COLIN FIRTH TO LEAD OPERATION MINCEMEAT WW2 MOVIE! 1ST MRS LOWRY & SON PHOTO WITH VANESSA REDGRAVE, TIMOTHY SPALL! LIAM NEESON TO STAR WITH HIS SON IN MADE IN ITALY

   COLIN FIRTH TO LEAD

OPERATION MINCEMEAT WW2 FILM

One of the new projects that is trying to find buyers over at Cannes this month is John Madden's (Shakespeare in Love) World War II movie

Colin Firth will lead the new WW2 drama

OPERATION MINCEMEAT which has already found its lead star in Colin Firth!

Based on the book by Ben Macintyre, the film is set in 1943 when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on ‘Fortress Europe’! The story of the movie will follow two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley, who dream up an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy to help the cause. It is a richly human story of the soldiers we seldom see, who fight a different kind of war in shadows and deception, haunted by the knowledge that certainty and guarantee of success are nowhere to be found.

   'MADE IN ITALY' MOVIE

PAIRS UP LIAM NEESON & HIS SON

Micheal Richardson will star with his father

Meanwhile, the son of late Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson (and also a nephew of Joely Richardson and Lynn Redgrave and grandson of Vanessa Redgrave and famous director Tony Richardson) Micheal Richardson will star with his father in MADE IN ITALY together with Lindsay Duncan and Valeria Bilello! Actor James D'Arcy will direct a movie for the first time with this comedy set in Tuscany, and following bohemian London artist Robert (Neeson), who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair.

   'MRS LOWRY AND SON'

FIRST PHOTO WITH TIMOTHY SPALL AND VANESSA REDGRAVE

Speaking of Vanessa Redgrave, first photo has been released for  MRS LOWRY & SON drama which describes the relationship between iconic

The movie will close this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival

British artist L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall), and his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he lived until her death. The film will close Edinburgh Film Festival this June!

TIMOTHY SPALL & VANESSA REDGRAVE TO LEAD 'MRS LOVRY & SON' FAMOUS PAINTER BIOPIC! 'TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH' INDO CHINA WAR MOVIE POSTER WITH GERARD DEPARDIEU, GASPARD ULLIEL

  'MRS LOVRY & SON'

TIMOTHY SPALL AND VANESSA REDGRAVE TO STAR

Timothy Spall plays Mr Lowry

Some more period set movie news at the end of the week! After playing a legendary painter in Mr Turner, Timothy Spall will take a brush into his hands again in MRS LOVRY & SON next to Vanessa Redgrave. It depicts the relationship between artist L.S. Lowry and his mother, Elizabeth. The movie will explain how Lowry lived all of his life with his overbearing mother, a deterring voice as he pursued his artistic ambition. However, a rent collector by day, Lowry took art classes in the evening and painted into the early hours to become one of the most significant artists of the 20th Century famous  for his scenes of life in the

Vanessa Redgrave will play his overbearing criticising mother

industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He rejected many awards during his life, including a knighthood in 1968.

  'TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH'

POSTER WITH GASPARD ULLIEL AND GERARD DEPARDIEU

You may also check out the first poster for period set war drama TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Les Confins du Monde) starring Gerard Depardieu and Gaspard Ulliel. Indochina, 1945. Robert, a young French

We are waiting for the first trailer for the new French war movie

soldier, witnesses the Japanese executing his family. Hungry for revenge, he enlists in the fight alongside the French soldiers, but his encounter with an Indochinese prostitute will turn his beliefs and his hatred on their head.