One of the series that competed at this year's Series Mania and won the Grand Prix award is REMATCH a co production between Hungary and France, starring our dear
Rematch airs over on Arte in France and Germany
Christian Cooke! It already aired on Arte in France and Germany in September and will stream on Disney + in UK and on HBO Europe. Inspired by real events, this captivating thriller
immerses us in the most decisive chess game in history – the second
match between the champion Kasparov and the computer Deep Blue. With the
advancing technological breakthroughs of our age, this fascinating duel
still has resonance today, at a time when artificial intelligence is raising new challenges. Our favourite hunks Tom Austen and Luke Pasqualino also star next to Sarah Bolger, Trine Dyrholm and Aidan Quinn.
TO STAR SARAH GADON, DOMINIC COOPER AND SARAH BOLGER
Vic Sarin is helming a new Irish period set drama movie CRY FROM THE SEA set in the aftermath of World War I and the Irish Civil War. It revolves around Seamus (Dominic Cooper), an Irish lighthouse keeper who has created a life of isolation and ritual in penance for a tragedy he feels he should have prevented. Seamus’s only company is Maire (Sarah Bolger), his housekeeper and protector, who enables him to remain closed off from the world while quietly waiting for him to see her. His meticulously structured world begins to crack when he meets Edith (Sarah Gadon), an outspoken American war widow whose quest for closure ignites something in Seamus that will forever change them all. Aidan Quinn also stars.
From Arte France and our dear Federation Studios, comes first image of Christian Cooke in new six part series REMATCH a psychological thriller set in the crossfire of the 1997 historical battle between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue, a high-
We watched Christian Cooke in Barkskins and Ordeal By Innocence
pressure confrontation between man and machine, a war of minds, both on and off the chess board. Our favourite hunks Tom Austen and Luke Pasqualino also star next to Sarah Bolger, Trine Dyrholm and Aidan Quinn. The series was shot last winter in Budapest and Montreal.
The only thing I have for you today in what has been a very slow beginning of the movie year, is the first trailer for the second season of AMC's popular martial arts action adventure dystopian series INTO THE BADLANDS which should start airing March 19th! As you can see from the trailer, the second season will obviously be wildly epic, even more so than the first one! You can also check out the first cast photos which are showing them frozen in rather gorgeous action scenes!
MARTIAL ARTS DYSTOPIA The first season ended with Sunny (Daniel Wu) captured by his
enemies, and taken to imprisonment where he meets Baije (Nick Frost).
With questionable morals and always looking for the quick score, Bajie
is an irreverent and unlikely new ally to Sunny. However, through the
course of the season, Sunny will discover that Bajie harbours secrets of
his own and isn’t everything he appears to be.
His protege M.K. (Aramis Knight) got separated from him and while M.K.
struggles to control his powers, Sunny is determined to fight his way
back INTO THE BADLANDS to find his family or die trying. On their
journey, they are assisted by mysterious, new allies whose motivations
may be anything but pure. Meanwhile, the Widow (Emily Beecham, sporting
the most horrid new hairdo) continues to consolidate power against the
other Barons, while a dark and mysterious threat prepares to exact
revenge on them all. Alliances are struck, friendships betrayed, and by
season’s end, Sunny and M.K.’s lives will be forever altered with
devastating consequences. Orla Brady, Sarah Bolger, Oliver Starkalso
star returning in their roles from the first season as the member and the new heirs of the late Baron's ruling household!
Are you, people, wondering whatcha gonna watch when THE WALKING DEAD ends the first part of its current season this month? Wonder no more! Kung Fu dystopia is arriving November 15th with the six episode of new epic series INTO THE BADLANDS at AMC airing worldwide the same week too!
THE STORY Centuries from now, a feudal society has emerged in the wake of
civilization's destruction. This area is now called the Badlands and is
uneasily divided among seven rival Barons. Each Baron enforces their
iron rule with the aid of loyal armies of trained assassins known as
Clippers.
The most lethal of the Badlands’ Clippers is Sunny (Daniel Wu), the Regent and most trusted advisor of Baron Quinn (Marton Csokas).
For decades, Quinn has been unchallenged as the Badlands’ most powerful
Baron; however, the territory’s newest Baron, The Widow (Emily Beecham), has begun testing his appetite for a fight.
One day, Sunny rescues M.K. (Aramis Knight), a teenage boy who
has survived a deadly ambush. Sunny soon comes to understand that the
teen harbours a dark secret and has a hefty bounty on his head.
Together, they will embark on an odyssey that could mean the difference
between chaos and enlightenment for everyone in the Badlands.
THE BADLAND'S REGENT
Sunny (Daniel Wu) is Regent (Head Clipper) to the Badlands’ most powerful Baron, Quinn. He is the ideal right-hand man: a prodigiously skilled, merciless killer with a keen strategic mind, unflappable temperament and deep sense of loyalty.
THE BADLAND'S BARON
Quinn (Marton Csokas) is ruthless, enigmatic, shrewd and charming, the Badlands’ preeminent Baron. A former Clipper, Quinn secured his position the old-fashioned way: he killed for it, murdering the very Baron who trained him!
THE BADLAND'S BARONESS
Lydia (Orla Brady) is Quinn’s first wife and is both his fiercest critic and most devoted follower. Without her astute counsel, he wouldn’t have ascended so far. She makes it abundantly clear that she is still The Fort’s true Baroness and always will be.
THE FUTURE BARONESS
Jade (Sarah Bolger) is a beautiful young woman whose beguiling demeanour hides a core of ambition and tenacity. She is about to become Quinn’s wife, and aims to eclipse Lydia in her husband’s affections.
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
Saved from mercenary Nomads by Sunny, M.K. (Aramis Knight) is taken to Quinn’s walled compound, The Fort. A seemingly average teenage boy, M.K. is anything but. Lurking inside him is a dark energy that is only unleashed when his skin is cut!
THE BLUE WINGED BUTTERFLY
The Widow (Emily Beecham) is the Badlands' newest Baron: a brilliant martial artist, she has adopted a blue-winged butterfly as her Baronial symbol, representing a transformation from insignificance to beauty and power.
THE ARROGANT PRINCE
Ryder (Oliver Stark) is Quinn’s only son and presumed heir. Impulsive and arrogant, Ryder might have become a different person had he not been kidnapped as a child. Quinn’s refusal to pay the ransom resulted in Ryder’s torture and mutilation.
SF SERIES WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, JAMES MARSDEN, THANDIE NEWTON
Earlier this weekend I showed you photos from HBO's new sf show WESTWORLD and now we have news that Ben Barnes is the latest addition to the show which is currently recasting some of the roles. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, and Thandie Newton. Coming from J.J. Abrams and Michael Chricton, and ready to hit the small screens sometime next year, the story of WESTWORLD will be set at a futuristic amusement park in which androids play people of the Wild West
without knowing that they aren't real people! It is described as a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin. Ben Barnes will be Logan, a self indulgent ladies man who is a return visitor to Westworld, the character is well versed in inhaling all the pleasures that it has to offer. Clifton Collins Jr will play Lawrence, a sly criminal who really knows his way around Westworld.
'INTO THE BADLANDS' TRAILER
FOR GENRE BENDING SERIES
Only a week or two ago I showed you the first photos from AMC's new fantasy series INTO THE BADLANDS which arrives this November, and today you can check out the rather stunning first trailer!
The six episode series is set in a land
controlled by feudal barons telling the story of a warrior named Sunny (Daniel Wu) and a young boy, M.K. (Aramis Knight), who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment.
Marton Csokas will play Quinn, the most powerful baron in the
Badlands, who spent his youth patrolling the Badlands and killing. Emily Beecham
plays The Widow, a regal beauty and a cunning strategist with
extravagant, high fashion taste while Sarah Bolger plays Jade, a porcelain beauty who masks her ambition with fragile innocence. Oliver Stark plays the warrior’s son Ryer who has not lived up to his father’s expectations.
