SCANDINAVIAN SUNDAY: SEE HILMA PERIOD SET MOVIE TRAILER FROM LASSE HALLSTROM, THE DREAMER SERIES TRAILER WITH CONNIE NIELSEN ABOUT OUT OF AFRICA AUTHOR!

  HILMA MOVIE TRAILER  

FROM LASSE HALLSTROM

After the exciting updates from epic TV projects that Netflix presented to us at yesterday's Tudum event, we are continuing the weekend this Sunday by moving

Hilma will also stream on Viaplay UK

swiftly to Scandinavia, beginning our visit with the land of Sweden from which arrives the first trailer for new period set movie helmed by one of our favourite directors, always brilliant Lasse Hallstrom.

To open in their cinemas October 19th after which it will also be available on their streamer Viaplay, HILMA explores Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists. The cast led by Lasse's and Lena Olin's daughter Tora Hallstrom, also includes Tom Wlaschiha, Lily Cole and Adam Lundgren. Beside directing and casting his wife and daughter, Lasse also wrote the script.

 

 THE DREAMER SERIES 

ON OUT OF AFRICA AUTHOR

Already streaming on Viaplay since last Sunday is period set TV series THE DREAMER (Drømmeren) aka Becoming Karen Blixen, which depicts the life of Karen Blixen, the author of famous Out of Africa played in the six

The Dreamer started last Sunday on Viaplay

episode series by Connie Nielsen. The story of this historical drama predominantly focuses on the author's return to Denmark after many years in East Africa. Penniless, sick and divorced, the story depicts her journey from this point to becoming a renowned writer. We met Blixen near ends, economically and emotionally bankrupt after her farm fails and her soulmate, as she calls English aristocrat Denys Finch Hatton, dies in an airplane accident and she is about to commit a suicide. This one comes from Denmark and features scenes in both Danish and English language. The drama was a part of Canneseries main competition this year.

SEE TOM WLASCHIHA, LENA OLIN, LILY COLE IN 1ST PHOTOS FROM LASSE HALLSTROM'S PERIOD SET MOVIE DRAMA HILMA

  FIRST HILMA PHOTOS 

FROM LASSE HALLSTROM'S PERIOD SET MOVIE DRAMA

Scandinavian leading streamer Viaplay is quickly expanding its business around Europe and is planning to offer at least 70 Viaplay Originals by the end of 2022, with the wider plan of achieving around 12 million subscribers by the end of 2025. One of the ways to attract the audience is doing more English language programmes so they hired our favourite director Lasse Hallstrom to direct their original movie HILMA, which he also wrote, starring Game of Thrones star Tom Wlaschiha!

NEW BIOPIC HILMA

explores the life of revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint (1862-1944, played by Tora Hallstrom), and beside streaming later this year on Viaplay, it will also bow this fall in theaters! In the film, Tom Wlaschiha stars as Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian artist and founder of the anthroposophical spiritual movement. Steiner became a key figure and mentor for Hilma af Klint who created more than a thousand striking paintings, sketches and watercolors that remained largely unknown until decades after her death. The film explores the enigmatic life of Klint, who navigated through the artistic scene to eventually become one of the Western world’s first abstract artists. Jazzy De Lisser portrays Thomasine Andersson, who became Hilma’s close friend and travel companion after working as a nurse for her mother. Lena Olin (the movie is a family affair as Lena is Lasse's wife and Tora is their daughter), Lily Cole, Rebecca Calder, Maeve Dermody, Catherine Chalk as the members of her group of female artists, Anna Björk as her mother, Adam Lundgren as her brother, Martin Wallström as her nephew and Jens Hultén as her brother, also star.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ENCHANTINGLY LOVING A DOG'S JOURNEY DENNIS QUAID DRAMA SEQUEL TO A DOG'S PURPOSE

'A DOG'S JOURNEY'

DELIGHTFUL NEW POSTERS!

A Dog's Journey begins this May

Oh, how the first one made us cry like little kids! Adorable innocent little animals on film can really do that to you, you know? Exactly two years after Lasse Hallstrom's super marvellous family movie A Dog's Purpose, its delightful sequel, a brand new big screen adaptation of another of W. Bruce Cameron's best selling books A DOG'S JOURNEY is ready to make us cry again when it paws and barks its way into cinemas around the world this May. Directed this time by Gail Manusco (Gilmore Girl, Roseanne and Modern Family helmer) it will again follow a dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets through all of his reincarnations.

Gail Manusco directs the sequel

SOME FRIEND SHIPS TRANSCEND LIFETIMES
Bailey the dog lives a happy life on the Michigan farm of his “boy,” Ethan (Dennis Quaid repeats his role from the original movie which followed his life from childhood to mature years), Ethan's wife Hannah (Marg Helgenberger), and their baby granddaughter, CJ (Kathryn Prescott). The problem is that CJ's mom decides to take CJ away. As Bailey's soul prepares to leave this life for a new one, he makes a promise to Ethan to find CJ and protect her at any cost. Thus begins

The original movie A Dog's Purpose earned $205 million around the world

Bailey's adventure through multiple lives filled with love, friendship and devotion as he, CJ, and CJ's best friend Trent (Henry Lau) experience joy

The film is based on the 2012 novel by W. Bruce Cameron!

and heartbreak, music and laughter, and few really good belly rubs. Kevin Claydon, Jake Manley, Betty Gilpin also star. Check out the trailer below! Oh, hell, we're already crying!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DISNEY'S 'THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' WITH MACKENZIE FOY, HELEN MIRREN, MATTHEW MACFADYEN, JACK WHITEHALL! NEW CHARACTER POSTERS!

  NEW 'NUTCRACKER' POSTERS

ARRIVE FROM THE FOUR REALMS!

Nuts will crack November 2nd this year

While we are waiting for Disney to turn its animated tales into live action movies (almost all of the more famous one are in the process of that currently) the fairy tale turned into a big screen adventure that you will first get to see, as soon as next month, is THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS, adapted by our beloved director Lasse Hallstrom from E.T.A. Hoffman’s classic Christmas Eve tale! It will dance or ballet its way into cinemas starting November 2nd, starring Mackenzie Foy, Helen Mirren as Mother Ginger, Matthew MacFadyen, Morgan Freeman, Miranda Hart as Dew Drop Fairy,

Young Mackenzie Foy takes the lead role of Clara

Eugenio Derbez as Flower Realm King, Jack Whitehall as Harlequin and Richard E. Grant as Snow Realm King. You can see some of them on the

The movie was also based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet

enchanting new character posters for the magical fairy tale fantasy. Lasse got a help behind the helm from Joe Johnston who joined the last month of production to ad a few dynamic action scenes and embellish Hallstrom's heartwarming, magical vision!

IN THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS 
all Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a special key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There, Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Try to ignore the atrociously miscast Keira Knightley in the trailer below and her criminally, almost tragically bad voice and pathetic facial expressions.

FANTASTIC NEW LASSE HALLSTROM & DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' TRAILER WITH HELEN MIRREN IS HERE! 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER WITH JULIANNE MOORE, KEN WATANABE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT

  NEW 'NUTCRACKER' TRAILER

ARRIVES FROM THE 4 REALMS

The first trailer was certainly nice, and now here's the second one for Disney's November fantasy NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS! All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a special key that will unlock a box that

Nuts will crack in cinemas this November

holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There, Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. The movie was directed by Lasse Hallström with his colleague Joe

Captain America's Joe Johnston was brought in the end to ad action scenes

Johnston joining the last month of production to ad a few dynamic action scenes! Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley (as bad as ever this time with the most irritatingly bad voice) also star.

 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER SEES

 JULIANNE MOORE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, KEN WATANABE ARE IN GRAVE DANGER

Bel Canto starts to sing this September

Equally interesting, but a lot more scary, is the first trailer for new Julianne Moore thriller movie BEL CANTO in which she plays  Roxane Coss, a famous American soprano, who travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe). Just as a handsome gathering of local dignitaries convenes at Vice President Ruben Ochoa's mansion, including French Ambassador Thibault (Christopher Lambert), the house is taken over by guerrillas led by Comandante Benjamin (Tenoch Huerta) demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Their only contact with the outside

Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe lead the experienced cast

world is through Red Cross negotiator Messner (Sebastian Koch). A month long standoff ensues in which hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find their shared humanity and hope in the face of impending disaster. 

GORGEOUS NEW 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' POSTER FOR LASSE HALLSTROM'S AND DISNEY'S MOVIE WITH HELEN MIRREN, MATTHEW MACFADYEN

   NEW 'NUTCRACKER' POSTER

ARRIVES FROM THE MAGICAL FOUR REALMS

A gorgeous new poster (and I reckon the second trailer is around the corner too, I'll post it here as soon as it arrives) is out for Disney's THE

The magic begins this October and November

NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS which arrives into cinemas this October helmed by amazing Lasse Hallstrom!

THE STORY 
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers,

The big screen adaptation is inspired by Tchaikovsky's famous ballet!

and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. The cast also includes Matthew MacFadyen, Miranda Hart, Jack Whitehall and Richard E. Grant.

MAGICAL TRAILER FOR LASSE HALLSTROM'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' FANTASY ADVENTURE WITH HELEN MIRREN, MATTHEW MACFADYEN, MORGAN FREEMAN, MACKENZIE FOY

DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER' TRAILER

AND THE FOUR REALMS

Continuing with massive trailer premieres, here is the first trailer for Disney's NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS directed by our favourite Lasse Hallstrom which brings magic to the big screens October next year in Europe, November 2018 in USA!

SEARCH FOR A MAGICAL KEY
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key, a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread,

The movie is currently undergoing a month long reshoots!

presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a

The movie opens next October in Europe, next November in USA

strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the

The story is based on the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky

regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm,

Helen Mirren is almost unrecognisable as Mother Ginger

home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Matthew Macfadyen, Jack Whitehall, Richard E Grant also star.

LUKE PASQUALINO, DOUGRAY SCOTT, RUPERT GRINT TO LEAD 'SNATCH' TV SERIES ADAPTATION! LASSE HALLSTROM'S 'A DOG'S PURPOSE' GORGEOUS TRAILER WITH DENNIS QUAID

LUKE PASQUALINO TO LEAD 

'SNATCH' TV ADAPTATION

We really did fell in love with super charismatic Luke Pasqualino in BBC's The Musketeers series and now he will lead Crackle's SNATCH, a ten episode small screen adaptation of Jason Statham movie of the same name. Dougray Scott, Lucien Laviscount and Rupert Grint are also starring.

Inspired by a real-life heist in London, SNATCH centres on a group of twenty something, up and coming hustlers who stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high stakes world of organized crime. Luke Pasqualino’s Albert is an aspirational young man. He is smart, handsome, charming and a bit of a thinker as well as a doer. He strives to ensure that he doesn’t end up like his father, Vic (Dougray Scott). Loyalty, heart and passion are at his core. Lucien Laviscount will play Billy Ayers, a handsome, aggressive and stubborn boxer.

 'A DOG'S PURPOSE' TRAILER

 FROM LASSE HALLSTROM!

And since it was international dogs' day yesterday here's a warm trailer for you coming from Dennis Quaid movie A DOG'S PURPOSE out this January. Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, and directed by our most beloved Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The 100 Foot Journey) this stirring journey shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog  who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love. The family film told from the dog's perspective also stars Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Britt Robertson, K.J. Apa, Juilet Rylance, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz and Pooch Hall.

CHILDREN'S BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: LASSE HALLSTROM TO HELM DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' FILM! SARA PENNYPACKER'S 'PAX' BESTSELLER TO GET MOVIE VERSION

LASSE HALLSTROM TO HELM

DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND FOUR REALMS' LIVE ACTION MOVIE

With Disney's ZOOTOPIA currently breaking animated movie records, it is perfect time for a kids' Saturday, don't you think? Starting with our fave Lasse Hallstrom who will direct the live action big screen version of THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS for Disney!

It is an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman’s Christmas Eve tale about a young girl who finds a Nutcracker doll among the family’s gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it. Under the cover of darkness, the Nutcracker comes to life, along with an evil Mouse King with seven heads, introducing Marie to the magical world of toys and the brave Nutcracker who will change her life forever.

SARA PENNYPACKER'S 'PAX'

TO BE ADAPTED INTO A MOVIE

Meanwhile, 'Deadline' reports that Sara Pennypacker's New York Times' No1 bestselling childrens' book PAX has been sold for feature movie adaptation.  The story about love and defining your family deals with a boy who is separated from his pet fox and how they try to find each other again during the devastation of war. It speaks about devastating costs of wars.

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LASSE HALLSTROM TO HELM 

'A DOG'S PURPOSE' ADAPTATION

Not much to show you today, so we're turning over to three uplifting projects, starting with the new film from our dearest director Lasse Hallstrom (CHOCOLAT, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, THE 100 FOOT JOURNEY) who will helm the adaptation of A DOG'S PURPOSE from W. Bryce Cameron. The story of the novel describes one dog’s quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners. So, expect a warm, family movie with heartwarming message as in all Lasse's lovely movies. 

CELIA IMRIE TO SPEND

YEAR BY THE SEA WITH KAREN ALLEN
Speaking of warm movies, 'Deadline' reports that our fave Celia Imrie has joined the cast of  YEAR BY THE SEA the adaptation of Joan Anderson’s bestselling memoir in which Karen Allen plays the author hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children. She retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. That’s where she meets Joan Erikson (Celia Imrie), a free-spirited matriarch and hippie with thrift-shop eccentricity who exudes resilience and inner strength.

'ME, EARL AND THE DYING GIRL' 

TOUCHING NEW TRAILER IS HERE

As some of you know, I've just finished translating Jesse Andrews' bestseller EARL AND ME AND THE DYING GIRL today  for the readers in my country and to celebrate here's the brand new trailer for the movie adaptation of it which is out next month! Thomas Mann plays Greg Gaines, an awkward Pittsburgh high school student who befriends a classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke), who has leukemia. Greg and his best friend Earl (Ronald Cyler) make low budget films in their spare time, and together, decide to make a film for Rachel to cheer her up. This touching and also humorous film also stars Nick Offerman, Connie Britton and Molly Shannon.