Oscar winning Hungarian director Istvan Szabo has released first images with Ralph Fiennes and Viggo Mortensen in his new movie EMBERS which also includes Charlotte Rampling, our dear Louis Hofmann, Gijs Blom and Katherine Langford whom you can also see in another image. Based on Sandor Marai's novel the film is a psychological duel which reconnects once inseparable friends, Henrik (Fiennes) and Konrad (Mortensen), decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart and the woman at the center of it. The film is now in production.
Back in the summer of 2024 your trusted spy had showed you first images from Will Seefried's period set drama LILIES NOT FOR ME and today I have the first trailer for you from the movie which should open in cinemas April 30th.
Rings of Power Elrond star Robert Aramayo and Fionn O'Shea play a 1920's gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse who bond over a series of doctor-ordered 'dates' as he tells the story of a
friendship which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky
procedure to cure themselves of feelings for each other. Our dearest German superstar Louis Hofmann
also stars in the film which had its world premiere at last year's
Edinburgh Film Festival. The movie was a co production between United
Kingdom, United States, France and South Africa.
Screen Daily has published first image from Guillaume Nicloux’s romantic biopic THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT about the life of the legendary French stage actress played by Sandrine Kiberlain! She was born in 1844 and considered to be the world’s first celebrity and nicknamed “La Divine”, shattering societal norms with her audacious personality and acting performances. Laurent Laffite and Amira Casar also star in the film that will have a festival premiere in France this August and has been sold around Europe.
LILIES NOT FOR ME
There is also the first image from Will Seefried's period set drama LILIES NOT FOR ME in which Rings of Power Elrond star Robert Aramayo and Fionn O'Shea play a 1920's gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse who bond over a series of doctor-ordered 'dates' as he tells the story of a friendship which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky procedure to cure themselves of feelings for each other. Our dearest Louis Hofmann also stars in the film that will premiere next month at Edinburgh Film Festival.
We have been waiting for this one for years now, but now Apple TV Plus has finally decided to bring us their high end World War II series MASTERS OF THE AIR which is a continuation of the legendary award winning Band of Brothers
saga. This time it will be the story of the pilots who had to become
masters of the air in order to defeat the enemy planes. Produced again
by Steven Spielberg the series will launch January 26th opening the TV season of the new 2024 with two episodes with the rest of the nine part season streaming weekly till mid March! Our dearest Callum Turner leads the insanely massive, and I must admit exquisitely hunky, cast which also includes Austen Butler, Anthony Boyle, our German boo Louis Hofmann, Ben Radcliffe, Edward Ashley, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Sam
Callum Turner leads the stellar cast
Hazeldine, Bel Powley, and Ncuti Gatwa. Based on Donald L. Miller’s book the limited series follows the true story of an American bomber group in World War II.
THE STORY OF THE MASTERS OF THE AIR SERIES FOLLOWS
the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they
conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the
frigid conditions, lack of oxygen, and sheer terror of combat conducted
at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional
price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of
Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were
shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky
enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was
exacted on them all. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
We have been waiting for this one for years now, but now Apple TV Plus has finally decided to give us first trailer from their high end World War II series MASTERS OF THE AIR which is a continuation of the legendary award winning Band of Brothers
saga. This time it will be the story of the pilots who had to become
masters of the air in order to defeat the enemy planes. Produced again
by Steven Spielberg the series will launch January 26th opening the TV season of the new 2024 with two episodes with the rest of the nine part season streaming weekly till mid March! Our dearest Callum Turner leads the insanely massive, and I must admit exquisitely hunky, cast which also includes Austen Butler, Anthony Boyle, Louis Hofmann, Ben Radcliffe, Edward Ashley, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Sam Hazeldine, Bel Powley, and Ncuti Gatwa. Based on Donald L. Miller’s book the limited series follows the true story ofan American bomber group in World War II.
Callum Turner leads the cast of the new series
THE STORY OF THE MASTERS OF THE AIR SERIES FOLLOWS
the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they
conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the
frigid conditions, lack of oxygen, and sheer terror of combat conducted
at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional
price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of
Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were
shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky
enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was
exacted on them all. Check out the teaser trailer and tell us what you think.
First it was a beloved World War II set book from Anthony Doerr now it is becoming a television series: ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE is ready to hit Netflix November 2nd starring our beloved boy
Louis Hofmann leads the series cast
Louis Hofmann. The four episode series based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel is directed by Shawn Levy and also stars Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie.
THE STORY FOLLOWS
Mark Ruffalo's Daniel LeBlanc, who flees Nazi occupied
Paris with his blind daughter Marie-Laure in tow. They hide out with an
eccentric uncle played by Hugh Laurie, and Marie-Laure (Aria Mia
Loberti) grows up to become an underground radio broadcaster, using her
words to fight the incoming Nazi empire. Her words capture the attention
of German teenager Werner (Louis Hofmann), who shares
Marie-Laure’s hope for a brighter future. His knowledge of radio
frequencies gets him enlisted by Hitler’s regime to track down illegal
broadcasts. Through Marie-Laure’s secret radio broadcasts, Werner holds
onto hope as a means of survival during World War II. Lars Eidinger
plays Reinhold von Rumpel, ruthless Nazi leader who is after
Marie-Laure and her father, and he won’t stop until he gets his hands on
a prized jewel that she is hiding.
We have been waiting for this one for years now, but now Apple TV Plus has finally decided to give us first images from their high end World War II series MASTERS OF THE AIR which is a continuation of the legendary award winning Band of Brothers saga. This time it will be the story of the pilots who had to become masters of the air in order to defeat the enemy planes. Produced again by Steven Spielberg the series will launch January 26th opening the TV season of the new 2024 with two episodes with the rest of the nine part season streaming weekly till mid March! Our dearest Callum Turner leads the insanely massive, and I must admit exquisitely hunky, cast which also includes Austen Butler, Anthony Boyle, Louis Hofmann, Ben Radcliffe, Edward Ashley, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Sam Hazeldine, Bel Powley, and Ncuti Gatwa. Based on Donald L. Miller’s book the limited series follows the true story of
The series will have nine episodes
an American bomber group in World War II.
THE STORY OF THE MASTERS OF THE AIR SERIES FOLLOWS
the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they
conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the
frigid conditions, lack of oxygen, and sheer terror of combat conducted
at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional
price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of
Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were
shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky
enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was
exacted on them all. Hope we get a trailer soon!
We are still at MipTV at Cannes, today with the news that France’s Oble is offering to the international buyers, a four part series THE PLAGUE, a modern adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel! Although the story in the book is set in the 1940s, the miniseries is set in 2029 in a society still recovering from the waves of COVID epidemics and that is now facing a much deadlier plague. Hugo Becker will lead the cast with Frederic Pierrot and Sofia Essaidi and the shooting starts today in France.
THE YOUNG POE
ENGLISH SERIES FROM SPAIN
Earlier this weekend I told you that Spanish production house Mediapro, who previously did The Head series and sold it to more than 90 countries
The series is for the adult audience not kids
around the world, is preparing THE YOUNG POE English language series with an international cast. Based on Cuca Canals novels, it imagines Poe as a precocious, irrepressible, neurotic and highly Gothic 11 or 12 year-old in 1820 Boston, grounding in true events of Poe’s childhood the extraordinarily analytical and morbid mind which Edgar Allen Poe brings to his fiction! In the series, the young Poe sparks the interest of the local police through his precocious capacity to solve murder mysteries. He ends up becoming a faithful assistant to Boston’s Inspector Auguste Dupin, a kindred soul.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
NETFLIX SERIES TRAILER
It will not stream before November 2nd, but Netflix has released first trailer for their new World War II set series ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE based on the beloved bestseller. Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti and Nell Sutton), a blind French girl and her father, Daniel LeBlanc (Mark Ruffalo), flee German-occupied Paris with a legendary diamond to keep it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Relentlessly pursued by a cruel Gestapo officer who seeks to possess the stone for his own selfish means, Marie-Laure and Daniel soon find refuge in St. Malo, where they take up residence with a reclusive uncle (Hugh Laurie) who transmits clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the resistance. Yet here in this once-idyllic seaside city, Marie-Laure’s path also collides inexorably with the unlikeliest of kindred spirits: Werner (Louis Hofmann), a brilliant teenager enlisted by Hitler’s regime to track down illegal broadcasts, who instead shares a secret connection to Marie-Laure as well as her faith in humanity and the possibility of hope. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
This wildly beautiful and deeply radiant German star had first caught your eye in Netflix hit Dark, and then in German War War II movie THE FORGER in which he was forging passports for Jews. He again played a
Louis Hofmann is 25 years old
German in the middle of the Second World War in BBC's mini seriesLIFE AFTER LIFE. Since that historical period is his specialty, he will also star in Disney's ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE series adaptation as German soldier whose path collides with a blind French teenager. Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo also star. Also arriving sometime this year is MASTERS OF THE AIR series produced by Steven Spielberg, in which he plays an American bomber pilot together with Callum Turner and a massive cast with hundreds of actors. Before all of this, Louis stole our hearts in beautiful coming of age movie CENTRE OF MY WORLD in which he had beautifully graphic gay action with Sisi's emperor Franz Jannick Schumann.
MAGNETIC JONAS BLOQUET
Jonas Bloquet is 30 years old
This Belgian hunk who is both an actor and a director has caught the attention of period drama lovers first in successful French series adaptation of famous novel GERMINAL, a story about the mid' 19th century miners who are trying to fight for their rights and in which he gave a convincing performance of a man conflicted between loyalty and money. Then we also watched him in period set horror series 1899 that Netflix has recently cancelled and in which he played Lucien. Currently, if you are in USA you are watching his truly delightful work as the Austrian emperor Joseph in the PBS Masterpiece MARIE ANTOINETTEsaga where, beside ruling Austria with his mother Maria Theresa, he is also the brother of the stubborn and daft queen of France.
A SMALL LIGHT TRAILER
FOR NEW HISTORICAL SERIES
National Geographics has released a trailer for new eight part mini series A SMALL LIGHT which arrives May 1st with episodes on Nat Geo weekly
Series starts May 1st on Nat Geo
and full series streaming on Disney and Hulu. It follows the story of 20-something secretary Miep Gies (Bel Powley), who didn’t hesitate when her boss Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan (Joe Cole) and several other everyday heroes watched over the eight souls hiding in the secret annex. It was Miep who found Anne’s (Billie Boullet) diary and preserved it so that she and Otto could later share it with the world. The series title comes from something Gies said late in her life: “I don’t like being called a hero because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.”
Out currently in German speaking countries and also in Argentina is German period set thriller THE FORGER starring lovely Louis Hofmann who caught
The Forger will soon arrive to US cinemas too
our eye in Life After Life. Here he is a 21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand - and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma's only hope to survive is a last forged ID - with his own name on it. Kino Lorber will soon release it in USA as well.
Hofmann, Gijs Blom and Katherine Langford whom you can also see in another image. Based on Sandor Marai's novel the film is a psychological duel which reconnects once inseparable friends, Henrik (Fiennes) and Konrad
(Mortensen), decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart and the woman at the center of it. The film is now in production.
Hofmann, Gijs Blom and Katherine Langford whom you can also see in another image. Based on Sandor Marai's novel the film is a psychological duel which reconnects once inseparable friends, Henrik (Fiennes) and Konrad
(Mortensen), decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart and the woman at the center of it. The film is now in production.
