Looks like an Oscar contender to me if they forgive them for casting Zachary Levi in it. SARAH'S OIL a powerful true story based historical drama
Sarah's Oil is out in cinemas this November
from Cyrus Nowrasteh just got its brilliant first trailer ahead of the November 7th launch in the cinemas. It is the remarkable true story of Sarah Rector (Naya Desir Johnson), an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she's allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first female African American millionaires at eleven years old. Check out the trailer below:
This one was supposed to get released two years ago but it is finally arriving to cinemas February 21st bringing a heart warming and moving story to the
The movie is finally out this February
big screens with the cast that has a lot of nice names from Zachary Levi and gorgeous Meghann Fahy to always lovely Peter Facinelli and Patricia Heaton. Directed by Jon Gunn, the film tells the inspiring story of a young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes him truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him. Zachary Levi plays his father who always tries to make his son happy. It is based on the book The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love by Scott Michael LeRette and Susy Flory, which is based on a true story.
Sony has released a trailer for their new family adventure movie HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON which is out this August based on the kids
The movie will hit cinemas next August
classic book with Zachary Levi leading the cast with Alfred Molina and Zoey Deshanel.
Zachary stars as Harold, the subject of the kids book originally
published in 1955 about a 4-year-old boy who uses his imagination to
make what he draws with his purple crayon come to life. After drawing
himself off the book’s pages and into the real world, Harold realizes he
has a lot to learn about it, though he has fun doing it drawing himself
and his pals (Lil Rel Howery and Benjamin Bottani) all sorts of cool
contraptions kind of like a waxy planes, trains and automobiles.
And here's another book recommendation for you: Scott M. LeRette's book THE UNBREAKABLE BOY will be turned into a movie starring Zachary Levi. To be directed by Jon Gunn, this inspirational story follows Austin, a kid born with a rare brittle bone disease and autism. But what makes
Zachary Levi plays the father in the movie adaptation
Austin unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming worldview that transforms and unites everyone around him – especially his dad, Scott (Levi), who changes his life as he comes to see Austin not as the symbol of something broken, but the triumph of an indestructible spirit.
CHAOS WALKING TRAILER
NO ONE ESCAPES THE NOISE
Chaos Walking will be out soonish
This one really had a sad destiny, being postponed about a million times, but CHAOS WALKING will finally arrive to cinemas soon but no officialdate due to everything being postponed courtesy of covid. Based on a book by Patrick Ness, the film, directed by Doug Liman, has Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Nick Jonas, Mads Mikkelsen, Demian Bichir and Kurt Sutter in the cast.
CHAOS WALKING
set in the not too distant future in a colony called the New World, follows Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland), a young man who has been
brought up to believe that a pathogen has killed all women and unleashed
the Noise, a force that puts all people's
Tom Holland plays the lead role in the sf movie
and animals' thoughts on
display. Todd's world is turned upside down upon discovering Viola Eade
(Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on
Nick Jonas also stars in the Chaos Walking adaptation
his planet. In this
dangerous landscape, the pair find themselves being hunted down by the
fanatical Mayor Prentiss (Madds Mikkelsen), forcing Todd to discover his
own inner power and unlock the planet's dark secrets.
After Paul Rudd became Ant Man, another of our beloved geeks is becoming a superhero! The news of the days is that Zachary Levi has been
Zachary Levi already played Fandral in Thor
cast by DC (whose Justice League is looking to score a massive $120 million and plus first weekend later this year according to first trackings) as the lead in their SHAZAM over at Warner Bros! He will now play Earth's mightiest mortal hero after already playing Thor's Fandral for rival Marvel.
SHAZAM follows a boy who can turn into an adult super hero whenever
he says SHAZAM which is made from the first letters of the names of
famous epic heroes and gods Solomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas
and Mercury as he embodies all of their divine powers. After he utters
the magic word he gets super human strength, speed and other powers.
David F. Sandberg is directing the movie which starts shooting next
February to be
He was 1st Captain Marvel but became Shazam due to DC's rivalry with Marvel
released April 2019. Dwayne Johnson was originally
supposed to play his nemesis Black Adam, but he will get a stand alone
movie for that character.
KARL URBAN
TO TOPLINE 'SNOWBLIND'
Karl Urban becomes a ranger in the new film
Meanwhile, 'Deadline' reports that Karl Urban will take over the lead role in psychological thriller SNOWBLIND in which he will play a U.S. Ranger haunted by painful memories of a family tragedy who becomes stranded with his platoon in a remote chalet in the woods. As they fight for survival and against their own inner demons, they find a box filled with $5 million and a dark, disturbing secret. Ashley Green will play the female lead in the movie directed by Marcus Alqueres who previously worked on the visual effects in massive hits such as 300, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin!
NICHOLAS HOULT TO PLAY THE FATHER OF MIDDLE EARTH?
A piece of movie news that stormed the net yesterday, about Finnish movie maker Dome Karukoski directing a movie about famous
Hoult is also Nikola Tesla in The Current War
JRR TOLKIEN, the author of mankind's most beloved epic fantasy tale Lord of the Rings, is today getting a new angle, as the speculations that young Nicholas Hoult might be playing him, have started spreading around the web. 'The Hollywood Reporter' says that he is already negotiating with Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertain- ment who are producing. This is interesting since Hoult is already playing another writer in his youth - J.D. Salinger in upcoming biopic Rebel in the Rye! TOLKIEN will take place at the outset of WWI following the orphaned author as he befriends a group of outsiders at school just in time for the war to threaten to tear them apart. As you know, the man who invented the Middle Earth was the author of The Hobbit, Silmarilion and Lord of the Rings sagas which became Hollywood blockbusters.
'STAR' ANIMATED TRAILER
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS EVER
Meanwhile, in the animated movie department, Sony has finally released the first teaser trailer for their Christmas 2017 animated
Zachary Levi lends his voice to Joseph
movie STAR and maybe they shouldn't have - it looks shockingly cheap, like some straight to DVD flick for kids. The story of first Christmas should arrive into cinemas this November, just in the right time for the holiday season! The voice cast includes Zachary Levi, Christopher Plummer and Oprah Winfrey as a camel.
THE STAR follows a small but brave donkey named Bo who yearns for a
life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the
courage to break free, and finally goes on the
The Star will shine this Holiday Season!
adventure of his dreams.
On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a lovable sheep who has lost her
flock, and Dave, a dove with lofty
Mariah Carey will sing the title song for the movie
aspirations. Along with three
wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his new
friends follow THE STAR and become unlikely heroes in the greatest story
ever told – the first Christmas.
While some of you are enjoying the new television version of The Handmaid's Tale, another of Margaret Atwood's small screen adaptations ALIAS GRACE has just got a brand new trailer
The series will first air in Canada in September and after that on Netflix
for the mini series that will launch September 25th at CBC in Canada and then on Netflix November 3rd.
A 19TH CENTURY MYSTERY The six part mini series follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) a
poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who,
along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was
convicted
Sarah Gadon played Luke Evans' wife in Dracula movie
of the brutal
murders of their employer and his housekeeper in 1843. James was hanged
while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1843. Grace claimed to
have had no memory of the murder yet the
Zachary Levi also stars in the 19th century set series
facts were irrefutable. A
decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tried to help Grace recall her past.
Grace was one of the
most enigmatic and notorious women of her time for her supposed role in
the sensational
Edward Holcroft plays the doctor in the series
double murder, but was eventually exonerated after 30
years in jail. Her conviction was controversial and sparked much debate
about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder or merely an
Sarah Polley both directed and wrote the series
unwitting accessory. Zachary Levi is also in the cast alongside Reign's Michael Therriault and Edward Holcroft as the doctor! Atwood has a cameo in the series!
While some of you are enjoying the new television version of The Handmaid's Tale, another of Margaret Atwood's small screen adaptations ALIAS GRACE has just got the first trailer and first photos for the mini series that will launch September 25th at Netflix and CBC in Canada.
A 19TH CENTURY MYSTERY The six part mini series follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) a
poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who,
along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was
convicted of the brutal
murders of their employer and his housekeeper in 1843. James was hanged
while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1843. Grace claimed to
have had no memory of the murder yet the facts were irrefutable. A
decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tried to help Grace recall her past.
Grace was one of the
most enigmatic and notorious women of her time for her supposed role in
the sensational double murder, but was eventually exonerated after 30
years in jail. Her conviction was controversial and sparked much debate
about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder or merely an
unwitting accessory. Zachary Levi is also in the cast alongside Reign's Michael Therriault and Edward Holcroft as the doctor! Atwood has a cameo in the series!
'MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS'
DAN STEVENS PICS AS DICKENS
There are also the first pictures from another period set project, this time a movie starring Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens! THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS also stars Christopher Plummer as “Scrooge” and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens’ father.
THE BIRTH OF CHRISTMAS CAROL October 1843. Charles Dickens was broke and distressed. Despite early
success, his last three books had failed. Rejected by his publishers,
he set out to write and self-publish a book he hoped would keep his
family afloat. This is the story of the six fever-pitched weeks in which
Dickens created A Christmas Carol, the masterpiece that changed the
holiday into the merry family event we know today.
Now here's a duo of cowboys that you would love to see in a good western: always brilliant Patrick Wilson and LOST actor Matthew Fox will star in independent action western BONE TOMAHAWK and the cast will also include Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins. According to 'Variety' the movie will revolve around four men who launch a rescue mission in order to save a group of captives from a tribe of cannibals who live on the edge of civilization. Patrick Wilson will portray a thoughtful cowboy whose life is interrupted by a tragedy, which hinders his rise to foreman in his cattle outfit. Matthew Fox will appear as an unscrupulous gentleman with sinister plans!
ZACHARY LEVI TO STAR IN
'TUNED' MUSICAL SITCOM I told you yesterday that Eva Longoria is wanted by both ABC and NBC
for the lead roles in their potential sitcoms, but she is also producing a
third one together with Zachary Levi. He might also take the lead role
in musical comedy series TUNED at NBC as an ambitious New Yorker whose
life is upended by sudden musical hallucinations. While these vivid
hallucinations threaten to completely derail his enviable life, he’ll
eventually realize that they might lead him on a more fulfilling
journey. Zachary Levi has proved his singing qualities in
TANGLED!
'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'
SARAH GADON JOINS JAMIE DORNAN AND AARON PAUL
One of the upcoming movies I've mentioned a few times recently, THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX has just added gorgeous Sarah Gadon in the female lead. Jamie Dornan will play a psychologist who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul is going to play the father of the little boy, while Sarah Gadon will be his wife and the boy's mother! You will watch Sarah playing Luke Evans' wife in glorious epic DRACULA UNTOLD next month! You mostly remember her as the royal beauty with golden locks in WORLD WITHOUT END historical mini series!
