'THEIR FINEST' WW2 TRAILER WITH SAM CLAFLIN, GEMMA ARTERTON, BILL NIGHY! NEW 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' POSTER WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL

'VICEROY'S HOUSE' POSTER

MOVIE STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND MANISH DAYAL

Two British movies for you today, beginning with the new poster for VICEROY'S HOUSE which is out in cinemas this March with Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten and Gillian Anderson as Lady Mountbatten, with our most beloved Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) rounding up the cast!

 Story is set in Viceroy’s House in Delhi, the home of British invaders and exploiters of India. After 300 years, that dark rule is coming to an end and for six months in 1947 Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The story unfolds within this great house where the Mountbattens lived upstairs and downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite converged on the house to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted.

'THEIR FINEST' 1ST TRAILER

SAM CLAFLIN & GEMMA ARTERTON

A few weeks ago I showed you a clip from this April WW2 British movie THEIR FINEST, and today you can enjoy the first official trailer! Absolutely enchanting Sam Claflin and lovely Gemma Arterton lead the cast which also includes Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Richard E. Grant, in a story about a British film crew that attempts to boost morale during World War II by making a propaganda film after the Blitzkrieg. 

GORGEOUS TRAILER FOR PERIOD SET 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' MOVIE WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, MICHAEL GAMBON, GILLIAN ANDERSON

'VICEROY'S HOUSE' TRAILER

STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND MANISH DAYAL

We've been waiting for this one a very long time indeed: gorgeous first trailer and poster have been released for period set drama VICEROY'S HOUSE out in UK this March (marking the 70 years since India has gained its independence from bloody and ruthless British enslavement) with Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten and Gillian Anderson as Lady Mountbatten (with the most horridly fake British accent) and Lily Travers, Michael Gambon, Simon Callow and our most beloved Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) rounding up the cast!

THE END OF THE DARK RULE
Story is set in Viceroy’s House in Delhi, the home of British invaders and exploiters of India. After 300 years, that dark rule is coming to an end and for six months in 1947 Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The story unfolds within this great house where the Mountbattens lived upstairs and downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite converged on the house to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted.

FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE SETS OF PERIOD SET MOVIES 'A STORM IN THE STARS' WITH ELLE FANNING, DOUGLAS BOOTH, BEN HARDY & 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, GILLIAN ANDERSON

'A STORM IN THE STARS' PICS

DOUGLAS BOOTH & ELLE FANNING

To end up our weekend (which created quite a buzz around the net, thank you very much) of photo reports from the sets of new period set movies, two more this Monday, starting with the pictures coming from the production of Haifaa Al Mansour's A STORM IN THE STARS historical drama starring teen stars Douglas Booth and Elle Fanning.

THE GREAT ROMANTIC POETS
The story of the period set drama movie brings the details of the love affair between 18-year-old Mary Godwin and legendary Romantic poet Percy Shelley, which resulted in Mary Shelley writing her famous horror novel Frankenstein. Elle Fanning plays Mary Shelley, Douglas Booth is poetical genius Percy Bysshe Shelley, while Bel Powley appears as Mary’s sister Claire Clairmon! Tom Sturridge portrays another great poet Lord Byron with Ben Hardy playing English writer John William Polidori and Hugh O'Connor is Samuel Taylor Coleridge!

1ST 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' PHOTO

WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, GILLIAN ANDERSON

First, massive photo has been released for a moving political drama VICEROY'S HOUSE about the Partition of India set in the upstairs/downstairs world of Viceroy’s House, the Delhi home of Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville), the last Viceroy of India.Our beloved Manish Dayal (right behind Hugh) also stars and Gillian Anderson will try to redeem herself after that appalling, fully amateurish performance in War And Peace.

HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, GILLIAN ANDERSON IN PERIOD SET 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' MOVIE! 'IGNACIO DE LOYOLA' EPIC MOVIE TRAILER WITH ANDREAS MUNOZ

'VICEROY'S HOUSE' MOVIE

WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, GILLIAN ANDERSON

Not much to report to you today, so we're going to exotic locations, starting with a trip to India with a new historical movie VICEROY'S HOUSE which should come to the cinemas in the United Kingdom sometime later this year! It will see Huge Bonneville and Gillian Anderson playing an unlikely couple: Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India and his wife. Michael Gambon and lovely Manish Dayal whom we fell in love with in A 100 FOOT JOURNEY also star!

THE STORY  
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

'IGNACIO DE LOYOLA' 

  ANDREAS MUNOZ EPIC MOVIE

Meanwhile, in the clip department we're going international as I'm about to show you the first trailer for new historical epic movie IGNACIO DE LOYOLA which should arrive into cinemas probably this summer sometime in July! Andreas Munoz is playing St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.

FROM KNIGHT TO SAINT   The movie is told by a young priest who was once assigned to defend him before the Spanish Inquisition following Ignacio's transformation from a brash, impulsive youth obsessed with women and sword-fighting; to the masterful, charismatic leader of an order that would change the face of Christendom. In his lifelong quest to become the heroic Knight of his fantasies, Ignacio stares death in the face again and again, finding himself imprisoned for murder; having his leg shattered by a cannonball in battle; driven to near suicide by his inner demons; and finally finding his life in the hands of the Inquisition.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BBC'S MOST AMBITIOUS EPIC TV SERIES 'WAR AND PEACE' WITH JAMES NORTON, LILY JAMES, JACK LOWDEN, GILLIAN ANDERSON, JIM BROADBENT, ANEURIN BARNARD

 'WAR AND PEACE'

BBC'S MOST AMBITIOUS EPIC TELEVISION SERIES EVER

Are you ready for the highlight of all epic television programmes this winter, the latest small screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's glorious novel WAR AND PEACE which will bring sweeping saga of the 19th century heroic imperial Russia to BBC One in six one hour episodes from Sunday January 3rd, produced by the Weinstein Company as BBC's most ambitious drama project to date? Lifetime, A&E Network and History will simultaneously broadcast the miniseries as four two hour episodes later from January 18th for the viewers in the United States of America. It will also air in Australia and many European countries.

SWEEPING 19TH CENTURY SAGA  
Based on one of the best, most influential, longest and most popular novels in history which has been sold in almost 40 million copies to date, WAR AND PEACE from famous Russian writing genius Leo Tolstoy the mini series details Napoleon’s bloodthirsty and aggressive attack on Eastern Europe and the impact the war has on five Russian aristocratic families in the 1800s whose personal entanglements threaten to disrupt their privileged world! Tolstoy’s expansive novel is also set against the backdrop of the reign of Tzar Alexander I, the lingering effects of his grandmother Catherine The Great’s rule and the events surrounding Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812.

STARSTUDDED ENSEMBLE CAST!

Adapted by Andrew Davies, the man who reimagined 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Bleak House' and penned 'Mr Selfridge', and directed by Tom Harper, WAR AND PEACE will boast the mind blowingly star studded cast led by 'Cinderella' and 'Downton Abbey' star Lily James as the romantic and impulsive Natasha Rostova, magnetic James Norton ('Grantchester', 'Life in Squares', 'Belle') as handsome and brave prince Andrei Bolkonsky, while Paul Dano ('12 Years a Slave', 'Little Miss Sunshine') will take the role of the socially awkward but noble Pierre Bezukhov. Prince Vassily Kuragin will be portrayed by Stephen Rea ('The Honourable Woman', 'The Crying Game'), Count Rostov is played by Ade Edmondson ('The Young Ones', 'Holby City') while Countess Rostov is played by Greta Scacchi ('The Odyssey', 'Emma')! Charismatic star Jack Lowden ('Passing Bells') will appear as Nikolai Rostov Natasha's brave Hussar brother, while 'The Musketeers' star Tom Burke will be psychopathic Dolokhov! Prince Bolkonsky will be portrayed by legendary 'Moulin Rouge' and 'Harry Potter' star Jim Broadbent!  Anna Pavlovna will be played by 'The X Files' star Gillian Anderson! 'White Queen' star Aneurin Barnard is social climber Boris Drubetskoy Nikolai's best friend, while Brian Cox will appear as General Kutuzov!