CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD HISTORICAL ADVENTURE JANISSARY FROM DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR, SHARON STONE IN TALKS TO JOIN! SAMARA WEAVING JOINS KELVIN HARRISON JR IN CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE

  CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD  

JANISSARY HISTORICAL MOVIE

I think we are the first ones to break this news in English, but Gaga Antonijevic, who directed last year's Serbian Oscar representative

The production should start next year

Dara from Jasenovac, is preparing a massive new historical adventure JANISSARY based on real historical custom of the Ottoman empire to steal babies from occupied lands and then raise them as killer Janissaries who would then be sent to pillage their own villages often unknowingly killing their own mothers and sisters in the process. He has already set Christian Bale as the male lead in the film that he has been preparing for twenty years now. 

 

    Set at the end of the 16th century, the film will see Bale playing a Serb taken as a child to Istanbul where he becomes a pasha in their army. The sultan eventually sends him to his fatherland to end the Serbian rebellion and this is where he gets faced both with his past and with a moral dilemma of what to do.

 

Gaga has also revealed that he is currently negotiating with Sharon Stone to take the role of Bale's mother in the film. Bale, who is married to a Serbian woman in real life, has worked with the director on the script which should start shooting sometime next year in Serbia and Turkey.  

 SAMARA WEAVING TO JOIN 

CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

We mentioned the movie a few months ago, and now Hollywood Reporter writes that Samara Weaving has joined CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES historical drama as opera singer! Kelvin Harrison Jr plays the

Samara Weaving will take the female lead

lead as Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint Georges, also known as the Black Mozart. Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entrée into French high society. With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low. Weaving will play Marie Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfillment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera. Stephen Williams is directing for Searchlight.

INCREDIBLY STAR STUDDED 'MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS' TRAILER WITH SUSAN SARANDON, SHARON STONE, CHRISTINA RICCI, COURTNEY COX! ANGELINA JOLIE'S 'CLEOPATRA' EPIC MOVIE STILL ON AT SONY

  'CLEOPATRA' EPIC MOVIE

WITH ANGELINA JOLIE STILL BEING PLANNED OVER AT SONY

Many years ago I reported that Sony is preparing a big screen adaptation of Stacy Schiff's book CLEOPATRA: A LIFE with Angelina Jolie playing the lead role and now 'Deadline' reports that the project isn't dead and that David Scarpa has been brought to rewrite the script. At some point James Cameron was supposed to direct the story which will, unlike some other more glamorous projects, focus on the truth about Cleopatra as a leader and not just a sex symbol, since she was a mother, leader and an intellect who spoke five languages and whose upbringing also reflected her relationship with Rome.

  'MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS' 

SUPER STAR STUDDED TRAILER

Now here's a comedy drama we've never heard of before even though it is extremely, and I mean extremely star studded! MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS should open in cinemas in May 6th! Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom star Susan Sarandon, Courtney Cox, Christina Ricci, Sharon Stone, Selma Blair, Mira Sorvino, Paul Wesley, Luke Mitchell, Ashanti!

ARMIE HAMMER JOINS AMY ADAMS, JAKE GLLENHAAL, AARON JOHNSON IN 'NOCTURNAL ANIMALS'! 'THE LOBSTER' CLIP WITH COLIN FARRELL, RACHEL WEISZ! SHARON STONE, JASON LEWIS IN 'RUNNING WILD' WESTERN DRAMA

 'NOCTURNAL ANIMALS' 

ARMIE HAMMER JOINS AMY ADAMS AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL

The cast of the big screen movie adaptation of Austin Wright's novel NOCTURNAL ANIMALS is becoming more and more stellar. Already including Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Aaron Johnson, Kim Basinger and Michael Shannon, it has now added Armie Hammer too! He will play Amy Adams' husband in Tom Ford directed movie which has a two part story – the first part is about a woman named Susan (Amy Adams), who receives a manuscript from her ex (Armie Hammer), asking for her opinion. The second part is the script itself about a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) whose family vacation turns violent with Shannon playing a detective investigating the violent incident while Johnson plays a mysterious figure who may pose a threat to the family.

  'RUNNING WILD' DRAMA 

JASON LEWIS & SHARON STONE   
Another movie that has been adding new cast members rather quickly lately is western drama RUNNING WILD which has just cast Jason Lewis next to Sharon Stone. The film follows Stella Davis (Dorian Brown), a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. Stella must fight prejudice, greed, bureaucracy and vanity – including her own – to finally understand that there is no better remedy to misfortune than helping another living creature. Sharon Stone will play the main villain called Meredith.

  'THE LOBSTER' CLIP WITH 

RACHEL WEISZ & COLIN FARRELL

Meanwhile, the only clip I have for you today is from new European drama movie THE LOBSTER boasting an equally stellar cast including Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw,  Lea Seydoux, John C. Reilly... Out in UK this October the story is set in a dystopian near future, where single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel on the coast of Ireland, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.