HELEN MIRREN TO JOIN WILL SMITH'S 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY'? NEW 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' POSTER WITH WENTWORTH MILLER, DOMINIC PURCELL! CW ORDERS 19TH CENTURY 'TRANSYLVANIA' SERIES

 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY' 

HELEN MIRREN JOINS WILL SMITH?

Deadline reports that Will Smith could have Helen Mirren for a partner in COLLATERAL BEAUTY in which Smith is a New York City ad exec who spirals into a deep depression after an intense personal tragedy. His employees enact a scheme to bring him out of it with successful, and completely unexpected, results. As part of the scheme, the employees hire an actress to be played by Mirren.

CW ORDERS TRANS- YLVANIA EPIC SERIES
Meanwhile, CW has bought 19th century set series TRANSYLVANIA from the producers of ZOO. Set in 1880 it will follow a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from to TRANSYLVANIA where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history

 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' 

THEIR TIME IS NOW

Speaking of CW they've released today a poster for new sf series LEGENDS OF TOMORROW which starts January following a group of heroes and villains from the DC universe – Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Heatwave (Dominic Purcell) and Firestorm, Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl.

AIDAN TURNER STARTS FILMING BBC'S 'POLDARK' EPIC SERIES SECOND SEASON! 1ST HAWKMAN & HAWKGIRL PHOTO FROM 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' SERIES! EMMETT SCANLAN JOINS KIERAN BEW'S 'BEOWULF' EPIC SERIES

'POLDARK' SEASON 2 STARTS

 FILMING WITH AIDAN TURNER

British epic series updates today for you, people, beginning with news coming from BBC who have announced the start of the production of the second season of this year's mega successful POLDARK series. Ten new episodes have started shooting over in Cornwall to be aired next spring. Aidan Turner returns in the lead role, Eleanor Tomlinson is back as his wife Demelza Poldark, while John Nettles has joined the cast as one of the county's wealthy landowners. The series which follows Ross Poldark who returns from the war in America only to find his property in poverty and ruin and has to rebuild it again, will have the second season set in 1790 against the backdrop of riot and revolution in the air! 

EMMETT SCANLAN JOINS

'BEOWULF' EPIC TV SERIES
Meanwhile, the latest star to join ITV's historical series BEOWULF, in which Kieran Bew plays the mythical warrior who fights in Shield Lands, a dangerous place populated by both humans and fantastical creatures, is GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY star Emmett Scanlan. He will be Skellan, the Warfather of the Wulfing Raiders, an imposing and formidable leader, who will do whatever it takes to secure victory in battle. William Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Ed Speleers, Joe Sims all star as well.

'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW'

 FIRST PHOTO OF HAWKMAN AND HAWKGIRL REVEALED

And jumping over to USA, check out the first picture of Hawkman and Hawkgirl from CW's new superhero series LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. Played by Falk Hentschel and Ciara Renee the two immortal lovers get their powers from the Egyptian god Horus.  They join time traveller Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Firestorm (Victor Garber), Atom (Brandon Routh), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) in the battle agains evil warlord Vandal Savage (Casper Crump).

DC FINDS THEIR TV HAWKMAN IN FALK HENTSCHEL! WARNER BROS TO DEVELOP NEW 'DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS' MOVIE! DELIGHTFUL NEW 'DRESSMAKER' TRAILER WITH KATE WINSLET, LIAM HEMSWORTH

FALK HENTSCHEL IS

 DC'S TELEVISION 'HAWKMAN'

In TV news, DC has found their actor for the character of Hawkman who will first appear in CW's shows THE FLASH and ARROW before becoming a regular superhero in their new series LEGENDS OF TOMORROW in the winter midseason. Gorgeous Falk Hentschel (who starred in STREET DANCE, AGENTS OF SHIELD and worked as Mariah Carey's dancer) will play the winged hero, a reincarnation of an Egyptian emperor, who has lived on for centuries alongside his ladylove Kendra Saunders (Ciara Renée). Hawkman is capable of sprouting wings by tapping into the power of the ancient hawk god Horus. As I reported before LEGENDS OF TOMORROW will unite a number of superheroes from the other two shows and some new ones who will together battle common enemies. Wentworth Miller, Brandon Routh and Dominic Purcel also star. 

'DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS'

RETURNING TO THE BIG SCREENS
After WARCRAFT, which is arriving into theatres next summer, it seems another hugely popular fantasy world game will be turned into a movie. Hasbro and Warner Bros. will turn DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS into a huge epic movie. With the script already written by RED RIDING HOOD and WRATH OF THE TITANS' David Leslie Johnson (can't believe he is still working after those two writing atrocities), the movie is slated for 2019 release! Some fifteen years ago New Line made an unsuccessful movie out of it which spawned tons of DVD sequels. That one was set in the empire of Izmer populated by mages, magic users, empresses, dragons, dwarves and elves.

NEW 'DRESSMAKER' TRAILER

WITH KATE WINSLET, LIAM HEMSWORTH, HUGO WEAVING

Second, delightful international trailer has been released for lovely Australian movie THE DRESSMAKER with Kate Winslet, Judi Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.  Based on Rosalie Ham bestselling novel of the same name, the movie will see Kate Winslet playing the 1950s Australian fashion designer Tilly Dunnage who goes back to her rural hometown to care for her sick mother, but rumours of her involvement in the death of a young boy threaten to ruin her return. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. The movie is first out in Australian cinemas this October! 

MATT BOMER JOINS CHRIS PRATT, JASON MOMOA IN 'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' REMAKE! TNT ORDERS EDGY AND HIP 'WILL' TV SERIES ON SHAKESPEARE! 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' CW SHOW TRAILER & POSTERS WITH WENTWORTH MILLER, BRANDON ROUTH, DOMINIC PURCELL

MATT BOMER JOINS

'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' REMAKE

Well, I'm sure the ladies will sigh and agree that this cast has become uber hunky: Matt Bomer is the latest one to join the remake of THE MAGNIFI= CENT SEVEN and he is set to play the husband of Haley Bennett's character, the woman who hires seven mysterious gunmen to protect her town from a gang of bandits, lead by a nefarious robber baron. Earlier this week I informed you that Jason Momoa has joined the cast which already has Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Luke Grimes, Vicent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee and Denzel Washington. Antoine Fuqua is directing!

'WILL' EPIC TV SERIES

FROM MOULIN ROUGE WRITER
Meanwhile, another fun historical series that awaits us is WILL over at TNT and TBS! As 'Deadline' reports  the ten episode series will revolve around a young William Shakespeare and it will be told in raucous style by Craig Pearce, the longtime writing partner of auteur filmmaker Baz Luhrmann who worked with him on MOULIN ROUGE and ROMEO AND JULIET. It is a period drama with a hip soundtrack, contemporary shooting style and edgy production design.

'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' 

TRAILER WITH WENTWORTH MILLER, BRANDON ROUTH AND DOMINIC PURCELL

And yet another series with superheros will be CW's new show LEGENDS OF TOMORROW which has just got its first trailer. When heroes alone are not enough the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known? Brandon Routh as The Atom,  Dominic Purcell as Heat Wave, Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold, Caity Lotz as White Canary and Ciara Renee as Hawkgirl star!