1ST LOOK AT CATE BLANCHETT IN PERIOD SET MOVIE THE NEW BOY! SEE THE MIRACLE CLUB TEASER WITH MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES, LAURA LINNEY, STEPHEN REA!

 1ST CATE BLANCHETT PIC 

IN THE NEW BOY MOVIE

From Australia comes the first image of Cate Blanchett in THE NEW BOY movie which premieres at Cannes. It is a 1940's set story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. 

  THE MIRACLE CLUB  

1ST TEASER WITH MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES AND LAURA LINNEY

Sony Pictures has released the first teaser for new movie drama THE MIRACLE CLUB with Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates and Stephen Rea! Lourdes, a picturesque French town and a place of

The movie will arrive this summer

miracles, a magnet for 6 million visitors each year from across the globe. Ballygar, Ireland, 1968: a boisterous hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat, frenzied, fast and loose, and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. And the opportunity to rise above one’s daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women. There’s just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their local priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, and Dolly get their ticket  of a lifetime. Having never left Dublin, let alone Ireland, the journey provides our heroines the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and some independence. It's also a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles. But when they are joined by Chrissie, recently returned from a decades-long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed. As they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have all been looking for is right in front of them. Check out the first teaser below and tell us will you watch it this summer?

 

SEE MAGGIE SMITH, LAURA LINNEY IN 1ST 'THE MIRACLE CLUB' MOVIE IMAGE! GOD'S CREATURES THRILLER TRAILER WITH EMILY WATSON, PAUL MESCAL

  THE MIRACLE CLUB  

FIRST LOOK AT MAGGIE SMITH AND LAURA LINNEY

Your first look image today comes from movie drama THE MIRACLE CLUB with Maggie Smith and Laura Linney. Also starring Kathy Bates and Stephen Rea, it follows four Dublin women who come together on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes in France, where they discover the solidarity in their friendship and unveil their own personal miracles. This British Irish co-production is directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan.

 GOD'S CREATURES TRAILER 

A MOTHER'S LOVE FORSAKEN

The film is out end of September in USA

Speaking of British Irish productions, here is another one for you today: a trailer for GOD'S CREATURES thriller which is out September 30th in selected cinemas with Emily Watson, Paul Mescal and Aisling Franciosi in the lead roles.

  In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic. Saela Davis, whose debut behind the helm this film is, and Anna Rose Holmer, who has just one other movie behind her, directed the film together.

JUDE LAW TO STAR AS HENRY VIII IN FIREBRAND, MICHELLE WILLIAMS AS HIS LAST WIFE QUEEN CATHERINE PARR! SEE JAKE MCLAUGHLIN, KATHY BATES IN POWERFUL DRAMA HOME

  FIREBRAND EPIC THRILLER 

JUDE LAW IS HENRY VIII

I've already told you that Michelle Williams will play Catherine Parr in FIREBRAND historical thriller and now Jude Law has been crowned as Henry VIII! By the time young Catherine Parr married the deteriorating,

Jude Law has already played Henry V

increasingly despotic King Henry VIII, she had no assurances of a happy marriage; in fact, she had no assurances of surviving this marriage at all. Of her predecessors, two were thrown out, one died in childbirth and two were beheaded. While Catherine tried to keep her head about her to navigate the politics of her position, she brought a secret agenda. She was Protestant, believed it her duty to marry Henry, for it would be the only position in which she could convert him, and the kingdom, from his pro Catholic position. That faith was tested when the church resisted granting his divorce from his first wife so he could marry Anne Boleyn, who would later be beheaded. With arrests, torture, and executions of Protestants on the rise, Catherine invited a dangerous game that

Michelle Williams will play Henry's last wife Catherine Parr

would leave one of them dead before long. The thriller is told through Catherine’s singular point-of-view of the psychological horror of living with a monster and the remarkable will to not only survive, but thrive.

 

   HOME DRAMA MOVIE  

SEE JAKE MCLAUGHLIN & KATHY BATES IN THE LEAD ROLES

Home is out on VOD and cinemas December

We don't have an English language trailer yet, but you can check out the German one below as it is a directing debut of Franka Potente and it is out in US December 3rd.  It tells the story of Marvin Hacks (Jake McLaughlin), who comes home after spending more than 20 years in prison to find out that, even after two decades, his small American hometown has not forgotten the atrocity he committed. Despite the confrontation and hostility from the locals, Marvin will do what it takes to win back his place in society. He is welcomed back to his shabby, run-down family home by his terminally ill mother, Bernadette (Kathy Bates) and her male nurse and companion, Jayden (Lil Rel Howery).

2021 FEMALECENTRIC MOVIES: EMILY BRONTE WITH EMILY BEECHAM, JOE ALWYN, EMMA MACKEY, WOMEN IN THE CASTLE WITH KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, DAISY RIDLEY, MIRACLE CLUB WITH MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES, LAURA LINNEY

  2021 FEMALECENTRIC MOVIES  

EMILY ON EMILY BRONTE

This year we'll have a number of movies centred on female characters, among them is EMILY which will see Emma Mackey playing famous writer Emily Bronte in Frances O’Connor's film which will immerse us in Emily Brontë’s hidden world: Emily is a rebel and misfit, a young woman daring to form herself, to embrace her true nature… to hell with the consequences. We share the innermost relationships that inspired Emily. They are revelations of untold truths – her raw, passionate sisterhood for Charlotte (Emily Beecham) and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Joe Alwyn) and her care for her maverick brother (Fionn Whitehead) whom she idolises. Who was this young woman whose heart burned with such love and life, and who wrote literature’s timeless and searing masterpiece, Wuthering Heights? 

WOMEN IN THE CASTLE

Post-war Germany: a country compromised – every citizen tarnished by complicity with the Nazi regime, and yet willing the past to disappear as they build a future from its ashes. But for Marianne – widow of a man murdered for defying the Nazi regime – the past must be spoken for. She cannot simply

The film is helmed and written by Jane Anderson

forgive her compatriots for what they’ve done, to her life and to her once-proud nation. She finds refuge from this rapidly transforming world in her family’s crumbling castle where she once played host to Germany’s liberal elite and there fulfills her promise to find and protect the wives and children of her husband’s brave conspirators. Rescuing her dearest friend’s widow, Benita, from the Russian army, and Ania, from a refugee camp, Marianne assembles a makeshift family, certain the women’s shared pain will bind them together. But as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her Nazi past, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled worldview and moral certainty has no place in these new, frighteningly ambiguous and emotionally charged days. All three women (Kristin Scott Thomas, Daisy Ridley and Nina Hoss) must grapple with the realities they now face, and the terrible consequences of decisions they cannot undo.

 

THE MIRACLE CLUB

 Lourdes, a picturesque country town at the base of the magnificent French Pyrenees, and a place of miracles, is a magnet for 6 million visitors each year from across the globe. Ballyfermot, Ireland, 1960: A hilariously hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat – frenzied, fast and loose – and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. It’s a thriving community in a constant uphill battle to live as fully as possible, on very little. And the opportunity to rise above one’s daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women.

Jane Anderson wrote and directed the film

There’s just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, and all for free. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends played by Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, are the ‘lucky’ few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night. Having never even left Dublin the journey provides them the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and delight in some sweet independence. But it’s not all just a ‘jolly’: the women have a very important role to play when they arrive in Lourdes – to act as ‘pushers’ for the seriously ill and disabled pilgrims, there to bathe in the town’s healing springs. And it’s also a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles. But when they are joined by a woman recently returned from a decades long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed. As they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have all been looking for is right in front of them: in the strength of their friendships and unshakeable togetherness.

SAM HEUGHAN JOINS OLIVER JACKSON COHEN, FREIDA PINTO, CONSTANCE WU IN MR MALCOLMS' LIST REGENCY ERA ROMANCE! MAGGIE SMITH, KATHY BATES, LAURE LINNEY JOIN THE MIRACLE CLUB

SAM HEUGHAN JOINS

MR MALCOLM'S LIST EPIC DRAMA

Sam Heughan has joined the period set drama

Well, this will certainly be a colourblind period set movie: a few months ago I told you that Freida Pinto and Oliver Jackson Cohen will lead Regency era costume drama MR MALCOLM'S LIST and now they are being joined by Sam Heughan and Constance Wu. The novel by Suzanne Allain, on which the script is based, will be out next month globally. As 'Deadline' reports, Sope Dirisu will play the titular character of Mr Malcolm, London’s most eligible bachelor. When Julia (Constance Wu) is jilted by him after she failed to meet one of the items on his list of requirements for a bride, she enlists her friend Selina (Freida Pinto) to help her take revenge. Emma Holly Jones is directing and preparing a presentation for the buyers at Cannes virtual market later this month.

'THE MIRACLE CLUB'

FINDS ITSELF A THESPIAN TRIO

A trio of award winning ladies has been cast in Embankment Films' new movie THE MIRACLE CLUB which will see Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney leading the story of working-class women from Dublin who embark on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. As ScreenDaily reports, Thaddeus

Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates will be going to Lurdes

O’Sullivan is directing the movie which will have a 2022 release. It will also be offered to buyers at Cannes. The movie was first planned back in 2004 under Pushers Needed title. A few weeks ago I told you that Embankment will also be offering EMILY movie on Emily Bronte for sales this month.

KATHY BATES JOINS TOM HUGHES, LAURA HADDOCK, DIANA AGRON IN ROBERT GRAVES 'LAUREATE' BIOPIC! GERARD BUTLER TO LEAD 'AFTERBURN' FUTURISTIC ADVENTURE!

  'LAUREATE' ROBERT GRAVES

FILM GETS KATHY BATES, TOM HUGHES, LAURA HADDOCK, DIANA

Laura has just had her 2nd child with Sam Claflin

AGRON

And even more movies about famous authors after yesterday's news! Although her lovely sitcom Disjointed has just been cancelled after just one season over at Netflix, Kathy Bates will not stay out of work! She has just been cast in period set drama THE LAUREATE  which will follow the life of British poet Robert Graves! And she will be in a stunning company as the cast will also include Tom Hughes, our dearest Laura Haddock and Diana Agron!

THE STORY OF THE MOVIE 
Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, THE LAUREATE tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves (Tom Hughes), who is married with four children when he meets and becomes romantically involved with Laura Riding (Diana Agron), a writer from America. Defying the conventions of polite society, Riding moves in with Graves and his wife (Laura Haddock will play his wife

Victoria's Hughes will play poet Robert Graves

Nancy Nicholson who was a painter and fabric designer) living as a ménage a trois. Then with the arrival of strappingly handsome Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, the arrangement becomes a ménage a quatre. But soon tensions and rivalries become so fraught that Graves is a suspect for attempted murder. Kathy Bates will be Graves’ meddling mother who fears Riding will ruin the seemingly idyllic marriage as tensions in the household rise.

  GERARD BUTLER

TO GO ON A FUTURISTIC HUNT FOR TREASURES IN 'AFTERBURN'

This has been Gerard Butler's passion project for years

Deadline reports today that Jung Byung Gil will direct futuristic action adventure AFTERBURN with Gerard Butler! Five years after a solar flare disrupts all technology in Europe, a treasure hunter (Gerard Butler) goes to France to retrieve the Mona Lisa. Paired with a strong willed weapons expert with her own agenda, the two search for the famed painting and encounter unexpected enemies along the way. As the movie is being eyed as a potential start of a whole franchise,  the future story lines might see him searching for such treasures as England’s Crown Jewels, the Star of India, or China’s Imperial Treasures.

TRAILER AND POSTER FOR NETFLIX NEW SITCOM 'DISJOINTED' WITH KATHY BATES AND TONE BELL

'DISJOINTED' TV SITCOM

 KATHY BATES IS WASTED!

Smoking starts August 25th on Netflix!

A little bit of laughs today to bring some comedy into your boring summer Monday! Netflix has released the first trailer for their new multi camera sitcom DISJOINTED starring Kathy Bates, which starts airing this month, August 25th!

A modern twist on the American Dream, DISJOINTED is a story of the highs, the lows, and half baked drama of a family run marijuana dispensary. Kathy Bates stars as cannabis legend Ruth Whitefeather Feldman who employs her newly graduated son and a team of young

Kathy Bates and Tone Bell as her very troubled security guard!

"budtenders" to help run her Los Angeles marijuana dispensary. Twenty episode comedy also stars Tone Bell, Aaron Moten, Dougie Baldwin and Elizabet Alderfer! Check out the trailer below, it looks terribly unfunny!

COMEDY WEDNESDAY: KATHY BATES GROWS WEED IN 'DISJOINTED' TEASER! ELLIOTT GOULD, LINDA LAVIN JOIN MARK FEUERSTEIN, DAVID WALTON IN '9J, 9K, 9L' SITCOM! JOSE MORENO BROOKS JOINS 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'

 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'

 CASTS JOSE MORENO BROOKS

Comedy news today, people, beginning with the new casting addition to FreeForm's popular sitcom YOUNG AND HUNGRY which has just added Jose Moreno Brooks, whom you've watched last year in Eva Longoria's Hot and Bothered sitcom and also in Baby Daddy, to the cast! Here he will play Juan Carlo, a Mexican street vendor and Casanova that Sofia (Aimee Carrero) falls for while on vacation. In the fifth season, Gabi and Josh try to prove to everyone that they won’t let feelings get in the way of their new friends with benefits arrangement, Sofia continues on the path to a career in journalism, and Josh faces an unexpected reunion with his estranged father.

 '9J, 9K AND 9L' CBS SITCOM

ELLIOTT GOULD AND LINDA LAVIN MOVE IN AS PARENTS
Talking about cast additions, two comedy veterans Elliott Gould and Linda Lavin will play the parents of  Mark Feuerstein and David Walton's characters in CBS new multi camera sitcom 9J, 9K AND 9L! The story is inspired by Feuerstein’s real life experience of living in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, right between his parents’ apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister in law and their baby’s apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well meaning family. They will be Judy and Harry, parents of Josh (Mark Feuerstein) and Andrew (David Walton). Lavin’s Judy is stylish, social and obsessed with her sons. Her best day would be spent just staring at and smelling Josh. Harry knows no boundaries. A pillar of the community, he’s warm and loving and lives life to the fullest.

 'DISJOINTED' TEASER

KATHY BATES IN POT SMOKE

There's also the first teaser for Netflix' new comedy series DISJOINTED in which Kathy Bates is an owner of an Los Angeles cannabis dispensary who works with three charismatic “budtenders” (Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Ho, Elizabeth Alderfer), her entrepreneurial twenty something son (Aaron Moten) and a very troubled security guard (Tone Bell). 20 episodes are coming August 25th! 

'FEUD' TV SERIES PHOTOS WITH SUSAN SARANDON, JESSICA LANGUE AS BETTE DAVIS & JOAN CRAWFORD! 'COLOSSAL' TRAILER WITH ANNE HATHAWAY, JASON SUDEIKIS, DAN STEVENS

'FEUD' PICS & TEASER

 SUSAN SARANDON, JESSICA LANGUE, CATHERINE ZETA JONES

First photos are here announcing anthology (it will deal with some famous celebrity feud in each season) TV series from FX titled FEUD        which will have first season lead by Jessica Langue and Susan Sarandon portraying the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta all set in the patriarchal Hollywood studio system that pitted them against each other. Catherine Zeta Jones stars as Olivia de Havilland, with Alfred Molina, Stanley Tucci and Kathy Bates also in the cast of March 5th series.

'COLOSSAL' TRAILER

 WITH ANNE HATHAWAY, JASON SUDEIKIS AND DAN STEVENS

And a very crazy trailer for you today, it is the first one for Anne Hathaway's COLOSSAL which is out this April with her playing a woman who discovers that severe catastrophic events, in the form of a giant monster attacking the city, are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering. Also starring Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens, the movie will first hit Russia in February!

COMEDY FRIDAY: CAROL BURNETT, CANDICE BERGEN, KATHY BATES, STOCKARD CHANNING TO LEAD THEIR OWN NEW SITCOMS! 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM WITH JOEL MCHALE, STEPHEN FRY

CAROL BURNETT 

TO LEAD NEW ABC SITCOM!

This season really did not bring us many multi camera sitcoms, but networks are slowly picking up orders for possible new pilots and one of them, an untitled one, will have a legendary comedian returning to the small screens! As 'Deadline' reports Carol Burnett will star in ABC's pilot for a new sitcom, produced by Amy Poehler, about a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams, a house they’d never be able to afford under normal circumstances, but is able to under extremely abnormal circumstances. They must live with the current owner, an older actress (Burnett) — until she dies.

STOCKARD CHANNING, CANDICE BERGEN, KATHY BATES' SITCOMS

She is not the only legendary female comedian to return to TV soon, NBC is developing a Stockard Channing sitcom pilot ME & MEAN MARGARET (about a fearsome faded film and Broadway legend and the unwitting boy lawyer who has to babysit her), Candice Bergen is to topline sitcom PEARL (as a larger than life family matriarch who finds out she has cancer, and becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family's life before she dies), while Kathy Bates will lead sitcom DISJOINTED for Netflix as a mom who runs her own marijuana dispensary with the help of her three sons!

'THE GREAT INDOORS' 

OPENS ITS DOORS THURSDAY

But a multi camera sitcom to arrive to us as early as next Thursday is CBS comedy THE GREAT INDOORS which is set to premiere in primetime on October 27th with Joel McHale portraying Jack who has made a name for himself as an adventure reporter for the magazine Outdoor Limits. His days of exploring the world end when the magazine's founder, Roland, announces its move to web-only publishing and assigns Jack to supervise the Millennials who make up its online team.

Stephen Fry will appear as Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right and founder of the magazine! Christopher Mintz Plasse as Clark: a tech nerd who knows everything about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse yet has not been out of the city! Christine Ko as Emma: the social media expert who views Jack as the human version of dial-up! Shaun Brown as Mason: a hipster who has not spent any actual time outside. Susannah Fielding as Brooke: Roland's daughter and Jack's ex-girlfriend and current boss. Chris Williams as Eddie: Jack's best friend, who runs the local bar and helps him understand his co-workers!

MARGOT ROBBIE TO DO DEATH DEFYING STUNTS AS 'QUEEN OF THE AIR'! 'THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS' TRAILER WITH KATHY BATES,GLENN CLOSE, OCTAVIA SPENCER

MARGOT ROBBIE TO JOIN

CIRCUS AS 'QUEEN OF THE AIR'

After running through jungle with Alexander Skarsgard in Tarzan this summer, it seems Margot Robbie will now be flying through air as well! As 'Deadline' reports today she has taken the lead role in period set biopic QUEEN OF THE AIR based on Dean N. Jensen’s 2013 book of the same name!

The movie will bring us the story of famed trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel and her tragic romance with fellow acrobat Alfredo Codona. The German born Leitzel became a sensation in the 1920s for her death defying stunts, eventually entering into a famously volatile love affair and marriage with Codona. She died tragically in 1931 during a live performance when her rigging snapped; Codona died 6 years later in a shocking Long beach, California set murder suicide.

'GREAT GILLY HOPKINS' TRAILER

WITH KATHY BATES, GLENN CLOSE AND OCTAVIA SPENCER

The first trailer has been released for the movie adaptation of Katherine Peterson's novel THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS out this Autumn in cinemas!  Attitude's got a new name in twelve year old Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) - a brilliant, brash, and totally unmanageable foster kid who's determined to alienate herself from every foster family she's placed with - until there's no choice but to let her reunite with her real mom (Julia Stiles) in San Francisco. When she's placed with Maime Trotter (Kathy Bates), the strangest foster mom yet, Gilly is convinced she'll make short work of her - until to Gilly's surprise and the surprise of everyone around her, except for Trotter, she starts to love her. But then her new home is invaded by the arrival of her biological grandmother (Glenn Close). Will Gilly have to leave the only family she's ever loved? Octavia Spencer and Billy Magnussen also star.

DAISY RIDLEY LEADS PATRICK NESS DYSTOPIAN ADAPTATION 'CHAOS WALKING'! TONE BELL JOINS KATHY BATES IN 'DISJOINTED' POT SITCOM! 'EMILY & TIM' ALEXIS BLEDEL TRAILER

DAISY RIDLEY TO LEAD

'CHAOS WALKING' ADAPTATION

Star Wars star Daisy Ridley has another new science fiction role in her sleeve: according to latest news coming from 'Variety' she will take the lead role in Doug Liman directed big screen adaptation of Patrick Ness' dystopian trilogy CHAOS WALKING

Set in a world where there are no women and where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts the story is centred on the only boy in a town of men, who makes a startling discovery that forces him to flee with only his dog in hand. With the townspeople in pursuit, the duo stumbles upon a strange and silent girl Viola who is the only other person beside him whose thoughts cannot be read. They set off on a white knuckle journey in which the boy must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

'DISJOINTED' SITCOM

TONE BELL JOINS KATHY BATES
And here's a fun duo: Tone Bell, whom ever so loved in Truth Be Told, is returning to multi camera sitcoms in Netflix and Chuck Lorre's DISJOINTED in which Kathy Bates stars as Ruth, a lifelong advocate for legalization of pot who’s finally living her dream as the owner of an L.A.-area cannabis dispensary. Joining her are three budtenders, her twenty something son and a deeply troubled security guard. All of them are more or less constantly high. In the 20, already ordered, episodes, Tone Bell will be one of her security guards!

'EMILY & TIM' TRAILER

A MARRIAGE IN SIX ACTS

And here's an interesting movie in which 12 different actors play a married couple EMILY & TIM following their marriage from the first kiss to the last breath with the story covering almost half a century. Alexis Bledel and Olympia Dukakis, alongside Phylicia Rashad are just some of the names in the ensemble cast.