CASTING NEWS: KELLAN LUTZ TO LEAD ALASKA SET SURVIVAL THRILLER THE RESCUE, LUCIEN LAVISCOUNT JOINS DAISY RIDLEY, JOSH DUHAMEL IN THE GOOD SAMARITAN ACTION THRILLER

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Kellan  Lutz will take the lead

KELLAN LUTZ TO LEAD THE RESCUE

Some action movie casting updates for you today, starting with Kellan Lutz who has been given the lead role in faith based survival thriller THE RESCUE which will start shooting next January at New Zealand. After a violent storm leaves a rescue team stranded on a frozen Alaskan mountain, survival becomes a test not only of endurance, but of faith, as hope is pushed to its breaking point. Darren Simmonds and Jared van Berkel are directing the movie according to Deadline.

 

LUCIEN LAVISCOUNT JOINS GOOD SAMARITAN

 Lucien Laviscount has been added to the cast of action thriller THE GOOD SAMARITAN which follows successful entrepreneur

Lucien Laviscount has joined the cast

 Dr. Rosalind Carver (Daisy Ridley) and her husband Matt (Lucien Laviscount) after they rescue a wounded man drifting off the coast of Indonesia, unaware that they’re stepping into a deadly conspiracy. Within hours, their yacht vanishes, Matt is abducted by a gang of ruthless pirates led by Langbore (Sharlto Copley), and paradise becomes a trap. Imprisoned by corrupt officials, Rosalind crosses paths with Sean Fuller (Josh Duhamel), a battle hardened ex-mercenary with his own reasons for taking down the pirates. In a desperate race against time, Rosalind and Sean are forced into an uneasy alliance, fighting to save her husband and expose a global trafficking empire that eliminates anyone who tries to stop it. Pierre Morel is directing the new movie which will shoot this Autumn.

  

SEE HOW FAR WILL JOSH DUHAMEL AND MICHAEL SOCHA GO TO GET THEIR KIDS IN PRESCHOOL IN NEW COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER

   PRESCHOOL TRAILER  

PLAYTIME IS DEFINITELY OVER

The battle begins this March

How far would you go to secure your kid the only available spot in a fancy PRESCHOOL? This is what we will see in the new comedy movie out March 19th which was directed by Josh Duhamel who also stars in it together with Michael Socha. The two of them play two extremely determined fathers whom we watch engage in a comical battle to enroll their kids in an elite preschool, escalating into an absurd competition with unexpected results. Check out the hilarious trailer for this entertaining new comedy below and tell us what you think, would you watch the film, do you like the two actors?

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON RANSOM CANYON MODERN WESTERN SAGA FROM NETFLIX WITH JOSH DUHAMEL, MINKA KELLY, EOIN MACKEN

  RANSOM CANYON  

JOSH DUHAMEL AND MINKA KELLY SERIES

Ransom Canyon starts April 17th on Netflix

Netflix is releasing on April 17th their ten episode series based on Jodi Thomas book series RANSOM CANYON and you can watch the trailer with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as leads of this romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas hill country. Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of a sprawling ranch. He is steadfast and stoic, and leads the charge to resist outside forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves. Kelly plays Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for herself. Eoin Macken, Tatanka Means and James Brolin also star.

 

JOSH DUHAMEL AND MINKA KELLY IN THE TRAILER FOR RANSOM CANYON MODERN WESTERN SAGA FROM NETFLIX

  RANSOM CANYON TRAILER  

FOR JOSH DUHAMEL AND MINKA KELLY SERIES

Netflix is releasing on April 17th their ten episode series based on Jodi Thomas book series RANSOM CANYON and you can the trailer with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as leads of this romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas hill country. Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of a sprawling ranch. He is steadfast and stoic, and leads the charge to resist outside forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves. Kelly plays Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for herself. Eoin Macken, Tatanka Means and James Brolin also star. 

NETFLIX SETS JOSH DUHAMEL AND MINKA KELLY AS LEADS IN THEIR TV ADAPTATION OF RANSON CANYON MODERN WESTERN SAGA

  RANSOM CANYON TV SAGA  

JOSH DUHAMEL AND MINKA KELLY SET AS LEADS AT NETFLIX

Netflix is making a ten episode series out of Jodi Thomas book series RANSOM CANYON and have set Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as leads of this romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas hill country. Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of a sprawling ranch. He is steadfast and stoic, and leads the charge to resist outside forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves. Kelly will play Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for herself.

FAMILY FUN IN THE TRAILER FOR THINK LIKE A DOG MOVIE WITH JOSH DUHAMEL AND MEGAN FOX OUT DIGITALLY THIS JUNE

'THINK LIKE A DOG'

FAMILY MOVIE TRAILER IS HERE

Here's something to cheer up you and your family in these dark days. New family movie THINK LIKE A DOG, which was first announced four

The movie will be on VOD from June

years ago, will finally be available digitally from June 9th starring Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox and little Gabriel Bateman in this whimsical family comedy about a boy and his dog, and a science project that will change all of their lives forever.

Think Like A Dog
follows 12 year old Oliver, a tech prodigy whose middle school science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him and his furry friend, Henry. The bond brings Oliver and Henry even closer as they join

The movie was directed by Gil Junger who also wrote the script

forces to comically overcome complications at school, and help Oliver’s parents rekindle their marriage along the way. Check out the trailer below:

STAY AT HOME AND WATCH THE LOST HUSBAND ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH LESLIE BIBB AND JOSH DUHAMEL THIS APRIL!

     'THE LOST HUSBAND' TRAILER

 SAYS IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FIND YOURSELF

Since theatres have closed everyone around the world, your trusted spy will try to inform you about series and movies that you will be able to watch

You can watch the film in your home from April 10th

at home in the upcoming days. One of them, THE LOST HUSBAND, is coming to iTunes, Prime Video and other VODs April 10th!

    

 What's The Story?
After the sudden death of her husband, Libby (Leslie Bibb) is forced to move in with her hypercritical mother. Out of the blue, her estranged Aunt Jean offers an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Life on Aunt Jean’s goat farm is more wonderful and more mysterious than

Josh Duhamel plays the lead male role in the film

Libby could have imagined. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is quiet — deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff farm manager

The movie is based on a book by Katherine Center

(Josh Duhamel) with a tragic home life, a feed-store clerk who claims she can contact her husband “on the other side,” and the eccentric aunt she never really knew but who turns out to be exactly who she needs.

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH 2018 TEENAGE FILMS + TRAILERS & POSTERS FOR ENCHANTINGLY BEAUTIFUL 'LOVE, SIMON' WITH NICK ROBINSON, DAVID LEVITHAN'S 'EVERY DAY' & 'PLEASE STAND BY' WITH DAKOTA FANNING, TONI COLLETTE

  HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE

 THROUGH 2018 TEEN MOVIES

You will see a lot of teenage novel big screen adaptations in the fresh 2018, people, from latest Maze Runner movie to the movie versions of Ernest

Jennifer Niven's book was translated by yours truly

Cline's Ready Player One from Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Bracken's Darkest Minds, Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places (with Elle Fanning), Garrard Conley's Boy Erased (with Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe), Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before and Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow.

DID YOU KNOW?

  Emily Danforth's The MisEducation of Cameron Post with Cloe Moretz is out this month too! John Bellair's The House with a Clock in Its Walls will star Cate Blanchett! Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle will star Alexandra Daddario! Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines movie is out December!

  'LOVE, SIMON'

1ST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMANCE

Nick Robinson is Simon in love!

Probably the most anticipated YA adaptation to arrive this year is movingly beautiful adaptation of Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda called LOVE, SIMON in the movie version which is hitting big screens this April starring lovely Nick Robinson in probably the first big studio romantic drama ever with two gays as the pair in love. Directed by Greg Berlanti LOVE, SIMON also stars Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner as Simon's parents, alongside Colton Haynes and Katherine Langford as his friends.

Love, Simon is out in cinemas this April

LOVE, SIMON wants you to know that everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it's complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous classmate is that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, scary and life changing. The movie comes from the same producers who brought is The Fault in Our Stars! The actor who plays Blue, the boy Simon is in love, is being kept a secret!

  'EVERY DAY'

FROM DAVID LEVITHAN

David Levithan's Every Day is out April

Based on David Levithan's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, EVERY DAY tells the story of Rhiannon (Angourie Rice), a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named "A" who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and "A" to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make. Also starring Colin Ford it is out this April!

  'PLEASE STAND BY'

 STARRING DAKOTA FANNING!

The first one out, as soon as next week January 26th is touchingly beautiful PLEASE STAND BY in which Dakota Fanning plays a young autistic

Enchantingly warm and beautiful Please Stand By is out next week

woman who runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition. Toni Collette also stars.

FIRST TEASER AND PHOTOS FOR GREG BERLANTI'S GAY YA ROMANTIC COMEDY 'LOVE, SIMON' WITH NICK ROBINSON

  'LOVE, SIMON'

TEASER AND PHOTOS ARE OUT AND SIMON IS TOO!

The movie hits cinemas worldwide next March

Here's something for all the teens before they go out Trick or Treating tonight! First photos have been released for LOVE, SIMON a big screen movie adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s best selling young adult novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda which was released back in 2015. The film stars always lovely Nick Robinson under the direction of Greg Berlanti the producer of famous TV series such as Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Riverdale, Legends of Tomorrow.

SIMON'S STORY 
This romantic comedy about teens in love sees Nick Robinson playing Simon, a teenager who starts an email romance with another closeted classmate! Everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it's

In honour of today's Halloween, clip below shows Simon at a Halloween party

complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous classmate is that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious,

Josh Duhamel plays Simon's father in the movie

scary and life-changing. One of the first teen movies to have two gay guys as the protagonists in the romance, is done by the same studio and producers

It is one of the first major studio teen gay romance movies

who did another major teen movie The Fault in Our Stars. Check out the teaser below along with some of the exclusive photos from Entertainment Weekly! Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner play Simon's parents.

ROBBIE SHEEHAN, RONAN RAFTERY IN PETER JACKSON'S 'MORTAL ENGINES' EPIC ADAPTATION! 'LOST CITY OF Z' NEW TRAILER WITH CHARLIE HUNNAM. 'TRANSFORMERS: LAST KNIGHT' SUPERBOWL TEASER WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, LAURA HADDOCK

'MORTAL ENGINES' 

PETER JACKSON FINDS HIS LEAD

His Hobbits, Kongs and other movies outside Lord of the Rings weren't exactly great, but Peter Jackson is returning to fantasy world again, as I reported before, with MORTAL ENGINES adaptation and now he has found his lead too in Robbie Sheehan and a supporting actor in Ronan Raftery.

MORTAL ENGINES, to be released in December next year, are set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth's cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the Outlands who will change the course of his life forever.

'TRANSFORMERS: LAST KNIGHT' 

SUPERBOWL TEASER IS HERE!

Speaking of fantasy, check out new Super Bowl teaser for TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT, which is coming to cinemas this June starring Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins and Laura Haddock!  Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager, Bumblebee, an English Lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

'THE LOST CITY OF Z' 

NEW TRAILER AND POSTER!

New trailer and poster have been released for big screen adaptation of THE LOST CITY OF Z which, out this April, tells the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett, supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland) and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson), returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

'TRANSFORMERS: LAST KNIGHT' TRAILER WITH JOSH DUHAMEL, ANTHONY HOPKINS, LAURA HADDOCK! MATTHEW MCNULTY JOINS TOBIAS MENZIES, CIARAN HINDS IN 'THE TERROR' EPIC SERIES

'THE TERROR' EPIC SERIES

 MATTHEW MCNULTY JOINS CAST

I've already informed you earlier this year that AMC is preparing a ten episode period set series THE TERROR, based on Dan Simmons novel, and now we have new cast additions: our dear British star Matthew McNulty has joined the ship's crew that already includes Tobias Menzies, Jared Harris, Ciaran Hinds, Adam Nagaitis, Edward Ashley, Liam Garrigan, Ronan Raftery!

THE TERROR is set in 1847 in the polar waters, when a Royal Navy expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crews in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival.This will be an anthology series, which means that some other kind of terror will be the topic of the second season.

'TRANSFORMERS: LAST KNIGHT' 

TRAILER HAS DRAGONS IN IT

I haven't understood half of what was happening in it, but there are dragons flying in it, so who cares: the first trailer for TRANSFOR-

MERS: THE LAST KNIGHT is here to announce the adventure that comes next June! In the fifth part of the franchise, Optimus Prime is searching through the cosmos for the Quintessons, the beings believed to be responsible for the creation of the Transformers race. Meanwhile back at home, there is a new threat! Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins, Stanley Tucci, John Goodman, John Turturro, Ken Watanabe, Tyrese Gibson lead the cast! And there's also Santiago Cabrera who already played one of the knights of the round table in BBC's Merlin! 

'DA VINCI'S DEMONS' LAURA HADDOCK JOINS ANTHONY HOPKINS, JOSH DUHAMEL IN 'TRANSFORMERS 5: THE LAST KNIGHT'! 'SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS' ADVENTURE TRAILER WITH RAFE SPALL!

LAURA HADDOCK JOINS

ANTHONY HOPKINS IN 'TRANSFORMERS 5: THE LAST KNIGHT'

I must admit I've missed her terribly, I truly did! DA VINCI'S DEMONS ethereal beauty and deeply expressive actress Laura Haddock will star in TRANSFORMERS 5: THE LAST KNIGHT in an unknown role! The cast already includes Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel!

Scheduled for summer next year and directed by Michael Bay THE LAST KNIGHT will see Optimus Prime searching through the cosmos for the Quintessons, the beings believed to be responsible for the creation of the Transformers race. The movie is scheduled for summer next year. Gorgeous Laura Haddock has given birth to her first child with ME BEFORE YOU and HUNGER GAMES superstar Sam Claflin earlier last winter! She will also star in ITV's new drama THE LEVEL

'SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS' 

 RAFE SPALL TRAILER IS HERE!

Your trailer for today comes from the exhilarating big screen adaptation of  Arthur Ransome’s treasured classic SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS. Out this August in UK and starring our beloved Rafe

Spall alongside Andrew Scott, it is a story of daring adventure and exploration as a group of children set off on an adventure of a life-time.

'MISCONDUCT' TRAILER AND POSTER WITH JOSH DUHAMEL, ANTHONY HOPKINS, AL PACINO! ALEXANDRE AJA TO HELM 'THE MARQUIS' DE MONTESPAN 17TH CENTURY MOVIE

  ALEXANDRE AJA TO HELM

'MARQUIS' DE MONTESPAN MOVIE

Here's a new period set frock flick for us: Alexandre Aja has been hired to helm THE MARQUIS 17th century epic drama on famous Marquis de Montespan. As 'Deadline' reports, inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel, Le Montespan, which has been adapted by Aja, it covers the doomed and passionate relationship between the Marquis Louis Henri de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, who became the mistress of Louis XIV, aka the Sun King. Although having one’s wife spend time in bed with the monarch was perceived as a source of prestige for aristocrats at the time, the Marquis vowed to get his wife back at all costs. They've spent nearly 30 years trying to free themselves from the muck of this hypocritical society they lived in!

  FILTHY ERA
Aja will also depict the filth and stench people lived in at that time with the doctors advising to never wash, with women peeing and defecating under their beautiful dresses, and with their strange dental ‘hygiene’ which included filling their cavities with butter and honey that would ooze out every now and then during casual conversation!

  'MISCONDUCT' TRAILER

JOSH DUHAMEL, ANTHONY HOPKINS & AL PACINO

Meanwhile, you can also check out a trailer and new poster for action thriller MISCONDUCT starring a stellar trio Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino, with Malin Akerman and Alice Eve leading the female cast and Byung Hun Lee the international one.  When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption. The movie is playing this weekend in British cinemas.