I am sure that you will all agree with me that we could all do with a comedy right now and what can make us laugh better than a combination of Sandra Bullock, as a best selling novelist, Channing Tatum, as the hot hunky model from her covers, and Daniel Radcliffe, as a peculiar but also rather hot and eccentric millionaire, who star together in THE LOST CITY comedy adventure movie which will arrive to cinemas March 25th bringing us spring. Adam and Aron Nee directed the movie together. The two of them are currently preparing new Masters of the Universe movie adventure about He Man and Prince Adam. Brad Pitt has a
The movie will stream a month after cinemas
cameo role in this comedy after Sandra has a cameo role in his Bullet Train movie. Paramount originally wanted Ryan Reynolds in the lead male role.
IN THE LOST CITY
Brilliant,
but reclusive author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) has spent her career
writing about exotic places in her popular romance adventure novels
featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated
his life to embodying the hero character, “Dash.” While on tour
promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric
billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes that she can lead him to the
ancient lost city’s treasure from her latest story because he believes
that what she writes about it real. Wanting to prove that he can be a
hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off
to rescue her. Thrust into an epic jungle adventure, the unlikely pair
will need to work together to survive the elements and find the ancient
treasure before it’s lost forever.
A few months ago I told you that Netflix is turning Poe's horror story THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER into a mini series and now they've announced cast too: in the story that follows a man who visits his friend,
Our sweet boo Zach Gilford will also star
Roderick Usher, who lies ill in a gloomy estate, spooky events inside and outside the house escalate into a terrifying conclusion to the physical and ancestral House of Usher. Frank Langella will star as the Usher patriarch, Roderick, with Mary McDonnell as his sister, Madeline. Mark Hamill and Carla Gugino will also star alongside Carl Lumbly as legendary Poe investigator, C. Auguste Dupin. Joining them as well are Zach Gilford, Annabeth Gish, Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas, Crystal Balint, Matt Biedel, Ruth Codd, Kyleigh Curran, Aya Furukawa, Malcolm Goodwin, Daniel Jun, Robert Longstreet, T’Nia Miller, Paola Nuñez, Katie Parker, Sauriyan Sapkota, Samantha Sloyan, and Michael Trucco.
THE LOST CITY TRAILER
SENDS SANDRA BULLOCK AND CHANNING TATUM INTO JUNGLE
And it is much more hilarious that we thought it would be: trailer for adventure comedy THE LOST CITY is out announcing its March 22nd premiere.
The Lost City arrives next March!
Sandra Bullock is brilliant but reclusive author Loretta Sage who has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance adventure novels featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his life to embodying the hero character, Dash. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes that she can lead him to the ancient lost city’s treasure from her latest story. Wanting to prove that he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her. Thrust into an epic jungle adventure, the unlikely pair
The film was directed by Adam and Aaron Nee
will need to work together to survive the elements and find the ancient treasure before it’s lost forever! Don't miss Brad Pitt's cameo in the trailer!
New roles for our fave British boys today, beginning with our dearest Colin Morgan who is, after Merlin, Humans and The Living and the Dead series, moving over to the big screen in WAITING FOR YOU in which he stars next to Fanny Ardant!
The story revolves around Paul (Colin Morgan) whose father lies
dying, delirious and in pain, hinting at something he lost, something
taken from him by his former commanding officer in the British Army.
After he passes away, the angry and grieving Paul heads to the South of
France where he meets the mysterious Madeleine (Fanny Ardant) and
unearths an extra ordinary secret that has lain hidden for several
decades. The movie has already played on some of the European festivals. Colin is also set to star in THE HAPPY PRINCE Oscar Wilde biopic next to Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett and Tom Wilkinson. He will play writer Alfred Douglas who was Wilde's lover.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE JOINS
OWEN WILSON IN 'MIRACLE WORKERS' TV COMEDY
In a totally opposite move, after a rather unsuccessful movie career after his Harry Plopper gig, Daniel Radcliffe is transferring over to the small screens! TBS has ordered MIRACLE WORKERS comedy series with Owen Wilson.
With seven episodes planned for next year, MIRACLE WORKERS, as
'Deadline' reports, will be a heaven set workplace comedy based on Simon
Rich’s book What in God’s Name. Daniel Radcliffe will play
Craig, a low level angel responsible for handling all of humanity’s
prayers, and Owen Wilson will play Craig’s boss, God, who has pretty
much checked out to focus on his favorite hobbies. To prevent Earth’s
destruction, Craig must achieve his most impossible miracle to date.
Your main treat today is the first look of fresh Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, the lead hero of FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM which was written by Harry Plopper's J.K. Rowling! The movie is a prequel in a way, set in 1926, years before Harry and his friends joined the school of Wizardry, and follows world famous magizoologist Newt Scamander embarking on a marvellous journey through New York city. Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell, as wizard Graves, also star.
THE FAMOUS MAGIZOOLOGIST To open in theatres around the world in a year's time, November 2016,
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM will see Academy Award winner
Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent
magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and
document magical creatures. Years after that his book will become a
textbook for students to learn from at Hogwarts!
'THE MODERN OCEAN' CASTS
ANNE HATHAWAY, KEANU REEVES AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE
Speaking of Harry Plopper, there's a mention of its lead star in the casting news coming from shipping drama THE MODERN OCEAN which has just gathered an ensemble cast including Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe alongside Chloe Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah and Jeff Goldblum! To be directed by Shane CarruthTHE MODERN OCEAN will see the competition for valuable shipping routes, the search for the hidden cache of priceless material and the powerful need for vengeance, converge in a spectacular battle on the rolling decks of behemoth cargo ships. This epic tale, fraught with danger and intrigue, takes us from the ancient trading houses of Algeria to the darkest depths of the ocean floor!
'MUTE' SF MOVIE
CASTS ALEXANDER SKARSGARD AND PAUL RUDD In other casting news today, Hollywood's favourite blond hunk
Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd will lead the cast of Duncan Jones
(this Friday we shall have trailer for his epic movie WARCRAFT) directed
MUTE! The film is set in Berlin, 40 years from today. A roiling city of
immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science fiction
Casablanca. Leo Beiler (Alexander Skarsgard), a mute bartender, has one
reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared. But
when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd
pair of American surgeons (led by Paul Rudd) seem to be the only
recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should
fear most.
Now this is probably the best news of the week: not only that Slingshot Global Media has announced their work on CLEOPATRA epic TV series, but it has also been revealed today that our absolute favourite director Shekhar Kapur (ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH GOLDEN AGE, FOUR FEATHERS) will helm it and write it! Instead of focusing on the arch seductress made famous by her affairs with men like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the show will highlight the opposite – that these men were famous because of her. It will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a Pharaoh and a queen – a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better ruler than the men of her time. The series will reinvent her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made her one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful, thrones of all time.
'THE DURRELLS' PERIOD SERIES
CASTS KEELEY HAWES, LESLIE CARON AND ALEXIS GEORGOULIS Earlier this year I announced that British ITV is making a television
series out of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS memoir by Gerald Durrelland
THE DURRELLS now have the cast! Our beloved Keeley Hawes will lead it
alongside legendary Leslie Caron and Greek star Alexis Georgoulis. The
1930's six part series focuses on Louisa Durrell (KeeleyHawes), whose
husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four
children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy
Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life
very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu,
taking her family with her. Alexis Georgoulis will play the dependable
Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Leslie Caron will be shrewd Countess
Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
A bunch of photo updates for you today coming from 'Entertain- ment Weekly'. We first start with the first photos from the second season of Starz' epic drama series OUT- LANDER showing both Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) in their new French costumes (the yellow gown was created by costume designer Terry Dresbach, the wife of Ronald D. Moore, the show's creator) since the second season, which arrives only next year, will see them in France where they fled and are now trying to stop the Jacobite
rebellion from ravaging Scotland. As I reported before a number of stars has joined the new season with Stanley Weber playing Comte St Germain the main rival of Jamie's cousin who is the leading wine seller in France. VICIOUS star Frances de la Tour will play Mother Hildegarde, woman who comes from an aristocratic and well-connected family.
When Claire begins volunteering at L'Hopital des Anges, she encounters and soon earns the respect of Mother Hildegarde. Andrew Gower will be Prince Charles Stuart who wants the throne, while Margaux Chatelier will play an old flame of Jamie's.
FIRST PHOTOS FROM
'PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES' New pics have also been released for a classic drama with an
unexpected twist - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES which arrives into
cinemas next Valentines turning Austen's dull love lemonade into something
more apocalyptic. Lily James will portray Lizzy, who has become
romantically entangled with Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley). Sadly, their love
will be challenged by zombie virus in which the 'sorry stricken' (aka
zombies) are rising from the grave to cause Victorian zombie mess. The
victims of this mysterious plague have been roaming around for the past
70 years, and it's up to Lizzy, her sisters, and her lover to stop the
madness! Douglas Booth, Matt Smith and Jack Huston also star.
'VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN'
NEW PHOTO WITH JAMES MCAVOY AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE
And there's also a new photo from long delayed Victorian horror adventure VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN in which Daniel Radcliffe plays Igor and the film is told from his perspective, showing the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein (James McAvoy), and him becoming eyewitness to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
SAM CLAFLIN AND RIZ AHMED JOIN FELICITY JONES IN THE SPINOFF
While the geekdom is in frenzy, anxiously awaiting December premiere of STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS, the spinoff to the popular science fiction saga STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE is already casting its stars. Set between 'Episode III Revenge of the Sith' and the original 'Star Wars' movie 'A New Hope', ROGUE ONE will revolve around a group of rebels looking to steal blueprints to the Death Star. Due to be released December 2016, it will have Oscar nominee Felicity Jones in the lead roles alongside rising star Sam Claflin! Ben Mendelsohn and another of our fave British stars Riz Ahmed will also star in the Gareth Edwards directed movie! After that, December 2017 will bring STAR WARS VIII to the cinemas.
'VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN'
FIRST PHOTO WITH JAMES MCAVOY AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE Although it is out this October in USA and September in Europe, we
haven't seen any photos nor a trailer for VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ... but now
we have the first set picture of James McAvoy as the lunatic scientist
who wants to create a monster and Daniel Radcliffe as his assistant
Igor.
If you are wondering what will our beloved Henry Cavill do outside being Superman in DC's movie universe, according to 'Deadline' he is opening his own production company Promethean Productions and their first project will be STRATTON, an action thriller based on eight novels by Duncan Falconer, a pseudonym for an author who used his own military background to inform the lead character. John STRATTON is an operative of the SBS who works with the Intelligence Detachment in Northern Ireland. Henry Cavill will play the character whose adventures take him from Kazakhstan and China to mainland Europe and London. And forgot to thank all of you people for helping HOLLYWOOD SPY get his 3,900,000th visitor last night! So many minions :)
'NOW YOU SEE ME 2'
DANIEL RADCLIFFE, JAY CHOU AND LIZZY CAPLAN JOIN THE STELLAR CAST You already know that NOW YOU SEE ME, which earned more than $300 million around the world last year, is getting a sequel and now new
cast members and official plot have been revealed for the movie which
will arrive into cinemas summer 2016! Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan and
Jay Chou have joined the old cast including Michael Caine, Mark
Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg
who all play gifted magicians who like to organize heists using their
tricks. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's
adulation with their mind bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen
resurface in NOW YOU SEE ME 2 only to find themselves face to face with a
new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
AMAZING 'CHAPPIE' SF TRAILER
HUGH JACKMAN, DEV PATEL AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER
Your trailer for today comes from Neil Blomkamp and it is for his new sf movie CHAPPIE which comes out next March starring Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and Dev Patel! Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, CHAPPIE will come under the influence of his surroundings - some good, some bad - and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes CHAPPIE different from anyone else: he is a robot. The first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. His life, his story, will change the way the world looks at robots and humans forever.