LIAM HEMSWORTH, DAN STEVENS FOR ARABIAN NIGHTS' 'FORTY THIEVES' ADVENTURE! 'MARCO POLO' TV SERIES POSTER! JAI COURTNEY IS DEADSHOT IN 'SUICIDE SQUAD'? BILLY BOYD'S 'LAST GOODBYE' SONG FOR 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES'!

'MARCO POLO' EPIC TV SERIES

FIRST POSTER RELEASED

With less than a month before the big premiere at Netflix, new historical series MARCO POLO has got its first poster with Lorenzo Richelmy as the famed explorer whose adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century China (a world replete with greed, betrayal,   sexual intrigue and rivalry) are in the focus of the show. In the Harvey Weinstein produced ten episode series, Zhu Zhu plays Marco’s love interest Kokachin, Joan Chen is Empress Chabi and Benedict Wong is Kublai Khan.

'40 THIEVES' EPIC ADVENTURE

LIAM HEMSWORTH OR DAN STEVENS FOR THE LEAD ROLE
According to 'The Wrap' 20th Century Fox is still planning their new big screen take on legendary ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES oriental tale! Titled FORTY THIEVES it is currently screen testing Liam Hemsworth, DOWNTON ABBEY'S Dan Stevens and Evan Peters (X MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST) for the lead role in the epic adventure movie with strong comedic undertones! Liam Hemsworth was mentioned for the role a few years ago too when the project was called ARABIAN NIGHTS and was supposed to star Anthony Hopkins as well, but now the studio is planning the film as just a part of a possible seven movie franchise which would follow famous 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS stories! Shawn Levy (NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM) is directing the movie!
JAI COURTNEY IN SUICIDE SQUAD?
Talking about rumoured castings for the huge future projects, dashing SPARTACUS star Jai Courtney is rumoured to be Floyd Lawton or Deadshot, a master marksman, in DC Comics' supervillain movie SUICIDE SQUAD which will assemble some of the biggest villains in one team with Margot Robbie rumoured to be Harley Quinn, Jared Leto The Joker, Will Smith as Captain Boomerang, Tom Hardy as Rick Flagg and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor! 

BILLY BOYD'S 'LAST GOODBYE'

 ENDING TUNE FOR 'HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES'

Keeping in today's epic tone, check out the song THE LAST GOODBYE that Billy Boyd has sung as the main theme of THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES! The soft acoustic tune will roll with the epic finale's end credits marking the end of the epic fantasy saga! Billy Boyd co-wrote it with filmmakers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. 
I saw the light fade from the sky 
On the wind I heard a sigh 
As the snowflakes cover my fallen brothers
 I will say this last goodbye....

FINAL 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES' TRAILER IS HERE! STUNNING 'INTO THE WOODS' POSTERS WITH MERYL STREEP, EMILY BLUNT, JOHNNY DEPP, CHRIS PINE! STEPHEN AMELL, SUSAN SARANDON IN 'WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY'

THE FINAL TRAILER IS HERE FOR

 'THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES' FINAL CHAPTER

Your epic delight for today is the final trailer for the final chapter of the fantasy saga THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES which is ready to fight its way into cinemas this December with the fantastic 45 minutes long ending battle scene which will focus on all of our favourite heroes fighting for The Middle Earth: King Thranduil (Lee Pace), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Tauriel (Lilly Evangeline), Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) with the Elven armies, Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) leading Men of the Lake Town, Thorin (Richard Armitage) and Kili (Aidan Turner) from Dwarves and Bilbo the Hobbit (Martin Freeman) joining in with Gandalf (Ian McKellen)!  

UNITED IN BATTLE
Mere seconds after the events of "Desolation", Bilbo and Company continue to claim a mountain of treasure that was guarded long ago: But with Gandalf the Grey also facing some formidable foes of his own, the Hobbit is outmatched when the brutal army of orcs led by Azog the Defiler returns. But with other armies such as the elves and the men of Lake-Town, which are unsure to be trusted, are put to the ultimate test when Smaug's wrath, Azog's sheer strength, and Sauron's force of complete ends attack. All in all, the trusted armies have two choices: unite or die. But even worse, Bilbo gets

put on a knife edge and finds himself fighting with Hobbit warfare with all of his might for his dwarf-friends, as the hope for Middle-Earth is all put in Bilbo's hands. The one "precious" thing to end it all.

WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY

STEPHEN AMELL & SUSAN SARANDON JOIN THE CAST
The Hollywood Reporter reports today that GREEN ARROW Stephen Amell and Susan Sarandon have joined WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY big screen adaptation of William Sutcliffe novel. It follows suburban mothers Helen, Carol and Gillian, who have been friends since their 28 year old sons were in grade school, and all have boys living in New York City. None of them ever call their mothers, and seem to have no sense of direction or responsibility. Feeling marginalized and forgotten, the women impulsively decide to visit their sons unannounced, discovering that their sons' lives may not be the only ones that need fixing in the process.

MAGICAL 'INTO THE WOODS'

 NEW POSTERS AND TRAILER

And check out these gorgeous new character posters, along with the truly lovely new trailer (which has much more singing than the previous ones), for this winter's humorous and heartfelt fairy tale musical movie INTO THE WOODS showing James Corden as the Baker who, together with his wife (Emily Blunt), tries to lift a curse placed upon them by the evil Witch (Meryl Streep who's never looked prettier) by heading INTO THE WOODS, where they meet a host of beloved and iconic fairy tale characters including  Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone),  Prince Charming (Chris Pine), The Other Prince (Billy Magnussen), and The Wolf (Johnny Depp). Directed by Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA) this fantasy adventure will bring magic and sparkle into theatres this Christmas!

SEBASTIAN STAN JOINS MERYL STREEP IN 'RICKI AND THE FLASH'! BILLY BOYD TO SING FOR 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES'! 'WORLD BREAKER' SCOTTISH EPIC! 'PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' BECOMES ABC TV SHOW

SEBASTIAN STAN JOINS

MERYL STREEP AND KEVIN KLINE IN 'RICKY AND THE FLASH'

The first new face to join legendary Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in RICKI AND THE FLASH is Sebastian Stan who will play her estranged son in the story of a woman chasing her dreams of being a rock star, which resulted in losing her family. Now this grocery store clerk gets one final shot at fulfilling her rock and roll destiny. This will be Meryl's third recent role in which she sings beside FLORENCE and INTO THE WOODS!

'WORLD BREAKER' SCOTTISH EPIC

In more epic news, Warner Bros. has bought script for WORLD BREAKER from young director William Eubank who will also helm the movie about a medieval Scottish warlord who, with the help of his sons, defends their castle from a siege orchestrated by the commander of a cunning and deadly army. Eubank is also directing TAUTONA, a sf thriller about a dangerous rescue operation at the world’s deepest gold mine in South Africa (it's 2.5 miles deep) that turns into something much bigger when an ancient lost city is discovered.

'THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES' TO HAVE

 BILLY BOYD SINGING AND A 45 MINUTE LONG BATTLE SCENE
In the news from the Middle Earth, it was revealed this weekend that the final chapter in the epic saga THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES will have the main song written and sung by Billy Boyd who played Peregrin Took in LOTR movies. Boyd has a song of his own on RETURN OF THE KING soundtrack! With The Last Goodbye song he will join Enya, Annie Lenox and Edd Sheeran who all had songs in previous Tolkien movies!  It was also announced that the movie will have a 45 minutes long battle sequence at the end! The large scale battle will be set at the bottom of the Lonely mountain with 10,000 Orcs, battle eagles, Bard's men, dwarves and King Thranduil's mighty Elven archers!

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

TO BECOME A SHOW AT ABC

Meanwhile in TV news, ABC is planning on turning famous PHANTOM OF THE OPERA into a TV show run by DESPERATE'S WIVES' Mark Cherry! According to 'Deadline' the contemporary reimagining of Gaston Leroux’s gothic novel that was the basis for the famous musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will now be set in the sexy and cutthroat world of the modern day music business. The new TV show is not envisioned as a musical but will feature musical elements in the vein of ABC’s country music industry drama 'Nashville'.

NEW ELVEN POSTERS FROM 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES' WITH CATE BLANCHETT, LEE PACE! IS EWAN MCGREGOR 'DOCTOR STRANGE'? 'JUSTICE LEAGUE' & 'WONDER WOMAN' FILMS CONFIRMED, EZRA MILLER IS 'THE FLASH', JASON MOMOA 'AQUAMAN'! 'MEN IN SHORTS' GAY SITCOM AT ABC!

IS EWAN MCGREGOR 

NEW 'DOCTOR STRANGE'?

Superhero news for you today, people: currently one of the hottest topics in Tinseltown is who will get the role of DOCTOR STRANGE in the big screen adaptation of Marvel's comic! Joaquin Phoenix has recently passed on the role of Dr. Stephen Strange, a brilliant neurosurgeon whose career is ruined after he suffers a terrible accident. He sets out on a quest to regain the precision in his hands by becoming the "Master of the Mystic Arts." According to the latest rumours the studio now wants Ewan McGregor for the role, with their shortlist of actors also including Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, and with Ethan Hawke and Jared Leto also considered as possible choices! 

'JUSTICE LEAGUE', 'WONDER WOMAN' FILMS FOR 2017!
Meanwhile, over at DC Comics and Warner Bros. the official confirmation has arrived for JUSTICE LEAGUE movie set for 2017 to be helmed by Zack Snyder and using the supeheroes from SUPERMAN VS BATMAN and some others, including Wonder Woman who is getting her solo movie in 2017 too with Gal Gadot in the lead role!
EZRA MILLER IS  'FLASH' 
After that, 2018 will bring THE FLASH movie with Ezra Miller confirmed in the lead, and AQUAMAN with Jason Momoa!

ROBBIE ROGERS INSPIRED  

'MEN IN SHORTS' GAY SITCOM 
In today's TV news, according to Deadline, ABC has signed a deal for MEN IN SHORTS comedy series inspired by the life of professional soccer player Robbie Rogers, who became the first openly gay man to compete in a top North American professional sports league. The mix of family and workplace comedy will chronicle how the soccer player’s team mates and friends interact with him after his coming out and how they start evaluating their own secrets that are keeping them from being happier and more authentic.
LEN WISE- MAN FOR FOX SF SHOW
Fox has ordered a new sf show from SLEEPY HOLLOW's Len Wiseman. The untitled space show is set in a foreseeable future, where companies have begun to colonize sections of our known galaxy. A mercenary search and rescue team is dispatched to investigate a distress signal from a prison transport that has crashed on an uncharted planet. This unlikely group of heroes will now have to work together when they encounter a much greater challenge on this mysterious planet than they could have anticipated.

NEW ELVEN POSTERS FOR

HOBBIT BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES  WITH CATE BLANCHETT, LUKE EVANS, LEE PACE

If you follow our official Facebook and Twitter accounts you've seen a new HOBBIT character poster each day this week, and now Elven posters and banners have been released too for the final epic chapter THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES which arrives into theatres this December. You can see Elven Queen Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) coming to help Gandalf (Ian McKellen) in the heat  of the battle, and also Elven king Thranduil (Lee Pace) leading his fearsome army of mighty Elven archers into war! These elven armies  will unite with the armies of men, lead byBard the Bowman (Luke Evans), and dwarvish forces in order to defeat the dark legions of Orcs sent by evil Sauron!

CHARACTER POSTER FOR LEE PACE'S ELVEN KING THRANDUIL IN 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES'! BRAD PITT, SHIA LABEOUF, LOGAN LERMAN ON 'FURY' WW2 POSTERS! CHANNING TATUM IS 'STRUCK BY GENIUS'! 'ULTIMATE GETAWAY' TV SHOW

ELVEN KING THRANDUIL

IN 'HOBBIT BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES' CHARACTER POSTER

After the stunning tapestry poster for THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, released earlier this week, a mind blowing character poster has been released for Lee Pace's Elven king Thranduil, son of Oropher,  who ruled over the Woodland Realm in the Second and Third Ages. Though inherently cautious, he eventually committed his kingdom to fighting Sauron in the War of the Ring. He was also the father of the elven prince of Mirkwood, Legolas, who was a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.

CHANNING TATUM

WILL BE STRUCK BY GENIUS
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Channing Tatum is going to produce and star in STRUCK BY GENIUS! Based on Jason Padgett's memoir, it follows his transformation into a maths genius at the age of 31.Formerly a hard partying college drop-out, he received a traumatic brain injury after being jumped in the street. During his recovery he discovered a new talent for mathematics. The story deals with his developing introversion, his struggles with PTSD and chronic pain and his fight to overcome them.
THE ULTIMATE GETAWAY SHOW AT FOX
Meanwhile, in TV news, Fox is developing THE ULTIMATE GETAWAY TV series which will follow a commercial airline crew who, to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives, use their layovers to commit robberies in different cities across the country.

'FURY' CHARACTER POSTERS

WITH BRAD PITT, LOGAN LERMAN AND SHIA LABEOUF

The premiere of World War II historical drama FURY is getting close to its October 17th scheduled date and Sony Pictures has now released posters depicting the characters that Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Jon Bernthal play. Directed by David Ayer FURY will be set in April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their brave attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Michael Peña, Scott Eastwood, Jason Isaacs, also star in the historical action movie.

STUNNING 'THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES' EPIC BANNER TAPESTRY! BEN FOSTER JOINS CHRIS PINE IN 'THE FINEST HOUR'! DANIEL RADCLIFFE, BEN KINGSLEY IN HISTORICAL 'BROOKLYN BRIDGE'!

DISNEY'S 'THE FINEST HOURS' 

BEN FOSTER JOINS CHRIS PINE

Variety reports today that the latest of the stars to join Disney's upcoming action adventure THE FINEST HOURS is young actor Ben Foster. The cast already includes Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Graham McTavish and Holliday Grainger. The movie will be based on the true story of a 1952 courageous Coast Guard rescue mission (which is considered one of the biggest one in their history), set against one of the worst storms ever to hit the East Coast, during which an oil tanker was literally ripped in half. Facing subzero temperatures and waves as high as 70 feet, four Coast Guard members set off in a lifeboat to rescue over 30 crew members who were stranded in the sinking vessel.

HISTORICAL 'BROOKLYN BRIDGE' 

MOVIE GETS DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND BEN KING- SLEY

Another of the upcoming movies to be connected with sea and water in some way will also be BROOKLYN BRIDGE. This historical drama already has Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Kingsley and Brie Larson in the cast. To be directed by Doug McGrath (EMMA, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, COMPANY MAN) the movie will see Radcliffe playing Washington Roebling, a talented but inexperienced young engineer who is left in charge of the construction of the BROOKLYN BRIDGE in the late 19th century after the death of his father (Kingsley). His wife (Larson) is drawn into his obsession to realise his father's vision.

STUNNING BANNER TAPESTRY

FOR THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES EPIC MOVIE

Mindblowingly stunning new banner tapestry has been released for this year's biggest epic adventure THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES and I've cut it into pieces for you so that you can enjoy all the details on it. It also features Luke Evans as Bard the  Bowman, Cate Blanchett as Elven queen Galadriel and Lee Pace as Elven king Thranduil, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly as Elven archers, Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Aidan Turner as Kili the Dwarf.

FLAMES OF WAR ARE UPON YOU
The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the legendary dragon), the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's ...     ...    frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards a desperate and dangerous choice. But there are even greater dangers ahead. Unseen by any but the Wizard Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen), the great enemy Sauron has sent forth legions of Orcs in a stealth attack upon the Lonely Mountain. As darkness converges on their escalating conflict, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide - unite or be destroyed. Bilbo finds himself fighting for his life and the lives of his friends in the epic Battle of the Five Armies, as the future of Middle-earth hangs in the balance.