SEE JOHN MALKOVICH IN FIRST IMAGES FROM THE YELLOW TIE BIOPIC WITH SEAN BEAN, CHARLIE ROWE, MIRANDA RICHARDSON, BEN SCHNETZER

    THE YELLOW TIE  

FIRST IMAGES FROM THE BIOPIC

Variety has got their hands on the first images from Sergiu Celibidache biopic THE YELLOW TIE in which John Malkovich plays the famous Romanian conductor. The movie, offered to buyers in Cannes currently, spans seven decades of his life with Sean Bean, Ben Schnetzer, Charlie Rowe, Miranda Richardson and Anton Lesser also in the cast. 

 

THE YELLOW TIE FOLLOWS

 the extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache (John Malkovich, Ben Schnetzer), one of the most celebrated classical music conductors of the twentieth century. He was a unique artist, revered and misunderstood in equal measure. From his childhood in Romania under the draconian authority of a disciplinarian father (Sean Bean), to his painful flight from home to pursue his dream of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany, and his rise, fall, and rise again, in an unimaginable career and life path, spanning seven decades and all four corners of the globe.

 

1ST THE NEW LOOK DIOR AND COCO CHANEL TV SERIES IMAGES WITH BEN MENDELSOHN, JULIETTE BINOCHE, JOHN MALKOVICH

 THE NEW LOOK TV SERIES 

ON DIOR AND COCO CHANEL

It will not arrive this year as it is set for February 14th launch at Apple TV Plus, but we have the first images from THE NEW LOOK mini TV series which will revolve around the fashion war between Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, played by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche. The series will have a three episode premiere with the rest airing weekly till April. 

 

  THE SERIES IS SET

against he World War II Nazi occupation of Paris, and focuses on the pivotal moment in the twentieth century when the French city led the world back to life through its fashion icon Christian Dior. As Dior rises to prominence with his groundbreaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence, Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer is put into jeopardy. The interwoven saga follows the surprising stories of Dior’s contemporaries and rivals from Chanel to Pierre Balmain, Cristóbal Balenciaga and more, and provides a stunning view into the atelier, designs and clothing created by Christian Dior through collaboration with the House of Dior. Mendelsohn stars as Christian Dior and Binoche as Coco Chanel, along with Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior, John Malkovich stars as Lucien Lelong, Emily Mortimer stars as Elsa Lombardi and Claes Bang stars as Spatz.

 

RUPERT FRIEND, JOHN MALKOVICH TO PLAY A FAMOUS CONDUCTOR IN THE YELLOW TIE MOVIE! SEE CHLOE MORETZ, JACK REYNOR IN PRIME VIDEO'S SF SERIES THE PERIPHERAL TRAILER

   RUPERT FRIEND TO PLAY  

FAMOUS ROMANIAN CONDUCTOR 

After his brilliant role this year in Anatomy of a Scandal, handsome Rupert Friend will play Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache in THE YELLOW TIE movie

Rupert Friend will play the younger conductor

with John Malkovich. In a film helmed by the conductor's son, the two of them will play younger and older Celibidache whose incredible life was unknown to many of those who worshipped his music.

  After telling his father he planned to pursue a career in music, he was kicked out of home and experienced homelessness. Travelling to Berlin to pursue his dream he encountered discrimination and prejudice but after surviving World War II he beat the odds to win a competition that saw him become the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s youngest ever conductor. He went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most iconic conductors. His unorthodox approach to music as well as his politics made him a contentious figure in his home country and throughout the classical music world.

  THE PERIPHERAL TRAILER  

FOR AMAZON'S NEW SERIES

The series arrives to  Prime Video October 21st

We also have a teaser for Amazon Prime Video's new sf series THE PERIPHERAL which arrives October 21st! Chloe Moretz is Flynne Fisher who lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. When she puts on a headset one night, she suddenly finds herself in a future London, a city that is alluringly different from her own hardscrabble life and is elegant and intriguing. She starts to understand that this isn’t a virtual reality game; rather, it’s reality, and it’s unlike any game she’s ever played. Seventy years in the future, someone in London has managed to unlock a portal to Flynne’s realm. London is hazardous in addition to being tremendously alluring. Her presence here unleashes evil forces out to eliminate Flynne and her family in her home world as she investigates who linked both worlds and for what reason. Jack Reynor also star.

JULIETTE BINOCHE, BEN MENDELSOHN THE NEW LOOK TV SERIES ON CHANEL & DIOR ADS EMILY MORTIMER, JOHN MALKOVICH, CLAES BANG! SEE MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS MOVIE POSTER WITH LESLEY MANVILLE HUNTING FOR A DIOR DRESS

 DIOR & CHANEL SERIES 

ADS EMILY MORTIMER AND JOHN MALKOVICH TO THE CAST

After adding Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelhson as Dior and Coco Chanel in their THE NEW LOOK mini series, Apple has also added some new names to the drama about the pivotal moment in the 20th Century when Paris led the world back to life through its fashion icons: Chanel and Christian Dior whose creations dominated world fashion in the decade following World War II. John Malkovich will play Lucien Lelong, President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture whose influential eponymous fashion house employed Dior and Balmain during the Occupation. Emily Mortimer will be Eva Colozzi, friend, confidante and style inspiration to Coco Chanel. Claes Bang will play Spatz, a Nazi operative stationed in Paris to both seduce and spy on the Parisian female elite.

  MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS  

BRAND NEW MOVIE POSTER!

The film arrives this July

Speaking of Paris fashion, check out the new poster for MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS movie which arrives to cinemas around the world thisJuly starring Lesley Manville, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Anna Chancellor, Isabelle Huppert, Freddie Fox, Rose Williams, Lucas Bravo and Christian McKay. In partnership with the House of Dior, the film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior. Check out the delightful trailer below and tell us what you think:

SEE SHERIDAN SMITH GET IN TROUBLE IN THE TEACHER CHANNEL 5 MINI SERIES TRAILER WITH KELVIN FLETCHER! A WINTER'S JOURNEY ANIMATED MOVIE BASED ON SCHUBERT' MUSIC STARRING JASON ISAACS, JOHN MALKOVICH

  A WINTER'S JOURNEY 

ANIMATED MOVIE PICTURES

Sony Pictures Classics has released first pictures from 2023 animated movie A WINTER'S JOURNEY which they will distribute around the world. John Malkovich, Jason Isaacs, Marcin Czarnik, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson star. The movie was originally supposed to star Gaspard Ulliel who died

Gaspard Ulliel was supposed to lead the film before covid.

earlier this week. Alex Helfrecht's movie is set in Bavaria in 1812, and follows an itinerant lovelorn poet who undertakes a hazardous walk across mountains, ice, and snow – a journey which will bring either death or a new

First look at the new animated movie A Winter's Journey

life. Based on Franz Schubert's world's most performed song cycle "Winterreise", this romantic and epic tale combines live action performances with CG and rotoscope animation done by the artists from Oscar nominated Loving Vincent.

 

  THE TEACHER TRAILER  

FOR NEW CHANNEL 5 SERIES

British Channel 5 has announced a January 31st airing date for their new THE TEACHER mini TV series by releasing a trailer for it. The four-part drama stars Sheridan Smith as Jenna Garvey, a popular teacher with a

The Teacher is a new four part mini series

chaotic private life. Her world turns upside down when she’s accused of sleeping with her young pupil, Kyle, after a night out! However, there’s a

The Teacher will air Monday-Thursday from January 31st.

wrinkle. With no memory of the night in question, Jenna’s only hope of clearing her name lies in uncovering the truth about a dark event in her past

Click on the photo to see the main cast of the series

that returns to haunt her. British hunkster Kelvin Fletcher stars as one of Jenna's colleagues and Sam Bottomley appears in the series as the student

Sam Bottomley and Sheridan Smith play the lead roles

at the centre of the allegations. Also in the cast are Cecilia Noble, Sharon Rooney and David Fleeshman. The four episodes will air from Monday till

Kelvin Fletcher plays Jenna's fellow teacher in the school

Tuesday in a four day television event which is how Channel 5 often airs their intriguing mini series, keeps the audience waiting for a new episode each night.

SUPER THRILLING 'BIRD BOX' SF TRAILER SEES SANDRA BULOCK FIGHTING ENEMY BLINDFOLDED! 'QUICKSAND' THRILLER TO REUNITE EMILY WATSON, DAVID TENNANT

    'QUICKSAND' THRILLER

TO TEAM UP EMILY WATSON AND DAVID TENNANT AGAIN

They already starred together back in 2013 in BBC miniseries The Politician’s Husband, but Emily Watson and David Tennant will join forces again in QUICKSAND thriller as a British couple Dan and Sarah who are living

David Tennant and Emily Watson will play a married couple again

idyllically on an Mediterranean island down in Greece. But their happiness comes to an end when their visiting son gets killed by a local youth. Dan, grief stricken, is offered a chance at revenge by a dangerous stranger who won’t take no for an answer, but the price of revenge is one more murder.

   'BIRD BOX' TRAILER SEES

SANDRA BULLOCK BLINDFOLDED

BirdBox hits Netflix December 21st!

Speaking of very tense thrillers, check out the first trailer for Sandra Bullock's BIRD BOX which will hit Netflix and selected cinemas December 21st! The cast also includes Tom Hollander, John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver and Rosa Salazar. 

In the wake of an unknown global terror, a mother must find the strength to flee with her children down a treacherous river in search of safety. Due to unseen deadly forces, the perilous journey must be made blindly. This fantasy thriller with an apocalyptic setting is directed by Academy Award winner Susanne Bier!

ANDREW BUCHAN, JOHN MALKOVICH, RUPERT GRINT TO LEAD BBC'S 'ABC MURDERS' AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI SERIES! IDRIS ELBA IS QUASIMODO IN NETFLIX' 'THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME' MUSICAL

  BBC'S 'THE ABC MURDERS'

ANDREW BUCHAN, RUPERT GRINT, JOHN MALKOVICH IN NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES

BBC One and Amazon have announced the cast for their new Agatha Christie three part drama THE ABC MURDERS, the fourth one in the

Andrew Buchan will star as one of the male leads

slate. Produced by Poldark and Victoria's Mammoth Screen it will have a cast led by Andrew Buchan, Rupert Grint and John Malkovich who will play Hercule Poirot (the strangest and, if I may say, the most off-putting of choices)! Rupert Grint will be Inspector Crome, Andrew Buchan is Franklin Clarke, with Eamon Farren, Tara Fitzgerald, Bronwyn James and Freya Mavor also in the cast!

 THE ABC MURDERS is set in the 1930s; a time when the nation is dangerously divided and suspicion and hatred are on the rise. In the midst of this Poirot faces a serial killer known only as A.B.C. First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of

White Princess' Freya Mavor and Rupert Grint will also star!

The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot’s investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If Poirot is to match his nemesis then everything about him will be called into question; his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity.

  IDRIS ELBA IS THE NEW

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Idris Elba is the new Quasimodo!

Rival Netflix is meanwhile moving over to Notre Dame with no one else but Idris Elba. In the third or possibly fourth of the current projects on that topic, he will play the famous Hunchback! As 'Hollywood Reporter' reports Netflix' THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous story will be a musical experience! Beside playing the famous guard of the church called Quasimodo who is secretly in love with a gorgeous gipsy girl Esmeralda, Idris Elba will also produce the movie and write original songs for it! It is not so strange as he really did play as a DJ in a number of music festivals around Europe. The Current War director Michael Mitnick is set to helm the new adaptation of the French classic.

'WILDE WEDDING' TRAILER WITH GLENN CLOSE, PATRICK STEWART, JOHN MALKOVICH, JACK DAVENPORT! PATRICK DEMPSEY TO LEAD 'TRUTH ABOUT HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR' MINI TV SERIES FROM JEAN JACQUES ANNAUD

PATRICK DEMPSEY TO LEAD

'TRUTH ABOUT HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR' MINI TV SERIES

One of our favourite directors, visual genius Jean Jacques Annaud (Wolf Totem, Seven Years in Tibet, Black Gold, Enemy at the Gates) will

Patrick Dempsey will lead the Epix series

direct a ten episode TV series adaptation of 2014 massive best seller THE TRUTH ABOUT HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR by Joel Dicker which has been sold for translation in more than 32 countries!

In the story set in a coastal New Hampshire town, Ben Schnetzer will play Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist who needs inspiration for his next book. Marcus heads to New Hampshire to stay with his college professor, Harry Quebert (Patrick Dempsey), to focus on his writing. When the body of fifteen year old Nola Kellergan is found on his property 33 years after she went missing and Quebert is accused of her murder, Marcus works to uncover the truth. The result of his investigation becomes his next book. The cast also includes Virginia Madsen, Colm Feore, and Damon Wayans Jr. as the investigator in the case. The series will air on MGM's Epix cable channel.

'THE WILDE WEDDING' TRAILER

 WITH PATRICK STEWART, GLENN CLOSE, JOHN MALKOVICH

The only trailer I have for you today is a rather fun and delightful one for THE WILDE WEDDING with a stellar cast led by Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, John Malkovich! It follows Eve Wilde (Glenn

The movie is out in limited release next month

Close) who prepares for her wedding to
husband number four, renowned English writer Harold Alcott (Patrick Stewart) after a whirlwind courtship. At her upstate New York home, in the presence of both Wilde's first husband, celebrated stage actor Laurence Darling (John Malkovich), and their collective families (Minnie Driver, Jack Davenport, Yael Stone, Peter Facinelli, Noah Emmerich, Grace Van Patten), the long summer weekend offers the opportunity for everyone to get to know each other a bit more intimately. As sexual sparks begin to fly, there are unforeseen consequences abound.