Apple TV Plus released a trailer last week for their new action movie THE LOST BUS which will drive into selected cinemas September 19th before hitting the streamer on October 3rd with Matthew McConaughey in the lead role.
IN THE FILM
directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass and
inspired by real events, we will follow a white-knuckle ride through
one of America’s deadliest wildfires, as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera)
battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno. The film will
also be at Toronto International Film Festival this year.
This one is coming only this Christmas but we already have a new trailer and character posters as well: December 22nd, 2021, is bringing us SING 2 the sequel to the super popular 2016 animated adventure. The sequel was both written and directed by Garth Jennings who was behind the helm in the first one too which earned rather stunning $634 million in the cinemas around the world with its stellar voice cast and dazzling pop hits covered in it!
IN SING 2
Buster (Matthew McConaughey) and his cast have turned their theater into a local hit, but Buster has his
eyes on a bigger prize: Debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower
Theater in glamorous Redshore City.
But with no connections,
Bono is new cast addition as Calloway
Buster and his cast, including harried mother
pig Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), rocker porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), earnest gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly) and, of course, porcine provocateur extraordinaire Gunter (Nick Kroll),
have to sneak their way into the world-famous Crystal Entertainment
offices, run by a ruthless mogul wolf named Jimmy Crystal (Bobby Cannavale).
In a desperate attempt to get his attention, Gunter spontaneously
pitches an outrageous idea that Buster quickly runs with, promising that
their new show will star lion rock legend Clay Calloway (Bono).
Problem is, Buster has never met Clay, an artist who shut himself away
from the world more than
Taron Egerton and Scarlett Johansson are Johnny and Ash
a decade ago after the loss of his wife
and hasn’t been seen since.
As Gunter helps Buster dream up an out-of-this-world theatrical
masterpiece, and the pressure (and sinister threats) from Mr. Crystal
mount, Buster embarks on a
Reese Witherspoon and Tori Kelly are Rosita and Meena
quest to find Clay and persuade him to return
to the stage. What begins as Buster’s dream of big-time success becomes
an emotional reminder of the power of music to heal even the most
broken heart.
This Christmas is just over but we already know what will entertain you next one: December 22nd, 2021, is bringing us SING 2 the sequel to the super popular 2016 animated adventure. Buster (Matthew McConaughey) and
Sing 2 will arrive into theatres next Christmas
his cast have turned their theater into a local hit, but Buster has his eyes on a bigger prize: Debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City.
But with no connections, Buster and his cast, including harried mother pig Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), rocker porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), earnest gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly) and, of course, porcine provocateur extraordinaire Gunter (Nick Kroll), have to sneak their way into the world-famous Crystal Entertainment offices, run by a ruthless mogul wolf named Jimmy Crystal (Bobby Cannavale).
In a desperate attempt to get his attention, Gunter spontaneously pitches an outrageous idea that Buster quickly runs with, promising that their new show will star lion rock legend Clay Calloway (Bono). Problem is, Buster has never met Clay, an artist who shut himself away from the world more than a decade ago after the loss of his
All of the original cast is returning for the sequel as well!
wife and hasn’t been seen since.
As Gunter helps Buster dream up an out-of-this-world theatrical masterpiece, and the pressure (and sinister threats) from Mr. Crystal mount, Buster embarks on a quest to find Clay and persuade him to return to the stage. What begins as Buster’s dream of big-time success becomes an emotional reminder of the power of music to heal even the most broken heart.
EXTINCT ANIMATED ADVENTURE
BRINGS US THE FLUMMELS!
Also posed to premiere sometime this year, if covid allows, is another animated adventure EXTINCT coming from directors David Silverman (The
Extinct is arriving to theatres this year
Simpsons, Monster Inc) and Raymond S. Persi (The Simpsons, Wreck it Ralph)! Adam Devine, Rachel Bloom, Ken Jeong, Jim Jefferies, Steve Aoki, Catherine O'Hara, and the two directors themselves will lend their voices in the story which revolves around an adorable species of fluffy animals, called "Flummels". When two flummels are transported into the present day, they learn that their species has become extinct, and they must travel back in time to try to save their race. The film should open from February till April in parts of Europe, but no release date for UK or USA for now.
A couple of drama movies not to miss this and next month in cinemas! SERENITY opens this November in Europe and then moves to USA in
Steven Knight directed the movie!
January. Matthew McConaughey stars as
Baker Dill a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down with a desperate plea for help. She begs Dill to save her, and their young son, from her new, violent husband (Jason Clarke) by taking him out to sea on a fishing excursion, only to throw him to the sharks and leave him for dead. Karen's appearance thrusts Dill back into a life he'd tried to forget, and as he struggles between right and wrong, his world is plunged into a new reality that may not be all that it seems.
'CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?'
STARRING MELLISA MCCARTHY
Getting a rather strong awards buzz especially for Melissa McCarthy performance is CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? which should hit USA
The movie is based on a true life story
cinemas October 19th and then move to Europe next February. Melissa McCarthy plays
Lee Israel who made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). The movie is an adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer!
'BOY ERASED' STARRING
NICOLE KIDMAN,RUSSELL CROWE, JOEL EDGERTON, LUCAS HEDGE
The movie premiered at Telluride Film Festival
Starting its cinematic life in Northern American theatres November 2nd and then moving around the world throughout the winter to reach Russia in March, is touching drama BOY ERASED based on the memoirs by Garrard Conley. It is written and directed by Joel Edgerton who also stars in the movie next to Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Lucas Hedges who takes the lead role of the son of a Baptist preacher who is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. Russell and Nicole, Australians who have never worked together before, play his parents. Most states in America still haven't banned gay conversion therapy!
It certainly does not feel like it, due to poor marketing and tons of delays in the production, but the big screen adaptation of Stephen King's famous eight book fantasy saga THE DARK TOWER is just around the corner: it will storm European, Asian and American cinemas from August 3rd and then throughout the month. The $60 million fantasy adventure changed a number of lead stars and directors before finally settling on Nikolaj Arcel behind the helm and Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba as the lead duo in front of the cameras.
King got $20 million for movie rights
THEIR WAR IS COMING TO OUR WORLD Jake Chambers is an 11-year-old adventure seeker (Tom Taylor) who
discovers clues about another dimension called Mid-World. Upon following
the mystery, he is spirited away to Mid-World where he encounters a
Gunslinger, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), who is on a quest to reach the
DARK TOWER that resides in End-World and reach the nexus point between
time and space that he hopes will save all existence from extinction by
Hell. But with various monsters and a vicious
Christian Bale and Javier Bardem were in the run for Gunslinger role
sorcerer named Walter
Padick, the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) hot on their trail, the
unlikely duo find that their quest may be difficult to complete.
A TV SERIES COMING AS WELL
The project has been envisioned as three movies and two seasons of a TV series, following the release of the first film, a TV series set within the same continuity is scheduled to be released in 2018. Both Elba and Taylor are set to reprise their roles as Roland and Jake respectively.
King was inspired by Browning's poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Reportedly the series will potentially fill in the backstory to the film, being based on King's The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, and star a younger actor playing a young Roland. This, of course, depends on the success of the first movie this summer.
Delightful photo treat comes to you today from the latest edition of 'Entertainment Weekly' who have published the first cast photos from the latest big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous detective novel MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS directed by legendary Kenneth Branagh who also takes the lead role of the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, this time with some seriously huge moustaches :) He is tasked with finding a mysterious murderer aboard the famous train stuck in the middle of a blizzard somewhere in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Her cinematic highness Judi Dench stars as Princess Dragomiroff who is acting all helpless and confused which she actually isn't. Johnny Depp stars as Edward Ratchett, a paranoid, rich businessman with dark secrets! Michelle Pfeiffer is a loud and very annoying American on the train. Daisy Ridley is the quick thinking governess Mary Debenham. Penelope Cruz is Pilar Estravados, the missionary who actually isn't a stranger to rough situations. Sir Derek Jacobi is Masterman, Ratchett's butler, who has a spiky relationship with his boss! Willem Dafoe is Austrian professor Gerhard Hardman, armed in a number of ways. Tom Bateman is flirty louche director of the train company and a friend of Poirot’s! The lavish train ride through Europe which quickly unfolds into the thrilling mystery of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect, should start in cinemas later this November. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
FIRST 'DARK TOWER' TRAILER
SETS IDRIS ELBA AGAINST MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Your second movie treat for today is the long awaited first trailer for Stephen King's latest adaptation THE DARK TOWER, a Ron Howard produced science fiction film highly stylized epic adventure, which should finally arrive into theatres across the world after many years of problematic production at the beginning of August!
ELUSIVE DARK TOWER
The story of the movie actually continues the one from the books
rather than directly adapting one of them, and follows Idris Elba's
The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, who roams an Old West like and post
apocalyptic landscape where "the world has moved on" in pursuit of the
man in black played by Matthew McConaughey. Also searching for the
fabled and powerful Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will
preserve his dying world.
Located in the End World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark
Tower is a link to other worlds and a bridge in the time space
continuum. The studio is envisioning this as a movie trilogy with two
seasons of a TV series in between the films.
What do you do when Hollywood Spy reaches 5 million visitors? I guess you SING like all these adorable animals are doing in the new animated movie we're spotlighting today with the new character posters! Coming from Illumination Entertainment it will bring music to cinemas this December featuring more than 85 classic pop tracks from famous artists!
SING YOUR TAIL OUT! In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, a koala named Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) works to keep his theatre from closing down. To this end, Buster and his sheep friend Eddie (John C. Reilly)
hold a singing contest to raise money, and the entire town auditions
for a part in the show. The leading five are an overworked pig named
Rosita (Reese Witherspoon) with her pig partner named Gunter (Nick Kroll), an arrogant and gambling white mouse named Mike (Seth MacFarlane), a punk rock porcupine named Ash (Scarlett Johansson), a timid teenage elephant named Meena (Tori Kelly), and a British gorilla named Johnny (Taron Egerton), who wants to sing instead of following his family's criminal footsteps.
STELLAR VOICE CAST
The exquisitely stellar voice cast includes Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an optimistic koala, who plans to save his theatre from closure by holding a singing competition; Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, a domestic pig, who gave up her teenage music dreams to become a devoted wife of Norman, and mother to 25 piglets;
Seth MacFarlane as Mike, a white jazz mouse with a big Frank Sinatra-esque voice and an arrogant attitude;
Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a crested porcupine punk rocker who takes part in an alternative rock music group with her boyfriend;
John C. Reilly as Eddie, a Suffolk sheep, and Buster's partner that doubts the future of the theatre; Tori Kelly as Meena, a teenage Indian elephant with an exquisite voice, and severe stage fright;
Taron Egerton as Johnny, an English accented mountain gorilla, who wants to sing, but his father wants him to follow his family’s criminal footsteps;
Nick Kroll as Gunter, Rosita's German accented, very optimistic and bubbly dance partner;
Nick Offerman as Norman, a domestic pig and Rosita's oblivious husband;
Garth Jennings as Miss Crawl, an elderly green iguana who is Buster's assistant and offers Johnny piano lessons;
Jennifer Saunders as Miss Nana Noodleman! Rea Perlman also lends her voice to one of the characters in the hilarious animated movie!
The first trailer has been released for a new movie inspired by a true story GOLD with Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard and Corey Stoll. Out this Christmas it is the epic tale of one man's pursuit of the American dream, to discover gold.
Starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, a
prospector desperate for a lucky break who teams up with a similarly
eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the
uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it
would be even harder, sparking an adventure through the most powerful
boardrooms of Wall Street.
'THE PROMISE' WW1 TRAILER
CHRISTIAN BALE & OSCAR ISAAC
You can also check out the first trailer for WW1 drama movie from director Terry George THE PROMISE which is set in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century depicting the genocide campaign by the Turks against the Armenians in World War I. It is set as a background of a romantic triangle among an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac), an artist (Charlotte Le Bon) and an American journalist (Christian Bale).
How about something unusually epic to start your new working week this Monday? As 'Deadline' reports NCIS producer Charles F. Johnson is preparing AMAZONS, a live action television series about famous African female warriors!
The series will tell the story of AMAZONS, an army of 6,000 female
soldiers who fiercely fought against the French Colonial army and other
enemies of the Dahomey Kingdom. The kingdom was the last non colonized
West African empire which existed from 1600-1894 and was unique in that
men and women had societal parity and shared ruling authority over the
government.
'THE SEA OF TREES' TRAILER
WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, KEN WATANABE, NAOMI WATTS
It's a very boring Monday, people, and the only thing the spy has to show you is the first official trailer for Gus Van Sant's new drama movie THE SEA OF TREES starring Matthew McConaughey, KenWatanabe and Naomi Watts. The movie has already opened around Europe after it got booed at Cannes Film Festival.
SUICIDE FOREST Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as
THE SEA OF TREES, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount
Fuji where people go to commit suicide (it really exists with an
average of three suicides a week). On his journey to the suicide forest,
he encounters Takumi Nakamura (Ken Watanabe), a Japanese man who has
lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of
reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and
reconnects him to his love for his wife (Naomi Watts).
Photos from Comic Con are arriving big time, people, and we have a bunch of them today from EW! First of WONDER WOMAN which will ride into cinemas earlier than expected - June 2nd, 2017! The freshly released new photos show Gal Gadot in her stunning costumes and also next to Chris Pine who plays Colonel Steve Trevor, her love interest in the movie.
PRINCESS OF AMAZONS Diana, princess of the Amazons, was raised on a sheltered island and
trained to be an unconquerable fighter. After an American pilot (Steve
Trevor) crashes on the island and tells her about a world war that is
happening, Diana leaves her home to try to stop the war. As you know Connie Nielsen will
be Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, a revolutionary leader, who struggles to
shelter her only daughter from the outside world. Robin Wright is
Antiope, who trains Wonder Woman to fight preparing her to deal with
that world. Lisa Loven Kongsli is Antiope's lieutenant, Menalippe! The
movie will have three settings with the second part of the movie set in War World One London, and the
third part in modern days.
'THE DARK TOWER' 1ST PHOTOS
WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND IDRIS ELBA
EW has also uncovered new photos from the greatly anticipated Stephen King movie adaptation of THE DARK TOWER featuring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba which is still under production. Idris Elba plays Roland Deschain, also known as The Gunslinger who crosses paths with a teenage boy named Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), who lives in our world and possesses a powerful psychic gift known as The Shine. The Man in Black, played by Matthew McConaughey, (on his quest to find and destroy THE DARK TOWERwhich serves as a hub at the centre of many dimensions) wants to exploit this power to find new worlds to destroy, with Roland finding new purpose in protecting this boy!
'STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE'
GETS A TROPICAL NEW POSTER
Meanwhile, Disney has released a new poster today for this year's biggest sf movie STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE which features Stormtroopers and Rebels fighting under the Death Star on the exotic planet of Jedha - a pilgrimage place for people with faith in the Force! The movie will follow Rebels trying to steal the plans of Death Star.
As you know Freeform's super popular multi camera comedy series YOUNG AND HUNGRY returns next week with the new episodes, but one of its most popular characters, Sofia or Lil' Soso is getting her own spin off sitcom called YOUNG AND SOFIA! Aimee Carrero will again play Sofia, and the latest news say that always lovely Steve Talley will be her male lead! Ryan Pinkston will also star!
It isn't known whether Sofia Rodriguez, banking intern and roommate to
Gabi (Emily Osment) will leave YOUNG AND HUNGRY when in the possible
spinoff (which will be announced in episode 8th of the 4th season) she
lands a job working for an overbearing boss at a magazine. Steve Talley
will be Kendrick, a super-hot, sexy and masculine journalist with whom
Sofia is immediately intrigued by, while Pinkston will be the magazine's
pop culture editor.
'SING' NEW TRAILER
WHEN PIGS GO GAGA
Two animated trailers for you today, starting with the second one for SING which will follow a koala named Buster who recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theatre by hosting a singing competition. Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and ScarlettJohansson lead the voice cast!
'FINDING DORY' NEW TRAILER
UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY SHE PROBABLY WON'T REMEMBER
The second trailer has also been released for Disney's anticipated sequel FINDING DORY in which the eponymous forgetful blue tang searches for her parents. Along with Nemo and his dad, Marlin, the trio takes off on a life-changing adventure across the ocean to California’s Marine Life Institute, aka the fish hospital.
WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, KEN WATANABE, NAOMI WATTS
It's a very boring Saturday, people, and the only thing the spy has to show you is the first trailer and also first posters for Gus Van Sant's new drama movie THE SEA OF TREESstarring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts. The movie is opening this week around Europe after it got booed at Cannes Film Festival.
SUICIDE FOREST Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as
THE SEA OF TREES, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount
Fuji where people go to commit suicide (it really exists with an
average of three suicides a week). On his journey to the suicide forest,
he encounters Takumi Nakamura (Ken Watanabe), a Japanese man who has
lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of
reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and
reconnects him to his love for his wife (Naomi Watts).
You cannot have a good musical without a huge music star with a stunning voice and even more stunning looks: Nicole Sherzinger is the latest one to join the cast of ABC's three hour TV remake of DIRTY DANCING which already has Abigal Breslin as Baby and Pink's dancer Colt Prattes as Johhny! Nicole Scherzinger will play Penny, the troubled dancer whose unexpected pregnancy starts off a chain of events that leads dance instructor Johnny to good girl Baby. Beside a number of hit albums, and acclaimed roles in stage musicals, Nicole, who is also an operatic singer, also guest starred in HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and is the most popular X FACTOR judge beside Paula Abdul. Listen to gorgeous Scherzy showing off her mindblowing voice in her stunning version ofI AM TELLING YOU sung with Sam Bailey! She will make you shake!
'THE DARK TOWER' ADAPTATION
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, IDRIS ELBA, ABBEY LEE CAST Meanwhile, it seems that Stephen King has kinda confirmed over his
Twitter account that Matthew Mc Conaughey and Idris Elba will lead the
movie adaptation of his sf novel DARK TOWER to be directed by Nikolaj
Arcel! Elba will be the gunslinger Roland Deschain who, in a post
apocalyptic setting, is chasing villainous Man In Black, to be played by
Mc Conaughey, across a wasteland! Meanwhile, Abbey Lee from GODS OF
EGYPT will play cold, snake eyed, dangerous and sexy Tirana! The first,
in the planned trilogy of movies, should cover Roland's relationship
with his young protege who is yet to be cast.
'ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE'
SECOND TRAILER BRINGS FUN
Your animated delight today is the 2nd trailer for the new part of your favourite adventure ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE out this July! Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the Ice Age World. To save themselves, Sid, Manny, Diego, and the rest of the herd must leave their home and embark on a quest full of comedy and adventure, travelling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colourful new characters.
