SEE MURRAY BARTLETT, MARK STRONG, HENRY GOLDING, NICOLE KIDMAN, CHRISTINE BARANSKI IN NINE PERFECT STRANGERS TV SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER

 NINE PERFECT STRANGERS 

SEASON TWO TRAILER IS HERE

Well, I thought the first season was mind numbingly boring but NINE PERFECT STRANGERS got a second season which arrives to Hulu May 21st after

Second season arrives to Hulu May 21st

more than a three year break. It will open with two episodes and then continue weekly. Henry Golding, Murray Bartlett, Christine Baranski, Annie Murphy, Dolly De Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, King Princess, Aras Aydin, Lucas Englander, Mark Strong, and Lena Olin play nine new strangers connecting in ways they could never imagine who are invited by Masha (Nicole Kidman) to join in a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink. Will they make it? Will she? Masha is willing to try anything in the interest of healing all those involved.

SEE 1ST IMAGES OF ANTHONY HOPKINS, JOHNNY FLYNN, HELENA BONHAM CARTER IN ONE LIFE HOLOCAUST HISTORICAL MOVIE

   1ST ONE LIFE IMAGES  

FROM ANTHONY HOPKINS HOLOCAUST MOVIE DRAMA

Toronto Film Festival has unveiled a line up of films that will be presented there this year and getting a world premiere in Toronto is ONE LIFE which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker (Johnny Flynn) who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669 children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother, with Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp also in the cast.

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.

LENA OLIN, TOM BRITTNEY TO LEAD ABC'S STEAMPUNK FANTASY SERIES 'SPARK'! TEN DANSON, KRISTEN BELL, MANNY JACINTO IN 'GOOD PLACE' SITCOM, NICK ZANO, ROSS KIMBALL IN 'REAL GOOD PEOPLE' SITCOM

'SPARK' STEAMPUNK SERIES

LENA OLIN, TOM BRITTNEY CAST

TV news for you today, new stars are being added to the cast of ABC's fantasy series SPARK pilot! Lena Olin (Welcome To Sweden) and gorgeous Tom Brittney (The Syndicate) will play mother and son in this lavish drama series of passion, greed and hope in a Steampunk reality, circa 2016. Set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world, the drama centres on the battle for power between two rival families and a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention that could level both their empires.

Olin will play Hazel Stockton who now controls the powerful Stockton Coal Company using her wealth more altruistically than her arch rivals at Lavelle Gas — but despite her philanthropic outreaches to the city’s poor, she still craves absolute power, and is not above using strong-arm tactics to achieve it. However, when deadly sabotage starts claiming innocent lives across the city, she denies any involvement to her son Aiden, Captain of the Investigative Division of the Watch, who is investigating the incidents. Tracy Ifeachor will play one of the forensic investigators.

'REAL GOOD PEOPLE' SITCOM

ROSS KIMBALL JOINS NICK ZANO

CBS is rounding up cast for their new multi camera sitcom REAL GOOD PEOPLE! Ross Kimball has joined the cast which already has Nick Zano and Lenora Crichlow! It centres on a conservative small-town family forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect. As 'Deadline' reports, Kimball will play Beau, the eldest son, a good ol’ boy who adores his momma and worships his father, but didn’t inherit their strong moral compass.

NBC'S 'GOOD PLACE' SITCOM 

MANNY JACINTO JOINS TEN DANSON AND KRISTEN BELL
In other sitcom news, beside the info that Freeform has just renewed YOUNG & HUNGRY for the 4th season (starts shooting today), NBC is adding new faces into the cast of their new comedy GOOD PLACE! Manny Jacinto is the latest to join Ted Danson and Kristen Bell in the sitcom that centres on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Jacinto will play the sweet and good-natured Jason.