KAREN GILLAN TO DUEL WITH HERSELF IN A SF THRILLER WITH AARON PAUL, JESSE EISENBERG! TRAILER FOR ANCIENT ROME SET THE LEGION WITH MICKEY ROURKE, BAI LING

'DUEL' SF MOVIE CASTS  

KAREN GILLAN, AARON PAUL AND

Karen Gillan will take the lead role

JESSE EISEN BERG

If those three announced titles from yesterday weren't looney enough for your when it comes to craziness of their scripts, here's one even crazier: as Deadline reports, Karen Gillan will be joined by Aaron Paul and Jesse Eisenberg in science fiction movie DUEL which, both written and directed by Riley Stearns, sees her playing a woman who, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.

'THE LEGION' TRAILER 

SENDS MICKEY ROURKE TO ROME

Legion is available on net from May

Your trailer for today is for American Spanish historical movie co production THE LEGION (aka Legionnaire's Trail) which is available on VOD from May starring Mickey Rourke and Bai Ling! Nero's reign. The invasion of Parthia has been a fiasco. Two Roman legions have been brought to a stand still in the snowy mountains of Armenia, and the men are dying slowly in the cold. The rest of the Roman army is in Syria, only two weeks march away but the mountains swarm with Parthian patrols. Noreno (Lee Partridge), a half-Roman, is entrusted the mission of crossing the mountains to ask for help. However, he might not be the best option, he's an expert runner, but he despises Rome. 

1ST TRAILER FOR JESSE EISENBERG'S WW2 MOVIE RESISTANCE WITH ED HARRIS, CLEMENCE POESY, EDGAR RAMIREZ

'RESISTANCE' TRAILER

HE SAVED THEIR LIVES IN SILENCE

The movie will hit internet streaming in USA from March 27th!

Another day, another film with bad accents :) First trailer has been released for Jesse  Eisenberg's WW2 movie RESISTANCE which is out in cinemas March 27th also starring Ed Harris, Clemence Poesy and Edgar Ramirez. Directed by Jonathan Jakubovitz, the film brings the story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. At the centre of the movie we find an aspiring Jewish actor whose desperate need to help the children leads him into the world of pantomime, and who will later and, thanks to this experience, become the legendary French mime Marcel Marceau.

VANESSA REDGRAVE TO LEAD THE OUTSIDE ROOM POWERFUL APARTHEID DRAMA AND STAR IN POST NAPOLEONIC THE MEDUSA WITH JESSE EISENBERG, PIERCE BROSNAN

   VANESSA REDGRAVE

THE LEAD THE OUTSIDE ROOM

This one was shopped at American Film Market this month: Oliver Schmitz’s big screen adaptation of novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk,

Vanessa Redgrave will play Milla

THE OUTSIDE ROOM with Vanessa Redgrave and Cynthia Erivo in the lead roles!

Milla, a 70 year old white woman, in the terminal stages of motor neuron disease, trapped in silence and confined to her bed, struggles to make herself "heard" by her black maid servant and now nurse, Agaat. Slowly the events leading to this room are recalled: 1950s when life in South Africa was full of promise Milla inherits her Grandmother's farm, marries the dashing but cruel Jak, enslaves herself to the farm to leave a lasting legacy, struggles to fall pregnant, discovers and "adopts" the young, abused Agaat, but when she falls pregnant demotes her to the role of servant. Agaat exacts her revenge becoming mother, sister, governess and best friend to the child and prevents him from forming any tangible relationships with his biological family. She asserts a terrible power by harnessing to herself the means and opportunities of the system that subjugated her. Milla's long, slow descent becomes an exercise in remembering and understanding, piecing together the fragments of a life.

The book was a bestseller around Europe

The Medusa About Gericault

Speaking of Vanessa Redgrave, she will also star in period set drama THE MEDUSA set during the turmoil of post Napoleonic France, and following famous artist Géricault (Jesse Eisenberg), who learns that his best friend (Pierce Brosnan) has died after the Naval vessel Medusa runs aground near Senegal. Plunged into grief, and entangled in a passionate but doomed love affair, Géricault begins to search for a reason to live. In this quest, he becomes morbidly obsessed with the disaster - and with seeing justice served.

JESSE EISENBERG, ED HARRIS, EDGAR RAMIREZ TO LEAD RESISTANCE WW2 EPIC MOVIE! DEEPLY MOVING HEAD FULL OF HONEY TRAILER WITH NICK NOLTE, TIL SCHWEIGER, MATT DILLON, JACQUELINE BISSET, EMILY MORTIMER

   RESISTANCE WW2 FILM WITH

JESSE EISENBERG, ED HARRIS

I don't recall seeing him in period set pieces, but Jesse Eisenberg will lead World War II movie RESISTANCE joined in the cast by Ed Harris, Edgar

Jesse Eisenberg will play the lead role

Ramirez, Clemence Poesy! As Deadline reports, the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war.

  The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.

Eisenberg, apparently prepared for a whole year for the role with the help of his own mother who worked before as a clown. Ed Harris will portray General George S. Patton, Poésy will play a central member of the French Resistance!

   HEAD FULL OF HONEY TRAILER

FOR TIL SCHWEIGER'S FILM

The movie should hit NY November 30th

Another deeply touching story can be seen in moving trailer for HEAD FULL OF HONEY, and English language adaptation of German movie of the same name, starring Nick Nolte as  a man suffering from Alzheimer's who embarks on a final road trip with his granddaughter. The rather stellar ensemble movie, which is supposed to hit cinemas at the end of this month, also stars some other partially forgotten 80s stars Matt Dillon, Eric Roberts, Jacqueline Bisset alongside Emily Mortimer, Claire Forlani, Emily Cox and German superstar Til Schweiger who is also directing the film as his 13th directorial effort! 

'LAST MAN STANDING' GETS SHOCKING CANCELLATION BY ABC! NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER GLIMPSES INTO 'POLDARK', 'GUNPOWDER', 'TROY FALL OF THE CITY', 'WOMAN IN WHITE', 'MINIATURIST', 'HOWARDS END'! JESSE EISENBERG, PIERCE BROSNAN, VANESSA REDGRAVE IN 19TH CENTURY 'MEDUSA'

 NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER

 A PEEK INTO NEW TV SERIES

 Some great news and some sad news today! Good ones come from BBC One which has just released an epic trailer announcing all the new dramas coming up our way this year at the British broadcaster giving us exciting first peeks into their new epic series GUNPOWDER with Kit Harintgon, Jessie Buckley's Victorian thriller THE WOMAN IN WHITE, the adaptation of THE MINIATURIST, new mini series on HOWARDS END with Matthew MacFadyen, epic adventure TROY: THE FALL OF THE CITY, gay drama MAN IN ORANGE SHIRT with Oliver Jackson Cohen and Vanessa Redgrave, and the first scenes from POLDARK season 3! Feast your eyes on the trailer below:

 'THE MEDUSA' 19TH CENTURY

MOVIE CASTS JESSE EISENBERG, VANESSA REDGRAVE AND PIERCE BROSNAN

Another period set project will be a movie on famous painter Théodore Géricault THE MEDUSA depicting the tragic events that inspired his harrowing and politically significant masterpiece The Raft Of The Medusa. As 'Deadline' reports Jesse Eisenberg will play the painter, with Pierce Brosnan as his uncle and nemesis, Caruel, and Vanessa Redgrave as his anti royalist innkeeper. Peter Webber of Girl With a Pearl Earring is directing.

Set during the turmoil of post Napoleonic France, the story centres on Géricault, artist and enfant terrible, who learns that his best friend has died after the Naval vessel Medusa runs aground near Senegal. His death and those of over 100 others were horrific due to incompetence on the part of an aristocratic captain.

 'LAST MAN STANDING'

 PREMATURELY KILLED BY ABC

The saddest of news people! The most wholesome of sitcoms on the telly which offered good natured family friendly humour and multiple perspectives on modern day life and politics  LAST MAN STANDING has been cancelled by ABC after the end of its sixth season (which is a great long running number for any sitcom, admittedly). It hasn't been revealed why ABC cancelled it, since it averaged 8 million or more viewers per each episode for six years ruling Friday night evenings in USA (a viewership that most of your favourite shows never had especially not on Friday nights which are considered a graveyard for ratings). It is also not clear whether ABC is looking to cancel its Friday night comedy block and whether the sitcom, which has been done under syndication so far, might get another network. With its friendly but also contemporary and very relevant humour wrapped in warm family stories with highly moral educational messages of tolerance and compromise, Tim Allen's beautiful sitcom was one of the last ones of its kind on the small screens.Tim commented on the cancellation with: Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years.

VIDEO THURSDAY: TRAILERS FOR 'A WALK IN THE WOODS' WITH ROBERT REDFORD, EMMA THOMPSON, NICK NOLTE, 'THE END OF THE TOUR' WITH JESSE EISENBERG AND JASON SEGEL

'A WALK IN THE WOODS' TRAILER 

WITH ROBERT REDFORD, EMMA THOMPSON AND NICK NOLTE

Two trailers for you today, first one up for new comedy drama from Robert Redford and Nick Nolte A WALK IN THE WOODS out this Autumn. It follows celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) who, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving wife (Emma Thompson), and his family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail, 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquillity he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek, his long lost and former friend Katz (Nick Nolte), a  serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law, sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word "adventure"!

'THE END OF THE TOUR' 

TRAILER WITH JESSE EISENBERG AND JASON SEGEL

The second trailer is for another drama which arrives into cinemas this July.  THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's ground breaking epic novel, Infinite Jest. As the days go on, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave around each other, sharing laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties - but it's never clear how truthful they are being with each other.