FIRST LOOK AT JOAN COLLINS AND ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IN WALLIS SIMPSON BIOPIC THE BITTER END FROM MIKE NEWELL

    THE BITTER END   

FIRST IMAGE OF JOANNE COLLINS

First image has been released of our favourite soap star diva Joan Collins as the lead in Wallis Simpson biopic THE BITTER END from legendary Mike Newell about the American woman who married King Edward VIII and upended the British monarchy. The film will bring us the shocking untold story of Simpson’s final years. Isabella Rossellini joins her as Suzanne Blum, the formidable French lawyer and confidante of Simpson who at the hands of Blum found herself ensnared in a menacing grip of obsession and coercive control. Lambert Wilson also stars.

 

LAMBERT WILSON TO PLAY KING OF FRANCE IN NEW HISTORICAL BIOPIC CHOPIN, CHOPIN ON FAMOUS 19TH CENTURY COMPOSER

  LAMBERT WILSON TO PLAY  

KING LOUIS PHILLIPE IN "CHOPIN, CHOPIN"

Lambert Wilson will take a royal role

As Variety reveals, Lambert Wilson is set to play King Louis Phillipe of France in CHOPIN, CHOPIN historical biopic on famous composer Frederic Chopin who will be played by Eryk Kulm in the film by director Michał Kwieciński! 

 

  SET IN 

the first half of the 19th century, it will be an accurate and touching vision of the last part of the composer’s life alternating between lavish court scenes, where French King Louis Philippe will appear both flippant and distressed, and intimate moments, showing the solitude of this artist and his eventual descent into illness and death. Chopin was a volcano of energy, a prankster and the king of society. He loved parties and going to bed at 10 in the morning. On the other hand, he was an introvert, shunned by the world and locked in a cocoon of music, and plagued by terminal illness. That’s how he will be portrayed in the film: as a man torn between two women, death and music. Above are first photos from the film.

 

SEE TRAILER FOR LAMBERT WILSON AND CAROLE BOUQUET APPLE TV + NEW FASHION WORLD SET SERIES LA MAISON

  FIRST LA MAISON  

TV SERIES TRAILER FROM APPLE TV +

Apple TV + has released first trailer and a September 20th streaming start date for their new French original series LA MAISON set in the fashion

La Maison arrives this September

world. High fashion meets high stakes in this realistic behind-the-scenes look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, LEDU, hanging by a thread. The ten part series will open with two episodes.

 

VINCENT'S FORMER MUSE 

 Perle Foster (Amira Casar), who is still in his shadow, teams up with visionary next-generation designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison LEDU. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel (Carole Bouquet), the ruthless CEO of the powerful Rovel luxury group, launches an offensive to acquire what she sees as her most important prize: Maison LEDU. To achieve her goal, anything is fair game, as this is more than acquiring just another brand — it’s about revenge. Pierre Deladonchamps, Antoine Reinartz, Anne Consigny, Florence Loiret Caille and Ji-Min Park also star.

 

SEE FIRST IMAGES OF LAMBERT WILSON AND CAROLE BOUQUET IN APPLE TV + NEW FASHION WORLD SET SERIES LA MAISON

  FIRST LA MAISON  

TV SERIES IMAGES FROM APPLE TV +

Apple TV + has released first images and a September 20th streaming start date for their new French original series LA MAISON set in the fashion world. High fashion meets high stakes in this realistic behind-the-scenes look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, LEDU, hanging by a thread. 

 

VINCENT'S FORMER MUSE 

 Perle Foster (Amira Casar), who is still in his shadow, teams up with visionary next-generation designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison LEDU. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel (Carole Bouquet), the ruthless CEO of the powerful Rovel luxury group, launches an offensive to acquire what she sees as her most important prize: Maison LEDU. To achieve her goal, anything is fair game, as this is more than acquiring just another brand — it’s about revenge. Pierre Deladonchamps, Antoine Reinartz, Anne Consigny, Florence Loiret Caille and Ji-Min Park also star.

 

APPLE TV CASTS LAMBERT WILSON, PIERRE DELADONCHAMPS, CAROLE BOUQUET IN LA MAISON FASHION HOUSE MINI TV SERIES

  LAMBERT WILSON TO LEAD 

LA MAISON FASHION HOUSE TV SERIES OVER AT APPLE TV

Lambert Wilson will lead the series

And that is yet another series on famous fashion brands: Apple TV + has set Lambert Wilson as the lead in their ten part series LA MAISON on an iconic French fashion house. It will take a behind-the-curtain look at how a family dynasty of an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent LeDu (Wilson), leaving his family’s legendary haute couture house hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with next-generation, visionary designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save and recreate the century-old Maison Ledu, claiming their rightful place in both the LeDu family and the fashion world.

Carole Bouquet and Pierre Deladonchamps will also star

  Carole Bouquet, Zita Hanrot, Pierre Deladonchamps, Antoine Reinartz, Anne Consigny, Florence Loiret Caille and Ji-Min Park also star.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS PERIOD SET MOVIE COMEDY WITH LESLEY MANVILLE, LAMBERT WILSON, JASON ISAACS, ISABELLE HUPPERT

 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 

FOLLOW YOUR DREAM

For more than a half a century now, Paul Gallico's popular novel MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS has been entertaining readers around the world and now

Mrs Harris goes to Paris this July

it is finally getting a big screen movie adaptation (it had two small screen ones before) which is ready to strut its way into cinemas July 15th in United States and September 30th in the United Kingdom and Spain. Most of Europe, Australia and South America will see it as soon as July 14th! Directed by Anthony Fabian the film stars Lesley Manville, Lambert Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Isabelle Huppert, Lucas Bravo, Freddie Fox, Christian McKay and Rose Williams. The film was shot in Hungarian capital Budapest instead of Paris during the Covid outbreak.

 

  MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 

 in partnership with the House of Dior, tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and

Lesley Manville leads the cast

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.

WHOM WILL WE MEET AT THE HOUSE OF DIOR?

As WhatToWatch writes, Lesley Manville takes the leading role of Mrs Ada Harris as the down-to-earth cleaner embarks on a life changing journey to Paris. Jason Isaacs plays Archie, while French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Claudine Colbert, a senior employee of the House of Dior who after initially being a little frosty helps Mrs Harris achieve her designer dress dream. Anna Chancellor is Lady Dant,

Anthony Fabian directed the movie

Ada's upper class employer in London where she first spots a Dior dress. Lambert Wilson is Marquis de Chassagne who helps Ada at the House of Dior after she arrives and is almost thrown out. Lucas Bravo plays André Fauvel the accountant at The House of Dior in love with model Natasha (Alba Baptista). André invites Mrs Harris to stay with him while she has the numerous dress fittings required for her Dior dress, and she, in turn, helps André to woo the woman of his dreams, Natasha, who at the beginning of the film sees him as nothing more than a boring accountant. Check out the delightful trailer below and tell us what you think, are you excited to go to Paris with Mrs. Harris?

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS TRAILER IS HERE! 1ST PHOTOS OF TOM HOPPER IN NETFLIX ROMCOM LOVE IN THE VILLA, BRYAN CRANSTON, ANNETTE BENING IN JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE, JOELY RICHARDSON IN LITTLE BONE LODGE THRILLER

  LOVE IN THE VILLA  

1ST TOM HOPPER PHOTO

We have the first photo for you from a romcom that will stream on Netflix September 1st. LOVE IN THE VILLA follows a young woman (Kat Graham) on a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a break-up, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she’ll have to share her vacation with a cynical and very good-looking British man (Tom Hopper).

 JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE 

1ST LOOK AT PARAMOUNT + FILM

You can also enjoy first photos from Paramount + comedy movie JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE which hits the American platform June 17th! It brings the remarkable true story of retiree Jerry Selbee (Bryan Cranston), who discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge (Annette Bening), wins millions, using the money to revive their small Michigan town. Jake McDorman also stars as their son. Stay tune for the first trailer, we will post it as soon as we get it, which goes for other two movies as well.

 

   1ST LITTLE BONE LODGE  

PHOTO WITH JOELY RICHARDSON

If you prefer thrillers, there is also the first photo from Matthias Hoene's LITTLE BONE LODGE movie thriller with Joely Richardson. It follows two criminal brothers on the run who seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. Taking the resident family captive, they find that the house holds dark secrets of its own. With Joely as mother, Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow and Harry Cadby also star.

 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 

DELIGHTFUL TRAILER IS HERE

In the video department, check out the first, very delightful trailer for MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS which brings Lesley Manville to theatres in the title

The movie is out in cinemas July 15th!

role July 15th! The cast also includes Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Freddie Fox, Lucas Bravo, Rose Williams, Isabelle Huppert, Anna Chancellor. In partnership with the House of Dior, the movie 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 lovely trailer below and tell us what you think:

15TH CENTURY NUNS GO VERY NAUGHTY IN A DELIGHTFULLY SCANDALOUS TRAILER FOR PAUL VERHOEVEN'S FILM BENEDETTA WITH VIRGINIE EFIRA, LAMBERT WILSON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

 BENEDETTA TRAILER IS HERE 

BRINGING SINFUL NUNS TO US!

Pate has released a naughty first trailer for Paul Verhoeven's new movie BENEDETTA which will premiere at this year's Cannes in July. Based on a book by

Benedetta will compete at Cannes this July

Judith C. Brown, and starring  insanely gorgeous Virginie Efira next to Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson and Olivier Rabourdin this historical thriller, originally titled Blessed Virgin and inspired by true events, has the story set in the late 15th century as plague ravages the land. Benedetta Carlini (Efira) joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany as a novice who has been capable from an early age of performing miracles. Her impact on life in the community is immediate and momentous. True to Verhoeven's work, the film mixes erotica

The film is based on a true story book by Judith C. Brown

and controversy in telling its story. There is also a white version poster which is so naughty I could not publish it here, but you can Google it to see Efira's boob peeking under her nun gown :) Oh, the scandal! And the sweetness of it. 

 

LESLEY MANVILLE LEADS PERIOD SET DIOR DRAMA MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS WITH ISABELLE HUPPERT, LAMBERT WILSON, JASON ISAACS! ITS JASON ISAACS VS A VOLCANO IN SKYFIRE DISASTER MOVIE TRAILER

 MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

SENDS ITS CAST TO BUDAPEST

Half of the globe in that title, right? But the cast seems very lovely: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Christian McKay, and dashing Lucas Bravo are currently in Hungarian

The movie is currently shooting in Hungarian capital Budapest

capital Budapest shooting a film set in France! A new big screen adaptation of Paul Gallico's much-loved novel about a cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly. Anthony Fabian is directing for eOne in collaboration with the House of Dior. 

SKYFIRE TRAILER

JASON ISAACS VS A VOLCANO

Speaking of our lovely gent Isaacs, he is also leading Chinese adventure SKYFIRE which was a cinema hit over there last winter, but will arrive to

Skyfire arrives to US cinemas and VOD this December

movie starved US cinemas and VOD this December. The story of the film sees chaos erupt when the once dormant volcano at the world’s only volcano theme

Jason Isaacs leads the cast of the Chinese action adventure

park and resort, located in the Pacific Rim’s “Ring of Fire,” starts to rumble. A young scientist (Hannah Quinlivan) must convince the resort owner

The film faired very well last winter in Chinese theatres

(Jason Isaacs) to evacuate the island before it’s too late. The film already paid off its worth earning staggering $25 million in Chinese theatres last December. The movie was directed by Simon West.  

FIRST PHOTOS OF SAMUEL LABARTHE AS CHARLES DE GAULLE FROM THE NEW PERIOD SET FRENCH SERIES ON THE FAMOUS WW2 GENERAL! PLUS DE GAULLE MOVIE TRAILER WITH LAMBERT WILSON

    'DA GAULLE' EPIC SERIES

ON FAMOUS FRENCH GENERAL

The only thing I have for you today are the first photos of Samuel Labarthe in DE GAULLE, BRILLIANCE AND SECRECY a new four part French period set series about the famous World War II general, who led France from the war days all till the late 1960s. The cast of the France 3

The four part series will air on France 3

channel series, also includes Jean Louis Tribes as Georges Pompidou, Constance Dollé as Yvonne De Gaulle, Christopher Craig as Winston Churchill and Geoffrey Bateman as Dwight D. Eisenhower!

  The Story 
All French people know General De Gaulle. The politician by turns visionary, liberator, peacemaker, builder. The statesman, bearer of a "certain idea of ​​France", free, proud and independent. But who was Charles De Gaulle? What was the driving force behind the man who devoted so much to his country? What role did his wife, the discreet Yvonne, the cornerstone of his

Samuel Labarthe leads the cast of the Francois Velle directed saga

private and public career, play alongside him, since he said that without her "nothing would have been possible"? What was the place of her daughter Anne, the one who gave her the strength to "hold on" in her great moments of doubt? The series brings back to life the brilliance of illustrious pages in the

The airing of the series will  mark the 50 years from De Gaulle's death

History of France, from the Resistance to the roots of the Fifth Republic, these great moments that Charles De Gaulle embodied and shaped. It also lifts the veil on the secret of a personality hitherto modestly hidden behind the statue of the hero. It reveals a wonderful love story that came out reinforced by the trials and the terrible burden of supreme power.

    'DE GAULLE'  EPIC MOVIE

STARRING LAMBERT WILSON!

Lambert Wilson leads the movie project on De Gaulle

Mean while, March 4th was supposed to be a cinematic premiere date for another project on the famous general: DE GAULLE a historic film in which he is portrayed by Lambert Wilson. I don't know if the date was pushed due to corona outbreak or not but it did earn almost $5 million so far around the world so I guess it did play somewhere. The story of that film is set in Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple (Lambert Wilson and Isabelle Carre) is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus. 

THRILLING FIRST TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR THE TRANSLATORS THRILLER DRAMA WITH LAMBERT WILSON, OLGA KURYLENKO

'THE TRANSLATORS' TRAILER

 WHO STOLE THE BESTSELLER?

The movie hits French cinemas this month

As you know, when your trusted spy isn't spying for you around the world, he is working as a translator of world's biggest best sellers and although that job can be painfully difficult it never got me into such a pickle like these poor sods in the first trailer for French movie THE TRANSLA- TORS (Les Traducteurs) which, starring Lambert Wilson, Olga Kurylenko, Eduardo Noriega and Alex Lawther, hits French cinemas January 29th! Check out the French trailer below and tell us what you think:

What's The Film About?
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker. When the first ten

Lambert Wilson and Olga Kurylenko lead the cast

pages of the top secret manuscript appear online, the dream job becomes a nightmare - the thief is one of them and the publisher is ready to do whatever it takes to unmask him - or her.

IS UNIVERSAL PREPARING FIRST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH BILLY EICHNER AND JUDD APATOW? OLGA KURYLENKO, LAMBERT WILSON TO STAR IN FRENCH THRILLER THE TRANSLATORS!

BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD

Billy Eichner will both write and star in the film

FIRST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMCOM

After Crazy Rich Asians became the first big Asian romcom done by major US studios, will a big gay romance movie be the next step? Variety reports today that Universal has set Nick Stoller to direct an untitled romantic comedy which would see Billy Eichner both writing and starring in the story of two gay men who have commitment problems and are attempting a relationship. Judd Apatow is producing. Billy Eichner, who is openly gay privately as well, is currently starring in Netflix comedy series Friends from College and will also lend his voice to crazy meerkat Timon in Disney's live action version of The Lion King directed by Jon Favreau. He was nominated for an Emmy award three times for his own sketch series.

'THE TRANSLATORS' THRILLER

TO PUT OLGA KURYLENKO & LAMBER WILSON IN A BUNKER

Olga Kurylenko will lead the translators

As you know, your trusted spy works as a book translator and I can tell you that the job can be unusual sometimes. A few years ago when one of Dan Brown's new books was sold to foreign publishers, their translators from all the bigger markets were flown to Italy and locked there in a villa for two months without any contact with the outside world so that no information would leak about the new book.

Something like that happens in new thriller THE TRANSLATORS coming from France later this year and starring Olga Kurylenko, Alex Lawther, Lambert Wilson and Eduardo Noriega in the story of nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a best selling trilogy, who are confined in a luxurious bunker. When the first ten pages of the top secret manuscript appear online, the dream job becomes a nightmare -

The first photo of the cast from the new French thriller

the thief is one of them and the publisher is ready to do whatever it takes to unmask him - or her. Stay tuned for more info about the project in the future!

DWAYNE JOHNSON IS HAWAIIAN KING KAMEHAMEHA IN ROBERT ZEMECKIS EPIC ADVENTURE MOVIE! 1ST PHOTO FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY DRAMA 'BENEDETTA' STARRING VIRGINIE EFIRA, LAMBERT WILSON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

 DWAYNE JOHNSON TO PLAY

KING KAMEHAMEHA OF HAWAII

Dwayne Johnson will play the king of Hawaii

I'm guessing he has waited for this role all his life: as 'Deadline' reports Dwayne Johnson will play Hawaiian king Kamehameha in Robert Zemeckis directed epic adventure THE KING based on the script from Braveheart's Randall Wallace!

Kamehameha is the legendary king who was the first to unite the warring Hawaiian islands, which fulfilled the prophecy that surrounded his fabled life since birth. He took control of Hawaii’s destiny, and gave the islanders leverage in advancing the culture in trading with the foreign ships from Europe that began showing up on the shores of islands that must have seemed like paradise, albeit a sometimes dangerous one as explorers like Simon Metcalfe and Captain James Cook discovered before Kamehameha forcibly unified the islands.

 1ST 'BENEDETTA' PHOTO

FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY LESBIAN NUNS DRAMA

You can also check out the first photo of Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven's historical drama BENEDETTA (aka Blessed Virgin) also starring Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson. Efira plays Benedetta

The movie should cinemas next year, currently shooting!

Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land. While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING! FRENCH 18TH CENTURY DRAMA 'ROYAL EXCHANGE' WITH LAMBERT WILSON

 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE

POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

After I remind you to scroll down and check out our Sunday spotlight on freshly ordered comedy pilots to which I added new trailers, we shall move

The movie arrives to cinemas this August!

onto two new international historical movie projects as Hollywood is mostly sleeping today. First, you can check out the first poster for World War II drama THE BOMBING coming from China with Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody joining Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse!

Out this August in Chinese cinemas, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

  'THE ROYAL EXCHANGE'

LAMBERT WILSON RULES SPAIN AS KING PHILIPPE

The movie was out in France last winter!

Meanwhile, over from France comes period set movie L'échange des princesses or THE ROYAL EXCHANGE starring Lambert Wilson! In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4 year old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14 year old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds

The movie is the adaptation of a Chantal Thomas book!

enthusiastically to both proposals, and the ceremonies are promptly organized. The exchange of the princesses is to take place with great pomp on a small island, in the river bordering the two countries. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned.

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING JOINS LAMBERT WILSON, VIRGINIE EFIRA IN VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY EROTIC THRILLER 'BLESSED VIRGIN'! BBC TO TURN 'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES' NOVEL INTO 19TH CENTURY MINI SERIES

'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES'

 NEW BBC PERIOD SET SERIES

In the news from the epic front today, BBC Two is going to adapting Eugene McCabe’s Irish novel DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES into a

The series will have three hourlong episodes

three part historical mini series! It is a story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful, haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. It is set in a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom, centred around the 25th birthday of Beth Winters - the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy. As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, this powerful and gripping drama illuminates tensions that tear both families and nations apart.

 'BLESSED VIRGIN' 17TH CENTURY

DRAMA CASTS LAMBERT WILSON AND CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Lambert Wilson will lead the male part of the cast

We've had quite a few lesbiefriendly projects announced this week, and here's another one and it is period set too! 'Deadline' reports that Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson have joined young actresses Virginie Efira and Daphne Patakia in 17th century erotic thriller BLESSED VIRGIN

To be directed by famous Paul Verhoeven, it will see gorgeous Virginie Efira playing Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land.

Virginie Efira and Charlotte Rampling will star in Blessed Virgin

While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman. Steamy and scandalous and delightfully sinful :) The story is, apparently, based on historical facts about the abbess Carlini.

RICHARD MADDEN, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOIN 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES! MARTIN COMPSTON AND OTHERS JOIN 'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES 2ND SEASON! IAN MCKELLEN, GABRIEL BYRNE IN 'HAMLET REVENANT' MOVIE ADAPTATION

'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

RICHARD MADDEN AND HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOIN THE CAST

Rejoice, people! Two of our most favourite youngsters Richard Madden and Holliday Grainger will work together again and I think it will be their fifth time! They will star in The Hood Maker episode of ELECTRIC DREAMS anthology series in which each of the ten episodes will be done by a different director and cast adapting one of the stories from Philip K. Dick's sf opus. As I've informed you before some of the other episodes of the Channel 4 and Amazon series will star Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Jack Reynor, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston!

THE HOOD MAKER is set in a world without advanced technology where mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. Their powers have unintended implications and when the public begins to embrace mysterious telepath blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.

'VICTORIA' SECOND SEASON

LATEST CASTING ADDITIONS!

In television news, still staying over in Britain, the second season of the hugely popular ITV series VICTORIA set to come back this Autumn with eight episodes plus a two hour Christmas special, has just added Martin Compston, Bruno Wolkowitch,  Emerald Fennell, Jo Stone-Fewings, Leo Suter and Michael Maloney to the cast with previously announced Diana Rigg! They will all join the second season which sees the Queen (Jenna Coleman) facing motherhood. She is now a working mother, trying to balance her responsibilities but with Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) still struggling to find a role for himself, there is an inevitable power struggle between husband and wife.

Martin Compston will be playing Dr Robert Traill, a key campaigner in the petition to gain awareness and support for those suffering from the potato famine in Ireland during the 1840s. French actor Bruno Wolkowitch will star as French King Louis Philippe, who Queen Victoria visits on her first outing to France. Nigel Lindsay returns as Sir Robert Peel, Alex Jennings as King Leopold, Peter Bowles as Duke of Wellington, David Oakes as Prince Ernest, Daniela Holtz as Baroness Lehzen and Catherine Flemming as the Duchess of Kent.

'HAMLET REVENANT'

CASTS SIR IAN MCKELLEN!

Brits in our last piece of news today as well: as 'Deadline' reports acting legend Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne will star in HAMLET REVENANT the latest big screen adaptation of Shakespeare's famous plays on the tragic Danish prince. Connie Nielsen and Lambert Wilson will also join them in the Ken McMullen directed film together with Medici star Lex Shrapnel!

HAMLET REVENANT follows a character caught amidst treasonous political upheavals, family crisis, sexual tensions and ambiguous friendships: a vortex of revenge, doubt and madness out of which no main character escapes. It brings to the surface the violence and destructive instincts that haunt the human psyche!