Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is something you, sadly, won't hear in this one (for reasons unknown) but MARY POPPINS RETURNS is still ready to
Mary Poppins Returns December 19th!
fly down into cinemas near you December 19th just in time for Christmas holidays! What can we expect from the latest movie adaptation of P. L. Travers' (who never liked the first movie) book on the famous nanny? We should probably stay reserved given that it was directed by Rob Marshall who is known for lack of substance and depth in his musicals, but Emily Blunt in the lead role might just save the thing in the end! Set in 1935 London, 25 years after the events of the original film, it sees Poppins, the former nanny of Jane and Michael Banks,
The film arrives 54 years after the original one
returning after a family tragedy.
BACK TO CHERRY TREE LANE
Set in 1930s London, the story follows Michael (Ben Whishaw) and Jane
Banks (Emily Mortimer), who are now grown up. Michael is living with
his three children (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson) and
housekeeper Ellen (Julie Walters), in the house on Cherry Tree Lane.
After Michael has a personal loss, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt)
Annie Liebovitz has done a photoshoot with Emily Blunt for Vogue
comes back
into the lives of the Banks family to help them rediscover the missing
joy and wonder.
THE REST OF THE MERRY CAST
When she returns, 54 years after the original movie, she is joined by a street lamplighter named Jack (played by Lin Manuel Miranda), and an eccentric
Sandy Powell is doing costumes for Disney again after Cinderella
cousin named Topsy (Meryl Streep). British star Colin Firth appears in the movie as William Weatherall Wilkins, the current president of Fidelity
Rob Marshall fought with Disney for the usage of hand drawn animation
Fiduciary Bank, while legendary Angela Lansbury stars as The Balloon Lady. The film will have original new songs which will feature on the film's
Dick van Dyke is the only member of the original cast that returns again
soundtrack to be released two weeks before the movie. Some of the scenes will feature old school hand drawn animation!
Here's a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious surprise for you this Monday: Disney has released a brand new trailer for MARY POPPINS RETURNS
Mary Poppins Returns this Christmas!
along
with a new poster! Emily Blunt leads the movie set 25 years after the original one based on PL Travers books.
IN THE CHERRY TREE LANE
in Depression era London, a now grown
Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw), along with
Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins
following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with
the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and
wonder missing in their lives. The
The movie was directed by Chicago's Rob Marshall
cast also includes Julie Walters as
their housekeeper Ellen, Colin Firth as William Weatherall Wilkins from
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, Dick Van Dyke as
As you can see from the trailer the film will include hand drawn animation
Mr. Dawes Jr, Meryl Streep as
Mary's eccentric cousin Topsy Poppins and Angela Lansbury as Balloon
Lady. The movie hits theatres Christmas this year!
Here's a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious surprise for you this Monday: Disney has released the first teaser for MARY POPPINS RETURNS along
Mary Poppins Returns this Christmas!
with a new poster! Emily Blunt leads the movie set 25 years after the original one based on PL Travers books.
IN CHERRY TREE LANE
in Depression era London, a now grown
Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw), along with
Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins
following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with
the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and
wonder missing in their lives. The cast also includes Julie Walters as
their housekeeper Ellen, Colin Firth as
The movie was directed by Chicago's Rob Marshall
William Weatherall Wilkins from
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes Jr, Meryl Streep as
Mary's eccentric cousin Topsy Poppins and Angela Lansbury as Balloon
Lady. The movie hits theatres Christmas this year!
Photo treats for you in the last weekend of 2017! New photos have been released from FANTASTIC BEASTS 2: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD featuring lead star Eddie Redmayne and also Jude
Jude Law plays younger version of professor Dumbledore!
Law. The movie which is out next November continues the story after the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured by Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped
The Fantastic Beasts has been imagined as the five movie series
custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non magical beings.
In
Poppy Corby Truech is Vinda Rosier, Grindenwald's trusted follower
an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even
Eddie as Newt with Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski
among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world. Hopefully this one ain't as ghastly bad and boring as the first one!
'MARY POPPINS RETURNS'
& GOES ON A MAGICAL JOYRIDE
Disney has, meanwhile, revealed a new photo from their family adventure MARY POPPINS RETURNS showing Emily Blunt on a fun ride with all the kids and Jack the Lamplighter! Out next December and also starring
The story is set 25 years after the original Disney movie!
Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury, it sees Ben Whishaw as the older Michael Banks who needs help of his old nanny with his own children!
1ST 'BUMBLEBEE' PHOTO
FROM TRANSFORMERS SPINOFF!
Transformers spin off movie also has its 1st photo unleashed revealing Hailee Steinfeld in BUMBLEBEE which is set in 1987, with the titular yellow robot seeking refuge in a California junkyard, where he encounters
John Cena also stars in the Bumblebee movie!
young Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld). Together, Charlie will help nurse the injured, runaway Transformer back to health, and he will help her find her place in the world. It is also out December next year.
Comic Con news from Disney today, but I'm afraid not all are good ones. There have been rumours in recent months that Disney and director Guy Ritchie (whose King Arthur has flopped infamously this summer in cinemas) were having big trouble founding young stars for the live action ALADDIN musical movie and when you see who they've just cast you will realize the rumours were probably true... I mean, if these two are their best picks..... Mena Massoud has been announced as ALADDIN with Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmin, and the internet hasn't reacted well to this choice and especially not to Will Smith
Naomi Scott is Princess Jasmin
being cast as Genie. While Massoud is an absolute unknown, and doesn't look much like a leading hero, at least to me, while young Naomi Scott starred in Power Rangers earlier this year and that movie also flopped big time on the box office. The role of villain Jafar is yet to be announced but the movie won't be out any time soon, set only for Spring 2019 release. Meanwhile, Disney's live action movie version of Mulan has been delayed to 2019! That one will have an all Chinese cast and will be a martial arts extravaganza.
'MARY POPPINS RETURNS'
ENCHANTS WITH EMILY BLUNT Disney has also thrilled the audience with the first clip from the
live action movie THE LION KING (in which Hugh Jackman will lend his
voice to Scar), and they announced that Helen Mirren will be playing
Mary Poppins returns Christmas 2018!
Mother Ginger in Lasse Hallstrom's live action NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR
REALMS movie with Morgan Freeman also cast. However, the audience gave biggest ovations to the announcement of Emily Blunt as MARY POPPINS
RETURNS. Check it below.
'A WRINKLE IN TIME' TRAILER
NEW EPIC ADVENTURE
Disney has also released the first trailer for their movie adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME and I have to say it looks
Time will Wrinkle next March
very trashy and almost ridiculous to me, especially the casting. The epic adventure is set for next March.
Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is the daughter of two world renowned
physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger
brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself. Making matters even worse is the baffling disappearance of Mr. Murry (Chris Pine), which torments Meg and has left her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) heartbroken. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and her fellow classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) to three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit
Oprah Winfrey plays one of the celestial guides
(Reese Witherspoon)
and Mrs. Who, who have journeyed to Earth to help search for their
father, and together they set off on their formidable quest. Travelling
via a wrinkling of time and space known as tessering, they are soon
transported to worlds beyond their
The visuals in the first trailer seem rather unfinished and chaotic
imagination where they must confront a
powerful evil. To make it back home to Earth, Meg must look deep within
herself and embrace her flaws to harness the strength necessary to
defeat the darkness closing in on them.
We're family friendly today! News from Netflix say that they have just hired Tiffani Thiessen to star in their new multi camera sitcom ALEXA & KATIE which is to premiere on Netflix next year with a 13 episode first season.
ALEXA & KATIE is about two lifelong best friends Alexa (Paris
Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start
of their freshman year of high school. The friends confront a crisis
that leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to
matter most is fitting in. Thiessen will be Alexa’s determined and
protective mother Lori. After starring in Saved By the Bell as a teen and
then in BH90210, Thiessen has hosted her own cooking show Dinner at
Tiffani's last three years on the Cooking Channel. She will soon
publish a cook book as well.
'MARY POPPINS RETURNS'
ON THE BRAND NEW 'EW' COVER!
Sandy Powell is doing the costumes for the film
The cover of the latest EW features a gorgeous new photo of Emily Blunt from MARY POPPINS RETURNS which hits cinemas Christmas next year set 25 years after the events of the first film, now in London’s mid-1930s economic slump! Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane has become the warm, loving home that banker and artist Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) shares with his wife and three children. But after the sudden death of Michael’s wife, the Banks family is shattered — even
Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda on the set of the movie
enthusiastic aunt Jane (Emily Mortimer), now a fervent union organizer, and long-time housemaid Ellen (Julie Walters) can’t help
Mary Poppins Returns arrives into cinemas Christmas 2018
lift spirits — and so in time, the once blossoming home is on the verge of foreclosure.
Cue the arrival of prim and peculiar Mary Poppins (Emily
This will be Emily Blunt's second musical with Rob Marshall
Blunt), who leads Michael’s wayward children (and Jane and Michael
themselves) on a series of unbelievable adventures — to the top of Big
A concept art of the Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane
Ben, the bottom of the ocean, into magical encounters with animated dancing penguins and upside-down cousins (Meryl Streep). Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Dick van Dyke, also star!
Disney has released the 1st photo of our beloved Emily Blunt as MARY POPPINS RETURNS which arrives Christmas next year also starring Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth and Meryl Streep. Set in the 1930's London it follows now grown up children Michael and Jane, and Michael's own family which is in need of Mary's help after his wife dies and leaves him with three children.
A STELLARDOCIOUS CAST Meryl Streep is her eccentric cousin Topsy, Julie Waters is the
family's housekeeper with Ben Whishaw and Mortimer as Michael and Jane.
Colin Firth runs the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank! Sandy Powell is doing the
costumes!
'MARVEL'S INHUMANS' EPIC TELEVISION SERIES
ROUNDS UP THE CAST OF ROYALS WITH SUPER POWERS
In the sf department, ABC has rounded up the cast for their fantasy series MARVEL'S INHUMANS about the epic adventures of the royal family lead by Black Bolt (Anson Mount), the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. Eme Ikwuakor will play Gorgon,king's cousin, member of the Royal family, and leader of Attilan’s military who has super strong legs and can generate destructive seismic waves with them. Isabelle Cornish will portray Crystal, the youngest member of the royal family with the ability to control the elements. She also has a 2,000 pound dog Lockjaw with the ability to teleport. Mike Moh is Triton, Black Bolt’s cousin, who can live underwater. Sonya Balmores is Auran, Head of the Royal Guards on Attilan! Ken Leung plays Karnak, Black Bolt’s cousin and closest advisor with an ability to see the fault in all things – people, plans, structures, everything! Serinda Swan will plays Medusa, Black Bolt's wife and queen, a fiercely resilient warrior who has the ability to move and control her hair the way most people use their hands and fingers. Iwan Rheon will be his brother Maximus who dreams of wearing the crown himself!
Well, if you weren't already looking forward to Disney's sequel to their celebrated classic MARY POPPINS RETURNS now you might because the latest British star to join the cast lead by Emily Blunt in the title role of the magical nanny is Colin Firth! In the movie set for Christmas 2018 release, he will be playing William Weatherall Wilkins, president of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.
The story is set 25 years after the events of the first Mary Poppins
movie.following the now grown children from the 1964 original, Michael
and Jane Banks, who experience a personal loss that results in the
arrival of the magical Mary Poppins, who teams up with her lamplighter
friend Jack (Lin Manuel Miranda) to help the family. Directed by Rob
Marshall it will have Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer playing the grown
up kids.
TOM HARDY TO PLAY
LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPLORER SHACKLETON
He did quite a lot of epic movies so far, but according to 'Deadline' Tom Hardy is set to do a new one, and a cold one as well. He will play famous explorer Ernest SHACKLETON in a Studiocanal movie about the legendary adventurer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, although the polar explorer is best remembered in how he handled adversity. His ship Endurance was crushed by ice floes and he managed to keep everyone alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.
'EARLY MAN' ANIMATED FILM
TOM HIDDLESTON AND EDDIE REDMAYNE LEND VOICES
What a combo indeed: as 'The Hollywood Reporter' writes today our fave Hiddles in the world Tom Hiddleston will join another of our faves Eddie Redmayne in lending voices to Aardman's new animated movie EARLY MAN! It will be Oscar winner Nick Park's (Wallace and Gromit) first animated feature in more than a decade. In this prehistoric comedy adventure Hiddles will voice the ridiculously pompous Lord Nooth, governor of the Bronze Age town, a money loving tyrant and rival to the film’s Stone Age hero, Dug (Redmayne)!
EARLY MAN, set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and
woolly mammoths roamed the earth, tells the story of plucky caveman
Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, who unites his tribe against the mighty
Bronze Age in the first ever game of soccer. The movie, which is
currently shooting in Bristol and looking for a USA distributor, will be
released around Europe in 2018!
While Russell Crowe recently got signed by Universal to play their Dr. Jekyll, in their monsters franchise movie THE MUMMY with Tom Cruise, 'Deadline' reports that Lionsgate is preparing their own JEKYLL movie and they've already got Chris Evans to play the lead!
Their movie will, apparently, be the big screen adaptation of recent
JEKYLL British BBC series in which James Nesbitt played the modern
version of the doctor with split personality who lives in a fortified
basement with a psychiatric nurse as his ally. She watches him transform
into an alter ego who rages, shows heightened strength and speed and
can be a charming, flirtatious scoundrel as well. The two personalities
try to co-exist, even though one doesn’t remember what the other does
while in control of the body. They use a micro cassette to leave
messages for each other.
'MARY POPPINS RETURNS'
MERYL STREEP TO JOIN EMILY BLUNT IN THE SEQUEL? Meanwhile, according to fresh rumours, coming over from 'The Wrap',
Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, two of our absolute faves, could be
starring together for the third time after Devil Wears Prada and Into
the Woods! Streep is, allegedly, negotiating to join Disney's sequel
MARY POPPINS RETURNS in which Blunt plays the lead role! What is more
interesting Into the Woods helmer Rob Marshall is directing this one as
well! Also starring Lin Manuel Miranda as lamplighter Jack, and set in
depression era London, the movie will follow the grown up Banks children
as they get a visit from the umbrella flying nanny after a family
tragedy.
'HOOTEN AND THE LADY'
ADVENTURE SERIES PHOTOS
Meanwhile, British Sky One has released the first photos from their new adventure series HOOTEN AND THE LADY which starts airing this September on the Isles in which Michael Landes plays a maverick adventurer Hooten while Ophelia Lovibond is Lady Alexandra, a brave history expert. Together they travel the Globe searching for hidden treasures Indiana Jones style. Gorgeous Olivia Grant from INDIAN SUMMERS and Jane Seymour also star.
I've informed you about this last Autumn, but now it has been confirmed that Emily Blunt, the actress in highest demand in Hollywood currently, has officially entered talks to star in MARY POPPINS 2 for Disney! Taking place some twenty years after the original movie the sequel will be set in the 1930s London, following the adult Michael Banks, who now has children of his own. When his big sister Jane returns to town, after falling on hard times, their beloved Mary Poppins comes back to help.The movie will follow some of other MARY POPPINS books that P.L. Travers wrote. Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, INTO THE WOODS) is directing with new songs being written for the movie. It will be quite a road for Emily Blunt to go from the ice queen in HUNTSMAN and a drunkard in GIRL ON THE TRAIN (both opening this year) to a beloved nanny!
'DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW'
TRAILER WITH SAM REID, REBECCA FERGUSON, CHARLES DANCE
Your trailer for today is a rather artistic one for period set action thriller drama DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW the adaptation of Shamim Sarif's novel and she is also directing it. Out this April in cinemas and boasting a stellar cast with Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Charles Dance, Oliver Jackson Cohen and Anthony Head, it is set in two time periods. In 1959, Cold War-era Moscow, Katya (Ferguson) romances a young and idealistic politician, Alexander (Reid) in order to steal secrets. But when she falls in love with him, she finds herself torn between her commitment to spying for the US and this young Russian - as all the while, the authorities close in.
Then, 30 years later as the Cold War ends, an older Alexander (Dance) and his artist niece try to finally uncover what happened to Katya all those years before.
So, I kinda decided not to do our traditional and widely popular fashion report from Emmy awards because it was such a parade of atrocious gowns this year that my eyes still hurt! So, we're moving onto the latest Hollywood rumours which are saying that our dearest Emily Blunt has been offered the lead role in Disney's big screen remake of MARY POPPINS which has been announced a few days ago! Although Blunt said there is no official offer (which doesn't mean there isn't an unofficial one wink wink) but if she really gets the role it would reunite her with director Rob Marshall who helmed other of her musicals INTO THE WOODS! The movie actually won't be a remake, but a sequel! It will take place 20 years after the original movie sending the magical nanny onto a new adventure.
'ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU' TO
BECOME A CBS TV SERIES Over in today's television news, something really nice: one of the
most mysterious of the classic novels THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU from H.G.
Wells is to be turned into MOREAU TV series at CBS by SLEEPY HOLLOW
creator Phillip Iscove. The TV adaptation will follow the title
character of disgraced London physiologist Dr. MOREAU, who retreats to
an island to work on the experiments creating animal human hybrids, but
here's the catch - this time the doctor is a woman. Fiercely intelligent
and fearless, Dr. Katherine MOREAU expands the boundaries of medicine
through bold and revolutionary scientific experimentation and treatments
in her privately funded island hospital. The book has been adapted into
movies many times and many series had episodes inspired by it.
