Apple TV Plus has released first images from their new heist series 12 12 12
which unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days following the
heist. The series follows a disgraced FBI agent (Anthony Mackie) and an American career criminal (Jamie Dornan)
who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center
of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the
streets of Zurich. Jack Kesy will play Dornan's brother also involved in the heist. The series will have a two episode premiere November 13 with the last of the eight episodes streaming at Christmas.
Warner Bros has added Anya Taylor Joy to Andy Serkis directed LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM in which he will also repeat the role of Gollum. Kate Winslet joined previously as Marigol, Smeagol's grandmother, with Lee Pace returning as Elven king Thranduil and Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf. With Elijah Wood back as Frodo, Jamie Dornan joins as Strider aka Aragorn while Leo Woodall will be a character named Halvard. Anya Taylor Joy will play Seren, a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm, a trusted and lethal agent of King Thranduil. Set between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring,
it will follow Aragorn’s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the
creature can reveal the Ring’s location to Sauron. The film is out December 17th 2027.
Warner Bros has unveiled lead cast for Andy Serkis directed LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM in which he will also repeat the role of Gollum. Kate Winslet joined previously as Marigol, Smeagol's grandmother, with Lee Pace returning as Elven king Thranduil and Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf. With Elijah Wood back as Frodo, Jamie Dornan joins as Strider aka Aragorn while Leo Woodall will be a character named Halvard. Set between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, it will follow Aragorn’s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the creature can reveal the Ring’s location to Sauron. The film is out December 17th 2027.
Among the slate of new series announced for this year at Netflix is also seven episode series THE UNDERTOW with Jamie Dornan, Mackenzie Davis and Iain de Caestecker. Suffocating in a loveless marriage to Adam, Nicola’s life takes a deadly turn when Adam’s long-estranged identical twin brother Lee comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled romantic past threatens to destroy the present. When a split-second decision and a terrible accident leaves Adam dead, Nicola acts to protect her children. Bonded by cruel fate and a long-burning love, Nicola and Lee make a pact. With Lee assuming Adam’s identity, their hope is that the police investigation will conclude that free-spirited Lee died instead of his buttoned-up brother. Over the course of one week, Lee and Nicola struggle to maintain the secrets and lies. And though they can’t ignore their feelings for each other, they both know they’re living on borrowed time.
JAMIE DORNAN, ANTHONY MACKIE AND JACK KESY TO LEAD AT APPLE TV PLUS
Apple TV Plus is rounding up cast for their new heist series 12 12 12 which unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days following the heist. The series follows a disgraced FBI agent (Anthony Mackie) and an American career criminal (Jamie Dornan) who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich. Jack Kesy will play Dornan's brother also involved in the heist according to Deadline.
Netflix has announced some brand new series tonight including an hour long mini series BLACK RABBIT with Jude Law and Jason Bateman who will also direct a few episodes of the new series. In it, when the owner of a New York City hotspot (Bateman) allows his turbulent brother (Law) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
JAMIE DORNAN'S THE UNDERTOW
Meanwhile, Netflix has also given a role of twins to Jamie Dornan in their new UK original series THE UNDERTOW a crime noir series that will see the Irishman play identical twins Adam and Lee. Suffocating in a loveless marriage to Adam, Nicola (Mackenzie Davis)’s
life takes a dramatic turn when Adam’s long-estranged identical twin
brother Lee comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled
romantic past threatens to destroy the present.
PERIOD SET HOUSE OF GUINNESS
They have also set Steven Knight to pen period set HOUSE OF GUINNESS about one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness
Arthur Guinness also known as Ernest
Family. Set in 19th century Dublin and New York, it will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is one of the most beloved alcoholic drinks today.
BBC has dropped a trailer for the second season of their hit series THE TOURIST which will arrive January 1st to BBC One and will later on stream on Netflix as well from February 29th. Set against the striking backdrop of Ireland it follows Jamie Dornan’s Elliot and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) who are dragged into a longstanding feud and faced to deal with the consequences of his past actions. After Elliot quickly goes missing, Helen seeks the help of Detective Ruairi Slater (Conor MacNeill), before secrets of Elliot’s past are later uncovered. In Australia it streams on Stan, in Germany it airs on ZDF. Check out the trailer for the second season of the series below and tell us what you think! I must admit I still have not seen the first season, too many series, too little time.
BBC has released first images from the second season of hit series THE TOURIST which was the most watched new drama in UK last year and it also scored success on Stan in Australia and ZDF in Germany. Jamie Dornan resumes his role as Elliot Stanley, a man looking to rediscover his true identity after his memory loss, alongside Danielle Macdonald as police officer Helen Chambers, following their adventure in the Outback. Set against the striking backdrop of Ireland, the pair are confronted by friends and foes as they attempt to uncover the secrets of Elliot’s past. They are now dragged into a longstanding family feud.
Full of shocking plot twists and the same off-beat comedy that made series one a success, the series is set to return with even more quirky characters and intense action.
A MILLION MILES AWAY
PRIME VIDEO MOVIE TRAILER
Continuing with good drama movies this season, Prime Video has released a deeply moving and inspiring trailer for A MILLION MILES AWAY biopic
This weekend Netflix also gave us a trailer for their new action packed movie HEART OF STONE which arrives August 11th and sees Gal Gadot playing an intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency who races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable and dangerous weapon. Jamie Dornan takes the male lead in this international espionage thriller that brings a female perspective into action franchises, and is epic in scope with high-octane action sequences – as you can see in the trailer there will be some snowy skydiving, gunfire exchanges, vehicle pursuits, dynamic fights and bombastic explosions. The movie was directed by Tom Harper and could become the first in the series of films.
And it is not to be mixed up with the Shakespeare's life series from Stephen Knight and Sarah Lancashire that I announced a few days ago. THEROSY CROSS: THE REBELS WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE will be a separate series from Lasse Hallberg who has already set a cast with
Stephen Campbell Moore will probably be Bacon
Stephen Campbell Moore, Romario Simpson, Samuel Barnett, Jonny Weldon and Ed Hughes who is also a co-producer!
THE ROSY CROSS
is based on research claiming to identify the real and
diverse underground writing group of men and women who secretly crafted
the plays under the pseudonym of William Shakespeare, led by the great
English philosopher Francis Bacon. It follows a shadowy order of diverse
freedom fighters from all walks of life who wage a covert war to
protect freedom of speech and civil rights, by using plays
Samuel Barnett and Ed Hughes are also in the cast
to spread
knowledge, bury secrets and empower the masses.
It promises to take a deep dramatic dive into the heady melting pot of
the 16th Century underground, where freedom fighters literally were
writing for their lives, all to help people learn about the
ever-changing world they lived in.
THE GALLOWS POLE
1ST LOOK FROM BBC SERIES
BBC Two has, meanwhile, sent us the first images from their new historical series THE GALLOWS POLE which, based on the book by Benjamin Myers, fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set in the moorland hills of 18th Century Yorkshire, the drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley (played by Michael Socha), as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. Also starring are Sophie McShera who plays Grace, with Thomas Turgoose as William Hartley, Yusra Warsama as Bethsheba, Anthony Welsh as Abe Oldfield, Samuel Edward-Cook as Isaac Hartley, Joe Sproulle as Joe, and Adam Fogerty as James Broadbent, Nicole Barber-Lane as Susie, Fine Time Fontayne as Joseph Broadbent, with Ralph Ineson as The Clothier. The three part series will come to BBC Two and iPlayer May 31st.
Apple TV + is joining Alfonso Cuaron in producing new mini series DISCLAIMER which he also wrote and will direct and they've cast Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline as leads. Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has
Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline will take the lead roles
been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower, played by Kline, appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past. A story that reveals her darkest secret. A secret she thought was hers alone.
THE TOURIST TRAILER
STARRING JAMIE DORNAN
The series will also stream on HBO Max in March
BBC has released a trailer for Jamie Dornan's new thriller TV series THE TOURIST which debuts on BBC One January 1st. It will also air on HBO Max later next year. In the miniseries, a British man finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback. Full of shocking, surprising, funny
Jamie Dornan plays the lead role in the six part series
and brutal turns, this six episode drama is set in a world populated by quirky, enigmatic characters and off-beat comedy punctuates high-stakes action.
Yesterday I showed you first photo from the second season of Netflix' hit epic series BARBARIANS which has just started shooting in Poland, but I wanted to take a minute and show you just how crazy stunning freshly appointed additions to the cast are: our sweet boo Daniel Donskoy, who
Murathan, Donskoy, Fella and Heyer are new cast members!
stole our heart as Grand Duke of Russia in Victoria and ran away with it, will play Flavus, the brother of Arminius, next to insanely magnetic Murathan Muslu, beautiful Katharina Heyer, and charismatic Alessandro Fella!
BELFAST MOVIE TRAILER
KENNETH BRANAGH'S CHILDHOOD
And here is a rather upbeat trailer for period set drama BELFAST from Kenneth Branagh which follows his own childhood and is out in cinemas
Belfast opens in cinemas this November
November 12th. Filled with music, the film revisits Kenneth's memories of being 9 years old and growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, right in the middle of troubles breaking out between the Protestants and the Catholics that so ravaged the country. Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds play his grandparents, with Jamie Dornan as his father who is trying to make a living for his family but forced to do that by commuting to England where the opportunities and pay are more available. Little newcomer Jude Hill takes the lead role of a colorful young kid who particularly loves American Westerns and often visits the local movie house. Colin Morgan also stars.
BBC has released the first images from their new six part mystery thriller series THE TOURIST in which Jamie Dornan stars as a British man who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, being
Jamie Dornan leads the six part thriller series
pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and
The series will also air on ZDF, Stan and HBO Max
unforgiving outback. Full of shocking, surprising, funny and brutal turns it is set in a world populated by quirky, enigmatic characters and off-beat comedy punctuates high-stakes action. At its heart however, is a story of self-discovery with a ticking timebomb underneath: as The Man starts to uncover the
The entire series was shot down in Australia
mystery of who he was, he’s also forced to ask who he is now - and fast. Will he unlock the secrets of his identify before those who are trying to kill him catch up with him? The series which will also air on ZDF in Germany, Stan in Australia and HBO Max in USA, will also star Damon Herriman who replaces Hugo Weaving in the cast.
BBC'S THE GALLOWS POLE SERIES
BBC will turn Gallows Pole into series
Speaking
of BBC, they have also announced a new period set series which they've
just ordered. THE GALLOWS POLE will be an adaptation of the novel of the
same name by Benjamin Myers bringing the remarkable true 18th century
story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, a community of
weavers who made fake gold coins to supplement their incomes. It follows
a group of very naughty men and women who started clipping and
counterfeiting coins out in the Moors, as a way to keep themselves and
their community alive! But their revolutionary criminal enterprise will
capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
In a coproduction between BBC One, Australian streamer Stan, German ZDF and American HBO Max, titled THE TOURIST, Jamie Dornan will return to
Jamie Dornan will lead the new TV series
the small screens for a six part thriller series. He will play a British man who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.
Danielle Macdonald will play Helen Chambers, a fledgling probationary constable, Shalom Brune Franklin will play Luci, a waitress who’s swept into The Man’s journey for answers, while Hugo Weaving is agent Lachlan Rogers, one of the most highly regarded detective inspectors in Australia, leading Major Crime for the state police.
Beside Emily in Paris, Netflix has also just renewed German epic series BARBARIANS for another season which does not come as a surprise since it became the best watched German series on the streamer ever. It was a huge
Jeanne Gournaud will rule as the new queen of Germans
success in all of the territories in which Netflix is streaming. The series, which follows the events around the battle at Teutoburg in which German tribes have gloriously defeated Roman invaders back in the 9th century AD, will probably
Laurence Rupp returns as brave Arminius
see Arminius (Laurence Rupp) and Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud) as the King and Queen, after they've united the tribes against Romans. Rome, as nasty as it always was, will not accept defeat so easily, so we can expect lots of
David Schutter will return as the amazing Folkwin Wolfspear
new battles with Emperor Tiberius sending Germanicus with new legions. German hero Folkwin (David Schutter) should also be back, sadly broken-hearted after Thusnelda left him for Arminius to unite the tribes.
WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
FIRST TRAILER WITH EMILY BLUNT AND JAMIE DORNAN
This one was released yesternight and it already created a negative buzz in Ireland: they did not like the accents in it over there and you will
The film will open in USA in December
understand why when you check out the trailer for WILD MOUNTAIN THYME romantic movie by John Patrick Shanley, about the headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) who has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony's (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale. The movie is out in USA December 11th!
According to Belfast Telegraph Kenneth Branagh is secretly shooting a new movie BELFAST based on his own childhood with Judi Dench playing his grandmother, Ciaran Hinds his grandad, Jamie Dornan playing his father and Caitriona Balfe his mother. The semi
Kenneth Branagh said that his parents were related with the half of Belfast and that he went to school with the other half
autobiographical film inspired by his early childhood growing up in Northern Ireland surrounded by a large extended family, will see Jude Hill playing him as a young boy in the late 1960s. He visited his grandparents twice a week, but when he was nine, his dad, a joiner, and mum, who worked in a chip shop, moved to Reading, Berkshire, to escape the tumult in Northern Ireland.
'WOMEN IN THE CASTLE'
SENDS DAISY RIDLEY AND KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS TO WW2
There is another period set movie that has just announced its ensemble cast: Daisy Ridley, Kristin Scott Thomas and Nina Hoss, will star in Jane Anderson's big screen adaptation of Jessica Shattuck's book WOMEN IN THE CASTLE about three widows of conspirators involved in
The movie will be an adaptation of a bestselling novel
an assassination attempt on Hitler. The story of the three German women, set during and after World War II, explores how each deals with the fallout of her personal life and the devastation around her differently. The characters are fictional. Anderson previously directed Glenn Close in The Wife.
Tons of first photos from upcoming features today (stay tuned for part 2 later this week), starting with WILD MOUNTAIN THYME in which Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan are paired up as two star-crossed lovers in Ireland
Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt lead the cast of the romantic drama
who get caught up in their family's land dispute. Also starring Jon Hamm and Christopher Walken, the movie is both written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.
TIMOTHY SPALL'S
THE OBSCURE LIFE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA
There's also the first photo from period set comedy drama THE OBSCURE LIFE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA which sees
Timothy Spall leads the cast in the new movie
Timothy Spall playing a cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred Rott, who embarks upon a highly unusual commission for 'The Grand Duke Of
The movie currently has a December release date
Corsica' (Peter Stormare). A deadly malaria epidemic sweeps Malta but Alfred remains to finish the job. The movie is set for a December release!
'SUMMERLAND'
A STELLAR WW2 DRAMA MOVIE
A woman during World War II opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him, is the story of SUMMERLAND war movie drama which has Gemma Arterton in the lead role. She plays a folklore
It is not clear whether the movie will retain its July release date
investigator, who from her clifftop study during World War II debunks myths using science to disprove the existence of magic. The cast also includes
British actress Gemma Arterton plays the lead role in the movie
Penelope Wilton, Gugu Mbatha Raw and Tom Courtenay. The movie currently has a July release date in UK and USA. It is a directorial debut of Jessica Swale who also wrote the story.
Reeling from a bad recent break-up, Daphne (Shailene Woodley) finds herself adrift in life. Living in her sister's guesthouse, she regularly
The movie is supposed to be out May 1st!
witnesses her sibling and her brother in law fighting, which only exacerbates the once idealistic Daphne's growing despair regarding long term love. Then, at one of her sister's parties, Daphne meets Frank (Sebastian Stan) and Jack (Jamie Dornan). Both are enormously attractive to her, albeit in very different ways: one is the free-spirited bad boy, unpredictable, and always ready for adventure; the other is sober, intelligent, sensitive, and invested in his career as an academic. Unable to choose between these almost polar opposites, Daphne finds herself bouncing between them instead, enjoying the distinct ways each man sees her — it's as though she's
The
movie, which premiered at Toronto Film Festival under relatively bad
marks, is semi-improvised and loosely based on the screenplay.
auditioning different versions of herself and the life that might be waiting for her. But fate has a way of making decisions for us, and the time soon comes when Daphne is forced to accept that having it all might just be a disguise for having nothing.
Earlier last spring I told you that John Patrick Shanley is preparing to turn his Broadway stage play Outside Mullingar into a romantic movie titled WILD MOUNTAIN THYME and that Jamie Dornan and Holliday
Emily Blunt takes over the lead female role
Grainger will play the lovebirds in it, but she is now being replaced by Emily Blunt with John Hamm and Christopher Walken also joining the cast in the story set in the enchanting landscapes of rural Ireland. Dornan and Blunt will play obstinate star crossed lovers, whose families are caught up in a feud over a hotly contested patch of land that separates their two farms!
Anthony (Jamie Dornan) always seems to be out in the fields working,
worn down by his father’s (Christopher Walken) constant belittling. But
what really stings is his father’s threat to bequeath the family farm to
his American cousin Adam (John Hamm). Rosemary (Emily Blunt) at first
seems to hold a grudge for having been shamed by Anthony in
Jamie Dornan will shoot the film in his Irish homeland
childhood,
but the sparks between them would keep a bonfire blazing through the
night. Her mother Aoife (Dearbhla Molloy) strives to unite the families
before it is too late.
mouse across Europe. At the center
of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the
streets of Zurich. Jack Kesy will play Dornan's
brother also involved in the heist. The series will have a two episode premiere November 13 with the last of the eight episodes streaming at Christmas.
mouse across Europe. At the center
of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the
streets of Zurich. Jack Kesy will play Dornan's
brother also involved in the heist. The series will have a two episode premiere November 13 with the last of the eight episodes streaming at Christmas.
