PERIOD SET THURSDAY: JOSEPH QUINN IS PRINCE PAUL IN HELEN MIRREN'S 'CATHERINE THE GREAT' MINI SERIES! 'HELENA RUBINSTEIN' QUEEN OF COSMETICS MOVIE IN WORKS

   'CATHERINE THE GREAT'

JOSEPH QUINN TO PLAY THE IMPERIAL HEIR PRINCE PAUL

Yes, please! After Jason Clarke has been chosen to play Prince Grigory Potemkin the lover of Russian Empress CATHERINE THE GREAT in Sky's

Shooting should begin this Autumn!

and HBO's new historical epic mini series with Helen Mirren, our dearest Joseph Quinn, whom we fell in love with in Dickensian and the godawful Howards End, will play her son, heir and future emperor, Prince Paul!

The four part saga set in the most turbulent 18th century will follow the final years of her reign which lasted for more than three decades during which she made Russia bigger and more populated than ever. The series is written by Elizabeth's Nigel Williams and directed by The Crown's Philip Martin! Prince Paul hated his mother with passion as he felt neglected since she never saw in him the son she wanted to have. We will also watch Joseph Quinn next year in BBC's Les Miserables!

  HELENA RUBINSTEIN

GETS HER OWN 1920'S BIOPIC!

Another period set saga is coming over from Studiocanal Australia! They will produce a movie on the queen of cosmetics Helena Rubinstein! As 'Deadline' reports, HELENA will chart the life of the revered Polish-American

Helena Rubinstein was known as the queen of cosmetics!

businesswoman, art collector and philanthropist. It will focus on the late 1920s when she was at the height of her powers but had to choose between her empire and her family. She began her cosmetics business in Australia and her first Melbourne store was a forerunner to those in Paris, London and New York.

FANTASTIC NEW LASSE HALLSTROM & DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' TRAILER WITH HELEN MIRREN IS HERE! 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER WITH JULIANNE MOORE, KEN WATANABE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT

  NEW 'NUTCRACKER' TRAILER

ARRIVES FROM THE 4 REALMS

The first trailer was certainly nice, and now here's the second one for Disney's November fantasy NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS! All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a special key that will unlock a box that

Nuts will crack in cinemas this November

holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key, which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There, Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora Knight), a gang of mice and the 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, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. The movie was directed by Lasse Hallström with his colleague Joe

Captain America's Joe Johnston was brought in the end to ad action scenes

Johnston joining the last month of production to ad a few dynamic action scenes! Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley (as bad as ever this time with the most irritatingly bad voice) also star.

 'BEL CANTO' TRAILER SEES

 JULIANNE MOORE, CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, KEN WATANABE ARE IN GRAVE DANGER

Bel Canto starts to sing this September

Equally interesting, but a lot more scary, is the first trailer for new Julianne Moore thriller movie BEL CANTO in which she plays  Roxane Coss, a famous American soprano, who travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe). Just as a handsome gathering of local dignitaries convenes at Vice President Ruben Ochoa's mansion, including French Ambassador Thibault (Christopher Lambert), the house is taken over by guerrillas led by Comandante Benjamin (Tenoch Huerta) demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Their only contact with the outside

Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe lead the experienced cast

world is through Red Cross negotiator Messner (Sebastian Koch). A month long standoff ensues in which hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find their shared humanity and hope in the face of impending disaster. 

TV TUESDAY: GAL GADOT TO LEAD 'HEDY LAMARR' TV SERIES! PATRICK WILSON TO LEAD STEPHEN KING'S 'IN THE TALL GRASS' AT NETFLIX! 'LAST MAN STANDING' CASTS NEW MANDY AND BOYD!

GAL GADOT TO LEAD

HEDY LAMARR MINI SERIES?

Gal Gadot is also producing!

TV news all day today, people! Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot is negotiating to lead Showtime's new series about famous Hollywood actress and super intelligent inventor HEDY LAMARR! Beside being the star of Hollywood's greatest hits in the 40's, for example Samson and Dalilah, she was also an inventor whose inventions led to WiFi and GPS. As 'Deadline' reports, Austrian born Lamarr started her career in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s before leaving her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and moving to Paris and London where she got signed by Metro Goldwyn Meyer. When it comes to her scientific works, at the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency.

 PATRICK WILSON TO LEAD

STEPHEN KING'S 'IN THE TALL GRASS' FILM AT NETFLIX!

Patrick Wilson will be the father!

 In other TV news today, it seems that Netflix' movie adaptation of Stephen King's IN THE TALL GRASS won't be toplined by James Marsden, but by another of our beloved actors Patrick Wilson together with Laysla De Oliveira and Harrison Gilbertson.

It follows brother and sister Cal and Becky Demuth! When Becky finds out she's pregnant during her second year at college, their parents decide to send her to live with her aunt and uncle until the baby is born, and Cal comes along with her during the spring break. After visiting a number of tourist destinations along the way they come across a vast field, where they hear a boy named Tobin crying out for help. The twins decide to venture into the field to help young Tobin, but soon realize that they may never get to leave and that something evil lurks within the tall grass!

 'LAST MAN STANDING'

CASTS NEW MANDY AND BOYD!

A week ago when I gave you new poster for the seventh, returning, season of TV's most popular family sitcom LAST MAN STANDING, which returns,

Molly McCook is the new improved Mandy Baxter

this time on Fox, last Friday in September, I also told you that, although most of the cast is back, including Tim Allen and Nancy Travis, as Mike and Vanessa Baxter, two actors will be replaced and now we have the names of their replacements! Molly McCook (Good Trouble) will play their middle daughter Mandy replacing Molly Ephraim who signed other contracts while the sitcom was on hiatus, and Jet Jurgensmeyer (he played Jack's grandson in Will & Grace) will play their grandson Boyd as they're jumping a bit in time and showing him as a 12 year boy at the brink of puberty. Hector Elizondo, Jonathan Adams,

Little Jet Jurgensmeyer who was amazing in Will And Grace is new Boyd

Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson all return to the beloved sitcom about Allen's Mike, a married father of three girls who tries to maintain his manliness in the house dominated by women.

EXCITING FULL TRAILER FOR BBC ONE'S SERIES 'BODYGUARD' WITH RICHARD MADDEN, KEELEY HAWES!

BBC'S 'BODYGUARD' TRAILER

NEW RICHARD MADDEN AND  KEELEY HAWES TV SERIES

BBC has revealed the 1st long trailer for their 6 part drama BODYGUARD that tells the fictional story of David Budd (Richard Madden), working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch

The series will air in six hourlong episodes

 of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes),

Keeley Hawes is warmongering Home Secretary Julia Montague

whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat? Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin, Stuart

Richard Madden is Special Protection Officer David Budd

Bowman also star! The series starts airing Sunday, August 26th on BBC, with the second episode on Monday, and then continues Sunday evenings.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ENCHANTING ANIMATED ADVENTURE 'SMALLFOOT' WITH CHANNING TATUM, DANNY DEVITO, JAMES CORDEN, GINA RODRIGUEZ

  'SMALLFOOT' POSTERS

MEET THE YETI CREW!

Smallfoot and Yetis arrive this September

Although the main news today is that CBS is preparing new Star Trek series which will bring back Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard, the spy will entertain you this Sunday with some snowy fun to freshen up your scorching summer! New animated adventure SMALLFOOT was originally slated for release in February but was then pushed later on into Autumn 2018, opening in cinemas in North America this September and Europe next October!

HUMANS REALLY EXIST! 
Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick (he directed Over the Hedge and wrote Charlotte's Web, Chicken Run, James and the Giant Peach, The Spiderwick Chronicles) hilarious animated comedy SMALLFOOT  follows a Yeti called

Channing Tatum and Lebron James are Migo and Gwangi

Migo (Channing Tatum) who is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist. When he finds one, news of this SMALLFOOT throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.

MEET THE REST OF THE CAST!

Beside Channing Tatum as Migo (who has a heart as big as yeti), the voice cast also includes James Corden as Percy, a human, Common as Stonekeeper (who watches over the ancient stones on which the history and

James Corden and Danny DeVito are Percy and Dorgle

rules of Yeti village are written. It’s a heavy burden, literally, because he wears the stones like a massive clanking robe), LeBron James as Gwangi (an old school conspiracy theorist who, of course, believes in Smallfoots), Gina

Gina Rodriguez and Common are Kolka and Stonekeeper

Rodriguez as Kolka (a Yeti science nerd who likes to study Smallfoot artefacts), Danny DeVito as Dorgle (Migo's simple and loving father, village gong ringer), who are all yetis!

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.

FX ADAPTING JAMES CLAVELL'S HISTORICAL SAGA 'SHOGUN' SET IN FEUDAL JAPAN INTO EPIC MINI TV SERIES!

 'SHOGUN'

EPIC TV SERIES AT FX!

More than five years ago, your spy has informed you that Fox was planning this project but it did not happen and now it is FX that has ordered a series based on James Clavell's SHOGUN! The production of the ten episode mini

Shogun will be a ten episode limited series

will be done on an international scale.

Tim Van Patten is directing the story set in feudal Japan, which charts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne, a risk taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonourable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance. The novel, sold in more than 30 million copies worldwide, was adapted 40 years ago into a series with Richard Chamberlain. Aired on four consecutive nights in 1980 at NBC it started the format of mini series!

'ALF' IS GETTING A REBOOT AT WARNER BROS? JAMES NORTON JOINS MERYL STREEP, SAOIRSE RONAN, EMMA STONE IN 'LITTLE WOMEN'? 'COOL KIDS' SITCOM TRAILER IS HERE!

 'ALF' REBOOT

IN EARLY STAGES AT WARNER?

Well, out of all comedy reboots, this one is the one I'd truly wish for (since Nanny reboot is unlikely)! The word around the net today is that Warner

Alf ended its last season back in 1990.

Bros. is in early stages of bringing back 80's favourite sitcom ALF to the small screens! As you remember more than thirty years ago, the sitcom followed furry, sarcastic and yet adorable Alien Life Form called ALF who fell with his ship into the backyard of an unsuspecting family and stayed with them wrecking chaos in their house while trying to munch on their cat. If I'm correct, the new season would see Alf returning back to Earth but to some other family not the Tanners. The series had four seasons on NBC. Meanwhile, Frasier and Mad About You reboots are not happening after all.

 JAMES NORTON TO JOIN

MERYL STREEP, EMMA STONE, SAOIRSE RONAN IN 'LITTLE

James Norton might join Little Women

WOMEN'?
Unlike, Alf, a reboot that nobody really wants (there were really too many versions already) - the new big screen re imagination of LITTLE WOMEN might add, according to 'Deadline', our dearest James Norton to the cast which already includes Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Eliza Scanlen and Florence Pugh! Helming the adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's popular novel is Greta Garwig. Set in the background of American Civil War, LITTLE WOMEN revolves around the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey to womanhood, guided by their mother Marmee.

 'THE COOL KIDS' TRAILER

 FOR NEW FOX SITCOM!

Speaking of sitcoms, check out the trailer for the new comedy that will follow Last Man Standing on Fox from September 28th!  THE COOL KIDS

The Cool Kids will follow Last Man Standing on Friday nights

follows a rag-tag group of friends living in a retirement community who are willing to break every rule in order to have fun – because, at their age, what do they really have to lose.Hank (David Alan Grier) is the leader of this motley crew, a gruff, opinionated, 21st century Archie Bunker who will go to any

David Alan Grier is Hank in The Cool Kids

 lengths to have a good time. His loyal, but less than helpful, friends include Charlie (Martin Mull), a bumbling storyteller who constantly goes off on

Vicki Lawrence is Margaret in The Cool Kids

tangents about some bizarre, barely believable episode from his life; and Sid (Leslie Jordan), a naysaying, pill-popping hypochondriac who shoots down every scheme, but still gets roped in. Complicating matters is Margaret (Vicki

Leslie Jordan is Sid in The Cool Kids

Lawrence), a brash, confident woman who forces her way into their group and refuses to leave because she’s not going to take crap from anyone – especially not these three. But what unites them all is their shared belief that

Martin Mull is Charlie in The Cool Kids

they’re not done yet – not by a long shot. Growing old with dignity is for chumps. Our self-proclaimed “cool kids” are determined to make the third act of the lives the craziest one yet.

GORGEOUS FIRST POSTER AND TRAILER FOR AUSTRALIAN DRAMA 'STORM BOY' WITH GEOFFREY RUSH AND JAI COURTNEY!

 'STORM BOY' POSTER

FOR A DRAMA STARRING JAI COURTNEY AND GEOFFREY RUSH

A trailer and the gorgeous first poster have been released for Australian drama STORM BOY which hits cinemas Down Under next January starring Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney!

STORM BOY, based on the beloved book by Colin Thiele, is a highly emotional tale of a young boy (Finn Little) growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn. Jai Courtney plays his protective father who removes himself and his son from society and chooses to live on the remote coastline of the Coorong. Geoffrey Rush plays old Storm Boy who recounts the story to his granddaughter.

MAMMOTH SCREEN & POLDARK'S WRITER TO ADAPT ALEXANDRE DUMAS' 19TH CENTURY NOVEL 'COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO' INTO EPIC TV SEREIS! 1ST EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES PICS FROM 'AERONAUTS' HISTORICAL ADVENTURE

 'COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'

NEW TV SERIES FROM POLDARK'S WRITER AND PRODUCERS

Cry not Poldark lovers, not because the series is returning again next year with season five, but because its producer Mammoth Screen is preparing

Poldark's scribe is working on the new series

another epic saga for us! They are currently working with Poldark's writer Debbie Horsfield on adapting Alexandre Dumas' 19th century novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

As 'Deadline' reports, the story, will be set between 1815 and 1839 in France and Italy. It follows the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe of France ahead of the Hundred Days period, when Napoleon returned to power. It is an adventure story following a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

  1ST 'THE AERONAUTS'

SET PHOTOS WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES

Speaking of epic things, check out the first photos that have appeared around the net of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Tom Harper's historical adventure THE AERONAUTS in which they play pilot Amelia

This is the second time they star together after The Theory of Everything

Wren and scientist James Glaisher who find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon.