RALPH FIENNES, STANLEY TUCCI, JOHN LITHGOW, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI TO CHOOSE POPE IN CONCLAVE MOVIE! KEVIN SPACEY, ERIC ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, JEREMY NEUMARK JONES TO LEAD 1242 MONGOLIAN BATU KHAN EPIC

   FIENNES AND TUCCI   

TO PLAY PRIESTS IN CONCLAVE

And they won't be alone, as Edward Berger's conspiracy movie CONCLAVE will also have John Lithgow as one of the cardinals next to Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini as a nun.Following the death of the Pope, the reluctant Cardinal Lomeli (Fiennes)

Stanley Tucci and Ralph Fiennes will be the cardinals

is tasked with overseeing the group of Cardinals (Lithgow and Tucci) from across the globe responsible for selecting a new leader for the Church. But as the political machinations inside the Vatican intensify, he realizes that the departed Pope had kept a secret from them that he must uncover before a new Pope is chosen.

Kevin Spacey will lead the cast

  KEVIN SPACEY TO LEAD  

1242 MONGOL EMPIRE EPIC

When it comes to updates from the historical genre, Kevin Spacey will star in 1242 epic movie a co-production between UK, Hungary and Mongolia. Eric Roberts, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp and Jeremy Neumark Jones and Genevieve Florence will also star under the helm of Hungarian director Peter Soos! The film tells the story of Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu Khan, who was elected commander in chief of the western part of the Mongol empire. A skilled military commander, he won battles from China to Persia and was given responsibility for the invasion of Europe but in 1242 Khan is confronted by a deeply spiritual

Genevieve Florence and Jeremy Neumark Jones will also star

man and a castle in Hungary that halts his invasion of Europe and ultimately causes his downfall. Stay tuned for more information on this interesting historical movie project.

FANTASTIC NEW LASSE HALLSTROM & DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' TRAILER WITH HELEN MIRREN IS HERE! 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER WITH JULIANNE MOORE, KEN WATANABE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT

  NEW 'NUTCRACKER' TRAILER

ARRIVES FROM THE 4 REALMS

The first trailer was certainly nice, and now here's the second one for Disney's November fantasy NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS! All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a special key that will unlock a box that

Nuts will crack in cinemas this November

holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There, Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. The movie was directed by Lasse Hallström with his colleague Joe

Captain America's Joe Johnston was brought in the end to ad action scenes

Johnston joining the last month of production to ad a few dynamic action scenes! Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley (as bad as ever this time with the most irritatingly bad voice) also star.

 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER SEES

 JULIANNE MOORE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, KEN WATANABE ARE IN GRAVE DANGER

Bel Canto starts to sing this September

Equally interesting, but a lot more scary, is the first trailer for new Julianne Moore thriller movie BEL CANTO in which she plays  Roxane Coss, a famous American soprano, who travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe). Just as a handsome gathering of local dignitaries convenes at Vice President Ruben Ochoa's mansion, including French Ambassador Thibault (Christopher Lambert), the house is taken over by guerrillas led by Comandante Benjamin (Tenoch Huerta) demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Their only contact with the outside

Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe lead the experienced cast

world is through Red Cross negotiator Messner (Sebastian Koch). A month long standoff ensues in which hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find their shared humanity and hope in the face of impending disaster. 

RUSSIAN WEEKEND: NEW RUSSIAN EPIC TV SAGA'S 'MATA HARI' WITH RUTGER HAUER, GERARD DEPARDIEU, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, JOHN CORBETT, 'ROAD TO CALVARY' SET IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

  'MATA HARI' TV SERIES

AN EPIC TRUE STORY

The series was produced by Russian, Ukrane, Portugal

This one has already aired in motherland Russian earlier this year, and is currently airing over in Ukraine, but I'm guessing it has been airing around the world as well since I remember it was a huge hit among the buyers at last year's Mipcom. MATA HARI is a 12 episode period set drama with an international cast that includes Vahina Giocante, Oisin Stack, Rutger Hauer, Gerard Depardieu, John Corbett, Rade Serbedzija, Christopher Lambert, Pasha Sol, Alexey Guskov and Svetlana Hodchenkova!

Vahina Giocante plays the lead role of Mata Hari

LOVE AND SURVIVAL  
Margaret McLeod is penniless and out on the streets after her husband leaves her and gains custody of her only daughter. With no other means of making a living, she decides to become an exotic dancer. Under the stage

The series features Mata Hari's steamy choreographies!

name of MATA HARI, Margaret soon wins fame and notoriety, becoming extremely popular with the European elite. She becomes a regular guest of luxury villas and magnificent mansions, her every performance creating a real

The name Matahari means 'eye of the day' in Indonesian and Malay

sensation. But the year is 1913 and the world is on the verge of a war that will change the entire course of history. MATA HARI cannot even imagine what fateful role she is to play in these coming events.

  'ROAD TO CALVARY'

SERIES CELEBRATING 100 YEARS FROM RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

The series is an epic adaptation of Alexey Tolstoy novel

Another of the Russian television series has, meanwhile, been a hit at this year's Mipcom, which was held last year in Cannes. ROAD TO CALVARY is an epic TV series adaptation of Alexey Tolstoy's novel to be broadcast on the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

  St. Petersburg, 1914. The capital city lives as if in anxious expectation of some fatal day. Russia strives for changes. The central characters in the story are the Bulavin sisters. The young Dasha (Anna Chipovskaya) is stern and

The series is set in the six years that have changed the course of Russian history

idealistic, while the married Katya (Yulia Snigir) is careless and unhappy in her marriage. Both girls fall in love with a Decadent poet Alexey Bessonov, the

Road to Calvary follows the lives of two different sisters

master of minds, who is hopelessly disappointed in life. The love drama turns into a tragedy as World War I begins. The whole country is bestirred, a flow of fateful events carries the sisters away, separates them, destroys their families

Road to Calvary features battle scenes depicting tragedy of war

and puts them on the different sides of the barricades. The characters’ paths often cross and diverge again. But out there, at the end of this continuous walk of pain, the light of hope and of a new and never-before-seen world is shining.

RUSSIAN WEEKEND: DRAMATIC TEASER TRAILER FOR WWII MOVIE 'SOBIBOR' WITH CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT ON THE ESCAPE FROM THE INFAMOUS CAMP

  'SOBIBOR' TEASER

 WITH CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT

Sobibor hits Russian cinemas sometime this year

We are launching our Russian weekend today with the ultra dramatic and deeply atmospheric teaser trailer for new Russian World War II movie SOBIBOR which stars Christopher Lambert, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Phillippe Reinhardt, Wolfgang Cerny and Maximilian Dirr.

  SOBIBOR is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees

Rutger Hauer starred in the 1987 movie on Sobibor

were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and joined the partisans.

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

At least 250,000 Russians and Jews were murdered in gas chambers in SOBIBOR by the Nazis. This number makes it the fourth worst extermination camp from World War II. Out of 600 prisoners who tried to escape in the revolt, only about 50 succeeded. Shortly after the revolt, the Germans closed the camp, bulldozed the earth, and planted it over with pine trees to conceal its location.

Prisoners were killed using gas from the exhaust pipes of a tank engine

Today, the site is occupied by the SOBIBOR Museum, which displays a pyramid of ashes and crushed bones of the victims, collected from the cremation pits.