DELIGHTFUL NEW BRITISH FESTIVE COMEDIES 'SURVIVING CHRISTMAS WITH RELATIVES' WITH JOELY RICHARDSON, JULIAN OVENDEN, MICHAEL LANDES, 'NATIVITY ROCKS' WITH CELIA IMRIE!

   'SURVIVING CHRISTMAS WITH

 RELATIVES' TRAILER! SPEND IT WITH THE ONES YOU LOATHE

I'm sure you will all agree that one of the reasons why holidays are so charming is that they often turn into a delightful disaster! Two of festive

No US release date for this one yet!

disasters for you today as we're only about a month away from Christmas, believe it or not! SURVIVING CHRISTMAS WITH RELATIVES is an ensemble comedy opening in cinemas at the end of the month. Joely Richardson, Julian Ovenden, Gemma Whelan, Michael Landes, Sally Phillips, James Fox and Patricia Hodge are just some of the well known names appearing in this delightful story about two sisters and their families who spend - or rather, endure - Christmas at their late parents' dilapidated country house. Oscar nominated writer James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) is both writing and directing this one!

   'NATIVITY ROCKS!' TRAILER

 NO SILENT NIGHT HERE!

Another festive British comedy hitting cinemas at the end of this month is NATIVITY ROCKS! The cast led by Celia Imrie, Craig Revel Horwood, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Dennis and other popular British faces, stars in a

The comedy musical is hitting cinemas in UK and Ireland November 23rd!

story about the staff and students from St Bernadette's Primary School in Coventry who audition for a place in a rock musical competition.

NICOLE KIDMAN AND HUGH GRANT TO LEAD THE UNDOING HBO MINI SERIES! FLORA SANDES ONLY FEMALE OFFICER IN SERBIAN ARMY DURING GREAT WAR TO GET WW1 EPIC BIOPIC!

   'THE UNDOING' MINI SERIES

TO BE TOPLINED BY NICOLE

Nicole will lead new six part mini series

KIDMAN AND HUGH GRANT AT HBO

Here's an unusual small screen pairing for you: as Deadline reports, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant will lead  HBO's new six episode mini television series THE UNDOING an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known! The limited  series will follow Grace Sachs (Nicole Kidman), who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband pediatric oncologist (Hugh Grant) and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public

Hugh Grant will suddenly disappear as an acclaimed oncologist and doting father

disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

  'FLORA SANDES' MOVIE

ON SERBIAN WW1 HEROINE!

Flora Sandes has a street named after her in Serbia

In the light of recent armistice centennial here's a very poignant project: Mad As Birds Films will turn FLORA SANDES story into a film following the only British woman to enlist as a soldier and fight on the frontline in the First World War. It is based on Louise Miller’s book A FINE BROTHER which tells how she fought alongside the heroic Serbian Army for the Allies after moving from Victorian England to the trenches of Serbia!

FLORA SANDES joined the ambulance unit and with a group of 36 women set off for Serbia to try to aid brave Serbs who were dying in hundreds of thousands under Austro Hungarian guns and also from typhus outbreak. After that she joined the Serbian army as a private thanks to her impressive riding and shooting skills. She rose through the Serbian ranks as the only female officer in Serbian Army and was seriously wounded by a grenade in hand to hand combat. Her injuries put an end to her combat in the war but she remained near the front line to run a hospital. Later on she also wanted to fight for Serbia in WW2 but was interned by Germans. She received many medals from Serbia and is still fondly remembered there as a national heroine and a street in Belgrade is named after her.

GOTHIC THURSDAY: ARMIE HAMMER TO LEAD 'REBECCA' DAPHNE DU MAURIER GOTHIC THRILLER ADAPTATION! JEKYLL & HYDE'S DAUGHTERS TO UNITE IN 'THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST DAUGHTER' VICTORIAN SERIES AT CW!

  ARMIE HAMMER TO LEAD

'REBECCA' GOTHIC ADAPTATION!

Armie Hammer will be Maxim de Winter

If you liked last year's My Cousin Rachel, you will be happy to hear that another of Daphne du Maurier's classic novels is getting a big screen adaptation to be led by Armie Hammer! Her gothic thriller REBECCA will be adapted by Ben Wheatley for Netflix!

Lily James will play a newly married young woman who, on arriving at her husband’s imposing family estate on a bleak English coast, finds herself battling the shadow of his dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca, whose legacy continues to haunt the house.

The 1940 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation starring Joan Fontaine and  Laurence Olivier won an Oscar for Best Film that year and also 11 nominations. Armie Hammer will play brooding Maxim de Winter who  brings his second wife, and the narrator of the story, into his house.

  CW'S NEW VICTORIAN SERIES

TO FOLLOW DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE'S DAUGHTERS

The book will be adapted into series over at CW

Speaking of Gothic things, CW will adapt Theodora Goss' fantasy novel THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST DAUGHTER  into a TV series. The story is set in Victorian London where two radically different young women – one the daughter of Dr. Jekyll; the other, Mr. Hyde – discover they’re half sisters when a series of gruesome murders appear connected to their deceased father. They unite with other unsung but remarkable daughters of famous literary figures to rise above societal norms and unearth the mystery of their origins. Part of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, the 2017 book was followed by European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman this year.

SF WEDNESDAY: PEDRO PASCAL TO LEAD THE MANDALORIAN STAR WARS TV SERIES FOR DISNEY'S NEW STREAMING SERVICE! JOHNNY LEE MILLER TO LEAD URSULA LE GUIN'S NINE LIVES MOVIE ADAPTATION

  PEDRO PASCAL

TO LEAD THE MANDALORIAN STAR WARS TV SERIES FOR DISNEY +

Pedro Pascal will be the Mandalorian

You know your trusted spy is not much of a fan of Star Wars, but some of you might be interested to hear that Disney's upcoming new streaming service is preparing a TV series from that universe and they've set Pedro Pascal to topline it in the lead role! Director Jon Favreau will produce THE MANDALORIAN science fiction series for Disney + with a plan for it to air next year. Star Wars characters Jango and Boba Fett's were also from the planet of Mandalore but this one, set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order, will see Pascal playing a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic. As Variety reports, Disney + has also announced work on a prequel series on the “Rogue One” character Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna! The directors for THE MANDALORIAN episodes have already been set and they include actress Bryce Dallas Howard and Thor director Taika Waititi.

  JOHNNY LEE MILLER

Johnny Lee Miller will lead the new movie

TO LEAD NINE LIVES SF MOVIE

In other science fiction news today, one of the most popular sf writers Ursula  K. Le Guin, known for Earthsea saga, will see her sf novelette NINE LIVES adapted into a movie with Johnny Lee Miller and rapper Common set to lead the cast. As Deadline reports, set on a moon base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones.

INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY: MOVING TRAILERS FOR RUSSIAN WW2 EPIC DRAMA SAVING LENINGRAD, FRENCH ADVENTURE REMI, NOBODY'S BOY WITH DANIEL AUTEUIL, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN, LUDIVINE SAGNIER

 'REMI, NOBODY'S BOY' TRAILER

 AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE

Hollywood is sleeping so we're doing what you like most - going international! First up, a trailer for French heart warming drama REMI, NOBODY'S BOY which will arrive into French cinemas this December and

Remi arrives to cinemas this December

then spread around Europe with Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Ledoyen and Ludivine Sagnier in the lead roles. It follows adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, found by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Next to him he will learn the harsh life of an acrobat and will have to sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog and a small monkey, Remi will, during his long trip through France, made of meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, find the secret of his origins.

 'SAVING LENINGRAD' TRAILER

HEROISM OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE!

Over from Russia, meanwhile, comes sprawling epic movie SAVING LENINGRAD (Спасти Ленинград) which will storm into motherland

Saving Leningrad starts next January!

cinemas next January.  September 1941 year. By the will of circumstances, young lovers Kostya and Nastya  find themselves on a barge, which must take people out of the besieged Leningrad. At night, the ship gets into a storm and suffers disaster, at the site of the tragedy, the first are not rescuers, but enemy planes.

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
A story based on real events that laid the foundation for the great Road of Life - the ice road winter transport route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the city of Leningrad besieged by German and Finnish Nazis. The siege lasted over three long years during which over one million citizens of Leningrad died from starvation, cold and bombardments! Each winter, the Lake Ladoga ice route was reconstructed by hand, and built according to precise arithmetic calculations depending on traffic volume. In addition to transporting thousands of tons of munitions and food supplies each year, the Road of Life also served as the primary evacuation route for the millions of Russians trapped within the starving hero city!

MRS. WILSON BBC PERIOD SET MINI SERIES TRAILER WITH RUTH WILSON AS HER OWN GRANDMOTHER NEXT TO IAIN GLEN, KEELEY HAWES!

 'MRS. WILSON' TRAILER

FOR NEW BBC PERIOD SET DRAMA

To ease our boring Monday, BBC has released today a trailer for their upcoming new period set mini series MRS. WILSON which sees actress Ruth Wilson playing her own grandmother in the real life story about a

The series is based on Ruth Wilson's grandmother's memoirs

woman who did not know her husband had multiple wives! BBC One will start airing the series November 27th, and PBS will air it later on in USA.

  MRS. WILSON FOLLOWS
Alison Wilson who thinks she is a normal, happily married woman. But when her husband Alec (Iain Glen) suddenly dies, a woman turns up on her

The series will air on BBC November 27th and PBS Masterpiece next year

doorstep, claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage - and Alec's love for her - but is instead

More than 30 relatives from Alec's four marriages including his seven kids have met for the first time a few years ago!

led into a world of dark and troubling secrets. Alec was a British spy and a best-selling novelist and Alison is pushed to the very brink to find out the truth. Our dearest Keeley Hawes also stars in the drama.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON AQUAMAN + ROYAL ATLANTEAN PORTRAITS WITH JASON MOMOA, AMBER HEARD, PATRICK WILSON, NICOLE KIDMAN, WILLEM DAFOE

  NEW 'AQUAMAN' POSTERS

THE WRATH OF THE SEVEN SEAS

Aquaman is coming December 21st

You know your trusted spy doesn't do superheroes, but we do believe DC has always been profoundly superior to Marvel and this one certainly looks brilliantly entertaining and visually majestic. Today you can feast your eyes on the royal portraits of Atlantean nobles from AQUAMAN which is ready to swim into cinemas December 21st! The $160 million underwater adventure (two thirds of the film take place in the ocean) was directed by James Wan who wanted to make the movie less dark adding to it tons of romantic adventure and humour as well!

The movie was directed by James Wan

STORY OF AQUA MAN
Following the events of DC's previous all star hit movie Justice League, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), the reluctant ruler of the vast underwater kingdom of Atlantis, is suddenly caught in a fierce  battle between surface dwellers, that threaten his oceans, and his own people, who are ready to lash out and invade the surface.

ARTHUR CURRY HEIR OF ATLANTIS

Arthur Curry is played again by Jason Momoa for the third time, he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis who must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world just as his brother, Orm seeks to unite the

Aquaman's Atlantis consists of seven different underwater kingdoms!

seven kingdoms against the surface world. He has the ability to manipulate the tides of the ocean, communicate with other aquatic life, swim at supersonic speeds, and possesses superhuman strength. Kaan Guldur portrays a 9 year old Arthur Curry, and Otis Dhanji portrays a 13 year old Arthur.

PRINCESS MERA OF XEBEL

Mera,  a warrior and daughter of the king of the Atlantean tribe of Xebel, is played by gorgeous Amber Heard. She was raised by Queen Atlanna and

Amber Heard is Mera, princess of Xebel, who can control water

groomed to become queen. Mera possesses hydrokinetic and telepathic powers that allow her to control her aquatic environment and communicate with other Atlanteans.

ORM THE OCEAN MASTER

Orm, also known as Ocean Master is played by America's best thespian Patrick Wilson.  Aquaman's Atlantean half-brother and ruler of Atlantis

Patrick Wilson is Orm, Ocean Master, Aquaman's brother

seeks to unite the seven underwater kingdoms to declare war on the surface world out of belief humanity polluted the seas!

THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTIS
The movie also includes  Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Atlantis' counsellor and Aquaman's mentor, Dolph Lundgren as King Nereus: The

Nicole Kidman's Queen Atlanna is actually dead in the movie!

king of the Atlantean tribe of Xebel and Mera's father. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as David Kane also known as Black Manta: A ruthless treasure hunter and a high-seas mercenary with a flair for creating deadly technological

The warriors of Atlantis ride battle sharks and also sea dragons!

innovations. Nicole Kidman is Queen Atlanna: The Queen of Atlantis, mother of Arthur Curry and Orm. Ludi Lin portrays Murk, the Captain of the

Dolph Lundgren is King Nereus!

Men-of-War, the frontline army of Atlantis, while Temuera Morrison portrays Thomas Curry: Arthur Curry's father and a lighthouse keeper! Djimon Hounsou, Natalia Safran, and Sophia Forrest play the

Willem Dafoe is Vulko, Aquaman's mentor

Fisherman King, Fisherman Queen, and the Fisherman Princess whom Orm creates alliance with as part of his plan to unite the seven kingdoms!

1ST TEASER AND POSTER FOR AMAZON'S THE BOYS ANTI SUPERHERO SERIES WITH KARL URBAN AND CHACE CRAWFORD!

  'THE BOYS' SF SERIES

KARL URBAN & CHACE CRAWFORD IN AMAZON'S SUPERHERO SHOW

A poster and teaser trailer have been revealed for Amazon Prime's THE BOYS Karl Urban series which puts an ironic spin to super hero genre! To hit the small screens next year THE BOYS is set in a world where

The Boys arrive sometime next year

superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame. It follows a group of vigilantes known informally as THE BOYS who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

The cast is led by Karl Urban as Billy Butcher who approaches Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s accidental death at the hands of superhero A-Train (Jesse T. Usher) and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the Superhero franchise. The cast also has Chace

The Boys will try to bring down the superhero pests!

Crawford as aquatic hero The Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Erin Moriarty as Starlight who can make lightning bolts flash from her eyes and Karen Fukuhara! Elisabeth Shue plays the PR of the Superheroes!

HILARIOUS TRAILER FOR MISSING LINK ANIMATED ADVENTURE WITH HUGH JACKMAN, STEPHENFRY, EMMA THOMPSON, ZOE SALDANA, DAVID WALLIAMS

  'MISSING LINK' TRAILER

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET HAIRY

Another animated treat for you this week, this time the first trailer for MISSING LINK Laika's new animated adventure in which Hugh

The Missing Link will be found next Spring

Jackman is lending his voice to the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small minded high society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel's last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature (Zach Galifianakis). A living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. The Missing Link. Emma Thompson, David Walliams, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas and Zoe Saldana are just a part of the

This is the fourth time Hugh and Emma are voicing an animated film

wonderful voice cast! The film was directed by Paranorman's Chris Butler who also worked on Coraline, Corpse Bride, Kubo and the Two Strings. The movie should hit cinemas next April!

TRAILERS FOR NETFLIX MOVIES MOWGLI WITH CHRISTIAN BALE, CATE BLANCHETT, THE PRINCESS SWITCH CHRISTMAS ROMANCE WITH VANESSA HUDGENS, SAM PALLADIO

  'THE PRINCESS SWITCH'

NETFLIX FESTIVE ROMANCE

The switch will happen November 16th!

Well, I guess it is that time of the year when festive movies are slowly being announced, one of them THE PRINCESS SWITCH which will arrive to Netflix November 16th with Vanessa Hudgens playing Margaret, the gorgeous Duchess of Montenaro, who, one week before Christmas, switches places with Stacy, a "commoner" from Chicago, who looks exactly like her. With the assistance of a magical Santa's helper, Margaret falls in love with Stacy's handsome co-worker (Nick Sagar), while Stacy falls in love with Margaret's fiance, the dashing Prince played by gorgeous actor and musician Sam Palladio. A week after that you can also watch Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell as Santa!

  NEW 'MOWGLI' TRAILER

FROM JUNGLE TO NETFLIX

Speaking of Netflix, check out the new trailer for their adventure MOWGLI: LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE which was originally supposed to

Mowgli hits Netflix December 7th

be a major cinema movie but will now air on Netflix December 7th with a limited cinema release at the end of this month only in a few major cities. The voice cast includes Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Jack Reynor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Matthew Rhys! 

THE STORY OF MOWGLI 
follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli (Rohan Chand) raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India. As he learns the often harsh rules of

Beside lending voice to Baloo, Andy Serkis also directs the movie

jungle, under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo (Andy Serkis) and a black panther named Bagheera (Christian Bale), Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals of the jungle as one of their own, except for one; the fearsome

The movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's famous classic book

tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch). But there may be greater dangers lurking in the jungle, as Mowgli comes face to face with his human origins.