IT'S A STELLAR HOLIDAY WITH JOHN CLEESE, KELSEY GRAMMER, ELIZABETH HURLEY, CAROLINE QUENTIN, NATHALIE COX IN HILARIOUS FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK TRAILER

 FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK 

STELLAR TRAILER IS HERE!

Fun is what awaits you in the first trailer for festive comedy movie FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK which will probably arrive for holidays this year with an ensemble cast that includes Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese, Kelsey Grammer, Caroline Quentin and Nathalie Cox. It follows four very different sisters who have reunited for the Christmas Holiday

The movie will air on Amazon Prime

in Caroline and Peter’s Yorkshire mansion. Caroline Christmas (Nathalie Cox) is a control freak, who desires nothing more than a perfect Christmas to atone for the fact that their father, James, abandoned the whole family on Christmas Day, many years ago. Joanna Christmas (Elizabeth Hurley) is a fashion editor, who likes expensive clothes almost as much as she hates the countryside and children. She has brought along her new city boy lover, Felix (Ray Fearon) for the festivities. Vicky Christmas (Talulah Riley) is a man eater who changes boyfriends as often as most people change their underwear. Paulina Christmas (Naomi Frederick) is an introverted music professor who has been writing her PhD thesis on The Beatles

The film was shot in stately Birdsall House built in 1540

for a decade. Also along for the festive roller coaster ride is their butter wouldn’t melt mother, Elizabeth (Caroline Quentin); their plains speaking farmer uncle, John (John Cleese) Caroline’s long suffering husband, Peter (Kris Marshall); and their two children. The arrival of James (Kelsey

Father Christmas surprised the family by arriving with a young lover

Grammer), their long lost father, and his 35 year old American girlfriend Jackie (April Bowlby) ruins Caroline’s hope for the perfect Christmas and sets off a series of mishaps, inconveniences and misconstrued misunderstandings that uncover the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.

SKY TO AIR TWO ORIGINAL NEW FILMS A MONTH IN 2021 WITH SAM CLAFLIN, SAMANTHA MORTON, JACK LOWDEN, KATE BECKINSALE, ROBERT DE NIRO, MORGAN FREEMAN AND MANY OTHERS

  SAM CLAFLIN TO LEAD 

BOOK OF LOVE MOVIE FOR SKY

Sam Claflin will lead two films at Sky

Sky continues with the development of its own movies (we have To Olivia premiering this month) with a new romantic comedy BOOK OF LOVE which will have Sam Claflin as the lead together with Veronica Echegui in a story about two writers thrown together on a book tour in Mexico. Sky, by the way, plans to release two films a month this year: Samantha Morton, Jonathan Pryce, and Tom Felton will star in their SAVE THE CINEMA film based on true events about Liz Evans who makes it her mission to stop her local cinema from being demolished. Jack Lowden will, meanwhile, lead their KINDRED psychological thriller about a vulnerable mother to be who is taken in by her recently deceased boyfriend’s mother and stepson, who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones and Zach Braff will lead Sky's THE COMEBACK TRAIL about two movie producers who owe money

Jack Lowden will star in Kindred

to the mob and set up their ageing movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. They also hired Sam Claflin to star in EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE in which Casey Affleck stars as a psychiatrist who finds his life in turmoil following the sudden suicide of his patient. When he invites his patient’s surviving brother (Sam Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter, his family life and career are suddenly torn apart. Kate Beckinsale will lead Sky's JOLT as a bouncer with a murderous anger management problem that she controls with the help of an electrode lined vest to shock herself back into normalcy whenever she feels homicidal. This is just a small number of films from the whole slate that also includes some animated adventures (we already announced Dragon Rider).

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON TRIBES OF EUROPA NETFLIX SF SERIES IN WHICH EUROPE IS IN RUINS AND DARKNESS AFTER A MASSIVE GLOBAL DISASTER

  TRIBES OF EUROPA 

ARRIVES THIS MONTH

The series arrives to Netflix February 19th

The first new German series to come to us this year will be post apocalyptic show TRIBES OF EUROPA which will stream on Netflix from February 19th set in 2074, in the wake of a mysterious global disaster, when war rages between the Tribes that have emerged from the wreckage of Europe. We follow three siblings from the peaceful Origines tribe - Kiano (Emilio Sakraya), Liv (Henriette Confurius) and Elja (David Ali Rashed) - who are separated and forced to forge their own paths in an action packed fight for the future of this new Europa. The six episode saga was created by Philip Koch.

  TRIBES OF EUROPE STORY 

takes place in a shattered 2074, in which Europe is divided into countless smaller mini-states, so-called tribes. A mysterious catastrophe has plunged the world into complete darkness and caused the global economy to collapse. In

This new television series will air in six hourlong episodes

the meantime, the Tribes are fighting bitterly for supremacy within Europe, trying everything to increase their influence. At the center of this conflict are the three siblings Kiano (Emilio Sakraya), Liv (Henriette Confurius) and

David Ali Rashed leads the cast as Elja

Elja (David Ali Rashed), who belong to the tribe of the Origines. When one day a pilot of the so-called Atlanteans crashes near their rural village and leaves a puzzling cube, the three siblings get caught up in a bloody war

The three siblings will fight for the future of new Europa

between the highest powers of Europe without warning. Separately from each other, the three must embark on a journey full of adventure, at the end of which only two options await the siblings: death or peace.

COMEDY SATURDAY: LANA CONDOR TO LEAD BOO BITCH SITCOM AT NETFLIX, TARAN KILLAM JOINS ELIZABETH HURLEY IN CBS' SITCOM WELCOME TO GEORGIA

  LANA CONDOR IS 

BOO BITCH AT NETFLIX

Comedy updates today for you, starting with news coming from Variety about Lana Condor returning to Netflix where she will lead new eight episode half hour comedy series BOO, BITCH. In the show, over the course

Lara Condor will lead the cast of the new sitcom for Netflix

of one night, a high school senior (Condor) who’s lived her life safely under the radar seizes the opportunity to change her narrative and start living an epic life, only to find out the next morning that she’s a ghost.

 WELCOME TO GEORGIA 

ADS TARAN KILLAM TO THE CAST

Meanwhile, over at  CBS, they are moving on with their multicam sitcom WELCOME TO GEORGIA to which they've just added Taran Killam opposite Elizabeth Hurley and Hannah Simone.The comedy is

Taran Killam will be Hurley's son in law in the new comedy

about a daughter and her mom. When Penelope’s (Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband’s, they call on her young single mom, Georgia (Hurley), to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs

Hannah Simone will play Elizabeth Hurley's daughter

more raising than their kid. Killam will play Josh, Penelope’s husband, father to their toddler son, Levi, and an airline pilot who loves his job. Josh is a bit more tolerant of Penelope’s mother, Georgia, and tends to cut her more slack.

HISTORY'S FAVOURITE VILLAIN QUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDICI GETS HER OWN EPIC TV SERIES THE SERPENT QUEEN OVER AT STARZ!

  THE SERPENT QUEEN  

CATHERINE DE MEDICI SERIES

While we are waiting to see French series on Diana de Poitiers who was the mistress of her husband, Catherine de Medici is getting her own show over at Starz where they've just ordered THE SERPENT QUEEN series based

Justin Haythe is writing and producing the series

on a book by Leonie Frieda. The eight part saga will portray the Italian noblewoman and queen of France, married to King Henry II and mother of kinds Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. She had huge influence in France during the 16th century.

 

     Considered an immigrant, common and plain, she was married into the French court as an orphaned teenager (she was the last of the direct line of the Medicis) expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid, and she’s unable to conceive. Yet, only with her intelligence and determination, she manages to

Catherine's golden wedding dress embroidered with jewels is one of history's most famous royal gowns, it was designed by Isabella D'Este, marquise of Mantua, who was the style queen of those times. A special tax was imposed on the people of Florence to cover the expenses of the dress and Catherine's dowry, the richest of that age in the whole Europe.

keep her marriage alive and masters the bloodsport that is the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years. As you know, Starz is also preparing a series on Eleanore of Aquitaine!

SEE NATHALIE COX AND KELSEY GRAMMER IN MYSTERY MOVIE TRAILER FOR MISS WILLOUGHBY AND THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP

   MISS WILLOUGHBY  

AND THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP

We have the first poster and trailer for a movie envisioned as a start of a movie series MISS WILLOUGHBY AND THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP which

Brad Watson directed the new movie

was shot amid coronavirus. Tragically orphaned at a young age, Elizabeth Willoughby (Nathalie Cox) inherited her impressive family estate and was raised by retired US Marine, Robert (Kelsey Grammer), who also runs the family business. Under his watchful guidance, her childhood was spent studying strategy, history and literature, all the while mastering the ancient arts of combat. Now an Ancient Civilization professor at University, Willoughby receives a call from family friends, Helen and Oliver Deakins, who have been experiencing a series of

Nathalie Cox takes the lead role in the new movie

hauntings at their antique bookshop. With nobody else to turn to, and knowing Willoughby’s insatiable appetite for investigation, Helen asks Willoughby to get to the bottom of this paranormal mystery.

YOU DON'T WANNA MESS WITH BRUCE WILLIS IN THE ACTION PACKED TRAILER FOR SF ADVENTURE COSMIC SIN

  COSMIC SIN TRAILER 

BRUCE WILLIS VS ALIENS

Yep, he is now moving from kicking criminal asses to whipping some alien ones. Out in selected theatres and video on demand from March 12th is science fiction action adventure movie COSMIC SIN directed and written by

Movie arrives March 12th to VOD and theatres

Edward Drake and starring Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Adelaide Kane, Luke Wilson, Costas Mandylor and Brandon Thomas Lee (Pamela's son, yep). Story follows seven rogue soldiers who launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts. 

COSMIC SIN is set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets. Retired Military General James Ford (Bruce Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The threat

Bruce Willis is retired military general James Ford

against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle (Frank Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.

VICTORIAN LADIES ARE VERY DANGEROUS IN THE NEVERS FANTASY SERIES TEASER! AMAZON TURNING HOHLBEIN'S FANTASY CLASSIC THE GRYPHON INTO EPIC TV SERIES

 THE GRYPHON TO BECOME 

AMAZON'S FANTASY TV SERIES

The Gryphon will be a six episode series

After the success Netflix had with Barbarians, Amazon is looking to find their own German hit series, so they are adapting Wolfgang's Hohlbein's popular novel THE GRYPHON (Der Grif) into a six episode show with Erol Yesilkaya and Sebastian Marka as show runners. On their way to adulthood, the three outsiders Mark, Memo and Becky come into contact with a fantastic world called the Black Tower. There, the Griffin, a world devouring monster, has been mercilessly plundering and subjugating all living creatures for centuries. And the three friends, of all people, seem destined to end this reign of terror. As you probably remember, his Hagen von Tronje historical novel has also been set for adaptation. 

 THE NEVERS EPIC SERIES 

FIRST TEASER REVEALED

HBO has released a teaser for their new fantasy series THE NEVERS which will arrive this April. In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the 'Touched' people, mostly women, who suddenly manifest

The first part of the first season will air April in six episodes

abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the

Laura Donnelly is leading the cast as Amalia

champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces - to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place. James Norton, Tom Riley,

Ann Skelly is portraying a Victorian inventor

Olivia Williams, Nick Frost and Ben Chaplin also star. After Joss Whedon was kicked out of the series, Philippa Goslett became the new

Our dearest James Norton is lord Hugo Swan in the series

show runner and she is currently working on the rest of the episodes of the first season which will join these six finished at a later date.

IT'S AN EXPLOSIVE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN 1900 PARIS SET CRIME MYSTERY TV SERIES 'PARIS POLICE 1900' FROM CANAL +

  PARIS POLICE 1900 

EXPLOSIVE NEW TV SERIES

While we are waiting for new French epic TV series Germinal, Young Voltaire and Diane de Poitiers to arrive to the small screens later this year, there is a period set series coming from France which is already ready to hit

The series hits Canal + next Monday in France

the small screens as soon as February 8th over at their Canal +. Eight episode series PARIS POLICE 1900, set in French capital Paris in 1899, where the corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine, will see Jeremie Laheurte playing a young ambitious inspector whom the investigation will push to discover a heavy state secret. 

WHAT'S THE STORY OF THE SHOW

1899, the Republic is on the verge of explosion, caught between nationalist and anti-Semitic leagues and the anarchist threat. The corpse of an unknown woman found in the Seine will propel an ambitious young inspector into the heart of a criminal investigation that will reveal a heavy state secret. He will cross  roads with Lépine, the head of a Prefecture poisoned by power

The series was created by Fabien Nury

struggles, the first woman lawyer and a courtesan converted into a spy ... These characters who are opposed will unite in the face of a coup. The Belle Époque is beautiful in only the name.

WHO IS VISITING PARIS 1900?

Created by comic book scriptwriter Fabien Nury, Paris Police 1900 features actors such as Jérémie Laheurte, Eugénie Derouand, Marc Barbé, Evelyne Brochu, Valérie Dashwood  and Christian Hecq. They

Jeremie Laheurte plays the lead role of Antoine Jouin

embody a gallery of personalities who really existed (the first female lawyer Jeanne Chauvin, Prefect Lépine, courtesan Marguerite Steinheil ...), in the

Evelyne Brochy is Meg Steinhell, the courtesan

service of intrigues based on proven facts, but reimagined for television. Murders, blackmail, riots, plots and coups d'etat: CANAL + will meet you in Paris Police 1900 from February 8.

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON EPIC FANTASY SERIES SHADOW AND BONE WHICH HITS NETFLIX IN APRIL WITH BEN BARNES AND LUKE PASQUALINO

  SHADOW AND BONE  

NETFLIX EPIC TV SERIES

Although we will have a number of epic television series coming from Russia this year, we will also have an American produced series inspired by imperial Russia: SHADOW AND BONE series, based on the Grishaverse

Shadow and Bone hits Netflix April 2rd

novels by Leigh Bardugo will hit Netflix April 23rd. As Bardugo described herself - the series takes place in a very different kind of fantasy world. Think Imperial Russia, not Medieval England, repeating rifles instead of broadswords. 

 

SHADOW AND BONE season one will see the story adapting two overlapping series in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse: Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. The eight episode series will, however, differ massively from those two sagas as they had to somehow connect the characters in them within

The series will air in eight hourlong episodes

one TV show. The story is set in a world that is split in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human

The  series is based on Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels

flesh. The protagonist is Alina Starkov, a young soldier and a citizen of the Russia inspired Kingdom of Ravka. She unexpectedly uncovers a power that might save her best friend and finally unite her country. As she starts to hone

Ben Barnes is General Kirigan the head of kingdom's magical elite army

it, dangerous forces unite against her and only General Kirigan seems to be willing to help. Thugs, thieves, assassins, and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.

WHO IS IN THE CAST?

With Eric Heisserer as the showrunner, the cast of the series, which managed to wrap its production over in Hungary back in February before the general lockdown, includes (it is strange that the producers have not find it

Alina with her childhood friend Malyen, a gifted tracker

convenient to put Russian actors in the cast but they did put Asian and black actors in a Russia inspired story): Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Ben

Malyen's world unravels after a brutal ambush

Barnes as General Kirigan aka The Darkling, Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker aka Dirtyhands, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Kit Young as Jesper

A lethal heartrender and spy Nina Zenik and witch hunter Matthias Helvar

Fahey, Calahan Skogman as Matthias Helvar, Danielle Galligan as Nina Zenik, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa, Sujaya Dasgupta as Zoya Nazyalensky, Daisy Head as Genya Safin, Julian Kostov as Fedyor Kaminsky, Zoë

Sharpshooter Jesper, Inej Ghafa and Kaz Brekker, the criminals

Wanamaker as Baghra, Kevin Eldon as The Apparat, Luke Pasqualino as David Kostyk, Jasmine Blackborow as Marie, Gabrielle Brooks as Nadia Zhabin.