SKY TO AIR TWO ORIGINAL NEW FILMS A MONTH IN 2021 WITH SAM CLAFLIN, SAMANTHA MORTON, JACK LOWDEN, KATE BECKINSALE, ROBERT DE NIRO, MORGAN FREEMAN AND MANY OTHERS

  SAM CLAFLIN TO LEAD 

BOOK OF LOVE MOVIE FOR SKY

Sam Claflin will lead two films at Sky

Sky continues with the development of its own movies (we have To Olivia premiering this month) with a new romantic comedy BOOK OF LOVE which will have Sam Claflin as the lead together with Veronica Echegui in a story about two writers thrown together on a book tour in Mexico. Sky, by the way, plans to release two films a month this year: Samantha Morton, Jonathan Pryce, and Tom Felton will star in their SAVE THE CINEMA film based on true events about Liz Evans who makes it her mission to stop her local cinema from being demolished. Jack Lowden will, meanwhile, lead their KINDRED psychological thriller about a vulnerable mother to be who is taken in by her recently deceased boyfriend’s mother and stepson, who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones and Zach Braff will lead Sky's THE COMEBACK TRAIL about two movie producers who owe money

Jack Lowden will star in Kindred

to the mob and set up their ageing movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. They also hired Sam Claflin to star in EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE in which Casey Affleck stars as a psychiatrist who finds his life in turmoil following the sudden suicide of his patient. When he invites his patient’s surviving brother (Sam Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter, his family life and career are suddenly torn apart. Kate Beckinsale will lead Sky's JOLT as a bouncer with a murderous anger management problem that she controls with the help of an electrode lined vest to shock herself back into normalcy whenever she feels homicidal. This is just a small number of films from the whole slate that also includes some animated adventures (we already announced Dragon Rider).

HELEN MIRREN WILL SHARE HER THRONE WITH NOONE IN HBO'S CATHERINE THE GREAT TRAILER! JAI COURTNEY JOINS KATE BECKINSALE IN JOLT ACTION COMEDY

   JAI COURTNEY JOINS

Kate Beckinsale will give herself some jolts

KATE BECKIN SALE IN JOLT ACTION COMEDY MOVIE

Well, they will certainly make a hot couple on the big screens! Australian superhunk Jai Courtney has just joined British beauty Kate Beckinsale in action comedy JOLT together with Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale and Laverne Cox!

JOLT
directed by Hysteria's Tanya Wexler, will see Beckinsale play Lindy, an acid-tongued woman with rage issues. Lindy controls her temper by shocking herself with an electrode vest. One day she makes a connection with Justin (Jai Courtney), which gives her a glimmer of hope for a shock-free future but

Australian superstar Jai Courtney takes the lead male role

when he’s murdered, she launches herself on a revenge fuelled rampage in pursuit of his killer. Meanwhile, detective Vicars (Bobby Cannavale) and detective Nevin (Laverne Cox) mark Lindy as their chief suspect.

   'CATHERINE THE GREAT'

HBO VERSION OF THE TRAILER

I've already showed you Sky's trailer for it, but now HBO has released their own one for CATHERINE THE GREAT four part mini historical series with Helen Mirren! The series will follow the late years of the 18th century

Helen Mirren already played English queens Elizabeth I and II

Russian tzarina as she enters the relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke). Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress

The series will air on Sky in Europe, and HBO in USA this Autumn

Catherine the Great develops a unique and devoted relationship with him as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day

The series follows the relationship between Catherine and Potemkin

Russia. The cast will also include Joseph Quinn, Gina McKee, Rory Kinnear, and Richard Roxburgh. Check out HBO's trailer below which is much more dynamic and atmospheric than the Sky's one. 

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S SF SERIES 'NIGHTFLYERS' CASTS EOIN MACKEN & GRETCHEN MOL! KATE BECKINSALE TO FLY TO CONGO IN ITV'S NEW SERIES 'THE WIDOW'

'NIGHTFLYERS' TV SERIES

EOIN MACKEN AND GRETCHEN MOL TO LEAD NEW SF SHOW

Eoin Macken has just finished Night Shift!

I reported earlier last year that George R.R. Martin's novella NIGHTFLYERS is to be made into a TV series, but now SyFy has revealed the cast and it is rather magnificent! The series, which will be aired around the world by Netflix, follows eight scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of the solar system aboard The Nightflyer in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.

It has been revealed today that Gretchen Mol will star as Dr. Agatha Matheson, alongside Eoin Macken as Karl D’Branin, David Ajala as Roy Eris, Sam Strike as Thale, Maya Eshet as Lommie, Angus Sampson as Rowan, Jodie Turner-Smith as Melantha Jhirl and Brían F. O’Byrne as Auggie. The series will be shot in Ireland.

KATE BECKINSALE TO LEAD

 ITV'S 'THE WIDOW' TV SERIES

Shooting starts this month in South Africa

Meanwhile, over  across the pond, British ITV has revealed that Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale is moving over to the small screen in order to topline their new series THE WIDOW which they will produce together with Amazon! She will play Georgia Wells who has her life turned upside down with a phone call in the middle of the night. Her husband of over 10 years, Will, has been reported dead after a plane crash in the Congolese jungle. Three years later, with her old life now a thing of the past, Georgia learns something shocking. Something that will take her to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looking to uncover the truth about his disappearance. Still haunted by the past, Georgia is grieving for the man she loved and the life they’ve lost, but she hasn’t given up hope.

BLAKE LIVELY TO STAR IN 'THE HUSBAND'S SECRET' AND 'A SIMPLE FAVOUR'! 'THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK' TRAILER WITH CALLUM TURNER, KATE BECKINSALE, PIERCE BROSNAN

 BLAKE LIVELY TO STAR

IN 'THE HUSBAND'S SECRET' AND 'A SIMPLE FAVOUR' MYSTERIES

It seems it is all about hidden secrets in Blake Lively's new movie projects. She's already signed up to star in THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, the big screen adaptation of a Liane Moriarty novel, about a busy wife, mother and chronic perfectionist who inadvertently discovers that her husband has been keeping a secret from her for years... A secret that leads her to realize that her life is built on a foundation of lies and murder! Now, as 'Variety' reports, she is also to star in A SIMPLE FAVOUR, based on a Darcey Bell novel, as a perfect mother with a dazzling career working for a famous fashion designer in Manhattan, who asks her friend Stephanie (to be played by Anna Kendrick), a widow with a son in kindergarten, lonely in their Connecticut suburb, and a mom blogger, to pick her son up from school, but Stephanie then suddenly discovers that her friend has disappeared without a trace, leaving her son and husband with no warning.

 'THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK' MOVIE TRAILER

WITH CALLUM TURNER, PIERCE BROSNAN AND KATE BECKINSALE

The first trailer has been released for a rather star studded drama THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK in which Callum Turner stars next to Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Debi

Callum will play Eddie Redmayne's brother in new Fantastic Beasts

Mazar and Cynthia Nixon. The Marc Webb directed movie is out in cinemas around you this August.

DADDY'S GOT A NEW MISTRESS
Always lovely War and Peace star Callum Turner stars as Thomas, a recent college graduate adrift in the big city. When an eccentric new neighbour (Jeff Bridges) moves into his building, the kid seeks his

The title of the movie is taken from a Paul Simon song

guidance on girl problems and more as his life is upended by the mistress (Kate Beckinsale) of his father (Pierce Brosnan).

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS' EPIC SAGA WITH KATE BECKINSALE, THEO JAMES, CHARLES DANCE, BRADLEY JAMES, TOBIAS MENZIES! CHARACTER POSTERS & NEW TRAILER

'UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS'

EPIC NEW TRAILER AND STUNNING CHARACTER POSTERS

Well, what is an honest man to do when the cold Autumn strikes us as it is striking us right now, but to put on his (fake) fur cape, take his trusted sword and go do some vampire hunting? At least that is what the mistress of vampire slayers Selene is doing in UNDER WORLD 5: BLOOD WARS which should sink its fangs into US cinemas seats in the first week of new 2017, most European ones from November and December and UK next February! You can sink your own teeth into the new trailer and character posters today to get the taste of the upcoming adventure! It is interesting that the sixth instalment is already in works with Kate Beckinsale in the lead role again! 

PROTECT THE BLOOD LINE
In the latest instalment of the legendary vampire saga, the story follows Vampire death dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) who has to battle against vicious attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David (Theo James) and his father Thomas (Charles Dance), she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

STELLAR EPIC TV CAST

Outlander's Anna Foerster takes the director's seat this time, so it is no wonder that she gave one of the supporting roles to Tobias Menzies who plays new Lycan leader named Marius! But he is not the only star of epic TV shows that stars in the movie since the ensemble cast also includes Sherlock's and Da Vinci's Demons' Lara Pulver as a fiercely ambitious vampire named Semira, Merlin's King Arthur Bradley James and also Game of Thrones' star Charles Dance as Vampire elder Thomas, and Into The Badland's actor Oliver Stark! Trent Garrett will play Selene's new lover Michael!

LILY COLLINS JOINS HOLLIDAY GRAINGER, HARRY TREADAWAY IN 'THE CLOWN' CIRCUS MOVIE! MAX BENNETT JOINS 'WILL' SHAKESPEARE HIP TV SERIES! 'UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS' TRAILER WITH KATE BECKINSALE, THEO JAMES, TOBIAS MENZIES, BRADLEY JAMES

LILY COLLINS JOINS

INTERNAT- IONAL 'THE CLOWN' CAST

Now this is certainly an amazing international cast! As 'Deadline' reports today, our lovely Lily Collins has joined Anthony Lucero's THE CLOWN movie which also has Pål Sverre Hagen, British stars Holliday Grainger, Harry Treadaway and Stacy Martin, Hungarian actor János Derzsi, Serbian star Nikola Djuricko, and French legend Jean-Marc Barr, in the cast.

Set against the backdrop of a small travelling circus, THE CLOWN centres on a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter as they lead each other through the everyday mysteries of love, magic and loss.

MAX BENNETT JOINS 'WILL'

SHAKESPEARE TV SERIES
While we await for TNT to announce the airing date of their new historical series WILL, they've just added Max Bennett to the cast! Shekhar Kapur directed series tells the wild story of young Shakespeare’s (Laurie Davidson) arrival onto the punk rock theatre scene in 16th century London – the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous sideshows. It’s described as a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance. Max Bennett will play Robert Southwell, Will’s cousin and the most wanted man in England. Father Southwell’s words are more dangerous than the Spanish Armada. A messianic, charismatic leader bent on fomenting Catholic rebellion, Southwell tries to draw Will into his heady world of espionage and religious fundamentalism.

'UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS'

TRAILER WITH KATE BECKINSALE, THEO JAMES, BRADLEY JAMES

Meanwhile, the first trailer has been released today for Kate Beckinsale's UNDERWORLD 5: BLOOD WARS which will suck its way into cinemas next January.  She reprises her role of Vampire warrior Selene who with her ally David (Theo James) faces a new threat as the war between vampires and werewolves rages on. British stars Charles Dance, Tobias Menzies and Bradley James also star! 

NEW POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET DRAMAS WW2 'GUERNICA' WITH JAMES D'ARCY, JACK DAVENPORT, MARIA VALVERDE, VICTORIAN 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' WITH KATE BECKINSALE

'GUERNICA' TRAILER WITH

JAMES D'ARCY & JACK DAVENPORT

Two new posters for you, starting with a gorgeous one for Spanish WW2 drama GUERNICA starring James D'Arcy, Jack Davenport and Maria Valverde. Out this week in Spain, it follows the fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, which cross in Gernika.

NEW 'LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP' 

POSTER WITH KATE BECKINSALE

Meanwhile, a gorgeous new poster has been revealed for Kate Beckinsale's period set movie LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP in which she plays Lady Susan Vernon who takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

'BRIDGET JONES'S BABY' TRAILER WITH RENEE ZELLWEGER, COLIN FIRTH, PATRICK DEMPSEY! 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' PERIOD SET TRAILER WITH KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY

 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' TRAILER

WITH KATE BECKINSALE IS HERE

Two trailers for you today, the first one for Kate Beckinsale's period set drama LOVE & FRIENDSHIP out this May! Based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan, the film follows a manipulative, charming woman (Kate Beckinsale) who has run through her late husband’s fortune and is now on the prowl for a new husband. However, she’s doing double-duty courtship, as she’s trying to marry off her daughter too.

 BRIDGET JONES'S BABY TRAILER

WITH RENEE ZELLWEGER, COLIN FIRTH AND PATRICK DEMPSEY

The first trailer for the not so much anticipated third part of BRIDGET JONES'S BABY movie series has been released! Due this September, the movie will also star Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie.

UNEX- PEC- TEDLY EXPEC- TING
After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), Bridget Jones's (Renée Zellweger) "happily ever after" hasn't quite gone according to plan. Forty something and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Patrick Dempsey). The suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch... She can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father. And this isn't good for anyone involved! Bridget, you little hussy!

FIRST PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET MOVIES 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' WITH KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY, 'TULIP FEVER' WITH DANE DEHAAN, ALICIA VIKANDER, JUDI DENCH, CHRISTOPH WALZ, MATTHEW MORRISON, JACK O'CONNELL, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER

'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' PHOTOS

WITH KATE BECKINSALE

It's been an extremely slow week so far in the movie business, so I will entertain you today with something I've dug out recently: the first photos from two of the upcoming period set movies. Starting with the first poster and some photos from Kate Beckinsale's LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP which is premièring at Sundance this month.

Directed by Whit Stillman, and also starring Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Fry and Xavier Samuel, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, an adaptation of a Jane Austen short story, revolves around beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. While there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.

'TULIP FEVER' PHOTOS

ALICIA VIKANDER & CHRISTOPH WALTZ IN STAR STUDDED MOVIE

Meanwhile, another period set movie we've been announcing for what seems at least five years now TULIP FEVER finally has some photos released revealing lead actors Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz, and also prince Harry's ex girlfriend Cressida Bonas. Set in 17th century Amsterdam, the adaptation of Deborah Moggach novel, follows an artist (Dane DeHaan) who falls for a married young woman (Alicia Vikander) when he's commissioned to paint her portrait by her husband (Christoph Waltz). The pair then invest in the risky tulip market in the hope of building a future together. Dame Judi Dench also joins the cast together with Matthew Morrison and Tom Hollander, Jack O’Connell, Holliday Grainger. Dench will play the Abbess of St. Ursula’s, a rescuer of orphan children, and Morrison will play a drunken bohemian artist.

MILLA JOVOVICH, JUSTIN CHATWIN IN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'IN THE LOST LANDS' EPIC FANTASY FILM! 1ST IMAGES FROM 'FROZEN FOREVER' ANIMATED SHORT! KATE BECKINSALE, STEPHEN FRY IN JANE AUSTEN'S 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' MOVIE

JANE AUSTEN'S 'LADY SUSAN'

BECOMES 'LOVE & FRIENDSHIP' WITH KATE BECKINSALE

Here's something for all of you Jane Austen fans (not that Dezzy will ever understand you :) - Kate Beckinsale and Stephen Fry will star in the movie adaptation LOVE & FRIENDSHIP of her novella LADY SUSAN which should start shooting this month in Ireland! According to 'Deadline' Whit Stillman is directing the movie set in the 1790s!  LOVE & FRIENDSHIP centres on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica. Xavier Samuel (The Twilight Saga) will star as the object of Lady Susan’s affections, and Stephen Fry as Mr Johnson, long suffering husband to Lady Susan’s friend and confidante Alicia (Chloe Sevigny). The cast  also includes Emma Greenwell, Morfydd Clark, Jemma Redgrave, James Fleet, Tom Bennett and Justin Edwards.

DISNEY'S 'FROZEN FOREVER' 

RELEASES FIRST IMAGES
Disney fans will enjoy the first images from the short animated movie FROZEN FOREVER which will air before Cate Blanchett's  CINDERELLA  this March! In the short movie it's Anna's (Kristen Bell) Birthday. Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but Elsa's icy powers may put more than just the party at risk when the ice queen catches cold! The film will also feature a brand new song from 'Let It Go' Oscar winning writers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.

'IN THE LOST LANDS' EPIC 

 MOVIE FROM GEORGE R.R. MARTIN TO STAR MILLA JOVOVICH

This surely sounds epic: German director Constantin Werner will helm the big screen epic fantasy adaptation of three of George R.R. Martin's stories IN THE LOST LANDS and Milla Jovovich and Justin Chatwin are the first cast members of the German Canadian co production! In one thread, the desperate queen of a city built into a towering mountain hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) to travel into the ghostly wasteland called the Lost Lands, to obtain the gift of shape-shifting into a werewolf, but she doesn't realize that the fulfillment of her wish will come at a terrible price. Meanwhile, warrior girl Sharra must fight a dragon that serves as the gatekeeper of seven worlds to reunite with her lost lover Kaydar. During this quest she meets the mysterious lord of a deserted castle, Laren Dorr, who seduces her so completely that she forgets her quest and stays with him, unaware that he is the real gatekeeper. And in the futuristic tale Bitterblooms, a young barbarian girl gets spellbound by a lonely witch in a spacecraft, who shows her beauty and love, which turns out to be a net of lies and deceit."