SEE FIRST LOOK AT CHARLES DANCE AS MICHELANGELO IN BBC AND PBS SERIES RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY

    FIRST CHARLES DANCE   

IMAGE FROM MICHELANGELO BBC DRAMA

BBC has sent us the first image of Charles Dance as famous Michelangelo in their new docuseries RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY. The three part series, which will also air on PBS, explores an era of violence and power politics that produced some of the Western world’s greatest works of art. The new documentary series aims to reveal an unfamiliar side to the Renaissance, with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael also represented along with their patrons in 16th-century Italy.

LEONARDO PRODUCERS WORKING ON TWO NEW EPIC SERIES ON CARAVAGGIO AND MICHELANGELO BESIDE SANDOKAN! OTTO BATHURST PREPARING EPIC NEW FRANKENSTEIN TV SERIES

 CARAVAGGIO & MICHELANGELO

GETTING THEIR OWN SERIES

While we are waiting for Lux Vide to bring us new Sandokan series with Can Yaman, the news comes that after Leonardo series in which Aidan Turner played famous Da Vinci, they are planning to also make two epic series about his fellow painters CARAVAGGIO and MICHELANGELO! Minamata and The White Crow director Andrew Levitas is already

These two new series will continue trilogy started with Leonardo

developing these new projects. Michelangelo and Caravaggio represent the completion of a trilogy on the great Renaissance artists that began with Leonardo. The stories of larger-than-life artists and characters will be told with a modern cut and language! Michelangelo actually appeared in Leonardo series as they were rivals, while Caravaggio worked in the 16th century Rome.

FRANKENSTEIN EPIC TV SERIES

UNDER OTTO BATHURST'S HELM

Otto Bathurst is producing and helming

Speaking of epic series, Otto Bathurst from Peaky Blinders, Robin Hood and Halo will direct FRANKENSTEIN TV series adaptation for Black Box and Stone Village. Penned by Bradley McManus, it will have the story set in pre Victorian Europe, and focusing on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death, all set against the context of a year in which dependence on scientific breakthroughs has been paramount. The series is envisioned as a returning one, not an event mini series.

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI IS AN ARTIST IN A STRUGGLE IN ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY'S HISTORICAL MOVIE DRAMA 'SIN' ARRIVING TO CINEMAS THIS WEEK

   SIN MOVIE TRAILER  

ON FAMOUS MICHELANGELO

Continuing our week of international projects, today we have a trailer for historical drama from famous Andrei Konchalovsky SIN a movie on legendary painter Michelangelo which has already played in Europe but is

The movie is out February 19th

arriving to USA cinemas February 19th. Alberto Testone leads the  the film which depicts the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is interesting that Vladimir Putin gifted Pope Francis an early cut of the film in the summer of 201. 

Florence early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contempo- raries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist's

All the sets and costumes were made from materials authentic to Renaissance

loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission - the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favour with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations,

Andrei Konchalovsky spent more than eight years working on the film

leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings. Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Il Peccato (Sin) is a gripping reflection on the agony and ecstasy of individual greatness, and the profound humanity behind the legend of the Renaissance.

1ST PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET EUROPEAN MOVIES HENRY JAMES' THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE AND SIN ON FAMOUS MICHELANGELO!

FIRST 'SIN' PHOTO

FROM MICHELANGELO BIOPIC!

It has been a very slow week, so I will entertain you today with two new period set movies, both coming from European studios. Famous Russian director Andrey Konchalovskiy has finished his new historical drama SIN

Michelangelo's famous works include the statue of David and Sistine Chapel frescoes

which depicts the life of famous Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone). Shot entirely in Italy, the movie was produced in Rome

The film will find the artist in the most difficult part of his life in which, crushed by the pressure from the powerful people, he wasn't able to fulfil his commitments

and its environs and in Tuscany, including the Carrara quarry where Michelangelo got his marble. Signoria Square in Florence was temporarily covered with sand during filming in order to make the scene more realistic.

'THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE'

BASED ON HENRY JAMES WORK

The other movie today comes from Dutch director Clara van Gool who has decided to adapt Henry James' work THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE. The English language period set drama follows  the story of a man in who's life precisely nothing was to happen! Some of the scenes in the film are depicted through dance!

THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE
arriving into the cinemas in The Netherlands next March,  and based on the novella by Henry James, depicts the enigmatic love story of John Marcher (Dane Hurst) and May Bartram (Sarah Reynolds). Their duet around an ominous secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic. Set in a remote countryside mansion the story stretches over a century, spiralling from the late 19th century of king James to the global present. The movie will air at the very end of this month at Swedish Goteborg movie festival.