KATE WINSLET TO PLAY WAR CORRESPONDENT IN WW2 FLICK THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER! JACK WHITEHALL, EMMA ROBERTS TO LEAD SF COMEDY ROBOTS

  KATE WINSLET TO LEAD

THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER

The project was first announced years ago

After her Oscar winning role in Reader, Kate Winslet is returning to the battle fields of World War II in THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER as a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. Based on the book by Lee's son Anthony Penrose, the war movie will be directed by Ellen Kuras who was nominated for an Oscar for a documentary movie. As  Deadline reports, the production has been granted an unprecedented access to The Lee Miller Archives, which include all of her photos and diaries.

The Story Of The  Film follows Lee Miller as she travels to the frontlines of World War II as a photojournalist and embarks on a mission to expose the hidden truths of the Third Reich. But in the aftermath of betrayal, she comes to a reckoning about the truths of her own past.

   JACK WHITEHALL TO LEAD

Jack Whitehall will take the male lead role

ROBOTS SF UK COMEDY

In another movie offered to buyers over at Cannes Virtual Market, Jack Whitehall will team up with Emma Roberts against ROBOTS. The British sf comedy will  see them playing a womaniser and a gold digger who learn humanity when forced to team up and pursue robot doubles of themselves. To be directed by Anthony Hines, it will see Charles and Elaine, who trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles of themselves, unwittingly use the scam on each other. Their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing Charles and Elaine to team up to hunt them down before the authorities discover their secret.

KATE WINSLET IN WW2 BIOPIC 'THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER'! YA SAGA 'OBSIDIAN' GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION! STUNNING NEW 'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' POSTER WITH VIN DIESEL

KATE WINSLET GOES WW2 

IN 'THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER'

Deadline writes today that our most beloved British star Kate Winslet is set to venture into a World War 2 project after accepting the role of Lee Miller in a feature about the acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue who during World War II chronicled such seminal events as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Based on THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER, a biography written by her son, Antony Penrose it will describe Miller's life of a model, the muse for such artists as Picasso and Man Ray, who distinguished herself in Europe as a photojournalist.

'OBSIDIAN' YA SAGA 

TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION
In the news about new book adaptations, Sierra Pictures will turn Jennifer L. Armentrout's YA novel OBSIDIAN into a movie! The first of the five book LUX series, it follows bookish Katy Swartz who moves with her mother to West Virginia, resigning herself to thick accents and a boring life. She is hopeful after meeting her neighbours who are a shot of life, and the brother and sister tandem becomes even more interesting when it turns out they are aliens. When she falls for the brother and he touches her, it marks her as a homing device for an army of extraterrestrial bad guys.

'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' 

GETS THE LAST MOVIE POSTER

Meanwhile, coming out next week is Vin Diesel's action packed fantasy movie THE LAST WITCH HUNTER and you can check out the latest poster for it! Also starring Michael Caine and Lotte Verbeek, it sees Diesel leading an epic battle against witches who still live amongst us, vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world.