Continuing with massive trailer premieres, here is the first trailer for Disney's NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS directed by our favourite Lasse Hallstrom which brings magic to the big screens October next year in Europe, November 2018 in USA!
SEARCH FOR A MAGICAL KEY All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key, a one-of-a-kind key that
will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A
golden thread,
The movie is currently undergoing a month long reshoots!
presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan
Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which
promptly disappears into a
The movie opens next October in Europe, next November in USA
strange and mysterious parallel world. It's
there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden
Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the
The story is based on the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky
regents who preside over three
Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara
and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm,
Helen Mirren is almost unrecognisable as Mother Ginger
home to the tyrant
Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully
return harmony to the unstable world. Matthew Macfadyen, Jack Whitehall,
Richard E Grant also star.
What a treat for you this Monday! Universal has released the first teaser trailer for Peter Jackson's MORTAL ENGINES sf adventure which hits
Produced by Peter Jackson, the movie is directed by Christian Rivers
theatres December 18th next year, exactly a year from now based on Philip Reeve's Award winning series of fantasy books!
THE LAND OF MOVING CITIES Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic
event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved.
Gigantic moving
Mortal Engines are based on Philip Reeve's award winning saga
cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon
smaller traction towns. Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan), who
hails from a Lower Tier of the
Ronan Raftery and Hugo Weaving also star in the movie
great traction city of London, finds
himself fighting for his own survival after he encounters the dangerous
fugitive Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar). Two
The story is set in a world of moving, mechanical cities
opposites, whose paths
should never have crossed, forge an unlikely alliance that is destined
to change the course of the future.
Must admit I almost forgot about this one, but it starts airing on Fox Sunday January 21st and then continues its life on Monday evenings. As you know, the spy does not usually do medical drama, but this one THE RESIDENT, does have our favourite boys, always lovely Manish Dayal, and always charismatic Matt Czuchry, in a powerful new medical drama focusing on the final years of a young doctor’s training that rips back the curtain to reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across America.
THE STORY OF THE RESIDENT
revolves around an idealistic young doctor
Devon Pravesh (played by always delightful Manish Dayal whom you fell in
love with in A 100 Foot Journey
Manish Dayal is young Doctor Devon Pravesh
and Viceroy's House) who begins his
first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident
Conrad Hawkins (played by Gilmore Girls
Matt Czuchry is senior resident Conrad Hawkins
superstar Matt Czuchry) who
pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day
medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will
Emily VanCamp is Nurse Nicolette
always be
shattered. Bruce Greenwood plays Dr Soloman the head of their hospital
with Melina Kanakaredes as Dr. Lane Hunter and Emily
It premieres after NFC Championship and then moves to Monday nights
VanCamp as Nurse
Nicolette! Written by Amy Holden Jones (Black Box), Hayley Schore, and
Roshan Sethi the series had its pilot directed by movie director Philip Noyce!
Not much to report today, except some really nice casting news for new period set action series THE WARRIOR, a Bruce Lee inspired martial arts television saga by Cinemax! Fast and FuriousJustin Lin will produce the Tong Wars ten episode series, inspired by the writings and work of martial arts icon Bruce Lee!
THE STORY OF THE WARRIOR
will be set against the backdrop of the
brutal Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1800s! The
cast is led by Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a
Joe Taslim is a kung fu master!
martial arts prodigy who
travels from China to San Francisco and ends up becoming a hatchet man
for the most powerful tong in Chinatown! Kieran Bew will play Officer “Big Bill” O’Hara, a hard drinking Irish cop charged with forming a Chinatown squad and Tom Weston Jones will be Richard Lee, a transplanted Southerner and rookie cop! Olivia Cheng will appear as Ah Toy, Chinatown’s most accomplished courtesan and madame, while Jason Tobin is Young Jun, the hard partying son of a powerful tong boss. Dianne Doan
will play Mai Ling, a beautiful and ruthless Chinese woman who, through
sheer force of will, has achieved a position of power in one of the
You watched Tom Weston Jones in Dickensian & in BBC's upcoming Troy
tongs! Dean Jagger will be Dan Leary, the unofficial godfather of the Irish community of San Francisco and leader of the Workingmen’s party. Christian McKay will govern San Francisco as Mayor Samuel Blake and
Game of Thrones' Dean Jagger will be an Irish ruffian!
Joanna Vanderham will portray Penelope Blake, the aristocratic heir to a rail road fortune trapped in a loveless marriage to the mayor! Joe Taslim is Li Yong, a tong Lieutenant and kung fu master while Langley Kirkwood will
Dominion's Langley Kirkwood will be an ambitious deputy major!
be Walter Buckley, a Civil War veteran and Deputy Mayor with his own political aspirations! Perry Yung is Father Jun, the leader of the most powerful tong in Chinatown.
Two new posters to end the week, starting with the new one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to
Crooked House is Agatha's weirdest novel
premiere on TV in UK this Sunday and already on VOD in USA, it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most,
it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited
to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including
Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an
engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person
who poisoned her grandfather is found.
'PHANTOM THREAD' POSTER
DANIEL DAY LEWIS' LAST MOVIE
Anew poster has also been released for dramatic biopicPHANTOM THREAD, Daniel Day Lewis' final movie (at least he says so) which
should
This is Daniel Day Lewis' last movie ever!
walk into cinemas next February in UK, December in USA, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
A treat for you today from BBC - first trailer for their small screen adaptation of LITTLE WOMEN which will air in three episodes 26th, 27th and 28th December during Christmas holidays!
The spy's verdict after seeing the series: watchable, but mostly uninspired with lack of any original spark and mostly weak performances from the young female cast. The unique and cheerful music is what saves it from being a fully mediocre affair.
THE STORY OF LITTLE WOMEN
based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel,
is set in 1862 against the backdrop of a country divided, and follows
the four March sisters: Meg (Willa Fitzgerald),
The series will hit the small screens on PBS in USA sometime next May
Jo (Maya Hawke), Beth (Annes Elwy), and Amy (Kathryn Newton) on their journey from childhood to adulthood while their father (Dylan Baker)
The new mini series will air in three evenings over Christmas holidays
is away at war.
Under the guidance of their mother Marmee (Emily Watson), the
girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender
Julian Morris plays Laurie's tutor in the new version of Little Women
roles to
sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage. Accompanied by the
charming boy next door Laurie Laurence (Jonah Hauer-King), their
The series comes from Call the Midwife creator
cantankerous wealthy Aunt March (Angela Lansbury) and benevolent neighbour Mr. Laurence (Michael Gambon),
LITTLE WOMEN is a coming-
Ethan's daughter Maya Hawke is Jo in the series
of-age story that is as relevant and engaging
today as it was on its original publication in 1868. Alongside
Laurie
is
his
young
tutor
John
Brooke,
played
by
Julian
Morris!
Comedy day this Wednesday, starting with the news from NBC where they're developing NATURAL HISTORY museum set multicam sitcom from Chris
Chris Hardwick will produce new NBC sitcom
Hardwick about a young woman who returns home to become director of a beloved local natural history museum, only to find it has gone to hell in her absence. She must wrangle her well intentioned but less than reliable staff while battling slashed budgets, rude patrons and collapsing dinosaur skeletons.
ROSEANNE & BALDWIN AT ABC
Over at ABC (beside the first photo from the return of ROSEANNE which
hits small screens next year) they gave a straight to series order to a
multicam sitcom which will probably star Alec Baldwin, about a
dysfunctional family led by a stuck-in-his-ways, opinionated, fading TV
star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the
child they are raising together. And speaking of returns, Joe Lawrence
who played the brother in famous 90s comedy BLOSSOM has revealed earlier
this week that serious talks are being led on the possible return of
the
First look at the return of Roseanne sitcom at ABC
family comedy which also starred Mayim Bialik. She now stars in The
Big Bang Theory while Lawrence starred in Melissa and Joey sitcom.Blossom's creator is doing The Ranch at Netflix.
Roseanne will return with new episodes to ABC next March!
Are you excited, people? The animated movie of the year FERDINAND is finally opening in cinemas this week, hitting theatres December 15th after the lovely premiere last night and it has another reason for a big celebration - it won two Golden Globe nominations on Monday - for best animated movie and for best original song, Home, written and sung by Nick Jonas. The song which appears both in the movie and in the end credits is also on the movie's original soundtrack which is already in shops! Before the loveable and peace loving bull FERDINAND arrives into cinematic corridas this weekend, you can also
Ferdinand is up against Star Wars in cinemas
check out a bunch of delightful new posters featuring both Ferdie and the rest of the hilarious characters.
A BULL'S STORY
From Blue Sky Studios and Carlos Saldanha (the director of Ice Age
movies and Rio) and inspired by the beloved book “The Story of
Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, FERDINAND is a heart warming
animated comedy adventure with an all-star cast. FERDINAND tells the
story of a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a
dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to
return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate
adventure. Set in Spain, Ferdinand proves you can’t judge a bull by its
cover.
JOHN CENA LEADS VOICE CAST
The voice cast is led by John Cena who lends his voice to Ferdinand, a Spanish fighting bull who prefers smelling the flowers and practising non-violence rather than chasing red cloths held by matadors in arenas. But when disaster comes to him, he is taken to a fighting stadium, and Ferdinand needs to decide if he is a fighting bull or a flower smelling, generous bull, in order to earn his freedom. Kate McKinnon is Lupe, an old goat! David Tennant is Angus, a bull from Scotland while Bobby Cannavale is bull Valiente, a bull. Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs and Gabriel Iglesias are a trio of crazy hedgehogs Una, Dos and Cuatro! Flula Borg, Boris Kodjoe and Sally Phillips are, meanwhile, horses with Jerrod Carmichael lending his voice to Paco, a dog!
Among the many exclusives in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly was also the first photo of Antonio Banderas in the second season of anthology series GENIUS in which he is playing Pablo Picasso! In the National Geographic's series Alex Rich will portray the young Picasso, while Antonio Banderas will be portraying the artist from his 40s until his death in 1973 at the age of 91! He lived most of his life in Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including Coco Chanel, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque and Jean Cocteau, so you may expect them in the series too!
'FULLER HOUSE' TRAILER
FOR 2ND PART OF SEASON 3!
Speaking of television, a trailer for the second part of the third season of Netflix' FULLER HOUSE is out announcing what will happen in the new episodes that are available from December 22nd! As you know, they're all
The rest of season three has nine more episodes for festive binge watching
flying to Tokyo for Steve’s (Scott Weinger) wedding, which DJ (Candace Cameron Bure) might stop because she feels he is her true love, but she might get married to another one as Matt (John Brotherton) is gonna propose to her!
'READY PLAYER ONE'
Ready Player One comes out next March
FIRST TRAILER OUT!
1st trailer has been released for Steven Spielberg's sf movie READY PLAYER ONE which, out next March, is set in 2044 and stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts, who finds the first clue in a race to find the hidden Easter Egg in a massive VR game called the Oasis, created by a now-deceased genius. Whoever finds the Egg will inherit the creator’s $240 billion fortune.
This one arrived this weekend rather unexpectedly, must admit I quite forgot it finished with production, but the first trailer has been released for ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL last night. The big screen adaptation of the popular manga
Rosa Salazar plays an unusual cyborg Alita
comes from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez and has Rosa Salazar playing the powerful cyborg but her face has been rendered with CGI to give her the specific look. The movie comes out next July!
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
is an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the
Ed Skrein plays a villain named Zapan
scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz),
a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to
his clinic. When Alita
Keean Johnson plays Alita's love interest
awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does
she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything
is new to Alita, every experience a
Jennifer Connelly is also in the cast of the movie
first. As she learns to navigate her
new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield
Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart
Alita will discover she's a battle angel next July!
new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson),
offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection
develops between the two until deadly forces
Oscar winner Mahershala Ali also stars in the movie
come after Alita and
threaten her new found relationships. It is then that Alita discovers
she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the
Alita has been made on a very risky massive $200 million budget
friends and family she's grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth
behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to
take on the
James Cameron left Alita's helm to direct new Avatars
injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that
one young woman can change the world in which she lives.
