And yes, it is about the chocolate empire! New U&Original period set drama THE CADBURYS will be a six episode warm hearted family drama following the visionary Cadbury family, the underdogs of the cocoa world, on their journey towards creating the world famous
Our dear Toby Regbo will lead the cast
Cadbury’s chocolate bar. In 1860s Birmingham, when chocolate as we know it doesn’t yet exist, two very different brothers, Richard (Toby Regbo) and George Cadbury (Harry Gilby), find themselves in charge of their family’s failing cocoa business. Together, they have the radical genius and burning ambition to turn Cadbury into one of the world’s most beloved confectioners – if they can only learn to trust and rely on each other. Their sister Maria (Jessica Barden) is navigating her own role within the family and the business, but things become even more complicated when she falls in love with Cadbury’s biggest rival, Francis Fry (Ben Hardy) and is forced to question where her
Ben Hardy, Jessica Barden and Harry Gilby will also star
true loyalties really lie. Infused with historical delights and magical invention, The Cadburys is about how we build, break and rebuild the bonds of family - and how the sweetest things in life are rarely simple. Joanna Scanlan will also star.
We are in romantic waters today as well as it seems streamers have prepared a lot of melodrama for your viewing pleasure this summer: PUPPY LOVE will bark its way onto Freevee (where you can stream it for free) August 18th with the insanely gorgeous Grant Gustin in the lead role alongside Lucy Hale and Jane Seymour.
After a disastrous first date, wild-child Nicole and socially-anxious
Max vow to lose each other's numbers until they learn that their dogs
found a love match, and now puppies are on the way! The hilariously
mismatched Nicole and Max are forced to become responsible co-parents,
but may end up finding love themselves.
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
HAPPENS DURING A FLIGHT
It won't arrive till September 15th, but Netflix has released the first trailer for LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, a romantic movie adaptation of Jennifer E. Smith's
The movie is out this September
best selling novel which was released back in 2011. Directed by Vanessa Caswill, the movie sees Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy playing strangers Hadley and Oliver who begin to fall for each other on their flight from New York to London, but is it misfortune or fate that separates them when they land? The probability of ever finding each other again seems impossible, but love — and London — may have a way of defying the odds. Rob Delaney, Dexter Fletcher and Sally Phillips also star in this new movie which was shot quite a long time ago - back in 2021!
First photos from new films today as well, but today a selection of more modern films, starting with sf film 2067 which takes place in a world plagued by a disease after climate change has forced the adoption of artificial oxygen.
The story of the movie is set in year 2067 plagued by a disease
With his wife sick and little hope for survival, Ethan (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is forced to travel to the future in search of a cure for the mysterious illness. Not
Australian superstar Ryan Kwanten stars in the movie
knowing who to trust, he has to navigate a future filled with imminent danger and the possibility of never coming home. Ryan Kwanten also stars as Jude Mathers, who serves as Ethan’s protector and his conscience.
'THE MARTINI SHOT'
1ST PHOTOS WITH JOHN CLEESE
There are also first photos from a rather stellar drama movie THE MARTINI SHOT, an Irish project scheduled for December release with the ensemble cast that includes John Cleese, Derek Jacobi, Stuart
Matthew Modine leads the stellar cast of Martini Shot
Townsend, Jason London and Matthew Modine. This existential drama follows an ailing movie director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be
Stephen Wallis has both written and directed the movie
his final work of art. What starts out as a normal movie, ends up being an exploration of mortality and one's profound effect on the world.
FIRST 'PIXIE' PHOTO
SENDS OLIVIA COOKE ON A HEIST
Over from the United Kingdom arrives the first cast photo from PIXIE action comedy which stars Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Alec Baldwin,
Ben Hardy and Olivia Cooke lead the Pixie cast with Daryl McCormack
Colm Meaney and Sebastian de Souza. To avenge her mother's death, Pixie (Olivia Cooke) masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
IN WHICH RYAN REYNOLDS RUINS ITALY... OR TRIES REALLY HARD!
Not all of the films in Netflix festive offer are Christmassy: Ryan Reynold's latest action movie 6 UNDERGROUND certainly isn't, but you will be able to stream it from December 13th! It also stars Ben Hardy, Dave
The movie apparently cost $150 million to make!
Franco, Adria Arjona.
What's the best part of being dead? It isn't escaping your boss, your ex, or even erasing your criminal record. The best part about being dead...is the freedom. The freedom to fight the injustice and evil that lurk in our world without anyone or anything to slow you down or tell you "no." 6 Underground introduces a new kind of action hero. Six individuals from all around the globe, each the very best at what they do, have been chosen not only for their skill, but for a unique desire to delete their pasts to change the future. The team is brought together by an enigmatic leader (Ryan Reynolds), whose sole mission in life is to ensure that, while he and his fellow operatives will never be remembered, their actions damn sure will.
First stop in our Period Set Monday is the first trailer for 1940's thriller THE LITTLE STRANGER which is out in cinemas this August and September
The Little Stranger arrives to cinemas this August
starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter and Ruth Wilson.
THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a
housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country
doctor. During the long hot summer of 1947, he is called to a patient at
Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to
the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline
and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by
something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his
new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the
family's story is about to become entwined with his own.
'MARY SHELLEY' POSTER
HER GREATEST LOVE INSPIRED HER DARKEST CREATION
Meanwhile, a new poster (below) has been released for July costume drama MARY SHELLEY in which Elle Fanning plays the famous writer who is
The movie is out in USA, July the rest of the world
remembered as the writer of Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.
Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth).
So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and
personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her
Gothic work. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, Mary
Shelley brings to life
Mary Shelley is considered to be the mother of modern science fiction
the world of a trailblazing woman who defied
convention and channelled her innermost demons into a legend for the
ages. Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Hugh O'Connor, Jack Hickey play other
famous poets and writers of that time.
KEELEY HAWES, TOBY STEPHENS, TIMOTHY SPALL LEAD BBC SERIES
First look at Keeley Hawes in the series!
It seems our dearest Keeley Hawes is everywhere these days, not that we complain! Her latest gig is a lead role in new BBC 2 period set series SUMMER OF ROCKETS next to Toby Stephens, Timothy Spall and Linus Roach!
Miriam and children Hannah and Sasha, as he
is approached by MI5 to demonstrate his work.
Yet it is not his inventions the operatives require - instead Samuel is
tasked with the secret mission of obtaining information about his
charming, newly acquired friends Kathleen (Keeley Hawes) and her husband
Richard Shaw MP (Linus Roache) through whom Samuel also meets the
impressive Lord Arthur Wallington (Timothy Spall). As Samuel’s life
becomes more and more intertwined with his mission, how far is he
willing to let things unravel for his cause? And who can he truly trust?
Mark Bonnar and Ronald Pickup round up the truly stellar cast.
'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
TRAILER WITH RAMI MALEK AS THE LEADER OF QUEEN!
The movie is out this November worldwide
First trailer has been released for the Queen biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY in which Rami Malek plays famous Freddie Mercury. The movie, which is out this November, also stars Gwilym Lee as Queen's guitarist Brian May, Ben Hardy as their drummer Roger Taylor and Joseph Mazzello as bass player John Deacon. The film traces their meteoric rise through their iconic songs, their near implosion as Mercury's lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live Aid, where Mercury, facing a life threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. In the process, cementing the legacy of a band that were always more
Rami Malek has replaced Sasha Baron Cohen in the lead role, thankfully
like a family, and who continue to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think?
BBC has revealed new character photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITEwhich starts airing this Sunday, April 22nd!
IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master,
encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He
offers her
Young Ben Hardy leads the cast of the Victorian drama
assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped
from a lunatic asylum.
The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the
Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series
village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (CharlesDance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and
Jessie Buckley returns to BBC after War and Peace and Taboo
Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley),
and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne
Catherick, a mentally handicapped
We haven't seen Dougray Scott on BBC in a very long time!
child who grew up in the village.
Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love,
however she is already promised in marriage to a
Charles Dance is Mr Frederick Fairlie in the series
baronet - Sir Percival
Glyde (Dougray Scott).
When Laura receives a vicious letter
attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to
Art Malik plays Erasmus Nash in the series
the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a
chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in
the asylum.
'THE ROTHSCHILDS'
JULIAN FELLOWES PENNING SERIES ON THE RICHEST FAMILY
Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes is going to produce a series on the richest family on Earth THE ROTHSCHILDS (they could apparently feed all
Sky Atlantic will produce the series
the starving people in the world and cure all the ill ones if they weren't evil, as they, allegedly own about 80% of all world's wealth! As 'Deadline' reports, he is writing the 19th century saga set against the backdrop of war and revolution. It tells the story of how the family became to possess the largest private fortune in the world.
They gained pre-eminence in the bullion trade during the Napoleonic Wars between 1803 and 1815 and Nathan Mayer Rothschild almost single handedly financed the British war effort. It will also portray a story about human relationships, fraternal struggles for dominance, of brilliant but disenfranchised women, of generational conflict, of incestuous alliances and of forbidden love with outsiders.
We are continuing with our updates on period set projects today as well with 1st photos from the sets of TOLKIEN a biopic which will follow the young days of the author of world's favourite epic fantasy saga Lord of the Rings, starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins.
THE FATHER OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND HOBBIT The movie explores the early life of J. R. R. TOLKIEN as he finds
love, friendship and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow
outcasts. When the horrors of World War I envelope Tolkien's life, they
threaten to tear this
Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins play Tolkien and his wife
"fellowship" apart, and he questions the very
meaning and purpose of his art. Instead, he finds a way to use these
experiences as inspiration for his famous works, among them The Hobbit
and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lily Collins is his love and wife
Edith Bratt who inspired the elven princesses from his sagas. Derek
Jacobi and Anthony Boyle also star!
'MARY SHELLEY' TRAILER
THE MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN!
The movie is out next month in USA
The first trailer has been released after many years of waiting for the first English language movie directed by a female Arabian
director, MARY SHELLEY previously known as A Storm in the Stars and I must admit it doesn't look very special. It portrays the famous love affair between poet Percy Shelley (played by Douglas
Booth) and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (played by Elle Fanning with the most horrible British accent we've heard in a long time), which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. Tom Sturridge is Lord Byron, with Ben Hardy, Maisie Williams, Jack Hickey and Joanne
Mary and Percy Shelley and Sturridge as Byron
Froggatt also in the cast which includes Hugh O'Connor as Coleridge! The movie is out May 25th in USA and in July in UK and around the world.
Period set delights for you today, starting with the first trailer for Natalie Dormer's THE PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK which will, produced by Australian Foxtel, air on Amazon Prime and also on BBC in UK. This new reimagining of Joan Lindsay’s novel, will first premiere its six episodes in Australia on May 6th and then on May 25th at Amazon Prime.
MYSTERY THRILLER With the story set in the 1900 Natalie Dormer
plays English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard (a woman whose dead
husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely
hiding dark skeletons) in the drama which revolves around the mysterious
disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine’s Day.
The complex, interwoven narrative follows the
Natalie Dormer plays the mysterious headmistress of the 1900 school
subsequent investigation
and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff
of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.
'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'
ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER IS HERE!
BBC has meanwhile released the first, rather atmospheric and exciting, trailer for their period set series THE WOMAN IN WHITE after those first
Women in White starts in two weeks on BBC
photos I showed you a few days ago. The five part Victorian saga will start airing in UK on BBC One Sunday April 22nd starring Jesse Buckley, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Ben Hardy.
VICTO- RIAN MAD HOUSE It starts in early Victorian London after
Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a
moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and
disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come
to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity.
Jesse Buckley, right, leads the female part of the cast
Viewed by
many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will
take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of
English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian
madhouse.
BBC has revealed 1st photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE! We're waiting for the first trailer!
IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master,
encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He
offers her assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped
from a lunatic asylum.
The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the
village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles
The series is based on the popular novel by Wilkie Collins
Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley),
and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne
Catherick,
Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series
a mentally handicapped child who grew up in the village.
Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love,
however she is already promised in marriage to a baronet - Sir Percival
Glyde (Dougray Scott).
Ben Hardy takes the lead for the first time in a BBC series
When Laura receives a vicious letter
attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to
the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a
chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in
the asylum.
'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY'
GETS A BRAND NEW TRAILER
Solo will first air at Cannes Film Festival
Disney has released a new trailer for their prequel movie SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY which will bring Han's origin story into cinemas May 25th! A rather doomed project which had to change its director in the middle of production and got mixed reaction for the first trailer and the choice of Alden Ehrenreich for the lead, is predicted to earn the lowest income of all Star Wars movies so far. Also starring Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Woody Harrelson as Solo's mentor and Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian, the movie will describe how Han Solo became the famed criminal of the galactic empire.
Chewbacca's wife is also set to appear in this one!
Opening first exclusively at Cannes Film Festival next month the science fiction adventure movie also stars Westworld's Thandie Newton.
The cast has been revealed for the television series adaptation of Deborah Harkness fantasy novel A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES! British Sky will air the series in UK with Matthew Goode and
Matthew Goode will be a 1500 year old vampire
Teresa Palmer leading the cast! She will be Diane Bishop, and he will play vampire Matthew Clairmont!
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, which is the first part of All Souls trilogy, follows a
science historian who also just happens to be a witch with a troubling
past that has led her to suppress her magical tendencies. When her
research leads her to uncover a mysterious missing manuscript in
Oxford’s Bodleian Library, she sets in motion a series of events that
will lead her on an adventure across time and continents to discover the
secrets of her past and the truth about the origin of magical beings
(which includes
Teresa Palmer will play the lead role
witches, vampires, and daemons). Along the way, Diana
also encounters and falls in love with Matthew Clairmont, a scientist
and vampire with a murky past of his own. Kate Brooke from Mr.
Selfridges will be the showrunner.
'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
CASTS THE REST OF THE QUEEN!
You already know that in the movie about famous band Queen BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY lead singer Freddie Mercury will be played by Rami Malek, but now the rest of the group has been cast too! In the
Rami Malek and Gwilym Lee
biopic, directed by Bryan Singer, Ben Hardy will portray Queen's drummer Roger Taylor, Gwilym Lee will play guitar expertly as Brian May, while Joe Mazzello (the kid from Jurassic Park who is now all
Ben Hardy and Joe Mazzello
grown up) will be their bassist John Deacon who also composed some of their greatest hits such as Another One Bites the Dust and I Want to Break Free. The movie will also show how the band continued with their career after Freddie's death.
JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEN HARDY TO LEAD BBC VICTORIAN SERIES
Here's a new BBC project for us: they've announced today the beginning of production on their small screen adaptation of Wilkie Collins Victorian thriller THE WOMAN IN WHITE and they've also announced Ben Hardy (X-Men) will star as Walter Hartright and our beloved Jessie Buckley (War And Peace, Taboo) as Marian Halcombe, with Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Art Malik also in the cast!
The five episode mini series starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters
a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon
finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance,
suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting
tale of insanity and identity. Viewed by many as the first
psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a
chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country
houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.
MANISH DAYAL TO LEAD
'THE RESIDENT' MEDICAL SERIES
Meanwhile, another of our absolute fave's, always lovely Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) will lead new medical drama THE RESIDENT at Fox! He will be Devon Pravesh, an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident, Conrad Hawkins who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.
Devon is a first year resident at Kings County Hospital. Top of his class at medical school, the type to follow rules, driven and passionate when it comes to medicine, Devon is a hard working perfectionist from a working class background. In Phillip Noyce directed and Antoine Fuqua produced series, Bruce Greenwood will play Chief of Surgery Dr. Soloman Bell, every inch the image of an ideal surgeon.
