BEHOLD THE OMINOUS TEASER FOR SHADOW AND BONE EPIC TV SAGA ARRIVING APRIL TO NETFLIX!

   SHADOW AND BONE TEASER  

FOR NETFLIX EPIC TV SERIES

Netflix has unveiled the first ominous teaser for their eight episode adaptation of SHADOW AND BONE saga from Leigh Bardugo which will stream from April!  Starring Ben Barnes, and based on her bestselling

The launch of the epic TV series has been announced for April

Grishaverse novels, series takes place in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the

The first photo of the cast gathered before the shooting

monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and

The series is based on Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse saga

enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.

EMILY BEECHAM TO LEAD SPOOKY GOTHIC PERIOD SET SERIES 1899 OVER AT NETFLIX SET ON A DOOMED STEAMSHIP! HOLIDAY AND LIFE AFTER LIFE NOVELS TO BECOME SERIES AT CHANNEL 5 AND BBC

   EMILY BEECHAM TO LEAD  

1899 PERIOD SET SERIES

Emily Beecham will board the steamship

But it will be a period set horror, I must emphasize. Netflix has cast Into the Badlands star Emily Beecham as the first name in the cast for their period set horror drama 1899 which will be shot in eight episodes. Although it will be an English language series, it will use other languages as well due to the plot, which revolves around a migrant steamship heading from London to New York a year before the 20th century. When the passengers discover another migrant boat adrift, their journey descends into horrifying nightmare! Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese, who created Dark series for Netflix, are behind this one as well. It will be a European show with a mixed cast from different countries. At its heart is the question of what unites us and what divides us. You will see Beecham first next to Emma Stone in Cruella origins movie which is going straight to Disney+ thanks to Covid. 

  CHANNEL 5 TO ADAPT  

THE HOLIDAY INTO MINI SERIES

Speaking of horrors, a horror of a different kind will be seen in Channel 5's four part mini series THE HOLIDAY to be made based on T. M. Logan's popular best seller! Michael Crompton is adapting the story

Michael Crompton will adapt The Holiday for Channel 5

about a woman who discovers her husband is having an affair on the first day of a holiday with their closest friends. The vacation soon becomes a nightmare as she suspects one of her friends of being involved in the tryst!

  BBC TO TURN LIFE AFTER LIFE  

INTO A FOUR PART TV SERIES

Rival BBC is, meanwhile, set to make their own four part TV series out of Kate Atkinson's novel LIFE AFTER LIFE which is set to shoot next spring telling the vivid story of the alternate lives of Ursula Todd, who dies one night

Kate Atkinson's book will be adapted for BBC

in 1910, only to be born and survive on the same night. She finds herself time and again, living and dying in different circumstances only to be reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. Her journey spans two World Wars and an encounter with Hitler.

CHRIS PINE TO STAR IN NEW DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS EPIC MOVIE ADAPTATION! LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN TRAILER IS HERE CELEBRATING THE 18TH CENTURY COMPOSER

   CHRIS PINE TO LEAD   

NEW DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS?

Chris Pine will lead the ensemble cast

While you are waiting to see him this month in Wonder Woman sequel, according to rumours around the net today, Chris Pine might wear a chain mail again after playing the king of Scotland as he is apparently in negotiations to take the lead role in the new remake of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS famous fantasy adventure based on the popular video games (which will celebrate their 50th birthday in four years) which will be very much character based with lots of comedy elements according to its directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. The ensemble movie is envisioned as a start of a potential new fantasy adventure mega franchise. 

   LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN  

TRAILER IS FINALLY HERE!

As you remember your spy was the first one to inform you about his one earlier this year and now LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN is ready to premiere tomorrow in USA starring Tobias Moretti as the famous composer. It will

The movie is already streaming in Spain

also air on German TV at Christmas. 1779. Eight year old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconventional genius and French Revolution are sparking a fire in Louis' heart; he doesn't want to serve a master - only the arts. Facing times of family tragedies and unrequited love, he almost gives up. However, Louis makes it to Vienna to study under Haydn in 1792, and the rest is history. Who was this man, whose music has since touched countless hearts and minds? At the end of his life, the master is isolated by loss of loved ones and hearing. Surely though, he was way ahead of his times. 

NETFLIX UK TO TURN BESTSELLING NOVELS HALF BAD, LOCKWOOD & CO, SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE INTO SUPERNATURAL AND FANTASY TV SERIES

   NETFLIX UNVEILS  

SLATE OF UK TV PROJECTS

Joe Barton will adapt Half Bad

The slate actually includes seven new shows to be produced in UK including one with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean): short form, 10-part comedy series MAN VS BEE which finds him house sitting a luxurious mansion while duking it out with a pesky bee. Andy Serkis will, meanwhile, produce series adaptation of Sally Green's HALF BAD trilogy following Sixteen year old Nathan, the illegitimate son of the world’s most feared witch. He’s spent his whole life being monitored for signs he may follow the same destructive path as his father. But as tensions escalate, the old boundaries between “good” and “bad” fray and Nathan will discover what sort of person he truly is!

Sophie Petzal will adapt Turton's book

 

     THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE best selling novel by Stuart Turton will be turned into a seven episode series by Sophie Petzal: it is a mind bending murder mystery. All set within the grounds of a sprawling country estate, this high concept thriller presents an intriguing puzzle – how do you solve a murder when every time you are getting close to the answer, you wake up in someone else’s body?

 

 LOCKWOOD & CO will be another popular book series to be turned into an eight episode show. Joe Cornish will adapt Jonathan Stroud's novels set in London, where the most gifted teenage ghost hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly

Joe Cornish will turn Lockwood &Co into an eight episode series

spirits: amidst the many corporate, adult-run agencies one stands alone: independent of any commercial imperative or adult supervision – a tiny startup, run by two teenage boys and a newly arrived, supremely psychically gifted girl, a renegade trio destined to unravel a mystery that will change the course of history!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE SECOND SEASON OF SKY'S EPIC TV SERIES A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES WITH MATTHEW GOODE, JAMES PUREFOY, TOM HUGHES! NEW POSTERS AND TRAILER!

  A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES  

SEASON TWO ARRIVES JANUARY

Thinking of making soon a list of epic shows we can expect in 2021, I, sadly, realised there isn't much to expect. The only series we have

A Discovery of Witches arrives January 8th

currently scheduled for January is the second season of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES which will be more epic as the characters witch Diana (atrociously horrible Teresa Palmer) and vampire Matthew (Matthew Goode) have jumped over to the 1590 London in order to protect her and for her to develop her powers in Elizabethan England. The ten episode second run will start on Sky and Now TV January 8th and then January 9th in USA on AMC's streamers Sundance Now and Shudder. Steven Cree joins them as Matthew's nephew Gallowglass De Clermont, a vampire and soldier of fortune, while

The second season is also based on Deborah Harkness' books

James Purefoy will be Matthew's stepfather Philippe De Clermont, commander of the Knights of Lazarus. Barbara Marten will play a very

Show will air a day after over in USA

angry 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 Eliza- bethan London

Matthew and Diana's romance faces a barrage of new threats. Diana's unleashed magic takes a dark and frightening turn, while Matthew struggles to re-inhabit the dangerous life he led over four centuries ago. They must overcome deep personal fears and jealousies, baring

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

their darkest secrets to one another if they are to stay alive, stay together and find a way back to present day. While Matthew and Diana hide out in Elizabethan London, back in present day, Diana's beloved aunts, Sarah (Alex

James Purefoy (right) will be Matthew's stepfather Philippe

Kingston) and Em (Valarie Pettiford), must take shelter with Matthew's mother notorious witch hunter Ysabeau de Clermont (Lindsay Duncan) at her ancestral home, Sept-Tours. Meanwhile, in Oxford, Marcus (Edward

Tom Hughes (right) is famous playwright Kit Marlowe

Bluemel) and Miriam (Aiysha Hart) take on Matthew's mantle to protect daemons Nathaniel (Daniel Ezra) and Sophie (Aisling Loftus), whose pregnancy is advancing. And Gerbert (Trevor Eve), Knox (Owen Teale),

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

Satu (Malin Buska) and Domenico (Gregg Chillin) 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.

CHLOE MORETZ AND NICK ROBINSON ARE FIGHTING NAZIS AND SOME STRANGE LOOKING MONSTERS IN STUNNING SHADOW IN THE CLOUD WW2 FANTASY MOVIE

  SHADOW IN THE CLOUD  

SENDS CHLOE MORETZ AND NICK ROBINSON UP IN THE SKY

Well, I tell ya... a girl these days cannot even fly her little bomber out for a drive shooting a Nazi or two... dozen... without some unholy creature giving

Movie will hit cinemas next February

her problems up in the air. Or at least that is what happens to Chloe Moretz in the utterly fun and utterly crazy trailer for SHADOW IN THE CLOUD WW2 horror also starring Nick Robinson.

 

     Set in the final throes of WWII, the pic follows a group of Allied soldiers as they prepare to take to the air in a B-17 Flying Fortress. The all-male crew are caught off guard when Captain Maude Garrett, played by Moretz, boards. With her military knowledge initially winning over the soldiers, things escalate quickly into chaos when they suspect her intentions are not as expected. As paranoia kicks in,

This is directorial debut of Roseanne Liang who also wrote the script

something far more sinister is lurking in the shadows, something with sharp teeth and a taste for human blood. The movie will start its theatre roll from February.

DARLING BUDS OF MAY GETTING A REMAKE IN ITV'S THE LARKINS FAMILY SERIES WITH BRADLEY WALSH, JOANNA SCANLAN! DISNEY + DEVELOPING SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON ADVENTURE SERIES

  THE LARKINS SERIES  

DARLING BUDS OF MAY REMAKE

If you loved Durrells and All Creatures Great and Small, you will be happy to hear that ITV is remaking beloved classic series The Darling Buds of May into the six episode THE LARKINS drama based on H.E. Bates'popular novels. Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan will lead as

ITV will turn the book into six episode drama

the iconic fictional characters, Pop Larkin and his wife Ma.

  LARKINS 

set in the late 1950’s, is the warm story of a working class family led by the golden hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin and his wife Ma, together with their six children, including the beautiful Mariette (who was played by Catherine Zeta Jones in the original series). Fiercely loyal to each other and their community, each Larkin family member has a strong work ethic, alongside a disinterest in authority. In the idyllic and beautiful Kent countryside, known as the Garden of England, The Larkins have a achieved a small patch of paradise where nothing is wasted and they enjoy life to the full. There’s an overwhelming sense of plenty in their lives and a lot of joy and raucous laughter, as Ma Larkin provides a seemingly endless supply of delicious, hearty meals. Alongside their weekly battles with authority and snobbish villagers, The Larkins will follow the love story between Mariette and

Joanna Scanlan and Bradley Walsh will play the parents

village newcomer Cedric ‘Charley’ Charlton who arrives in the village as an unworldly and officious accountant from the city, there to investigate the Larkins’ tax affairs. He is soon distracted by the beautiful Mariette, with whom he falls head over heels in love. However, he quickly discovers that he has a romantic rival in the form of the handsome and mysterious Tom Fisher. Mariette, on the other hand, may have plans of her own, which don’t involve men.

  SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON  

GETTING A REMAKE AT DISNEY +

Speaking of family series remakes, Disney + has announced that  Ron Moore and Jon M. Chu are creating a TV series remake of famous SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON by Johann Wyss. The story follows a family from

The Swiss Family Robinson will become Disney + series

Switzerland who escape the Napoleonic Wars to relocate to a colony in New Guinea and their ship is attacked by pirates after which they end up on an uninhabited island. The shipwrecked family then builds a home on the deserted island!

LAVISH FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED FOR MICHELE PLACIDO'S RENAISSANCE DRAMA CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW ON THE FAMOUS 17TH CENTURY PAINTER

  CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW  

REVEALS FIRST PHOTOS

Michele Placido has just finished production on historical drama CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW over in Naples, about the enigmatic and genius Renaissance painter, and today we have the first, rather lavish stills from the

Caravaggio's Shadow will hit cinemas sometime next year

set featuring Riccardo Scamarcio as Caravaggio himself, Louis Garrel as the mysterious Shadow, Isabelle Huppert as the Marquise Costanza Colonna, Micaela Ramazzotti as Lena and Placido in the role of Cardinal del Monte!

     THE STORY OF THE FILM

focuses on the adventurous and controversial life of the great painter from the 1600s, showing the artist as a rebel without a cause, a man of huge talent but above all a rockstar ahead of his time, forced to deal with the

Michele Placido spent four years developing the project

troubling consequences of his dissolute life. Set in 1610, the film will show how Pope Paul V orders the Vatican secret service to investigate Caravaggio. The pontiff must decide whether to grant the clemency for which the painter has

Isabelle Huppert is Marquise Constanza Colonna in the movie

petitioned since being sentenced to death for the murder of a love rival. The Investigator, known as the Shadow, begins the enquiry which will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the artist whose life, or death, lies in his hands.

POWERFUL WW2 DRAMA DARA OF JASENOVAC ON EUROPE'S MOST BRUTAL CONCENTRATION CAMP TO REPRESENT SERBIA IN FOREIGN FILM OSCARS RACE

 DARA OF JASENOVAC  

TO REPRESENT SERBIA AT OSCARS

One of the last countries to select a film that will represent them in the race for best foreign film Oscars this year is Serbia - their representative will be

The movie will air next year in Serbia

a deeply powerful and moving war drama DARA IN JASENOVAC  directed by Predrag Antonijević. Based on the testimonies of survivors it is the first feature film that deals with war crimes and atrocities that took place at the World War Two Jasenovac concentration and extermination camp, which was part of the Holocaust in Croatia and the wider Genocide committed over Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia. The movie was set to premiere in early 2020, commemorating 75 years since the escape of the remaining prisoners from the camp. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the premiere was postponed to mid 2021. The movie will also be in the race for Golden Globes.

     THE STORY OF THE FILM IS SET

in the Nazi-occupied Croatian Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII. The film is told through the experiences of a little Serbian girl named Dara who is sent as a child to the infamous extermination camp

Considered a project of national importance, the film was supported by Serbian Ministry of Culture

complex Jasenovac, also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz", when it was ruled by sadistic Croat camp commander Maks Luburic until the liberation. The film is the first modern WWII movie that takes place in or shows this NDH era camp. The majority of local Serb population was sent to Croatian

Little Biljana Chekic plays the lead role in the heartbreaking drama

concentration camps. With no information about whereabouts of her father, twelve-year-old Dara (little Biljana Chekic), her mother and two brothers end up in Jasenovac. Her mother and older brother get killed by Nazi Croats. Dara makes it her personal mission and goal to insure the survival of her younger brother. 

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

Notorious for its barbaric practices and the large number of victims, Jasenovac specialized in violence of a particularly brutal kind and prisoners were primarily murdered manually with the use of blunt objects such as

The brutality seen in Jasenovac is unparalleled to any other camp

hammers or knives and axes. In Jasenovac the majority of victims were ethnic Serbs (as part of the Genocide of the Serbs); others were Jews and Gypsies. Jasenovac was a complex of five subcamps spread over 210 km2 on

American Scholar Michael Berenbaum served as history consultant

both banks of the Sava and Una rivers. Although the official number of people killed in the camp is around 100,000, many researchers believe that the real number could be as high as 700,000 and even up to one million victims. Serbian children were killed first even if they were still breastfed by their

The 130 minute long epic drama was directed by Predrag Antonijevic

mothers. Croatia was the only Nazi country in Europe which had special camps for kids, mostly Serbian ones. Beside being butchered, they were often put in sacks and thrown into the river,  burnt alive in brick factories or had their throats slit.

DEREK JACOBI, RUPERT EVERETT, TOM FELTON TO LEAD BRITISH DRAMA LEAD HEADS! PIGEON SHRINK GIVES DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS IN DRAMA TRAILER WITH JASON ISAACS, LUCAS JADE ZUMANN, TOM WILKINSON!

   LEAD HEADS MOVIE  

CASTS BRITISH LEGENDS

And what legends they are indeed: as Deadline reports Derek Jacobi and Rupert Everett will lead LEAD HEADS movie together with Tom Felton, Luke Newberry and Mark Williams. Giles Borg directed drama is a

Rupert Everett and Derek Jacobi will lead the cast

movie about greed, following a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a game that may cost them both their souls and lives. The shooting will start next spring in London. 

  FIRST TRAILER IS IN FOR  

DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS

The movie is out next January in USA

If you are in the mood for something more psychedelic, what is more psychedelic than a film with a pigeon as a shrink? Yaniv Raz' movie adaptation of Evan Roskos' book DR. BIRD'S ADVICE FOR SAD POETS will be out January 12th starring Jason Isaacs, Tom Wilkinson, David Arquette and Taylor Russell next to Lucas Jade Zumann in the lead role! In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, we see his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression by seeking advice from Dr. Bird - an imaginary pigeon therapist - in the wake of his sister's disappearance.