Are you ready, people? The time has almost arrived for Jason Statham's giant shark THEMEG to attack the box office around the world beside nibbling on unsuspecting swimmers, a shark or two, a whale or two, and she is very polite and 'pleased to eat you' as one of the posters says! This action underwater drama is a sort of an aquatic Jurrasic Park since the main villain is a prehistoric shark megalodon! Based on a Steve Alten book it is out, or as another poster says - it's opening wide - this August 20th !
Meg is opening wide worldwide throughout August
A PRE HISTO- RIC MEGA- LODON! A deep-sea submersible, part of an international undersea observation
program, has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to
be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench
in the Pacific with its crew
trapped inside. With time running out,
expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing),
to
save the crew, and the ocean itself, from
The movie was shot over at New Zealand!
this unstoppable threat: a
pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one
could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this
same terrifying
creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must
It took more than 20 years for the book to find its way to the big screens
confront his
fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below… bringing him
face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all
time.
Colin suffered hip dislocation during the shooting
COLIN FIRTH & RACHEL WEISZ
New character posters have been released featuring Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth from THE MERCY a true life drama movie scheduled to premiere this February from The Theory of Everything director James Marsh!
ALONE AT SEA Colin plays yachtsman
Donald Crowhurst whose disastrous attempt to
win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous
account
The movie was directed by James Marsh
of travelling the world alone by sea. The adventure ended in
disgrace and tragedy, after he duped family and race organisers (since
neither him nor his boat were ready for the ocean crossing, he started
sending false reports on his locations over the radio struggling to keep
up the pretence), finally taking his life.
Rachel Weisz who plays his
wife is also joined in the cast by talented British thespians you love David Thewlis and Sam Hoare! Kate Winslet was originally supposed to play the role Weisz was given later on. Colin Firth is actually twenty years older than Crowhurst was when he started his race around the globe! Our
The Mercy is sailing into cinemas at the beginning of February
favourite Studiocanal is producing! Johann Johannsson who composed the music in Theory of Everything is doing the score for this movie as well!
'THE MEG' PHOTOS WITH
JASON STATHAM & LI BINGBING
Shark arrives this August!
Also out are the first photos from the set of Jason Statham's action underwater drama THE MEG which is a sort of an aquatic Jurrasic Park since the main villain is a prehistoric shark megalodon! Based on a Steve Alten book it is out this August !
A PRE HISTO- RIC MEGA- LODON! A deep-sea submersible, part of an international undersea observation
program, has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to
be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench
in the Pacific with its crew
The movie was shot over at New Zealand!
trapped inside. With time running out,
expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing),
to
Jason Statham and Li Bingbing lead the cast!
save the crew, and the ocean itself, from this unstoppable threat: a
pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one
could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this
same terrifying
It took more than 20 years for the book to find its way to the big screens
creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his
fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below… bringing him
face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all
time.
Here's something scary and exciting to shake you up from your postfestive lethargy with freaky spiders, terrifying tombs and awoken skeletons! Mysterious first trailer and some gorgeous character posters have been released for Chinese Australian fantasy adventure GUARDIANS OF THE TOMB (also known as The Nest) which should arrive into Chinese cinemas this January with a rather stellar cast lead by Australian hunk Kellan Lutz, American star Kelsey Grammer and one of China's biggest female superstars lovely Li Bingbing next to Wu Chun, Shane Jacobson, Tim Draxl and Stef Dawson!
Li BingBing is female lead!
GUARD- IANS OF THE TOMB
fantasy horror thriller film directed and
written by Kimble Rendall (who worked previously as a second unit director on Matrix movies and I,
Robot), has the story which revolves around a team of scientists who
lose a colleague in an ancient labyrinth while trying to make the
discovery of a century. The group must battle their way through a swarm
of deadly, man-eating funnel web spiders and discover the secret behind
the insects’ power
The movie arrives into Chinese cinemas January 19th!
and intelligence. An innocent discovery of a well
preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old
nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.
Now, we've seen all kinds of megamonsters wrecking chaos in movies, from dinos to godzillas and apes, and it is about time for prehistoric sharks to show their teeth too! Today you can check out the first photo of Jason Statham and Li Bingbing in MEG, sf action movie about prehistoric 20 meter long shark megalodon which was thought to be extinct long time ago! The two of them will play a part of deep sea submersible team of an international undersea observation program that gets attacked by this massive creature while trapped at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific! This John Turteltaub directed movie should scare the cinemas March 2018!
'ADA LOVELACE' BIOPIC
ON BYRON'S GENIUS DAUGHTER Something entirely different: Monumental Pictures' biopic on Romantic
poet Lord Byron's Victorian mathematician and computer science
visionary daughter countess ADA LOVELACE! As 'Deadline' reports, Shawn Slovo is
set to write a movie about Ada, a gifted mathematician who foresaw the
possibilities of first computer designs and wrote what is recognized as
the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, a true
visionary of the modern computer.
Her personal life was more complicated, dominated by her controlling
mother who, after she divorced Byron soon after marrying him, denied her
daughter any creative outlet in the hope that she would not take after
him. As well as her lust for scientific innovation, Lovelace had a
passion for parties and gambling and tragically died never seeing her
ideas realized.
Remember how earlier this year I told you that gorgeous Asian star Li Bingbing will lead NEST horror fantasy movie? Well, now she's got herself a dashing partner in the muscly form of Kellan Lutz and the two of them will also see Kelsey Grammer as an addition to the international cast! The film is being planned as the largest ever budgeted Chinese Australian coproduction. To be filmed in 3D, NEST tells
the tale of a team of scientists who discover a swarm of deadly,
intelligent and carnivorous funnel web spiders. Battling through an
ancient labyrinth, the team must learn the secret behind the spiders’
heightened abilities before its too late
NORDIC 'THE LAST KING' EPIC
GETS A USA RELEASE Two trailers for you today, starting with the first teaser for Nordic
epic movie BIRKEBEINERNE which hits Nordic cinemas next February and
has just been bought for US distribution as THE LAST KING. The film
stars Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) and KristoferHivju (Game Of Thrones) as
medieval warriors who embark on a perilous journey through the snowy and
icy Norwegian mountains to take their dying king’s infant son to safety
and save the throne from the evil Bishop. As I told you before, also starring Pål Sverre Hagen and Thorbjørn Harr, and set at the
beginning of the 13th century this epic adventure brings the story of
the greatest flight which changed Norwegian history forever.
NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER
REVEALS TONS OF NEW SERIES
Your second trailer for this Monday is a truly gorgeous BBC trailer announcing some of the new dramas coming to TV this season, including new glimpses of WAR AND PEACE epic series, DICKENSIAN period set drama, HOLLOW CROWN with royal Judi Dench, SHERLOCK, LUTHER, Tom Hiddleston's THE NIGHT MANAGER and even Aidan Turner from AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Agatha Christie mini series!
As 'Deadline' reports super gorgeous Chinese star Li Bingbing (you remember her from sf movies TRANSFORMERS and RESIDENT EVIL, fantasy epic SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL, and historical drama SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN) has signed on to play the lead role in NEST, which is being planned as the largest ever budgeted Chinese Australian coproduction. To be filmed in 3D, NEST tells the tale of a team of scientists who discover a swarm of deadly, intelligent and carnivorous funnel web spiders. Battling through an ancient labyrinth, the team must learn the secret behind the spiders’ heightened abilities before its too late.
'DOCTOR THORNE' SERIES FROM
'DOWNTON ABBEY' CREATOR
Looks like we're again getting bored aristocrats from Julian Fellowes whose new series has just got its cast! Tom Hollander and Ian McShane will lead the cast of ITV's new period set three part drama DOCTOR THORNE based on Anthony Throllope novel which Weinstein Co. will distribute worldwide!
TOM HOLLANDER AND IAN MCSHANE LEAD THE CAST It will follow Dr Thomas Thorne (Tom Hollander), who lives with his
penniless niece Mary (Stefanie Martini).
When Lady Arabella Gresham (Rebecca Front) finds out that her son Frank
(Harry Richardson) is in love with Mary, she is horrified and believes
it is his duty to make a rich marriage to save their family estate -
after her husband Francis Gresham Senior (Richard McCabe) has frittered
away their fortune.
Scheming with her sister-in-law (Phoebe Nicholls) and niece (Kate
O'Flynn), Arabella targets wealthy American heiress Martha Dunstable
(Alison Brie). Ian McShane is alcoholic railway millionaire Sir Roger
Scatcherd, while Cressida Bonas is Mary's friend and confidante Patience
Oriel.
GLENN CLOSE, WILLEM DAFOE, NOOMI RAPACE IN SF MOVIE
Now here's an interesting sf movie: Glenn Close has joined Willem Dafoe and Noomi Rapace in WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY set in a future where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One Child Policy and where seven identical sisters live a hide and seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman, enforces a strict family planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather who raised and named them — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday — each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.
EYE POPPING NEW TRAILER
FOR 'SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL' WITH LI BINGBING
Last winter I showed you first stunning posters and trailer for upcoming new Chinese epic fantasy adventure SNOWGIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL and now you can check out an eye popping new trailer! The movie which broke records in China and is out August 4th on Blu Ray and DVD and on demand in USA, stars gorgeous Li Bingbing as a snow demon opposite Kun Chen’s Zhong Kui, a ghost who maintains order in the afterlife. He is legendary Chinese anti-hero, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
