To be both written and directed by Henry Dunham who will start shooting this Autumn, World War II action movie PERDITION is set to star our dearest boys Sam Claflin and Rupert Friend! As Deadline reports, the movie is set in Belgium in late 1944. Claflin, whom we will also watch as Count Monte Cristo later this year, plays a lone American soldier who survives a POW camp execution. Friend stars as a ruthless Nazi officer who becomes obsessed with hunting him down.
After his brilliant role this year in Anatomy of a Scandal, handsome Rupert Friend will play Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache in THE YELLOW TIE movie
Rupert Friend will play the younger conductor
with John Malkovich. In a film helmed by the conductor's son, the two of them will play younger and older Celibidache whose incredible life was unknown to many of those who worshipped his music.
After telling his father he planned to pursue a career in music, he was
kicked out of home and experienced homelessness. Travelling to Berlin to
pursue his dream he encountered discrimination and prejudice but after
surviving World War II he beat the odds to win a competition that saw
him become the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s youngest ever conductor.
He went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most iconic
conductors. His unorthodox approach to music as well as his politics
made him a contentious figure in his home country and throughout the
classical music world.
THE PERIPHERAL TRAILER
FOR AMAZON'S NEW SERIES
The series arrives to Prime Video October 21st
We also have a teaser for Amazon Prime Video's new sf series THE PERIPHERAL which arrives October 21st! Chloe Moretz is Flynne Fisher who lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. When she puts on a headset one night, she suddenly finds herself in a future London, a city that is alluringly different from her own hardscrabble life and is elegant and intriguing.
She starts to understand that this isn’t a virtual reality game; rather, it’s reality, and it’s unlike any game she’s ever played. Seventy years in the future, someone in London has managed to unlock a portal to Flynne’s realm. London is hazardous in addition to being tremendously alluring. Her presence here unleashes evil forces out to eliminate Flynne and her family in her home world as she investigates who linked both worlds and for what reason. Jack Reynor also star.
While you are enjoying his hot self in Bridgerton, hotness personified Jonathan Bailey will star in MARIA, a young woman (Felicity Jones) with a history of running from reality. Struggling to accept her age, her boyfriend’s (Bailey) love and her father’s (Jason Isaacs) indifference, Maria spots an opportunity to feel young, free and desirable at her father’s wedding, where she meets Raffy, her new stepbrother. Their obvious, if inconvenient, sexual chemistry is made worse by the news that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
UNCOUPLED TRAILER
WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
Netflix has released a funny trailer for their new comedy series UNCOUPLED starting July 29h! This eight part comedy follows Neil Patrick Harris as newly single Michael, who thought his life was perfect until his husband, hedge-fund manager Colin, blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront two nightmares: losing what he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City. Check out the trailer below:
NEW OBI-WAN KENOBI TRAILER
AND A STUNNING POSTER
Obi Wan Kenobi arrives later this month
Disney Plus has, meanwhile, released a new trailer and poster for Ewan McGregor's OBI-WAN KENOBI sf series which hits the streamer May 27th with six episodes. The story in the series begins 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. With Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the Jedi Master, Hayden Christensen returns in the role of Darth Vader. Joel Edgerton and Rupert Friend are also in the cast.
I've said it before and I will say it again, Zack Snyder's new sf Netflix movie REBEL MOON is going to have the hunkiest of casts: Michiel Huisman and Cary Elwes, together with Alfonso Herrera and Corey Stoll, have joined previously announced Stuart Martin, Rupert Friend, Charlie Hunnam and Djimon Hounsou, in an epic story that follows a peaceful
colony on the edge of the galaxy that is threatened by the armies of a
tyrannical regent
Alfonso Herrera and Cary Elwes have also joined the cast
named Belisarius. Desperate, the colonists dispatch a
young woman (Sofia Boutella) with a mysterious past to seek out
warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand. Friend will
play the man who leads the armies against her, while Martin will also
play a baddie. Elwes is the galactic emperor.
UNPLUGGING TRAILER
A FAMILY DIGITAL DETOX
Here's the first trailer for a new comedy movie coming up sometime this year titled UNPLUGGING. Think a rustic getaway with no cell service,
Unplugging will arrive sometime this year
Internet or social media is a romantic way to repair your marriage and sex life? Think again. Meet Dan (Matt Walsh) and Jeanine Dewerson (Eva Longoria). The only spark in their bedroom is from the wall socket. Their daughter's best friend is her iPad. Dan's not going to take it anymore and plans a quiet, relaxing weekend in a remote mountain town. No kids, no phones, no social media, only clean fresh air and lots of romance. But what starts as the perfect weekend quickly becomes disastrous with unearthly encounters, strong edibles, cranky locals, and a pesky one-eyed dog. Without GPS to guide them or social media to stave off their boredom, Dan and Jeanine are forced to reconnect with each other. Can a "digital detox" really save their marriage and their sanity?
Based on a Sarah Perry's book, Apple TV's six part mini series ESSEX SERPENT will arrive May 13th. The story will see Claire Danes playing London widow Cora Seaborne as she moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the hot village vicar Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature! The cast of the mini series also includes Frank Dillane, Hayley Squires, Clémence Poésy, Jamael Westman, Dixie Egerickx and Michael Jibson.
NEWLY WIDOWED CORA
(Claire Danes) arrives at the small village of
Aldwinter in Essex, ready for a fresh start after her husband's death
released her from an abusive marriage. She soon becomes intrigued by a local superstition about a mythical
creature known as the Essex Serpent that has allegedly returned to the
area.
Meanwhile, trusted community leader Will Ransom (Tom Hiddleston) has to
deal with the mysterious rumours as they begin to spread.
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
TV SERIES TRAILER IS HERE
Anatomy of a Scandal arrives this April
Netflix has released a trailer for their new mini TV series ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL which will stream from April 15th!
A psychological thriller and gripping courtroom drama, the series infiltrates Britain's elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth lies between justice and privilege. James (Rupert Friend) and Sophie (Sienna Miller) Whitehouse live in a blissful and rarified world. A Minister in Parliament, a loving family at home, James' trajectory appears without limits. Until a scandalous secret suddenly comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft (Michelle Dockery) has a trajectory of her own, and her prosecution threatens to tear into Westminster, the Whitehouse marriage, and her own personal esteem. Check out the trailer below:
I've recently shown you first concept art and casting for Zack Snyder's new sf Netflix movie REBEL MOON and now the cast will also have our dearest Stuart Martin and Rupert Friend as well. The epic story, which will also feature Charlie Hunnam and Djimon Hounsou, follows a
Stuart Martin and Rupert Friend will start shooting in April
peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Belisarius. Desperate, the colonists dispatch a young woman (Sofia Boutella) with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand. Friend will play the man who leads the armies against her, while Martin will also play a baddie.
JULIA SERIES TRAILER
COMING THIS MONTH TO HBO
HBO has released a trailer for the long awaited mini series JULIA that arrives March 31st with Sarah Lancashire playing the famous cook Julia Child
Julia arrives to HBO Max this month
who pioneered the popular cooking show genre. Through Julia and her singular can-do spirit, the series explores an evolving time in American history: the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural growth. At its heart, the series is a portrait of a loving marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic! David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Brittany Bradford, Fran Kranz, Isabella Rossellini, Judith Light, Robert Joy, Erin Neufer, Jefferson Mays, James Cromwell and Adriane Lenox all star as well.
THE ROSE MAKER TRAILER
EVERY GARDEN BLOOMS IN ITS
Rose Maker is out this April in USA
OWN SEASON
And if you are in the mood for some French delicacy, here is a trailer for their comedy movie THE ROSE MAKER which will have its Northern American release April 1st! Coming from Pierre Pinaud, it sees Catherine Frot playing Eve who is one of France's greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts without any gardening skills, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy. The film already played last yer in most European cinemas.
First photos have arrived today from two new British series coming up this year. ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL will stream on Netflix from April 15th starring Rupert Friend and Sienna Miller in a six part small screen adaptation of Sarah Vaughn's best selling novel.
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
infiltrates
Britain’s elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth
lies between justice and privilege! Friend and Miller play James and
Anatomy of a Scandal will stream April 15th on Netflix
Sophie Whitehouse, who live in a blissful and rarefied world. He’s a
Minister in Parliament with a loving family at home, but then a
scandalous secret
Rupert Friend plays a minister in British parliament
comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft (Michelle
Dockery) is on her own path, and her prosecution threatens to tear into
Westminster, the Whitehouse
Michell Dockery is a barrister in the new Netflix series
marriage, and her own personal esteem.
Famous television series creator and producer David E. Kelley is executive producing the series.
OUR HOUSE TV SERIES
FIRST LOOK AT ITV THRILLER
ITV has also published first photos from their own new thriller series OUR HOUSE and edge of your seat thriller that will air this year on the British channel starring Martin Compston who is joined in the cast by Tuppence
The series will arrive sometime this year to ITV and ITV Hub
Middleton. The two of them play estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson while Rupert Penry-Jones takes the role of enigmatic Toby.
Also
Martin Compston takes the male lead in the series
joining the cast are Weruche Opia as Fi’s best friend and neighbour Merle, and Buket Komur as the mysterious and alluring Wendy.
The four part drama is adapted from the international best-selling novel in which Fiona
Rupert Penry Jones also stars in the thriller series
Lawson arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house. With all her family’s possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes
Tuppence Middleton takes the female lead in the new series
there’s been a huge mistake and insists her home isn’t for sale. With events spiralling beyond her control, her panic rises as she can’t reach her estranged husband, Bram. As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her
The series is based on a book by Louis Candlish
family had made a life together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her husband has disappeared. With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun. Intertwining
The new thriller series will air in four episodes
the present day with flashback scenes of Fiona and Bram’s life together, their separation and their new relationships with Toby and Wendy, OUR HOUSE gradually unravels unexpected secrets and shocking revelations, culminating in a nail-biting finale.
CHLOE BBC TV SERIES
WATCH THE FIRST TRAILER
Rival BBC has, meanwhile, released first photos from their new six part psychological thriller series CHLOE which starts this Sunday on BBC One. Becky (Erin Doherty), still living with her mum and working as a temp,
Four part thriller series Chloe starts this Sunday
compares herself to the picture-perfect lives on Instagram, compulsively returning to one account: Chloe’s (Poppy Gilbert). Becky obsessively
Erin Doherty takes the lead role of Becky
watches her seemingly flawless life through social media. But when Chloe dies suddenly, Becky’s need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and engineer a ‘chance’ meeting with Chloe’s best friend, Livia,
Poppy Gilbert is Chloe in the series
and infiltrate Chloe's group of close-knit friends.
Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected
Billy Howle also stars in the new BBC One series
‘someone’ with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the ‘no-one’ she is as Becky. However, the pretence soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely in the game she is playing.
The first season was a rather big hit for PBS Masterpiece, with more than eight million people tuning in to watch MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE
A+E has opted out of the production
historical adventure series, and now it has been confirmed that it will return for the second run but without A + E Network who originally launched it. The series will return next year only to PBS. Kate Phillips starred in the six episode series as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless so she takes over his business – a private detective agency. To operate in the business better she joins Detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, played by our dearest Stuart Martin, who is also known as “The Duke;” drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
OBI WAN KENOBI SERIES
ANNOUNCES DISNEY + CAST
Disney + has announced cast for their new Star Wars TV series OBI WAN KENOBI which will be led by Ewan McGregor, who will now be joined by Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse as uncle Owen and his wife Beru with whom a baby Luke Skywalker is left after Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side and becomes
Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend will star
Darth Vader! The cast will also have Rupert Friend, Indira Varma, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie. The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor, faced his greatest defeat, the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. Production starts next month.
RUPERT FRIEND & SIENNA MILLER CAST IN NETFLIX SERIES
I'm a bit late with this one, but Netflix has announced lead cast for their TV series adaptation of Sarah Vaughan's novel ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL from David E. Kelley. British actors Rupert Friend, Sienna Miller and Michelle Dockery will topline the six part series!
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL tells the story of a scandal among the British
privileged elite following a high-flying Westminster politician whose
marriage unravels when he is accused of rape. Sophie is sure her husband
is innocent, while prosecutor Kate is equally convinced he is guilty.
Rupert Friend will play James Whitehouse, the ambitious and charismatic
junior
minister who has always shared his wife’s good fortune — until now.
Sienna Miller will play Sophie Whitehouse, the Oxford graduate, a wife
and a mother of two whose perfectly charmed life
Sienna Miller will play the wife in new Netflix series
is about to implode.
Dockery will be Kate Woodcroft, QC, the steely criminal barrister
specializing in prosecuting sexual crimes who’s risen quickly in her
field, and just got handed the case of a lifetime.
THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT
TRAILER FOR NETFLIX SERIES
Queen's Gambit starts October 23rd
Speaking of Netflix, they've just released a trailer for a series that is coming as soon as October 23rd! THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT starring Thomas Brodie Sangster and Anya Taylor Joy in their new seven episode story.
Eight year old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.
After Macbeth and Assassins Creed, director Justin Kurzel is moving to another historical period: this time he will helm World War 2 thriller RUIN and he has already signed Matthias Schoenaerts and Margot Robbie for the lead roles.
THE STORY OF RUINS Set in the ruins of post WWII Germany, the story follows a Holocaust
survivor (MargotRobbie takes the role originally meant for Gal Gadot)
who is forced to make an unlikely alliance with an ex-SS captain (Matthias Schoenaerts)
Margot Robbie replaces Gal Gadot in the lead female role
in her quest to exact revenge. Together, they
hunt down the surviving members of the captain’s former Nazi death
squad.
'AT ETERNITY'S GATE' TRAILER
WILLEM DAFOE IS VAN GOGH
The movie has premiered at Italian Mostra
Something from Venice Film Festival today, the first trailer and poster for Willem Dafoe's AT ETERNITY'S GATE which first hits Mostra and then cinemas in USA in November with him playing famous painter Vincent van Gogh at the time he was in Arles, directed by Julian Schnabel. The cast also includes Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Friend and Oscar Isaac. It is not an ordinary biopic, but a film that takes a journey into the mind of the artist who, despite scepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. It is a collection of scenes based on van Gogh’s letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are invented.
A brand new trailer and some new posters have been released for September 21st mystery thriller A SIMPLE FAVOUR starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick! The big screen adaptation of Darcey Bell best selling novel also stars Rupert Friend, Eric Johnson and Linda Cardellini.
A SIMPLE FAVOUR revolves around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy
vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's
(Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie is
joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller
filled with twists and
A Simple Favour is based on a Darcey Bell bestselling novel
betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and
loyalty, murder and revenge.The movie was previously also known as What
Happened to Emily?
'DOG DAYS' TRAILER
A COMEDY THAT'S OFF THE LEASH
A new trailer is also out for next month's delightful ensemble comedy DOG DAYS starring Nina Dobrev, Eva Longoria and Vanessa Hudgens! The
Dog Days are hitting UK, USA and Canadian cinemas August 10th
story of the movie follows a group of interconnected people in Los Angeles who are brought together by their lovable canine counterparts. Tone Bell also stars.
Something we've announced years ago might finally happen: as 'Deadline' reports Sony has acquired Robert Rodriguez project which would be a live action epic adventure version on Frank Frazetta's animated movie FIRE AND ICE! The plan is to turn it into a fantasy adventure franchise! In the original film, a small village is destroyed by a surging glacier domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. Sole survivor is a young warrior who vows vengeance, and when Nekron’s subhuman, apelike creatures kidnap a king’s daughter, the warrior becomes determined to track down and free her.
'TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS'
TRAILER WITH KAT DENNINGS, RUPERT FRIEND AND CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY
The only trailer I have for you today is for Kat Denning's drama TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS which should arrive into the cinemas next March based on the true story of a charity group dedicated to helping young people battle addiction and depression! In the story, which inspired the charity group of the same name, Dennings plays a teenager who suffers from addiction and substance abuse, as well as bipolar disorder. The cast also includes Chad Michael Murray, Rupert Friend and Corbin Bleu!
A few years ago we fell in love with the truly outstanding chemistry that the two of them had in brilliant epic drama THE YOUNG VICTORIA, where she was the queen of England and he was her German prince, and now two marvellous British thespians, Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend will star together again! And it will be his directorial debut, romantic drama BARTON & CHARLIE & CHECCO & BILL (yes, it might be advisable for him to change the title). Friend also wrote and will produce this story that follows a down on his luck con-artist who meets a woman who he offers to teach the tricks of his trade. She turns the tables on him and they embark on a road trip, along with a 10-year old Mexican boy, where they are pursued by a Confederate newspaper mogul, Bill.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
RAOUL BOVA JOINS SARAH JESSICA PARKER Speaking of romantic comedies, Sarah Jessica Parker's upcoming movie
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME has added Italian hunk Raoul Bova in the cast of
the film which has just been sold to a huge number of countries around
the world. The movie will see Sarah Jessica Parker playing Maggie,the
uptight woman on a road trip to Italy, who is chasing down her
rebellious teenage daughter (Rosie Day) who is trying to return to New
York, while the mother of Maggie’s lover (Italian legend Claudia Cardinale) has a
romantic pursuit of her own. Raoul Bova is playing Maggie's old Italian
fling who is helping her on her road trip.
MARGOT ROBBIE IN THE 1ST
'Z FOR ZACHARIAH' IMAGE! IS SHE HARLEY QUINN IN 'SUICIDE SQUAD' MOVIE?
First image has been released for sf movie Z FOR ZACHARIAH which comes out next year. Starring Margot Robbie, Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor, the movie will follow a woman (Robbie) who lives in the only habitable valley left after a nuclear war and whose solitude is interrupted when two strangers (Ejiofor and Pine) emerge from the woods. Speaking of mindblowingly stunning Margot Robbie, today's hottest movie rumour speculates that she might be up for the role of Harley Quinn, Joker's sidekick who was originally his psychiatrist, in DC's SUICIDE SQUAD movie which would revolve around some of DC's biggest villains. I've previously informed you that Will Smith and Tom Hardy are negotiating for the roles as well, while Jared Leto is said to be the top candidate for the role of Joker!
movie is set in Belgium in late 1944. Claflin, whom we will also watch as Count Monte Cristo later this year, plays a lone American soldier who survives a POW camp execution. Friend stars as a ruthless Nazi officer who becomes obsessed with hunting him down. 
movie is set in Belgium in late 1944. Claflin, whom we will also watch as Count Monte Cristo later this year, plays a lone American soldier who survives a POW camp execution. Friend stars as a ruthless Nazi officer who becomes obsessed with hunting him down. 
