ITALIAN STREETS ARE NOT SAFE IN NETFLIX 6 UNDERGROUND MOVIE TRAILER WITH RYAN REYNOLDS, DAVE FRANCO, BEN HARDY

   '6 UNDERGROUND' TRAILER

IN WHICH RYAN REYNOLDS RUINS ITALY... OR TRIES REALLY HARD!

Not all of the films in Netflix festive offer are Christmassy: Ryan Reynold's latest action movie 6 UNDERGROUND certainly isn't, but you will be able to stream it from December 13th! It also stars Ben Hardy, Dave

The movie apparently cost $150 million to make!

Franco, Adria Arjona. What's the best part of being dead? It isn't escaping your boss, your ex, or even erasing your criminal record. The best part about being dead...is the freedom. The freedom to fight the injustice and evil that lurk in our world without anyone or anything to slow you down or tell you "no." 6 Underground introduces a new kind of action hero. Six individuals from all around the globe, each the very best at what they do, have been chosen not only for their skill, but for a unique desire to delete their pasts to change the future. The team is brought together by an enigmatic leader (Ryan Reynolds), whose sole mission in life is to ensure that, while he and his fellow operatives will never be remembered, their actions damn sure will. 

DYNAMIC TRAILER FOR ACTION PACKED THE COURIER MOVIE WITH OLGA KURYLENKO, WILLIAM MOSELEY, GARY OLDMAN, DERMOT MULRONEY!

   'THE COURIER' TRAILER

 DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER

The Courier will hit cinemas this month

I don't have much to offer you today, but what I do have is quite dynamic and plus it has our dearest Russian star Olga Kurylenko in it! The first trailer and posters for her action packed movie THE COURIER are in. The film which sees her playing a courier in London who discovers that one of the packages she's transporting is a bomb, has a rather strong cast with William Moseley, Gary Oldman and Dermot Mulroney also starring in it with her. The film is set to be released November 22nd in USA (both the net and cinemas) and then in Russia and United Kingdom in December. 

Translators and Gateways 

Zackary Adler directed the movie

And don't forget that after playing the courier Olga will play a translator next to Lambert Wilson in THE TRANSLATORS movie set for next January about nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a best selling trilogy, confined in a luxurious bunker. When the first ten pages of the top secret manuscript appear online, the dream job becomes a nightmare - the thief is one of them and the publisher is ready to do whatever it takes to unmask him - or her. She also signed up to star together with our dear British chap Leo Suter in science fiction movie GATEWAY 6 about a squad of soldiers which is stranded on an abandoned military base on a near future Earth waiting for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.

AIDAN TURNER'S EPIC TV SERIES ABOUT GAY LEONARDO DA VINCI ADS FREDDIE HIGHMORE TO THE CAST!

   FREDDIE HIGHMORE JOINS

NEW LEONARDO DA VINCI EPIC TV SERIES WITH AIDAN TURNER

Freddie Highmore will also produce the series

Frank Spotnitz's new historical project is slowly gathering its cast and after they've scored Poldark's Aidan Turner for the lead role epic TV series has now hired Freddie Highmore as well! Following world's most famous painter ever Leonardo da Vinci, the series will portray him as a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection. Freddie Highmore, who is also producing, will play Stefano Giraldi, a fictional police detective who frames the narrative, investigating da Vinci as the suspect in a

Poldark's Aidan Turner will take the lead role of the famous painter

murder case and digging into his past. The series will air on RAI in Italy, French public broadcaster and ZDF in Germany. No American or UK broadcasters are known yet.

VANESSA REDGRAVE TO LEAD THE OUTSIDE ROOM POWERFUL APARTHEID DRAMA AND STAR IN POST NAPOLEONIC THE MEDUSA WITH JESSE EISENBERG, PIERCE BROSNAN

   VANESSA REDGRAVE

THE LEAD THE OUTSIDE ROOM

This one was shopped at American Film Market this month: Oliver Schmitz’s big screen adaptation of novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk,

Vanessa Redgrave will play Milla

THE OUTSIDE ROOM with Vanessa Redgrave and Cynthia Erivo in the lead roles!

Milla, a 70 year old white woman, in the terminal stages of motor neuron disease, trapped in silence and confined to her bed, struggles to make herself "heard" by her black maid servant and now nurse, Agaat. Slowly the events leading to this room are recalled: 1950s when life in South Africa was full of promise Milla inherits her Grandmother's farm, marries the dashing but cruel Jak, enslaves herself to the farm to leave a lasting legacy, struggles to fall pregnant, discovers and "adopts" the young, abused Agaat, but when she falls pregnant demotes her to the role of servant. Agaat exacts her revenge becoming mother, sister, governess and best friend to the child and prevents him from forming any tangible relationships with his biological family. She asserts a terrible power by harnessing to herself the means and opportunities of the system that subjugated her. Milla's long, slow descent becomes an exercise in remembering and understanding, piecing together the fragments of a life.

The book was a bestseller around Europe

The Medusa About Gericault

Speaking of Vanessa Redgrave, she will also star in period set drama THE MEDUSA set during the turmoil of post Napoleonic France, and following famous artist Géricault (Jesse Eisenberg), who learns that his best friend (Pierce Brosnan) has died after the Naval vessel Medusa runs aground near Senegal. Plunged into grief, and entangled in a passionate but doomed love affair, Géricault begins to search for a reason to live. In this quest, he becomes morbidly obsessed with the disaster - and with seeing justice served.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE MANDALORIAN STAR WARS TV SERIES WHICH LAUNCHES DISNEY'S STREAMING SERVICE NEXT WEEK! NEW CHARACTER POSTERS

   'THE MANDALORIAN' STAR WARS

TV SERIES STARS NEXT WEEK

Apple launched its new streaming TV service last week and according to first reports they are satisfied with the initial success and they've already

The new series hits Disney + November 12th

ordered the second season of their new tentpole sf series See which launched it November 1st, and now Disney is ready to launch their own streaming service Disney + with their own tentpole science fiction series THE MANDALORIAN which has the honour to be their first programme ever when they hit the streaming space this Tuesday November 12th! It also has the honour of being the first ever television series in the Star Wars franchise bringing Jedis to the small screens after they've populated only the big ones for four decades! It is expected that Disney + will quickly take over the leading spot in the streaming service business as they will not only have all the Disney's classics, but  also Star Wars and Marvel movies and series. Disney has already renewed THE MANDALORIAN for the second season created and produced by Jon Favreau. The first season of the $120 million expensive series has eight

Gina Carano and Karl Weathers will also star in the new series

episodes directed by different people among which is also Hollywood star Bryce Dallas Howard whose father Ron Howard directed the highly unsuccessful Han Solo stand alone Star Wars movie. But unlike other streamers, Disney + won't give you all episodes at once, but will stream them

Pedro Pascal is The Mandalorian

one by one each week which means the last one should air two days after Christmas.

  A Lone Gun Fighter
The lead role has been given to Pedro Pascal who plays a lone gunfighter and bounty hunter with advanced combat skills and questionable moral character in the outer reaches of the galaxy from the time after the Empire has fallen in Return of the Jedi, and before the rise of the First Order in The Force Awakens which means it is a time when lawless chaos ruled in certain parts of the galaxy. He will be joined in the series by other characters that you can see in the posters in today's spotlight: former Rebel Shock Trooper turned mercenary Cara Dune (Gina Carano),

The series will also have droids and strange new alien creatures in the cast

bounty hunter leader Greef Carga (Carl Weathers) who hires the Mandalorian to track a valuable asset, lethal bounty hunter droid IG-11 (voiced by Taika Waititi), and an alien character whose name is Kuiil (Nick Nolte). Giancarlo Esposito will appear as Moff Gideon, a former governor under the Empire whose life changed after the Rebels destroyed the second Death Star.

PHOTOS & TRAILER FROM A+E'S 19TH CENTURY LONDON SET SERIES MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE WITH STUART MARTIN, KATE PHILIPS

   'MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE'

NEW PERIOD SET SERIES PHOTOS AND TRAILER ARE HERE

After yesterday's North Water, another new period set series has new photos released! A+E Network's MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE 19th century drama has new pictures from the sets featuring lead stars Stuart

As far as I've heard the series will also hit PBS sometime next year

Martin and Kate Philips as 19th century London's first female private detective! The six episode series will also star Ansu Kabia, Andrew Gower, Matthew Malone, Simon Ludders. You can also check out the first trailer

Stuart Martin and Kate Philips in lead roles

featuring a scene in which she hits a policeman in a disgusting example of violence against men which is, I'm guessing, supposed to be funny. It is not. It is a despicable and vile example of hypocrisy and double standards.

London's First Female Detective 
When Eliza’s (Kate Philips) father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she has an ace up

Stuart Martin returns to period set drama after Medici and Jamestown

her bonnet – her father’s business – a private detective agency. Eliza knows all the tricks of the trade but as a genteel 19th century lady she’s never been allowed to put them into practice. To operate in this man’s world, she needs a

The first season will consist of just six episodes

partner. Step forward Detective Inspector William Wellington (Stuart Martin) of Scotland Yard, who is also known as “The Duke;” drinker, gambler

The series will air sometime this year !

and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

BBC REVEALS 1ST PHOTOS AND CAST ADDITIONS FOR THE NORTH WATER ARCTIC EPIC PERIOD SET SERIES WITH COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL

   'THE NORTH WATER'

1ST ARCTIC TV SERIES PHOTOS

After we announced it more than a year ago, the shooting is now finally under way and we have the first photos from BBC's new four part epic series THE NORTH WATER with Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell who have

Jack O'Connell is disgraced ex army surgeon who signs up as the ship's doctor

now been also joined by Stephen Graham, Sam Spruell, Tom Courtenay, Peter Mullan, Roland Moller and Philip Hill Pearson over at the sets in Hungary.

  The Story Of North Water
BBC 2's  adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Arctic whaling novel, set in the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, tells the story of Patrick Sumner (Jack

Colin Farrell is dangerous harpooner Henry Drax

O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets the harpooner Henry

Stephen Graham is Captain Brownlee who commands the ship.

Drax (Colin Farrell), a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner

Roland Moller will play Otto, one of the harpooners!

finds himself in a male dominated world, on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

ANTHONY RYAN'S FAMOUS RAVEN'S SHADOW EPIC FANTASY SAGA SOLD FOR EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION!

   'RAVEN'S SHADOW' SAGA

TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES

He is an example of a writer who made a huge buzz with a self published book and got a publisher after scoring the success on his own: and now

BCDF Pictures will adapt the saga into series

Anthony  Ryan's famous epic fantasy trilogy RAVEN'S SHADOW, which yours truly is currently translating for readers in Europe, has been sold for a TV series adaptation! Joseph Muszynski is adapting the first novel BLOOD SONG over at BCDF Pictures who bought the rights. Sequels Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were also international best sellers with millions of sold copies.

Blood Song 
 tells the story of Vaelin Al Sorna, who was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order to be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of

The saga consists of three epic fantasy novels

a warrior of the Faith. Vaelin’s father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the Unified Realm and Vaelin’s rage at being abandoned and deprived of his birthright knows no bounds. Even his cherished memories of his mother are soon challenged by what he learns within the Order. But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend. A future that will alter not only the Realm but the world. The other two books follow Vaelin's stunning rise as a warrior mixing wars, battles and friendship with magic and demonic powers. Anthony has also written The Raven's Blade saga which consists of two other books, The Wolf's Call and The Black Song (out next summer), that also follow the beloved hero.

MAMMOTH SCREEN AND ITV ADAPTING LINDSEY DAVIS FALCO NOVELS ON ROMAN ERA PRIVATE DETECTIVE AND IMPERIAL AGENT INTO A TV SERIES

   'FALCO' ROMAN SAGA

TO BECOME NEW ITV SERIES

I know that some of you like detective series and some of you historical ones, but what would you say about a series that follows a private detective

The number of episodes is not yet known

in Ancient Rome? That is what Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen is currently doing for British ITV: they are going to adapt Lindsey Davis FALCO novels into a TV show which was originally supposed to be done over at rival BBC.

Started back in 1989 with The Silver Pigs each of the twenty novels tells a self contained story about Marcus Didius Falco, a fictional Roman private detective who investigates crimes and acts as an often reluctant imperial agent. As Deadline reports, Falco is described as a laid-back operator whose adventures take place across the Roman Empire in 70 AD and beyond. As the books progress, Falco gets married, has children and acquires a dog named Nux.

HILARIOUSLY FESTIVE TRAILER FOR NETFLIX CHRISTMAS SITCOM MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER WITH DENNIS QUAID AND BRENT MORIN

  'MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER'

 NETFLIX TRAILER IS HERE!

Earlier this Autumn I've shown you the first photos from Netflix' new mutlicam sitcom MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER and today we can cheer you up with the first trailer as well! It will be just one of the festive

New sitcom hits Netflix November 28th

programmes to entertain you this Christmas (to see what else is in store click Christmas down among labels)! The eight episode comedy will launch November 28th with the plan for the possible future seasons to cover other holidays!

 

The Family Is No Holiday
Dennis Quaid leads the sitcom as Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch from Philadelphia doing his best to balance the stress of the holidays with the demands of his close knit but eclectic family — and his family doing their best to manage him. But when youngest

The potential other seasons will cover other holidays throughout the year

daughter Emmy (Bridgit Mendler) arrives home from L.A. with a new boyfriend, struggling musician Matt (Brent Morin who was also her boyfriend in Undateable sitcom at NBC), Don’s belief that “there’s the Quinn way… and the wrong way" is put to the test.