First image has been released with Johnny Flynn and Aimee Lou Wood from IDIOT(S) period set movie which also stars Vicky Krieps and Christian Friedel. The film follows the lives of the famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna during a period that inspired him to write “The Idiot” at the time a commercial flop, but today, considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature. He wrote it in Switzerland where they ran off from debts in Russia.
We have first trailer for a movie coming to Netflix this Christmas GOODBYE JUNE a directorial debut of Kate Winslet who also stars in it next to Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough and Helen Mirren. It will be out December 24th
with a short cinema release before that. It’s nearly Christmas when an
unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings,
and their exasperating father, into chaos as they
navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss. But their
quick-witted mother, June, orchestrates her decline on her own terms –
with biting humor, blunt honesty, and a lot of love.
After exercising nepotism by starring in a film with her daughter and thus launching her career, Kate Winslet will continue with nepotism and will now direct a film written by her own son. GOODBYE JUNE already has quite a stellar cast and we will see Toni Collette, Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough staring in Kate's directorial debut over at Netflix. As Screen Daily reports, the film in which she will also star is a contemporary fictional drama about a fractured group of siblings who pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
And not just them, Bill Nighy's movie adaptation of David Gilbert's novel & SONS has added Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Johnny Flynn, Noah Jupe and George MacKay. Nighy plays Andrew, or A.N. Dyer, as he is known to the world — a famous novelist whose first novel became an instant classic and created a cult following around its elusive author. One morning, Dyer wakes up convinced he must mend the broken relationships in his life and summons his sons (Flynn, Jupe and MacKay) to be with him. It has been nearly 20 years since an incident tore apart the family. When the sons arrive, each burdened with their own struggles, Andrew reveals something so astonishing it couldn’t possibly be true — or could it?
Toronto Film Festival is getting closer and closer each day and getting a world premiere at the prestige festival is ONE LIFE movie drama which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker (played by Johnny Flynn) who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669
children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived
the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton
visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish
refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately
realized it was a race against time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton (Anthony Hopkins)
is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to
safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life”
surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother, with Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp also in the cast. Check out the first trailer below, for the film that is out January 1st in UK cinemas.
Toronto Film Festival has unveiled a line up of films that will be presented there this year and getting a world premiere in Toronto is ONE LIFE which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker (Johnny Flynn) who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669 children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother, with Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp also in the cast.
Amazon Studios are to make a movie out of Kate DiCamillo's THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY fantasy book with Brad Copeland penning the script. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl,
Amazon Studios is adapting the book
Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land seeks just such a girl, and Brother Edik, who penned the prophecy himself, knows why.
And so it is that a girl with a head full of stories, powerful tales-within-the-tale of queens and kings, mermaids and wolves, ventures into a dark wood in search of the castle of one who wishes her dead. But Beatryce knows that, should she lose her way, those who love her, a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword, and a goat with a head as hard as stone, will never give up searching for her, and to know this is to know everything.
SCROOGE: CHRISTMAS CAROL
NETFLIX ANIMATED TRAILER
Speaking of tales for kids, Netflix has released a trailer for their new festive animated adventure SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL which will stream from December 2nd with Luke Evans leading the voice cast of this
Scrooge will sing December 2nd
supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's cult Christmas story, which also features voices from Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Flynn! Charles Dickens’ ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is one for a new generation to sing.
WORLD WAR II FILM WITH COLIN FIRTH, MATTHEW MACFADYEN
Operation Mincemeat arrives January
SeeSawFilms is finally ready to release their new historical movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT in cinemas around Europe this month (April 15th in UK, Russia, India), after a long delay, and after that it should also arrive to Netflix, from May 11th but only for the audiences from the rest of the world. Colin Firth and MatthewMacFadyen play two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, JohnnyFlynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter whose final role this was before he died last year.The film is based on a book by Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by Johnny Flynn.
THE STORY IS SET IN 1943
when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on
occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers
Ewen Montagu (Firth)
Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn
and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure
an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most
unlikely of secret
January release was delayed when Netflix bought streaming rights
agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into
thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by
way of Greece rather than Sicily.
The film is based on an extraordinary true story!
Their plan was to get a corpse, equip
it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where
Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide
of the whole war.
Your first period set suspense crime thriller in the freshly arrived New Year is THE OUTFIT, a crime thriller coming from Oscar winning director GrahamMoore who also wrote the script (he won an Oscar exactly for his writing skills when he penned The Imitation Game back in 2014). The movie, which sees Oscar winner Mark Rylance playing an expert tailor who must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night, will arrive into cinemas February 25th and in United Kingdom in April, with Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn and Simon Russell Beale also in the cast of the Focus Features movie. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
THE STORY OF THE OUTFIT
Leonard
(Mark Rylance), a master English tailor who's ended up in Chicago,
operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch)
Oscar winner Mark Rylance plays the lead role of the taylor
where he
makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a
family of vicious gangsters. One night, two killers (Dylan O'Brien,
Zoey Deutch plays the taylor's assistant in the shop
Johnny Flynn) knock on his door in need of a favor - And Leonard is
thrust onto the board in a deadly game of deception and murder.
I tuned into Australian ABC upfronts earlier this week and their shows announced for next year really, and sadly, do not deserve any mention here, and
Sam Neill will be a lawyer in The Twelve
they said it is still too early to decide whether Sam Reid's The Newsreader, which was an absolute breakout hit of the season, will be getting a new season. But their rival Foxtell did announce new THE TWELVE ten part series following 12 jurors – ordinary Australians with struggles of their own – who are tasked with deciding the case of a woman (Kate Mulvaney) accused of killing a child. Sam Neill will play a lawyer involved in the case, while Brooke Satchwell and Hazem Shammas will play jury members.
THE SCORE TRAILER
A MUSICAL CRIME ROMANCE
The Score does not have a release date yet
Meanwhile, over in Britain, we have an interesting trailer for THE SCORE an unusual musical heist movie with Will Poulter and Johnny Flynn. The story of the movie revolves around small time crooks Mike (singer and actor Johnny Flynn who also wrote the songs for the movie) and Troy (Will Poulter), who are off on a new gig that will presumably change their lives. As they wait for a rendezvous hand-over at a secluded roadside cafe, Troy ends up smitten by the waitress Gloria (Naomi Ackie). As his feeling for her grow stronger and more sure, he starts questioning his life choices so far, while his real threat inches closer by the minute.
SeeSaw Films has published first photos from their new historical movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT which should arrive at the very beginning of January, to Netflix, possibly, as well. Colin Firth and MatthewMacFadyen play two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, JohnnyFlynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter.
THE STORY IS SET IN 1943
when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on
occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers
Ewen Montagu (Firth)
Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn
and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure
an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most
unlikely of secret
Johnny Flynn is unrecognisable in the film as Ian Fleming!
agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into
thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by
way of Greece rather than Sicily.
The film is based on an extraordinary true story!
Their plan was to get a corpse, equip
it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where
Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide
of the whole war.
NIGHT COURT MULTICAM
SITCOM ORDERED AT NBC
Speaking of first photo, here's one from a new multicam sitcom that NBC has just ordered into series: NIGHT COURT will be a follow up to the classic sitcom following an unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Melissa
It is not known if the sitcom arrives midseason or next season
Rauch), the daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette is reprising his role from the original).
VIKINGS: VALHALLA
1ST EPIC SERIES TRAILER
Netflix has released the first teaser for their epic series VIKINGS VALHALLA which is coming to the streamer next year! Set 100 years after the events of Vikings, Valhalla stars Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson, the famed
Sam Corlett takes the lead role in the series
explorer who, according to Viking lore, sailed to North America five centuries before Christopher Columbus. It will also chronicle the adventures of other legendary Vikings from history, including Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida
Leo Suter is Harald Hadrada in the series
Gustavsson) Harald Hardrada (Leo Suter), and the Norman King William the Conqueror. Laura Berlin stars as the ambitious Emma of Normandy, Bradley Freegard as the Danish King Canute, Johannes Haukur
The series comes from Tudors' Michael Hirst
Jóhannesson as Harald’s half-brother Olaf; David Oakes as the English counselor Earl Godwin, Caroline Henderson as the Kattegat Jarl Haakon, Pollyanna McIntosh as the Danish Queen Ælfgifu, and Asbjorn Krogh Nissen as Jarl Kåre.
According to Deadline, Netflix has just paid $15 million for World War 2 movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT from John Madden which has
Colin Firth will lead the Operation Mincemeat
a star studded cast lead by Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Johnny Flynn, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter. Set in 1943 when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily. Their plan was
Matthew MacFadyen will play an intelligence officer in the film
to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide of the whole war.
PAUL MESCAL
TO LEAD BRING THEM DOWN
Breaking star Paul Mescal, who is currently finishing a movie adaptation of popular opera CARMEN down in Australia (a modern day reimagining directed by Benjamin Millepied in which he plays Don Jose),
Paul Mescal is currently shooting Carmen
will move over to his homeland of Ireland later this summer to shoot Irish thriller BRING THEM DOWN in which he and Tom Burke will visit the wild landscape of the West of Ireland, with the story following an Irish shepherd who is drawn into violent conflict with a neighbouring farm when his sheep are massacred by unknown men. Mescal is also starring in THE LOST DAUGHTER movie which Maggie Gyllenhaal directed and which also stars Peter Saarsgard, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Jessie Buckley, and Oliver Jackson Cohen. The story of that one focuses on a woman's beach vacation which takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
If you don't know where to take your love this Valentines Day, you might take them to visit EMMA, as the latest big screen adaptation of Jane Austen's novel from Focus Features hits theatres February 14th with Anya Taylor
The film arrives for Valentines next year
Joy as clever and rich Emma Woodhouse, a
restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little English town. In
this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma
must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find
the love that has been there all along.
Who Is In The Cast? British thespians Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse, Josh O’Connor as Mr. Elton, Callum Turner as Frank Churchill, Rupert
Graves as Mr. Weston, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth as
The movie will arrive into North American cinemas a week after UK
Harriet Smith, Miranda Hart as Miss Bates, Gemma Whelan as Mrs. Weston, Amber
Anderson as Jane Fairfax, Tanya Reynolds as Mrs. Elton and
Anya Taylor Joy and Johnny Flynn play the lead roles
Connor Swindells all star in the movie
scheduled to hit American cinemas
February 21st! The colourful costumes in the film
were done by Alexandra Byrne who also did our favourite films Elizabeth
and Hamlet.
A Selfless Matchmaker!
Autumn de Wilde is making
her directorial debut with the
film in which Anya Taylor Joy plays Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who
You remember Anya Taylor John from Miniaturist and Flynn from Vanity Fair
delights in meddling in other people's affairs by match making. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each
Jane Austen wrote one of her most popular novels in 1815
other. She often tries to find a suitor for her best friend but fails because the suitors usually fall for herself. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is
Josh O'Connor also stars in the movie adaptation!
clueless about her own feelings and is not considering her own happiness in love!! Check out the vivacious and playful trailer below and the photo shoot from Vogue:
You probably remember that last Autumn your trusted spy told you that a new big screen version of Jane Austen's famous novel EMMA is being prepared and that Anya Taylor Joy will play the female protagonist, and now they've added the rest of the cast and I must say it looks rather stellar! Johnny Flynn joins the Focus Features Working Title movie as George Knightley, legendary Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse, Les Miserables star Josh O’Connor as Mr. Elton, War and Peace star Callum Turner as Frank Churchill, comedian Miranda Hart as Miss Bates, Mia Goth as Harriet Smith, Rupert Graves
Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor will lead the male cast!
as Mr. Weston, Gemma Whelan as Mrs. Weston, Amber Anderson as Jane Fairfax and Tanya Reynolds as Mrs. Elton.
JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA period set movie will be directed by Autumn de Wilde (her first one ever)
with the story following Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in
meddling in other people's affairs by match making. She is
Rupert Graves and top model Amber Anderson have also joined the cast
perpetually
trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. She
often tries to find a suitor for her best friend but fails because the
suitors usually fall for herself. Despite her interest in romance, Emma
is clueless about her own feelings and is not considering her own
happiness in love!
After a number of photos and a teaser, we finally have the first trailer and character photos from ITV's new period set series VANITY FAIR which will
Olivia Cooke the star of Spielberg's Ready Player One takes the lead
start airing this September in United Kingdom! Brand new costume drama based on William Thackeray's
famous novel, has the story set in the
First look at the lead cast of the new Vanity Fair series!
Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played
by Olivia Cooke. Check out the trailer below and first cast photos!
NEW VANITY FAIR The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen,
is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic
Wars, and follows
After airing on ITV in UK, Vanity Fair will air on Amazon too in US
modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw
her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her
story of villainy, crime,
The saga is based on William Thackeray's classic novel
merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing,
cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of
King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing
fortunes as she goes.
A RATHER STELLAR CAST INDEED
Her main love interest daft Captain Rawdon Crawley is played by Tom Bateman with Charlie Rowe as poor soldier George Osborne, Johnny
Claudia Jessie is Becky's confidante Amelia Sedley
Flynn as Dobbin, Martin Clunes as Sir Pitt Crawley, Frances de La Tour as Miss Matilda Crawley, Suranne Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton and
Charlie Rowe as George Osborne and Johnny Flynn as William Dobbin
Michael Palin as Thackeray himself. Claudia Jessie will play Becky’s confidante Amelia Sedley, with Simon Russell Beale and Claire Skinner
Vanity Fair will air in seven hourlong episodes
as her parents, and David Fynn as her brother Joss.Shot on locations around United Kingdom and Hungarian capitol Budapest, the series will later on also air on Amazon in USA!
Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna during a period that inspired him to write “The Idiot” at the time a commercial flop, but today, considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature. He wrote it in Switzerland where they ran off from debts in Russia.
Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna during a period that inspired him to write “The Idiot” at the time a commercial flop, but today, considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature. He wrote it in Switzerland where they ran off from debts in Russia.
