I have two new Australian shows to present to you today, spylings, beginning with TREASURE & DIRT which arrives to their national broadcaster ABC July 19th with our dear Michael Dorman, whom you watched in Territory series, in the lead role. The story of the six part crime thriller is set in the scorched, dust choked opal mining town of Nulla, where the brutal beheading of local miner pulls big-city detective Ivan Lucic (Dorman) into a labyrinthine case with no easy answers. Assigned to him is ambitious rookie detective Nell Buchanan (Liv Hewson) who knows Nulla’s lawless, corrupt underbelly far better than he does. Together, they’re drawn into a strange, surreal underworld of secrets, greed, and old sins that won’t stay buried. Dean O'Gorman and Eamon Farren also star.
THE KILLINGS AT PARRISH STATION
New six part series hits Stan next week
Arriving
even sooner, next week actually - June 24th to Australian streamer Stan
is six episode mystery crime drama THE KILLINGS AT PARRISH STATION. In
1987, detectives Georgia Cooke (Mia Wasikowska) and Michael Thorne
(Xavier Samuel) are called to investigate the bizarre and brutal
killings of four scientists at the remote Parrish Research Station. They
uncover a complex case involving mania, ritual, and the occult, and
Georgia's obsessive truth-seeking spirals, threatening her family,
career, and sanity. Thirty seven years later, a chilling new spree of
murders pull Georgia (Heather Mitchell) back into this nightmare as she
confronts the possibility that the horrors at Parrish Station were never
fully buried.
Here is something Australian for you today: a trailer and poster for BLUEBACK movie drama which is out in cinemas March 3rd. Robert
The movie is out in cinemas this March
Connolly's movieadaptation of Tim Winton's beloved novel stars Eric Bana, Rada Mitchell and Mia Wasikowska. Three different actresses play the protagonist Abby at different stages of her life. As a child she befriends a magnificent wild blue grouper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist Mum, Dora, and takes on poachers to save her friend. The film already played in Australia and Germany, but will swim into the Northern American theatres this March. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
A trailer has been released for a rather stellar drama movie BLACKBIRD which will be available in selected theatres and as video on demand from September 18th boasting quite an ensemble cast which includes
The movie will be out next month in cinemas that work
Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslet, Lindsay Duncan, Mia Wasikowska... Lily (Susan Sarandon) and Paul (Sam Neill) summon their loved ones to their beach house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily and her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska). Joining the collective farewell are Lily’s son in law (Rainn Wilson), her lifelong friend (Lindsay Duncan), daughter’s partner (Bex
The movie is an English version of Danish drama Silent Heart from 2014
Taylor-Klaus) and grandson (Anson Boon). Her story is ultimately one of hope, love and a celebration of life. The film, directed by Roger Michell, is an English language version of a Danish film.
Two period set projects for you today, starting with Warner Bros who has hired Gal Gadot as the lead in their WWW2 movie IRENE SENDLER which she will also produce with her husband. The movie tells the harrowing story of a woman’s defiant stand against Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland and the incredible network she developed to care for and save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Following her arrest by the Gestapo during the height of the war, the drama becomes a race against time to save not only herself but the identities of the hidden thousands who’ll face certain execution.
'JUDY & PUNCH' TRAILER
TROUBLE BREWS IN SEASIDE
A strange, very strange, mix of comedy, drama, horror and period set thriller can be seen in the first trailer for JUDY & PUNCH which is out this November in UK, set in Seaside (nowhere near the sea), where puppeteers
The movie will hit UK cinemas next month after a run around film festivals
Judy (Mia Wasikowska) and Punch (Damon Herriman) are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob
Mirrah Foulkes both wrote and directed the movie
rule. When small town puppeteer Punch accidentally kills his baby during a drinking binge his wife, Judy, having suffered a violent beating, teams up with a band of outcast heretics to enact revenge on Punch and the entire town of Seaside.
White Queen will rule Arrakis.. or so it seems. According to 'Variety' Rebecca Ferguson will join Timothee Chalamet in big screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult sf classic DUNE to be helmed by Denis Villeneuve for Legendary.
DUNE, set in the distant future, follows Paul Atreides, whose family
assumes control of the desert planet Arrakis. As the only producer of a
highly valuable resource, jurisdiction over Arrakis is contested among
competing noble families. After Paul and his family are betrayed, the
story explores themes of politics, religion, and man’s relationship with
nature, as Paul leads a rebellion to restore his family’s reign.
Chalamet would play Paul, but Ferguson won't be Princess Irulan from
the house of Corrino nor Fremen concubine Chani, but Paul's mother Lady
Jessica!
'THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME'
CASTS CHRIS EVANS, TOM HOLLAND, ROBERT PATTINSON AND MIA WASIKOWSKA
Chris Evans will be the corrupted sheriff!
Meanwhile, Antonio Campos has gathered quite a cast for his new movie THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME, an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's novel. Chris Evans, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska will star in the story set in a place called Knockemstiff, Ohio, a forgotten backwoods of the country – where a storm of faith, violence and redemption brews. Out of desperation to save his dying wife, protagonist Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice. His son Arvin (Tom Holland) is growing from a kid bullied at school into a man who knows when to take action. The cast of characters includes a serial killer couple, a faith-testing preacher and a corrupt local sheriff (Chris Evans) in a story told across two decades. The movie is currently being shopped to potential distributors over at Toronto Film Festival!
Well, this could be a powerful female drama. The English language remake of Danish drama Silent Heart, now titled BLACKBIRD has cast Diane Keaton, Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska in the lead roles!
Directed by Notting Hill's helmer Roger Michel, who did recently
ruin My Cousin Rachel which could've been a marvellous movie,
BLACKBIRD will see Diane playing a a terminally ill mother who brings
her family together for one last weekend before she commits suicide.
Winslet, who is currently shooting new Avatar sequels, and Wasikowsa
will, of course, play her daughters.
'THE CROWN' SEASON 3
PHOTOS OF THE NEW ROYALS
With the production of its third season well underway, Netflix has revealed the first photos of the new cast members for their THE CROWN series on Elizabeth II! Beside Olivia Colman as the new queen of England herself, you
Olivia Colman is Queen Elizabeth II of England
can also see Helena Bonham Carter playing her sister Princess Margaret in her older years and also Ben Daniels as her husband Lord Snowdon who was played previously by Matthew Goode. As you know, Tobias Menzies will
Helena Bonham Carter is Princess Margaret
play the older Prince Philip after Matt Smith who played him in his younger years. Jason Watkins will play former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Josh O'Connor is young Prince Charles and Erin Doherty young Princess Anne.
Ben Daniel is Margaret's husband Lord Snowdon
Season three, which starts with year 1963 and cover events such as the rise of the Beatles and England winning the soccer World Cup in 1966, won't arrive before 2019!
'BOY ERASED' TRAILER
WITH LUCAS HEDGES, NICOLE KIDMAN AND RUSSELL CROWE
Boy Erased is out this November
Sticking to family issues, which can sometimes be very hard, check out the first trailer for BOY ERASED drama with Nicole Kidman, Lucas Hedges and Russell Crowe. The true story, directed by Joel Edgerton, follows Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith. BOY ERASED is the true story of one young man’s struggle to find himself while being forced to question every aspect of his identity.
A number of period set movies will hit upcoming movie festivals and we have first photos today! DAMSEL will air both at Sundance and Berlin Film Festival. It sees Robert Pattinson playing Samuel, a wealthy and
Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska play the happy couple
influential pioneer who traveled across west American Frontiers to marry love of his life Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). Along the journey, he was aided by a
Damsel hits both Berlin and Sundance next month!
drunkard and a miniature horse named Butterscotch. As Samuel continued on his quest, he encountered many obstacles and soon the lines between heroes, damsels and villains are blurred.
'BLACK 47'
SET DURING GREAT FAMINE
Berlin will also see the premiere of Irish revenge story BLACK 47, set during the Great Famine, in which James Frecheville plays Feeney, an Irish
Hugo Weaving leads the cast of the revenge story movie
Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, but he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he
Jim Broadbent and Stephen Rea also star in the movie
is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family. He swears vengeance. His old British Army
The movie was based on a story by P.J. Dillon
comrade Hannah (played by Hugo Weaving) is then dispatched to put an end to Feeney's uprising.
'THE LITTLE STRANGER'
A HAUNTED IRISH MANSION
There's also the first photo from 1947 set Irish drama THE LITTLE STRANGER in which Domnhall Gleeson plays a doctor who, during a hot
The Little Stranger is based on a novel by Sarah Waters
summer in 1947, is called to treat a patient at a haunted country mansion which has been owned by the same family for two centuries. Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling also star!
drawn into a strange, surreal underworld of secrets, greed, and old sins that won’t stay buried. Dean O'Gorman and Eamon Farren also star.
back into this nightmare as she
confronts the possibility that the horrors at Parrish Station were never
fully buried.
