Movie maker Thomas Napper has started production on his new period set heist movie THE MAN WHO STOLE PORTUGAL and has set Dominic West and Richard E. Grant as cast members with James Nelson Joyce as Alves Reis, a self-made outsider with a genius for turning a closed door into an opportunity. Shut out and underestimated, Reis is determined to give his wife Maria, played by Emily Fairn, and their family the life they deserve, and, hustle by hustle, he begins to invent his way upwards. From forged credentials to official contracts, his journey in the 1920s takes him via colonial backwaters all the way to the boardrooms of the Bank of Portugal – until his greatest bluff becomes one of the greatest cons in history. Joel Fry, Kim Bodnia also star.
BBC has released the first trailer for new ten part period drama THE OTHER BENNET SISTER based on Janice Hadlow’s novel. In the UK the series will air two episodes a week each Sunday from 15th of March while BritBox will premiere the series exclusively in the US and Canada a bit later on to be precise - on the 6th of May.
THIS NEW COSTUME TV SERIES
reimagines the world of Pride and Prejudice through the eyes of Mary Bennet - the oft-overlooked middle sister - bringing a fresh perspective to Jane Austen’s iconic story as Mary steps out of the shadows and into her own life. StarringElla Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet, the series begins at Longbourn, where the Bennet family’s five unmarried daughters navigate the rigid expectations of Regency society. Her journey sees her leave her family home for the soirées of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District, all in search of independence, self-love, and reinvention. We follow Mary as she steps out of her sisters’ shadows in search of her own identity and purpose, finding herself in the middle of an epic love story along the way. Iconic settings from Pride and Prejudice include the Meryton Assembly Ball and the Netherfield Ball, where fortunes and futures are decided under glittering chandeliers. Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jones play her parents, with Indira Varma andRichard Coyle set as Mr and Mrs Gardiner, Mary’s worldly aunt and uncle. The Gardiners take Mary under
their wing as governess to their three children, Marianne (Roisin Bhalla), George (Reggie Absolom), and Rebecca (Jasmine Sharp), introducing her to a new social world that includes Mr Hayward (Donal Finn), Mr Ryder (Laurie Davidson), and Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu). See the new trailer below:
Afterthe first images released back in December last year, BBC and BritBox have released some new images for their THE OTHER BENNET SISTER which tells the story of Mary Bennet, played by Ella Bruccoleri, the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jonesplay her parents, with Indira Varma and Richard Coyle set as Mr and Mrs Gardiner, Mary’s worldly aunt and uncle. The Gardiners take Mary under
their wing as governess to their three children, Marianne (Roisin Bhalla), George (Reggie Absolom), and Rebecca (Jasmine Sharp), introducing her to a new social world that includes Mr Hayward (Donal Finn), Mr Ryder (Laurie Davidson), and Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu). It will have ten half hour episodes and will air sometime in March this year onBBC One in United Kingdom and on BritBox over in Northern America. You can also check out the early teaser trailer that was released a month ago.
BBC and BritBox have released first images for their THE OTHER BENNET SISTER which tells the story of Mary Bennet, played by Ella Bruccoleri, the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jonesplay her parents, with Indira Varma and Richard Coyle set as Mr and Mrs Gardiner, Mary’s worldly aunt and uncle. The Gardiners take Mary under
their wing as governess to their three children, Marianne (Roisin Bhalla), George (Reggie Absolom), and Rebecca (Jasmine Sharp), introducing her to a new social world that includes Mr Hayward (Donal Finn), Mr Ryder (Laurie Davidson), and Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu). It will have ten half hour episodes.
As ScreenDaily reports, Alex Marx has finished shooting his Isabella Blow biopic THE QUEEN OF FASHION with Andrea Riseborough in the lead role in the film about the extraordinary life of London-born Blow, known as a visionary fashion editor, muse, and unstoppable force who shaped the fashion industry, surrounded by a constellation of era-defining artists, designers and creatives. Dane DeHaan stars as Blow’s husband, Joe Cole as designer Alexander Lee McQueen. Michelle Dockery is British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman, Emily Beecham is Isabella’s best friend Lucy Birley.Stacy Martin is designer Daphne Guinness, and Ncuti Gatwa fashion designer at Tatler magazine, Michael Roberts. Miranda Richardson and Richard E Grant play Blow’s parents, while Fionn O’Shea and Sebastian De Souza play couture hat designer Philip Treacy and his partner. Vincent Perez also stars.
Itis quite a stellar cast that writer and director James Vanderbilt has gathered for his World War II trials movie drama NUREMBERG. Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, LeoWoodall, John Slattery, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek, Colin Hanks, Mark O'Brien and Andreas Pietschmann all star in the film out this November and you can check out below the first teaser trailer. Crowe plays Nazi Hermann Göring, O’Brien will play Colonel John Amen, one of the chief interrogators at the trial, while Hanks will play Dr. Gustav Gilbert, a military psychiatrist assigned to evaluate the Nazis in the film that chronicles the eponymous trials held between 1945 and 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. The film will have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival this year.
After hiring Ella Bruccoleri as the lead, BBC and BritBox continue casting for their THE OTHER BENNET SISTER which tells the story of Mary Bennet, the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jones will play her parents, with Indira Varma and Richard Coyle set as Mr and
Richard Coyle, Laurie Davidson, Donal Finn have join the cast
Mrs Gardiner, Mary’s worldly aunt and uncle. The Gardiners take Mary under their wing as governess to their three children, Marianne (Roisin Bhalla), George (Reggie Absolom), and Rebecca (Jasmine Sharp), introducing her to a new social world that includes Mr Hayward (Donal Finn), Mr Ryder (Laurie Davidson), and Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu).
Although Disney
cancelled it even after it was shot and produced because they decided
to take some new course in their programming, whatever that may be, epic
mini series NAUTILUS based on Jules Verne's famous adventure novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has found its home over at Prime Video and is now getting a streaming date: the submarine will start its voyage October 25th at least in United Kingdom and Ireland and you can see the official trailer below. In United States it found its new home over at AMC but they are yet to announced the launch date there. Back in June it already started on SVT Play in Sweden and on France TV two months later. It will also stream on Stan in Australia.
NAUTILUS EPIC SEA ADVENTURE
tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: it follows an Indian Prince robbed
of his birthright and family joining him as he steals a formidable
prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a ragtag
crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India
Mercantile Company. With Shazad Latif in the lead role of the ten
episode series, the regular cast also includes Georgia Flood, Thierry
Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E
Grant, Anna Torv, Benedict Hardie, Jacob Collins Levy, Luke Arnold and
Noah Taylor.
Although Disney cancelled it even after it was shot and produced because they decided to take some new course in their programming, whatever that may be, epic mini series NAUTILUS based on Jules Verne's famous adventure novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has found its home over at Prime Video and is now getting a streaming date: the submarine will start its voyage October 25th at least in United Kingdom and Ireland. In United States it found its new home over at AMC but they are yet to announced the launch date there. Back in June it already started on SVT Play in Sweden and on France TV two months later.
The series will stream in ten episodes
NAUTILUS
tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: it follows an Indian Prince robbed
of his birthright and family joining him as he steals a formidable
prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a ragtag
crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India
Mercantile Company. With Shazad Latif in the lead role of the ten
episode series, the regular cast also includes Georgia Flood, Thierry
Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E
Grant, Anna Torv, Benedict Hardie, Jacob Collins Levy, Luke Arnold and
Noah Taylor.
ADS COLIN HANKS, RUSSELL CROWE, RAMI MALEK, MICHAEL SHANNON, RICHARD E.GRANT
It is quite a stellar cast that writer and director James Vanderbilt has gathered for his World War II trials movie drama NUREMBERG. Colin Hanks and Mark O'Brien are the latest to join the cast that already has Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann.
O’Brien will play Colonel John Amen, one of the chief interrogators at the trial, while Hanks will play Dr. Gustav Gilbert, a military psychiatrist assigned to evaluate the Nazis in the film that chronicles the eponymous trials held between 1945 and 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime.
First up today, an image from Peter Glantz directed movie SAVAGE HOUSE set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – it is a darkly satirical story of Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant) and Lady Savage (Claire Foy) and their blindpursuit of a better life. It is not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed. Filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed, this is a madcap play on class and power. Bel Powley, Jack Farthing, Pip Torrens also star.
POST WW2 SET MY PLACE IS HERE
Meanwhile,
from Italy comes Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone directed MY PLACE
IS HERE set in the aftermath of WWII against the conservative backdrop
of Southern Italy, just as Italian women have gained the right to vote.
When single mother Marta (Ludovica Martino) accepts the proposal of an
older farmer, she meets Lorenzo, the village’s openly gay wedding
planner (Marco Leonardi) and forges an unlikely friendship with him.
Lorenzo introduces her to a hidden community of gays, sparking Marta to
challenge societal prejudices.
After South America yesterday, we are flying today over to Swiss Alps where we have a series pitch that will also be presented at Conecta Fiction and
Lindsay Shapero is writing and producing
Entertainment festival in Spain - WINTER PALACE from Swiss Radio and Television and Lindsay Shapero. The Swiss Alps, 1899. André Morel, an ambitious Swiss hotelier, has a daring vision:
a five star hotel that will stay open throughout the winter season. It’s never been
done before. Can his risky idea survive extreme weather, untrained staff and
demanding guests? This eight part series, inspired by real events, depicts the
birth of White Winter holidays. It combines a lavish period drama with compelling,
character driven stories full of hidden desires, ambition and love, alongside ashes
of modern music for a contemporary twist. Shapero previously wrote Judi Dench's Red Joan.
PERSUASION TRAILER
FOR A NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION
Netflix has finally released a trailer for the latest movie adaptation of Jane Austen's PERSUASION which will arrive to the streamer July 15th with the cast led by Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Henry Golding. The family of nonconforming Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson) is on the brink of bankruptcy. After seven years of separation, Anne meets captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), with whom she once broke her engagement. Now our protagonists have a chance to reconcile. The film will also star Henry Golding who plays the Elliot family's relative and Anne's father's (RichardE. Grant) heir, Sir Walter. Check out the colourwashed trailer below and tell us what you think, are you ready for a woke Jane Austen?
Disney's epic adventure series based on Jules Verne's work NAUTILUS, which already has Shazad Latif as captain Nemo has just added Richard E. Grant, Muki Zubis, Benedict Hardie, Jacob Collins
Benedict Hardie, Richard E. Grant, Jacob Collins Levy, Luke Arnold
Levy and Luke Arnold. The series that is now shooting down in Australia, will follow Indian prince Captain Nemo and his steampunk submarine on marital adventures. Grant will guest star as the leader of Karajaan, a port town Nemo and his crew encounter on their adventures.
GANDHI TV SERIES
CASTS GANDHI AS GANDHI
Speaking of exotic lands, Applause Entertainment is adapting Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi Before India and Gandhi – The Years that Changed the World
It will be a huge project over in India
into a TV series covering everything from GANDHI’s earliest days and his actions as a lawyer in South Africa to the independence struggle in India, telling the lesser known stories of his life that played an important role in shaping him into a Mahatma. It will also tell the stories of all his compatriots and contemporaries of the freedom movement, who played integral parts in shaping what became free and modern India. Pratik Gandhi, the surname is coincidental, will star as Gandhi, who rose from a campaigning lawyer to lead India to independence from the British Empire before his tragic assassination in 1947. Sameer Nair, pictured in the photo with Pratik and Guha, will produce.
THE GOOD NEIGHBOR TRAILER
FEAR WHAT'S NEXT DOOR
The Good Neighbor is out this year
And here is a rather dynamic trailer for thriller movie THE GOOD NEIGHBOR in which a budding friendship takes a tragic flip when one of them runs over a younger lady. A nightmarish night unfolds for neighbors David (Luke Kleintank) and Robert (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) once they by chance hit a girl on her bike and flee the scene. Whereas David is more and more affected by emotions of guilt, Robert exhibits no regret and turns into overbearing and possessive.
When David meets Vanessa (Eloise Smyth), the sufferer’s sister, he submits to a reckless ardour and underlying sense of redemption earlier than realising Robert will do unspeakable issues to guard their secret…
Done over at Showtime, it will be based on a novel by Thomas Mallon. FELLOW TRAVELERS will be an eight part love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Bomer will play handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements, until he meets Tim Laughlin, a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.
JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION
GETS NETFLIX STREAM DATE
Netflix has finally announced that July 15th will be the launch date for their new movie adaptation of Jane Austen's PERSUASION and they've celebrated that with a couple of new photos from the costume drama starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, Cosmo Jarvis as Captain Wentworth and Henry Golding as Mr Elliot, with Richard E. Grant also in the cast.Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she let get away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances! PERSUASION was the last novel that Austen managed to finish before she kicked the bucket. If you remember, Sanditon, airing currently in its second season on PBS Masterpiece with not much success, is based on an Austen book which she did not managed to finish.
NIGHT SKY SERIES TRAILER
PORTAL TO ANOTHER WORLD
The series starts May 20th on Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video has published first trailer for their new eight part series NIGHT SKY which starts May 20th and, spanning space and time, follows Irene and Franklin (J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber that leads inexplicably to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man (Chai Hansen) enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence quickly is upended — and the chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could have imagined.
determined to give his wife Maria, played by Emily Fairn, and their family the life they deserve, and, hustle by hustle, he begins to invent his way upwards. From forged credentials to official contracts, his journey in the 1920s takes him via colonial backwaters all the way to the boardrooms of the Bank of Portugal – until his greatest bluff becomes one of the greatest cons in history. Joel Fry, Kim Bodnia also star.
determined to give his wife Maria, played by Emily Fairn, and their family the life they deserve, and, hustle by hustle, he begins to invent his way upwards. From forged credentials to official contracts, his journey in the 1920s takes him via colonial backwaters all the way to the boardrooms of the Bank of Portugal – until his greatest bluff becomes one of the greatest cons in history. Joel Fry, Kim Bodnia also star.
