SPOTLIGHT ON NEW NETFLIX HIGH END MINI TV SERIES STATELESS WITH CATE BLANCHETT, DOMINIC WEST, JAI COURTNEY, YVONNE STRAHOVSKI!

  'STATELESS' MINI SERIES

PRODUCED BY CATE BLANCHETT

Stateless started last month in Australia

Some ten years ago Cornelia Rau, a woman of German Australian origin, languished in terrible conditions in a detention centre, marked for deportation. Mentally ill and unable to communicate her true identity, it took 10 months to discover she was an Australian resident. Her case shocked Australia showing the lacks of both immigration department, and its inhumane detention policy, and their mental healthcare system. Australian's ABC's mini series STATELESS is inspired by her case and the cases of countless other stateless people who were or are locked indefinitely in detention centres around the world viewed as just

Cate Blanchett both produces and stars in the mini series

statistics.The six episode series starring Cate Blanchett, Dominic West, Jai Courtney and Yvonne Strahovski, aired Down Under in March and will also stream on Netflix for viewers around the world.

Stateless Centres On 
 four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert: an airline hostess escaping a suburban cult (Yvonne Strahovski), an Afghan refugee (Fayssal Bazzi) fleeing persecution, a young Australian father

Jai Courtney plays a new guard at the inhumane detention centre

escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal. When their lives intersect they are pushed to the brink of sanity, yet unlikely

Dominic West is the leader of a strange cult

and profound emotional connections are made amongst the group. Jai Courtney is Cam, a new guard, under qualified and under trained, whose own sense of right and wrong clashes with the brutal and dehumanising

The series first premiered at the 70th Berlin Film Festival

tactics employed by his colleagues. Dominic West plays the charismatic leader of the self-help cult masquerading as a dance collective with Cate Blanchett as his wife Pat who first take Strahovski's character Sofie in but things turn ugly fast.

CATE BLANCHETT TO DIRECT 'STATELESS' IMMIGRATION TV SERIES! GAVIN STENHOUSE IS SCOTT FITZGERALD IN 'ZELDA' TV SERIES WITH CHRISTINA RICCI. JENNIFER ANNISTON, KATE HUDSON, JASON SUDEIKIS IN 'MOTHER'S DAY' ENSEMBLE MOVIE

 CATE BLANCHETT TO HELM

'STATELESS' TELEVISION SERIES

As Deadline reports today our most favourite actress of all times, gorgeous and ultra talented Oscar winner and Australian thespian Cate Blanchett is to start directing for the small screens. She will helm STATELESS immigration TV series based on shocking real events around the tragic story of Cornelia Rau, a young German Australian woman who escaped a frightening cult only to be trapped in a bizarre labyrinth of Australian psychiatric and legal systems. Cate Blanchett has directed a number of plays in Australia together with her husband and is also planning to direct a movie. She will play a lesbian lady in period set movie CAROL this December, then a news anchor in TRUTH next to Topher Grace and Robert Redford, and in 2017 she will lend her voice to snake Kaa in the live action version of JUNGLE BOOK with Christian Bale and Benedict Cumberbatch.

 'ZELDA' AMAZON SERIES

GAVIN STENHOUSE IS SCOTT FITZGERALD WITH CHRISTINA RICCI AS HIS WIFE
In other television news, Amazon has found their lead actor for period set series pilot ZELDA in young Gavin Stenhouse who will play F. Scott Fitzgerald next to Christina Ricci who is playing the title role of his insane wife. The series will focus on the wife of the famous writer of THE GREAT GATSBY. She was an embodiment of the 1920s lifestyle that revolved around drinking, jazz and defying traditional culture! She was also a writer, working on essays for magazines, short stories and she penned her own novel "Save Me the Waltz." Because of her schizophrenia and mental instability she spent last years of her life in mental hospitals and she died burnt alive when one of them caught fire while she was locked in it.

 'MOTHER'S DAY' MOVIE

WITH JENNIFER ANISTON, KATE HUDSON, JASON SUDEIKIS

Meanwhile, as it is now a custom at least once each year, we are getting a romantic star studded omnibus movie in 2016 as well! As 'Deadline' writes today, Open Road Films has picked up American rights to Garry Marshall’s MOTHER'S DAY, the latest in the director’s holiday movie series which includes NEW YEAR'S EVE and VALENTINE'S DAY. The film, which has an ensemble cast including Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Julia Roberts, follows the lives of several mothers leading up to the title holiday! The movie will be released at the end of next April. We might expect new names in the cast announced soon since shooting begins next month in Atlanta.