FIRST TRAILER WITH PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY IN HAMNET MOVIE ADAPTATION AS SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE!

   1ST HAMNET TRAILER  

WITH PAUL MESCAL AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

More than a year ago I told you that Oscar winner Chloe Zhao will helm the movie adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET but now we have the first trailer with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in the leads. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of The Bard’s Hamlet. Joe Alwyn also stars in the movie out December 12th.

 

FIRST LOOK AT PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY IN HAMNET MOVIE ADAPTATION AS SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE!

   1ST HAMNET IMAGE 

WITH PAUL MESCAL AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

More than a year ago I told you that Oscar winner Chloe Zhao will helm the movie adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET but now we have the first image with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in the leads. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of The Bard’s Hamlet. Joe Alwyn also stars in the movie out December 12th.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT DOCUDRAMA AT WORKS AT NETFLIX! ADRIEN BRODY, GUY PEARCE, JOE ALWYN, ALESSANDRO NIVOLA, FELICITY JONES TO LEAD BRUTALIST PERIOD SET BIOPIC! 1ST FREUD'S LAST SESSION PIC WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, MATTHEW GOODE

 ALEXANDER THE GREAT  

DOCUDRAMA AT NETFLIX

It has not been confirmed yet officially by Netflix itself, but rumour has it that they have a 100 men strong team currently over in Morocco, actually since last summer, shooting a new hybrid docudrama on ALEXANDER THE GREAT which will feature both scripted and unscripted elements. Tony Mitchell is the show runner for Tailfeather Productions and Lion TV.

  BRUTALIST MOVIE DRAMA  

ADS ADRIEN BRODY, JOE ALWYN, GUY PEARCE, ALESSANDRO NIVOLA, FELICITY JONES

It will be a stellar cast: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Felicity Jones will lead Brad Corbet's period set movie THE BRUTALIST which chronicles thirty years of an artist’s life. When visionary architect László Toth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Jones) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy in America, a mysterious and wealthy client (Pearce) ends up changing their lives forever. The biopic is already shooting in Hungary!

  FREUD'S LAST SESSION  

FIRST IMAGE WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS AND MATTHEW GOODE

Speaking of a thespian cast, check out Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the first image from FREUD'S LAST SESSION movie! Set on the eve of the Second World War, it depicts a meeting between Freud and Narnia writer C.S. Lewis, at the psychoanalyst’s London home, during which they debate the existence of God. The film also explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother. The stellar cast also has Orla Brady, Jeremy Northam and Stephen Campbell Moore.

CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN, DOMINIC WEST IN SAS ROGUE HEROES TV SERIES TRAILER! JOE ALWYN & MARGARET QUALLEY ARE STUCK IN STEAMY NICARAGUA IN STARS AT NOON EROTIC THRILLER TRAILER

  SAS ROGUE HEROES  

TV SERIES FULL TRAILER

BBC has released a new trailer for their upcoming period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West, in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic. The series starts October 30th on BBC One.

 STARS AT NOON TRAILER 

SENDS JOE ALWYN TO JUNGLE 

Stars are out at Noon October 14th

First trailer has been released for the big screen adaptation of Denis Johnson's novel STARS AT NOON which will hit cinemas October 14th starring Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley. This year Cannes Film Festival competitor, follows a young American journalist (Qualley), who falls for a mysterious Englishman (Alwyn) while stranded in Nicaragua (not during the revolution like in the novel, but during today's covid outbreak). Though at first he seems like her best bet at getting out of the country, it is slowly revealed that her affiliation with the Englishman has put both of them in immense danger. Claire Denis took the helm of this one. Check out the trailer below: 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON JOJO MOYES' MOVIE ADAPTATION LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER WITH CALLUM TURNER, JOE ALWYN, FELICITY JONES, SHAILENE WOODLEY

 LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

SAYS LOVE IS TIMELESS

Last Letter hits Netflix next Friday

There really isn't a lot of new movies waiting for us this summer and those that are arriving will have a really strange way of coming to the audience -  few days in the cinema and then straight to streaming, but LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER will have an even stranger way - it will first hit Netflix next Friday, July 23rd and will then circle British cinemas in August. Go figure. We will certainly watch it as it comes from our favourite Studiocanal and stars our boo Callum Me Some Turner! The cast also includes Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley. Ben Cross, who died last year, gives his last role ever in this one.

  LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

adapted from Jojo Moyes’ best selling novel, is a passionate, dual narrative love story set in the French Riviera and London during the 1960s and present day. It tells the tale of elegant Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and

Callum Turner and Joe Alwyn lead the male cast

how her life becomes inextricably interwoven with that of Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones) in life changing events which connect them across almost half a century. Jennifer lives a luxurious life with her wealthy and powerful husband Laurence (Joe Alwyn). When an unfortunate event wipes her

The movie adaptation was directed by Augustine Frizzell

memory, she struggles to find her identity until she stumbles upon wistful love letters hidden in her home. The passionate notes unravel a star crossed love affair she had with foreign correspondent Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner) and ultimately lead her to discover her true self. Jennifer’s story becomes

The film is based on Jojo Moyes ultra popular bestseller

intertwined with that of Ellie, a whip smart journalist in contemporary London, who discovers and becomes enthralled by these love letters from a bygone era. As she begins to piece them together with the help of archivist Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan), she sets off on a journey that will entangle the two women’s lives forever.

CALLUM TURNER, JOE ALWYN, FELICITY JONES STAR IN THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILER AIRING THIS SUMMER AT NETFLIX

 LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

TRAILER IS HERE WITH JOE ALWYN AND CALLUM TURNER

The movie will stream on Netflix in July

Just as they announced yesterday, Studiocanal has released a trailer for their new drama movie THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER which arrives to Netflix July 23rd. The movie based on Jojo Mojes novel will air in UK only in cinemas from August 6th and in Scandinavia from July 30th! The dual narrative love story is set in the French Riviera and London during the 1960s and present day. The story follows Ellie (Felicity Jones), a young female journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters in the archives which tell the story of an intensely romantic but star crossed affair in the 1960s between Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and Anthony O’Hare (Callum

In some countries, the film will play only in theatres, not on Netflix

Turner). As Ellie is drawn into the story, she becomes obsessed with discovering the lovers’ identities and finding out how their love story ends. Joe Alwyn and Nabhaan Rizwan also star.

2021 FEMALECENTRIC MOVIES: EMILY BRONTE WITH EMILY BEECHAM, JOE ALWYN, EMMA MACKEY, WOMEN IN THE CASTLE WITH KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, DAISY RIDLEY, MIRACLE CLUB WITH MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES, LAURA LINNEY

  2021 FEMALECENTRIC MOVIES  

EMILY ON EMILY BRONTE

This year we'll have a number of movies centred on female characters, among them is EMILY which will see Emma Mackey playing famous writer Emily Bronte in Frances O’Connor's film which will immerse us in Emily Brontë’s hidden world: Emily is a rebel and misfit, a young woman daring to form herself, to embrace her true nature… to hell with the consequences. We share the innermost relationships that inspired Emily. They are revelations of untold truths – her raw, passionate sisterhood for Charlotte (Emily Beecham) and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Joe Alwyn) and her care for her maverick brother (Fionn Whitehead) whom she idolises. Who was this young woman whose heart burned with such love and life, and who wrote literature’s timeless and searing masterpiece, Wuthering Heights? 

WOMEN IN THE CASTLE

Post-war Germany: a country compromised – every citizen tarnished by complicity with the Nazi regime, and yet willing the past to disappear as they build a future from its ashes. But for Marianne – widow of a man murdered for defying the Nazi regime – the past must be spoken for. She cannot simply

The film is helmed and written by Jane Anderson

forgive her compatriots for what they’ve done, to her life and to her once-proud nation. She finds refuge from this rapidly transforming world in her family’s crumbling castle where she once played host to Germany’s liberal elite and there fulfills her promise to find and protect the wives and children of her husband’s brave conspirators. Rescuing her dearest friend’s widow, Benita, from the Russian army, and Ania, from a refugee camp, Marianne assembles a makeshift family, certain the women’s shared pain will bind them together. But as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her Nazi past, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled worldview and moral certainty has no place in these new, frighteningly ambiguous and emotionally charged days. All three women (Kristin Scott Thomas, Daisy Ridley and Nina Hoss) must grapple with the realities they now face, and the terrible consequences of decisions they cannot undo.

 

THE MIRACLE CLUB

 Lourdes, a picturesque country town at the base of the magnificent French Pyrenees, and a place of miracles, is a magnet for 6 million visitors each year from across the globe. Ballyfermot, Ireland, 1960: A hilariously hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat – frenzied, fast and loose – and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. It’s a thriving community in a constant uphill battle to live as fully as possible, on very little. And the opportunity to rise above one’s daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women.

Jane Anderson wrote and directed the film

There’s just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, and all for free. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends played by Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, are the ‘lucky’ few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night. Having never even left Dublin the journey provides them the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and delight in some sweet independence. But it’s not all just a ‘jolly’: the women have a very important role to play when they arrive in Lourdes – to act as ‘pushers’ for the seriously ill and disabled pilgrims, there to bathe in the town’s healing springs. And it’s also a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles. But when they are joined by a woman recently returned from a decades long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed. As they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have all been looking for is right in front of them: in the strength of their friendships and unshakeable togetherness.

1ST PHOTOS OF EWAN MCGREGOR IN HALSTON MINI SERIES, CALLUM TURNER, FELICITY JONES IN LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING IN JUNIPER

 LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

1ST PHOTOS WITH CALLUM TURNER AND FELICITY JONES

Two first looks for you today,  beginning with first photos from THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER movie adaptation of Jojo Moyes' popular novel in which Shailene Woodley plays a woman called Jennifer Stirling who loses her memory after a car accident, but later discovers letters

Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner in the movie

about a love affair she had with a journalist called Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner)! Jennifer is married to wealthy and powerful husband Laurence (Joe Alwyn), and the letters are discovered decades later by journalist Ellie

Felicity Jones and Nabhaan Rizwan

Haworth (Felicity Jones). She pieces them together with the help of archivist Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan), leading to a journey that will entangle the two women's lives forever.

1ST JUNIPER DRAMA PHOTO

WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Who will star together with Marton Csokas in drama movie directed by Matthew Saville, JUNIPER. When a self-destructive teenager is suspended

Matthew Saville is both writing and directing Juniper

from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around. 

1ST EWAN MCGREGOR PHOTO

FROM HALSTON TV SERIES

There is also the first, rather glamorous look of  Ewan McGregor in mini TV series HALSTON in which he plays the famous fashion designer. It tracks Halston as he leverages his single, invented name into a worldwide

The series will air next year in five hourlong episodes

fashion empire that's synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era. The series arrives sometime next year.

Ewan McGregor will be wearing glamorous costumes in the series

CATE BLANCHETT, RALPH FIENNES, JOE ALWYN, ROONEY MARA TO LEAD BBC'S BRIDESHEAD REVISITED REMAKE TV SERIES! STEPHEN FREARS, STEVE COOGAN TO SEARCH FOR RICHARD III IN THE LAST KING

 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

PUTS CATE BLANCHETT AND RALPH FIENNES IN A CASTLE

Although she did star in a number of TV series now, I don't think we've ever seen Cate Blanchett on BBC before, but there is first time for

Blanchett will be pious Lady Marchmain

everything: she and Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED mini series, but, sadly, the lead will go to Andrew Garfield (what a wildly dull casting choice). The adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel will be directed by Call Me By Your Name's Luca Guadagnino for Mammoth Screen. As Daily Mail reveals, it tells the story of Ryder (Garfield) and his friendship with aristocratic family, the Flytes (Fiennes and Blanchett), who live in the palatial Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian (to be played by Joe Alwyn), who he befriends at Oxford University, and Julia (Rooney Mara), as the 1945 book explores themes of

Fiennes will be Lord Marchmain, Alwyn his son Sebastian

aristocratic nostalgia, Catholicism, and homosexuality. HBO will air the series in USA, apparently. The producers are currently casting other roles as well so that the shooting could start next spring in United Kingdom and also in Venice.

 THE LOST KING MOVIE 

TO SEARCH FOR RICHARD III

Speaking of Brits, Stephen Frears is set to direct Steve Coogan (again after Philomena) in British comedy movie THE LOST KING which Coogan also wrote inspired by the remarkable 2012 true story of finding Brit monarch King Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park. As Deadline reports, Coogan will co-star in the Pathe's film as the husband of Philippa

The search is on for the lead actress in the movie

  Langley, the woman who undertook the search for King Richard’s remains, which had been lost for more than 500 years. The movie will put a spotlight on Langley, whose obsessive search was derided by many. In 2012, she led the charge to exhume Richard’s skeleton, which she believed to be under a car park in the UK city of Leicester. In the global media circus that followed the discovery, Langley’s role was often overlooked.

EMMA MACKEY, JOE ALWYN, EMILY BEECHAM TO LEAD EMILY BRONTE BIOPIC MOVIE! FAMILY ADVENTURE IN FOUR KIDS AND IT WITH MATTHEW GOODE, MICHAEL CAINE, RUSSELL BRAND, PAULA PATTON

     'EMILY' BRONTE MOVIE

REVEALS ITS BRITISH CAST

I'm sure that my ladies will rejoice to hear that a new movie about Wuthering Heights' famous writer Emily Bronte is being planned. A biopic on her early years simply titled EMILY will actually be a directorial debut of actress Frances O'Connor who already chose Emma Mackey to play the

Joe Alwyn and Emma Mackey will lead the Emily cast

lead role. Meanwhile, Joe Alwyn will portray Brontë’s conflicted lover. Fionn Whitehead will play Emily’s inspiring but self destructive brother Branwell Brontë, and our dear Into The  Badlands star Emily Beecham is playing her sibling, writer Charlotte Brontë. To be shot next year EMILY

Fionn Whitehead and Emily Beecham will also star

imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30. The project will be offered to studios at Cannes online event this year.

     'FOUR KIDS AND IT' TRAILER

STARRING MATTHEW GOODE!

You can watch the film on  Sky Cinema

But if you are looking for something that you can watch with your kids and family, here's a lovely trailer for delightful family adventure FOUR KIDS AND IT which you can catch over on Sky Cinema with a rather stellar cast led by Matthew Goode, Michael Caine, Russell Brand and Paula Patton. This fantasy story, based on a book by Jacqueline Wilson, revolves around a group of kids on holiday in Cornwall who meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes. A wish a day brings adventure your way! After playing in United Kingdom, the movie is moving to Russia in June too.  

BBC WILL SWAMP YOU WITH HORRORS THIS CHRISTMAS WITH SPOOKY A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH GUY PEARCE AND MORBID NEW DRACULA EPIC TV SERIES

      'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' OR

 MORE LIKE A HALLOWEEN ONE

As somebody noticed around the internet, it is beginning to feel a lot like... Halloween. Yep, Halloween, not Christmas, as British national broadcaster has decided to swamp us with nasty horrors in what is definitely

The series will air on FX and BBC this month

the worst holiday programme scheme they've ever had. You can already see from the dark posters that their central series A CHRISTMAS CAROL won't be filled with jingle bells but with creepy sounds, monsters and fog. It is interesting that it will first air in USA on FX on December 19th before moving to BBC on December 22nd!

Christmas Carol 
is a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens’ iconic ghost story by Steven Knight and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine tingling immersion into Scrooge’s dark night of the soul. The three-part special follows Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce), the miserly cold hearted boss, as he is visited by ghosts from the past, present and future, on a freezing

Guy Pearce takes the lead role in the new series

Christmas Eve. Forced to face up to how his self interested, penny pinching behaviour has impacted his own life and those around him, is it too late for him to save the spirit of Christmas, and himself? Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past, Joe Alwyn as Bob Cratchit, and Jason Flemyng as Ghost of Christmas Future also star.

      'DRACULA 'SERIES

WILL SPLASH THE FIRST DAYS OF THE NEW YEAR WITH BLOOD

As if that wasn't bizarre enough  BBC has decided to start the new year with even nastier horror premiering their new extremely graphic three part

Dracula will start airing January 1st in three consecutive nights

DRACULA series on January 1st with other two hour and a half long episodes airing in the following two days! Claes Bang will move to Transylvania in

Claes Bang takes the lead role of the fanged monster

1897, as the blood drinking Count who is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast. John Heffernan stars as

Dracula aboard Demeter whose crew he will suck dry

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor who visits Dracula’s castle and becomes his captive. Jonathan Aris is captain Sokolov of famous ship Demeter.

Lord Ruthven is portrayed by Patrick Walsh McBride

Patrick Walsh McBride portrays young Lord Ruthven in the series which will air on Netflix for the rest of the world later on. 

The  First Episode of Dracula
starts in 1897. English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client - and a legend is about to get fresh blood... This is the tale of a

Always lovely John Heffernan is poor Jonathan Harker

terrifying, maze-like castle, of undead Brides, and a vampire Count whose ambition is to conquer the new world. Check out the nastiness below:

FESTIVE THURSDAY: NEW PHOTOS FROM BBC'S SERIES A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH GUY PEARCE, JOE ALWYN, ANDY SERKIS! LET IS NOW NETFLIX HOLIDAY MOVIE TRAILER

  'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' 

NEW PHOTOS ARE HERE!

 The latest update on this year's Christmas programmes brings you new photos from BBC's and FX's new version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL! Guy Pearce is taking the lead role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 3 part special which

Guy Pearce leads the cast as Scrooge himself

brings a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens’ iconic ghost story by Steven Knight (Taboo, Peaky Blinders) and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge’s dark night of the soul.

The Rest Of The Cast
Andy Serkis will appear in the series as Ghost of Christmas Past; Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley; Charlotte Riley (who happens to be the

Joe Alwyn is Scrooge's poor clerk Bob Cratchit!

producers wife, talk about nepotism) as Scrooge's sister Lottie; Joe Alwyn as Scrooge's poor clerk Bob Cratchit; Vinette Robinson as Mary Cratchit; Jason

Andy Serkis is the Ghost of Christmas Past

Flemyng as the Ghost of Christmas Future (he replaced Rutger Hauer who died during the production); Kayvan Novak as Ali Baba and Lenny Rush as Tim Cratchit. Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott are producing.

  'LET IT SNOW' TRAILER

BRINGS A CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD

Continuing our announcements for upcoming festive films and series, today you can check out the trailer for Netflix movie LET IS SNOW, a

It will snow from November 8th!

movie adaptation of a book by Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle (translated by your spy for readers in Europe) which will hit Netflix streaming service November 8th! The teenage holiday movie is set in a small town on Christmas Eve, where a snowstorm brings together a group of young people. When a snowstorm hits a small midwestern town on Christmas Eve, a group of high school seniors find their friendships and love lives colliding thanks to a stranded pop star, a stolen keg, a squad of competitive dancers, a mysterious woman covered in tin foil, and an epic party at the local Waffle Town. Come Christmas morning, nothing will be the same. 

CALLUM TURNER, FELICITY JONES, JOE ALWYN TO LEAD MOVIE ADAPTATION OF JOJO MOJES' NOVEL THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

  CALLUM TURNER TO LEAD

Callum Turner will go back to the 60s

LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER ADAPTATION

While his magnificent thriller series The Capture just ended this week at BBC as the most exciting new drama this season, Callum Turner already has his next project lined up. Together with Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn and Shailene Woodley he will lead THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER for our favourite producer Studiocanal! The double love story set in different decades in London and the Riviera is actually based on the best selling novel by Jojo Moyes whose Me Before You with Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke became a huge box office hit a few years ago. 

Love In Different Decades 
The story follows Ellie (Felicity Jones), a young female journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters in the archives which tell the story of an intensely romantic but star-crossed affair in the

Joe Alwyn and Felicity Jones will also star in the movie

1960s between Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner). As Ellie is drawn into the story, she becomes obsessed with discovering the lovers’ identities and finding out how their love story ends. The shooting begins next Monday in Mallorca.

GUY PEARCE, ANDY SERKIS, JOE ALWYN, RUTGER HAUER TO LEAD BBC & FX MINI SERIES A CHRISTMAS CAROL! LISTEN TO ZAYN'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD FOR DISNEY'S LIVE ACTION ALADDIN

   BBC'S 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL'

PUTS GUY PEARCE IN THE LEAD

After Dickensian, BBC has a plan of turning other of Dickens' works into series and the first one will be A CHRISTMAS CAROL which will air this Christmas with Guy Pearce taking the lead role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the

The first look at Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge!

series which will also air on FX in USA. The 3 part special is a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens’ iconic ghost story by Steven Knight (Taboo, Peaky Blinders) and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge’s dark night of the soul.

  THE REST OF THE CAST
has also been announced and it will include: Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past; Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley; Charlotte Riley (who happens to be the producers wife, talk about nepotism) as Lottie; Joe Alwyn

Stephen Graham and Joe Alwyn have joined the cast as well

as Bob Cratchit; Vinette Robinson as Mary Cratchit; Rutger Hauer as the Ghost of Christmas Future; Kayvan Novak as Ali Baba and Lenny Rush as Tim Cratchit. Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott are producing.

   ZAYN'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD

IS HERE FROM DISNEY'S ALADDIN

Aladdin is ready to fly into cinemas May 24th

And here it is: the latest rendition of timeless classic A Whole New World set as the end title for Disney's live action ALADDIN which flies into theatres this month. It is performed by surprisingly good Zayn and awfully mismatched vocals from a singer called Zhavia Ward (I've never heard of her, but her singing sounds ghastly bad in the song, even offensively disrespectful to the genre, but that's a millennial for you, sadly)! Beside new versions of the old songs, the soundtrack will have a new song as well. Will Smith and DJ Khaled will cover classic Oscar nominated song Friend Like Me. New song Speechless is performed by

The movie is a live action version of the animated hit

Princess Jasmine herself. 

LIVE ACTION ALADDIN  
directed by Guy Ritchie, is written by John August and Ritchie based on Disney’s classic animated adventure. The film stars Will Smith as the larger than life Genie; Mena Massoud as the charming scoundrel Aladdin; Naomi Scott  as Jasmine, the beautiful, self determined princess; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar, the powerful sorcerer; Navid Negahban as the Sultan concerned with his daughter’s future; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia, Princess Jasmine’s free spirited best friend and confidante;

Mena Massoud is Aladdin in the live action remake

Billy Magnussen as the handsome and arrogant suitor Prince Anders; and Numan Acar as Hakim, Jafar’s right-hand man and captain of the palace guards. Read more in our spotlight on the movie!