SEE TRAILER FOR NETFLIX DARKLY EROTIC SUMMER THRILLER FALL FOR ME ARRIVING THIS AUGUST

  FALL FOR ME TRAILER  

FOR NEW NETFLIX THRILLER MOVIE

Netflix has released a rather steamy and atmospheric trailer for their new German original thriller movie FALL FOR ME which will be available

New erotic thriller is out this August on Netflix

for streaming from August 20th starring Svenja Jung, Theo Trebs, Thomas Kretschmann, Tijan Marei, Victor Meutelet, Antje Traue, Lucía Barrado. Lilli is suspicious of her sister's new fiance, but when an attractive stranger enters her life, she's suddenly distracted by the thralls of desire. Lilli (Svenja Jung) visits her sister Valeria, surprised to learn she's engaged to a Frenchman, Manu (crazy gorgeous Victor Meutelet). She spontaneously meets nightclub manager Tom (Theo Trebs), sparking an instant connection. A dark secret lurks behind the island's events. Check out the trailer below.

 

ANTHONY HOPKINS, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS TO LEAD EYES IN THE TREES NEW TAKE ON ISLAND OF DR MOREAU

  EYES IN THE TREES ADS  

ANTHONY HOPKINS, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

A new movie take on Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau is being prepared by Timothy Woodward Jr who has already cast Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Thomas Kretschmann, Ashley Greene and Praya Lundberg. EYES IN THE TREES will follow a video journalist (Meyers), his former protegeé (Greene) and a film crew who trek into an isolated forest in Thailand on an island known to locals as “The island of death” after the government held shadowy genetics experiments led by Dr. Addis (Hopkins). The trip turns into a fight for survival after the expedition makes nightmarish discoveries and learns of Addis’s plans to regress mankind.

SEE KATE BOSWORTH, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN IN LAST SENTINEL SF ACTION MOVIE TRAILER

  LAST SENTINEL TRAILER  

WITH THOMAS KRETSCHMAN AND KATE BOSWORTH 

This one already had a limited release earlier this spring in USA: LAST SENTINEL sf movie is set in the near future, year 2063, where unchecked and

The movie had end of March limited release

rampant climate change has caused temperatures and sea levels to rise catastrophically. Only two large continents remain, and billions die during the mass migration to these higher lands.Surrounded by an endless ocean thousands of miles from home, a skeleton crew of soldiers (Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann and Thomas Kretschmann) stand as the last bastion, defending their homeland from an invasion by an enemy they have never seen, monitoring for signs of attack and prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause. Their tour of duty ended 3 months ago with no relief in sight. Alone and uncertain as to what fate awaits them, the simmering tension amongst the crew escalates when a mysterious boat drifts into range – is it the help they have been waiting for, or something far more sinister? Oscar nominee Tanel Toom helms. 

THOMAS KRETSCHMANN IS WAGNER, MARTON CSOKAS LISZT IN WAGNER IN VENICE PERIOD SET BIOPIC! SHADOW AND BONE EPIC FANTASY SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER! MARWAN KENZARI JOINS RALPH FIENNES, JULIETTE BINOCHE IN ODYSSEUS EPIC MOVIE THE RETURN!

  WAGNER IN VENICE  

CASTS THOMAS KRETSCHMANN AND MARTON CSOKAS

A new English language period set biopic has just seen Thomas Kretschmann cast as the lead in WAGNER IN VENICE with Marton Csokas cast as his fellow composer Liszt! To shoot this spring under the helm of Daniel Graham, it will chart the journey of German composer Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see Wagner’s father-in-law, Franz Liszt, follow the couple soon after as news of a comet headed towards earth launches Wagner into composing one final piece of music.   

  MARWAN KENZARI JOINS  

ODYSSEUS EPIC THE RETURN

Earlier this week I confirmed that Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche Odysseus epic movie THE RETURN has found a US distributor, and now we

Marwan Kenzari will play a suitor

have news that Marwan Kenzari will again walk a royal court since after playing the grand vizier Jaffar in Aladdin he will now play Antinous, the lead suitor for the hand of Penelope, the mythological queen of Ithacca.

  Fiennes plays Odysseus who, 20 years after being washed up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable, finally returns home. But much has changed for this King’s kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan War. His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.

 SHADOW & BONE 2ND SEASON 

DYNAMIC FANTASY TRAILER!

Second season will stream this March

With the return date looming ahead of us, Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of their epic fantasy adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's book saga SHADOW AND BONE which arrives March 16th! The weakest link in the cast Jessie Mei Li sadly returns as Alina Starkov, alognside Archie Renaux (Malyen Oretsev), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Danielle Galligan (Nina Zenik), Daisy Head (Genya Safin), Calahan Skogman (Matthias Helvar) and Ben Barnes (General Kirigan). New additions to the cast are Lewis Tan (Tolya Yul-Bataar), Anna Leong Brophy (Tamar Kir-Bataar), Jack Wolfe (Wylan Hendriks) and Patrick Gibson (Nikolai Lantsov).

 

  IN THE SECOND SEASON

Alina Starkov is on the run. A beacon of hope to some and a suspected traitor to others, she’s determined to bring down the Shadow Fold and save Ravka from ruin. But General Kirigan has returned to finish what he started. Backed by a terrifying new army of seemingly indestructible shadow monsters and fearsome new Grisha recruits, Kirigan is more dangerous than ever. To stand a fighting chance against him, Alina and Mal rally their own powerful new allies and begin a continent-spanning journey to find two mythical creatures that will amplify her powers. Back in Ketterdam, the Crows must forge new alliances as they contend with old rivals and even older grudges that threaten not only their place in the Barrel, but their very lives. When a chance at a deadly heist comes their way, the Crows will once again find themselves on a collision course with the legendary Sun Summoner.

SLATE OF UPCOMING NEW PROJECTS WITH ALEX PETTYFER, GUY PEARCE, SAMARA WEAVING, KATE BOSWORTH, DENNIS QUAID, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, SARAH GADON, HENRY GOLDING, BILLY MAGNUSSEN!

 UPCOMING MOVIE PROJECTS 

SAMARA WEAVING'S AZRAEL

We are in that part of the year when movie markets are looming ahead of us, so I have a slate of new projects that will be offered to buyers in Berlin, Cannes

Samara Weaving will lead Azrael movie

and other markets this year. Director E.L.Katz has Samara Weaving in his movie AZRAEL, set in a world in which no one speaks, where a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. 

LAST SENTINEL

Vertical has already bought rights to this sf movie set in the near future, where unchecked and rampant climate change has caused temperatures and sea levels to rise catastrophically. Only two large continents remain, and billions die during the mass migration to these higher lands.

Thomas Kretschmann is the last sentinel

Surrounded by an endless ocean thousands of miles from home, a skeleton crew of soldiers (Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann and Thomas Kretschmann) stand as the last bastion, defending their homeland from an invasion by an enemy they have never seen, monitoring for signs of attack and prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause. Their tour of duty ended 3 months ago with no relief in sight. Alone and uncertain as to what fate awaits them, the simmering tension amongst the crew escalates when a mysterious boat drifts into range – is it the help they have been waiting for, or something far more sinister? Oscar nominee Tanel Toom helms. 

SUNRISE NEO NOIR MOVIE

Alex Pettyfer will see the Sunrise

Andrew Baird is directing Alex Pettyfer as Fallon, a man who roams the land as a creature of the night while he comes to terms with the loss of his family at the hands of the brutal demagogue Reynolds, played by Guy Pearce.

PERIOD SET COUP!

Peter Saarsgard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon lead this period set drama set on a seaside estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu, where a rebellious servant spearheads an uprising against his wealthy employer.  

DANIELA FOREVER FILM

Henry Golding will lead the new sf movie

Henry Golding is, meanwhile, leading this sf movie playing a man who signs up for a sleep trial that allows him to reconstruct his life with a dead partner through the use of dreams. Nacho Vigalondo is directing.

 

LITTLE MOUTH

Cast including Isabelle Fuhrman, Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Josh Hutcherson leads this movie about a brilliant computer scientist who is recruited by a charismatic tech billionaire to work on a secret project that could change humanity’s place in the universe forever, but it comes at a great risk.

THOMAS KRETSCHMANN LEADS THE PROMIMENTS WW2 MOVIE! JOEY KING IN WW2 TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES! FANTASY SAGA THE WARDED MAN TO BECOME A TV SHOW

  WW2 PIC THE PROMIMENTS 

CASTS THOMAS KRETSCHMANN

And with him as a German star, the rest of the ensemble is also very much European: as 'Deadline' reports, Girl With a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber

Thomas Kretschmann will lead the film

is back behind the helm of a historical drama movie and this time it will be a World War II movie THE PROMINENTS in which he has already cast Thomas Kretschmann as Bogislaw von Bonin, a German prisoner battling his own demons: complicity in the war’s atrocities and the drug abuse he uses to cope with it. Set in the chaotic final days of World War II, the story follows a group of Nazi Germany’s most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe, out of Allied reach, to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender. On their journey, they endure aerial attacks, collapsing bridges, partisan raids, and the escalating threat of liquidation by their Nazi captors. Hippolyte Girardot and Irène Jacob will play French prime minister

Jakub Gierszal, Valentina Cervi and Vinzenz Kiefer will star

Leon Blum and his wife Janot. Valentina Cervi is playing an Italian partisan fighter and fellow prisoner on the dangerous transport. Vinzenz Kiefer, Jakub Gierszal, and Andreas Lust round out the announced cast.

  WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES  

JOEY KING TO LEAD WW2 SAGA

Hulu has cast Joey King as the lead star of their mini series adaptation of Georgia Hunter's WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES WW2 novel. The eight part mini series, to be produced and penned by Julia's Erica Lipez, will be

Joey King will lead We Were the Lucky Ones adaptation

based on the bestseller about a Jewish family separated at the start of WWII yet determined to reunite. Before that you will watch King in Hulu's The Princess historical movie from July 1st.

   THE WARDED MAN NOVEL  

TO BECOME TV SERIES

The Warded Man will become a series

Based on the sci-fi fantasy novel by Peter V. Brett, THE WARDED MAN TV series is set at Electro Magnetic Productions. The story is set in a distant future where humanity is plagued by terrifying demons that emerge at night with supernatural powers and an all consuming hatred of people. They are barely held at bay by the ancient and magical art of warding, where locals paint mysterious symbols on houses and posts. With the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, one man takes it further, tattooing his body with the lost battle wards to teach humanity how to fight back from the verge of extinction.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DAS BOOT WW2 EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 2 WITH TOM WLASCHIHA, VICKY KRIEPS, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, VINCENT KARTHEISER

'DAS BOOT' SEASON 2

The second season is already airing in Germany

READY TO AIR THIS SPRING!

Back in 2018 your trusted spy was among the first ones to inform you about Sky's award winning DAS BOOT World War II series which proved to be a big success for the production company airing on Sky's channels around Europe and Hulu in USA. Now the series is back with the second season which is airing right now on Sky Germany and will air this month on cable channels around Europe too and Sky's channels in Austria, Italy, UK and Ireland. Beside Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Rick Okon, Vincent Kartheiser, the eight episode second season will also have Thomas

Tom Wlaschiha returns as the head of the Gestapo

 Kretschmann as the new addition to the cast! Speaking of epic, stay tuned this weekend for Hollywood Spy's Wildly Extensive List of Period Set Shows we can expect in 2020 albeit corona lockdown.

 The 2nd Season Of Das Boot
is set in December 1942. We meet the very experienced U-boat ace Johannes von Reinhartz (Clemens Schick) who is sent with U-822 on a secret mission

German superstar Thomas Kretschmann joins the cast

to the US East Coast in order to disembark three saboteurs. His loyalty is questioned and U-612, with its Commanding Officer Wrangel (Stefan

German actor Rick Okon returns as the submarine officer

Konarske), is sent in pursuit. Former U-612 Commanding Officer Hoffmann (Rick Okon) narrowly escaped death in the Atlantic Ocean. In New York he finds shelter with Sam Greenwood (Vincent Kartheiser), who owes his life

German superstar Clemens Schick leads the cast of the second season

to Hoffmann, and meets the sleazy German-born lawyer Berger (Thomas Kretschmann). Will he enable him to return to Germany? Back in La Rochelle, Simone (Vicky Krieps) is still secretly helping those affected by the

The first season was sold to more than 100 countries and was so successful that Sky ordered the second season after airing the first episode of the first one.

Nazi occupation, and Forster (Tom Wlaschiha), Head of the Gestapo, suspects as much, as Simone and her roommate Margot (Fleur Geffrier) work to secure an escape route for a Jewish family.

1ST TRAILER FOR WW2 DRAMA WAITING FOR ANYA BASED ON WAR HORSE AUTHOR'S BOOK IS HERE WITH ANJELICA HUSTON, JEAN RENO, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN!

     'WAITING FOR ANYA'

FIRST TRAILER IS HERE
I guess I did not really expect such bad acting and so many terrible accents in this one, but here is the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of Michael

Stay tuned for the first trailer soon!

Morpurgo's (War Horse) WAITING FOR ANYA which will arrive into British cinemas next Valentines and has been sold for Northern America too. The World War II tale has a rather strong cast (at least on paper) led by Anjelica Huston (who obviously has time to put fresh tacky make up on her face in the middle of war and poverty), Jean Reno, Thomas Kretschmann, Sadie Frost. The story revolves around Jo Lalande (judging by the trailer a rather unconvincing Noah Schnapp), a 13 year old shepherd, and a widow, Horcada (Anjelica Huston), who help smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain during the war. Ben Cookson both wrote and directed the movie.

1ST POSTER FOR WW2 DRAMA WAITING FOR ANYA BASED ON WAR HORSE AUTHOR'S BOOK IS HERE WITH ANJELICA HUSTON, JEAN RENO, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN!

     'WAITING FOR ANYA'

FIRST POSTER UNVEILED!

Stay tuned for the first trailer soon!

You all loved the big screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse, and now another of his books has been adapted and is ready to hit cinemas. WAITING FOR ANYA will arrive into British cinemas next Valentines and has been sold for Northern America too. The World War II tale has a rather strong cast led by Anjelica Huston, Jean Reno, Thomas Kretschmann, Sadie Frost. The story revolves around Jo Lalande (Noah Schnapp), a 13 year old shepherd, and a widow, Horcada (Anjelica Huston), who help smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain during the war. Ben Cookson both wrote and directed the movie.

JOSH O'CONNOR JOINS 'HOPE GAPS' WITH BILL NIGHY, ANNETTE BENING! TONI COLLETTE TO HAVE 'SEA FEVER'! ANJELICA HUSTON, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, NOAH SCHNAPP IN 'WAITING FOR ANYA'

  JOSH O'CONNOR

 JOINS ANNETTE BENING AND BILL NIGHY IN 'HOPE GAP'

A bunch of casting news today, beginning with Josh O'Connor whom we adored in The Durrells and God's Own Country, and who has now joined Bill

Josh O'Connor will play the son of the family

Nighy and Annette Bening in HOPE GAP from Gladiator writer William Nicholson who now also directs.

As 'Screen Daily' reports, Josh will play Jamie, the son of married couple Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy). When Jamie comes to visit for the weekend at their seaside home, Edward informs him that he plans to leave Grace. HOPE GAPS tracks the unravelling of three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief, anger and resolution.Beside the third season of Durrells, which should start soon at ITV, we shall also watch Josh O'Connor in BBC's Les Miserables mini series as Marius Pontmercy!

  WW2 'WAITING FOR ANYA' 

 MOVIE CASTS ANJELICA HUSTON AND THOMAS KRETSCHMANN

Thomas Kretschmann will also star

Meanwhile, Goldfinch Studious is set to produce World War 2 drama WAITING FOR ANYA which will star Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann and little Noah Schnapp. In the big screen adaptation of a book written in 1990 by Michael Morpurgo, who is also famous for War Horse, Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp will play a young shepherd, Jo, from Lescun in Southern France, who took part in smuggling Jewish children across the border into Spain during the war. As 'Deadline' writes, Anjelica Huston will play a widow named Horcada in the film.

  TONI COLLETTE

TO GET A 'SEA FEVER'

Toni has another horror Hereditary out this summer

If you're more in the mood for action and thrillers, Australian star Toni Collette will lead Neasa Hardiman directed SEA FEVER in which the story is  set on a fishing trawler off the Irish West Coast. Toni Collette will portray the captain of the ship who fights to keep her crew alive when the vessel is infested with a deadly parasite. Hermione Corfied is also in the cast and she will play a marine biology student on board.