JOSH O'CONNOR IS PRINCE CHARLES IN 'CROWN' SEASON 3! PATRICK STEWART, FELICITY JONES, FREDDIE HIGHMORE, THOMAS BRODIE SANGSTER JOIN 'DRAGON RIDER'! DANILA KOZLOVSKY, VICKY KRIEPS IN 'PASSION SIMPLE'

  JOSH O'CONNOR IS

PRINCE CHARLES IN 'THE CROWN' SEASON 3 AT NETFLIX

Josh O'Connor will play the future king

In a piece of news that might excite all of you devoted fans of God's Own Country, last year's best movie, its star Josh O'Connor is apparently going to play young Prince Charles in the third season of Netflix' popular series THE CROWN! The Durrells star will play the prince in his early 20s in the season that will see most of the cast replaced with older actors since it will be covering the mid 1960s all the way to mid 70s! Olivia Colman will play older Queen Elizabeth II, Tobias Menzies will be her husband Prince Philip, while Helena Bonham Carter, who was in the run for the lead role herself, will play her sister Princess Margaret. Jason Watkins is also joining the cast as British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

  DANILA KOZLOVSKY

TO LEAD 'PASSION SIMPLE'

Danila Kozlovsky will play the male lead!

In other casting news from Cannes, Screen Daily reports that our favourite Russian star Danila Kozlovsky and Vicky Krieps will star in the adaptation of the international best seller PASSION SIMPLE by Annie Ernaux which has been translated into 20 languages. Krieps from Daniel Day Lewis' Phantom Thread, will play a 42 year old lecturer who has no illusions about the long term future of her relationship with her younger, married lover. The diplomat, a flashy figure with a penchant for big cars and Saint Laurent suits, does not make any promises either. Nonetheless, she becomes obsessed logging her every move and sensation as she awaits his return. Until one day, he vanishes, posted back home, without letting her know.

  ANIMATED 'DRAGON RIDER'

PATRICK STEWART, FELICITY JONES TO LEND VOICES

Stellar cast also announced at Cannes for animated adventure DRAGON RIDER which has just hired voices for Patrick Stewart, Felicity Jones, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Freddie Highmore and Nonso Anozie in the adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s novel about an unlikely trio of heroes: young

Tomer Eshed is directing for Constantin Film

silver dragon Firedrake (Brodie-Sangster), Sorrel (Jones) the mountain brownie and a boy called Ben (Highmore) as they embark on an epic adventure and battle against a vicious, dragon-killing machine called Nettlebrand (Stewart) to find the ‘Rim of Heaven’.

IMPERIAL RUSSIA IN MINDBLOWING 'MATHILDE' EPIC TRAILER WITH DANILA KOZLOVSKY! MATT OBERG IN 'HOUSEHOLD NAME', ANNIE POTTS IN 'DISTEFANO' SITCOMS! 'STAR TREK DISCOVERY' BOARDS NEW CREW

'HOUSEHOLD NAME' SITCOM

MATT OBERG & CAROL BURNETT

Something that is shaping up to become one of our most anticipated sitcoms, the pilot for Carol Burnett's multi camera comedy TV series HOUSEHOLD NAME, has just got new cast addition: ABC has cast Matt Oberg to play Tim, a teacher who views life as a never ending education. He’s a people pleaser, who always tries to do the right thing and make everybody happy, only to find that he can’t. HOUSEHOLD NAME revolves around a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams but under extremely abnormal circumstances: They must live with the current owner — an eccentric, larger than life movie diva(Burnett) — until she dies.

ANNIE POTTS JOINS 'DISTE- FANO'
 Meanwhile, rival CBS has cast comedy veteran Annie Potts to play Chris Distefano's passive aggressive yet vulnerable Irish Catholic mother in the multi camera sitcom pilot for DISTEFANO in which he plays an Italian American from Brooklyn and a new dad who married a Puerto Rican woman and together they are  raising their newborn daughter and merging their meddling families – one Puerto Rican, one Italian.

'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY' 

 BOARDS YET MORE NEW CREW

In other TV news, CBS has also cast new names for their new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY sf series which will start this May following a commander of a new Star Fleet ship played by Sonequa Martin Green with Michelle Yeoh playing the captain of ship Shenzhou. New additions include: Terry Serpico as Admiral Anderson (a high ranking official of Starfleet), Maulik Pancholy as Dr. Nambue (the Chief Medical Officer of the Starship Shenzhou) and Sam Vartholomeos as Ensign Connor, a Junior Officer in Starfleet Academy assigned to the Starship Shenzhou. The story will be set in the first years of Star Fleet's exploration of space, sadly.

'MATHILDE' EPIC TRAILER

THE IMPERIAL ROMANOVS!

You can also check out a truly mindblowing trailer and poster for Russian sprawling epic movie MATHILDE out this March in cinemas around Mother Russia in which the story is set In the twilight of Imperial Russia, where prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of not one but three Grand Dukes. This stunning visual spectacle stars Michalina Olszanska, Lars Eidinger, Grigoriy Dobrygin and one of our all time favourite Russian stars Danila Kozlovsky! See the trailer below and tell us what you think:

RUSSIAN WEEKEND: PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT AND MINDBLOWING TRAILER FOR NEW RUSSIAN EPIC MOVIE 'VIKING' WITH DANILA KOZLOVSKY

EPIC 'VIKING' TRAILER

WITH DANILA KOZLOVSKY!

We're continuing and also finishing our glorious Russian movies weekend this Sunday with the super exciting new trailer for their upcoming epic adventure VIKING which arrives into theatres December 2016 starring their biggest star Danila Kozlovsky as prince Vladimir and THE WOLVERINE's Svetlana Khodchenkova!

History is a symptom of our disease. From the time of heavy swords and dark laws of blood, when the pressure of great chaos gave rise to heroes. From the Dark Ages came the story that changed the world forever.

 Story is set in the 10th century Kievan Rus! After the death of his father, Svyatoslav I, ruler of Kievan Rus, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod (Danila Kozlovsky) is forced into exile across the frozen sea to escape his treacherous half brother Yaropolk (Aleksandr Ustyugov), who has murdered his other brother Oleg (Kirill Pletnyov) and conquered the Viking territory of Kievan Rus. The old warrior Sveneld (Maksim Sukhanov) convinces Vladimir to assemble a Varangian armada, hoping to reconquer Novgorod from Yaropolk and ultimately face the mighty Byzantine forces. One of the most expensive movies ever made in Russia took almost 5 years to be made directed by famous Russian director Andrey Kravchuk!
 

RUSSIAN SUNDAY: MINDBLOWING TRAILERS FOR NEW RUSSIAN EPIC MOVIES 'VIKING' WITH DANILA KOZLOVSKY AND WW2 HEROIC STORY 'PANFILOV'S TWENTY EIGHT'

EPIC 'VIKING' TRAILER

WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED

Two exquisitely immersing Russian trailers for you today, starting with the mesmerizing trailer for new Russian epic VIKING which arrives into theatres December 2016 starring their biggest star Danila Kozlovsky as prince Vladimir and THE WOLVERINE's Svetlana Khodchenkova!

History is a symptom of our disease. From the time of heavy swords and dark laws of blood, when the pressure of great chaos gave rise to heroes. From the Dark Ages came the story that changed the world forever.

 Set in the 10th century Kievan Russia it follows young VIKING prince Vladimir Novgorod  who is exiled into the snowy regions across the frozen sea after the death of his  father. One of the most expensive movies ever made in Russia took almost 5 years to be made directed by famous Russian director Andrey Kravchuk!

'PANFILOV'S TWENTY EIGHT'

WW2 HEROIC RUSSIAN DRAMA

The second one is for the World War II Russian action epic movie PANFILOV'S TWENTY EIGHT which tells the heroic story of 28 brave Russian soldiers who single handedly managed to destroy 18 Nazi tanks which were on their way to wreck havoc on Moscow in Autumn 1941! It took three years to produce this historical epic!