SEE 1ST PICS OF JK SIMMONS AND SISSY SPACEK IN AMAZON'S NEW SF SERIES NIGHT SKY! SEE THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN WW2 MOVIE TRAILER WITH SHERIDAN SMITH, TOM COURTENAY

  FIRST NIGHTSKY PHOTOS  

A PEEK TO ANOTHER PLANET

Amazon Prime Video has released first photos from their May 20th series NIGHT SKY in which JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek play Irene and Franklin York, a couple who, years ago, found a chamber buried in their backyard which leads to a deserted planet. For years the couple has guarded their galactic secret, but when they meet a young man (Chai Hansen), their secret, and the life they have made together is upended. And the chamber that they have called their own turns out to be much more than they once thought.

 RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN 

FIRST TRAILER IS HERE

What I also have for you today is the first trailer and posters for World War II family movie THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN which will arrive into cinemas

The movie arrives to UK this July

sometime later this year directed by Morgan Matthews. The cast includes Tom Courtenay, Sheridan Smith, John Bradley. Similarly to the 1960's television series and the 1970's classic family movie, this one will also follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home. Since it follows the story from the original film, this one was also shot in all the original filming locations in Yorkshire. The film will be released July 15th in United Kingdom and Ireland and will then hit Australia August 25th. It comes from our favourite StudioCanal. Although this one isn't, the original movie was based on the popular book by British writer Edith Nesbit who died in the 1920's and also wrote Five Children and It, The Enchanted Castle and around 30 other children's classics. 

SEE JACK O'CONNELL, COLIN FARRELL AT ARCTIC IN NEW NORTH WATER EPIC TV SERIES PHOTOS! SHAKESPEARE'S SON CENTRED BOOK HAMNET GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION BY SAM MENDES

   NEW THE NORTH WATER  

PICS FROM BBC EPIC SERIES

We have been waiting for this one for over two years now and it still does not have a clear airing date but BBC has announced that it will air this Autumn on BBC 2 (I'm guessing that does not tell us anything good about the

The series will air in five hourlong episodes

quality of the series) together with releasing a few new photos from THE NORTH WATER historical thriller series which stars Jack O’Connell as Patrick Sumner, Colin Farrell as Henry Drax, and Stephen Graham as

The North Water will air this Autumn on BBC 2 not One

Captain Brownlee, alongside Tom Courtenay as Baxter, seen here in character for the first time. The North Water also stars Peter Mullan, Sam Spruell and Roland Møller. While the series will air sometime in Autumn on BBC, the July 15th date has been set for US audience over at ACM!

     THE FIVE PART SERIES

 based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McGuire, tells the story of Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. But the ferocity of the

Jack O'Connell leads the cast as ex army surgeon

elements is matched by the violence of his crew mates, with Drax (Colin Farrell), a harpooner and distinctly brutal force of nature. As the true

Collin Farrell plays the main villain in the new series

purpose of the expedition becomes clear, confrontation between the two men erupts, taking them on a journey far from solid ground and beyond the safe moorings of civilisation.

The series was shot up in the frozen Northern seas

Set in Hull and on the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, The North Water’s location work took place primarily in the Arctic, shooting on the

Tom Courtenay also stars in the ensemble cast

frozen seas north of the Svalbard Archipelago. The cast and production team sailed as far as 81 degrees north to film sequences in the pack ice, the furthest point north it is believed a drama series has ever filmed before.

 

 

  HAMNET HISTORICAL NOVEL 

TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION

Sam Mendes will produce the film

Well, Kenneth Branagh already covered the topic with Judi Dench last year, but Sam Mendes is going to produce a big screen adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's award winning book HAMNET. This  historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of Britain’s most famous writer William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of their only son, Hamnet. The novel charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet. Chiara Atik is penning the script for the movie adaptation.

TRAILER FOR HEARTWARMING WW2 DRAMA SUMMERLAND IS HERE WITH GEMMA ARTERTON, PENELOPE WILTON, TOM COURTENAY, GUGU MBATA RAW

   WW2 'SUMMERLAND' MOVIE

OFFERS LOVE, MAGIC, HOPE!

Here it is finally, we've waited for it for quite a long time now: the first (and probably the only one) trailer for SUMMERLAND period set WW2 drama a directorial debut of Jessica Swale who also wrote the story of the

Summerland lands Julu 31st!

film in which Gemma Arterton plays a folklore investigator, who from her cliff top study during World War II debunks myths using science to disprove the existence of magic. The cast also includes Penelope Wilton, Gugu Mbatha Raw (as Gemma's lesbian love interest) and Tom Courtenay. The movie is set to be released on VOD and selected theatres July 31st!

Summerland Follows 
fiercely independent writer Alice who secludes herself in her study: occupied by her work but also profoundly lonely, haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his

Jessica Swale both wrote and directed the war drama

innocence and wonder awaken Alice’s deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life’s miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, hope and second chances do exist, and any woman must defiantly be two things: who and what she wants.

1ST PHOTOS FROM WILD MOUNTAIN THYME WITH EMILY BLUNT, JAMIE DORNAN, OBSCURE LIFE OF GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA WITH TIMOTHY SPALL, SUMMERLAND WW2 DRAMA WITH GEMMA ARTERTON

  'WILD MOUNTAIN THYME'

EMILY BLUNT & JAMIE DORNAN

Tons of first photos from upcoming features today (stay tuned for part 2 later this week), starting with WILD MOUNTAIN THYME in which Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan are paired up as two star-crossed lovers in Ireland

Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt lead the cast of the romantic drama

who get caught up in their family's land dispute. Also starring Jon Hamm and Christopher Walken, the movie is both written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.

  TIMOTHY SPALL'S 

THE OBSCURE LIFE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA

There's also the first photo from period set comedy drama THE OBSCURE LIFE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA which sees

Timothy Spall leads the cast in the new movie

Timothy Spall playing a cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred Rott, who embarks upon a highly unusual commission for 'The Grand Duke Of

The movie currently has a December release date

Corsica' (Peter Stormare). A deadly malaria epidemic sweeps Malta but Alfred remains to finish the job. The movie is set for a December release!

  'SUMMERLAND'

 A STELLAR WW2 DRAMA MOVIE

A woman during World War II opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him, is the story of SUMMERLAND war movie drama which has Gemma Arterton in the lead role. She plays a folklore

It is not clear whether the movie will retain its July release date

investigator, who from her clifftop study during World War II debunks myths using science to disprove the existence of magic. The cast also includes

British actress Gemma Arterton plays the lead role in the movie

Penelope Wilton, Gugu Mbatha Raw and Tom Courtenay. The movie currently has a July release date in UK and USA. It is a directorial debut of Jessica Swale who also wrote the story.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE AERONAUTS PERIOD SET ADVENTURE WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES, VINCENT PEREZ, TOM COURTENAY, ANNE REID

   'THE AERONAUTS' 

AIM HIGH REACH FOR THE SKY

The movie hits Amazon Prime around Christmas

The two of them starred together for the first time in The Theory of Everything five years ago and both Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones were nominated for Oscars that year for their roles in that one, and now they are working together in THE AERONAUTS but it is safe to say this one won't be in the running for Academy Awards. It is ready, though, to premier November 4th in United Kingdom, and then from December 6th in USA and December 20th on Amazon Prime, following daredevil pilot Amelia Wren and weather scientist James Glaisher who find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon.

  Inspired By True Events
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in

This is the second time Redmayne and Jones are starring together

history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

Erased For Being A Man?

Although James Glaisher was the real historical person, Amelia Wren is a fictional character who replaces his real life assistant  Henry Tracey Coxwell with a female version. Wonder what would feminists have to say on

The film is based on Richard Holmes book Falling Upwards: How We Took To The Air

that? They say the aim was to inspire girls that they can go on adventures too, but if that did not really happen isn't it a despicable case of fabricating history for the sake of modern agenda in which a real life hero Coxwell gets totally

The movie was directed by Tom Harper

erased just because he wasn't a female? While portraying Glaisher, Eddie Redmayne has a serious ankle injury and had to wear a cast! With Tom Harper from BBC's War and Peace directing, the cast also includes Tom Courtenay and Anne Reid as James' parents, Vincent Perez as Amelia's husband. 

EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES SOAR THE SKIES IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR AERONAUTS HOT BALLOON 19TH CENTURY ADVENTURE!

      'AERONAUTS' TRAILER TAKES 

EDDIE REDMAYNE TO THE SKIES

It is one of the films that will hit both this year's London film festival and the one in Toronto, Tom Harper's skyfaring adventure AERONAUTS which has just set flight to its first trailer. Eddie Redmayne plays famous

Aeronauts is directed by Tom Harper

meteorologist James Glaisher at the end of the 19th century, while Felicity Jones is Amelia Wren, his fiercely loyal copilot who harbours a penchant for science as much as she does being a showgirl. Inspired by the story of Glashier’s 1862 excursion with fellow aeronaut Henry Coxwell (whom Wren replaces in the film), the movie, as EW reports, charts the pair’s dangerous mission to study the earth’s natural patterns from the sky as they attempt to travel higher than any human before them in a massive hot air balloon — an event Wren clearly wants to publicize as a meeting of science and spectacle to generate interest in their work, while the no-nonsense Glaishier anchors his

The film will have a limited cinema releases to get in the awards race

approach in curmudgeonly determination. Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez and Anne Reid also star in the film that hits theatres December 6th ahead of the awards season and then streams on Amazon Prime December 20th.

NEW ANIMATED MOVIES 'THE QUEEN'S CORGI' WITH JULIE WALTERS, JACK WHITEHALL, RAY WINSTONE, 'WATCH THE SKIES' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, SEAN BEAN, GEMMA ARTERTON, 'WONDER PARK' WITH MILA KUNIS, MATTHEW BRODERICK

'THE QUEEN'S CORGI'

AN ANIMATED ROYAL ADVENTURE

Corgi hits cinemas this February!

Something for the littlest spylings among you today as we launch our Family weekend with a spotlight on three new animated movies that will arrive into cinemas this year. THE QUEEN'S CORGI will bark its way into theatres this July in United Kingdom, but will start its cinematic life from February and then throughout this spring around Europe and Asia.

THE QUEEN'S CORGI
 is about the adventure of Rex, the British monarch's most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a clan with dogs of all kinds confronting and 

Soundtrack will have a Jonas Blue, Joe Jonas song

fighting each other. During his epic journey to return to the queen, Rex falls in love and discovers his true self.

 Directed by Ben Stassen (who also helmed last year's The Son of Bigfoot and Robinson Crusoe before that) THE QUEEN'S CORGI features a rather stellar voice cast with Julie Walters, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Jack Whitehall, Sheridan Smith and Matt Lucas lending their voices to the delightful characters. Check out the funny kids' friendly trailer below:

'WATCH THE SKIES'

FIRST POSTER LANDS!

Meanwhile, Mark Byers' fantasy animated adventure  WATCH THE SKIES, which boasts an equally stellar thespian voice cast including Sam

Watch the Skies has an $18 million budget

Claflin and his wife Laura Haddock, Gemma Arterton, Sean Bean, Assa Butterfield, has got its first poster!

When a small starship crashes to earth, it is not a monster or alien overlord that emerges, but a teenage boy who has run away from home - a home on the far side of the galaxy. He is rescued from capture by the children of the same military leaders who are trying to catch him. Together, the kids must help their new alien friend repair his space ship from parts left behind by other alien explorers and escape before he is caught by the soldiers and studied by the scientists for the rest of his life.

'WONDER PARK'

TAKE A RIDE ON THE WILD SIDE

Wonder Park arrives into cinemas this Spring

Hitting cinemas from March and April around Europe and Northern America is a Spanish American co pro- duction WON- DER PARK  which has Mila Kunis and Matthew Brode- rick in its voice cast. It follows June, an optimistic, imaginative girl, who discovers an incredible amusement park called Wonderland hidden in the woods. The park is full of fantastical rides and talking, funny animals - only the park is in disarray. June soon discovers

The lead song in the movie is performed by Rachel Platten

the park came from her imagination and she's the only one who can fix it, so she bands together with the animals to save this magical place and bring back the wonder in Wonderland. 

ACTION SATURDAY: NEW POSTERS AND TRAILERS FOR 'KING OF THIEVES' WITH MICHAEL CAINE, JIM BROADBENT, MICHAELGAMBON, RAY WINSTONE, 'LAST MAN' WITH HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, HARVEY KEITEL

  'THE KING OF THIEVES' TRAILER

 MICHAEL CAINE,JIM BROADBENT LEAD THE CAST OF THESPIANS

Action Saturday today, people, beginning with a new poster and trailer for THE KING OF THIEVES in which acting legends Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay play a

Kings of Thieves starts robbing cinemas this September

crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewellery district. In the true story of the unbelievable Hatton Garden heist they are also joined by Charlie Cox and Francesca Annis!

  'THE LAST MAN' TRAILER

STARRING HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

The movie is out next week in Argentina

AND HARVEY KEITEL

There are also two new posters and a trailer for science fiction action drama THE LAST MAN, previously also known under a very weird title Numb at the Edge of the End,  which should hit cinemas sometime this year starring an unusual pair Hayden Christensen and Harvey Keitel!

Hayden Christensen plays the lead role

IN THE LAST MAN

Hayden Christensen plays an army veteran with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) who perceives that the end of the world is coming. After establishing a relationship with a dubious Messiah, played by Harvey Keitel, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens. The film is out in Argentina next week, since it is a coproduction between Argentina and Canada.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NETFLIX 'GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY' WITH GLEN POWELL, MICHIEL HUISMAN, MATTHEW GOODE, PENELOPE WILTON, TOM COURTENAY, JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY

  AUGUST 10TH ON NETFLIX FOR

STELLAR GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY

Guernsey hits Netflix next Month!

Now, this one already played in cinemas this April in May around Europe and Asia, but it is hitting Netflix August 10th so I don't want you to miss it! THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY is a big screen adaptation of the popular novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer starring our dearest hunks Glen Powell, Michiel Huisman and Matthew Goode next to acting legends Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay and actresses Jessica Brown Findlay and Lily James.

THE GUERNSEY STORY
Directed by famous Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Prince of Persia, Love in the Time of Cholera), historical romance THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY follows young writer

Kenneth Branagh was the original director of the movie

Juliet Ashton who begins a correspondence with the members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their experiences of Nazi Occupied Guernsey. When an idea for a book catches

Kate Winslet and Emily Blunt were originally in the run for the lead role

Juliet she goes to visit the island, making lifelong friends and taking life changing steps along the way by becoming an adulteress who cheats on her

The movie was produced by our beloved StudioCanal

loving fiancee with one of the locals. It is a beautiful story of love, friendship and the sadness of friends lost in the aftermath of World War II.

NEW WW2 MOVIES: PENELOPE WILTON, TOM COURTENAY, GUGU MBATHA RAW JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON'S 'SUMMERLAND'! 'HURRICANE' TRAILER AND POSTER WITH IWAN RHEON, SAM HOARE, STEFANIE MARTINI

   WW2 'SUMMERLAND' MOVIE

TOM COURTENAY AND PENELOPE WILTON JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON

Gemma Arterton is also producing the film

Another stellar line-up in the new casting updates arriving over from Cannes! Gemma Arterton's War War II drama SUMMERLAND has just added two acting legends Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay, and also Gugu Mbatha Raw who already starred with Penelope in Belle! I've previously already showed you a poster for the love story, in which Gemma plays fiercely independent writer Alice who secludes herself in her study: occupied by her work but also profoundly lonely, haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and wonder awaken Alice’s

Gugu Mbata Raw and Penelope Wilton will star together again after Belle

deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life’s miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, hope and second chances do exist, and any woman must defiantly be two things: who and what she wants.

  'HURRICANE' TRAILER

IS HERE WITH IWAN RHEON!

Speaking of WW2, I've also previously showed you an old poster for HURRICANE and now you can check out a new one alongside a new trailer

Hurricane is out in UK cinemas this September

too!  The movie has a rather British cast lead by Iwan Rheon, Sam Hoare and Stefanie Martini, alongside Mel's son Milo Gibson and Polish star Marcin Dorocinski. It is the story of a group of brave Poles who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed under Germans. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived.