It will start its rule March 3rd, but Max has given us the trailer for their new mini series THE REGIME which tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel. With the power being in the hands of Kate Winslet as madam chancellor, Matthias Schoenaerts plays her trusted and devoted and obviously psychotic chief of security, with Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant also in the cast! The six episode series was directed by Stephen Frears.
When it comes to new book adaptations, the news of the day is that Hartswood Films has bought TV rights on THE WARLOCK EFFECT Cold War thriller about a magician who flees Nazi Germany and is lured into espionage, written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman!
Their debut book, which is effectively out in the bookshops since
Thursday, centers on Ludvik Weinschenk, a boy who escapes tyranny in
Germany to become the most famous magician in 1950s Britain under the
stage name Louis Warlock. His talent for deception attracts the
attention of the British secret service and he is thrown into the world
of espionage on a mission across Europe.
THE REGIME TEASER
KATE WINSLET IS IN POWER
HBO Max, soon to be known as just Max and including also Discovery offer, has released first teaser trailer for new limited series THE REGIME which will start its tyrannical rule sometime next year with Kate Winslet in the lead role and Matthias Schoenaerts and Hugh Grant in supporting roles. Martha Plimpton, as you can see in the teaser, plays a confused US emissary. Known previously as The Palace, THE REGIME is directed by the amazing Stephen Frears, and tells the story of a year inside the palace of a modern European regime as it starts to unravel.
Well, it is certainly quite a cast: as Deadline reports, Derek Jacobi, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Everett, Rupert Graves, have joined Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, in VERONA, Timothy Scott Bogart’s pop Romeo & Juliet musical, the the first film in an original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Dan Fogler are also starring in the film shooting in multiple castles across Italy.
VIRTUE GOTHIC THRILLER
CASTS ROMOLA GARAI AND NIKOLAJ COSTER WALDAU
Joanna Coates has found leads for her new Gothic thriller movie VIRTUE in Nikolaj Coster Waldau and Romola Garai. Set in England in 1350, it will see him play heroic knight St. Peter who returns from war with his son to discover a plague-ravaged homeland riven by social unrest, superstition and fear.
After preventing a woman from being burned to death on the superstition of being a witch, he attempts to re-establish his reputation by embarking on a quest to find a female villager who has vanished into the local forest, believed to be haunted by locals. But when he and his men track down the woman and her “possessed” daughters, events take an unexpected turn, and it becomes clear they do not want to be rescued.
FIRST KATE WINSLET PHOTO
FROM THE PALACE TV SERIES
HBO has given us a first look at Kate Winslet in their new mini series THE PALACE which tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel. Shooting currently in Europe, it has a cast that also includes Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, controversial Oscar cheat Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant.
After her award winning gigs in Mildred Pearce and Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet will star in another new mini TV series over at HBO. Titled THE PALACE it will be directed and produced by the amazing Stephen Frears. The only thing revealed of the plot is the following: it tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel! I've already told you that Winslet will also lead HBO'S THE TRUST mini series about a wealthy financier upset about how he and his wife are portrayed in a book based on his life.
THOSE ABOUT TO DIE
ANCIENT ROME SET SERIES
The series will shoot next year
Rival Peacock has given a straight to series order to Roland Emmerich's TV series adaptation of THOSE ABOUT TO DIE non fiction book by Daniel Mannix. The large-scale drama, set within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, introduces an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide. The $140 million worth series to start shooting next year in Italy, will have Saving Private Ryan's Robert Rodat as the writer. While the series will be epic in scope and have the spectacle of gladiators and chariot racing, it also has unexpected characters amidst palace intrigue and a dark criminal underworld.
ECHOES SERIES TRAILER
FOR NETFLIX' NEW THRILLER
Netflix has sent us the first trailer for their August 19th thriller series ECHOES in which Michelle Monaghan plays identical twins Leni and Gina, who
Echoes start August 19th!
share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina have secretly swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: they share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing. As Gina digs into her sister’s mysterious disappearance the question becomes: Has Leni just run away? But from what? Or is she actually dead? Matt Bomer and Daniel Sunjata play the twins’ husbands in the seven episode drama.
After becoming pretty much a Tom Cruise type of blockbuster superstar over in good old Russia, it was rather logical that Serbian actor and panslavic star Milosh Bikovich will sooner or later get an imperial role. And now he
Milosh Bikovich is Peter the Great
has! Hollywood Spy can exclusively announce that he is playing tzar Peter the Great in his younger years in new Russian historical epic movie THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE (Рождение империи) from director Aleksey Nuzhniy. It will cover 1698-1709 - ten years from the life of Peter the Great, during which he laid the foundations of the future Russian Empire. From the return of the great embassies from Europe to the Battle of Poltava. After the signing of a peace treaty with Sweden in 1721, Russia officially became an empire, and Peter became the first Russian emperor. The film, shot last autumn and winter, should premiere December 29th as the most beautiful New Year's present. The film will also include one of the actors from Western Europe as King Charles XII.
PALACE MOVIE CASTS
RUSSIA'S ALEXANDER PETROV AND VICTOR DOBRONRAVOV
Speaking of Russia, her actors Victor Dobronravov and Alexander Petrov will star in in Roman Polanski's new film PALACE, a black comedy which takes place at the ski resort Gstad in the Swiss Alps. The story
Victor Dobronravov and Alexander Petrov will star in Palace
covers 24 hours before the New Year, 2000. The cast also includes Mickey Rourke, Oliver Mazucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, Joaquin de Almeida and Fortunato Cerlino! Out this November, this $17.8 million movie is a co-production between Italy, Switzerland and Poland.
MAGICAL WILLOW TRAILER
FOR NEW DISNEY SERIES
Disney Plus has announced the November 30th start date of their new epic series WILLOW with the first, rather lovely, trailer. Warwick Davis is reprising his movie role of Willow Ufgood in a story of a child destined to be
Warwick Davis returns to his famous movie role of Willow
an empress, and the unlikely hero who would protect her. Ellie Bamber also stars in this film set in a magical world where sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, and where the adventure continues, as an unlikely
The series will hit Disney Plus November 30th this year
group of heroes sets off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world.
the power being in the hands of Kate Winslet as madam chancellor, Matthias Schoenaerts plays her trusted and devoted and obviously 
psychotic chief of security, with Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant also in the cast! The six episode series was directed by Stephen Frears.
the power being in the hands of Kate Winslet as madam chancellor, Matthias Schoenaerts plays her trusted and devoted and obviously 
psychotic chief of security, with Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant also in the cast! The six episode series was directed by Stephen Frears.
