HUGH LAURIE, JOE ALWYN, JAMES MCARDLE, GORAN BOGDAN JOIN MATTHEW MACFADYEN, CHARLIE HUNNAM, DANIEL BRUHL, DAN STEVENS IN BBC'S ESPIONAGE THRILLER SERIES LEGACY OF SPIES

    LEGACY OF SPIES   

BBC TV SERIES UNVEILS NEW CAST

After casting Matthew MacFadyen as the lead in their LEGACY OF SPIES TV series adaptation of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold book, in which he stars as the iconic George Smiley, alongside Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, the maverick field operative, Daniel Brühl as Josef Fiedler, a methodical Stasi intelligence strategist, Devrim Lingnau as Doris Quinz, a young and dynamic East German woman whodelivers vital intelligence from the heart of the East German operatio, and Dan Stevens as Bill Haydon, a brilliant and enigmatic Circus insider, BBC has also added Hugh Laurie, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, Adam Hugill and Goran Bogdan to the eight part series.

MATTHEW MACFADYEN, CHARLIE HUNNAM, DANIEL BRUHL, DAN STEVENS TO LEAD BBC'S ESPIONAGE THRILLER SERIES LEGACY OF SPIES

    LEGACY OF SPIES   

BBC TV SERIES UNVEILS FULL CAST

After casting Matthew MacFadyen as the lead, BBC keeps adding names to their LEGACY OF SPIES TV series adaptation of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold book. MacFadyen stars as the iconic George Smiley, alongside Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, the maverick field operative, Daniel Brühl as Josef Fiedler, a methodical Stasi intelligence strategist, and Devrim Lingnau as Doris Quinz, a young and dynamic East German woman who delivers vital intelligence from the heart of the East German operation. Dan Stevens joins them as Bill Haydon, a brilliant and enigmatic Circus insider in the eight part espionage thriller.

EDEN PERIOD SET THRILLER TRAILER WITH JUDE LAW, DANIEL BRUHL, ANA DE ARMAS, RICHARD ROXBURGH, VANESSA KIRBY

   EDEN MOVIE TRAILER  

WITH JUDE LAW AND DANIEL BRUHL

First trailer is out for true story remote island period set crime thriller EDEN from Ron Howard which, out April 3rd in cinemas, has Jude Law, Daniel Bruhl, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby and Richard Roxburgh in the cast. Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his wife Dora

Eden will arrive to cinemas this April

Strauch flee their native Germany in 1929, repudiating the bourgeois values they believe are corroding mankind’s true nature. On the isle of Floreana at the Galápagos Islands, Friedrich can focus on writing his manifesto, while Dora resolves to cure her multiple sclerosis through meditation. Their hard-won solitude, however, is short lived. They are joined by Margret and Heinz Wittmer, who prove to be earnest, capable settlers. Next comes Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn, a self-described Baroness and the "embodiment of perfection," who arrives with two devoted lovers, an Ecuadorian servant, a wardrobe full of evening gowns, and plans to erect a luxury hotel. Between inclement weather, unruly wildlife, and a total lack of amenities, all three groups find life on Floreana arduous. But nothing will test their mettle more than the challenge of coexisting with desperate neighbours capable of theft, deception, and worse. 

JOEL BASMAN, DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD CAST FOR NEW FRANZ KAFKA PERIOD SET MINI SERIES FOR ARD AND ORF

 NEW FRANZ KAFKA SERIES 

SETS LEAD CAST AT ARD AND ORF

German national broadcaster ARD and the Austrian one ORF are teaming up on new Franz Kafka mini TV series titled simply KAFKA. The new six parter should arrive next year when June 2024 marks the hundred years since his death. Based on the three part Kafka biography by Reiner

First cover art with Joel Basman as Franz Kafka

Stach, the series follows Kafka’s (Joel Basman) difficult relationship with his father (Nicholas Ofczarek) and his love affairs with Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská (Liv Lisa Fries) and Dora Diamant, but also his close friendship with Max Brod (Daniel Bruhl).

DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD DISNEY + KAISER KARL MINI SERIES ON KARL LAGERFELD!

  DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD  

KARL LAGERFELD TV SERIES

Beside Dior and Balenciaga, we now have another famous dead designer getting a series. Disney + has cast Daniel Bruhl as the lead in their KAISER KARL series about infamous designer Karl Lagerfeld which is already shooting. According to Variety,  the six-part series will chronicle his rise  through the world of 1970s Parisian high fashion. In 1972, a 38-year-old Karl Lagerfeld aspired to become the most famous French fashion designer, at a time when Yves Saint Laurent (Arnaud Valois) reigned supreme. Lagerfeld

Theodore Pellerin, Daniel Bruhl and Arnaud Valois

went on to become the head designer and creative director of Chanel, Fendi and his own label. The series will also explore the rivalry between Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent’s partner Pierre Berge (Alex Lutz), as well as his love story with Jacques de Bascher (Théodore Pellerin). Along with depicting the clan rivalries and ego battles of the high fashion world, the series will also portray the epic partying and decadence, tragic love affairs and friendships which

Sunnyi Melles, Jeanne Damas and Paul Spera will also star

marked Lagerfeld’s life. Agnès Jaoui will play Gaby Aghion, the founder of the Chloé brand who helped elevate Lagerfeld. With more than 2,200 extras, over 40 different sets and some 3,000 costumes, 160 of which will be created from scratch, the series will highlight some of the biggest stars of the era, including Marlene Dietrich (Sunnyi Melles); Paloma Picasso (Jeanne Damas); Loulou de la Falaise (Claire Laffut); and Andy Warhol (Paul Spera).

SEE TRAILER FOR NETFLIX MOVIE ADAPTATION OF REMARQUE'S ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT! ANTHONY HOPKINS, ANNE HATHAWAY IN ARMAGEDDON TIME PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILER

 NETFLIX MOVIE TRAILER  

ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT

Two trailers for you today, starting with one for the film that will be German candidate for the Oscars next year: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, based

The film will stream on Netflix this October

on the classic book by Eric Maria Remarque, will stream on Netflix as their German original October 28th with Daniel Bruhl and Sebastian Hulk in the cast.

The story follows teenagers Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, who voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of patriotic fervour that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal realities of life on the front. Paul's preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict soon crumble. However, amid the countdown to Armistice, Paul must carry on fighting until the end, with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass' desire to end the war on a German offensive.

 

 ARMAGEDDON TIME TRAILER 

WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS

The film opens wide in USA this November

And he is just one of the famous names in the cast that also includes Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. Screened first this year over at Cannes, it is a deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family, complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. The film is out November 11th. The film, directed by James Gray, is a semi-biographical story inspired by Gray’s upbringing in Queens, New York during the 1980s! Hathaway and Strong play Irving and Esther Graff — versions of Gray’s parents — with Hopkins as a version of his grandfather, named Aaron Graff. The film will also compete at New York Film Festival after it visited Telluride as well.

SUPER STELLAR THE KING'S MAN EPIC TRAILER WITH HARRIS DICKINSON, RALPH FIENNES, GEMMA ARTERTON, AARON TAYLOR JONSON, MATTHEW GOODE, TOM HOLLANDER, CHARLES DANCE, STANLEY TUCCI, RHYS IFANS, DANIEL BRUHL

   'THE KING'S MAN' TRAILER

 A WILDLY STELLAR EPIC PREQUEL

It is one of those movies that has been postponed like gazillion of times, but its current release date (if corona allows it) is scheduled for September

The King's Man is coming this September

and Disney has now released a new trailer for THE KING'S MAN, a wildly stellar epic starring Harris Dickinson, Ralph Fiennes (as Duke of Oxford), Gemma Arterton, Stanley Tucci,  Aaron Taylor Johnson, Rhys Ifans (as Rasputin), Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander (who is playing three emperors - George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II), Daniel Brühl (As Felix Yusupov), Neil Jackson, Djimon Hounsou, Serbian actress Branka Katic (as Tsarina Alix) and Charles Dance. The prequel to Kingsman franchise, which dealt with history's very first independent intelligence agency, goes back to the beginning of the 20th century (and also deeper in the past) and follows a

The film was mostly shot in United Kingdom and in Italy

collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds who gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, and one man must race against time to stop them. The third sequel of the Kingsman franchise is also in works. 

ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS, DANIEL BRUHL, DAKOTA FANNING! CALL YOUR MOTHER THE 2ND SITCOM TO GET SERIES ORDER THIS SEASON!

     'CALL YOUR MOTHER' SITCOM

Kyra Sedgwick will lead the sitcom as the mom

GETS SERIES ORDER AT ABC

Even though it hasn't shot a pilot before the corona lockdown, just based on the scripts, ABC's multicam sitcom CALL YOUR MOTHER  (aka My Village) has become the second sitcom to be ordered for next season after B Positive. It follows an empty-nester mom (Kyra Sedgwick) who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides

Joey Bragg and Patrick Brammall will also star in Call Your Mother

her place is with her family and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought. Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg, Patrick Brammall, Emma Caymares and Austin Crute will also star.

     'ANGEL OF DARKNESS'

ALIENIST SEASON 2 TRAILER!

In a bit darker genre, a  trailer has been released for the second season of The Alienist period crime drama this time titled ANGEL OF DARKNESS which hits TNT this summer Sunday, July 26th set at the turn of the century!

     The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness
Based on the Angel of Darkness novel by Caleb Carr, this season follows Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) who has now opened up her own private

The new season will start on TNT July 26th!

detective agency. Returning are Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), the titular “alienist” who brilliantly and eccentrically psychologically profiles his

Luke Evans returns as John Moore

criminals, and John Moore (Luke Evans), who now works as a New York Times reporter. The dynamic trio are on the case of a missing baby, the

Daniel Bruhl leads the series as the Alienist himself

daughter of the Spanish Consular. Their investigation leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, heading towards a dangerous and elusive

Dakota Fanning takes the female lead in the second season as well

killer. As in The Alienist, the series shines a light on the provocative issues of the era – the corruption of institutions, yellow press sensationalism, themes that still resonate today.

DANIEL BRUHL TO STAR IN THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF REMARQUE'S ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT WW1 NOVEL! SAM MENDES TO PRODUCE BEAUTIFUL RUINS ADAPTATION

ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT

TO STAR DANIEL BRUHL

The movie will have $20 million budget

Two new adaptations for you today, starting with Erich Maria Remarque's legendary classic ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT which will be turned into a German language film directed by Edward Berger with Daniel Bruhl in the ensemble cast.

One of the most famous German novels of all time follows three youngsters who voluntarily enlist in the German army during WW1. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul destroying horror of war. Their preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict crumble. On the countdown to Armistice, the novel’s protagonist must carry on fighting until the end, with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass’s desire to end the war on a German offensive.

SAM MENDES TO ADAPT

THE BEAUTIFUL RUINS NOVEL

Sam Mendes will only produce the adaptation

Meanwhile, Sam Mendes who is currently scoring all kinds of awards with his own WW1 movie 1917 has chosen Jess Walter's book BEAUTIFUL RUINS as his next production,  but he will not direct it himself. As 'Deadline' reports, the book is set in an Italian seaside village off the Ligurian Sea in 1962. There a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.

STUNNING THE KING'S MAN TRAILER MOVES THROUGH HISTORY WITH RALPH FIENNES, HARRIS DICKINSON, GEMMA ARTERTON, LIAM NEESON, MATTHEW GOODE, CHARLES DANCE, DANIEL BRUHL, AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, TOM HOLLANDER! NEW FROZEN II TEASER WITH A NEW SONG!

 'THE KING'S MAN' TRAILER

 IS FILLED WITH STARS

The beginning of the week brings us a rather dynamic and exciting teaser for THE KING'S MAN a period set prequel to Kingsman movie series about a mysterious British intelligence agency. This one explores its origins with the

The King's Man is out February 14th next year

help of a rather stellar cast: gorgeous Harris Dickinson next to Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Gemma Arterton (as Mata Hari), Liam Neeson, Daniel Bruhl, Rhys Ifans (as Rasputin), Charles Dance, Matthew Goode (as Tristan), Tom Hollander (who plays three rulers George V and his cousins Wilhelm II of Germany, Nicholas II of Russia) ,Djimon Hounsou, Stanley Tucci (as Merlin), Alison Steadman (as Guinevere), Neil Jackson, Robert Aramayo (as Yugoslav hero Gavrilo Princip), and Joel Basman (as Gawain). Out next February, it will be set in World War I era: as a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them!

Frozen II arrives November 22nd!

'FROZEN II' TEASER

BRINGS US A NEW SONG!

Disney has, meanwhile, revealed yet another teaser for FROZEN II, this time with a new song Into the Unknown sung by Idina Menzel. Well, it is no Let it Go, I can tell you that, screeching and sung as her life depends on it, it really is annoying to the ear. You can also check out the new poster for the film which is out this November! Check out the exciting new teaser below and tell us what you think:

STARSTUDDED THE KING'S MAN TRAILER IS HERE WITH RALPH FIENNES, HARRIS DICKINSON, LIAM NEESON, AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, GEMMA ARTERTON, CHARLES DANCE, MATTHEW GOODE, TOM HOLLANDER

 'THE KING'S MAN' TEASER

 WILL BLIND YOU WITH STARS

The King's Man is out February 2020

That is, if you manage to recognise all of them in it! The beginning of the week brings us a rather dynamic and exciting teaser for THE KING'S MAN a period set prequel to Kingsman movie series about a mysterious British intelligence agency. This one explores its origins with the help of a rather stellar cast: gorgeous Harris Dickinson next to Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Gemma Arterton (as Mata Hari), Liam Neeson, Daniel Bruhl, Rhys Ifans (as Rasputin), Charles Dance, Matthew Goode (as Tristan), Tom Hollander (who plays three rulers George V and

Ralph Fiennes is T. E. Lawrence in Matthew Vaughn directed prequel

his cousins Wilhelm II of Germany, Nicholas II of Russia) ,Djimon Hounsou, Stanley Tucci (as Merlin), Alison Steadman (as Guinevere), Neil Jackson, Robert Aramayo (as Yugoslav hero Gavrilo Princip), and Joel Basman (as Gawain).

THE STORY OF THE KING'S MAN
Out next February, it will be set in World War I era: as a collection of

Gorgeous young actor Harris Dickinson takes the role of his protege!

history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them!

AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, MATTHEW GOODE, TOM HOLLANDER, GEMMA ARTERTON, CHARLES DANCE, RALPH FIENNES TO LEAD KINGSMAN: GREAT GAME PERIOD SET PREQUEL AS MEMBERS OF 19TH CENTURY SECRET SPY ORGANIZATION

KINGSMAN: THE GREAT GAME

PERIOD SET PREQUEL SETS AN EXQUISITELY STELLAR CAST

Young Harris Dickinson will take the lead role

While Kingsman was a contemporary action spectacle, in which Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Jack Davenport, Michael Kaine, Mark Hamill, played members of a spy organization, one of its sequels will actually be a prequel! KINGSMAN: THE GREAT GAME, set to be out this November, will be a period set spin-off of the Kingsman movie series which will look at the spy organization at the turn of the 20th century. Matthew Vaughn will again produce and direct the movie and he is also planning other two sequels which will not be period set.

Matthew Goode has also joined the stellar cast of the prequel

Focusing on the organization as a tailor shop it will star Aaron Taylor Johnson and Matthew Goode in unspecified roles, Gemma Arterton as a nanny, with Tom Hollander playing three roles (he will be King George V,

British star Gemma Arteron will take one of the female leads!

the Kaiser, and a Russian tsar, who are all part of Queen Victoria's family tree). They will be joined by Rhys Ifans, Harris Dickinson (his character is to be similar to Taron Egerton's in the original movie), Daniel Bruhl,

Aaron Taylor Johnson is the latest addition to the stellar cast

Charles Dance, Stanley Tucci, Ralph Fiennes, and Djimon Hounsou! The story and the characters of the franchise are based on Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar’s comic book series, The Secret Service!

'ALIENIST' STARS LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL TO STAR IN THEIR SHOW'S CREATORS 'MY BEST FRIEND' COMEDY MOVIE!

   'MY BEST FRIEND' 

MOVIE TO UNITE LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL AGAIN

Which one will be Luke, the sweet or the arrogant one?

Imagine that! The whole team of TNT's Emmy nominated period set series THE ALIENIST (which is getting a sequel) will join together again but this time on a movie! As 'Deadline' reports, Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl will star in the mini series' show runner and producer, Max Frye's and Rosalie Swedlin's new film! They will all gather again in MY BEST FRIEND, a dramedy movie English language adaptation of the 2006 French film Mon Meilleur Ami! The story in the original French movie revolved around two very different men – one arrogant and cold, the other sweet and talkative – whose lives are thrown together when one accepts a bet to find a best friend and the other agrees to teach him the secret to making friends.

LUKE'S OTHER GIGS 
Beside also starring in the Alienist sequel Angel of Darkness, you will also see Luke Evans in Luc Besson's movie ANNA next to Helen Mirren and Cillian Murphy and Russian star Alexander Petrov and also in Roland Emmerich's massive WW2 epic MIDWAY next to Patrick Wilson, Nick Jonas, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid and Aaron Eckhart!

TV FRIDAY: OH, NOES! THE ROYALS ARE CANCELLED BY E!, TRYING TO SET COURT SOMEWHERE ELSE! 'DURRELLS' TO END AFTER SEASON 4! SKY TO TURN H.G.WELLS' 'TIME MACHINE' INTO SERIES! 'ALIENIST' GETS 'ANGEL OF DARKNESS' 2ND SEASON WITH LUKE EVANS, DAKOTA FANNING

   'THE ROYALS' CANCELLED

MOVING THEIR COURT TO POP?

Sad news, Loyals! E! has decided to cancel their first ever scripted series THE ROYALS after four amazing, much loved and super fun seasons! The series that follows the lives of an imaginary royal family that rules England led

William Moseley and Elizabeth Hurley led the popular royal saga

by Elizabeth Hurley's Queen Helena, might still continue if we can believe the rumours that say the producers are trying to find a new channel for the show! They might move to Pop which is also owned by Lionsgate and could use a ratings boost with it.

   H.G. WELLS' 'THE TIME MACHINE'

The adaptation is in very early stages of production

TO BECOME SERIES AT SKY?

While we are anxiously awaiting to see what they will do with Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great mini series, British Sky is, according to 'Deadline', now also working on a small screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE to be written by Nick Payne. Published in 1895 the novel follows an English scientist living in Victorian England who recounts that time is simply a fourth dimension and demonstrates to his dinner guests how to travel through it.

   'ALIENIST' GETS

'THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS' SECOND SEASON AT TNT

While some series get cancelled, some get renewed as is the case with TNT's Alienist which will be getting a second season titled THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS also based on a Caleb Carr's novel. Luke Evans, Daniel

The cast will return to the second season led by Luke Evans

Bruhl and Dakota Fanning will return as a team that, one year after The Alienist at the turn of the century, investigates the kidnapping of a young girl in New York.

   'THE DURRELLS' 

TO END AFTER SEASON 4
Meanwhile, ITV's super popular series THE DURRELLS will end after next year's fourth season which starts shooting next month. Based on the real life

The series comes to its natural end next year with season four

story that follows Keeley Hawes as the mother who moves her kids to the island of Corfu it will end its story a year before WWW2 when they all left the island. 

1ST PHOTOS FROM 'RED JOAN' WITH JUDI DENCH AS KGB'S LONGEST SERVING BRITISH SPY! '7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE' TRUE EVENTS TRAILER WITH ROSAMUND PIKE, DANIEL BRUHL

  FIRST  'RED JOAN' PICS

WITH JUDI DENCH AS KGB'S LONGEST SERVING BRITISH SPY

First pictures have been released of Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson in RED JOAN! They both play English born Joan Stanley, a Soviet and communist party sympathizer, who becomes employed as a British

Judi Dench plays older Red Joan in the movie

government civil servant, and gets recruited by the KGB in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, which enables

Sophie Cookson plays younger Red Joan in the movie

them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century. Tom Hughes also stars in the movie which does not have a release date!

  '7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE' TRAILER

INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS

The movie is out this March

In the trailer department, check out the first trailer and a new poster for 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE, an action movie based on true events out this April in cinemas starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl and Nonso Anozie as Idi Amin.

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.

NEW 'THE ALIENIST' PERIOD SET TV SERIES WITH LUKE EVANS, DAKOTA FANNING TRAILER! CHER JOINS 'MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN' SEQUEL

  CHER JOINS MUSICAL SEQUEL

MAMMA MIA HERE WE GO AGAIN

The movie arrives next summer!

I know I did not like it at all, but I also know my lady readers loved it! You all know MAMMA MIA is getting a sequel titled HERE WE GO AGAIN, which is already shooting, and it has been revealed that Cher will be joining the cast in an unspecified role. The sequel to the film in which Amanda Seyfried's character invited three men (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard), not knowing which of them is her father, to her Greek island wedding without her mother (Meryl Streep) knowing, will return to the past to explain how her mother met them all in the first place. Lily James will play young Meryl, Jeremy Irvine will be young Pierce. The new movie will again feature Abba songs. Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia and Christine Baranski also star.

   'THE ALIENIST' TV SERIES

NEW TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS

TNT has, meanwhile, released a new trailer for their period set detective series THE ALIENIST which will start airing January 22nd! It is set in 1896, when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New

The novel adaptation starts airing next January on TNT

York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist, aka alienist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

Luke Evans is newspaper illustrator John Moore

(Daniel Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Dakota

Dakota Fanning is secretary Sara Howard

Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early

Daniel Bruhl is the Alienist from the title of the series

forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of Gotham’s first serial killers.

1ST 'GREATEST SHOWMAN' MOVIE MUSICAL PICS WITH HUGH JACKMAN, ZAC EFRON, MICHELLE WILLIAMS! 'ALIENIST' PERIOD SET SERIES TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS! 1ST 'STAR TREK DISCOVERY' PHOTO

'THE GREATEST SHOWMAN'

1ST HUGH JACKMAN PHOTOS

Photo exclusives today, people! 'Entertainment Weekly' has revealed the first photos from Hugh Jackman's new movie THE GREATEST SHOWMAN an original musical movie on P.T. Barnum, the founder of a modern circus. With Michelle Williams playing his wife the colourful film will bring glitz to the big screens next Christmas! Zac Efron plays his business partner with Rebecca Ferguson also in the cast. Even though the story is set in the middle of the 19th century, it will be filled with dance numbers and pop sounding hits.

THE FATHER OF MODERN CIRCUS  
The story of P.T Barnum, a visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerizing spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Directed by Michael Gracey, it will track Barnum's rise from poverty-stricken childhood to the launch of his first circus in New York.

'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY'

 TRAILER & PHOTO RELEASED

In the television department, CBS has revealed the first image from their new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY series showing Michelle Yeoh, playing a captain of a starship, and lead star Sonequa Martin Green who plays a commander of the Discovery helmed by Jason Isaacs. Set before the original series, the series will air sometime later this year. Maybe.

'THE ALIENIST' SERIES TRAILER

 LUKE EVANS & DANIEL BRUHL

TNT has, meanwhile, released the first trailer for their period set series THE ALIENIST  based on the novel by Caleb Carr. The psychological thriller drama is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city. Newly appointed top cop Teddy Roosevelt calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Bruhl), a criminal psychologist, aka alienist, and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. Joining them in the probe is Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), a headstrong secretary at Police Headquarters.