements together into three different storylines, with Salma Hayek playing the Queen of Longtrellis and John C. Reilly as her King, Vincent Cassel as the King of Strongcliff and Toby Jones as the King of HighHills. It will compete at film festivals around Europe this year!
'THE 33' GETS FIRST POSTER
ANTONIO BANDERAS, RODRIGO SANTORO, JULIETTE BINOCHE
And then there's a new, or to be more precise, the very first poster for real life drama THE 33 with the story based on the real-life event from Chile a few years ago, when a gold and copper mine collapsed, trapping 33 miners underground for 69 days. Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips and Gabriel Byrne star. The movie hits Chilean cinemas this August and will move into the American ones in November ahead of the Oscar award season.
An international day today, starting with the first photo from Antonio Banderas' new historical movie ALTAMIRA (also starring Rupert Everett) telling the true story of a little girl and her father who discovered the now famous pre-historic cave paintings at ALTAMIRA. However, the find brought disgrace on the family and the wrath of the Catholic church, who thought that the claim of ten thousand year-old art was an attack on the ‘truth’ of the Bible.
'THE TALE OF TALES' TRAILER
SALMA HAYEK & VINCENT CASSEL RULING A BIZARRE WORLD Something exquisitely weird and morbid is the first stunningly captivating, and yet bizarre, trailer for Italian fantasy movie THE TALE OF TALES based on a 17th century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile! The movie weaves realistic and fantastical elements together into three different storylines, with SalmaHayek playing the Queen of Longtrellis and John C. Reilly as her King, Vincent Cassel as the King of Strongcliff and Toby Jones as the King of HighHills. It will premiere at Cannes this year!
'ATTACK ON TITAN' TRAILER
IS SPECTACULAR & DESTRUCTIVE
And here's a rather spectacular and also destructive trailer for Japanese sf epic action ATTACK ON TITAN which is out this August (with the sequel END OF THE WORLD out September) set in a world where all of humanity must live behind massive walls, to protect themselves from gigantic humanoid creatures known as the Titans. Eren Yeager (Haruma Miura) along with his adoptive sister Misaka Ackerman (Kiko Mizuhara) and their friend Armin Arlert (Kanata Hongô), joins the elite fighting unit known as the Survey Corps to battle the Titans, after Eren's mother passes away following a Titan breaching the walls.
In the spirit of the Easter week here's something Biblical for you and I don't mean just Hugh Jackman's muscles of Biblical proportions: the Australian superstar is apparently, as 'Deadline' reports, attached to star in a Biblical epic APOSTLE PAUL which he will also produce together with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Also known as Saul of TarsusAPOSTLE PAUL crossed over to speak to
the Romans and preach the word. He was converted on the Road to Damascus
when Christ came to him and he was blinded by a white light. He was
blinded until a man named Ananias prayed and restored his eyesight. Paul
became one of the most important messengers of Jesus and the founder of
many churches! Hugh Jackman will also be back as WOLVERINE III for the
last time in March 2017.
'THE 33' MINING DISASTER
TRAILER WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS, RODRIGO SANTORO
Speaking of miracles, the first international trailer has been released for Antonio Banderas movie THE 33 on the tragic mining drama that happened in Chile five years ago. After the soil collapsed into the mine the miners spent over two months waiting to be taken out while the whole world watched. Antonio Banderas portrays a miner who becomes trapped on the last day before his retirement with the stellar cast also including Lou Diamond Phillips, Juliette Binoche, Gabriel Byrne and Rodrigo Santoro!
