Recently finished shooting over in UK is a new action thriller movie TURBULENCE from director Claudio Faeh with a couple of well known names in the cast including Olga Kurylenko, Jeremy Irvine, Kelsey Grammer and Hera Hilmar. Shot in the Dolomites and London, it follows a young married couple Zach and Emmy who decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.
According to Deadline, Chris Cottam is set to direct dance movie THE LIGHT FANTASTIC with Jeremy Irvine as Jason, a thirty-something gay firefighter who dreams of becoming a professional ballroom dancer. Set in the vibrant heart of Blackpool, Jason battles the rigid traditions of the ballroom world under the close watch of his ultra-traditional instructor Reynolds (Rupert Everett), while embarking on a journey of self-discovery, he is learning to listen to his heart before he can truly dance to its rhythm. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett will also star.
Although Outlander was painful to watch it is getting a prequel, a 10-episode series OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD about the the lives and relationships of Jamie’s parents as well as his wife's parents. Ellen
Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine
MacKenzie will be portrayed by Harriet Slater (who is not exactly shinning in Belgravia currently) and his father Brian Fraser will be brought to life by Jamie Roy, while Claire's parents Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp will
Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy
be played by Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine! We will see two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie’s parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire’s parents in WWI England.
We've waited for a long time, but the wait was worth it as first trailer for BENE- DICTION really is a treat to see: out this spring it will see our dearest Jack Lowden playing a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War, Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier decorated for his bravery on the battlefield, who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. Legendary still today for his poetry inspired by his experiences on the Western Front, he was adored by both members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and
Our dearest Jack Lowden takes the lead role in Benediction
theatre scene. He embarked on affairs with several high-profile men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality, whilst at the same time,
The movie was directed by Terence Davies
broken by the horrors of war, his life’s journey became a quest for salvation. Directed by Terence Davies it also stars Julian Sands, Jeremy Irvine, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels and Simon Russell Beale.
While we are waiting for the first trailer, Terence Davies movie drama BENEDICTION has announced a festival run this Autumn: it will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival (September 9-18th) and will then compete at San Sebastian (17-25th September). Jack Lowden leads the
Jack Lowden plays famous WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon
biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, one of WW1's leading poets, which will detail his rise to acclaim for his unsparing, often satirical descriptions of trench warfare. After serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he was known as “Mad Jack” on account of his suicidal feats of bravery, he spoke out against the war
Jeremy Irvine is Sassoon's lover Ivor Novello
and narrowly escaped being court-martialled. The film will also recount his closeted post-war life, when being gay was still a criminal offence in Britain. He had an affair with composer and actor Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), and later married and converted to Roman Catholicism. During his life he met
Terence Davies drama will premiere at Toronto Film Festival
pretty much met all of the 20th century's most famous people! Gemma Jones, Kate Phillips, Ben Daniels, Geraldine James, and Anton Lesser also star in the movie. Toronto will, meanwhile, also see the world premiere of Kenneth Branagh's Belfast with Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds and Jamie Dornan. Venice is, meanwhile, filled with Hollywood crap this year.
HBO Max is preparing a DC Universe series based on beloved hero GREEN LANTERN and they have set Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock as leads. Coming from Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame Smith, it will reinvent the classic DC property through a story
Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock will take the lead roles
spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Jeremy Irvine), and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Finn Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns, from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.
THE DUKE TRAILER IS HERE
WITH JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN AND MATTHEW GOODE
This one was delayed for a long time due to corona, but Roger Michell's movie THE DUKE is finally arriving to UK cinemas this September with Jim Broadbent leading the true story of Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi
The Duke finally hits cinemas this September in UK
driver, who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting
Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren play the lead roles
on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge -
Matthew Goode plays a lawyer in the new movie
Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. Helen Mirren plays his wife, Matthew Goode his lawyer.
Earlier this winter I've showed you the first photo of our dearest Jack Lowden in BENEDICTION where
he plays WWI poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon and now I also have the first picture of Jeremy Irvine on a horse from the same movie in which he plays famous Welsh singer and composer
Jeremy
Irvine, Ben Daniels, Anton Lesser, Gemma Jones, Simon Russell Beale
also star in the film that has already finished shooting
Ivor Novello who was one of Sassoon's lovers! Decorated for bravery
on the Western Front, Sassoon is remembered for his war poems that brought
him public and critical acclaim in his time and after. He also became a
focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone
protest against the
Jeremy Irvine will be famous Welsh singer Ivor Novello
continuation of the conflict. Adored by members of
the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world,
Sassoon embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to
terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of
war, he made his life’s journey a quest for
Jack Lowden takes the lead in Terence Davies directed movie
salvation, ultimately trying to find it
within the conformity of marriage and religion. The film, which also includes Ben Daniels, Peter Capaldi, Gemma Jones,Simon Russell Beale, Anton Lesser in the cast, has finished
filming after corona delays earlier last year. Terence Davies both wrote and directed the movie.
Your treat for today is the first poster for a very star studded World War II drama THE GUINEA PIG CLUB a Roger Donaldson directed movie about a maverick war surgeon boasting a stellar cast that includes Richard E.Grant, Sam Neill and Jeremy Irvine. It tells the uplifting and heroic
The movie is currently in preproduction
true story of maverick New Zealand surgeon Archie McIndoe (Richard E. Grant), who, at the height of World War II, defied the British establishment with his radical methods aimed at healing severely burned bodies, and more importantly the tortured souls, of Britain's heroic Royal Air Force pilots. In so doing, he risked his career, reputation and marriage.
The Guinea Pig Club established in 1941, was a social club and mutual
support network for British and allied aircrew injured during World War
II. Its membership was made up of patients of Archibald McIndoe at Queen
Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead,
Richard E. Grant leads the stellar cast of the war movie
Sussex, who had undergone
experimental reconstructive plastic surgery, including facial
reconstruction, generally after receiving burns injuries in aircraft.
Sixteen members of it wrote books about their experiences.
This actually looks quite good visually, if you can ignore the terrible attempts in acting from the teensy and even nonteensy cast members :) PARADISE HILLS is a Spanish fantasy drama shot in English with English
Paradise Hills hits streaming services this November
speaking cast that includes Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irving, Milla Jovovich, and it is directed by Alice Waddington in her first feature film project. Visually rich and imaginative, as you can see from the glitzy trailer below, it will be released in Spain and France this October and then in November in USA and Russia!
Paradise Hills
is set
in a mysterious boarding school which perfectly reforms wayward girls
to fit their surroundings' exact desires. Emma Roberts plays Uma who
awakens on an island called Paradise which takes young women and teaches
them to be
The film has quite bad reviews which criticise the script and praise sets and costumes
proper. Led by the Duchess (Milla Jovovich), the island
provides emotional healing for those in need of it. However, behind the
fairy tale like exterior, the island hides something sinister that
threatens Uma and the other islanders.
You can almost hear the sound of Abba's greatest hits as MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN is ready to dance its way into cinemas this weekend! And speaking of those songs, you will again hear Waterloo, I Have a Dream, Dancing Queen, Fernando and of course, Mamma Mia in the sequel too! Directed by Ol Parker, it is opening July 20th set after the events of the first film with flashbacks to 1979 to tell the story of how Donna came to be on the island of Kalokairi and trying to figure out who fathered her daughter, Sophie.
DONNA IS DEAD! Five years after the events of Mamma Mia!, on the Greek island of Kalokairi, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is pregnant with Sky's (Dominic Cooper) child while running her mother's (Meryl Streep)
villa. Her relationship with Sky has been turbulent for some time,
giving her cause to doubt that she can survive without her mother,
Donna, who had passed away one year prior. With Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie's (Julie Walters)
guidance, Sophie will find out more of Donna's past, including how she
fronted The Dynamos, started her villa on the island from nothing, met
each one of Sophie's dads (Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, and Colin Firth),
and raised a daughter, without a mother to guide her. She also has an
unexpected visit from someone she has never even met: her grandmother,
Ruby Sheridan (Cher).
WHO ELSE IS IN THE FILM?
With the flashbacks featuring rather heavily in the movie with the main character from the original 2008 movie now dead and gone, the cast will also include younger versions of the leading stars and thus Lily James joins the movie as young Donna, Jessica Keenan Wynn as Young Tanya, Alexa Davies as Young Rosie. When it comes to boys, Jeremy Irvine joins the cast as Irish American architect Young Sam, Hugh Skinner as British banker Young Harry and Josh Dylan as Young Bill, Swedish sailor and travel writer! Andy GarcÃa is Fernando Cienfuegos, the manager of the Hotel Bella Donna, old friend of Ruby’s! Celia Imrie is Vice-Chancellor! The movie was shot last year in the wonderful seaside of Croatia where Game of Thrones is also being shot!
First photo has been revealed from Laika's new animated adventure MISSING LINK which boasts a stellar voice cast including Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Timothy
Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson will lead the voice cast!
Olyphant, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Jackman is charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters, but his small-minded high-society peers don’t recognize
First art from new Laika's animated movie Missing Link
this. His last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America’s Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man’s primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.
'MAMMA MIA 2' FINAL TRAILER
STELLAR CAST RETURNS AGAIN!
Mamma Mia returns this July!
When it comes to trailers, check out the final one for this summer's MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN which is out in cinemas this July, and there is also a new poster revealing the whole cast! Meryl Streep is dead in the sequel, but she will appear in flashbacks, while Cher arrives as Amanda Seyfried's grandmother while the movie reminisces on the youth of her mother and her three possible fathers played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. Since she is now also pregnant and very young like her mother was when she had her, she realizes she will need to take risks like her mother did.
Lily James plays young Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper is Amanda's husband, Julie Walters
The movie will feature other Abba songs which weren't used in the first film
is her aunt. Jeremy Irvine and Hugh Skinner play her dads when they were young, with Andy Garcia also in the cast.
Continuing the prefestive week of exclusive new trailers for next year's films, today you can enjoy MAMMA MIA HERE WE GO AGAIN trailer. Arriving exactly ten years after the first movie it will sail into cinemas next July!
CHER AND ABBA! After Amanda Seyfried's character Sophie (who is now pregnant and
realises she needs to take risks like her mother did) got married on a
Greek island to the sounds of Abba in the first movie also discovering
that her mother Donna (Meryl Streep) does not know who Sophie's father
is (Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard return as the
three possible candidates),
The original movie has earned more than $600 million around the world
the sequel now, since Donna has apparently
died after the wedding, focuses on Donna's youth with Lily James,
Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies playing the young Donna and her
group the Dynamos who were played by Christine Baranski and Julie
Walters in the original film.
The film will have some of the Abba songs that weren't used in the original
Dominic Cooper returns as Sophie's husband
Sky, while Jeremy Irvine, Josh Dylan and Hugh Skinner play younger
versions of her possible dads. Cher also appears as grandmother in the
movie which was shot last summer in Croatia!
I know I did not like it at all, but I also know my lady readers loved it! You all know MAMMA MIA is getting a sequel titled HERE WE GO AGAIN, which is already shooting, and it has been revealed that Cher will be joining the cast in an unspecified role. The sequel to the film in which Amanda Seyfried's character invited three men (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard), not knowing which of them is her father, to her Greek island wedding without her mother (Meryl Streep) knowing, will return to the past to explain how her mother met them all in the first place. Lily James will play young Meryl, Jeremy Irvine will be young Pierce. The new movie will again feature Abba songs. Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia and Christine Baranski also star.
'THE ALIENIST' TV SERIES
NEW TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS
TNT has, meanwhile, released a new trailer for their period set detective series THE ALIENIST which will start airing January 22nd! It is set in 1896, when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New
The novel adaptation starts airing next January on TNT
York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist, aka alienist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
Luke Evans is newspaper illustrator John Moore
(Daniel Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Dakota
Dakota Fanning is secretary Sara Howard
Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early
Daniel Bruhl is the Alienist from the title of the series
forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of Gotham’s first serial killers.
Two of our favourite ladies in the same movie together: Toni Collette and Whoopi Goldberg will star in comedy movie SHRIVER alongside Thomas Haden Church who plays a loner mistaken for a renowned but reclusive author. He suddenly finds himself the centre of attention at a writer’s conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the book written by the real author. SHRIVER takes on the mistaken identity while sparking a romance with the English professor who runs the conference and is about to pull it all off when the real Shriver appears. It will be an adaptation of a Chris Belden novel of the same title.
'THE GUINEA PIG CLUB'
SAM NEIL, JEREMY IRVINE JOIN RICHARD E. GRANT'S WW2 FILM Meanwhile, a rather nice cast has been assembled for period set drama
THE GUINEA PIG CLUB as well: as ' Deadline' reports, Richard E. Grant,
Sam Neil and Jeremy Irvine will star in the remarkable true story of
maverick surgeon Archie McIndoe (Richard E. Grant) who, at the height of
World War II, defied the British establishment with his radical methods
aimed at healing the severely burned bodies – and more importantly the
tortured souls – of Britain’s heroic Royal Air Force pilots. In doing
so, he risks his career, his reputation and his marriage.
'STORM BOY' CASTS
GEOFFREY RUSH, JAI COURTNEY
Even more Australian stars will be seen in Australian family movie STORM BOY in which Geoffrey Rush will play Mike “Storm Boy” Kingley, who recounts his childhood adventures to troubled teen granddaughter Madeline in an effort to prevent her from making the same mistakes he made years before. Jai Courtney will play Hideaway Tom, a protective father who, after the untimely death of his wife and daughter, removes himself and his son from society to live on a remote isolated coastline.
'IN LIKE FLYNN' BIOPIC
CASTS A STELLAR ENSEMBLE All the rest of our favourite Australian hunks will, meanwhile, join
the cast of Errol Flynn's biopic IN LIKE FLYNN! Thomas Cocquerel will
play him in the years before he became famous star during his
roust about early life in Australia, before he became an internationally
famed celebrity. In those days he was an adventurer, opium smuggler,
gambler, street fighter, womanizer, and gold prospector. Also starring
William Moseley, Clive Standen, Callan Mulvey, Isabel Lucas, Costas
Mandylor, David Wenham and Dan Fogler, it will see young Flynn's
magnetism inspiring a rag-tag team of friends to set sail on a thrilling
adventure in search of elusive New Guinea gold.
young married couple Zach and Emmy who decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.
young married couple Zach and Emmy who decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.
