Or actually two movies, as Antonin Baudry's sweeping epic on the French leader has been split into two parts premiering both next summer DE GAULLE: TILTING IRON out June 10th and “De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge” out July 3rd. The two films follow Charles De Gaulle's life and political
The first film is out in cinemas next June
commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career. Simon Abkarian takes the lead role with Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill. The two part historical thriller saga is charting the French Resistance during WWII through the eyes of General Charles de Gaulle. Benoît Magimel stars as Pierre Koenig, Mathieu Kassovitz as Francois Darlan, Niels Schneider as General Leclerc, and Campbell Scott as Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tom Mison, Pip Torrens, Stephen Campbell Moore also star. See the teaser below:
Coming from director Ladj Ly and Pathe, who scored huge success with movie versions of Alexandre Duma's Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo, is a film on his father DUMAS: BLACK DEVIL which will also be an expensive, big budget historical epic. It has been announced today that Theo Christine, Vincent Cassel, Omar Sy and François Civil will lead the cast of 2027. movie. Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas, was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte.
But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black
Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was
even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte. Although he
was not even 4 years old when his father died of stomach cancer,
Alexandre Dumas cherished his legacy.
Coming from director Ladj Ly and Pathe, who scored huge success with movie versions of Alexandre Duma's Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo, is a film on his father DUMAS: BLACK DEVIL which will also be an expensive, big budget historical epic. Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas, was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte. Although he was not even 4 years old when his father died of stomach cancer, Alexandre Dumas cherished his legacy.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out new trailer with PierreNiney in the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused
of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a
grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he
finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo,
plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by
Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière this historical adventure movie will arrive this summer, June 28th to French cinemas based on Alexandre Dumas' famous classic novel. Check out the latest trailer below and tell us what you think:
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO TV SERIES
Speaking
of Mediawan's historical TV series THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO with Sam
Claflin, Blake Ritson and Jeremy Irons, I have the first poster
First poster for Sam Claflin's Monte Cristo series
from it
for you today. Claflin plays Edmond, a sailor who is falsely accused of
treason and imprisoned without
trial in the Château d’If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. After
many years of captivity, he finally escapes and, under the identity of
the Count of Monte Cristo, plans to take revenge on those who have
wrongly accused him. Irons
plays Abbé Faria who has a decisive role in carrying out Cristo's
revenge. Ana Girardot, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Karla-Simone Spence,
Michele Riondino, Lino Guanciale, Gabriella Pession and Nicolas Maupas
also star in Bille August directed series.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out the first trailer with Pierre
The movie will hit French cinemas this June
Niney in
the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused
of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a
grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he
finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo,
plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by
Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière it will arrive June 28th to French cinemas based on Dumas' famous classic novel.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out the first image of Pierre Niney in the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière it will arrive late next year.
Believe it or not April is just two weeks away from us and that means that the adventure we have been waiting for is ready to hit cinemas with the first part
The first part is out April in cinemas
of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKE- TEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then the second part - THE THREE MUSKE- TEERS: MILADY will arrive in December this year, Pathe has meanwhile released the magnificent character posters to wet our appetites! Beside that, together with Disney Plus they are also making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant villainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a
few years ago. To be shot in French, the series will build on the experience
gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga
based on Alexandre Dumas' work. First film D'Artagnan is out April 5th, the second December 13th! The film hits Russia April 6th, and parts of South America and Europe from April 13th! Both films were shot back to back! The same team is also preparing Count Monte Cristo movie with Pierre Niney in the lead role.
3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN will follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil),
a spirited young Gascon,
who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being
kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his
attackers. He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a
real war where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos
(Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three
musketeers of the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity,
D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu
(Eric Ruf). But it is when he falls madly in love with Constance
Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (ghastly dull Vicky Krieps) confidante, that
d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (bizarrely grotesque Eva Green). Jacob Fortune-Lloydstars as Duke of Buckingham! This new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel will introduce a new character, Hannibal, based on the true story of Louis Anniaba, the first Black musketeer in French history. He is played by Ralph Amoussou!
I've already told you that our dear Pathe will do a movie adaptation of COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO after they give us two Musketeers movie in April and December, and now Pierre Niney has been announced as the lead! To shoot from July with October 2024 opening date, it will be told from the point of view of Edmond Dantès, the first French superhero, who steps from the light into the shadows, assuming the identity of masked avenger. Based on Dumas' famous novel, it will be an epic adventure film, with exceptionally strong characters!
DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY
LAUNCHES THIS SUNDAY!
And here is something that actually begins as soon as tomorrow: this Sunday Channel 5 is launching their four episode documentary series DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY which takes the British comedian on a
New series starts this Sunday at 7PM
journey back to 155 million years ago!
In this new factual series the comedian charts the dinosaurs’ time on
earth from their ‘golden age’ in the Jurassic era right through to their
last days, when the planet was hit by a huge asteroid. He interacts
with the giant beasts and meets experts who tell him surprising facts
about the creatures. A prehistoric environment via a 360-degree Dinosaur
World, which has been designed to immerse viewers in a hyper-realistic
representation of the jungles of the Jurassic period and plains of the
Cretaceous period. Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI, Stephen is able to
chart their story on earth right through to their demise 66 million
years ago. He gets to meet much-loved dinos such as the 26m-long
diplodocus and witness ferocious battles between triceratops and the
fearsome tyrannosaurus rex.
Two British projects for you today, starting with a trailer for two part series MAYFLIES which will air on BBC during the holidays, December 28th! The adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's acclaimed novel sees a friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully (Tony Curran) has the worst kind of news. He has cancer and he makes a request that tests his and James' (Martin Compston) friendship to the limit. After sharing his devastating news, Tully asks his old pal for help ending his own life, yet James isn’t comfortable keeping their plan a secret from Tully’s partner Anna (Ashley Jensen).
1ST ALLELUJAH TRAILER
WITH JUDI DENCH, DEREK JACOBI AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS
A delight coming from Pate Films today is the first trailer from ALLELUJAH movie starring Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Russell Tovey, Jennifer Saunders, David Bradley and Julia McKenzie. The
film is out March 17th, at the anniversary of British NHS.
WHEN THE GERIATRIC WARD
of a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with
closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local
community. They invite a
news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the
hospital’s most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong? ALLELUJAH celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of
the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing
demand. But in the midst of the tears and the laughter, we slowly
realise that there is something threatening the hospital that is far
more lethal than the politicians demanding efficiency at any cost…
While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE
The first part is out next April in cinemas
THREE MUSKE- TEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has released the magnificent first trailer to wet our appetites! Beside that, together with Disney Plus they are also making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a
few years ago. To be shot in French, the series will build on the experience
gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga
based on Alexandre Dumas' work. First film is, meanwhile, out April 5th, the second December 13th!
3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN will follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon,
who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his
attackers. He is unaware that
First movie will hit cinemas next April
his quest will lead him to the heart of a
real war where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos
(Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three
musketeers of the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity,
D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu
(Eric Ruf). But it is when he falls madly in love with Constance
Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicky Krieps) confidante, that
d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
PREPARING MILADY ORIGINS AND BLACK MUSKETEER SHOWS
First movie will hit cinemas next April
While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE THREE MUSKETEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has teamed up with Disney Plus in making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a few years ago. As Variety reports, both “Milady Origins” and “Black Musketeer,” which will shoot in French, will build on the experience gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga based on Alexandre Dumas' work.
Two movie saga has a $80 million production budget
Judith Havas and Simon Jablonka are co-creating “Milady Origins” while Thomas Mansuy and Mathieu Leblanc are co-creating “Black Musketeer”!
3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN will,
meanwhile, follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon,
who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being
The movies will be followed by two spin off TV series
kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his
attackers. He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a
real war
Vicki Krieps plays French queen Anne in the movies
where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos
(Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three
musketeers of
First look at Eva Green as Milady da Winter in the movie saga
the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity,
D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu
(Eric Ruf). But it is when he
Vincent Cassel's Athos and Milady in one of the scenes of the movie
falls madly in love with Constance
Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicki Krieps) confidante, that
d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that
leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady
de Winter (Eva Green).
Pathe Films has released a trailer for a new sequel in the ASTERIX AND OBELIX franchise, this time titled THE MIDDLE KINGDOM and arriving to cinemas next February with Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche,Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel in the lead roles. It’s the year 50 BC.
The Middle Kingdom arrives next February
The
Empress of China has just been imprisoned following a coup d’état
incited by Deng Tsin Qin, a traitorous prince. Helped by Finalthesis,
the Phoenician merchant, and her faithful bodyguard Mai Wei, the
Empress’ only daughter Princess Sass-Yi flees to Gaul to ask for help
from two valiant warriors Asterix and Obelix, who are endowed with
superhuman strength thanks to their magic potion. Our two inseparable
heroes gladly accept to help the Princess save her mother and free her
country. And thus begins a great voyage and adventure on the road to
China. But Caesar and his powerful army, thirsty for a new conquest, are
also heading toward the Middle Kingdom. You can even catch Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the trailer!
COLOURS OF FIRE
FRENCH MOVIE TRAILER
Continuing our international streak from yesterday, today we move from Scandinavia to France where a trailer for COLOURS OF FIRE period set
The movie is out this November in France
movie awaits. Out November 9th, Couleurs de l'incendie stars Lea Drucker, Fanny Ardant, in the movie based on a novel by Pierre Lemaitre!
In February 1927, the funeral of the wealthy banker Marcel
Péricourt was held, which all of Paris attended. His daughter
Madeleine is the only heiress, after the suicide of her brother Édouard
Péricourt a few years earlier. Fate will befall her when her son Paul is
seriously injured and becomes disabled. Without her ex-husband to
support her, Madeleine will have to take over her father's business on
her own. She receives advice from her uncle, the unscrupulous Charles
Péricourt. Madeleine will have to face many obstacles, the adversity of
men, greed, jealousy and corruption in a France and a Europe where
totalitarianism is rising.
Pathe Films has released a poster for a new sequel in the ASTERIX AND OBELIX franchise, this time titled THE MIDDLE KINGDOM and arriving to cinemas next February with Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche,Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel in the lead roles. It’s the year 50 BC.
The Middle Kingdom arrives next February
The Empress of China has just been imprisoned following a coup d’état incited by Deng Tsin Qin, a traitorous prince. Helped by Finalthesis, the Phoenician merchant, and her faithful bodyguard Mai Wei, the Empress’ only daughter Princess Sass-Yi flees to Gaul to ask for help from two valiant warriors Asterix and Obelix, who are endowed with superhuman strength thanks to their magic potion. Our two inseparable heroes gladly accept to help the Princess save her mother and free her country. And thus begins a great voyage and adventure on the road to China. But Caesar and his powerful army, thirsty for a new conquest, are also heading toward the Middle Kingdom.
HUI BUH & WITCH'S CASTLE
MOVIE SEQUEL FROM GERMANY
Speaking of family movies, over in Germany we have a delightful trailer for HUI BUH AND THE WITCH'S CASTLE (Hui Buh und das Hexenschloss) which arrives to cinemas as a sequel to their 2006 movie hit. 14 years have passed since King Julius moved in with Hui Buh at Burgeck Castle.
Hui Buh sequel arrives this November
While Huibuh still suffers greatly from being a laughing stock as a ghost and thus getting on Julius' nerves, he has been going through a hard time since Konstan- zia left him. The yawning emptiness of the castle's treasury slowly but surely becomes unmistakable and contributes to the eternal arguing between the two. Suddenly the little witch Ophelia is at the door and asks her uncle HuiBuh for help. She tells Julius and HuiBuh about her escape from the evil witch Erla, who kidnapped her mother, in search of the Necrominicon, the most powerful magic book in the world. Now she's after Ophelia. HuiBuh sees a unique opportunity to finally get creepy! The book's fabled spells could make his dream of finally being creepy come true.
Two family friendly movies for you today, first one coming from France. KING follows Ines, a little girl, who takes in an escaped lion cub, King. Accompanied by her brother, their grandfather, and with the unexpected help of Louise, her stepmother whose presence she has never accepted, Inès sets off
King arrives to French cinemas February 16th
on a mad race to a port in the Mediterranean. Her goal: to bring King home to Africa. But that's without counting on the director of customs, determined to get his hands on the animal. The film, coming from Pathe and David Moreau, is out in France mid February and then in 15 other countries around Europe too.
THE KING'S DAUGHTER
FINALLY COMING TO CINEMAS
This one has, meanwhile, been in works since 2015 and is now finally coming out January 21st. THE KING'S DAUGHTER sees Pierce Brosnan portraying
The film is out this January finally
the Sun King Louis XIV alongside Kaya Scodelario, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Pablo Schreiber, Rachel Griffiths and Fan Bingbing with Julie Andrews as narrator! The film imagines a quest for immortality by the megalomaniacal king, whose reign
spanned the 17th and 18th centuries, as he captures and steals a mermaid’s life force.
Matters are further complicated when the king’s illegitimate daughter discovers the mythological creature. Scodelario and
Benjamin Walker met at the shooting of this movie and later on got
married. Chinese star Fan Bingbing plays the mermaid.
Most glorious of news, people! Our favourite movie studio Pathe is launching its TV branch and has already set ambitious first projects. To be headed by Aude Albano who gave us Versailles, their first series will mostly
Pathe will hire famous directors for these shows
include large scale period drama revolving around iconic French figures, as Variety reports. Jean François Richet is already preparing for them a series on NAPOLEON, the first episode has apparently already been written with the help of Thierry Lentz, who heads the Napoleon Foundation in Paris and has written several books about him. Meanwhile, Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere (who are also behind Pathé’ $73 million two part movie adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel The Three Musketeers) are creating THE BLACK MUSKETEER series inspired by the epic true story of the first Black Musketeer in French history, Louis Aniaba. The show will follow the adventures of this lesser known, yet truly heroic character who will be also be portrayed in the two-part film adaptation with Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris and Eva Green. Next two years Pathe plans to produce several upscale series of high quality.
SETTLERS SF TRAILER
WITH JONNY LEE MILLER
First, rather dynamic trailer has been released for science fiction thriller SETTLERS out in theatres in video on demand from July 23rd
Settlers are out this July!
following mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier who do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and one another. The story is set on a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, following a refugee family from Earth that clings to hope for a better life. When strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine year old Remmy (Brooklynn Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Sofia Boutella) and father (Jonny Lee Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her. Wyatt Rockeller's first movie, shot in South Africa, also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova as the main villain. Check out the revealing trailer below and tell us what you think.
We've followed the production on this one for years (it was originally pitched in 1997!) and now it is finally arriving to cinemas later this August, so Pathe has released first, rather gorgeous, trailer for their EIFFEL movie starring Romain Duris, Emma Mackey and our dear Pierre Deladon champs. Scheduled for August 25th release and directed by Martin Bourboulon, the film's storyline takes its cue from Eiffel's search for inspiration as he comes under pressure to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris
The love story in the film is based on reality
World Fair.
THE STORY OF EIFFEL
Having
just finished his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty, celebrated
engineer Gustave Eiffel is on top of the world.
Now, the French government is pressuring him to design something
spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to
design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses
paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their long lost, forbidden
passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever.
You will never look at the Eiffel Tower the same way again!
GAULLE: TILTING IRON out June 10th and “De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge” out July 3rd. The two films follow Charles De Gaulle's life and political
GAULLE: TILTING IRON out June 10th and “De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge” out July 3rd. The two films follow Charles De Gaulle's life and political
