1ST LOOK AT LIU YIFEI AS DISNEY'S LIVE ACTION 'MULAN' IS HERE! JET LI JOINS AS THE EMPEROR, WITH DONNIE YEN, GONG LI! MINDBLOWING TRAILER FOR RUSSIAN WW2 EPIC MOVIE 'T-34'!

   'MULAN'

 FIRST PHOTO OF LIU YIFEI

What better way to start Monday than with your first look on Disney's new MULAN of Liu Yifei as the girl who dresses as a man and joins the imperial army. You already know that young Yoson An is playing her love interest.

Liu Yifei plays Mulan in the new live action version of the famous tale

The cast also has Jet Li as the emperor of China and Donnie Yen as Mulan's mentor, Commander Tung, while Gong Li is the villain in the March 2020 movie. Jason Scott Lee also stars.

   'T-34' ENGLISH TRAILER

FOR RUSSIAN WW2 EPIC MOVIE

Continuing our visit to mother Russia, check out the mindblowing English trailer for their new WW2 film T-34! The Great Patriotic War, 1941 year. In the battles at Volokolamsky frontier, Junior Lieutenant Ivushkin on his tank

The movie opens in Russia this December

destroys the tank company of the Hauptmann Klaus Jager and finds himself in German captivity. Three years later, the Soviet tankman, despite the discontent of his comrades and the camp underground, suddenly agrees to lead a group of prisoners of war who are destined to become "cannon fodder" on captured T-34. However, Ivushkin uses the teachings for a daring and carefully planned escape. Thanks to the heroism of the comrades and the confusion of the Germans, Soviet tankmen are at large. Ahead - a provincial and undeveloped Germanic outback, to the border with the Czech Republic - 350 kilometers, and on the tail of the Soviet crew - a dozen "Panther" led by one of the best tankmen of the Reich Klaus Jager.

CASTING NEWS: EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES TO GO ON AN 19TH CENTURY ADVENTURE IN 'THE AERONAUTS'! LIU YIFEI TAKES THE LEAD IN DISNEY'S LIVE ACTION 'MULAN' MOVIE

  'THE AERONAUTS' 

EDDIE REDMAYNE TO FLY BALLOONS WITH FELICITY JONES!

Tom Harper will helm Aeronauts!

Casting news today, beginning with Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones who will team up again after The Theory of Everything in THE AERONAUTS a period adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists in which, as Deadline reports, Felicity Jones will play balloon pilot Amelia Wren and Eddie Redmayne will be scientist James Glaisher. In 1862, they embarked on an extraordinary journey to discover the secrets of the heavens. In the process, they fly higher in an open balloon than anyone ever has – either before or since. They make breathtaking discoveries, but as they ascend to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, they are forced into an epic fight for survival. War and Peace BBC mini series helmer Tom Harper is directing the movie.

DISNEY FINDS ITS 'MULAN' 

IN CHINESE STAR LIU YIFEI

Liu is also a brand ambassador for Dior and Garnier

Disney, who is in the process of turning a lot of their animated movies into live action ones, has found their lead star for MULAN live action remake to be directed by Niki Caro! The role of the daughter of a legendary warrior who impersonates a man in order to fight in the lines of the Han Dynasty armies against a Hun invasion in the fifth century China, has been given to young Chinese actress Liu Yifei also known as Crystal Liu. As The Hollywood Reporter writes a team of casting directors visited five continents and saw nearly 1,000 candidates for the role, which requires credible martial arts skills! Hollywood Spy is no stranger to Liu as we've mentioned her many times over the years when she starred in epic movies Forbidden Kingdom, alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Outcast, opposite Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen and earlier this year in Once Upon a Time.