First footage has been released for Andy Serkis' directed animated movie adaptation of Orvell's famous ANIMAL FARM which Angel studios will release into cinemas next May. Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Kathleen Turner, Steve Buscemi, Jim Parsons, Laverne Cox, Woody Harrelson, Kieran Culkin have all lent their voices in the film.
WHAT IS THE STORY?
A
group of animals, tired of their old lifestyle, rebel against their
human owners and take over the farm. With their uprising over, the
animals are presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a
cunning pig named Napoleon. It's a situation that forces them to find
the courage to stand up to Napoleon.
Trailer has been released for Charlie McDowell's movie adaptation of beloved Finnish classic book THE SUMMER BOOK by Tove Jannson. Released
The Summer Book is out September 19th
50 years ago, it follows nine-year-old Sophia (Emily Matthews) who spends the summers at her family’s seasonal home on a tranquil isle in the Gulf of Finland, but this will be the first summer without her mother. Her father (Anders Danielsen Lie) remains numbed by grief, while her grandmother (Glenn Close) guides her on a giddy, winding path towards young adulthood. With a sense of infinite possibility and a tender regard for the wonders of the natural world, Sophia and her grandmother explore the terrain, celebrate midsommar, and test the limits of faith in the face of life’s many storms. It is out September 19th in select theatres in North America.
We are swamped with fresh casting news at the end of the week, so position yourself tight and here we go: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas have been set as leads in POWER BALLAD musical comedy from John Carney. Already shooting over in Dublin it will will follow the story of a wedding singer (Rudd), a rock star (Jonas), and the song that comes between them.
STELLAR CAST FOR SIMON CURTIS' ENCORE
Simon Curtis has set a stellar cast for his new comedy movie ENCORE in which Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson and Henry Winkler
will play a group of veteran actors whose passion for their profession
is reignited through a retirement home production! Close and Irons play
former Broadway icons Marie and Nigel, who are new residents of a
retirement home, where they discover a community of forgotten talents.
Motivated to revive Nigel’s passion for theatre and embrace this new
chapter in their life, Marie decides to stage a production with the
residents, pulling everyone out of their past and into their present.
THE KING OF COVENT GARDEN
Beside being busy with new series and films that he has lined up in his schedule, Anthony Hopkins will also do a little music: it has been announced that he will lead THE KING OF COVENT GARDEN biopic as George Frideric Handel during the period the famed opera composer worked on his choral masterpiece “Messiah”. It will be a powerfully majestic celebration of genius breaking all the rules to create an anthem inspiring the popular imagination of global audiences.
And it is quite a stellar trailer too. Apple TV Plus has issued trailer for their THE NEW LOOK mini series which will start streaming its ten episodes February 14th set in Paris after the Nazi occupation of the French capital when it became the heart of a fashion revival led by Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) but it caused his clash with Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) who reigned the fashion world before that. Maisie Williams also stars as Catherine Dior, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi, John Malkovich as Lucien Lelongand, Claes Bang as Spatz with Glenn Close as one of the lead fashion editors of the time. Our French hunkster Hugo Becker also stars. Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain will also be featured as they were their contemporaries.Alex Jennings and our boy Jannis Niewohner also star. The series which opens with three episodes will have modern soundtrack. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
After the first images that Apple has released from their February 14th series THE NEW LOOK we now also have two images of Glenn Close as Harper's Bazaar's editor Carmel Snow. Starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel, the series centers on the fashion designers and their contemporaries as they navigated the horrors of World War II and launched modern fashion. John Malkovich stars as Lucien Lelong, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi, and Claes Bang as Spatz. As Dior rises to prominence with his groundbreaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence, Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer is put into jeopardy in the ten episode show.
The latest news coming from Deadline today is that Charlie McDowell has cast Glenn Close in his movie adaptation of beloved Finnish classic book THE SUMMER BOOK by Tove Jannson. Released 50 years ago, it tells the life affirming story of a young girl and her grandmother as they spend a summer on a tiny, unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The novel has been translated into 35 languages.
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
NEW AMAZON ADAPTATION
Two new series to announce today, starting with Prime Video which will do another series adaptation of John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Johan Renck is set to direct the sf classic in which most people in the world are blinded by a meteor shower, and triffids, tall venomous, carnivorous plants, start killing the rest. The story centers on Bill Masen, a biologist who specializes in triffids. He leads survivors in their fight against the killer plants and at some point rescues a young sighted girl and travels with her for several days.
BBC MEN UP SERIES
ABOUT FIRST VIAGRA TRIALS
BBC has announced their work on a TV movie inspired by the true story of one of the world's first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra, held in Swansea’s Morriston Hospital in 1994. Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon), Colin White, Tommy Cadogan, Peetham 'Pete' Shah and Eddie O’Connor all have one thing in common. Impotency. It’s affecting them in every aspect of their lives, as they are drowning in shame and silence. Left feeling as failures as men, questioning their manhood, and having attempted their own fixes to no avail, the group is presented with a lifeline: a place on a trial for an unknown drug thought to cure impotence led by the ambitious Dr Dylan Pearce (Aneurin Barnard). As each man grapples with their own insecurities and hiding the truth from their loved ones - will this little pill be able to bring back their spark?
After Drowning, Penance and Deceived, Channel 5 is giving us another interesting thriller mini series and they've set Sheridan Smith to lead TEACHER a four part series in which she will be Jenna, a state schoolteacher
Samuel Bottomley, Sheridan Smith and Kelvin Fletcher will star
whose life unravels after being accused of a drunken sexual encounter with one of her pupils. Other cast includes Samuel Bottomley, Kelvin Fletcher, Cecilia Noble, Sharon Rooney, David Fleeshman and Ian Puleston Davies!
FOUR GOOD DAYS TRAILER
WITH GLENN CLOSE, MILA KUNIS
Four Good Days are out this May!
Meanwhile, you probably won't recognise Mila Kunis in the first trailer for FOUR GOOD DAYS movie drama which is out May 21st on VOD over in USA. Glenn Close also stars, giving another impressive role in the powerful true story from a Pulitzer Award winning writer, that follows a mother who helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
The film which will also hit selected theaters this spring was both written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia who already helmed Glenn Close in award winning drama Albert Nobbs. Check out the moving trailer below and tell us what you think.
Two trailers for you today for two totally different movies, first up a comedy THE STAND IN with Drew Barrymore which will arrive into selected theatres and on VOD December 11th with her playing an actress and her own stand in. In The Stand In, when ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy (Drew Barrymore) hires her on set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her identity, career, and boyfriend in the process. Jamie Babbit directed this comedy feature film. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
HILLBILLY ELEGY TRAILER
GLENN CLOSE & AMY ADAMS NEED TO GET THEIR OSCARS
Now this one is for a much more serious drama movie, starring two outstanding thespians Amy Adams and Glenn Close (who might as well
Hillbilly Elegy arrives November 24th
finally get her Oscar for this one after so many recent injustices towards her in recent years).
Based on the best selling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown. The movie will stream on Netflix from November 24th directed by Ron Howard and also starring Freida Pinto, Haley Bennett and Bo Hopkins. Did you know that Glenn Close and Amy Adams have 13 Oscar nominations together and no win at all while the talentless likes of certain Colemans, Berries and Paltrows have their Golden Boys?
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.
Two new posters to end the week, starting with the new one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to
Crooked House is Agatha's weirdest novel
premiere on TV in UK this Sunday and already on VOD in USA, it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most,
it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited
to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including
Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an
engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person
who poisoned her grandfather is found.
'PHANTOM THREAD' POSTER
DANIEL DAY LEWIS' LAST MOVIE
Anew poster has also been released for dramatic biopicPHANTOM THREAD, Daniel Day Lewis' final movie (at least he says so) which
should
This is Daniel Day Lewis' last movie ever!
walk into cinemas next February in UK, December in USA, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Two new trailers to end the week, starting with the first one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to
It was Agatha Christie's favourite book of hers
be released sometime next year it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most,
it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited
to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including
Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an
engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person
who poisoned her grandfather is found.
'REPLICAS' SF TRAILER
IN WHICH KEANU REEVES CLONES HIS DEAD WIFE & KIDS
There is also a very exciting first trailer for Keanu Reeves sf movie REPLICAS in which he plays a daring synthetic biologist who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it
Alice Eve plays Keanu cloned wife in the movie
means pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.In other words he clones his dead wife and kids!
One of our favourite directors, visual genius Jean Jacques Annaud (Wolf Totem, Seven Years in Tibet, Black Gold, Enemy at the Gates) will
Patrick Dempsey will lead the Epix series
direct a ten episode TV series adaptation of 2014 massive best seller THE TRUTH ABOUT HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR by Joel Dicker which has been sold for translation in more than 32 countries!
In the story set in a coastal New Hampshire town, Ben Schnetzer will
play Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist who needs inspiration
for his next book. Marcus heads to New Hampshire to stay with his
college professor, Harry Quebert (Patrick Dempsey), to focus on his
writing. When the body of fifteen year old Nola Kellergan is found on
his property 33 years after she went missing and Quebert is accused of
her murder, Marcus works to uncover the truth. The result of his
investigation becomes his next book. The cast also includes Virginia
Madsen, Colm Feore, and Damon Wayans Jr. as the investigator in the
case. The series will air on MGM's Epix cable channel.
'THE WILDE WEDDING' TRAILER
WITH PATRICK STEWART, GLENN CLOSE, JOHN MALKOVICH
The only trailer I have for you today is a rather fun and delightful one for THE WILDE WEDDING with a stellar cast led by Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, John Malkovich! It follows Eve Wilde (Glenn
The movie is out in limited release next month
Close) who prepares for her wedding to
husband number four, renowned English writer Harold Alcott (Patrick Stewart) after a whirlwind courtship. At her upstate New York home, in the presence of both Wilde's first husband, celebrated stage actor Laurence Darling (John Malkovich), and their collective families (Minnie Driver, Jack Davenport, Yael Stone, Peter Facinelli, Noah Emmerich, Grace Van Patten), the long summer weekend offers the opportunity for everyone to get to know each other a bit more intimately. As sexual sparks begin to fly, there are unforeseen consequences abound.
Two new posters today, people, starting with a gorgeous one for fantasy adventure COLD SKIN starring our most dearest David Oakes.
The movie is also known as Atlantida in Russia
The movie is first out in Spain this October.
On the edge of the Antartic Circle, in the years after World War I, a
steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On
board is a young man (David Oakes), on his way to assume the lonely
post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of
the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been
sent to replace, just a deranged castaway (Ray Stevenson) who has
witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is forest, a deserted
cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then the night
begins to fall...
'WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY?'
NEW POSTER AND TRAILER
The movie is also known as Seven Sisters
Another movie that has just got a new poster is Tommy Wirkola's sf thriller WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY which is out this August starring Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close in a story set in a world where families are limited to one child due to over population! The story follows a set of identical septuplets who must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Crazy comedies today, people, with ladies whom we haven't watched often in that genre: Cate Blanchett will lead Richard Linklater's new comedy drama WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE which also stars Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig, and Billy Crudup. And adaptation of a Maria Semple’s novel, the movie follows Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), an architect turned recluse who goes missing prior to a family vacation. This prompts her husband and 15 year old daughter to go on an expedition in hopes of finding the third link to their small family but what they discover is her troubled past. Judy Greer will play Dr. Kurtz, the brutally honest director of a treatment facility that caters to mental illness and drug issues.
WHAT'S CATE DOING? After spreading some hell in Thor: Ragnarok this year, Blanchett will
lend her voice in Jungle Book as evil snake Kaa and for the second time
in How To Train Your Dragon 3!
GLENN CLOSE TO RISE FROM
THE DEAD IN AMAZON'S 'SEA OAK'
This certainly sounds deadly, heh, fun: as 'The Hollywood Reporter' reveals today, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Glenn Close will play a zombie in Amazon's new half hour comedy series SEA OAK which revolves around Aunt Bernie (Close), a meek, unmarried woman with no children in working class Rust Belt City who dies tragically in a home invasion. Compelled by sheer force of dissatisfaction, she comes back from the dead full of rage and determined to get the life she never had. She proceeds to inflict a range of demands on what's left of her nuclear family, including a quasi stripper nephew and two feckless nieces, who live in a low-end subsidized hellhole of a housing complex called Sea Oak.
WITH TONI COLLETTE, HARVEY KEITEL AND ROSSY DE PALMA
Two great trailers today, the first one for lovely comedy movie MADAME out this August! Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob (Toni Collette and Harvey Keitel), a wealthy and well
The movie will hit Europe in November
connected American couple move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess discovers there are 13 guests. Panic stricken, Anne insists her loyal maid, Maria (Rossy de Palma), disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noblewoman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful chat lead Maria to accidentally endear herself to a dandy British art broker (Michael Smiley). Their budding romance will have Anne chasing her maid around Paris and finally plotting to destroy this most unexpected and joyous love affair. Tom Hughes also stars.
'SEVEN SISTERS' SF TRAILER
WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY?
A rather interesting first trailer and poster have been released for sf thriller SEVEN SISTERS!
In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake
The movie hits parts of Europe late August
a drastic One Child Policy, seven identical sisters (Noomi Rapace) live hiding pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go
Noomi Rapace plays all seven sisters
outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.
Cast is shaping up for the movie adaptation of Peter Cameron's novel ANDORRA with Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson and Joanna Lumley joining Clive Owen! He plays Alexander Fox, a bookseller who leaves the U.S. after a personal tragedy to begin a new life in the tiny country of ANDORRA.
He quickly becomes entangled with the ever present locals. Toni Collette is Mrs Dent, an Australian with a large dog and a volatile secret. Joanna Lumley is Mrs Quay, the kayaking matriarch of an Andorran dynasty who seems to recall Fox from long ago. He finds comfort in the company of her daughter, Miss Quay (Gillian Anderson), as the mystery of his origin deepens.
When a woman’s body is found soon after Fox’s arrival, the local lieutenant becomes strangely convinced that he is responsible. With his past threatening to envelop his newfound paradise, Fox finds himself in a crisis of conscience and identity, in a foreign country from which he may never escape.
AGATHA CHRISTIE 'CROOKED HOUSE' ADAPTATION
CASTS GLENN CLOSE, MAX IRONS, CHRISTINA HENDRICKS Talking about ensemble casts, 'Deadline' reports that Christina
Hendricks has joined Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Max Irons, Stefanie
Martini, Terence Stamp in the first movie adaptation of Agatha
Christie's CROOKED HOUSE. Written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes,
it follows private detective Charles Hayward who is invited to solve a
gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia, his
client and former lover.
'THE SON' TRAILER FOR
PIERCE BROSNAN MINI SERIES
In the trailer section the first one has been revealed, together with the first photos, for new period set series THE SON which will air at AMC next year with Pierce Brosnan playing the 'first son of Texas'!
THE FIRST SON OF TEXAS The ten episode series is a multi generational saga that weaves
between two time periods: the story of young Eli and his life with the
Comanches in 1849, and Eli 60 years later as he works to maintain his
family’s cattle empire against the backdrop of the Bandit Wars of South
Texas. Henry Garrett plays Eli’s son Pete who’s struggling to make his father proud, while Sydney Lucas plays his granddaughter Jeannie, a tomboy unwilling to accept an existence of childbearing and marrying well.
After running through jungle with Alexander Skarsgard in Tarzan this summer, it seems Margot Robbie will now be flying through air as well! As 'Deadline' reports today she has taken the lead role in period set biopic QUEEN OF THE AIR based on Dean N. Jensen’s 2013 book of the same name!
The movie will bring us the story of famed trapeze artist Lillian
Leitzel and her tragic romance with fellow acrobat Alfredo Codona. The
German born Leitzel became a sensation in the 1920s for her death
defying stunts, eventually entering into a famously volatile love affair
and marriage with Codona. She died tragically in 1931 during a live
performance when her rigging snapped; Codona died 6 years later in a
shocking Long beach, California set murder suicide.
GLENN CLOSE, WILLEM DAFOE, NOOMI RAPACE IN SF MOVIE
Now here's an interesting sf movie: Glenn Close has joined Willem Dafoe and Noomi Rapace in WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY set in a future where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One Child Policy and where seven identical sisters live a hide and seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman, enforces a strict family planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather who raised and named them — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday — each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.
EYE POPPING NEW TRAILER
FOR 'SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL' WITH LI BINGBING
Last winter I showed you first stunning posters and trailer for upcoming new Chinese epic fantasy adventure SNOWGIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL and now you can check out an eye popping new trailer! The movie which broke records in China and is out August 4th on Blu Ray and DVD and on demand in USA, stars gorgeous Li Bingbing as a snow demon opposite Kun Chen’s Zhong Kui, a ghost who maintains order in the afterlife. He is legendary Chinese anti-hero, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
Turner, Steve Buscemi, Jim Parsons, Laverne Cox, Woody Harrelson, Kieran Culkin have all lent their voices in the film. 
Turner, Steve Buscemi, Jim Parsons, Laverne Cox, Woody Harrelson, Kieran Culkin have all lent their voices in the film. 
presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a
cunning pig named Napoleon. It's a situation that forces them to find
the courage to stand up to Napoleon.
presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a
cunning pig named Napoleon. It's a situation that forces them to find
the courage to stand up to Napoleon.
