CALLUM TURNER, AUSTIN BUTLER TO LEAD BAND OF BROTHERS $200 MILLION FOLLOW UP WW2 SERIES MASTERS OF THE AIR! HISTORICAL SERIES ON KING ALEKSANDAR OF YUGOSLAVIA GETS FIRST TRAILER

  MASTERS OF THE AIR SERIES 

SELECTS LEADING CAST!

Band of Brothers and The Pacific mini series (which won 15 Emmys in total) are getting a new follow up series over at Apple and they've set the leads for it: Callum Turner and Austin Butler will lead MASTERS OF THE AIR a small screen adaptation of the book by Donald L. Miller, which follows the true, deeply personal story of the American bomber pilots in World

Austin Butler and Callum Turner will play the lead roles

War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are producing. Austin Butler will portray Major Gale Cleven, while Callum Turner will be Major John Egan. The ten episode saga will have $200 million budget.

 ALEKSANDAR OF YUGOSLAVIA 

TRAILER FOR NEW EPIC SERIES

Continuing our updates on projects coming from Europe, check out first photos and a trailer for fifteen episode historical series ALEKSANDAR OF YUGOSLAVIA which will soon air on Serbian channel Nova S. It will

Ljubomir Bulajic plays the lead role

follow the life of Aleksandar Karadjordjevic (played by Ljubomir Bulajic), the prince of Serbia who later became Aleksandar the Unifier after unifying Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in the kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a crown prince of Serbia he had commanding roles in the Balkan Wars in which Serbia fought against the Ottomans and the Bulgarians and won, and then he took part in the bloody battles of World War I. He was also supposed to marry one of the Russian princesses, a daughter of Emperor  Nicholas II before the Romanov family got killed. During the war in which every fifth Serb died, he was a regent with his aged father King Peter I on the throne. In 1921. he became the king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians which will later become known as Yugoslavia. He fought for the unity of the state, believing that federalism would ruin it as it

Tamara Aleksic and Ljubomir Bulajic as king Aleksandar and queen Marija

did in later history. He was simple, enigmatic, accessible and in 1922 he married Princess Maria of Romania (played by Tamara Aleksic), who was a daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania. All of the royal families of Europe

The series features more than 130 actors and begins with the king entering the liberated Belgrade after World War One

attended the wedding. Part of his fight was also the defence of the country against the two neighbours - Fascist Italy and Hungary. Mussolini considered him his archrival especially after Aleksandar became an ally with France. He

Queen Milena and king Nikola of Montenegro also appear in the story

was assassinated in 1934, in France by a pro Bulgarian gunman. It was one of the first assassinations captured on film as the shooting occurred in front of the newsreel cameraman.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES' EPIC FANTASY SERIES WITH AUSTIN BUTLER, MANU BENNET, JOHN RHYS DAVIES, IVANA BAQUERO

'THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES'  

THE LAUNCH OF THE EPIC SERIES
Just two more days people, two days before the biggest epic fantasy TV adventure of 2016 starts on the small screens with the two hour premiere episode of MTV's THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES on Tuesday January 5th! The ten episode series will bring us the television adaptations of Terry Brooks' best selling fantasy saga following the elves and trolls of Shannara!

THE STORY OF ELVES
The most expensive series in MTV's history follows the inhabitants of the Four Lands, a place set thousands of years into the future where cataclysmic war among humans has yielded a new order after wiping out most of the humans, leaving various troll, dwarf, elf and other species to battle one another and a set of demonic presences in a place called the Forbidding. The lead characters are Wil Ohmsford (Austin Butler), a healer who suddenly discovers his powers, and Amberle Elessedil (Poppy Drayton), who becomes one of the Chosens (guardians of a mystical tree that provides peace in their lands), and sets on a quest outside her elfin kingdom, where she will meet Wil. They will be joined by outlawed scavenger Eretreia (Ivana Baquero). Daniel Macpherson and John Rhys Davies also star in John Favreau directed and produced series.

AUSTIN BUTLER IS WIL

 Austin Butler leads the cast in the lead role of Wil Ohmsford - half human and half elf - who discovers that he is the last of the legendary Shannara family.

POPPY DRAYTON IS AMBERLE  
Elven princess, agile, fit and capable, she has become the first female to be accepted as one of the Chosen, the special group of Elves responsible for the protection and care of the ancient Ellcrys tree. But unlike the rest of the Chosen, Amberle’s dangerous and heroic journey is just beginning.

IVANA BAQUERO IS ERETRIA  

A young woman from the wrong side of the tracks who’s been forced touse her beauty and wits to survive. She’s a human who has been raised in a den of thieves known as the Rovers. When she rescues elven prince Wil (Austin Butler) from danger she becomes unwittingly tied to his quest to save the Four Lands.

MANU BENNET IS ALLANON
 Manu Bennett from HOBBIT and SPARTACUS will play a powerful druid named Allanon, the last of his kind. He is preserving the knowledge of ancient times as a practitioner of the mystic arts.