CASTING NEWS: PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, LUCAS HEDGES IN OLD FRIENDS NEW FRIENDS COMEDY MOVIE, DIANNE WIEST AND CIARAN HINDS IN THIS OLD LOVE OF MINE COMEDY DRAMA

  LATEST CASTING NEWS 

OLD FRIENDS, NEW FRIENDS COMEDY

A couple of casting news for you today, starting with Mike Birbiglia's new comedy movie OLD FRIENDS, NEW FRIENDS which will have Patrick Schwarzenegger and Lucas Hedges in the cast. When a tight-knit group of college friends travels to a summer camp for their old friend’s wedding, they discover he’s built a new life — with new friends — forcing them to confront what they’ve lost, who they’ve become, and whether growing up means growing apart. 

 

THIS OLD LOVE OF MINE COMEDY DRAMA

Another comedy drama movie will come from director Terry Loane who has cast Dianne Wiest and Ciaran Hinds in THIS OLD LOVE OF MINE. They play Harry and Margo Bannon whose happy retirement in a quiet country town is upended when Harry discovers a letter revealing that Margo had an affair early in their marriage. Without discussion, he files for divorce and summons their three grown children home, igniting old resentments, fresh turmoil and local gossip. As a DNA test threatens to shatter everything they thought they knew, the Bannons are forced to confront what truly makes a family: blood, loyalty, or a lifetime of messy, enduring love.

 

EMILY BLUNT JOINED BY TOM CULLEN, CIARAN HINDS, ANDREW SCOTT IN WALK THE BLUE FIELDS MOVIE

    WALK THE BLUE FIELDS   

EMILY BLUNT IN A LOVE TRIANGLE

I told you back in September that Emily Blunt will lead WALK THE BLUE FIELDS romance movie from director John Crowley and now we now that she will be joined by Tom Cullen, Ciaran Hinds and Andrew Scott in the cast. In the film to be shot in Ireland, Blunt will play a woman who on her wedding day is confronted with a heart-wrenching decision as a love triangle from her past threatens to be revealed.

2026 PERIOD SET NETFLIX TV SERIES AND FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA: MY BRILLIANT CAREER, EAST OF EDEN, THE MOSQUITO BOWL

 NETFLIX AUSTRALIAN SERIES 

EAST OF EDEN TV ADAPTATION 

A small screen adaptation of a classic coming to Netflix in 2026 will be a contemporary reimagining of John Steinbeck’s classic novel shot exploring the mult igenerational saga of the Trask family with Florence Poo, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds leading the cast. It is set in California’s Salinas Valley over a period that stretches from the Civil War to end of World War I.

 

 1901 SET MY BRILLIANT CAREER

A TV adaptation of Miles Franklin’s novel follows Sybylla (Phillipa Northeast), a shockingly modern young woman in 1901. Australia with one searing ambition: to be a writer. With an irrepressible taste for fun, the choice between adventure and a safe marriage is easy, until she falls in love. Should Sybylla marry, or should she throw herself to the winds of fate and risk a creative life? Anna Chancellor also stars.

 

WW2 THE MOSQUITO BOWL

Will be a Second World War drama based on the true story of four college football stars who enlist in the Marines following the attack on Pearl Harbor. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they participate in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history — a game that, for many, will be their last. The cast led by Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård is under the helm of director Peter Berg.

CIARAN HINDS AND LESLEY MANVILLE ARE FACED WITH TROUBLED MEMORIES IN MIDWINTER BREAK DRAMA MOVIE TRAILER

  MIDWINTER BREAK TRAILER 

WITH CIARAN HINDS AND LESLEY MANVILLE

The film arrives February 20th to cinemas

Focus Features has released a trailer for their new drama movie MIDWINTER BREAK starring two thespians Ciaran Hinds and Lesley Manville and hitting threatres February 20th next year.  Directed by Polly Findlay the new drama movie is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple takes a life changing trip to Amsterdam. Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds star Stella and Gerry, a retired couple who's winter trip to Amsterdam stirs up troubled memories from their past. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

PERIOD SET FILM CRY TO HEAVEN TO STAR AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, NICHOLAS HOULT, CIARAN HINDS, GEORGE MACKAY, MARK STRONG, PAUL BETTANY, COLIN FIRTH, THANDIE NEWTON AND ADELE

    CRY TO HEAVEN   

TOM FORD FINDS INCREDIBLY STELLAR CAST

Ready to start shooting next January, Tom Ford's new movie project CRY TO HEAVEN has gathered an almost insanely stellar cast which even includes a movie debut from Adele! Based on Ann Rice's novel the costume movie is set against a backdrop of opera in 18th century Italy and follows a Venetian noble and a castrated Calabrian singer as they try to find success in that world. Aaron Taylor Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, Owen Cooper, star next to Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Thandie Newton, Daryl McCormack and Colin Firth who already worked with the fashion designer director in A Single Man.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PRIME VIDEO NEW HISTORICAL WW2 ASIA SET SERIES NARROW ROAD TO DEEP NORTH WITH JACOB ELORDI, SIMON BAKER, CIARAN HINDS

 NARROW ROAD TO DEEP NORTH 

PRIME VIDEO TV SERIES WITH JACOB ELORDI

New series will air during Easter holidays

Prime Video Australia has unveiled new posters for their new five part historical series THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH based on Richard Flanagan's novel which will stream from April 18th. Set against the shadows of World War II, it tells the epic story of Lieutenant Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi, with Ciaran Hinds as the older version), and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Olivia DeJonge younger version, Heather Mitchell older) shaped his life. In UK it will air on BBC One, in German speaking countries on Sky, with HBO Max airing it in Central and South Europe.

It will air in five hourlong episodes

Movistar + will stream it in Spain and Universal + in South America, RTE in Ireland and Nova in Greece.

 

THE STORY OF THE SERIES IS TOLD

over multiple time periods, as we journey from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man, and later in life, as a respected surgeon and Australian war hero. Simon Baker will also star alongside Essie Davis, William Lodder, Eduard Geyl, Thomas Weatherall, Christian Byers and Sam Parsonson. This love story that will take audiences through the darkest of times, an intimate character study illustrating the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and an investigation into a marriage and an unforgettable love affair. Check out the trailer below for the series that premiered at Berlin Festival and tell us what you think.

 

JACOB ELORDI, CIARAN HINDS, SIMON BAKER TO LEAD THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH WW2 SET HISTORICAL MINI SERIES SET IN THAILAND AND BURMA

 NARROW ROAD TO DEEP NORTH 

JACOB ELORDI AND CIARAN HINDS TO LEAD NEW HISTORICAL SERIES

Prime Video Australia has unveiled cast for their new five part historical series THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH based on Richard Flanagan's novel. Set against the shadows of World War II, it tells the epic story of Lieutenant Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi, with Ciaran Hinds as the older version), and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Olivia DeJonge younger version, Heather Mitchell older) shaped his life. The story is told over multiple time periods, as we journey from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man, and later in life, as a respected surgeon and Australian war hero. Simon Baker will also star.

BBC TO AIR IRISH CRIME SERIES KIN WITH CHARLIE COX, CIARAN HINDS, AIDAN GILLEN, EMMETT J. SCANLAN, MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY!

 BBC TO AIR KIN DRAMA 

STARSTUDDED IRISH MINI SERIES

BBC One will air eight part Irish mini series titled KIN which boasts quite a stellar cast: Clare Dunne, Charlie Cox, Aidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds, Sam

Kin streamed on Viaplay and AMC Plus in USA

Keeley, Emmett J. Scanlan and Maria Doyle Kennedy. A boy is killed and his family embarks on a gangland war with an international cartel: a war that is impossible to win. The Kinsellas are a local crime family, while the Cunningham cartel is a vast global organisation. It is David and Goliath. Out-numbered, out-financed and out-gunned, the Kinsellas find themselves holed up in their Dublin stronghold while their businesses fail, and family members and associates are picked off. But they have something the cartel does not: the unbreakable bonds of blood and family. They are kin. In USA the series airs on AMC Plus. On BBC One it starts November 21st!

IT'S A SPY GAME BETWEEN CHARLIE COX AND OLGA KURYLENKO IN NEW NETFLIX SPY THRILLER MINI SERIES TREASON WITH CIARAN HINDS

   TREASON TV SERIES  

STARRING CHARLIE COX

I'm not really sure how festive a spy series is but that is exactly what you are getting under your Christmas tree this year from Netflix: new spy thriller mini

The series arrives a day after Christmas

series TREASON will be available for streaming from December 26th! With Charlie Cox leading the series as MI6 agent character Adam Lawrence, the cast also includes our dear Olga Kurylenko, Ciaran Hinds, Adam James, Oona Chaplin and Joe Macaulay and Brian Law!

 

  THE STORY OF TREASON

centers around Adam Lawrence, trained and groomed by MI6, whose career seems set. But when the past catches up with him in the form of Kara, a Russian spy with whom he shares a complicated past, he is forced to question everything and everyone in his life. A triangular relationship forms between Kara, Adam, and his wife, Maddy; three people who are trying to expose each other’s secrets, navigate political and diplomatic relationships, whilst hanging onto their personal lives, and those they love most. Check out the trailer below.

 

SEE EMILY BLUNT, RAFE SPALL, CIARAN HINDS, TOM HUGHES IN AMAZON PRIME AND BBC WILD WEST MINI TV SERIES THE ENGLISH TRAILER

 THE ENGLISH EPIC SERIES 

AMAZON PRIME ISSUES TRAILER

After the BBC one, last night we got an Amazon Prime trailer too for Emily Blunt's new wild west series THE ENGLISH which will stream from November 11th!

It starts November 10th in UK, 11th on Amazon

Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones also star.

  An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout, Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood. Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny, but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past. They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their limits, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome, it draws them closer to their ultimate destination - the

Our dear Rafe Spall looks positively dandy in the new series

new town of Hoxem, Wyoming. It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall (Stephen Rea) and young widow Martha Myers (Valerie Pachner) into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face-to-face with the future they must live!

EMILY WATSON TO RULE BENE GESSERIT IN DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD HBO MAX SF TV SERIES! SEE FLORENCE PUGH, CIARAN HINDS, TOM BURKE IN THE WONDER PERIOD SET DRAMA! PARAMOUNT ORDERS FRASIER RETURN WITH KELSEY GRAMMER

  EMILY WATSON TO LEAD  

DUNE: SISTERHOOD TV SERIES

Just when we thought this project was dead as dodo, Variety reports that Emily Watson has been cast in DUNE: SISTERHOOD series at HBO Max, which, based on Frank Herbert novels, will follow the Bene Gesserit, a mysterious order of women. Watson will play Valya Harkonnen, while

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson are the first to be cast

Shirley Henderson will be Tula Harkonnen, two sisters who have risen to power in the Sisterhood, a secret organization of women who will go on to become the Bene Gesserit. Sadly, Denis Villeneuve, who atrociously helmed the lifeless and dull borefest of the recent Dune movie is executive producing this one too. 

 

  RETURN OF FRASIER  

OFFICIAL AT PARAMOUNT PLUS

Paramount Plus has officially ordered a ten episode return of classic multicam sitcom FRASIER with Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist and radio host Frasier Crane. After starting in Boston within Cheers and moving to Seattle in Frasier, he will now move to a new city and will be surrounded by new characters, with original Frasier cast members not appearing as series regulars but making guest appearances. The show won 37 Emmys in 11 seasons.

  THE WONDER TRAILER  

SENDS FLORENCE PUGH TO EIRE

The film is out November 16th

Speaking of things lifeless and overrated, check out Florence Pugh in the first trailer for THE WONDER period set thriller movie which will stream on Netflix November 6th. Ciaran Hinds, Tom Burke, Toby Jones also star in the film set in 1862 just after the Great Famine, with Pugh playing English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright, who is called to a devout community in the Irish Midlands to examine 11-year-old Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), who claims to have not eaten for four months, surviving on “manna from heaven.” Lib is determined to find out what’s really going on as Anna’s health deteriorates. Check out the trailer below:

SEE EMILY BLUNT IN THE ENGLISH WILD WEST SERIES WITH RAFE SPALL, TOM HUGHES, STEPHEN REA, TOBY JONES, CIARAN HINDS! JOSH O'CONNOR, JACK DAVENPORT TO STAR IN SKY'S BONUS TRACK HEARTWARMING MUSICAL MOVIE

  THE ENGLISH SERIES 

FIRST EMILY BLUNT PHOTOS

Well, it has been a very, very long wait, but BBC has finally published first images from their new Western series THE ENGLISH with Emily Blunt in the lead role. Given that it will air in November on BBC Two not One, might it mean it is not good when they moved it to their less watched channel especially given the fact that we waited for years for it to arrive after being announced first? Well let us hope not. Emily Blunt stars in this six episode series as Lady Cornelia Locke and Chaske Spencer as Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp in high-octane western which will also stream on Prime Video in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The series’ acclaimed ensemble cast includes Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones and Ciarán Hinds!

 

   THE ENGLISH TAKES
 the core themes of identity and revenge to tell a uniquely compelling parable on race, love and power. An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt) and Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer) come together in 1890 mid-America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past. They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their cores, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome it draws them closer to their ultimate destination, the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming. It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall (Stephen Rea) and young widow Martha Myers (Valerie Pachner) into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face to face with the future they must live.

 

   BONUS TRACK MOVIE  

PUTS JOSH O'CONNOR AND JACK DAVENPORT IN THE CAST

According to Screen Daily, Josh O'Connor has penned new movie BONUS TRACK in which he will also star next to Jack Davenport, Alison Sudol, Susan Wokoma, Ray Pathaki and young Joe Anders and Samuel Small in the lead roles. Set in 2006, the Sky film follows a 16-year-old who believes he is a future star musician, even when no-one else in his small town does. The arrival of the son of a famous musical duo who helps him rehearse for a talent show leads both boys to learn from each other and grow closer.

BELFAST DRAMA ON KENNETH BRANAGH'S CHILDHOOD TRAILER WITH JUDI DENCH, CIARAN HINDS, JAMIE DORNAN, COLIN MORGAN! DANIEL DONSKOY, MURATHAN MUSLU LEAD CAST ADDITIONS IN BARBARIANS EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 2!

 BARBARIANS SEASON TWO 

STUNNING CASTING ADDITIONS

Yesterday I showed you first photo from the second season of Netflix' hit epic series BARBARIANS which has just started shooting in Poland, but I wanted to take a minute and show you just how crazy stunning freshly appointed additions to the cast are: our sweet boo  Daniel Donskoy, who

Murathan, Donskoy, Fella and Heyer are new cast members!

stole our heart as Grand Duke of Russia in Victoria and ran away with it, will play Flavus, the brother of Arminius, next to insanely magnetic Murathan Muslu, beautiful Katharina Heyer, and charismatic Alessandro Fella!

 

  BELFAST MOVIE TRAILER  

KENNETH BRANAGH'S CHILDHOOD

And here is a rather upbeat trailer for period set drama BELFAST from Kenneth Branagh which follows his own childhood and is out in cinemas

 Belfast opens in cinemas this November

November 12th. Filled with music, the film revisits Kenneth's memories of being 9 years old and growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, right in the middle of troubles breaking out between the Protestants and the Catholics that so ravaged the country. Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds play his grandparents, with Jamie Dornan as his father who is trying to make a living for his family but forced to do that by commuting to England where the opportunities and pay are more available. Little newcomer Jude Hill takes the lead role of a colorful young kid who particularly loves American Westerns and often visits the local movie house. Colin Morgan also stars.

EMILY BLUNT'S WESTERN SERIES THE ENGLISH ADS RAFE SPALL, TOM HUGHES, TOBY JONES, STEPHEN REA,CIARAN HINDS! CHARLES DANCE, COLM MEANEY AND OTHERS JOINS SAMANTHA MORTON IN SERPENT QUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDICI SERIES

 EMILY BLUNT'S THE ENGLISH

WESTERN TV SERIES ADS CAST

Emily Blunt was announced by the BBC recently as the lead of their new six part Western series THE ENGLISH but now they've revealed

Emily Blunt will lead The English

additional cast. The series, which will also air on Amazon Prime Video in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is set in the mythic mid American landscape in the year of 1890, and follows Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), an English woman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), an ex cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive. The stellar cast of this thrilling, romantic, epic horse opera, will

Ciaran Hinds, Tom Hughes and Rafe Spall will also star

also include Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, Malcolm Storry, Steve Wall, Nichola McAuliffe, Sule Rimi and Cristian Solimeno.

SERPENT QUEEN EPIC SERIES

CASTS CATHERINE DE MEDICI'S COURTIERS AND RIVALS

Over at Starz, after casting Samantha Morton as infamous Catherine de Medici in THE SERPENT QUEEN eight episode saga, they have now made

Samantha Morton will be Catherine de Medici

other cast additions. Considered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th century French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid and she’s unable to conceive. Yet, only with her intelligence and determination, she manages to keep her marriage alive and masters the bloodsport that is the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years. Amrita Acharia will be a member of Catherine's retinue, Enzo Cilenti will play Ruggieri, the magician

Enzo Cilenti and Barry Atsma will also star in the series

and soothsayer! Barry Atsma will be famous Montmorency, who cares about the greater good of the society he serves as its foremost military leader. Nicholas Burns portrays Antoine de Bourbon, the rival of Catherine's Valois

Colm Meaney will be the king, Charles Dance the Pope

family. Danny Kirrane is Louis de Bourbon, his stronger willed and more intelligent brother. Meanwhile, Charles Dance recurs as Pope Clement; Ludivine Sagnier as Diane de Poiters, the king's mistress; Liv Hill as Young Catherine with Colm Meaney as King Francis.

JUDI DENCH, CIARAN HINDS, JAMIE DORNAN CAST IN KENNETH BRANAGH'S DRAMA BELFAST BASED ON HIS CHILDHOOD! DAISY RIDLEY, KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS IN WW2 FILM WOMEN IN THE CASTLE

     'BELFAST' MOVIE 

SETS JUDI DENCH AS KENNETH BRANAGH'S GRANDMOTHER

According to Belfast Telegraph Kenneth  Branagh is secretly shooting a new movie BELFAST based on his own childhood with Judi Dench playing his grandmother, Ciaran Hinds his grandad, Jamie Dornan playing his father and Caitriona Balfe his mother. The semi

Kenneth Branagh said that his parents were related with the half of Belfast and that he went to school with the other half

autobiographical film inspired by his early childhood growing up in Northern Ireland surrounded by a large extended family, will see Jude Hill playing him as a young boy in the late 1960s.  He visited his grandparents twice a week, but when he was nine, his dad, a joiner, and mum, who worked in a chip shop, moved to Reading, Berkshire, to escape the tumult in Northern Ireland.

     'WOMEN IN THE CASTLE' 

SENDS DAISY RIDLEY AND KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS TO WW2

There is another period set movie that has just announced its ensemble cast: Daisy Ridley, Kristin Scott Thomas and Nina Hoss, will star in Jane Anderson's big screen adaptation of Jessica Shattuck's book WOMEN IN THE CASTLE about three widows of conspirators involved in

The movie will be an adaptation of a bestselling novel

an assassination attempt on Hitler. The story of the three German women, set during and after World War II, explores how each deals with the fallout of her personal life and the devastation around her differently. The characters are fictional. Anderson previously directed Glenn Close in The Wife.

1ST PHOTOS FROM I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS THRILLER WITH TONI COLLETTE, DAVID THEWLIS, JESSIE BUCKLEY AND CIARAN HINDS' MOSTLY SILENT COMEDY THE MAN IN THE HAT

  I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

TONI COLLETTE & DAVID THEWLIS

First photo for you today from new drama movie with the elements of thriller I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS in which Jessie Buckley plays a young woman who, full of misgivings, travels with her new boyfriend

The film hits Netflix September 4th directed by Charlie Kaufman

(Jesse Plemons) to his parents' (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Based on Iain Reid's acclaimed novel.

  THE MAN IN THE HAT

FIRST CIARAN HINDS POSTER

There is also the first poster and a photo from a British comedy movie THE MAN IN THE HAT directed and written by John Paul Davidson

The Man in the Hat has no release date yet

and Stephen Warbeck, in which The Man in the Hat (Ciarán Hinds in the lead role of the title character) journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men. Though largely silent, the film is interrupted by regular bursts of music, with new songs from Stephen

Ciaran Hinds takes the lead role in The Man in The Hat

Warbeck, Schubert Lieder sung by the incomparable Mark Padmore, Canteloube aria from the Cevennes, and Try a Little Tenderness, amongst others. As the Fiat 500 wends its way across the mountains, gorges and bridges of France, the 2CV hard behind him, the Thin Man (Ciaran Hinds) comes face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country on an old continent.

ENCHANTED SPOTLIGHT ON DISNEY'S FROZEN 2 MAGICAL ANIMATED ADVENTURE WITH GORGEOUS NEW CHARACTER POSTERS!

     DISNEY'S 'FROZEN 2'

ARRIVES TO CINEMAS NEXT WEEK

It does not really happen often that a Disney animated classic gets a sequel, none of their iconic animated films got a second part, but since Frozen

Frozen II arrives November 22nd!

took almost $1,3 billion in cinemas and became the highest grossing animated movie ever and is in top 20 highest grossing films of all times, they had to milk it a bit more and thus FROZEN 2 is ready to conquer theatres next week from November 22nd. First predictions say that the film will be a gargantuan hit with possible $125 million earnings in the opening weekend. It already broke all records with the presale of the tickets. The Thanksgiving weekend after that will probably help it break records in its second week in cinemas as well especially with the sequel having an Autumny feel rather than the wintery one of the first movie.

The Story Of Frozen 2
is set three years after the events of the first film. Queen Elsa starts to hear a strange sound from the north calling her. Together with her sister Anna,

The sequel will also include original songs like the first one

Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, they embark on a new journey beyond their homeland of Arendelle in order to discover the origin of Elsa's magical powers and save their kingdom

Who Is In The Magical Kingdom?

The voice cast is again led by Idina Menzel as Elsa, the Queen of Arendelle, and Anna's sister, who has the power to manipulate and create ice. Kristen Bell is Anna, a Princess of Arendelle and Elsa's younger sister while

Idina Menzel will again lend her voice to Snow Queen Elza

Jonathan Groff is Kristoff, an iceman who is Anna's boyfriend and has a pet reindeer named Sven! Josh Gad returns as Olaf, a lovable snowman created by Elsa's magic. Sterling K. Brown is Lieutenant Destin Mattias, the leader of a

Jonathan Groff again lends his voice to brave Kristoff

group of soldiers who were trapped in the enchanted forest for years. Evan Rachel Wood is Queen Iduna, the mother of Elsa and Anna, while Alfred Molina is King Agnarr, the father of Elsa and Anna. Martha Plimpton is

Kristen Bell returns as Elza's sister Princess Anna of Arendelle

Yelana, the leader of the Northuldra tribe. Jason Ritter is Ryder, a member of the Northuldra, Honeymaren's brother who shares Kristoff's love for

Their pets reindeer Sven and snowman Olaf will be in the story again

reindeer. Rachel Matthews is Honeymaren, a member of the Northuldra,  who wants to bring peace to the enchanted forest. Jeremy Sisto is King Runeard while Ciarán Hinds is Grand Pabbie, the leader of the Trolls.