'FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS' TRAILER WITH MERYL STREEP! HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOINS RACHEL WEISZ, SAM CLAFLIN IN 'MY COUSIN RACHEL'! JOSH BOWMAN JOINS 'TIME AFTER TIME' SHOW, TONE BELL, BEAU MIRCHOFF 'GOOD FORTUNE' SITCOM

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOINS

RACHEL WEISZ, SAM CLAFLIN IN 'MY COUSIN RACHEL' PERIOD DRAMA 

Here's a lovely lady for you: earlier last year I informed you that Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin will lead period set drama MY COUSIN RACHEL and now they're joined by latest Lady Chaterley Holliday Grainger! As 'Deadline' reports the film is an adaptation of the classic Daphne Du Maurier novel. The dark romance revolves around Philip, a young orphan, who believes his mysterious, beautiful cousin Rachel may have been responsible for the murder of his beloved guardian Ambrose, also a cousin of theirs. As Philip plots his revenge, he finds his feelings complicated as he falls under Rachel’s beguiling spell.

TELEVISION UPDATES

JOSH BOWMAN JOINS 'TIME AFTER TIME' SF SHOW
As EW writes today, one of TV's most popular hunks, Josh Bowman has just joined the new ABC sf show TIME AFTER TIME that I announced only yesterday! While young Freddie Stroma will play the lead role of  H.J. Wells whose time travelling adventures are the focus of the show, Bowman will play Jack the Ripper whom Wells chases through time. He is also John Stevenson, a brilliant and charismatic surgeon who lives a double life as the infamous serial killer.
TONE BELL, BEAU MIRCHOFF IN 'GOOD FORTUNE' SITCOM
Meanwhile, Tone Bell, whom we loved in TRUTH BE TOLD, AWKWARD's  Beau Mirchoff and Diane Guerrero will star in new NBC multi camera sitcom GOOD FORTUNE about June, a hyper structured young woman who, after a fortune teller predicts she’ll die in 3 days, decides she’s finally going to live her life with no regrets. When she doesn’t die but realize how great it felt to take risks, she adopts a new life policy along with a new full time fortune teller. June and her best friends Adam (Bell), Dave (Mirchoff), Bailey (Guerrero) and Metzger plan to always stick together, impending doom or not.

'FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS' 

TRAILER WITH MERYL STREEP

And an absolutely delightful first trailer has been released for the new comedy movie FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS based on a true story in which Meryl Streep plays world's worst opera singer who isn't really aware of her horrid voice. Hugh Grant plays her manager! Rebecca Ferguson also stars!

DAVID SCHWIMMER, JIM STURGESS TO LEAD 'FEED THE BEAST' TV SERIES! NBC ORDERS 'GOOD FORTUNE' SITCOM AIRS 'CROWDED' ON SUNDAYS! ABC ORDERS 'STILL STAR CROSSED' ROMEO AND JULIET SEQUEL TV SERIES

AMC'S 'FEED THE BEAST'

SERIES TO STAR DAVID SCHWIMMER AND JIM STURGESS

Beside the news that David Bowie's LABYRINTH is getting a reboot and that McG might direct new MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, other news comes from the TV world! FRIENDS' David Scwimmer and movie star Jim Sturgess will lead new AMC's series FEED THE BEAST!

Based on Danish series BANKEROT, the ten episode series will see the two of them playing best friends, Tommy Moran (David Schwimmer), and Dion Patras (Jim Sturgess), who take one last shot at their dream of opening a restaurant. They push each other, welcome love into their lives and overcome their demons. They also betray, backstab, manipulate and coerce each other into the most dangerous situations imaginable!

 'STILL STAR CROSSED' 

GETS PILOT ORDER BY ABC
Meanwhile, a project I've announced last year has been officially ordered for a pilot by ABC! Shondaland and ABC will try to turn Melinda Taub's bestselling book STILL STAR CROSSED into potential TV series. As a sort of a Romeo and Juliet sequel and set in 16th century Verona, it picks up where Shakespeare’s story left off, charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. In the book, to end the family feud, Prince Escalus orders the most eligible Montague bachelor, Benvolio, Romeo’s best friend, to marry Juliet’s older cousin, Capulet maid Rosaline, the girl Romeo first loved.

NBC'S NEW TV COMEDIES

'CROWDED' & 'GOOD FORTUNE'

Beside moving THE CARMICHAEL SHOW and new sitcom CROWDED into Sunday evenings from March, NBC has also ordered a pilot for multicamera sitcom GOOD FORTUNE an ensemble comedy that focuses on a hyper structured young woman whose life is upended when she starts taking advice from a mysterious fortune teller. CROWDED is also a multicamera sitcom: After 20 years of parenting, empty nesters Mike (Patrick Warburton) and Martina (Carrie Preston) are finally reclaiming their wild side. Yet when both of their two grown daughters unexpectedly move back in, and Mike’s parents scratch their plans to spend their golden years in Florida, their roost is full again.

From executive producer Sean Hayes, this new (and very timely) family comedy proves that life is crazy with a full house, especially the second time around.