TRAILER FOR DAKOTA FANNING'S ETHIOPIAN MOVIE DRAMA SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY BASED ON THE FAMOUS BESTSELLER IS HERE!

'SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY'

 IS OUT THIS WEEK DIGITALLY

Now that the cinemas are closed indefinitely (I hear some countries are looking at July or August as possible dates for the reopening of their theatres

The film was shot in Amharic, Arabic and English

under, of course, very strict measures), many studios will be thinking of premiering their movies on  the internet. One of the new movie dramas that will have its web release this week is SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY which Gravitas Ventures is releasing in the United States of America digitally on May 8. Dakota Fanning leads the cast in the story of an English child abandoned in Africa.

Sweetness In The Belly
is actually a big screen adaptation of a popular novel by Camilla Gibb, with the story revolving around the protagonist Lilly Abdal (Dakota Fanning), who, orphaned as a

The movie will open at Gravitas Ventures May 8th

child when she was forced to leave her birth country of Ethiopia and leave for United Kingdom, experiences her parents homeland of England, escaping civil war. She becomes the heart of a disenfranchised community in London, where she attempts to reunite people with their families. But her friend Amina (Wunmi Mosaku), who is also a refugee from Ethiopia, discovers Lilly's mission isn't purely altruistic and a passionate lost love affair is revealed between Lilly and Aziz (Yahya Abdul Mateen II), an idealistic doctor. The movie was directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari! You can watch the trailer below:

EVA LONGORIA TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE'! NATHALIE KELLEY IS KRYSTLE IN 'THE DYNASTY' TV REBOOT! SAOIRSE RONAN TO LEAD 'SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY' ADAPTATION

 'THE DYNASTY' TV REBOOT

NATHALIE KELLEY IS NEW KRYSTLE

A month ago I informed you that CW is preparing a pilot for the reboot of the famous soap opera THE DYNASTY and now we have the new Krystle or Cristal in the modernized version! Vampire Diaries star Nathalie Kelley will take the role!

Here's the new twist: the story will be told primarily through the perspectives of two women at odds: Fallon Carrington,  daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America's most powerful class. In an age where dynasties appear everywhere - from reality TV to the polling booths - this epic drama features the one percent in all its glitz and gloss, while exposing the dark underbelly: a corrupt world built on backroom deals, betrayal, and, in some cases… murder.

 SAOIRSE RONAN TO LEAD

'SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY'

Deadline reports today that Saoirse Ronan will lead the adaptation of bestselling novel SWEET- NESS IN THE BELLY by Camilla Gibb. She will play Lilly Abdal, a woman caught between two places: one of her birth parents and the other, where she was adopted, raised and fell in love. Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly’s first experience of her parents’ homeland of England is as a refugee, escaping civil war. As lost in this cold new world as her fellow immigrants, Lilly becomes the heart of this disenfranchised community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly’s mission isn’t purely altruistic and a passionate lost love affair is revealed between Lilly and Aziz, an idealistic doctor.

 EVA LONGORIA

 TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE'

And to end the day with lovely ladies, here's a new info on desperate housewife Eva Longoria: she will be the latest guest star in Fox's hit show EMPIRE trying to boost up its ratings which have been falling down steady with the start of the third season which is to return March 22nd with Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious starting their biggest battle ever against each other after his dirty attack on her lover played by Taye Diggs!

Eva Longoria will play Charlotte Frost, the formidable director of the all-powerful state gaming commission. Charlotte has the power to make-or-break Lucious’ (Terrence Howard) dreams of expanding Empire’s reach to Las Vegas and beneath her alluring façade, lies a force of darkness and corruption.