SEE ALFIE ALLEN, MARTIJN LAKEMEIER, CHARLIE MURPHY, JACK GLEESON, COLM MEANEY IN SAFE HARBOR ACTION TV SERIES

  SAFE HARBOR SERIES 

WITH ALFIE ALLEN AND MARTIJN LAKEMEIER

Safe Harbor starts on SBS August 21st

Although it already aired in Holland earlier this year, eight part action thriller series SAFE HARBOUR will hit Australian SBS August 21st and it is also available from April on ITVX in UK. 

 THE SERIES FOLLOWS 

Tobias (Alfie Allen) and Marco (Martijn Lakemeier whom we watched in Maxima and Marie Antoinette), hackers who become involved with organised crime when they cross paths with members of the Irish mob, Sloane (Charlie Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Jack Gleeson). They employ them to hack into the security system of Europe's largest shipping port, in Rotterdam, to enable undetected deliveries of drug shipments. Colm Meaney also stars in the series originally made for Videoland Dutch streamer service. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?

 

THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K PERIOD SET TV SERIES ON DUTCH MODEL AND SECRET AGENT FROM WW2 ANNOUNCED

  THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K  

TO BECOME PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Dutch model and secret agent Toto Koopman is getting a TV series based on Jean-Noël Liaut’s THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K. As Deadline reports, it will depict Koopman’s compelling professional and personal life. Born to a Dutch cavalry officer father and half Indonesian mother 

Finite Films and TV is producing the series

in 1908, Koopman’s mixed heritage exposed her to discrimination that shaped her worldview. Twenty years later, Koopman arrived in Paris in the 1930s and made history as the first model of mixed race to be featured on French Vogue. When World War II engulfed Europe, she leveraged her social connections and multilingual abilities to gather intelligence for the Allied forces in Italy, using her glamorous personal to cover for clandestine work. But this dangerous double life led to her capture by the fascists in 1941. She was held in various detention camps and was set to be deported to Germany but escaped and rejoined the Resistance. In 1944, she was caught spying on high-ranking German officers and sent by the Nazis to the notorious women’s concentration camp at Ravensbrück, where she was one of the few who survived.

SEE FIRST POSTER FOR PERIOD SET CASANOVA MOVIE A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION WITH JONAH HAUER KING, DAR ZUZOVSKY, ANEURIN BARNARD

 A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION 

SEE FIRST CASANOVA MOVIE POSTER

Dar Zuzovsky takes the lead role in the film

Two  years ago I told you first about this one and then I showed you first photos from Dutch director Michiel Van Erp costume movie drama A BEAUTIFUL IMPER- FECTION about Casanova and one of the women he loved. Now we have the first poster for the movie that does not have a release date nor a trailer yet.  With Jonah Hauer King and Dar Zuzovsky in the lead roles, the cast will also have Aneurin Barnard and Sam Hazeldine.  I am hoping we will get a trailer or at least a teaser soon, but until then you can enjoy the poster and the first images from this costume drama.

 

 WHAT IS THE STORY?

Based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin, which has been sold in millions of copies around the world, it follows the love affair between notorious adventurer and womanizer Casanova and a girl who becomes disfigured by smallpox and flees Italy for Amsterdam. Sixteen years later, they meet again when she has reinvented herself as a mysterious veiled courtesan now known by the name of Galathée. Without revealing her true identity or showing her face, Lucia and Giacomo become lovers once again. Will Lucia dare to reveal herself and turn her weakness into her strength so that she can be truly free in the eyes of her great love?

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ROYAL TV SERIES MAXIMA ON THE LIFE OF QUEEN OF HOLLAND WHICH STARTS THIS MONTH

    MAXIMA TV SERIES   

READY TO START LATER THIS MONTH

I was excited to see this one before, but after seeing the trailer I was seriously shocked by how atrociously miscast the female lead is, she looks nothing like the real queen and what is with that ugly pout? Who can watch her pouting so hideously for six episodes which is how long MAXIMA series about the Argentinian-born Dutch Queen Máxima lasts. How did Delfina Chaves seriously get cast in this one? Were they trying to humiliate real Maxima by casting such talentless actress? Just look at that horrible unroyal posture and stewardess dress in the first poster. Atrocious. Martijn Lakemeier plays her husband, Dutch king Willem in the series that hits Videoland streamer
April 20th with Beta Film distributing it around the world. Sebastian Koch stars as Claus von Amsberg, the father of Willem-Alexander, and Elsie de Brauw as Queen Beatrix. The series will probably air on RTL channels as well around Europe.

 

FROM THE MOMENT

Máxima Zorreguieta appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. When Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussion erupts about her father’s political career in the Videla regime, a discussion she never faced in her own circles. What allows this Argentine to finally thrive at an old European court? And how can Máxima stay true to herself without giving up her family, or do these things not go together? The series will kick off with a present-day storyline starting in 1999 in Seville, when Máxima and Willem-Alexander meet for the first time. It  will then transition into a second storyline set in the past, where we see how Máxima was prepared for this step her entire life. When the press catches wind of her relationship with the crown prince, the pair find themselves on a roller coaster, that only slows down with the announcement of their engagement in 2001.

 

ALFIE ALLEN, MARTIJN LAKEMEIER, CHARLIE MURPHY, JACK GLEESON TO LEAD NEW HIGH PROFILE EUROPEAN SERIES SAFE HARBOR

 NEW SAFE HARBOR SERIES 

ALFIE ALLEN, MARTIJN LAKEMEIER AND CHARLIE MURPHY TO LEAD

In a co production between Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgian Streamz, next year will bring us new eight part series SAFE HARBOR with gorgeous Dutch star Martijn Lakemeier (who is also playing the king of Holland in Videoland's Maxima series) in the lead alongside Alfie Allen, Charlie Murhpy and Jack Gleeson. The series follows gifted hacker Tobias (Allen) and his ambitious best friend Marco (Lakemeier), who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organised crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob. Leading the family’s operations in Holland are Sloane (Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Gleeson), who enlist their services to hack into the security system of Rotterdam harbour, Europe’s largest shipping port, to secure the undetected deliveries of drug shipments. A big-name star is being sought for a patriarch role, father to Sloane and Farrell, in the Irish mob, as Deadline reports.

SEE NEW IMAGES FROM LAVISH ROYAL TV SERIES MAXIMA ON THE LIFE OF QUEEN OF HOLLAND

    MAXIMA TV SERIES   

NEW IMAGES FROM DUTCH COURT

I have already told you that over in Holland RTL is preparing MAXIMA six episode drama about the Argentinian-born Dutch Queen Máxima known for her exquisite fashion and elegant outfits. Delfina Chaves and gorgeous Martijn Lakemeier, whom we watched as the queen's platonic lover in Marie Antoinette, are leading the cast and today you can check out some new images from the sets. Sebastian Koch stars as Claus von Amsberg, the father of Willem-Alexander, and Elsie de Brauw as Queen Beatrix.

 

FROM THE MOMENT

Máxima Zorreguieta appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. When Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussion erupts about her father’s political career in the Videla regime, a discussion she never faced in her own circles. What allows this Argentine to finally thrive at an old European court? And how can Máxima stay true to herself without giving up her family, or do these things not go together? The series will kick off with a present-day storyline starting in 1999 in Seville, when Máxima and Willem-Alexander meet for the first time. It  will then transition into a second storyline set in the past, where we see how Máxima was prepared for this step her entire life. When the press catches wind of her relationship with the crown prince, the pair find themselves on a roller coaster, that only slows down with the announcement of their engagement in 2001.

WHEEL OF TIME EPIC SERIES SEASON 2 AIR DATE ANNOUNCED! 1ST IMAGE FROM DUTCH COLONIAL ERA COSTUME MOVIE DRAMA SWEET DREAMS SET IN INDONESIA!

  THE WHEEL OF TIME  

SEASON TWO AIR DATE REVEALED

Amazon Prime Video has a surprise for you today in the form of first images from season two of their epic fantasy series WHEEL OF TIME announcing September 1st as the return date! Two years have almost passed from the first season which did not really get love from the audience, so it will be interesting to see how will this one go. Adapted from Robert Jordan novels it follows a farm boy, Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) who learns he is The Dragon Reborn, a dangerous figure destined to save the world. Desperate to protect him from the Dark One, an army of powerful sorceresses must reckon with Rand’s burgeoning power and encroaching madness.

IN THE SECOND SEASON

 the Wheel of Time turns and the Last Battle approaches. Because though Rand thought he destroyed the Dark One, evil is not gone from the world. Threats new and very old will seek out the young friends from the Two Rivers, who are now scattered over the world. And Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), the woman who found and guided them, is now powerless to help, so they must find other sources of strength — in each other, or themselves. In the Light, or the Dark. The Wheel of Time also stars Daniel Henney as Lan Mandragoran! Our dear Arnas Fedaravicius from The Last Kingdom will also join the cast in this season.

 

 1ST SWEET DREAMS IMAGE 

FROM NEW COSTUME DRAMA

First image today from new colonial era Dutch drama movie SWEET DREAMS from director Ena Sendijarevic. To arrive this year, it is set  on a remote Indonesian island, during the waning days of the colonial era, where Dutch sugar factory owner Jan and his wife, Agathe are at the top of the food chain. That is, until Jan upon returning from his nightly visit to his native

Famous director Paul Verhoeven stars in the cast of the film

concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife. Desperate to keep the privileges of her status quo, Agathe forces her estranged son Cornelis and his heavily pregnant wife Josefien, to travel from Europe and take over the family business. In the midst of a worker’s uprising, Cornelis displays his plans for progressive change, but when Jan’s will puts Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be idle and blood thicker than water.

CAST SET FOR MAXIMA TV SERIES ON THE DUTCH QUEEN! RICHARD ARMITAGE IS THE WORST DADDY IN THE WORLD IN OBSESSION NETFLIX EROTIC THRILLER SERIES! LIES WE SING TO THE SEA MOVIE ADAPTATION

    MAXIMA TV SERIES   

ON THE DUTCH QUEEN

Since it is very much trendy these days unveiling secrets about royal families, the next one in line is Holland as RTL is preparing MAXIMA six episode drama about the Argentinian-born Dutch Queen Máxima known for her exquisite fashion and elegant outfits. Delfina Chaves and gorgeous

Delfina Chaves will play queen Maxima

Martijn Lakemeier, whom we watched as the queen's platonic lover in Marie Antoinette, have already been set as the leads.The series will start shooting this June in Argentina, New York, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands!

From the moment Máxima Zorreguieta appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. When Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussion erupts about her father’s political career in the Videla regime, a discussion she never faced in her own circles. What allows this Argentine to finally thrive at an old European court? And how can Máxima stay true to herself without giving up her family, or do these things not go together? The series will kick off with a present-day storyline starting in 1999 in Seville, when Máxima and Willem-Alexander meet for the first time. It will then transition into a second storyline set in the past, where we see how Máxima was prepared for this step her entire life. When the press catches wind of her relationship with the crown prince, the pair find themselves on a roller coaster, that only slows down with the announcement of their engagement in 2001.

  NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION  

LIES WE SING TO THE SEA

It is Underwood's debut novel

Archery Pictures has acquired movie rights to Sarah Underwood's best selling novel LIES WE SING TO THE SEA. Ripley Parker has been set to adapt it. This magical coming-of-age novel is set in Ancient Greece and is inspired by the myth of Penelope’s hanged maids. In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve young women, a tithe to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a magical island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that she has been chosen by the Gods to break Ithaca’s curse. Leto must return home and kill the prince.

  OBSESSION NETFLIX SERIES  

STARRING RICHARD ARMITAGE

Netflix has revealed first images from their new steamy series OBSESSION which will air its three episodes this April with Richard Armitage playing a respected London surgeon whose affair with his son’s fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever! Armitage is William, a doctor who embarks on a passionate affair with his soon-to-be daughter in law, Anna (Charlie Murphy). Anna is already engaged to William’s son Martyn. She fights to keep both relationships alive, one with Martyn and one with William, but it is inevitable that the truth will emerge and someone is going to get hurt. In the meantime, William finds himself drawn into an obsessive spiral, unbeknown to his wife Ingrid. Indira Varma also stars in the April 13th series.

WW2 SUNDAY: SEE TRAILERS FOR DUTCH WAR EPIC FORGOTTEN BATTLE, STEFAN ZWEIG ADAPTATION ROYAL GAME! COURAGE ON DEMAND MINI SERIES ON MAN WHO SAVED THOUSANDS OF NAZI VICTIMS

  COURAGE ON DEMAND  

WW2 MINI TV SERIES

I know Sunday is not the best day for war, but I have three war projects for you today. As Deadline reports, The Amazing Film Company will shoot

A picture of real life Varian Fry

COURAGE ON DEMAND eight part series about Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a daring rescue network in France that helped Jewish people escape persecution in Nazi controlled France. Set in 1940s war torn Marseille, it will follow young American Varian Fry who was dispatched to France by Eleanor Roosevelt to save a selected list of artists, scientists and opposing politicians from Nazi concentration camps. When Fry realizes there is no legal way of getting these endangered refugees out of France, he builds his own underground railroad of spies, thieves, forgers and adventurers to bring more than 2200 people to safety.

  THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE 

SEE TOM FELTON IN WAR

As of this Friday, this Dutch war movie is already streaming on Netflix: THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE, second most expensive film ever coming from Holland, has the story told through the perspective of three different

The Forgotten Battle is airing on Netflix as of October 15th

participators of the Battle of the Scheldt, a Dutch axis pilot, a British air pilot, and a female resistance fighter from Zeeland. It was one of the bloodiest battles with over 12,000 casualties among Allies. Gijs Blom and Tom Felton lead the cast.

 

    THE ROYAL GAME   

STEFAN ZWEIG ADAPTATION

Currently playing in Germany and Russia is their WW2 thriller based on Stefan Zweig's novel THE ROYAL GAME (Schachnovelle)! Vienna, 1938:

It comes from our dearest Studiocanal!

Austria is occupied by the Nazi regime. Shortly before the lawyer Bartok (Oliver Masucci) can flee to the USA with his wife Anna, he is arrested and taken to the Hotel Metropol, headquarters of the Gestapo. As the asset manager of the nobility, he is supposed to give the Gestapo leader Böhm access to accounts. Since Bartok refuses to cooperate, he is placed in solitary confinement. Bartok remained steadfast for weeks and months, but became increasingly desperate - until he happened upon a chess book. Check out the super exciting trailer below:

THE KIDS OF VAMPIRE CLANS ARE HEIRS OF THE NIGHT IN EPIC FANTASY TV SERIES AT AMAZON PRIME!

 'HEIRS OF THE NIGHT'

NEW FANTASY TV SERIES 

The series has been sold around Europe

Here's something interesting that has been airing in many European countries since last year (I think you can also stream it over at Amazon Prime). HEIRS OF THE NIGHT is a two season (each has 13 half hour long episodes) epic TV series based on the book series Die Erben der Nacht by Ulrike Schweikert!

In 1898, a prophecy warns the five remaining vampire clans in Europe that they need to unite or else they will become extinct. Joining forces is easier said than done. The last decades the clans have been fighting each other in the clan-wars. Now the Elders will have to set aside their hostile feelings so their young Heirs can attend the vampire school that is

The clans include vampires from Italy, Switzerland, Greece, England, Russia, Austria, Holland, Spain, Romania, Ireland, France and Norway

created on the ship The Elisabetha. The Heirs will learn each other's powers to become stronger than ever. They have to learn to trust each other and work together if they are to beat Dracula, who has awoken after a long sleep. The

The series was shot in Norway, Croatia and Norway

Heirs face challenges they have never met before like attacks from the feared Redmasks; vampires controlled by Dracula; steering through storms and facing vampire hunter Van Helsing. They need to survive all challenges, because they're on a quest and it's up to them to save their kind.

NEW INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED MOVIES: BENJAMIN BAT, GINGER'S TALE, BIGFOOT FAMILY, THE KNIGHT AND THE PRINCESS, LEN AND THE SONG OF THE WHALES

   NEW ANIMATED FEATURES

 BENJAMIN BAT FROM HOLLAND

A few new international animated features in work for you today, starting with BENJAMIN BAT from Holland, the coming-of-age story, penned by

Benjamin Bat is coming from studios in Holland

Karen van Holst Pellekaan, which revolves around a small, fearful bat called Benjamin. When he happens to fall in love with Sherida, a Surinamese

The movie will be a coming of age story

songbird, everything changes, and he has to stand up for himself and challenge his family in order to win her heart.

GINGER'S TALE FROM RUSSIA

One of the films that will compete at this year's Annecy Animated Film Festival (online this June) is Russia's GINGER'S TALE! Directed

Ginger's Tale comes to Russian cinemas this October

by Konstantin Shchekin, it follows Potter, a kind and poor guy, who finds a magical artifact called the Stone Of Fire, that makes him rich and mean. The

The film already has a stellar Russian voice cast

evil Queen decides to kill him, so she can take the Stone Of Fire. Only a girl called Ginger can save Potter with her devotion. It will arrive into Russian cinemas in October. Watch trailer here.

BIGFOOT FAMILY FROM FRANCE

Coming from Belgium and France is new animated adventure BIGFOOT FAMILY from Ben Stassen and Jeremie Degruson: Bigfoot, Adam's father, wants to use his fame for a good cause. Protecting a large

Bigfoot family arrives from France and Belgium studios

wildlife reserve in Alaska sounds like the perfect opportunity! When Bigfoot mysteriously disappears without a trace, Adam and his animal friends will brave anything to find him again and save the nature reserve.

THE KNIGHT AND THE PRINCESS

Saudi Arabia and Egypt are, meanwhile, bringing to Annecy their animated movie THE KNIGHT AND THE PRINCESS from Bashir El Deek and Ibrahim Mousa: it will be a true story with a fictional twist. An

The Knight and the Princess is at work in Arabia and Egypt

unwavering young warrior's determination to save abducted women and children from pirates, leads him to fall in love with a princess and confront a brutal tyrant and his devious sorcerer.

LEN AND THE SONG OF WHALES

 Currently in work over in Colombia and Argentina is animated movie LEN AND THE SONG OF THE WHALES following  Len, a wild and curious 9-year-old girl, who is afraid of water, in a tribe where all activities

Len and the song of the whales is at work over in Colombia and Argentina

take place in the sea, next to the whales. She receives a warning from a stranger from another tribe about an imminent tsunami, and a tough mission, to convince them to leave their home and trust their enemies to survive.

TRAILER AND POSTER FOR WW2 THRILLER THE LAST VERMEER WITH GUY PEARCE, VICKY KRIEPS AND CLAES BANG ARE HERE!

'THE LAST VERMEER'

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART

Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for period set drama THE LAST VERMEER starring Guy Pearce, Vicky Krieps and Claes Bang (whose acting, admittedly, seems even worse here than it was in BBC's flop

The Last Vermeer aired at Telluride Festival

Dracula, he obviously hasn't found any charisma nor screen presence yet)! Although it premiered last year in USA at Telluride Film Festival in August and then in September at Canadian Toronto Film Festival, the film still does not have an opening date.

In The Last Vermeer Claes Bang stars as Joseph Piller. In this dramatic thriller set just after WWII - an all but forgotten true story - he is a soldier investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren, played by Guy Pearce, who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite

The film was originally supposed to arrive to US cinemas this month

mounting evidence, Piller becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save the life of the colourful man with a mysterious past.