Some casting news with some of our favourite ladies, starting with Emily Blunt who has scored a lead role in WALK THE BLUE FIELDS based on a short story by Claire Keegan. Set in Ireland, the film will revolve around a woman faced with an impossible decision, when a past love triangle is almost uncovered on her wedding day. John Crowley will direct probably later this year or next year. Blunt is also producing the film.
CATE BLANCHETT IN SWEETSICK
Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett is set to topline a feature movie directorial debut of Alice Birch SWEETSICK. As Deadline reports, the fantasy movie, which Birch also wrote, follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. The shooting will start as soon as this Autumn in the UK and Greece.
Although this one premiered in Australia long time ago, it is getting limited cinematic release in United States May 23rd after visiting numerous festivals around the world written and directed by Warwick Thornton. Set in 1940s Australia THE NEW BOY is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Aswan Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately-balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. Check out the visually and dramatically stunning trailer below and tell us what you think, seems like another outstanding role from Blanchett.
And they are not the only stars in it, beside Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, who play legendary intelligence agent George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn, BLACK BAG film also has Pierce Brosnan, Tom Burke, Rene Jean Page and Naomie Harris in the cast. When his wife is suspected
of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to
his marriage or his country. The thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh will be released March 14th in the cinemas and you can check out the trailer too below and tell us what you think, will you be watching when it comes out or will you give it a skipity skip?
And they are not the only stars in it, beside Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, who play legendary intelligence agent George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn, BLACK BAG film also has Pierce Brosnan, Tom Burke, Rene Jean Page and Naomie Harris in the cast. When his wife is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. The thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh will be released March 14th in the cinemas.
With the October 11th streaming date slowly approaching as we head towards the last month of summer, Apple TV + has published some new images from Cate Blanchett's new series DISCLAIMER which was directed, written and produced by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron and also stars Kevin Kline based on a book by Renee Knight. Gemma Jones, Lesley Manville, Indira Varma, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge, Leila George also star in the series that will premiere at Venice Film Festival. The series will then premiere in October with two episodes and will stream the rest of the seven episodes weekly.
DISCLAIMER IS A GRIPPING psychological
thriller in seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate
Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy
Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER is based on the bestselling
novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine
Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and
transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown
author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a
story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced
to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her
relationships with her husband, Robert, and their
son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Indira Varma is the narrator of the series. Kevin Kline plays a widower who wrote the novel.
Apple TV + has issued first image of Cate Blanchett in their new seven episode series DISCLAIMER which will hit the streamer October 11th with her as acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft who built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author (Kevin Kline), she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Storming alien planets as an intergalactic gang leader is defo not what you would imagine for Cate Blanchett but that is exactly what she does in first BORDERLANDS sf movie trailer for the video game adaptation that will hit the big screens August 9th!
It follows Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious
past, who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the
missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Edgar
Ramirez).
Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Kevin Hart), a
former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana
Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Tina’s musclebound,
rhetorically challenged protector, Krieg (Florian Munteanu); Tannis
(Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and
Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must then
battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the
missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power.
Alicia Vikander will star opposite Cate Blanchett in ensemble comedy movie RUMOURS which will hit cinemas later this year following seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Menochet, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira also star in this international feature shot over in Hungary for German and Canadian producers.
From Australia comes the first image of Cate Blanchett in THE NEW BOY movie which premieres at Cannes. It is a 1940's set story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
THE MIRACLE CLUB
1ST TEASER WITH MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES AND LAURA LINNEY
Sony Pictures has released the first teaser for new movie drama THE MIRACLE CLUB with Maggie Smith, Laura Linney,Kathy Bates and Stephen Rea! Lourdes, a picturesque French town and a place of
The movie will arrive this summer
miracles, a magnet for 6 million visitors each year from across the globe.
Ballygar, Ireland, 1968: a boisterous hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat, frenzied, fast and loose, and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. And the opportunity to rise above one’s daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women.
There’s just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.
With a little benevolent interference from their local priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, and Dolly get their ticket of a lifetime.
Having never left Dublin, let alone Ireland, the journey provides our heroines the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and some independence. It's also a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles.
But when they are joined by Chrissie, recently returned from a decades-long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed.
As they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have all been looking for is right in front of them. Check out the first teaser below and tell us will you watch it this summer?
Today, I have for you a trailer and posters for Netflix adaptation of YA saga THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL which will stream October
The movie arrives October 21st
21th based on Soman Chainani's books and directed by Paul Feig. The cast includes Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington and Laurence Fishburne, plus Cate Blanchett lends her voice to the narrator.
THE STORY IS SET
in the village of Gavaldon, where two misfits and best friends, Sophie (Sophia
Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), share the unlikeliest of bonds.
Sophie, a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life
to become a princess, while
The movie is based on popular YA books
Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and offbeat
mother, has the makings of a real witch. One night under a blood red
moon, a powerful force sweeps them away to the School for Good and Evil —
where the true stories behind every great fairy tale begin. Yet something is amiss from the start: Sophie is dropped into the
School for Evil, run by the glamourous and acid-tongued Lady Lesso
(Charlize Theron), and Agatha in the School for Good, overseen by the
sunny and kind Professor Dovey (Kerry Washington). As if navigating
classes with the offspring of the Wicked Witch (Freya Parks), Captain
Hook (Earl Cave), and King Arthur (Jamie Flatters) wasn’t hard enough,
according to the Schoolmaster (Laurence Fishburne), only true love’s
kiss can change the rules and send the girls to their rightful schools
and destiny. But when a dark and dangerous figure (Kit Young) with mysterious ties
to Sophie reemerges and threatens to destroy the school and the world
beyond entirely — the only way to a happy ending is to survive their
real life fairytale first. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, those two lead girls seem totally talentless and miscast.
From Dirty Films, which is her production company, and Scarlett Pictures, comes news that Cate Blanchett will produce and star in THE NEW BOY a movie written by Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival award winner Warwick Thornton who will also sit behind the helm. The period set drama will open in 1940s Australia, with the film depicting the mesmeric story of a 9 year old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
DIOR & CHANEL TV SERIES
SENDS BEN MENDELSOHN & JULIETTE BINOCHE TO PARIS
Apple TV + is producing a WW2 Paris mini TV series THE NEW LOOK with Ben Mendelsohn playing Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel. Inspired by true events the series depicts the meteoric rise of fashion designer Christian Dior as he dethrones the Grande Dame Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his
Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn will lead the series
ground-breaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence.
In addition to Dior, whose creations dominated world fashion in the decade following World War II, and Chanel, the interwoven saga will include the stories of other rivals including Balmain, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, Yves Saint Laurent and more. Todd A. Kessler is the creator.
STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH
16TH CENTURY SET MOVIE
Nordic streaming service Viaplay is preparing female led English language adventure STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH set in 1520 and exploring a dark chapter in Sweden’s history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and civilians in the Swedish capital. The story is told
Mikael Hafstrom is directing the English language movie
through the eyes of Anne and her foster sister Freja as they seek revenge on the men who murdered their family at Anne’s wedding. Their quest leads them to Stockholm, where they are drawn into a ruthless political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution known to history as the Stockholm Bloodbath.
Apple TV + is joining Alfonso Cuaron in producing new mini series DISCLAIMER which he also wrote and will direct and they've cast Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline as leads. Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has
Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline will take the lead roles
been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower, played by Kline, appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past. A story that reveals her darkest secret. A secret she thought was hers alone.
THE TOURIST TRAILER
STARRING JAMIE DORNAN
The series will also stream on HBO Max in March
BBC has released a trailer for Jamie Dornan's new thriller TV series THE TOURIST which debuts on BBC One January 1st. It will also air on HBO Max later next year. In the miniseries, a British man finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback. Full of shocking, surprising, funny
Jamie Dornan plays the lead role in the six part series
and brutal turns, this six episode drama is set in a world populated by quirky, enigmatic characters and off-beat comedy punctuates high-stakes action.
As Deadline reports, it will arrive next October and beside Cate Blanchett in the lead role, TAR will also star Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Mark Strong, Allan Corduner, and Sylvia Flote.
In the film the two time Oscar winner Blanchett will be playing fictional character Lydia Tár, an orchestra conductor widely considered one of the greatest at her craft, and the first ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra! It is the story of world renowned musician Lydia Tár who is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career. Todd Field wrote the script and is also directing over in Berlin. You remember him for previously directing other Kate - Winslet in the most amazing drama Little Children.
FROM SUPERNATURAL SERIES
EPIX RELEASES FIRST TRAILER
Epix has released trailer for their new supernatural horror series FROM which arrives February 20th next year. The story of the ten episode show will unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all
Harold Perineau leads the cast as the sheriff of the town
those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes
Eoin Bailey plays the father of the trapped family
down. The cast includes Catalina Sandino Moreno and Eion Bailey as married couple Jim and Tabitha Matthews, who are struggling in the aftermath of a personal tragedy and suddenly find their family trapped in the
The ten episode series arrives to Epix next February
town. Together they must find a way to keep their children safe, struggling to come to terms with this new reality even as they desperately search for a way back home! Harold Perrineau leads the cast as the sheriff of the little town.
Well, the cast sure is stellar: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette lead the ensemble of NIGHTMARE ALLEY noir thriller that also includes Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn! Tim Blake Nelson and Italian music legend Romina Power also star. Most of them are Academy Awards winners or nominees. The movie itself is a big screen adaptation of the novel by the same name by William Lindsay Gresham which was published in 1946. It follows an ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well chosen words, who hooks up
The book was already adapted once back in 1947!
with a psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is. Searchlight Pictures is releasing the movie theatrically December 17th! The film is rather long - two and a half hours!
THE STORY OF NIGHTMARE ALLEY
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper)
endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been
mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he
The cast has two Oscar winners and six nominees!
crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge
to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous
Molly (Rooney
Leonardo DICaprio was originally meant for the lead role but was kicked out when he wanted more money
Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a
dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious
psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might be his most formidable opponent
yet.
Although there is currently an animated version, Amazon is planning to turn SHE-RA into a live action epic series. Dream Works will produce
It will be the first ever live action She-Ra series
the series from the He-Man universe. In the original 80's animated series, She-Ra’s real name is Princess Adora, the long lost twin sister of Prince Adam, or He-Man. She was kidnapped as a baby by Hordak of the Evil Horde and taken to the planet Etheria, where she was mind controlled into serving as a Force Captain of the Horde. He-Man eventually helped her break the mind control and gave her the Sword of Protection, which allows her to transform into She-Ra and grants her incredible power. The new live action series will not be connected with the current Netflix animated series.
1ST NIGHTMARE ALLEY LOOK
BRADLEY COOPER, CATE BLANCHETT, TONI COLLETTE
There is also the first look from new noir thriller movie NIGHTMARE ALLEY coming from Vanity Fair with the poster revealing Bradley Cooper
Nightmare Alley arrives December
who portrays a man working a roustabout job with a small time carnival! Out December 17th the big screen adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, it sees Bradley Cooper portraying Stanton Carlisle, a former carnival worker who becomes a big city star as a nightclub performer, using cold reading tricks he picked up in the sideshow to create the impression he is a powerful mind reader. Now the marks and rubes he targets are millionaires. Cate Blanchett plays Dr. Lilith Ritter, a psychiatrist who first tries to expose him as a charlatan, then becomes embroiled in his schemes, with the cast also including Toni Collette
First look at Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper
as tarot reader Zeena, Rooney Mara as Molly along with Willem Dafoe as Clem Hoately, Ron Perlman as Bruno, David Strathairn as Pete, Richard Jenkins as Ezra and Holt McCallany as Anderson.
PROFESSIONALS TV SERIES
TOM WELLING, BRENDAN FRASER SHOW TO AIR ON CW
In other series news, CW has bought airing rights on new action series PROFESSIONALS which stars Tom Welling as Vincent Corbo, a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests of rich and powerful
The series is Irish, South African coproduction
clients by any means necessary – legal or not. After a next-gen medical satellite explodes on launch, Corbo is hired by the rocket’s designer – billionaire futurist Peter Swann, played by Brendan Fraser, who suspects sabotage.
AS INTERGALACTIC OUTLAW LILITH IN BORDERLANDS MOVIE
First, rather mysterious, image has been unveiled today of Cate Blanchett as the lead character in sf movie BORDERLANDS based on the popular game. She is Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, who
Eli Roth is directing Cate in this one
reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Édgar Ramírez).
Lilith soon forms an alliance with an unexpected team - Roland (Kevin Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands - but they'll be fighting for something more: each other.
1ST PHOTOS FOR CHANNEL 5'S
THE TEACHER & THE HOLIDAY
Channel 5 has unveiled first photos from some of their upcoming new series, among them THE TEACHER, which will star Sheridan Smith as Jenna, a teacher who finds herself accused of a drunken sexual encounter with
Sheridan Smith is a naughty teacher in the new Channel 5 series
one of her pupils and THE HOLIDAY starring Jill Halfpenny in a series based on TM Logan’s novel of the same name. During the holiday in the stifling Mediterranean heat, her character Kate uncovers a secret: her husband
First look at the friends in The Holiday TV series
is having an affair. The dream holiday quickly becomes a nightmare when she suspects the other woman is one of her best friends. As Kate closes in on the truth, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined!
with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. The shooting will start as soon as this Autumn in the UK and Greece.
with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. The shooting will start as soon as this Autumn in the UK and Greece.
