Showing posts with label MICHAEL SHEEN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MICHAEL SHEEN. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2025

MICHAEL SHEEN AND EVA LONGORIA TO LEAD FESTIVE COMEDY MOVIE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BASED ON JAMES PATTERSON'S NOVEL

 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS 
MICHAEL SHEEN & EVA LONGORIA TO LEAD
As Variety reports, Michael Sheen and Eva Longoria will lead Ben Gregor's movie adaptation of James Patterson's novel 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS set in mid-December! For the fifth year in a row, Christmas is cancelled at the dysfunctional Sullivan family home. That is until a mysterious someone starts sending strange gifts to hopeless widower Henry (Sheen) and his two bickering children. First, a partridge in a pear tree, the next day two turtle doves are sent, followed by three calling birds on day three. Before they know it, the house is full of boisterous animals and house guests! The family’s lives are turned upside down as they try to figure out just who the mystery gift giver is, and to top it off, Mariana (Longoria) from Animal Protection Services is on their case. Even though this Christmas will be messy, it might turn out to be just the gift the family needs.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

NEW MOVIE ROLES FOR LUKE BRACEY, BRYAN BROWN, GREGG SULKIN, TOM BATEMAN, MARK SHEEN, JAIME PRESSLY, GEMMA WHELAN

   CASTING NEWS REEL  
LUKE BRACEY IN OUVERTURE
I have a number of fresh casting news for you  today so I am putting them all in one news bulletin post: over in Australia Bruce Beresford is preparing a comedy movie OUVERTURE in which Luke Bracey plays a successful stage designer who returns to his small Australian hometown to say goodbye to his dying mother. Bryan Brown, Susie Porter and Celia Massingham will also star.

GREGG SULKIN IN THE PET NUP
Meanwhile, Gregg Sulkin, Emeraude Toubia, Halston Sage and Jaime Pressly have joined Elaine Del Valle's romantic comedy THE PET NUP: While a recently divorced couple navigates new life and love apart, the arrangement in their “Pet-Nup” forces them to extremes as they fight for custody of the one thing in their life that can’t be split in two: their dog. 

STARS FOR NEW KENNETH BRANAGH FILM
Although the plot is kept under wraps for some reason, Kenneth Branagh has gathered a number of known names for his latest movie production THE LAST DISTURBANCE OF MADELINE HYNDE. This contemporary psychological so far has Patricia Arquette, Michael Sheen, Tom Bateman, Vicky McClure, Michael Balogun, Kristina Tonteri-Young and Karla Crome in the cast alongside Aiysha Hart and Gemma Whelan.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

IT IS AN ALL OUT CIVIL UPRISING IN MICHAEL SHEEN'S AMBITIOUS MINI TV SERIES THE WAY TRAILER FROM BBC WITH LUKE EVANS, TOM CULLEN, ANEURIN BARNARD

    THE WAY TRAILER     
FOR BRAND NEW BBC SERIES
BBC has released an intense trailer for their new three part series THE WAY which airs from February 19th starring Michael Sheen who also created it. Ambitious, powerful and surprising, it imagines a family caught up in a civil uprising which begins in their small industrial town. Fleeing unrest, the Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will they lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future? With wit and powerful emotion, the series taps into the chaos of today’s world through the fictional story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events. Luke Evans, Paul Rhys, Aneurin Barnard and Tom Cullen also star.

Friday, February 2, 2024

LUKE EVANS TO LEAD BRAD ANDERSON'S SF MOVIE WORLD BREAKER WITH MILLA JOVOVICH

    LUKE EVANS TO LEAD   
 NEW SF MOVIE WORLD BREAKER
As Variety reports, Brad Anderson is set to direct new science fiction movie WORLD BREAKER and he has set Welsh star Luke Evans as the lead star with Slavic star Milla Jovovich also staring.
Luke Evans will lead the new movie
To be shot over in Northern Ireland, the story of the film revolves around a father and his daughter. Five years previously, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. The father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe, while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But no place is safe. Luke also has ahead of him a role in THE WAY TV movie which also stars Tom Cullen, Michael Sheen, Paul Rhys and Aneurin Barnard and follows the Driscolls, an ordinary family caught in between power struggles that forces them to leave the country they call home.

Friday, June 2, 2023

SEE MICHAEL SHEEN FIGHT FOR HIS DAUGHTER'S LIFE IN BEST INTERESTS BBC MINI SERIES TRAILER

    BEST INTERESTS TRAILER    
The series will air in four episodes
FOR NEW BBC ONE SERIES
BBC One has released a trailer for their new four part mini series BEST INTERESTS which starts June 12th!  This a story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen play married couple Nicci and Andrew, they have two daughters: Katie and Marnie who has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision. Who decides? And in whose best interests will it be?

Monday, May 15, 2023

LUKE EVANS, MICHAEL SHEEN, TOM CULLEN, ANEURIN BARNARD TO STAR IN NEW BBC SERIES THE WAY! SHAWN MENDES SONG TO FEATURE IN NEW ANIMATED MOVIE ADVENTURE BUTTERFLY TALE

  THE WAY BBC DRAMA  
TO STAR LUKE EVANS, TOM CULLEN, MICHAEL SHEEN
BBC One has just announced their new 3 part drama THE WAY about an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events that ripple out from their home town. Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries, Sophie Melville, Callum Scott Howells and Michael Sheen lead the cast as the Driscoll family with! Luke Evans stars as a mercenary in pursuit of the Driscolls, with Tom Cullen and Aneurin Barnard also in the cast. THE WAY taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Fleeing unrest, The Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will they lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?
 
 BUTTERFLY TALE ANIMATION 
TO HAVE SHAWN MENDES SINGING AN ORIGINAL SONG
Butterfly Tale is currently in production
And he will be singing in it just like he did in Lyle, Lyle Crocodile. According to Variety, Shawn Mendes will have his original new song Something Big featured in new animated movie BUTTERFLY TALE from Pink Parrot Media.
 
BUTTERFLY TALE 
is an animated feature film for the whole family set along the diverse, picturesque, and ever-changing backdrop of the great Monarch butterfly migration. The lead characters are voiced by Tatiana Maslany and Aladdin's Mena Massoud. A heartwarming tale of a gutsy and loveable yet inept, one-winged butterfly, named Patrick who stows away in a milkweed trailer in order to be part of the journey of a lifetime. With his best friend, a goofy caterpillar named Marty, and Jennifer, a butterfly who is afraid of heights, Patrick will become an unlikely hero. But first he must face his fear, embrace his uniqueness and triumph over adversity while battling changing weather patterns, humans and three evil birds bent on revenge. It is a tale of adventure, self-realization and heroism told with humour whose message is that our differences are less important than the bonds we share, and it is in adversity that our true character shines through.

Friday, February 17, 2023

RAFE & TIMOTHY SPALL CAST IN RICH FLU FANTASY THRILLER! SEE THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT NETFLIX ANIMATED ADVENTURE TRAILER! MICHAEL SHEEN TO HELM NEW BBC MINI SERIES THE WAY!

  RICH FLU THRILLER CASTS 
TIMOTHY AND RAFE SPALL
Currently shooting in Spain, this fantasy thriller has a very interesting premise and has Timothy and Rafe Spall, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cesar Domboy, Lorraine Bracco, and Jonah Hauer King in the cast! RICH FLU sees a strange disease kill off some of the richest people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on.
Jonah Hauer King, Rafe and Timothy Spall will star
Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants. How far would people go to save their skin when the wealth that made the world go round suddenly becomes its most dangerous commodity. 

   MICHAEL SHEEN TO HELM  
NEW BBC DRAMA THE WAY
MIchael Sheen will direct the new series
BBC has announced that Michael Sheen will direct their bold new three part mini series THE WAY co-created by Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis! An ambitious, powerful and surprising new drama, it taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Meet the Driscolls - an ordinary family, in an extraordinary story of life, death and survival. Caught in a chain of events and power struggles that ripple out unleashing civil unrest, they are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will the Driscolls lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future? The Way is an emotional and darkly humorous story about what it means to be faced with impossible choices.

   THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT   
NETFLIX TRAILER IS HERE!
After the huge success of their Sea Beast animated adventure last year, Netflix is bringing us another charming animated movie this year and it again has a huge
The movie streams this March 17th!
beast in it, but a kind one: THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT will hit the streamer next month, March 17th as the movie adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's best selling novel directed by Wendy Rogers
 
Voice cast includes Benedict Wong, Dawn French, Mandy Patinkin and Miranda Richardson in this story which follows Peter (Noah Jupe), who is searching for his long-lost sister. When he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square, he want to know, is his sister still alive? To get the answer, he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, setting Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town. Check out the trailer below:

Thursday, March 17, 2022

MATT BOMER JOINS BRADLEY COOPER'S MAESTRO BIOPIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN! MICHAEL SHEEN TO LEAD BEST INTERESTS BBC ONE TV DRAMA! PAUL WESLEY IS CAPTAIN KIRK IN STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS


  MICHAEL SHEEN TO LEAD  
BBC SERIES BEST INTERESTS
With work already on the way, BBC One has announced new four part series BEST INTERESTS a story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen are a couple whose daughter Marnie (Niamh Moriarty) has a life-
Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan will play the parents
threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision. Who decides? And in whose best interests will it be? 

   MATT BOMER TO JOIN   
BRADLEY COOPER IN MAESTRO?
Oh, how will we survive such a hunkfest? According to reports, Matt Bomer is to join Bradley Cooper in MAESTRO, a Leonard Bernstein biopic at Netflix. To be also directed by Cooper, the film will span over 30 years in telling the beautifully complex story of the marriage between
Bradley Cooper is starring, writing and directing
Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan)! He had his conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic at 25 when the conductor took ill; without even rehearsing, Bernstein did so well his star was launched the next day when his feat made the front page of The New York Times. Bomer will play one of his gay lovers that he had outside the marriage.

 STRANGE NEW WORLDS ADS 
PAUL WESLEY AS CAPTAIN KIRK
Although he is to guest star only in season 2, Paramount + has unveiled a photo of Paul Wesley as young Captain Kirk in STAR TREK:
Young captain Kirk is to appear in the second season
STRANGE NEW WORLDS series which starts May 5 with Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, who captained the U.S.S. Enterprise before Kirk took
The first season will start on Paramount Plus this May
over. Rebecca Romijn stars as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock! It is not known how will Kirk be incorporated into the story.

Saturday, March 14, 2020

UK'S GREATEST TV HEIST IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR ITV'S QUIZ SERIES WITH MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND MICHAEL SHEEN

  'QUIZ' TRAILER IS HERE
UK'S GREATEST TV HEIST
ITV has released a trailer for their new series on the infamous 2001 scandal in which major Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen) and his wife Diana (Sian Clifford) cheated on Who Wants to be a Millionaire by coughing when
The series was directed by famous Stephen Frears!
the correct answers were read. QUIZ will air in three episodes from April 13th and will also air later on at AMC in USA from May 31st. Michael Sheen also stars as the host of the quiz.
Quiz Tells The Story 
of Major Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, who were accused of cheating their way to a million pounds on the most popular game show on earth in 2001. The couple
Michael Sheen dons a blond wig to play host Chris Tarrant
stood trial for conspiring by coughing during the recording to signify the correct answers to the multiple choice questions posed by host Chris Tarrant.
The series will also air on AMC for the US audience
Despite maintaining their innocence throughout, Ingram, his wife, and Whittock were convicted of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception". They were given two years suspended sentences and asked to pay £115,000 including legal fees.

Saturday, January 19, 2019

1ST EMILIA CLARKE, HENRY GOLDING PHOTO FROM LAST CHRISTMAS WHAM INSPIRED ROMANTIC DRAMA! MICHAEL SHEEN, MATTHEW RHYS, ANDREW SCOTT CAST IN ANIMATED HEART OF DARKNESS ADAPTATION

'LAST CHRISTMAS'
FIRST PHOTO WITH EMILIA CLARKE AND HENRY GOLDING
Although not much is known about its plot, other than it being inspired by the famous Wham! classic, LAST CHRISTMAS has revealed first photo of Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic drama. So far,
Emma Thompson is also writing the movie beside starring in it.
we know that in the 2016 Brexit set film Emma Thompson will play her mother from ex Yugoslavia, Clarke will be a hopeless girl who works as an elf in a Christmas shop, while Golding will play Tom, a night-time courier who volunteers at a homeless shelter and does not fit into the modern world.

'HEART OF DARKNESS' SENDS
MATTHEW RHYS, ANDREW SCOTT & MICHAEL SHEEN INTO JUNGLE
A cast of actors who will lend their voices in the animated adaptation of Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS has been revealed: Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott will star in the story that follows
Director Gerald Conn will use an animation technique which involves sand
the voyage of an idealistic seaman Charlew Marlow up the Congo River into the heart of Africa and his obsession with the mysterious ivory trader (Sheen)! Scott will voice the Russian sailor Harlequin, while Rhys will be Marlow's relative whom he meets during the journey!

Thursday, February 8, 2018

ANTONIO BANDERAS, EMMA THOMPSON, RALPH FIENNES, MICHAEL SHEEN JOIN 'VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE'! JOSEPH QUINN JOINS BBC'S 'LES MISERABLES', MICHAEL EMERSON JOINS RUPERT EVERETT, JOHN TURTURRO IN 'NAME OF THE ROSE' EPIC SERIES

  'VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE'
EMMA THOMPSON, BANDERAS, MICHAEL SHEEN, RALPH FIENNES  
 Universal Pictures is gathering a rather stellar cast for their live action adaptation of THE VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLLITLE which will see
Doctor DoLittle is set for April 2019 release!
Robert Downey Jr playing the famous doctor who can speak to animals. Antonio Banderas will apparently play his enemy, a pirate named Rassouli while Michael Sheen is set to play Mudfly! Meanwhile, British thespians Emma Thompson and Ralph Fiennes will lend their voices to some of the talking animals alongside young Tom Holland! An adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic book from the 1920's the movie is viewed as the potential opening for a whole franchise.

  NEW EPIC SERIES CASTINGS
JOSEPH QUINN JOINS 'LES MISERABLES' AT BBC 
Les Miserables will air sometime next year!
Casting news from the period set TV series world today, starting with our lovely chap Joseph Quinn, whom we'd discovered in Dickensian and continued to love in that horrid borefest of Howards End. He has now joined another BBC production, the six part series on LES MISERAB- LES which already has Dominic West as Jean Valjean, Lily Collins as Fantine and David Oyelowo as Javert and Olivia Colman as Madame Thenardier. Quinn will play Enjorlas, a revolutionary who dies for his beliefs in the June Rebellion.

MICHAEL EMERSON JOINS 'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
Italian Rai is preparing the new epic series
I've already told you that Italian RAI is preparing $30 million epic series based on Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE and that John Turturro (As William of Baskerville) and Rupert Everett (as Inquisitor Gui) will lead the cast, and now they're joined by Michael Emerson who will play The Abbot, an ambiguous, greedy, over sensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey! To start airing its eight episodes at the beginning of next year, it follows William of Baskerville, a 14th century Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of unusual deaths at a remote monastery! Damian Hardung will be William's apprentice, Benedictine novice Adso.

Sunday, July 16, 2017

COMEDY SATURDAY: 'HOME AGAIN' TRAILER & POSTER WITH REESE WITHERSPOON! ERRIN HAYES, CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS TO LEAD 'DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS' AMAZON COMEDY SERIES

'HOME AGAIN' POSTER
WITH REESE WITHERSPOON
We're kicking of our comedy weekend with the news coming from HOME AGAIN which just got its first poster. Out this September the movie stars Reese Witherspoon as a single mom in Los Angeles whose life takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her. Michael Sheen and Candice Bergen also star!



'DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS' 
TO BE LEAD BY ERRIN HAYES AND CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS
Errin Hayes starred in Kevin Can Wait last season
Meanwhile, over at Amazon, they've started casting for new single camera comedy series THE DANGER- OUS BOOK FOR BOYS! Created by Bryan Cranston it centres on Wyatt (Gabriel Bateman) and his brothers who are coming to terms with the death of their dad, Patrick (Chris Diamantopoulos). Before he passed away, Patrick wrote and crafted a life guidebook for his three sons entitled, THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS, hoping to inspire them to live life to the fullest.
Chris will have a double role in the new sitcom
Based on a book by Conn and Hal Iggulden the series will also star Errin Hayes (who has been shockingly kicked out of Kevin Can Wait earlier this season so that Leah Rimini could take over the lead female role in the Kevin James sitcom) as their mother, while Chris Diamant- opoulos will also also be playing Uncle Terry, Patrick’s identical twin brother, fun loving, off beat, well meaning, underachiever, who comes to live at the family house after the death of his brother. Kyan Zielinski will play Liam, the oldest of the three brothers, who’s book smart and spends way too much time on his computer! Drew Logan Powell plays the middle son. Swoosie Kurtz will play the mother in law.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

NEW POSTERS FOR AMY ADAM'S 'ARRIVAL' & 'NOCTURNAL ANIMALS' WITH ARMIE HAMMER, JAKE GYLLENHAAL, AND 'THE EXCEPTION' WITH JAI COURTNEY, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

'NOCTURNAL ANIMALS' POSTER
 WITH AMY ADAMS, ARMIE HAMMER AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL
Just three new movie posters for you today, two of which for Amy  Adams' new movies. The first one is for her NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, a highly stylised drama thriller by Tom Ford, which also stars Armie Hammer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Aaron Johnson, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, Michael Shannon and Amy's lookalike Isla Fisher!
She plays an art gallery owner who is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale. Recalling her first marriage she gets confronted with some dark truths about herself.



NEW 'ARRIVAL' POSTER
 WITH AMY ADAMS AND ALIENS
Also out beginning of November is her sf movie which also has a new poster ARRIVAL!  When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team,  lead by expert linguist Louise Banks, are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, the team races against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.



 'THE EXCEPTION' POSTER
 WITH JAI COURTNEY AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
You can also check out a new poster for Kaiser's Last Kiss also known as THE EXCEPTION in which Jai Courtney is a German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm (Christopher Plummer) in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Lily James) during his investigation.

Monday, April 20, 2015

GORGEOUS NEW POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET DRAMAS 'A LITTLE CHAOS' WITH KATE WINSLET, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, ALAN RICKMAN, 'FAR FROM MADDING CROWD' WITH MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, MICHAEL SHEEN, TOM STURRIDGE

'A LITTLE CHAOS' NEW POSTERS
KATE WINSLET GROWING ROSES
Two sets of gorgeous new posters for two of highly anticipated 2015 period set dramas: starting with Kate Winslet's A LITTLE CHAOS which has hit UK cinemas this weekend and will hit USA in June. It is a directing debut of Alan Rickman who is also starring in the film as a part of the cast also including Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts, Steven Waddington and Jennifer Ehle.
 
Romantic historical A LITTLE CHAOS drama has Kate Winslet playing Sabine, a talented landscape designer, who is building a garden at Versailles for King Louis XIV (Alan Rickman). Sabine struggles with class barriers as she becomes romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist played by Matthias Schoenaerts.


FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 
A CLASSIC LOVE STORY
Another period set romantic drama will arrive into European and US cinemas this May! It's the new big screen adaptation of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD classic novel from Thomas Hardy also starring Matthias Schoenaerts!  The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

Friday, February 20, 2015

1ST TRAILER AND CHARACTER PHOTOS FROM 'BANISHED' EPIC TV SERIES WITH RUSSELL TOVEY, DAVID WENHAM, ORLA BRADY! GORGEOUS NEW 'FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD' TRAILER WITH MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, MICHAEL SHEEN, TOM STURRIDGE

'BANISHED' EPIC TV SERIES
 18TH CENTURY PENAL COLONY
Two period set projects for you today, starting with the first character photos and a trailer for new British historical television series BANISHED which should start airing in seven hour long episodes at BBC2 from Thursday March 5th! This epic series will be deeply character driven with the story following the lives, loves, relationships and battle for survival of a group of convicts, the soldiers who guard them and the men who govern them in the early days of the penal colony established by Britain in the 18th century in Australia!

DAVID WENHAM, RUSSEL TOVEY, ORLA BRADY LEAD THE CAST
Actress from 'Ripper Street' MyAnna Buring stars as English criminal Elizabeth Quinn, sent to Australia in 1788 after punching a woman who turned out to be a Duchess. During her voyage to the other side of the world, she falls for fellow prisoner Tommy Barrett (Julian Rhind-Tutt). Our beloved 'Being Human' and 'Looking' star Russell Tovey will also portray an English convict abroad, joining 'The Paradise' star Joanna Vanderham and 'Doctor Who's' Orla Brady in the Australian penal colony. Australian actor David Wenham (Lord of the Rings, Van Helsing) plays Arthur Phillip, the idealistic governor of the settlement.


FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 
GORGEOUS SECOND TRAILER
There's also the second trailer for the big screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's literary classic novel FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD which should come out this May starring Carey Mulligan as heroine Bathsheba Everdene who finds herself torn between three very different suitors played by Matthias Schoenaerts (a passionate sheep farmer), Michael Sheen (a prosperous bachelor) and Tom Sturridge (a handsome sergeant)!