NEW WW2 MOVIES: PENELOPE WILTON, TOM COURTENAY, GUGU MBATHA RAW JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON'S 'SUMMERLAND'! 'HURRICANE' TRAILER AND POSTER WITH IWAN RHEON, SAM HOARE, STEFANIE MARTINI

   WW2 'SUMMERLAND' MOVIE

TOM COURTENAY AND PENELOPE WILTON JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON

Gemma Arterton is also producing the film

Another stellar line-up in the new casting updates arriving over from Cannes! Gemma Arterton's War War II drama SUMMERLAND has just added two acting legends Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay, and also Gugu Mbatha Raw who already starred with Penelope in Belle! I've previously already showed you a poster for the love story, in which Gemma plays fiercely independent writer Alice who secludes herself in her study: occupied by her work but also profoundly lonely, haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and wonder awaken Alice’s

Gugu Mbata Raw and Penelope Wilton will star together again after Belle

deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life’s miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, hope and second chances do exist, and any woman must defiantly be two things: who and what she wants.

  'HURRICANE' TRAILER

IS HERE WITH IWAN RHEON!

Speaking of WW2, I've also previously showed you an old poster for HURRICANE and now you can check out a new one alongside a new trailer

Hurricane is out in UK cinemas this September

too!  The movie has a rather British cast lead by Iwan Rheon, Sam Hoare and Stefanie Martini, alongside Mel's son Milo Gibson and Polish star Marcin Dorocinski. It is the story of a group of brave Poles who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed under Germans. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived. 

STUDIOCANAL TO ADAPT CHILDREN'S CLASSIC 'THE SECRET GARDEN' INTO A MOVIE! 'HURRICANE' WW2 MOVIE WITH IWAN RHEON, SAM HOARE, STEFANIE MARTINI

  'THE SECRET GARDEN'

TO BLOOM ON SCREEN AGAIN!

The new adaptation will be helmed by Marc Munden

Studiocanal, whose Paddington 2 is getting perfect scores currently in cinemas, is bringing us another delightful family project onto the big screens! As 'Deadline' reports, they have hired Marc Munden to direct a new movie version of famous classic novel THE SECRET GARDEN

Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett back in 1911, the story follows Mary Lennox, a troubled, sickly, little orphan who is sent to live with an uncle in England when her parents die in a cholera outbreak. Initially sour and rude, Mary begins to explore the grounds of her uncle’s estate and befriends a robin. After hearing of the walled garden, she sets out to find it, discovering it to be more magical than she ever could have imagined.

  'HURRICANE: SQUADRON 303'

A BRAVE NEW WW2 STORY

The movie will be out sometime next year

You can also check out the 1st poster for new war movie HURRICANE: SQUADRON 303 which has a rather British cast lead by Iwan Rheon, Sam Hoare and Stefanie Martini, alongside Mel's son Milo Gibson and Polish star Marcin Dorocinski. It is the story of a group of brave Poles who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed under Germans. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived.

FIRST PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET MOVIES 'THE MERCY' WITH COLIN FIRTH, RACHEL WEISZ, 'BLACK 47' WITH HUGO WEAVING, JIM BROADBENT, STEPHEN REA, JAMES FRECHEVILLE

 1ST 'THE MERCY' PHOTOS WITH

COLIN FIRTH & RACHEL WEISZ

First photos from some of the movies we're anxiously awaiting, first, photos of Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth from THE MERCY a true life drama movie scheduled to premiere sometime later this year from The Theory of Everything director James Marsh!

 ALONE AT THE SEA 
Colin plays yachtsman Donald Crowhurst whose disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account of travelling the world alone by sea. The adventure ended in disgrace and tragedy, after he duped family and race organisers (since neither him nor his boat were ready for the ocean crossing, he started sending false reports on his locations over the radio struggling to keep up the pretence), finally taking his life. Rachel Weisz who plays his wife is also joined in the cast by David Thewlis and Sam Hoare!

 FIRST 'BLACK 47' PHOTO

A HUGO WEAVING, JIM BROADBENT, STEPHEN REA MOVIE

There's also the first photo from historical drama BLACK 47 with a thespian cast including Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Stephen  Rea, Moe Dunford with James Frecheville playing an Irish Ranger during the Great Famine of 1847, who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, but abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.