STUNNING FIRST PHOTOS FROM CHINA'S MOST EXPENSIVE FILM EVER $100 MILLION WORTH EPIC FANTASY 'ASURA'

  FIRST 'ASURA' PHOTOS

The movie hits cinemas next year

CHINA'S MOST EXPEN- SIVE FILM

First pictures have been released for a movie that has Oscar winning costume and set designers working on it and is considered to be the most expensive domestic movie ever produced in China with the costly budget of $100 million! ASURA is an epic fantasy film loosely based on Buddhist mythology! Although done in Chinese, the movie will have an

Matthew Knowles, left, is known to the Chinese audience from TV

international cast and crew lead by director Peng Zhang who worked so far as a stunt coordinator in Hollywood movies. The rest of the

Most Chinese blockbusters don't go over $50 million in budget

international crew also includes Lord of the Rings Oscar winning costume designer Ngila Dickson,  sound designer Martín

Lei Wu, known as Leo, is the newcomer to the big screens

Hernandez  and visual effects supervisor Charlie Iturriaga who worked on Deadpool and Furious 7!

  WAR IN HEAVENS
The story is set in Asura, the dimension of pure desire according to ancient Buddhist mythology. The mythical realm is threatened by a coup from a lower heavenly kingdom and the story follows from there.

AN INTERNATIONAL CREW

As The Hollywood Reporter writes, sixteen year old Chinese rising star Lei Wu plays the film's young hero, alongside Hong Kong veterans

Leo and Zhang are the leading couple in the movie

Tony Leung and Carina Lau. Eighteen year old newcomer Zhang Yi Shang is the female lead and love interest. The international cast

Zhang Yi Shang takes the lead female role

members include American actor Matthew Knowles who is fluent in Mandarin and stars in Chinese TV series, Dragon Blade's Joel Adrian,

The movie has been shot all over China

Damien Walters, Caitlin Dechelle, Chinese Zodiac's Paul Philip Clark, Gigi Feshold, Warriors' Gate's Ron Smoorenburg, Jeannine

The movie is the second most expensive in all Asia!

Derbez, Joseph Castillo...  Shot all over China, the first movie of the possible trilogy, should hit cinemas sometimes next year and we're anxiously waiting for the first trailer!

FIRST TRAILER FOR RUSSIAN 9TH CENTURY EPIC MOVIE 'PRINCE OLEG' WITH VLADIMIR YAGLYCH

  'PRINCE OLEG'

STUNNING FIRST TEASER!

Boring Monday brings us just one trailer, people, but it is really beautiful and epic! It is the first one for upcoming Russian historical adventure PRINCE OLEG which should hit motherland cinemas sometime next year!

Prince Oleg was the founder of famous mediaeval  Kievan Rus!

IN THE 9TH CENTURY NOVGOROD 
Based on the book by Boris Vasilyev, it is set in the 9th century Novgorod, the last stronghold of the Russian people! Great Rurik, the prince of Novgorod, defends the city and its trade routes from the

We watched Vladimir as famous Potyomkin in Catherine The Great

enemies that attack from all sides, but he is getting old and is no longer able to keep the entire trade route under his control. Only Prince Oleg can unite the scattered tribes and create a powerful state capable of repelling invaders of all stripes! Russian superstar Vladimir Yaglych plays the title role.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'THOR RAGNAROK' WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH, CATE BLANCHETT, TOM HIDDLESTON, KARL URBAN, ANTHONY HOPKINS! CHARACTER POSTERS!

  'THOR RAGNAROK'

GLITZY CHARACTER POSTERS

It's the 55th anniversary of Thor and Hulk

Brand new, very colourful and kitschy looking, character posters have been released for THOR: RAGNAROK along with an exciting new teaser trailer! The latest instalment in the superhero franchise on the brave Norse God from Asgard brings a lot of changes to the series: not only that it will be more on the comedic side, with vivid colours and different visual aspect, but it also brings a sexy new haircut for galaxy's favourite bachelor (who is now single after ditching his annoying girlfriend from

Chris added 20 pounds of muscles for the role

previous movies). The movie hits cinemas around the world this November trying to save what turned out to be one of the floppiest years in the history of US cinemas. Will it be the saviour of theatres with Wonder Woman?

In THOR: RAGNAROK, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok (Twilight of the Gods), the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all

Anthony Hopkins is again Odin, the king of Asgard

powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela (mega powerful Cate Blanchett) who accidentally got unleashed from her prison and is

Tom Hiddleston as the naughty Loki

ready for revenge. But first. after she blasts him all the way to the remote planet of Sakaar, he must survive a deadly gladiator contest

Idris Elba as Heimdall in the movie that sets the story for next Avengers

that pits him against all sorts of people with super powers who can easily match his abilities including his former ally and fellow Avenger,

Cate Blanchett's son has a cameo role

the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)!

THE CAST OF ACTING GODS

The superstellar cast also includes Tom Hiddleston as  the naughty God of Mischief Loki ready to behave badly again, Karl Urban as warrior Skurge one of Hela's brutal servants who loves to carry around a double sided axe and is all bald, Anthony Hopkins as Thor's Godly Daddy, Idris Elba as Heimdall who probably came over to Sakaar to rescue Thor but comes

Jeff Goldblum is Grandmaster the barbaric ruler of Sakaar

upon some nasty alien beast, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Sam Neill,  Ken Watanabe,  Tadanobu Asano, Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster

Tessa Thompson based her role on Terminator's Sarah Connor

the barbaric ruler of Sakaar (eccentric master of all games of skill and chance, a member of the Elders of the Universe), Tessa Thompson as

Mark Ruffallo as The Incredible Hulk

mighty warrior Valkyrie in the movie that should arrive into cinemas at the end of October in Europe and in USA on November 3rd this winter on the 55th anniversary of Thor comic book.

KARL URBAN AS SKURGE 

For some offensive reason Karl Urban did not get his own character

Two megastars from Down Under finally together!

poster. He plays Skurge who was Heimdall's deputy before he saw a bigger chance with Hella whose right hand he becomes after she invades Asgard. 

NEW 'GEOSTORM' POSTER WITH GERARD BUTLER AGAINST FORCES OF NATURE! 'MOUSE GUARD' MEDIAEVAL ADVENTURE TO BECOME BIG SCREEN MOVIE

  'MOUSE GUARD'

TO GET BIG SCREEN ADAPTATION

This certainly sounds delightfully epic! 'Deadline' reports that 20th Century Fox wants Maze Runner trilogy director Wess Ball to helm their big screen live action adaptation of MOUSE GUARD! Based on the award winning graphic novel by David Petersen, the story follows a brotherhood of mice during medieval times sworn to protect the fellow rodents in their midst. The movie will use visual effects and performance capture techniques in production.

  NEW 'GEOSTORM' POSTER

 GERARD BUTLER VS NATURE

In the movie department you can also check out the gorgeous new poster for Gerard Butler's GEOSTORM which will storm its way into cinemas next month also starring Abbie Cornish, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris and Andy Garcia.

When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a world wide net of satellites, surrounding the planet, that are armed with geo engineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After successfully protecting the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a world wide Geostorm can engulf the planet.

SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS IN TRAILERS FOR 'THE SQUARE' WITH ELISABETH MOSS, DOMINIC WEST, CLAES BANG, 'REALIVE' SF MOVIE WITH TOM HUGHES

  'THE SQUARE' TRAILER

STARRING ELISABETH MOSS AND DOMINIC WEST

Two indie movies for you today, with rather interesting trailers, starting with THE SQUARE which should arrive into cinemas March

The movie has won this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes

next year starring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West! Christian (Claes Bang) is the respected curator of a contemporary art museum, a divorced but devoted father of two who drives an electric car and supports good causes. His next show is THE SQUARE an installation which invites passers by to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: Christian's foolish response to the theft of his phone drags him into shameful situations. Meanwhile, the museum's PR agency has created an unexpected campaign for  THE SQUARE. The response is overblown and sends Christian, as well as the museum, into an existential crisis.

  'REALIVE' SF TRAILER

TOM HUGHES IS PUT ON ICE!

Would you like to be frozen till some happier times?

There is also a trailer and a new poster for science fiction drama REALIVE which starts its cinematic life from Spain next January starring Victoria's Tom Hughes as  Marc who is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected. 

GORGEOUS NEW POSTER FOR 'MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS' WITH JUDI DENCH, KENNETH BRANAGH, DEREK JACOBI, JOHNNY DEPP, 'EARLY MAN' ANIMATED ADVENTURE WITH TOM HIDDLESTON, EDDIE REDMAYNE

  'MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS'

GETS A POSH NEW POSTER

Everyone is a suspect this November!

A gorgeous new UK poster has been released for Kenneth Branagh's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS which should arrive into cinemas this November bringing with it a lavish train ride that unfolds into a stylish and suspenseful mystery. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, it tells of thirteen strangers in the train stranded in snowy Yugoslavia and one man's race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. Branagh also leads the cast as Hercule Poirott joined by Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Derek Jacobi, Tom Bateman, Daisy Ridley, Adam Garcia and Olivia Colman!

  NEW 'EARLY MAN' TRAILER

WITH VOICES FROM TOM HIDDLESTON & EDDIE REDMAYNE

Stone Age vs the Bronze Age

A new poster has also been released for another British movie: prehistoric animated adventure EARLY MAN with the voice of Tom Hiddleston! Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, EARLY MAN tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his best friend Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age City to save their home. The movie is set to be released next January!

ENCHANTING TRAILER FOR 'THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS' WITH DAN STEVENS, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, JONATHAN PRYCE! 'SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE' NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION!

  'SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE'

TO GET NEW FILM ADAPTATION

Sheena is actually older than Wonder Woman

While Wonder Woman and her Amazon warriors are scoring hundreds of millions of dollars in cinemas around the world, another fierce warrior lady will step onto the big screens! As 'Deadline' reports, Millennium Films is looking to start shooting new SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE movie next year! She actually appeared a few years (1938) before Wonder Woman as the first comic book with a female protagonist in the title! The story of SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE follows an orphaned girl who grows up with wild animals and learns to survive fighting with makeshift weapons and later knives, spears and bows and arrows! She uses her skills to fight evil out of the jungle.

  'MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS'

TRAILER WITH DAN STEVENS AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

And a marvellous trailer for you today: the very first and fun one for period set drama THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS in which

The magic arrives November 22nd!

Dan Stevens plays a young Dickens,
Christopher Plummer the grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes the housekeeper Mrs. Fisk and Jonathan Pryce Dickens’ father.

Out at the end of November it tells of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from "A Christmas Carol." The film shows how Charles Dickens mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.

1ST 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN, HOLIDAY GRAINGER! 'POLDARK' SEASON FOUR PLOT DETAILS, CAST ADITIONS, FIRST PHOTOS! REBECCA FRONT JOINS!

  'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

FIRST PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN AND HOLIDAY GRAINGER

News from the British isles today! First photos have been released for the new science fiction series ELECTRIC DREAMS specifically for The Hood Maker episode with our dearest Richard Madden and Holiday Grainger! Each of the ten episodes is done by a different director and

This is fourth or fifth time for Madden and Grainger to star together

cast adapting one of the stories from Philip K. Dick's sf opus. Some of the other episodes of the Channel 4 and Amazon series will star Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Jack Reynor, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston!

One half of the series will air this Autumn, the other next year

THE HOOD MAKER is set in a world without advanced technology where mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. Their powers have unintended

The series will also air on Amazon around the world

implications and when the public begins to embrace mysterious telepath blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate. This will be opening episode of the series and will air September 17th!

  DEZZY'S VERDICT Short, and a bit cheap looking,the episode was still thoroughly intriguing with Madden and Grainger shining as the leading pair. They've always had a strong magnetism when together on the big or small screen.

  'POLDARK' SEASON 4

REBECCA FRONT JOINS THE CAST

Rebecca Front will play Ozzie's mother

News are also arriving from BBC who have started production on the fourth, and probably penultimate, season of hit period set series POLDARK! The new season, which will air next year probably in summer again after scoring great ratings this June and July, has added Rebecca Front and young Louis Davison in the cast!

 HELLO, LONDON!
Set in 1796, it will see Poldark (Aidan Turner) trying to defend Cornwall from an empowered George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), and risking everything as he embarks on a political journey which takes him to the capital. Ross strives to become a better man, but his dark and reckless streak is never far from the surface and will lead to him facing new enemies and suffering great losses. Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) finds her loyalties torn, Elizabeth (Heida Reed) tries to strengthen her marriage, Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) continues to be oppressed by husband Reverend Ossie Whitworth (Christian Brassington), and the Enyses (Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde) are tested as never

Louis Davison will play older Geoffrey Charles

before. The action of series four should run until the Christmas period of 1799.

NEW CAST!

After playing roles of snobbish, pompous mothers in Doctor Thorne and War and Peace costume dramas, Rebecca Front will do that again in the fourth season of POLDARK, by playing  Lady Whitworth, Ossie's formidable mother. Harry Richardson and Tom York return as Drake and Sam Carne, Beatie Edney as Prudie and Josh Whitehouse as Lieutenant Hugh Armitage, who remains smitten with adulterous Demelza especially after they scandalously shagged each other on the sand dunes of Cornwall. Little Louis Davison will play a more grown

Max Bennett will play one of the new baddies!

up Geoffrey Charles, Elizabeth's son and Poldark's nephew.The series will also have a new villain in evil Monk Adderley who is friends with George. Max Bennett will play him!

WILLIAM MILLER IS THE NEW VILLAIN IN 'THE 100' SF SERIES! DIANE GUERRERO JOINS CBS SITCOM 'SUPERIOR DONUTS' SECOND SEASON!

  'THE 100' SF SERIES

WILLIAM MILLER IS NEW VILLAIN

It is an extremely slow Monday in Hollywood news, so the only thing I have for you today are just some small screen casting news! Earlier this

William will be the new baddie in The 100

year I announced that William Miller has been cast in CW's Searchers epic TV series but since that project fell apart, they've cast the handsome actor in their sf series THE 100 which ended its apocalyptic last season with the arrival of strange new ships to Earth. Miller will be Robert McCreary, a mysterious prisoner aboard the long distance mining mission sent from our time. A former enforcer from a powerful crime syndicate, his ruthless, violent methods make him a formidable antagonist to our heroes.  Jordan Bolger, Ivana Milicevic, Lola Flanery have also joined the cast.

  CBS' 'SUPERIOR DONUTS'

CASTS DIANE GUERRERO 
Our favourite new multi camera sitcom also has a new cast member: returning October 30th at CBS, SUPERIOR DONUTS, in which

Diane starred in Orange is the New Black

Judd Hirsch plays a grumpy donut shop owner who hires a young black man played by Jermaine Fowler, to work for him, will now also have Diane Guerrero guest starring!  Guerrero will play Sofia, a young Uptown gentrifier who parks her food truck, which serves healthy, socially conscious breakfast foods, in front of Arthur’s (Judd Hirsch) old-school donut shop. Although Arthur assumes she’s an entitled millennial, Sofia is actually a hard working, enterprising, self made woman who has poured every penny into her food truck business, which she plans to turn into an empire!

PHOTO WEEKEND: 1ST PHOTOS FROM HISTORICAL DRAMA 'OUTLAW KING' WITH CHRIS PINE, AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, 'MARY SHELLEY' WITH ELLE FANNING, DOUGLAS BOOTH, TOM STURRIDGE, 'JOURNEY'S END' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, PAUL BETTANY, ASA BUTTERFIELD

  'OUTLAW KING'

 FIRST CHRIS PINE PHOTOS

Continuing our Photo Weekend, first up today, photos (from Daily Mail) from the British sets of Netflix' historical movie OUTLAW KING featuring the first look of Chris Pine as Scottish legend Robert the

Chris Pine rocks a strange new hairdo

Bruce! If you expected some handsome hero, you might be disappointed since he has the weirdest haircut in the role!

14TH CENTURY REBELS 
Set in the 14th century, the movie will follow Chris Pine's Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule

Robert and his faithful steed!

of England and their king Edward II in Scotland! Aaron Taylor Johnson is, meanwhile, set to portray his right hand man, another

Chris Pine and James Cosmo

14th century Scottish legend James Douglas! Robert and Douglas learned guerilla fighting tactics that led to years of surprise attacks,

Australian superstar Callan Mulvey

sacked castles and, finally, independence! Florence Pugh will play the female lead (probably  Robert's queen Elizabeth the Burgh), and as you

Alastair Mackenzie riding in the centre

can see from the photos the cast also includes James Cosmo, Billy Howle as the Prince of Wales, Alastair Mackenzie and Callan Mulvey as Lord John Comyn!

   'MARY SHELLEY'

NEW STELLAR CAST PHOTOS

Some new photos have also been revealed for a movie previously known as A Storm in the Stars and now just simply MARY SHELLEY! The first English language movie to be directed by a female Arabian

Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth and Tom Sturridge

director, has been pushed to summer 2018 release. It portrays the famous love affair between poet Percy Shelley (played by Douglas

Elle Fanning plays Shelley's wife Mary

Booth) and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (played by Elle Fanning), which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. Tom

Boothe and Fanning play the legendary writing couple

Sturridge is Lord Byron, with Ben Hardy, Maisie Williams, Jack Hickey and Joanne Froggatt also in the cast which includes Hugh O'Connor as Coleridge!

  NEW 'JOURNEY'S END'

 PHOTOS FROM WWI TRENCHES

I've already shown you some of the first photos from the sets of World War I epic drama JOURNEY'S END but now we have three more! To

Always marvellous Sam Claflin leads the stellar cast

be out next February with a stellar cast lead by Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones and Asa Butterfield,  this

Asa Buttefield plays one of the youngest soldiers

historical drama is a big screen adaptation of RC Sherriff's JOURNEY'S END, the seminal British play about First World War. Set in a dugout

Saul Dibb is directing the WWI drama

in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope (Sam Claflin), variously awaiting their fate.