WORLD WAR II FILM WITH COLIN FIRTH, MATTHEW MACFADYEN
Operation Mincemeat arrives January
SeeSawFilms is finally ready to release their new historical movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT in cinemas around Europe this month (April 15th in UK, Russia, India), after a long delay, and after that it should also arrive to Netflix, from May 11th but only for the audiences from the rest of the world. Colin Firth and MatthewMacFadyen play two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, JohnnyFlynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter whose final role this was before he died last year.The film is based on a book by Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by Johnny Flynn.
THE STORY IS SET IN 1943
when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on
occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers
Ewen Montagu (Firth)
Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn
and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure
an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most
unlikely of secret
January release was delayed when Netflix bought streaming rights
agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into
thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by
way of Greece rather than Sicily.
The film is based on an extraordinary true story!
Their plan was to get a corpse, equip
it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where
Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide
of the whole war.
Continuing with massive trailer premieres, here is the first trailer for Disney's NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS directed by our favourite Lasse Hallstrom which brings magic to the big screens October next year in Europe, November 2018 in USA!
SEARCH FOR A MAGICAL KEY All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key, a one-of-a-kind key that
will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A
golden thread,
The movie is currently undergoing a month long reshoots!
presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan
Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which
promptly disappears into a
The movie opens next October in Europe, next November in USA
strange and mysterious parallel world. It's
there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden
Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the
The story is based on the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky
regents who preside over three
Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara
and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm,
Helen Mirren is almost unrecognisable as Mother Ginger
home to the tyrant
Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully
return harmony to the unstable world. Matthew Macfadyen, Jack Whitehall,
Richard E Grant also star.
Just three days before the start of the official airing, BBC One has finally released a trailer for their new period set drama HOWARDS END which starts airing this Sunday in four episodes, with Starz broadcasting the story of two couples caught in a swirling landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England sometime next year for the audience in USA.
THE STORY OF HOWARDS END
based on E.M. Forster's classic novel, focuses on Margaret Schlegel (Hayley Atwell), an intelligent, idealistic, bohemian young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen), a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies
Matthew MacFadyen is Henry Wilcox in the series
unexpectedly! Meanwhile, Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen
Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast
Hayley Atwell is Margaret Schlegel
(Joseph Quinn), a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with
his partner Jacky (Rosalind Eleazar). In the absence of their
Lovely Joseph Quinn is Leonard Bast
parents, who have died, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.
Julia Ormond appears only in the first two episodes as Mrs Wilcox
WHAT DID THE SPY THINK?
The first episode is visually enchanting, story intriguing, performances mostly well done, but the series turns into a ghastly monotonous snobbish gibberish fest filled with shallow existentialist dialogues as early as the second episode and then finishes as an ode to blatant golddiggers with not an ounce of sense whatsoever.
ALEXANDER DREYMON, MATTHEW MACFADYEN, DAVID DAWSON
One of the new historical series we are looking most forward to this Autumn is definitely BBC's epic drama THE LAST KINGDOM which arrives onto the small screens October 10 at BBC America (hopefully, maybe a bit sooner at BBC Two?). Today you can check out some epic new photos from the series which might bring us a new TV hunk in the form of lead actor Alexander Dreymon who is also joined in the series by brilliant David Dawson (he was magnetic in BANISHED), Matthew MacFadyen and Rutger Hauer. Gareth Neame, producer, said the show will be more refined like TUDORS and DOWNTON ABBEY and less mindlessly brutal as some of today's shows.
ONE KING, ONE ENGLAND Based on Bernard Cornwell's popular THE SAXON STORIES novel series,
THE LAST KINGDOM is set in the late ninth century, when what is known as
England today was several separate kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxon lands are
attacked and in many instances ruled by Viking forces. The kingdom of
Wessex has been left standing alone under the command of King Alfred the
Great (David Dawson). The main protagonist, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) -
the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman, is kidnapped by norsemen and
raised as one of them. Forced to choose between a kingdom that shares
his ancestry and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever
tested. Rutger Hauer plays a wise Viking poet, Jason Flemyng appears as
King Edmund with Alec Newman as King Aethelred while Ian Hart and Nordic
star Tobias Santelmann are also in the cast together with our dear
Caroline Boulton and Simon Nader in smaller roles. Costume designer Ross Little who
worked on THE BIBLE and CRIMSON FIELD historical mini series is doing the costumes!
MICHAEL WESTON AND STEPHEN MANGAN TO LEAD THE CAST
In today's TV news, ITV has found the lead star for their intriguing new historical series HOUDINI & DOYLE: the period drama following the real-life friendship of Sherlock Holmes writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini will see Stephen Mangan and Michael Weston leading the cast. Mangan will be Doyle, prolific writer and paranormal aficionado, while Weston will be Houdini, master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker.
Set at the turn of the 20th century, the drama will explore their unique friendship and how they both worked with New Scotland Yard on unsolved crimes. Rebecca Liddiard will play Constable Adelaide Stratton, the first female PC to work for the London Metropolitan Police Force. Tim McInnerny will play Inspector Horace Merring, while Adam Nagaitis will appear as Sergeant George Gudgett.
'THE NIGHTINGALE' BESTSELLER
GETS BIG SCREEN ADAPTATION Meanwhile, a book that has spent more than 20 weeks on New York
Times' bestseller list, THE NIGHTINGALE will get its big screen
adaptation. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA's Ann Peacock will pen the script at
TriStar based on the book by Kristin Hannah (it is her 21st book),
published a few months ago, an epic family drama about two sisters
living in France during WWII in which the story follows them as one
becomes a prisoner in her own home and the other fights for the
resistance.
'THE LAST KINGDOM' TEASER
ALEXANDER DREYMON, MATTHEW MACFADYEN EPIC TV SERIES
And I don't know how I missed the first teaser for BBC 2's and BBC America's THE LAST KINGDOM epic series, even though it's constantly on my radar, but here it is now! It stars Alexander Dreymon, Rutger Hauer and Matthew McFadyen, with the story set in the late 9th century, when England was separated into several kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxon lands are attacked and in many instances ruled by Viking forces. The kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone under the command of King Alfred the Great. Dreymon's Uhtred - the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman, is kidnapped by Norsemen and raised as one of them. Forced to choose between a kingdom that shares his ancestry and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested.
this was before he died last year. The film is based on a book by Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by Johnny Flynn.
