DEREK JACOBI, RUPERT EVERETT, TOM FELTON TO LEAD BRITISH DRAMA LEAD HEADS! PIGEON SHRINK GIVES DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS IN DRAMA TRAILER WITH JASON ISAACS, LUCAS JADE ZUMANN, TOM WILKINSON!

   LEAD HEADS MOVIE  

CASTS BRITISH LEGENDS

And what legends they are indeed: as Deadline reports Derek Jacobi and Rupert Everett will lead LEAD HEADS movie together with Tom Felton, Luke Newberry and Mark Williams. Giles Borg directed drama is a

Rupert Everett and Derek Jacobi will lead the cast

movie about greed, following a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a game that may cost them both their souls and lives. The shooting will start next spring in London. 

  FIRST TRAILER IS IN FOR  

DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS

The movie is out next January in USA

If you are in the mood for something more psychedelic, what is more psychedelic than a film with a pigeon as a shrink? Yaniv Raz' movie adaptation of Evan Roskos' book DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS will be out January 12th starring Jason Isaacs, Tom Wilkinson, David Arquette and Taylor Russell next to Lucas Jade Zumann in the lead role! In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, we see his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression by seeking advice from Dr. Bird - an imaginary pigeon therapist - in the wake of his sister's disappearance. 

SINGAPORE GRIP EPIC TV SERIES WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, COLM MEANEY, LUKE NEWBERRY GETS JULY AIRING DATE

  'THE SINGAPORE GRIP'

EPIC SERIES GETS JULY AIRDATE

The series starts at the end of July this summer

Although we still don't know when it will air in UK on ITV (I'm guessing the same date), exotic period set drama THE SINGA- PORE GRIP will start on BBC First and on Foxtel in Australia July 26th! Coming from Mammoth Screen, the creators of Poldark and Victoria, it is an ambitious and exotic six part family saga set in colonial Singapore during World War Two. This epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world

The series is based on a classic book by J.G. Farrell

events. A compelling portrait of a society in decline and a family clinging to a world that is crumbling around them! David Morrissey, Luke

The series will air in six hourlong episodes

Treadaway, Jane Horrocks, Colm Meaney, Luke Newberry, Elizabeth Tan, Bart Edwards, Charles Dance star in the adaptation of J.G. Farrell’s classic novel. Stay tuned for more info from ITV soon.

An epic new drama following the lives of a British family during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.

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LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE NEWBERRY TO LEAD ITV'S WW2 EPIC & LAVISH TV SAGA THE SINGAPORE GRIP! 1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS FROM AMMONITE PERIOD SET MOVIE

'THE SINGAPORE GRIP' SERIES

CASTS LUKE TREADAWAY, DAVID MORRISSEY, CHARLES DANCE 

Last year I informed you that British ITV is planning to turn J.G. Farrell's Booker prize winning novel THE SINGAPORE GRIP into TV series, and

Luke Treadaway will lead the six part drama

now they've finally announced the cast! Luke Treadaway, David Morrissey, Colm Meaney and Charles Dance will lead the WW2 epic series produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark, Victoria), which, set during World War Two, follows a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion!

THE SINGAPORE GRIP will see Luke Treadaway playing the reluctant hero and innocent abroad Matthew Webb. David Morrissey takes the role of ruthless rubber merchant Walter Blackett, who is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm alongside his business partner Webb played by Charles Dance. With Webb’s health failing, Walter needs to ensure the future of their

Bart Edwards, Luke Newberry, David Morrissey will move over to Singapore

firm is secure. He decides Webb’s son Matthew is the perfect match for his spoilt daughter Joan (Georgia Blizzard). Matthew’s idealism leaves Walter increasingly suspicious as Matthew himself falls under the spell of Vera

Elizabeth Tan and Georgia Blizzard lead female part of the cast

Chiang (Elizabeth Tan), a mysterious Chinese refugee. Jane Horrocks plays Sylvia Blackett, Walter’s wife and Colm Meaney plays Major Brendan Archer. Also joining the esteemed cast are Luke Newberry playing Walter’s son Monty, Bart Edwards as Captain James Ehrendorf and Christoph Guybert as Dupigny.

1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS

FROM AMMONITE 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN ADVENTURE

You can also check out the first set photos of Kate Winslet in her new period set drama AMMONITE which also stars Saoirse Ronan. Set in a UK

Ammonite is being directed by God's Own Country's Francis Lee

coastal town in the 1840s, it will have its story following the unlikely romance between palaeontologist Mary Anning and a London woman of means to

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in costume.

whom she must unexpectedly play nursemaid. It is interesting that the family of Mary Anning does not support the film as they say the lesbian aspect of it  is based on lies and is purely invented for the purpose of the big screen.