ANIMATED WEDNESDAY: CRAZY TRAILERS FOR ANIMATED ADVENTURES 'SMALLFOOT' AND 'HERE COMES THE GRUMP'! SOFIA VERGARA TO PRODUCE 'KOATI' SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE ANIMATED MOVIE

SOFIA VERGARA  

TO PRODUCE 'KOATI' ADVENTURE

Koati will be presented for sales at Cannes!

Animation all the way today, starting with the news from Sofia Vergara who will produce and voice animated movie KOATI directed by Rodrigo Perez Castro who worked on Ferdinand and Ice Age movies. The movie will revolve around three unlikely heroes: a free spirited coati (a raccoon-like animal found mainly in Central and South America), a fearless monarch butterfly, and a hyperactive glass frog as they embark on an adventure to stop a wicked coral snake (Vergara) from destroying their homeland and friends.The coming of age story, filled with kind-hearted spirit and positivity, will present us with Latin American jungles, the Amazonian rainforest, and all the fun and cute exotic creatures that call them ‘home’. The movie will try to find distributors at this year's Cannes Film Festival open for foreign sales.

'HERE COMES THE GRUMP'  

TURN UR FROWN UPSIDE DOWN

Grump arrives next month around Europe

Speaking of Ice Age, the writer of its Meltdown sequel Jim Hecht is penning another crazy new animated adventure HERE COMES THE GRUMP now known as A WIZARD'S TALE which should hit European cinemas this May! The voice cast includes Lily Collins, Ian McShane and Toby Kebbell! 

Balloon kingdoms, dopey police dragons and happy wizards are exactly how Terry remembered his Grandmother's whacky fairy tales. Except they are real and it's definitely not as 'cheerful'.

'SMALLFOOT'  

GETS A BIG NEW TRAILER!

SmallFoot arrives this September!

New trailer and poster have been released for animated adventure directed by Karey Kirkpatrick (he directed Over the Hedge and wrote children's classics Charlotte's Web, Chicken Run, James and the Giant Peach, The Spiderwick Chronicles), SMALLFOOT It has the story revolving around a Yeti called Migo (with the voice from Channing Tatum) who is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist. Beside Channing Tatum as Migo, the voice cast also includes James Corden as Percy, a human, Common as Stonekeeper, LeBron James as Gwangi, Gina Rodriguez as Kolka, Danny DeVito as Dorgle, who are all yetis!

'DOCTOR THORNE' PERIOD SET SERIES PICS & TRAILER WITH TOM HOLLANDER, IAN MCSHANE! AMC & RIDLEY SCOTT TO ADAPT DAN SIMMONS' 'THE TERROR' INTO 19TH CENTURY TV SERIES!

'TERROR' 19TH CENTURY

EPIC SERIES FROM RIDLEY SCOTT

Only some period set series for you today, people, starting with the report coming from 'Deadline' that AMC has ordered THE TERROR into ten episode series! Based on the bestselling novel by Dan Simmons it will air sometime in 2017! Ridley Scott will produce the series set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crews in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

'DOCTOR THORNE' PERIOD SET

DRAMA STARTS THIS SUNDAY!

If you can't hardly wait for the second season of POLDARK to start at BBC this spring, here's something you can pass your time with: ITV will launch their new Julian Fellowes three part historical series DOCTOR THORNE this Sunday evening based on Anthony Throllope novel! 

IAN MCSHANE, TOM HOLLA- NDER LEAD THE CAST

Tom Hollander (Rev, A Poet In New York, Pirates of the Caribbean) takes the role of Dr Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of Greshamsbury in Barsetshire with his young niece, Mary (Stefanie Martini), a girl blessed with every gift except money. Mary Thorne has grown up alongside the Gresham family, whose house, Greshamsbury Park, and status dominate the county. With Francis Gresham Senior (Richard McCabe) having frittered away the family fortune, however, his wife, Lady Arabella Gresham, played by Rebecca Front (War and Peace, Humans, Lewis, The Thick of It), their daughters Augusta (Gwyneth Keyworth) and Beatrice (Nell Barlow), and their handsome brother Frank (Harry Richardson) face losing their home. Ian McShane also stars.

TOM HOLLANDER, IAN MCSHANE LEAD ITV'S NEW HISTORICAL DRAMA 'DOCTOR THORNE' FROM 'DOWNTON ABBEY'S' JULIAN FELLOWES! LI BINGBING TO LEAD 'NEST' SF MOVIE

LI BINGBING  

TAKES THE LEAD ROLE IN 'NEST' SF MOVIE

As 'Deadline' reports super gorgeous Chinese star Li Bingbing (you remember her from sf movies TRANSFORMERS and RESIDENT EVIL, fantasy epic SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL, and historical drama SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN) has signed on to play the lead role in NEST,  which is being planned as the largest ever budgeted Chinese Australian coproduction. To be filmed in 3D, NEST tells the tale of a team of scientists who discover a swarm of deadly, intelligent and carnivorous funnel web spiders. Battling through an ancient labyrinth, the team must learn the secret behind the spiders’ heightened abilities before its too late. 

'DOCTOR THORNE' SERIES FROM 

 'DOWNTON ABBEY' CREATOR

Looks like we're again getting bored aristocrats from Julian Fellowes whose new series has just got its cast! Tom Hollander and Ian McShane will lead the cast of ITV's new period set three part drama DOCTOR THORNE based on Anthony Throllope novel which Weinstein Co. will distribute worldwide!

TOM HOLLANDER AND IAN MCSHANE LEAD THE CAST  
It will follow Dr Thomas Thorne (Tom Hollander), who lives with his penniless niece Mary (Stefanie Martini). When Lady Arabella Gresham (Rebecca Front) finds out that her son Frank (Harry Richardson) is in love with Mary, she is horrified and believes it is his duty to make a rich marriage to save their family estate - after her husband Francis Gresham Senior (Richard McCabe) has frittered away their fortune. Scheming with her sister-in-law (Phoebe Nicholls) and niece (Kate O'Flynn), Arabella targets wealthy American heiress Martha Dunstable (Alison Brie). Ian McShane is alcoholic railway millionaire Sir Roger Scatcherd, while Cressida Bonas is Mary's friend and confidante Patience Oriel.

ANIMATED WEDNESDAY: NEW ANIMATED MOVIES 'MUNE GUARDIAN OF THE MOON', 'FROG KINGDOM' WITH BELLA THORNE, GREGG SULKIN, 'BILAL' EPIC STORY WITH IAN MCSHANE

  'MUNE' ANIMATED TRAILER

THE GUARDIAN OF THE MOON

We're having an animated movies day, today, kids! Starting with the first trailer for animated adventure MUNE GUARDIAN OF THE MOON which hits European cinemas this summer. When a faun named Mune becomes the Guardian of the Moon, little did he had unprepared experience with the Moon and an accident that could put both the Moon and the Sun in danger, including a corrupt titan named Necross who wants the Sun for himself and placing the balance of night and day in great peril. Now with the help of a wax-child named Glim and the warrior, Sohone who also became the Sun Guardian, they go out on an exciting journey to get the Sun back and restore the Moon to their rightful place in the sky.

  'FROG KINGDOM' TRAILER

GREGG SULKIN & BELLA THORNE

Another adventure, but a more green one, awaits US audience at the end of June in FROG KINGDOM with voices from Drake Bell, Gregg Sulkin and Bella Thorne!  When the Frog King announces that the winner of the Froglympics will marry his daughter, Princess Froglegs, she runs away, and begins training as a commoner. She is determined to win both the games and her freedom. Meanwhile, the villainous snake Serpent has ideas of his own: to ruin the Froglympics and take over the kingdom. With a little luck - and a little help from their friend, the trusty Sidekick - Freddy and Princess Froglegs must save Frog Kingdom from the wicked clutches of Serpent.

  'BILAL' EPIC TRAILER

ONE BOY WILL CHALLENGE EVERYTHING

And a more serious one among the upcoming animated features is BILAL coming from United Arab Emirates with voices from Ian McShane, Michael Gross and Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje! A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.