FAMILY WEDNESDAY: SEE LION CUB RESCUE IN KING MOVIE TRAILER! KING'S DAUGHTER FANTASY ADVENTURE TRAILER WITH PIERCE BROSNAN, WILLIAM HURT, BENJAMIN WALKER, BEN LLOYD HUGHES, KAYA SCODELARIO, FAN BINGBING

 KING MOVIE TRAILER 

SAVING A LION CUB

Two family friendly movies for you today, first one coming from France. KING follows Ines, a little girl, who takes in an escaped lion cub, King. Accompanied by her brother, their grandfather, and with the unexpected help of Louise, her stepmother whose presence she has never accepted, Inès sets off

King arrives to French cinemas February 16th

on a mad race to a port in the Mediterranean. Her goal: to bring King home to Africa. But that's without counting on the director of customs, determined to get his hands on the animal. The film, coming from Pathe and David Moreau, is out in France mid February and then in 15 other countries around Europe too.

 

  THE KING'S DAUGHTER 

FINALLY COMING TO CINEMAS

This one has, meanwhile, been in works since 2015 and is now finally coming out January 21st. THE KING'S DAUGHTER sees Pierce Brosnan portraying

The film is out this January finally

the Sun King Louis XIV alongside Kaya Scodelario, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Pablo Schreiber, Rachel Griffiths and Fan Bingbing with Julie Andrews as narrator! The film imagines a quest for immortality by the megalomaniacal king, whose reign spanned the 17th and 18th centuries, as he captures and steals a mermaid’s life force. Matters are further complicated when the king’s illegitimate daughter discovers the mythological creature. Scodelario and Benjamin Walker met at the shooting of this movie and later on got married. Chinese star Fan Bingbing plays the mermaid. 

 

JULIE ANDREWS JOINS PIERCE BROSNAN, WILLIAM HURT, BENJAMIN WALKER, KAYA SCODELARIO IN KING'S DAUGHTER FANTASY MOVIE! ITALIAN SUPERNATURAL SERIES CURON HITS NETFLIX

   'THE KING'S DAUGHTER'

READY FOR SALES AT CANNES

King's Daughter will be offered to buyers at Cannes

We've been announcing this one since 2015 but it lost the support of two studios in the meantime and now Arclight will offer THE KING'S DAUGHTER (aka The Moon and The Sun) for international sales at Cannes virtual market this month. The update following that piece of news is that Julie Andrews has joined the film as the narrator of the fantasy historical film which sees Pierce Brosnan portraying the Sun King Louis XIV alongside Kaya Scodelario, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Rachel Griffiths and Fan Bingbing! As Screen Daily reports, the film imagines a quest for immortality by the megalomaniacal king, whose reign

Pierce Brosnan plays King Louis XIV of France

spanned the 17th and 18th centuries, as he captures and steals a mermaid’s life force. Matters are further complicated when the king’s illegitimate daughter discovers the mythological creature.

   'CURON' TRAILER

CURSE HIDES UNDER WATER

Curon streams at Netflix from June 10th

You can also check out the trailer for spooky new Italian series CURON  which will start streaming on Netflix June 10th following a woman who returns to a mysterious village in Northern Italy where she grew up, only to find her past returning to haunt her and her teenage children. Here is the official synopsis: Seventeen years after the tragic events that forced her to leave Curon, a woman returns home with her twin children. They soon discover that the town is cursed: when you hear the bells of the old church tower ringing in the middle of a lake, repressed

I'm not sure, but apparently the submerged city really exists in Italy

feelings come back to the surface. A little spoiler: the lake might hide a whole submerged and very much cursed city in its depths. 

NATURE TO GO WILD IN 'SWARM' ECO DISASTER TV SERIES BASED ON FRANK SCHAETZING'S BESTSELLER! STUNNING 'AIR STRIKE' WW2 TRAILER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

    'THE SWARM' ECO DISASTER

THRILLER BECOMES TV SERIES!

German broadcaster ZDF is producing the series

German television ZDF, together with Game of Thrones executive producer Frank Doelger, is venturing into international TV series market waters with an expensive effort of making an eight part English language series out of Frank Schaetzing's THE SWARM world best selling novel! The story is actually a global environmental thriller set in a present day where anomalies and unnatural behaviour in marine animals are causing upheaval all over the world. Millions of strange worms suddenly appear on the bottom of the North Sea, drilling their way through frozen methane, threatening to destabilize the entire continental

The series will be shot in English

shelf. Swarms of mussels stop large vessels from manoeuvring. Toxic jellyfish, lobsters and whales start attacking human beings along the coasts of the world. It follows a global group of scientists and military who come together to tackle one of the biggest challenges mankind has ever faced. They make the chilling discovery that we are not the only intelligent species on this planet – and that deep down at the bottom of the sea resides a collective intelligence which has suffered the ravages of civilization on its habitat and decided to fight back.

    STUNNING 'AIR STRIKE' TRAILER

SENDS BRUCE WILLIS AND ADRIEN BRODY INTO WORLD WAR 2

Air Strike strikes cinemas and VOD October

I've presented you with this one earlier this year, but now it has been announced that Bruce Willis WW2 epic drama AIR STRIKE (aka The Bombing) will hit US cinemas October 26th and VOD at the very same time. Also starring Adrien Brody and Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. Bruce Willis plays a U.S. Army colonel who trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters! The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

ASIAN TUESDAY: GUAN XIAOTONG, DYLAN SPROUSE TO LEAD CHINESE EPIC ADVENTURE 'TURANDOT' BASED ON PUCCINI'S OPERA! STUNNING TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR FAN BINGBING'S 'LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' EPIC ADVENTURE

   'TURANDOT' EPIC MOVIE

DYLAN SPROUSE JOINS GUAN XIAOTONG IN THE CAST

Guan Xiaotong will be princess Turandot

While Disney is preparing Nutcracker movie out of the famous ballet, China is turning Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT opera into a film as well! Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse have already been cast!

TURANDOT  a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity. Foreign princes who

Disney star Dylan Sprouse will take the male lead

come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would be put to death. One day, Calaf (Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past. The film, directed by Xiaolong Zheng, is now shooting.

   'THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' SEQUEL

 POSTERS & TRAILER ARE IN!

Speaking of stunning Asian fantasy movies, check out the breathtaking character posters and trailer for Chinese  computer animated motion capture action fantasy adventure film THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 written and directed by Guo Jingming, which should be released in China on 6 July!

THE LEGEND OF THE RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 
has the story set in the Odin Mainland which is separated into four countries, Water, Wind, Earth and Fire, and in each lives a group of soul masters protecting their county with their soul powers. The most powerful seven of them are known as Noble Lords! Asian superstars Fan Bingbing, Kris Wu, Cheney Chen, William Chan, Lin Yun, Amber Kuo, Wang Duo, Roy Wang, Karry Wang, and Jackson Yi lead the cast of the fantasy adventure.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING! FRENCH 18TH CENTURY DRAMA 'ROYAL EXCHANGE' WITH LAMBERT WILSON

 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE

POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

After I remind you to scroll down and check out our Sunday spotlight on freshly ordered comedy pilots to which I added new trailers, we shall move

The movie arrives to cinemas this August!

onto two new international historical movie projects as Hollywood is mostly sleeping today. First, you can check out the first poster for World War II drama THE BOMBING coming from China with Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody joining Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse!

Out this August in Chinese cinemas, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

  'THE ROYAL EXCHANGE'

LAMBERT WILSON RULES SPAIN AS KING PHILIPPE

The movie was out in France last winter!

Meanwhile, over from France comes period set movie L'échange des princesses or THE ROYAL EXCHANGE starring Lambert Wilson! In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4 year old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14 year old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds

The movie is the adaptation of a Chantal Thomas book!

enthusiastically to both proposals, and the ceremonies are promptly organized. The exchange of the princesses is to take place with great pomp on a small island, in the river bordering the two countries. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned.

BRILLIANT TRAILERS FOR 'THE MEG' WITH JASON STATHAM & PREHISTORIC MEGALADON SHARK, 'THE WIFE' WITH GLENN CLOSE, JONATHAN PRYCE, MAX IRONS, HARRY LLOYD

  'THE WIFE' TRAILER

WITH GLENN CLOSE, JONATHAN PRYCE, HARRY LLOYD, MAX IRONS

First posters and trailer have been released for September 2018 drama THE WIFE! Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're

The Wife is out this September in cinemas

about to meet her. It is crucial you get to know this woman - many of us already do and don't even realise it. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent, devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work,

The movie is based on a Meg Wolitzer's novel

Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. Harry Lloyd, Max Irons, Christian Slater also star.

  'THE MEG' TRAILER WITH

JASON STATHAM & LI BINGBING

While we're waiting for Dwayne Johnson's giant gorilla to attack box office this weekend in Rampage, Jason Statham's giant shark MEG has arrived

Meg is pleased to eat you this August!

with the first trailer and she is 'pleased to eat you' as the first poster says! This action underwater drama is a sort of an aquatic Jurrasic Park since the main villain is a prehistoric shark megalodon! Based on a Steve Alten book it is out this August !

A PRE HISTO- RIC MEGA- LODON! 
A deep-sea submersible, part of an international undersea observation program, has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific with its crew

The movie was shot over at New Zealand!

trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to

Jason Statham and Li Bingbing lead the cast!

save the crew, and the ocean itself, from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying

It took more than 20 years for the book to find its way to the big screens

creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below… bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.

1ST POSTER FOR 'THE KING'S DAUGHTER' IN WHICH PIERCE BROSNAN IS LOUIS XIV NEXT TO BENJAMIN WALKER, FAN BINGBING, RACHEL GRIFFITHS, BEN LLOYD HUGHES

'THE KING'S DAUGHTER' 

THE FIRST POSTER IS HERE!

There's just one thing I have for you today and it is the first poster for THE KING'S DAUGHTER (previously known as The Moon and The Sun), fantasy adventure movie which still does not have a release date nor a trailer, but it has a stellar cast including Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV, Benjamin Walker, William Hurt, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Kaya Scodelario, Rachel Griffiths and Fan Bingbing.

THE KING'S DAUGHTER, in which a massive ball scene was shot in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors (it was done at night when tourists aren't there), depicts King Louis XIV's quest for immortality that leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force,

Some of the scenes were shot in actual Versailles at night

a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature. Scodelario and Benjamin Walker met at the shooting of this movie and later on got married. Chinese star Fan Bingbing plays the mermaid.

DAVID MORRISSEY, STANLEY WEBER JOIN KELLY REILLY IN 'BRITANNIA' EPIC ROMAN SERIES! RAMI MALEK JOINS CHARLIE HUNNAM IN 'PAPILLON' REMAKE! FAN BINGBING, JESSICA MCNAMEE JOIN JASON STATHAM IN 'MEG' PREHISTORIC SHARK MOVIE

JASON STATHAM'S 'MEG'  

CASTS JESSICA MCNAMEE AND FAN BINGBING IN SHARK MOVIE

Well, here's a pretty cast for you: gorgeous Jessica McNamee and Chinese star Fan Bingbing have joined Jason Statham in 2018 movie MEG about prehistoric 20 ton shark carcharodon megalodon! Based on Steve Alten novel, it follows an international underwater observation program, led by Chinese scientists, which comes under attack by an unknown danger. After their deep sea submersible craft is trapped at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the Pacific Ocean, this team is in need of rescue. Jason Statham will be a former Navy captain and expert diver, who has actually faced this massive shark before years earlier and was forced to abort and abandon half his crew. Megalodon was able to kill a T-Rex in matters of seconds.

 'BRITANNIA' EPIC TV SERIES 

STANLEY WEBER, DAVID MORRISSEY JOIN KELLY REILLY

I've already told you earlier this year that British Sky is preparing Roman era set historical series BRITANNIA and now the news arrives that US Amazon will co produce it with them! The ten episode series will star Kelly Reilly alongside The Walking Dead‘s David Morrissey with Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone) and Stanley Weber (Outlander) also in the cast.

The story is set in 43 A.D. and charts the Roman invasion of what would become Great Britain. The determined, yet terrified, Roman Imperial Army returns to crush the Celtic heart of BRITANNIA, a mysterious land ruled by wild warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the forces of the underworld. Reilly and Wanamaker play arch-rivals Kerra and Antedia who must set aside their differences to combat the invasion, led by the towering figure of Aulus Plautius (Morrissey). Hugo Speer, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Stanley Weber, Eleanor Worthington Cox and Ian McDiarmid will all star as well.

 RAMI MALEK TO JOIN 

 'PAPILLON' REMAKE?

Remember how some time ago I told you that Charlie Hunnam will take over Steve McQueen's role in the remake of PAPILLON? Now, 'Deadline' reports that Rami Malek will take over Dustin Hoffman's role!

The original film was based on the memoirs of convicted felon and fugitive Henri Charriere. He was a petty criminal from the Parisian underworld who was unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France. He staged an epic escape from Devil’s Island, a notorious penal colony in French Guiana in South America, aided by quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega who is supposed to be played by Malek. Their relationship starts with Charriere providing protection for Dega from fellow thug inmates and grows into a bond, then Degas agrees to finance Papillon’s prison escape. The remake will be set in modern times.

RYAN KWANTEN TO STAR IN 'CATEGORY 5' HURRICANE FILM & 'SUPERCON' WITH JOHN MALKOVICH! EPIC FANTASY 'LEAGUE OF GODS' TRAILER WITH JET LI, ANGELABABY, BINGBING FAN!

RYAN KWANTEN 

TO STAR IN 'SUPERCON'

One of our fave Australian hunks, always ever so dear Ryan Kwanten has two new projects. As 'Deadline' reports he will join John Malkovich and Maggie Grace in SUPERCON about a motley group of comic book artists and former TV stars earning a living working fan conventions who set out to rob a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.

AND IN 'CATEGORY 5'
 It is interesting that he will also star with Maggie Grace in Rob Cohen's CATEGORY 5! As 'E!' writes, it follows a team of hackers embarking on a high stakes robbery from a coastal U.S. mint facility, hoping to make off with $600 million. The action comes in full when a CATEGORY 5 hurricane hits the coastal town and forces the inhabitants to flee or seek shelter. In the midst of the natural disaster a meteorologist (Toby Kebbell), his brother (Ryan Kwanten), and a treasury agent (Maggie Grace) must team up to stop the heist from becoming a reality.

'LEAGUE OF GODS' TRAILER

WITH JET LI AND ANGELABABY

Meanwhile, a rather weird, but yet strangely delightful trailer has been released for lavish CGI rich Chinese epic fantasy adventure movie LEAGUE OF GODS starring Jet Li, Tony Leung, Bingbing Fan and always lovely Angelababy which is out this July in cinemas around the world including UK, USA, Canada and Australia! Based on the 16th century Chinese novel Feng Shen Yan Yi (The Investiture of the Gods), the story tells of how King Zhou of Shang becomes a tyrant due to the wiles of Daji, a vixen spirit who is disguised as one of his concubines.

STUNNINGLY EPIC TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR 'WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM' WITH FAN BINGBING! NETFLIX TO AIR ENGLISH VERSION OF 'EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE' EPIC TV SERIES

THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH

EPIC TRAILER AND POSTERS

We're having an Asian invasion day at HOLLYWOOD SPY today, people, since I have two mighty powerful Chinese projects to present you with, starting with last year's Chinese blockbuster THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM with gorgeous Fan Bingbing in the lead role! Directed by Jacob Cheung, this epic fantasy spectacle is based on popular Chinese novel by Liang Yusheng.

FAN BING BING IS A SORCERESS
In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha fights the soldiers that oppress people for their own gain. As payback, local government officials decide to pin the murder of her lover Governor Zhuo Zhonglian on Jade, turning her and the members of her cult into wanted fugitives for a crime they didn't commit. After that her hair turns white from sadness and she transforms into a killing machine without remorse or mercy.

EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE

NETFLIX TO AIR THE LAVISHLY EPIC CHINESE TV SERIES

Another lavish Asian project that you can expect to watch soon is Chinese epic TV series EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE which is the first Chinese series to be broadcast in mainstream paid TV cable network in the US! Netflix will turn its epic 76 episodes into six 90 minutes long English language mini series episodes. With Sun Li playing the lead role and Chen Jian Bin as the emperor, the series follows a young woman born of Eight Banners family who marries the Emperor. After surviving through many murderous scandals and betrayals, she prevails as the most powerful woman in the Emperor's harem, the Empress dowager. In the process, she transforms from a kind-hearted, clever girl to a power hungry, manipulative woman.