OLIVIA MUNN TO LEAD REPLAY SF ACTION MOVIE! RUPERT EVERETT, CHARLES DANCE, TOM WILKINSON, ASA BUTTERFIELD TO LEAD ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN FRY'S THE LIAR BOOK

   OLIVIA MUNN TO LEAD

 REPLAY SF ACTION MOVIE

Olivia Munn will try to become a new action star

Here is another new big screen project that will be offered to buyers at Cannes virtual market this month: the plot of Olivia Munn's new movie promises an action packed thriller with elements of science fiction: in REPLAY, which she will also produce with Jimmy Loweree as writer and director, she will play a woman called Erin Staffer, whose husband is kidnapped and murdered. Now, armed only with illegal, bleeding edge technology and a desperate plan, Erin must do everything in her power to change the past and save him. The producers are hoping this will be the birth of a new female action star.

   STEPHEN FRY'S 'THE LIAR' 

FINDS A STELLAR ENSEMBLE!

The Liar was Stephen Fry's first book

Meanwhile, over in Britain, a rather stellar cast has been gathered around THE LIAR, the big screen adaptation of Stephen Fry's novel. Strangely, he is not directing, he left the helm to Tony Hagger whose feature debut this is. Rupert Everett, Charles Dance, Tom Wilkinson, David Walliams, Sally Phillips and Asa Butterfield will star in the film with this plot: The educational career of an impossibly smug public schoolboy, compulsive liar and Oscar Wilde wannabe, Adrian Healey, whose duplicitous pranks and game playing somehow get him embroiled in an international espionage case with his university professors. As fuge and subterfuge feature, Adrian searches for the meaning of life; well, his life anyway.

SAM CLAFLIN, LAURA HADDOCK, SEAN BEAN ,GEMMA ARTERTON TO LEND VOICES IN 'WATCH THE SKIES' ANIMATED ADVENTURE! JUDE LAW TO LIVE IN EERIE MANOR IN 'THE NEST' THRILLER

'WATCH THE SKIES' CASTS

SAM CLAFLIN, LAURA HADDOCK, SEAN BEAN AND OTHERS

Continuing the news on brand new castings, first one up today is our absolutely favourite celebrity couple, Sam Claflin and his wife Laura

Sam Claflin will lend his voice in the movie

Haddock who will work together in lending their voices to new animated feature WATCH THE SKIES! Set for next year premiere it will also have the voices for Sean Bean, Gemma Arterton and Asa Butterfield.

When a small starship crashes to earth, it is not a monster or alien overlord that emerges, but a teenage boy who has run away from home - a home on the far side of the galaxy. He is rescued from capture by the children of the same military leaders who are trying to catch him. Together, the kids must help their new alien

Laura and Sam Claflin are married and have two kids together

friend repair his space ship from parts left behind by other alien explorers and escape before he is caught by the soldiers and studied by the scientists for the rest of his life. On their thrilling chase across the world, the earth kids learn about themselves through the eyes of their new alien friend, and come to understand that friendship and family are universal.

JUDE LAW 

TO MAKE 'THE NEST' IN AN EERIE VICTORIAN MANOR

Jude Law will play a businessman

Family is also the topic of Jude Law's new movie project. He will pair up with Carrie Coon in THE NEST a psychological thriller from director Sean Durkin. Jude Law will play a man called Rory, a businessman who brings his American wife (Carrie Coon) and children home to 80s Britain to pursue new business ventures. The family’s unaffordable life in an English manor threatens to destroy them, and the “eerie isolation” of the house divides them even further – leaving the clan unsure if their relationships will survive the life-changing move. The movie will shoot this Autumn in Canada and United Kingdom.

SAM CLAFLIN TO GO 'ADRIFT' WITH SHAILENE WOODLEY & TO STAR IN 19TH CENTURY 'THE NIGHTINGALE' DRAMA! NEW TRAILER & POSTERS WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY FROM 'JOURNEY'S END' WW1 DRAMA

  SAM CLAFLIN TO STAR

IN 'ADRIFT' AND 'NIGHTINGALE'

Sam has also become a father last year!

You absolute adored him last year in heartbreaking Me Before You (for which he did not even get an Oscar nomination), Their Finest and in My Cousin Rachel, and this summer, in June, you will watch Sam Claflin in disaster thriller ADRIFT from director Baltasar Kormakur in which Shailene Woodley plays the female lead opposite Sam. They play avid sailors who set out on a journey across the ocean and encounter one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. Later this year, you will also watch lovely Sam Claflin in period set darma THE NIGHTINGALE set in 1825 Tasmania. A young convict woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family, takes an Aboriginal male outcast with her through the interior and gets much more than she bargained for.

  'JOURNEY'S END'

FINAL CHARACTER POSTERS

Sam Claflin leads his soldiers into battle

Speaking of our dearest British chap Sam Claflin, you can also check out new character posters and also a new trailer for his war drama JOURNEY'S END which is out in Europe next week exactly 100 years after the events of the Spring Offensive which it depicts! He plays heroic captain Stanhope in the big screen adaptation of the famous theatre play by R.C. Sherriff  alongside cast that also includes Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield and Tom Sturridge.

Saul Dibb directed the WW1 movie

IN FACE OF FEAR THEY FOUND STRENGTH IN EACH OTHER  
March, 1918. A dugout in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, northern France. Six soldiers from a British Army infantry company have four short days left before they climb over the top and charge, hopelessly, helplessly, into the waiting, heavily armed, enemy lines. It’s obvious suicide. The men know it. They feel it in their bones. And they spend their last four

The movie was shot to mark First World War Centenary!

days on Earth shifting between quiet contemplation, drunken rage, recrimination and eventual resignation — always undercut and underpinned by profound, and profoundly moving, brotherly love.

PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILERS FOR 'JOURNEY'S END' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY, TOM STURRIDGE, 'WINCHESTER' WITH HELEN MIRREN AGAINST GHOSTS

  'JOURNEY'S END' TRAILER

WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY AND TOM STURRIDGE

Two period set drama trailers today, the first one for JOURNEY'S END starring Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Asa Butterfield and Toby Jones, set in March 1918 as C Company, led by a war weary

Journey's End is based on the play of the same name

Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin), arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front line trenches. Told that a German offensive is imminent, Stanhope drowns his fears in whisky while the officers (Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Tom Sturridge) and their cook (Toby Jones) try distracting

The movie directed by Saul Dibb is out next February

themselves in their dugout with talk of food and life before the war. They are joined by Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), a young new officer fresh out of training, excited about his first real posting and the chance to serve under Stanhope.

  'WINCHESTER' TRAILER

HELEN MIRREN AGAINST GHOSTS

Ghosts are moving in next February!

The second trailer for today comes for Helen Mirren's period set drama WINCHESTER which is out next February with her portraying the eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester who believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle. So she starts building a monstrous160 room Gothic mansion and she is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the family. The construction of the 24.000 square foot house apparently took almost 40 years as a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. The house also

This crazy story is actually based on a real one

has her niece (Sarah Snook) living in it, and also the brilliant Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house!

PHOTO WEEKEND: 1ST PHOTOS FROM HISTORICAL DRAMA 'OUTLAW KING' WITH CHRIS PINE, AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, 'MARY SHELLEY' WITH ELLE FANNING, DOUGLAS BOOTH, TOM STURRIDGE, 'JOURNEY'S END' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY, ASA BUTTERFIELD

  'OUTLAW KING'

 FIRST CHRIS PINE PHOTOS

Continuing our Photo Weekend, first up today, photos (from Daily Mail) from the British sets of Netflix' historical movie OUTLAW KING featuring the first look of Chris Pine as Scottish legend Robert the

Chris Pine rocks a strange new hairdo

Bruce! If you expected some handsome hero, you might be disappointed since he has the weirdest haircut in the role!

14TH CENTURY REBELS 
Set in the 14th century, the movie will follow Chris Pine's Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule

Robert and his faithful steed!

of England and their king Edward II in Scotland! Aaron Taylor Johnson is, meanwhile, set to portray his right hand man, another

Chris Pine and James Cosmo

14th century Scottish legend James Douglas! Robert and Douglas learned guerilla fighting tactics that led to years of surprise attacks,

Australian superstar Callan Mulvey

sacked castles and, finally, independence! Florence Pugh will play the female lead (probably  Robert's queen Elizabeth the Burgh), and as you

Alastair Mackenzie riding in the centre

can see from the photos the cast also includes James Cosmo, Billy Howle as the Prince of Wales, Alastair Mackenzie and Callan Mulvey as Lord John Comyn!

   'MARY SHELLEY'

NEW STELLAR CAST PHOTOS

Some new photos have also been revealed for a movie previously known as A Storm in the Stars and now just simply MARY SHELLEY! The first English language movie to be directed by a female Arabian

Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth and Tom Sturridge

director, has been pushed to summer 2018 release. It portrays the famous love affair between poet Percy Shelley (played by Douglas

Elle Fanning plays Shelley's wife Mary

Booth) and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (played by Elle Fanning), which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. Tom

Boothe and Fanning play the legendary writing couple

Sturridge is Lord Byron, with Ben Hardy, Maisie Williams, Jack Hickey and Joanne Froggatt also in the cast which includes Hugh O'Connor as Coleridge!

  NEW 'JOURNEY'S END'

 PHOTOS FROM WWI TRENCHES

I've already shown you some of the first photos from the sets of World War I epic drama JOURNEY'S END but now we have three more! To

Always marvellous Sam Claflin leads the stellar cast

be out next February with a stellar cast lead by Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones and Asa Butterfield,  this

Asa Buttefield plays one of the youngest soldiers

historical drama is a big screen adaptation of RC Sherriff's JOURNEY'S END, the seminal British play about First World War. Set in a dugout

Saul Dibb is directing the WWI drama

in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope (Sam Claflin), variously awaiting their fate.

'JOURNEY'S END' WW1 POSTER WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY, TOM STURRIDGE, TOBY JONES! 'BIRDS LIKE US' ANIMATED MOVIE WITH ALICIA VIKANDER, JIM BROADBENT, JEREMY IRONS

'JOURNEY'S END' POSTER

FOR SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY WORLD WAR ONE MOVIE

First poster has been released for period set movie with a gorgeous cast JOURNEY'S END which will star Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, in Saul Dibb (Suite Francaise, The Duchess) directed World War One story!

Based on RC Sherriff's seminal British play (which had Laurence Olivier in the original theatre cast) about World War One, the story of the movie is set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, following a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously awaiting their fate.

'BIRDS LIKE US' ANIMATED FILM

WITH ALICIA VIKANDER, JEREMY IRONS AND JIM BROADBENT

You can also check out the first photos from new animated movie BIRDS LIKE US which, although it is coming from Bosnia's Faruk Sabanovic, has a very strong voice cast including Alicia Vikander, Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Irons, Sheridan Smith! Based on the 11th century Persian masterpiece The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din ‘Attar the first Bosnian animated movie ever follows a motley crew of birds, doomed to one another, led by a bat, which embarks on a journey and faces storms, raging mountains, stars and the sea, all in search of happiness. Flung out of the safe haven of Birdabad into a world tormented by the Horror, the lovely Hupu, her silent husband Hasan, the ever-helpful little Mi and the tyrant Kondor are forced on an epic journey to find their way home.

STUNNING NEW 'INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE' POSTERS BRING DESTRUCTION! 'THE SPACE BETWEEN US' SF TRAILER WITH ASA BUTTERFIELD, GARY OLDMAN

'THE SPACE BETWEEN US'

SF TRAILER IS HERE!

We're going sf today, starting with the first trailer for August movie THE SPACE BETWEEN US in which NASA sends astronauts to be the first to live on Mars not knowing that one of them is pregnant and gives birth without revealing who the father is. NASA didn’t tell anyone about it — for 16 years. Now he’s a teenager (Asa Butterfield) who has been raised by scientists and has met fewer than 15 people in his life but is hip to what Earth is and “knows it’s all going on without him.” He also has developed an online relationship with an Earthling girl (Britt Robertson) in Colorado. After being brought back to Earth, he is put through tests but he escapes in order to find the girl. Just one thing: His romantic heart “can’t handle our gravity.” Gary Oldman and Carla Gugino also star!

NEW POSTERS ARE IN FOR

INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE

Meanwhile, a bunch of stunning new posters has been revealed for the anticipated sequel INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE which arrives to cinemas June 24th starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pulman directed by Roland Emmerich!

WE ALWAYS KNEW THEY WERE COMING BACK
Twenty years after the events of the first film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defence (ESD), a united global defence program that serves as Earth's early warning system and the main defence force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon, Mars and Rhea. However, the aliens were able to send a distress signal to their other battalions before their final defeat while others went into hiding elsewhere around the world. The aliens in deep space received the signal and sent a larger and more powerful battle fleet, threatening the human race once more, this time, with a gravitational machine.

1ST PHOTOS FROM EDDIE REDMAYNE'S 'FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM'! ANNE HATHAWAY, KEANU REEVES, DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN 'MODERN OCEAN'! ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, PAUL RUDD IN SF MOVIE 'MUTE'

EDDIE REDMAYNE'S PICS

FROM 'FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM'

Your main treat today is the first look of fresh Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, the lead hero of FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM which was written by Harry Plopper's J.K. Rowling! The movie is a prequel in a way, set in 1926, years before Harry and his friends joined the school of Wizardry, and follows world famous magizoologist Newt Scamander embarking on a marvellous journey through New York city. Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell, as wizard Graves, also star.

THE FAMOUS MAGIZOOLOGIST  
To open in theatres around the world in a year's time, November 2016, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM will see Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures. Years after that his book will become a textbook for students to learn from at Hogwarts!

'THE MODERN OCEAN' CASTS

ANNE HATHAWAY, KEANU REEVES AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Speaking of Harry Plopper, there's a mention of its lead star in the casting news coming from shipping drama THE MODERN OCEAN which has just gathered an ensemble cast including Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe alongside Chloe Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah and Jeff Goldblum! To be directed by Shane Carruth  THE MODERN OCEAN will see the competition for valuable shipping routes, the search for the hidden cache of priceless material and the powerful need for vengeance, converge in a spectacular battle on the rolling decks of behemoth cargo ships. This epic tale, fraught with danger and intrigue, takes us from the ancient trading houses of Algeria to the darkest depths of the ocean floor!

'MUTE' SF MOVIE 

CASTS ALEXANDER SKARSGARD AND PAUL RUDD  
In other casting news today, Hollywood's favourite blond hunk Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd will lead the cast of Duncan Jones (this Friday we shall have trailer for his epic movie WARCRAFT) directed MUTE! The film is set in Berlin, 40 years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler (Alexander Skarsgard), a mute bartender, has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared. But when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Paul Rudd) seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.

ENCHANTING NEW FILMS: 'BIG STONE GAP' WITH ASHLEY JUDD, PATRICK WILSON, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, 'HOLDING THE MAN' WITH GUY PEARCE, RYAN CORR, 'A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND' WITH ASA BUTTERFIELD, RAFE SPALL

STAR STUDDED 'BIG STONE GAP'

ASHLEY JUDD, PATRICK WILSON, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, JENNA ELFMAN, JANE KRAKOWSKI

Three enchanting new smaller films for you today, starting with star studded  BIG STONE GAP out this October. 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!

'HOLDING THE MAN' 

GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WITH GUY PEARCE AND RYAN CORR
A charming movie hitting Australian cinemas this month is gay true story romance HOLDING THE MAN with Guy Pearce and again Anthony LaPaglia and Ryan Corr whom we loved this year in BANISHED epic drama! Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can't solve, tried to destroy them.

'A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND'

 RAFE SPALL & ASA BUTTERFIELD

Meanwhile, a movie which already played in UK is ready to hit US big screens this September. Previously known as X+Y, and now A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND, the movie is set in a world difficult to comprehend, where Nathan (Asa Butterfield) struggles to connect with those around him - most of all his loving mother (Sally Hawkins) - but finds comfort in numbers. When Nathan is taken under the wing of unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr. Humphreys (Rafe Spall), the pair forge an unusual friendship and Nathan's talents win him a place on the UK team at the International Mathematics Olympiad. From suburban England to bustling Taipei and back again, Nathan builds complex relationships as he is confronted by the irrational nature of love.