PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PUSS IN BOOTS SEQUEL THE LAST WISH WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS, SALMA HAYEK, RAY WINSTONE, FLORENCE PUGH

  PUSS IN BOOTS II  

THE LAST WISH SEQUEL

Although this one was originally supposed to be released in 2018 and then this summer, PUSS IN BOOTS sequel THE LAST WISH will now paw

Puss returns December 21st!

its way into the cinemas around holidays, in the Christmas week to be more precise. It has been eleven years since Antonio Banderas first landed his voice to the smooth talking sword wielding feline bandit and now he is back in the voice cast together with Salma Hayek and Joel Crawford as the director. 

 

STORY OF PUSS IN BOOTS SEQUEL 

This winter, everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade, Dream Works Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots

The original film was released in 2011

discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet. Antonio Banderas returns as the voice of the notorious Puss as he embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost lives. But with only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner and nemesis: the captivating Kitty Soft Paws (Salma Hayek). In their quest, Puss and Kitty will be aided, against their better judgment, by a ratty, chatty, relentlessly cheerful mutt, Perro (Harvey Guillén). Together, our trio of  heroes will have to stay one step ahead of Goldilocks (Florence Pugh) and the Three Bears Crime Family led by Papa Bear (Ray Winstone), "Big" Jack  Horner (John Mulaney) and terrifying bounty hunter, The Big Bad Wolf (Wagner Moura). The producers wanted to make it more unique as a storybook than a comic. Using new technology, the team at DreamWorks focused more on a painterly style design, to make it feel like you’re in a fairy-tale world! The first half hour of the movie was shown earlier this week at Annecy International Animation Film Festival where the critics deemed it much darker than the original. It is interesting that Dream Works hasn't released an animated movie in December for more than twenty years!

SEE NATALIA OREIRO AS EVA PERON IN SANTA EVITA MINI TV SERIES TRAILER AND POSTER

    SANTA EVITA   

NEW TV SERIES FROM MEXICO

The series will air on Star+ muy pronto

Continuing our travel around the world, today we are in South America with seven episode mini series SANTA EVITA from Star+ canal produced by Salma Hayek. This is the postmortem story of Eva Perón (Natalia Oreiro) whose embalmed corpse endured a bumpy journey that lasted 22 years, as bumpy as her life had been. Evita died in 1952, but her body remain not buried for three years, waiting for the construction of a monumental burial site that was never built. In 1955, the military overthrew Perón and hid Evita's remains for 19 years to prevent it from becoming a weapon against the regime. A political figure for six years and the wife of General Perón, Evita's deceased body influenced Argentinian politics for more than two decades and became the center of a peculiar story and part of Argentinian folklore. For the military regime, dead Evita was even more dangerous than her being alive as she was beloved by the poor people and workers. They all feared her not buried corpse blindly wandering without a final resting place. This is the legend of the body that was never buried. The series will take part in Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Spain this June and will cross over to California July 26th.

DOLPH LUNDGREN JOINS JASON MOMOA, NICOLE KIDMAN AS KING NEREUS IN 'AQUAMAN'! 'BEATRIZ AT DINNER' TRAILER WITH SALMA HAYEK, JOHN LITHGOW! HUGO WEAVING JOINS PETER JACKSON'S 'MORTAL ENGINES'

 'AQUAMAN' CASTS

DOLPH LUNDGREN AS MIGHTY KING NEREUS OF XEBEL

There will be all kinds of underwater royals in DC's much anticipated AQUAMAN since Dolph Lundgren has just been cast as evil king Nereus of the underwater kingdom of Xebel who wants to thrown down Jason Momoa's AQUAMAN, the king of Atlantis, and take his wife queen Mera (Amber Heard) too! He also has the power of manipulating with water in all possible ways. The plot of the December 2017 movie is kept under wraps, but we know that Nicole Kidman will be AQUAMAN's mother queen Atlanna,  Willem Dafoe is Aquaman's scientific advisor Nuidis Vulko, Patrick Wilson will be his half brother Ocean Master Orm, while Yahya Abdul Mateen II has been cast as villain Black Manta!

HUGO WEAVING

JOINS 'MORTAL ENGINES'
Meanwhile, another epic project, Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of MORTAL ENGINES has cast Hugo Weaving reuniting them again after LOTR and Hobbit! I've reported previously that  Robbie Sheehan, Rohan Raftery, Hera Hilmar and Stephen Lang have already been cast in the leading roles. He might play historian Valentine who collects and preserves artefacts in a post apocalyptic world in which, many years after the "Sixty Minute War," cities survive a now desolate Earth by moving around on giant wheels attacking and devouring smaller towns to replenish their resources. Valentine is a historian in London which has four major guilds: the Historians, the Navigators who steer the course, the Merchants, who run the economy, and the Engineers, who keep the machines working in order for the city to survive.The movie will come exactly one year after Aquaman!

 'BEATRIZ AT DINNER' TRAILER

 SALMA HAYEK & JOHN LITHGOW

Today, you can enjoy a rather fun trailer for new comedy movie BEATRIZ AT DINNER which is out this June starring Salma Hayek, Chloe Sevigny and Jay Duplass alongside John Lithgow and Connie Britton! The story of the movie follows a holistic medicine practitioner who finds herself a fish out of water when her car breaks down at a wealthy client’s house and she joins a celebratory dinner party.

'VAN HELSING' SF SERIES TRAILER AND PHOTOS REVEALED! TONI COLLETTE, HARVEY KEITEL TO LEAD 'MADAME', SALMA HAYEK, CHLOE SEVIGNY, JOHN LITHGOW IN 'BEATRIZ AT DINNER'

 TONI COLLETTE JOINS 

HARVEY KEITEL IN 'MADAME'

Two dinner set movies today, for you, spylings, starting with Parisian comedy MADAME which has just cast our most beloved  Australian actress Toni Collette and her Australian colleague Harvey Keitel to play wealthy American couple Anne and Bob living in Paris who decide to give a high class dinner for a dozen distinguished diners. The last minute arrival of Bob’s son from his first marriage suddenly takes the number of guests to 13. The superstitious Anne asks housemaid Maria (Rossy de Palma) to change her uniform and pretend to be a wealthy Spanish friend. In this guise, she is seated beside David, an art expert and British aristocrat. He falls for her charms and asks to see her again. Continuing the masquerade, Maria embarks on a romance. Anne’s world is thrown into a spin as Maria’s new found happiness exposes her own loveless marriage and shakes the foundations of her elitist social beliefs. She sets out to destroy the budding love affair.

 'BEATRIZ AT DINNER' GETS

SALMA HAYEK, CHLOE SEVIGNY
Meanwhile, as 'Deadline' reports today, there will be fancy dindins over the ocean too in BEATRIZ AT DINNER  indie drama which has just added a few famous names to its cast: Salma Hayek, Chloe Sevigny and Jay Duplass are joining John Lithgow and Connie Britton! The story of the movie follows a holistic medicine practitioner who finds herself a fish out of water when her car breaks down at a wealthy client’s house and she joins a celebratory dinner party.

 'VAN HELSING' SF SERIES

UNLEASHES FIRST TRAILER

SyFy has finally revealed the first trailer and also first cast photos from their new science fiction series VAN HELSING and I'm not sure what to think. It seems that SyFy has again gone the very cheap way.

VAMPIRE HUNTER  
Premièring on September 23rd (with the pilot episode being aired this weekend to wet your appetite or turn you away, depends),  the 13 episode series, from Neil LaBute, will focus on Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton, whose acting seems beyond painful in the first clips), the latest in a long line of famed monster hunters. The series will feature an intriguing twist on the Dracula story, with Vanessa being resurrected in a future in which vampires rule the world. Discovering that she holds a mysterious power over them Vanessa must lead what’s left of humanity against the vampires in a post-Rising world.

AMAZONIANS ON HORSES IN 'WONDER WOMAN' NEW SET PHOTOS! 'TALE OF TALES' EPIC FANTASY HORROR TRAILER WITH SALMA HAYEK, VINCENT CASSEL, JOHN C. REILLY

 'TALE OF TALES' TRAILER

SALMA HAYEK & VINCENT CASSEL

I wrote about this one a couple of times in previous two years, but now it is finally and officially heading to US cinemas and we have first official US trailer too for TALE OF TALES, deeply unusual epic fantasy drama with a mix of horror and romance as well! Out in UK this July and USA at the end of April, the film serves as Matteo Garrone's English language debut and  interweaves three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek  plays a jealous queen of Longtrellis who forfeits her husband's (John C. Reilly) life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays king of Strongcliff whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters. Toby Jones appears as king of Highhills.

 'WONDER WOMAN' AMAZONIANS

GO TO BATTLE ON HORSES

Since I know you're excited about next year's stand alone WONDER WOMAN movie, especially after Gal Gadot's successful debut in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN here are some set photos published today at 'Daily Mail' arriving from Italy where the scenes of WONDER WOMAN in her mythical homeland of Themyscira are being shot.

THREE SETTINGS
The photos show her Amazonians ridding through the beach on their horses, and also some scenes of Diana of Themyscira saving Chris Pine's WW1 soldier Steve Trevor from the sea. As you know Connie Nielsen will be Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, a revolutionary leader, who struggles to shelter her only daughter from the outside world. Robin Wright is Antiope, who trains Wonder Woman to fight preparing her to deal with that world. Lisa Loven Kongsli is Antiope's lieutenant, Menalippe! The movie will have three settings with the second part of the movie set in War World One London, and the third part in modern days.

POSTER TUESDAY: NEW POSTERS FOR 'DRAGON BLADE' EPIC ADVENTURE WITH ADRIEN BRODY, JACKIE CHAN, JOHN CUSACK, 'TALE OF TALES' WITH SALMA HAYEK, VINCENT CASSEL, 'THE 33' WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS, RODRIGO SANTORO, JULIETTE BINOCHE

 NEW 'DRAGON BLADE' POSTER

 ROMANS IN ANCIENT CHINA

Poster day today, people, starting with the new one for epic adventure DRAGON BLADE which will finally hit US cinemas this September following the fight for the Silk Road, where East and West collide. When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius (Adrien Brody) arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An (Jackie Chan) and his group of trained warriors teams up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius (John Cusack) to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new friends, Huo An gathers the warriors of thirty-six ethnic nations together to fight Tiberius in an incredible epic battle.

NEW 'TALE OF TALES' POSTER

SALMA HAYEK  AS THE QUEEN
Another epic story to get a new poster is Italian bizarre, yet visually stunning, fairy tale drama TALE OF TALES  based on a 17th century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile! The movie weaves realistic and fantastical elements together into three different storylines, with Salma Hayek playing the Queen of Longtrellis and John C. Reilly as her King,  Vincent Cassel as the King of Strongcliff and Toby Jones as the King of HighHills. It will compete at film festivals around Europe this year! 
 

'THE 33' GETS FIRST POSTER 

 ANTONIO BANDERAS, RODRIGO SANTORO, JULIETTE BINOCHE

And then there's a new, or to be more precise, the very first poster for real life drama THE 33  with the story based on the real-life event from Chile a few years ago, when a gold and copper mine collapsed, trapping 33 miners underground for 69 days. Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips and Gabriel Byrne star. The movie hits Chilean cinemas this August and will move into the American ones in November ahead of the Oscar award season.

JOSEPH FIENNES & TOM FELTON GO EPIC IN 'RISEN' BIBLICAL THRILLER! 'KAHLIL GIBRAN'S THE PROPHET' ANIMATED MOVIE TRAILER WITH SALMA HAYEK, LIAM NEESON, JOHN KRASINSKI

'RISEN' EPIC TRAILER 

JOSEPH FIENNES & TOM FELTON

Now, here's an epic trailer for you, the first one for epic thriller RISEN which is out next January,  Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius (Tom Felton), are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumours of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem. Kevin Reynolds (WATER WORLD, TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, ROBIN HOOD) directs.

'PROPHET' ANIMATED TRAILER

 WITH SALMA HAYEK, LIAM NEESON AND JOHN KRASINSKI

Another gorgeous trailer today comes from Cannes as the part of the film festival's official selection: KAHLIL GIBRAN'S THE PROPHET in an animated adaptation produced by Salma Hayek! Written and directed by Roger Allers (The Lion King), the film intersperses Gibran’s elegant poetry within stunning animated sequences. Set in a Mediterranean sea-side village, Kamila (Salma Hayek) cleans house for exiled artist and poet Mustafa (Liam Neeson), but the more difficult job is keeping her free-spirited young daughter, Almitra, (Quvenzhané Wallis) out of trouble. The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa’s return home – but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion. Featuring music from Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan and Yo-Yo Ma the film also has voices from John Krasinski, Alfred Molina and Frank Langella!

SPECTACULAR 'ATTACK ON TITAN' SF EPIC TRAILER IS HERE! STUNNINGLY BIZARRE 'THE TALE OF TALES' FANTASY TRAILER WITH SALMA HAYEK, VINCENT CASSEL! FIRST PHOTO FROM ANTONIO BANDERAS, RUPERT EVERETT HISTORICAL MOVIE 'ALTAMIRA'

'ALTAMIRA' HISTORICAL DRAMA

1ST ANTONIO BANDERAS PHOTO

An international day today, starting with the first photo from Antonio Banderas' new historical movie ALTAMIRA (also starring Rupert Everett) telling the true story of a little girl and her father who discovered the now famous pre-historic cave paintings at ALTAMIRA. However, the find brought disgrace on the family and the wrath of the Catholic church, who thought that the claim of ten thousand year-old art was an attack on the ‘truth’ of the Bible.

'THE TALE OF TALES' TRAILER

SALMA HAYEK & VINCENT CASSEL RULING A BIZARRE WORLD
Something exquisitely weird and morbid is the first stunningly captivating, and yet bizarre, trailer for Italian fantasy movie THE TALE OF TALES based on a 17th century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile! The movie weaves realistic and fantastical elements together into three different storylines, with Salma Hayek playing the Queen of Longtrellis and John C. Reilly as her King,  Vincent Cassel as the King of Strongcliff and Toby Jones as the King of HighHills. It will premiere at Cannes this year!

'ATTACK ON TITAN' TRAILER

IS SPECTACULAR & DESTRUCTIVE

And here's a rather spectacular and also destructive trailer for Japanese sf epic action ATTACK ON TITAN which is out this August (with the sequel END OF THE WORLD out September) set in a world where all of humanity must live behind massive walls, to protect themselves from gigantic humanoid creatures known as the Titans. Eren Yeager (Haruma Miura) along with his adoptive sister Misaka Ackerman (Kiko Mizuhara) and their friend Armin Arlert (Kanata Hongô), joins the elite fighting unit known as the Survey Corps to battle the Titans, after Eren's mother passes away following a Titan breaching the walls.