CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD HISTORICAL ADVENTURE JANISSARY FROM DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR, SHARON STONE IN TALKS TO JOIN! SAMARA WEAVING JOINS KELVIN HARRISON JR IN CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE

  CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD  

JANISSARY HISTORICAL MOVIE

I think we are the first ones to break this news in English, but Gaga Antonijevic, who directed last year's Serbian Oscar representative

The production should start next year

Dara from Jasenovac, is preparing a massive new historical adventure JANISSARY based on real historical custom of the Ottoman empire to steal babies from occupied lands and then raise them as killer Janissaries who would then be sent to pillage their own villages often unknowingly killing their own mothers and sisters in the process. He has already set Christian Bale as the male lead in the film that he has been preparing for twenty years now. 

 

    Set at the end of the 16th century, the film will see Bale playing a Serb taken as a child to Istanbul where he becomes a pasha in their army. The sultan eventually sends him to his fatherland to end the Serbian rebellion and this is where he gets faced both with his past and with a moral dilemma of what to do.

 

Gaga has also revealed that he is currently negotiating with Sharon Stone to take the role of Bale's mother in the film. Bale, who is married to a Serbian woman in real life, has worked with the director on the script which should start shooting sometime next year in Serbia and Turkey.  

 SAMARA WEAVING TO JOIN 

CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

We mentioned the movie a few months ago, and now Hollywood Reporter writes that Samara Weaving has joined CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES historical drama as opera singer! Kelvin Harrison Jr plays the

Samara Weaving will take the female lead

lead as Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint Georges, also known as the Black Mozart. Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entrée into French high society. With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low. Weaving will play Marie Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfillment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera. Stephen Williams is directing for Searchlight.

TRAILERS FOR NETFLIX MOVIES MOWGLI WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, CATE BLANCHETT, THE PRINCESS SWITCH CHRISTMAS ROMANCE WITH VANESSA HUDGENS, SAM PALLADIO

  'THE PRINCESS SWITCH'

NETFLIX FESTIVE ROMANCE

The switch will happen November 16th!

Well, I guess it is that time of the year when festive movies are slowly being announced, one of them THE PRINCESS SWITCH which will arrive to Netflix November 16th with Vanessa Hudgens playing Margaret, the gorgeous Duchess of Montenaro, who, one week before Christmas, switches places with Stacy, a "commoner" from Chicago, who looks exactly like her. With the assistance of a magical Santa's helper, Margaret falls in love with Stacy's handsome co-worker (Nick Sagar), while Stacy falls in love with Margaret's fiance, the dashing Prince played by gorgeous actor and musician Sam Palladio. A week after that you can also watch Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell as Santa!

  NEW 'MOWGLI' TRAILER

FROM JUNGLE TO NETFLIX

Speaking of Netflix, check out the new trailer for their adventure MOWGLI: LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE which was originally supposed to

Mowgli hits Netflix December 7th

be a major cinema movie but will now air on Netflix December 7th with a limited cinema release at the end of this month only in a few major cities. The voice cast includes Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Jack Reynor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Matthew Rhys! 

THE STORY OF MOWGLI 
follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli (Rohan Chand) raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India. As he learns the often harsh rules of

Beside lending voice to Baloo, Andy Serkis also directs the movie

jungle, under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo (Andy Serkis) and a black panther named Bagheera (Christian Bale), Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals of the jungle as one of their own, except for one; the fearsome

The movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's famous classic book

tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch). But there may be greater dangers lurking in the jungle, as Mowgli comes face to face with his human origins.

NEW EPIC TV SERIES PROJECTS 'DOCTOR ZHIVAGO', SF 'SILO' AND 'LAST AMAZON' ON AMAZON QUEENS! 'MOWGLI' TRAILER WITH CATE BLANCHETT, CHRISTIAN BALE, JACK REYNOR, FREIDA PINTO, ANDY SERKIS

  NEW EPIC TV SERIES

 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO & THE LAST AMAZON FOR SMALL SCREENS?

Doctor Zhivago is among the possible new projects

Amazing news from the epic genre. Atrium TV group, which develops ideas for new projects and offers them to their members among networks and producers, has a stunning slate of new projects which includes Michael Douglas produced sf series SILO , set in a future San Francisco which has become, because of diminished resources and over population, a gated community behind a massive wall!

  They also have a pitch for eight part DOCTOR ZHIVAGO epic saga from Sherlock producers which would adapt Boris Pasternak's sweeping political and romantic drama set in Russia before WWI!

Coming from Narcos producers and written by Rafe Judkins, with Ava DuVernay as executive producers, is also THE LAST AMAZON character driven series which will focus on the great Amazon Queens such as Antiope and Hippolyta, portraying their loves and major battles, notably, their campaign against the Ancient Greeks. Atrium's Quasimodo from their first slate of projects is already eyeing production!

  'MOWGLI' TRAILER

IS SADLY NOT THE WARM STORY FROM YOUR CHILDHOODS

Speaking of epic, Andy Serkis has released the first trailer for his version of Jungle Book's MOWGLI which is out this October following a human child

Mowgli arrives to the cinemas this October

raised by wolves, which must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins. Cate Blanchett lends her voice to snake Kaa, Benedict Cumberbatch is evil tiger Shere Khan, Andy Serkis is Baloo the bear, Christian Bale is panther Bagheera, with Jack Reynor, Tom Hollander, Matthew Rhys, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan, Freida Pinto, also in the super stellar voice cast of the upcoming adventure. This version will be darker and more serious than the previous ones and certainly much more so than the beloved book by Rudyard Kipling. The actors don't just lend their voices but also play their characters in action capture technique.

WARNER BROS TITLES ITS JUNGLE BOOK MOVIE 'MOWGLI' CHRISTIAN BALE, CATE BLANCHETT, JACK REYNOR, TOM HOLLANDER, ANDY SERKIS IN THE VOICE CAST

WARNER'S 'JUNGLE BOOK'

IS NOW CALLED JUST 'MOWGLI'!

Blanchett will probably be better as Kaa than Scarlet Johannson

In order to avoid confusion with Disney's recent movie of the same name, Warner Bros' Jungle Book movie has been retitled MOWGLI! Andy Serkis is still directing with an October 2018  release date. 

THE PLOT
has also been revealed: mixing live action and performance capture, the story follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli (Rohan Chand) raised by a wolf pack in the jungles of India. As he learns the often-harsh rules of the jungle, under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo (Andy Serkis) and a panther named Bagheera

Andy Serkis is both directing and lending his voice to Baloo

(Christian Bale), Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals of the jungle as one of their own. All but one: the fearsome tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch). But there may be greater dangers lurking in the jungle, as Mowgli comes face to face with his human origins. The other story's central

Young Jack Reynor is lending his voice to Mowgli's wolf brother

animal characters are: Kaa, the snake (Cate Blanchett), the leader of the wolf pack, Akela (Peter Mullan), the scavenging hyena, Tabaqui (Tom Hollander), Nisha, the female wolf (Naomie Harris), who adopts the baby Mowgli as one of her cubs, Nisha's mate, Vihaan (Eddie Marsan), and Mowgli's Brother Wolf (Jack Reynor).

TENSE DRAMA MONDAY: TRAILER AND POSTER FOR 'THE PROMISE' PERIOD SET MOVIE WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, OSCAR ISAAC AND 'THE LAST FACE' WITH CHARLIZE THERON, JAVIER BARDEM

'THE PROMISE' NEW TRAILER

CHRISTIAN BALE WAR DRAMA

Two tense dramas for you today! A new trailer and a new poster have been released for war drama THE PROMISE out this May in Europe and USA starring Christian Bale, Tom Hollander, Oscar Isaac, Jean Reno, Rade Serbedzija and Shohreh Aghdashloo!

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire like the new TV series I presented you with yesterday, THE PROMISE follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

'THE LAST FACE' TRAILER

STARRING CHARLIZE THERON AND JAVIER BARDEM

A new trailer and a new poster have also been released for tense action drama from director Sean Penn THE LAST FACE in which his ex Charlize Theron plays  a director of an international aid agency in Africa who meets a relief aid doctor (Javier Bardem) amidst a political and social revolution, and together face tough choices surrounding humanitarianism and life through civil unrest. Jean Reno stars in this one as well, together with Jared Harris and Hopper Penn, Sean's son (yep, it ain't nepotism at all).

TRAILERS FOR MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY'S ADVENTURE DRAMA 'GOLD' AND WW1 PERIOD SET DRAMA 'THE PROMISE' WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, OSCAR ISAAC

FIRST 'GOLD' TRAILER

WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY!

The first trailer has been released for a new movie inspired by a true story GOLD with Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard and Corey Stoll. Out this Christmas it is the epic tale of one man's pursuit of the American dream, to discover gold.

Starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break who teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it would be even harder, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.

'THE PROMISE' WW1 TRAILER

CHRISTIAN BALE & OSCAR ISAAC

You can also check out the first trailer for WW1 drama movie from director Terry George THE PROMISE which is set in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century depicting  the genocide campaign by the Turks against the Armenians in World War I. It is set as a background of a romantic triangle among an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac), an artist (Charlotte Le Bon) and an American journalist (Christian Bale).

1ST 'LIMEHOUSE GOLEM' VICTORIAN MOVIE PICS WITH BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH, SAM REID! BEN FOSTER JOINS CHRISTIAN BALE, ROSAMUND PIKE IN 'HOSTILES' WESTERN MOVIE

'HOSTILES' WESTERN FILM

WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, BEN FOSTER AND ROSAMUND PIKE

Here's a star studded period set movie for you: Ben Foster is the latest one to join HOSTILES which already has Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Q’orianka Kilcher, Stephen Lang, Bill Camp, Peter Mullan.

Set in 1892, HOSTILES tells the story of legendary Army Capt. Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale), who after stern resistance, begrudgingly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief, Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands. Making the perilous journey from an isolated Army outpost in New Mexico to the grasslands of Montana, the former rivals encounter a young widow (Rosamund Pike), whose family was murdered on the plains. She joins them as they try to overcome the hostile Comanche tribes.

'LIMEHOUSE GOLEM' PHOTOS

 BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH, SAM REID, OLIVIA COOKE

Speaking of starstudded casts, check out this one it is truly marvellous: first photos from THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM starring Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Olivia Cooke, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan! This Gothic mystery is set in London, 1880. In the dangerous Limehouse district, a series of murders have shaken the community. So monstrous and ruthless are these crimes that the press claim they’re the work of The Golem – a legendary creature from dark times… Confronted by a murderer of a yet unknown kind and with no genuine leads, the police put the vastly experienced Detective Inspector Kildare (Nighy) on the case, a scapegoat for when the next victim surfaces.

NEW POSTERS FOR RIDLEY SCOTT'S 'EXODUS GODS AND KINGS' ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORICAL EPIC WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, JOEL EDGERTON, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, AARON PAUL, BEN KINGSLEY

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

EPIC NEW POSTERS ARE HERE!

The end of this year is bringing us a number of epic adventures to the big screens, and beside the final chapter of THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, another epic spectacle to feast our eyes on will definitely be Ridley Scott's Ancient Egypt historical movie of humongous proportions EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS. The movie just got three new posters and you can check them out today! With Christian Bale leading the star studded cast the movie will battle its way into cinemas December 12th!

THE STAR STUDDED CAST

CHRISTIAN BALE, AARON PAUL, JOEL EDGERTON, BEN KINGSLEY

Ridley Scott's visually mindblowing and large scale interpretation of the legendary exodus of the Hebrews from Ancient Egypt as led by Moses (Christian Bale) and related in the Old Testament Book of Exodus, will also star Australian actor Joel Edgerton as Egyptian ruler Pharaoh Ramesses II, with Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro as his parents Tuya and Seti! Aaron Paul will sport a long hair as Joshua, with Ben Kingsley as Nun and Indira Varma as High Priestess Miriam! The lavish costumes are done by famous Oscar winner Janty Yates who already worked with Ridley on his other historical classics GLADIATOR, ROBIN HOOD and in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN!

DEFYING AN EMPIRE
The sweeping historical epic will bring the story of one man’s daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses (Joel Edgerton), setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. Check out the breathtaking trailer below:

WW1 'WATER DIVINER' TRAILER & POSTER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, OLGA KURYLENKO! NEW 'EXODUS GODS & KINGS' EPIC TRAILER WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, AARON PAUL! BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH PIC AS RICHARD III IN 'HOLLOW CROWN'! BENJAMIN WALKER, THERESA PALMER FOR SPARKS' 'CHANGE'

MINDBLOWING 2ND TRAILER

 FOR RIDLEY SCOTT'S 'EXODUS GODS & KINGS' ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EPIC MOVIE

Two stunningly epic trailers for you today, starting with the full length one for this December's Egyptian epic EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS! From acclaimed director Ridley Scott comes the epic adventure, the story of one man’s daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton), setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Paul and Ben Kingsley also star!

NICHOLAS SPARKS 'THE CHOICE'

CASTS BENJAMIN WALKER AND THERESA PALMER IN LEAD ROLES
Eleventh movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book, romantic drama THE CHOICE, has found its lead stars in Benjamin Walker (ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER) and Theresa Palmer (WARM BODIES). They will play neighbours who fall for each other in a small coastal town. The story spans a decade of their love affair, which is ultimately tested by life’s most defining events.
BENEDICT CUMBER- BATCH IS RICHARD III
Meanwhile, BBC has released the first photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as King Richard III in BBC's new season of THE HOLLOW CROWN historical dramas based on Shakespeare's RICHARD III and HENRY VI. The three part series will see Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Keeley Hawes playing the royal ladies, with Andrew Scott playing French king Louis, Tom Sturridge  as Henry VI and Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Michael Gambon also in the cast.

'THE WATER DIVINER' TRAILER

RUSSELL CROWE IN WW ONE

Marking the hundred years from the beginning of the Great War Australian historical drama THE WATER DIVINER will arrive into cinemas this Christmas starring Russell Crowe (who also directs), Jai Courtney and Olga Kurylenko. The story of the epic adventure is set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Australian farmer Connor (Russell Crowe) travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his sons, reported missing in the action, where he forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman (Olga Kurylenko) who owns the hotel in which he stays. Holding on to hope, and with the help of a Turkish Officer, Connor embarks on a journey across the country to find the truth about the fate of his sons.