PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW MOONHAVEN SF SERIES WHICH STARTS THIS WEEK ON AMC PLUS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN AND JOE MANGANIELLO

  MOONHAVEN SF SERIES  

STARTS THIS WEEK ON AMC

Moohaven starts 7.7. with six episodes

The only premiere we have this week when it comes to period set and fantasy series is MOONHAVEN science fiction drama arriving to AMC Plus this Thursday, July 7th set on a Utopian society on Moon with Joe Manganiello and Dominic Monaghan leading the cast.

 

  MOONHAVEN centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smugger 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

THE FIRST EPISODE

which airs this week, will start with a murder on Moonhaven which puts Earth's last hope in jeopardy; during what should be a routine cargo loop to the moon, pilot Bella finds herself the subject of detective Paul Sarno's investigation. Moonhaven leads the pack of new series on AMC Plus which will continue with Interview With The Vampire later this year. But before that one arrives, you can check out the trailer for Moonhaven and tell us what you think? Will you tune in on Thursday for a double episode premiere?

SEE DOMINIC MONAGHAN, JOE MANGANIELLO IN AMC PLUS SF SERIES MOONHAVEN TRAILER & POSTER! ANEURIN BARNARD, JONAH HAUER KING, SAM HAZELDINE TO STAR IN CASANOVA COSTUME DRAMA A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION

 A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION 

A CASANOVA MOVIE DRAMA

Screen Daily reports today that Dutch director Michiel Van Erp is preparing a costume movie drama A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION about Casanova and one of the women he loved. With Aneurin Barnard and Dar

Aneurin Barnard, Jonah Hauer King, Dar Zuzovsky

Zuzovsky in the lead roles, the cast will also have Jonah Hauer King and Sam Hazeldine. Based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin it follows the love affair between Casanova and a courtesan who becomes disfigured by smallpox and flees Italy for Amsterdam.  

   MOONHAVEN TRAILER  

FOR NEW AMC'S SF SERIES

Now I thought it won't look this cheap, but you can check it out yourself as AMC Plus has released a trailer for their new six part series MOONHAVEN which will

Moonhaven sf series arrives July 7th to AMC

arrive July 7th! It centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Dominic Monaghan and Joe Manganiello also star. 

SEE JOE MANGANIELLO, DOMINIC MONAGHAN IN MOONHAVEN SF SERIES TEASER! BBC' NEW FANTASY MINI SERIES LIFE AFTER LIFE TRAILER AND AIRING DATE REVEALED

   MOONHAVEN TEASER  

FOR NEW AMC SF SERIES

Joe Manganiello plays one of the lead roles

AMC Plus has released a teaser for their new science fiction series MOONHAVEN to announce the premiere date: the series will arrive to the small screens June 30th taking viewers over to the Moon. The six episode series set in a utopian colony on the Moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous, will star Dominic Monaghan and Joe Manganiello! It centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

 

  

 LIFE AFTER LIFE SERIES 

COMING TO BBC NEXT WEEK

Life After Life starts next Tuesday on BBC 2

Amazon and BBC Two's four part series LIFE AFTER LIFE will arrive April 19th, Tuesday next week to BBC Two and will then be available for streaming on BBC iPlayer based on a novel by Kate Atkinson.

In the series Thomasin McKenzie plays Ursula Todd, who is born to Sylvie and Hugh (Sian Clifford and James McArdle) one night in 1910, but dies before she draws her first breath. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is reborn and survives. Time and time again, living and dying in different circumstances, Ursula is reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. This compelling story follows Ursula as she navigates each new life, through a critical era which spans two world wars, an encounter with Hitler and major life events. But what is it that Ursula so desperately needs to stay alive for? Can a perfect life ever be lived? Can the course of history ever be changed? Can Ursula save the world? What if we could live life again and again? Jessica Brown Findlay, Jessica Hynes, Patsy Ferran, Sean Delaney, Harry Michell, all star as well in the new series.

SANDITON IS BACK WITH A 2ND SEASON TRAILER WITH TOM WESTON JONES, BEN LLOYD HUGHES & ALEXANDER VLAHOS! 1ST LOOK AT AMC'S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE WITH SAM REID, MOONHAVEN SF DRAMA WITH JOE MANGANIELLO, DOMINIC MONAGHAN! WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? MINI SERIES CLIP WITH JIM BROADBENT, EMMA THOMPSON, WILL POULTER

  SANDITON SEASON 2 

TRAILER HAS ARRIVED!

Ladies will really have a rich spring, with new seasons of Outlander and Bridgerton arriving in March, plus the hunks from Vikings: Valhalla in late February and then the second season of SANDITON landing at Britbox March 21st and a day before on PBS Masterpiece for the viewers in USA,

Sanditon season two arrives this March

and all that seasoned with last night's news that HBO's Gilded Age costume saga has been renewed for a second season. Based on Jane Austen’s final

Britbox will air it in Europe, PBS Masterpiece in USA

and incomplete novel, written only months before her death in 1817, it tells the story of impulsive, brash and ungratefully impolite Charlotte Heywood (Rose

Rose Williams takes the lead role again

Williams) and her quest to use rich people for her own gain. The series will also air on ITV for Brits and the third season has also been ordered.

 

THE NEW SEA SON PICKS UP

 the action nine months later, as the town grows in popularity, and features characters familiar and new. Charlotte (Rose Williams) taking up the role of governess to Augusta Wilson (Eloise Webb), Alexander Colbourne’s ward and niece,

Our boo Tom Weston Jones is the main hunk of the new season

who at the age of 17 pushes against authority and soon gives Charlotte a run for her money. Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison Heywood (Rosie Graham) comes to Sanditon to pursue her own romantic dream, and joined

Colonel Lennox will charm even the snobbish lady Denham

by The Parkers, the second series promises new romances, friendships and challenges for the residents as the Army makes Sanditon their new base. The Parkers are back, as Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) strives to rebuild Sanditon.

Dashing Jack Fox is back as the arrogant sir Denham

But there are many unforeseen issues awaiting him, while the secrets and lies of the dysfunctional Denhams continue to rock the foundations of the sunny seaside town. And, in her last summer season before turning 21, Georgiana

Alexander Vlahos arrives to Sanditon to paint the rich people

Lambe (Crystal Clarke), keen to forge her own identity, gets up to mischief in the name of love… but will she run the risk of being lonelier than ever before? When it comes to the new hunks in town, we have Alexander

The second season will probably have eight episodes

Colbourne (Ben Lloyd Hughes), a mysterious resident with a complex past, and also the self-assured war hero Colonel Francis Lennox (Tom Weston Jones). Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison, will quickly find romance

Charlotte will fly up in the sky with dashing Lennox

in the shape of charming Captain William Carter (Maxim Ays). There is also the courageous Captain Declan Fraser (Frank Blake) and the flamboyant Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos), who plans to paint the fashionable

Ben Lloyd Hughes is another hunky addition to the cast

residents. Anne Reid returns as Lady Denham, Jack Fox as Sir Edward Denham and Charlotte Spencer as Esther Denham! Check out the new trailer below and tell us what you think?

 

 WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? 

WATCH THE FIRST CLIP

Britbox has also released the first clip from their three part mini series WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? Hugh Laurie’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, which will launch exclusively on BritBox this Spring!

The three part series will air on Britbox sometime this spring

Starring Will Poulter as Bobby Jones, a young naval officer, and Lucy Boynton as Frankie Derwent, a prototype It Girl with a taste for adventure and good hats, the series also has cameo appearances by Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. 

 

 AMC SHOWREEL 1ST LOOK AT 

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

AMC has released a showreel showing clips from some of their upcoming shows including INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE a seven part

Sam Reid plays Lestat in the new series

adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel about the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he relates the story of his life to a reporter, in

Jacob Anderson is Louis in the new series

particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). The show is currently in production in New Orleans.

MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

AMC has also showed first glimpses of their expensive sf show MOONHAVEN starring Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and

Joe Manganiello is one of the leads in Moonhaven

Joe Manganiello which follows Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on

Dominic Monaghan also stars in the new series

Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth.

Iconic characters. Epic new worlds. Legendary series.

It’s all here. pic.twitter.com/VFBHn9zPgu

— AMC+ (@AMCPlus) February 14, 2022

JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD AMC'S MOONHAVEN TV SERIES WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN! STUDIOCANAL TO TURN CULT GRAPHIC NOVELS CORTO MALTESE INTO A PERIOD SET TV SERIES

  JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD 

AMC'S MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

The utopian series focuses on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds

Joe Manganiello will lead Moonhaven series

herself accused of a crime and marooned on MOON HAVEN, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective, Paul Serno (Dominic Monaghan), to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Joe Manganiello will play Tomm Schultz. An ex-military with a philosophical bent, Tomm is the right hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the Moon, who finds his ambitions changed when he’s injected with a mind-altering Moon drug.

 

  CORTO MALTESE TV SERIES  

IN WORKS AT STUDIOCANAL

Speaking of new television projects, your trusted spy has recently heard rumours that one of our favourite European studios Studiocanal is

There were a few movie adaptions before

preparing a small screen TV series adaptation of famous cult comic book CORTO MALTESE. Based on the graphic novels by Hugo Pratt it will follow the stylish sea adventurer who has become something of a sex symbol over the decades. Corto Maltese is an enigmatic and laconic sea captain who lives in the first three decades of the 20th century. Born in Valletta on the island of Malta on 10 July 1887, the son of a sailor from Cornwall, and a gypsy from Seville. In his adventures full of real world references, Corto has often crossed with real historical characters like the American author Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Hermann Hesse, the American outlaw Butch Cassidy, the German World War I flying ace Red Baron, and many others.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DWAYNE JOHNSON'S MASSIVE ACTION ADVENTURE 'RAMPAGE' WITH A GINORMOUS ALBINO GORILLA! STUNNING NEW POSTERS

   NEW 'RAMPAGE' POSTERS

WITH DWAYNE JOHNSON

Rampage starts this April worldwide

Poster update for you, spylings, this weekend, and some serious monkey business! Stunning new posters have been released for New Line Cinema and Warner's action adventure RAMPAGE which should bring everybody's favourite action superstar Dwayne Johnson and a massive white ape into cinemas this spring starting April 13th worldwide. The movie is based on an arcade game which has been planned for a big screen adaptation ever since 1986 when Warner first bought the rights. It was directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas) who said that we will see a lot more emotional, a lot scarier and a lot more real story than we'd

Dwayne has worked with Peyton on San Andreas

expect!

  BIG MEETS BIGGER
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable and unbreakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, albino gorilla who has been in his care most of its life. But a mysterious genetic experiment mutates this once gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered that a wolf (Ralph) and crocodile (Lizzie) have undergone similar changes. As these newly created apex predators battle each other for supremacy and tear across North America,

And also on the Journey Mysterious Island

destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with discredited genetic engineer Dr. Kate Caldwell  (Naomie Harris) to secure an antidote. The two fight their way through the ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe, but also to save the fearsome beast that was once Okoye's friend.

The cast also includes Joe Manganiello as Burke, the leader of a private military group, and Malin Åkerman as Claire Wyden, the woman responsible for the infection and mutation of George, Ralph, and Lizzie with the mutagenic serum for Project: Rampage.

TOTALLY MAD 'RAMPAGE' TRAILER WITH DWAYNE JOHNSON AND JOE MANGANIELLO CHASING A GIANT GORILLA!

  FIRST 'RAMPAGE' TRAILER

 WITH DWAYNE JOHNSON AND A MASSIVE WHITE GORILLA

Here is something I did not have time to show you during the week, first trailer for RAMPAGE which is literally two minutes of Dwayne Johnson

Rampage is based on a popular video game

 certified cinematic madness :) as you will see. There is also the first poster for the action flick which will monkey its way into cinemas next April also starring Joe Manganiello, Malin Akerman and Marley Shelton!

IN RAMPAGE
Dwayne Johnson is primatologist Davis Okoye who shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry transforms this gentle ape into a raging monster. As these newly created monsters tear across

Brad Peyton is directing after working with Dwayne on San Andres and Journey 2

North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an

The movie hits cinemas around the world next April

ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

KIDS MOVIES TUESDAY: POSTERS AND TRAILERS FOR 'THE SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE', 'POWER RANGERS' WITH ELIZABETH BANKS, BRYAN CRANSTON

'THE SMURFS: LOST VILLAGE'

 THEY WERE NEVER ALONE!

We are kids friendly today, presenting two projects for the younglings that are arriving into cinemas for Easter holidays, beginning with THE SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE which will smurf its way into cinemas at the end of this month for the first time fully animated unlike the previous instalments which were live action with CGI elements.

In the all new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history! Joe Manganiello and Demi Lovato lead the voice cast!

'POWER RANGERS'

MIGHTY MORPHINS FLY INTO CINEMAS THIS SPRING

Another movie featuring characters beloved by many kids is also flying into theatres later this month: it is the big screen version of POWER RANGERS! I have to admit I had zero interest in this movie, but the trailer does promise a visually outstandingly gorgeous movie with the cast lead by Elizabeth Banks as vilainess Rita Repulsa and Bryan Cranston as Zordon with the POWER RANGERS played by Dacre Montgomery (Red Ranger), Naomi Scott (Pink Ranger), RJ Cyler (Blue Ranger), Ludi Lin (Black Ranger) and Becky G (Yellow Ranger). Lionsgate has a plan of turning this into a five movie franchise.

TOGE- THER WE ARE MORE  
The story of the $120 million worth movie follows high school outcasts who stumble upon an old alien ship, where they acquire superpowers and are dubbed the POWER RANGERS. Learning that an old enemy of the previous generation has returned to exact vengeance, the group must harness their powers and use them to work together and save the world.

TOBY STEPHENS TO LEAD 'LOST IN SPACE' SF TV SHOW REMAKE! 'DAMNATION' PERIOD SET SERIES WITH ADEN YOUNG, LOGAN MARSHALL GREEN! 'SMURFS: LOST VILLAGE' TRAILER IS HERE!

'DAMNATION' PERIOD SET 

SERIES WITH ADEN YOUNG AND LOGAN MARSHALL GREEN

Here's a new period set series for us: USA is preparing a pilot episode for DAMNATION TV series, an epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets.

The pilot centres on Seth Davenport (Aden Young), a man masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full blown insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall Green) to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past. Also in the cast are Sarah Jones as the preacher's wife, Chasten Harmon as a Machiavellian prostitute,  Christopher Heyerdahl as the local sheriff, and Melinda Page Hamilton as one of the strikebreakers.

TOBY STEPHENS TO LEAD 

 'LOST IN SPACE' REMAKE

Another delicious piece of news comes from the upcoming remake of famous LOST IN SPACE sf TV series which will be toplined by Toby Stephens!

The ten episode series to air at Netflix in 2018 follows the Robinson family, who is forced to come together in a time of crisis. Stranded in space light years from their intended destination, they find themselves battling a strange new alien environment and also their own personal demons. Toby Stephens will play the father, astrophysicist John Robinson, the expedition commander, little Maxwell Jenkins will play his youngest child with Taylor Russell as his eldest daughter! Dracula Untold scribes have written the scripts for the new show!

'SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE' 

 TRAILER IS HERE!

Holy Smurf! The first trailer for the latest fully animated adventure SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE has been released into the woods! Smurfing its way into theatres next April, it will see a mysterious map setting Smurfette (Demi Lovato) and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty (Joe Manganiello) on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!

'MAGIC MIKE XXL' TRAILER WITH CHANNING TATUM, MATT BOMER, JOE MANGANIELLO! JASON MOMOA JOINS CHRIS PRATT, ETHAN HAWKE IN 'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' REMAKE! 'INFINITE HORIZON' & 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' SF NOVELS GET ADAPTED

'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' REMAKE

JASON MOMOA JOINS CHRIS PRATT AND ETHAN HAWKE

Deadline reports today that the latest actors to join the remake of MAGNIFICENT SEVEN are Aquaman Jason Momoa and Byung-hun Lee. They will join Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Haley Bennett, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Luke Grimes in the story about a young woman (Haley Bennett), who hires seven gunslingers to protect her small town from a group of treacherous bandits. Antoine Fuqua is directing the remake of the legendary Western which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI. 

NEW SF MOVIE ADAPTATIONS

'INFINITE HORIZON' NOVEL
When it comes to movie adaptations, 'Variety' reports that Warner Bros. and Greg Berlanti will adapt INFINITE HORIZON graphic novel from Gerry Duggan into a movie. Based on THE ODYSSEY  the story follows a soldier with no name, who ends up stranded on the other side of the world after a massive war that spanned several years finally comes to an end. The unnamed soldier embarks on his journey home, where he encounters shipwrecks and enemies such as the massive Cyclops and the seductive Sirens.
'BRAVE NEW WORLD' AT SYFY
Meanwhile, SyFy plans to adapt Aldous Huxley's sf classic BRAVE NEW WORLD into TV series. The book is set in a world without poverty, war or disease. In this world, humans are given mind altering drugs, free sex and rampant consumerism are the order of the day and people no longer reproduce but are genetically engineered in “hatcheries”. Those who won’t conform are forced onto “reservations” – until one of these “savages” challenges the system, threatening the entire social order.

'MAGIC MIKE XXL' TRAILER

 HUNKS ARE ON THE LOOSE!

Now, since it's a hump day, why not make it a hunk day with the new trailer for Channing Tatum's MAGIC MIKE II which is out this July also starring Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Elizabeth Banks! Picking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, MAGIC MIKE XXL finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike sharing the spotlight with them. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways.