KNIVES OUT MURDER MYSTERY TRAILER WITH CHRIS EVANS, TONI COLLETTE, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, DANIEL CRAIG! JOAN CUSACK TO PLAY FAMOUS COOK JULIA CHILD IN HBO TV SERIES

'JULIA CHILD' TV SERIES

JOAN CUSACK TO PLAY THE COOK

One of the news from previous weekend coming from Hollywood is that Joan Cusack will portray world's most famous TV cook JULIA CHILD in a

Joan Cusack will play the famous cook and TV personality

new TV series for HBO Max streaming service. To be written and produced by Daniel Goldfarb, it will chronicle Child’s life and career from 1962 to 1976. Ten years ago she was played by Meryl Streep in Julia and Julia movie.

'KNIVES OUT' TRAILER

HAS A STAR-STUDDED CAST!

You can also check out a rather fun trailer for Lionsgate's new murder mystery KNIVES OUT which will stab its way into cinemas this November with a rather super stellar cast led by Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Daniel

Knives are out this November!

Craig, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee  Curtis, Don Johnson and Michael Shannon. Star Wars director Rian Johnson is helming this one.

 Every One Has A Motive No One Has A Clue
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional

Click on the photo to see the posters in full size!

family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

YOU CANNOT TRUST WHAT YOU SEE IN NEW BBC THRILLER SERIES THE CAPTURE WITH CALLUM TURNER, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER, LAURA HADDOCK

'THE CAPTURE' TV SERIES

WITH CALLUM TURNER, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER, LAURAD HADDOCK

BBC launched last year's Autumn season with Bodyguard series which ended up being their most successful programme in more than a decade, and now they are doing it with THE CAPTURE, new six part thriller drama that

The six part series started this Tuesday on BBC One

started this Tuesday on BBC One. I usually don't cover that genre, but, admit it, who could resist the hot trio: sizzling Callum Turner, ethereal Holliday Grainger and stunningly gorgeous Laura Haddock? They lead the cast of

What happens to criminal justice if we cannot believe what we see?

the drama that deals with the threats of modern surveillance and the manipulation with visual evidence and video fakery, which will probably be one of the ways wars will be led in the future. Ben Miles, Ron Perlman and Famke Janssen also star.

 Can You Trust What You See?
When soldier Shaun Emery’s (Callum Turner) conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned because of flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage

Callum Turner plays complex, visceral and dangerous Shaun Emery

from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun’s life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again. With newly promoted DI

Holliday Grainger is detective Rachel Carey

Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) drafted in to investigate Shaun’s case, she quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective. Should

Laura Haddock plays Shaun's barrister Hannah Roberts

she trust Shaun Emery? The Capture is a six-part thriller that looks at a troubling world of fake news and the extraordinary capabilities of the intelligence services. In this ‘post-truth era’, can we really believe what we see?

TRAVIS FIMMEL TO LEAD SF ACTION MOVIE ZONE 414! CHARLIE JANE ANDERS' CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SF BOOK TO BECOME SF TV SERIES AT SONY!

TRAVIS FIMMEL TO LEAD

ZONE 414 SF THRILLER MOVIE

Science fiction updates for you this weekend, starting with Vikings stars Travis Fimmel who has been cast as the lead star of sf thriller ZONE

The movie should start shooting this winter

414 which will be offered to buyers at Toronto Film Festival!

The story is set in the near future in a colony of state of the art humanoid robots. When its creator’s daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael (Travis Fimmel), to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter. Moving through the dangerous iron jungle, they rapidly piece together the mystery, uncovering a crime that leads them to question the origins of Zone 414 and the true purpose behind the “City of Robots.”

CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGHT

TO BECOME SF SERIES AT SONY

Sony has, meanwhile, optioned TV series rights for sf novel THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Hugo and Nebula award winner Charlie Jane Anders which was published this year by Tor. Generations ago, the settlers of the planet January created a civilization on the edge of

Expanse's Sharon Hall will produce the series

endless environ- mental extremes, between frigid pitch black and blinding, scorching brilliance. The city of Xiosphant functions with tyrannical precision, enforcing its citizens to work, eat, and sleep in specific blocks of time mandated day and night. Sophie was a college student before being exiled from the city on suspicion of treason. Driven into January’s glacial night side to die, she is rescued by the planet’s native inhabitants. Long hated and hunted by humans as animals, these extraterrestrial beings known as the Gelet not only save Sophie, but form a telepathic bond with her in an attempt to build a bridge between their species. Returned to human society, Sophie finds herself swept up in a revolution to overthrow Xiosphant’s authoritarian government. It is a war she wants no part of, a conflict that will only further decimate an already unstable planet. Now, it’s up to Sophie to convince her people that humanity’s future and very survival lies with the Gelet.

SKY RELEASES 1ST IMAGE FROM A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES SEASON 2 FROM ELIZABETHAN LONDON! JAMES PUREFOY, TOM HUGHES AND OTHERS JOIN THE CAST

'A DISOVERY OF WITCHES'

SEASON TWO UPDATES!

Sky has revealed the first look at the second season of their popular series A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES together with the names of new cast members! The first season followed a witch Diana (atrociously bad Teresa Palmer) and vampire Matthew (Matthew Goode) who jumped over to the 1590 London in order to protect her and for her to develop her powers in Elizabethan

The 10episode season airs next year on Sky with the 3rd season already ordered

England. Steven Cree joins them as Matthew's nephew Gallowglass De Clermont, a vampire and soldier of fortune, while James Purefoy will be Matthew's stepfather Philippe De Clermont, commander of the Knights of

Steven Cree as Gallowglass, a vampire soldier, Matthew's nephew!

Lazarus. Barbara Marten will play Queen Elizabeth and Tom Hughes is playwright Kit Marlowe. Sheila Hancock will be elder witch Goody Alsop, with Paul Rhys as Andrew Hubbard, the vampire ruler of London. Michael Lindall is Sir Walter Raleigh!

IN SEASON 2 OF THE SERIES
Diana's beloved aunts, Sarah and Em (Alex Kingston and Valarie Pettiford), must take shelter with notorious witch hunter Ysabeau de Clermont (Lindsay Duncan) at her ancestral home Sept-Tours, while in

The second season is based on Deborah Harkness Shadow of Night novel

Oxford, Marcus and Miriam take on Matthew's mantle to protect daemons Nathaniel and Sophie, whose pregnancy is advancing. And Gerbert, Knox, Satu and Domenico are determined to hunt down every clue they can to Diana's and Matthew's disappearance, and the secrets their allies are keeping from them.

PERIOD SET MOVIE WILD LEAGUE BRINGS THE STORY OF THE HEROIC ORIGINS OF FOOTBALL IN RUSSIA STARRING VLADIMIR YAGLYCH AND ADRIAN PAUL

'WILD LEAGUE' TRAILER

ORIGINS OF SOCCER IN RUSSIA

While the Brits are preparing period set TV series The English Game on the origins of soccer or football on their isles, sweet Mother Russia is a couple of steps ahead of them as they've already shot a whole movie on how football

The movie arrives to cinemas this October

came to be played in Russia at the beginning of the last century. WILD LEAGUE (Дикая лига) is arriving to their cinemas October 24th starring Vladimir Yaglych, Adrian Paul and Stanislav Tikunov as Prince Mikhail.

 WHAT'S THE STORY?
Based upon the real life events of the 1910s, this extremely topical story follows a guy named Varlam from the lowest social strata, who, in order to be with his beloved woman, had to leave his native land and start his life anew in Moscow. After proving himself in the field, he was noticed by an Englishman owning a

The film is based on true events!

closed soccer club, who invited him to try his hand in his team. However, soccer was an aristocratic game and the team didn't accept a barge hauler from the Volga. Therefore, he gathered his courage, found the right people, with whom they created the WILD LEAGUE consisting  of street teams from Moscow. Then, having gathered strength, he, together with a real patriot and a passionate football manager Balashov, creates the first national team and becomes a leader, changing his life and the life of those around him. Thanks to Varlam and his team, football became the national sport in Russia and after 110 years, Russia became the host of the World Cup for the first time!

AMAZON CASTS DANIEL HENNEY AS LORD OF THE SEVEN TOWERS IN THE EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF THE WHEEL OF TIME WITH ROSAMUND PIKE

'THE WHEEL OF TIME' CASTS

DANIEL HENNEY IN THE ROLE OF LORD MANDRAGORAN

Amazon has found its Lord of the Seven Towers, and he is quite a hunk: Daniel Henney has just joined Amazon's TV series adaptation of

Daniel Henney is taking one of the lead male roles

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy adventure THE WHEEL OF TIME which already has Rosamund Pike and a bunch of other youngsters in the cast. In the super expensive saga, Henney will play al’Lan Mandragoran, Lord of the Seven Towers, the uncrowned king and only survivor of the royal line of the fallen kingdom of Malkier.

THE WHEEL OF TIME
follows Moirane (Rosamund Pike), a member of the incredibly powerful all female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world spanning journey with five young men and women, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn, who will either save or destroy humanity.

EMILY BLUNT JOINS JAMIE DORNAN IN WILDE MOUNTAIN THYME IRISH ROMANCE WITH JOHN HAMM, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN!

'WILD MOUNTAIN THYME' 

 PUTS JAMIE DORNAN AND EMILY BLUNT IN LOVE

Earlier last spring I told you that John Patrick Shanley is preparing to turn his Broadway stage play Outside Mullingar into a romantic movie titled WILD MOUNTAIN THYME and that Jamie Dornan and Holliday

Emily Blunt takes over the lead female role

Grainger will play the lovebirds in it, but she is now being replaced by Emily Blunt with John Hamm and Christopher Walken also joining the cast in the story set in the enchanting landscapes of rural Ireland. Dornan and Blunt will play obstinate star crossed lovers, whose families are caught up in a feud over a hotly contested patch of land that separates their two farms!

Anthony (Jamie Dornan) always seems to be out in the fields working, worn down by his father’s (Christopher Walken) constant belittling. But what really stings is his father’s threat to bequeath the family farm to his American cousin Adam (John Hamm). Rosemary (Emily Blunt) at first seems to hold a grudge for having been shamed by Anthony in

Jamie Dornan will shoot the film in his Irish homeland

childhood, but the sparks between them would keep a bonfire blazing through the night. Her mother Aoife (Dearbhla Molloy) strives to unite the families before it is too late.

REALITY IS VERY DARK EVEN ON A TROPICAL PARADISE ISLAND FOR ALEX PETTYFER AND KATE BOSWORTH IN NEW NETFLIX TV SERIES THE I-LAND!

     'THE I-LAND' NETFLIX SERIES

STARRING ALEX PETTYFER

Hollywood is enjoying its holiday slumber, so the only thing I have for you today is the first trailer and poster for limited series THE I-LAND which

The I-land hits Netflix next week

hits Netflix next week, September 12th! The cast of the seven episode series is lead by Alex Pettyfer and Kate Bosworth, with Kyle Schmid also in the cast of the exotic thriller adventure.

When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are or how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home. They soon discover this world is not as it seems. Faced with the island's extreme psychological and physical challenges, they must rise to their better selves - or die as their worst ones. Check out the mysterious trailer below and tell us what you think!

LEWIS TAN, JOSH LAWSON, JOE TASLIM, TADANOBU ASANO, HIROYUKI SANADA, LUDI LIN TEAM UP FOR NEW MORTAL KOMBAT MOVIE ADAPTATION!

     'MORTAL KOMBAT' MOVIE

GETS ITS HEROES AND VILLAINS

Lewis Tan is set to take the lead role

We are ending our Asian Invasion Weekend today with a project coming straight from Hollywood which has gathered most of the Asian stars working in America in its cast. New Line has set March 2021 (which is when another 90s iconic epic adventure Masters of the Universe will also premiere its latest movie adaptation) date as the premiere for the new big screen adaptation of famous video game MORTAL KOMBAT but they already have most of the cast announced for the film which will be the first Mortal Kombat movie in more than twenty years and it is set to be directed by Simon McQuoid who will find himself for the first time behind the helm of a major blockbuster. The video game on which the movie is based is the best selling video game of 2019 so far. It has been sold in almost

Joe Taslim and Ludi Lin will be part of the team as well

50 million copies since it was first released in 1992 following a set of exotic martial arts heroes from different realms who are fighting for supremacy. Aquaman's James  Wan is producing.

     WHO IS IN THE CAST  

Josh Lawson will be evil Kano

The leading role has been reserved for super charismatic Lewis Tan whom we fell in love with in Into The Badlands series. Jessica McNamee will step into the role of Sonya Blade, commander of Earth's special forces, and Australian star Josh Lawson will portray Kano, a nasty leader of an international crime cartel who has a cybernetic eye. Aquaman's Ludi Lin will be Shaolin monk Liu Kang with powerful flying kicks who is the main defender of Earth, newcomer Sisi Stringer will portray sai wielding assassin Mileena and Mehcad Brooks will play special forces muscleman Jackson “Jax” Bridges. In addition, Thor's Tadanobu Asano is set to play Japanese God of thunder Raiden, while martial arts star Joe Taslim, whom

Australian actress Jessica McNamee will be Sonya Blade

we are watching in Cinemax action series Warrior, has landed the role of frosty ninja Sub-Zero. Hiroyuki Sanada is already down in South Australia where the filming is taking place and he is set to play undead ninja Scorpion! Chin Han will play Shang Tsung, a powerful but evil wizard who shapeshifts and takes the souls of those who he defeats.

CHINA SAVES THE WORLD FROM ALIENS IN MASSIVELY EPIC TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR CHINESE SF EPIC SPECTACLE SHANGHAI FORTRESS

      SHANGHAI FORTRESS FILM

CHINA'S BIGGEST SUMMER FLOP

We continue our Asian Invasion Weekend with massively epic trailer and posters for SHANGHAI FORTRESS science fiction disaster movie in

The film already played in cinemas earlier this month

which the Chinese are saving the planet from the alien invaders who have parked their nasty alien mothership right above China's biggest city! Directed by Hua Tao Teng, this action packed extravaganza has already played in Chinese cinemas earlier this month and it has earned about $20 million (it cost close to $60 million) around the world. Although a very expensive big budgeted affair, the movie crashed at the Chinese box office failing to break any records. Unlike most of the Western directors who would probably attack the audience for the lack of success of their film, Hua Tao Teng actually publicly apologized to the

The movie is a big screen adaptation of Jiang Nan's novel

audience for ruining their hopes in sf films with this one. Qi Shu, pop star Han Lu (I hear he is really bad in the film), Godfrey Gao and Vincent Matile are just some of the names that appear in the cast.

     SHANGHAI FORTRESS
is based on the novel of the same name set in the future: the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that

The story of the movie is set in year 2042!

has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth. Check out the trailer with English subtitles below: