HOLLYWOOD SPY

'THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN'

GETS A GORGEOUS NEW POSTER

Idon't have much for you today other than a gorgeous new poster for family movie THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN which will draw a tear or two from you August 9th when it will bark its way into cinemas, based on a novel by Garth Stein which has been sold in millions of copies worldwide!

MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN
Told from the point of view of a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), this heart warming movie follows Enzo’s best friend and owner Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), an aspiring Formula One race car driver, through Denny’s journey of life, love, and loss — again, all through the eyes of his dog. Amanda Seyfried plays his wife. The Simon Curtis directed flick also features Gary Cole and Kathy Baker!

ALEXANDER SKARSGARD

Alexander Skarsgard might be the new Hercules

WANTED FOR DISNEY'S HERCULES?

As you have probably noticed, we don't really cover much of Disney's blasphemous live action adaptations of their animated classics here, as I find their casting choices mediocre at best or offensive at worst, and there seem to be a lot of new ones coming up: after the currently playing Aladdin, and then Lion King next week, they're preparing new Snow White, new live action Mulan (I hear we might be getting a teaser for that one soon), Cruella with Emma Stone and also Hunchback of Notre Damme, and I'm sure you've all been shocked with the latest casting for Little Mermaid adaptation. But here is one I might stand behind: according to latest juicy rumours swirling around the net, Disney wants Alexander Skarsgard for the lead role in their live action movie adaptation of HERCULES! What do you say on that? I sure wouldn't mind that choice for the famous Greek hero tasked with fulfilling impossible missions for Gods. I've also heard somewhere that Amber Heard might be a candidate for gorgeous Megara in the remake. We Got This Covered, who first brought this story,

Alexander played Tarzan and was also in the run to play another mythical hero Thor!

reports that Disney might be looking for a director with a fresh vision for the whole project. Stay tuned for more news on the project which is in very early stages of development.

'POLDARK' SEASON 5

READY TO START NEXT SUNDAY!

It seems, people, that summer this year will be more eventful than we thought at least on the small screens, with next week bringing us sf series Pandora and Outpost and costume dramas Harlots and Poldark beside ITV's Beecham

The eight episode final season returns next Sunday at BBC

House which is already airing! Rival BBC is ready with its POLDARK which returns with the final fifth season Sunday July 14th and today you can enjoy

Aidan Turner returns as the brave captain Ross Poldark!

the new photos which include some of the new characters as well! The series will air this Autumn at PBS too for American audience. This will be the first season not to directly follow the stories of Winston Graham's novels and

The series might get a sequel in a few years with Ross' kids as heroes

will again follow Aidan Turner as the mine owner and a politician at the beginning of the 1800s, instead of jumping a decade and focusing on his

Aidan Turner said the show could return in a few years

children like in the novels. Vincent Regan joins the series as Poldark's old army friend Colonel Ned Despard, the governor of British Honduras who

Luke Norris as Doctor Dwight Enys

ended up in prison for giving the land away to slaves. It will be Ross' mission to get him out. Meanwhile, doctor Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) will be

George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) will be a sad man in the final season

treating George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) from the trauma after the loss of his wife. The slogan of the final season is - If your country betrays you, to whom do you then owe loyalty?

THE STORY OF THE FINAL SEASON
The Poldarks look forward to life together in peace, but a plea from Ross’s old Army Colonel, Ned Despard (Vincent Regan), compels him to the capital. As Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) manages their affairs in Cornwall she

Harry Richardson as the newly wedded Drake the blacksmith

encounters disenchantment and a new opponent, Tess (Sofia Oxenham). George (Jack Farthing) meanwhile struggles to engage with the world after Elizabeth’s death and it falls to Cary (Pip Torrens) to expand the family

Tom York as Demelza's minister brother Sam

empire - as Valentine (Woody Norman) struggles to find his place within it. Arriving in London, Ross (Aidan Turner) finds a city gripped with paranoia,

Luke Norris will be helping Jack Farthing's George to cope with wife's death

and is determined to save Ned from the conspiracy that imprisoned him. George enters into an alliance with the merchant behind Ned’s imprisonment,

Vincent Regan is Poldark's old friend Ned Despard

Ralph Hanson (Peter Sullivan), whose business is in upholding the slave trade. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Charles (Freddie Wise) decides to follow in

Tom York and Harry Richardson return as Demelza's brothers

Ross’s footsteps and enter the military - but also finds himself drawn to Cecily Hanson (Lily Dodsworth Evans), Ralph’s daughter. As George’s grief leads

Peter Sullivan and Lily Dodsworth Evans and Freddie Wise

the Warleggans into uncharted and worrying territory, Ross discovers a grave plot and is urged to heroism, while Demelza is forced into action herself back at home.

'MULAN' TRAILER FOR

THE LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION

I've noticed that the reactions around the web on the first teaser for Disney's live action MULAN don't really speak of excitement and thrill, and I cannot really blame them, the trailer really lacks in splendour or anything remotely

It is a long way till Mulan gets into cinemas next spring

glitzy with really monotonous wide angles. Anyhows, the movie is ready to hit the big screens next March with Yifei Liu in the lead role next to Donnie Yen (as commander Tung), Gong Li (as an evil witch), Jason Scott Lee (as Hun khan Bori), Jet Li (as the emperor) and Yoson An (as Mulan's love interest).

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is

The movie was directed by Niki Caro

tested every step of the way and must harness her inner-strength and embrace her true potential. It is an epic journey that will transform her into an honored warrior and earn her the respect of a grateful nation…and a proud father.

'BATTLE' TRAILER

DANCING WITHOUT HEARING!

Something coming from Mother Russia today, a tip from our spy Black Ryan! The latest movie from our favourite Russian superstar Rinal Mukhametov

Battle announces the arrival of Autumn season

BATTLE is ready to hit cinemas August 29th!

The dreams of street dancer Anton of conquesring the dancing Olympus collapse when an accidental injury plunges him into a world of silence. With the loss of the ability to hear, Anton loses the meaning of life. But it is precisely in this difficult moment that he meets true love and finds his vocation. Passion for dance is impossible to erase, and deafness is not a sentence. Anton learns to hear the music coming from inside, and begins to teach dancing to children with hearing impairment. He prepares an extraordinary number and takes a huge risk by combining his former team and deaf children in a new dance.

'ABIGAIL' SF TRAILER WITH

RINAL MUKHAMETOV IS HERE!

Speaking of dearest Rinal, beside Battle and his science fiction spectacle Coma, he has another epic movie coming out this summer: ABIGAIL

Abigail is expected to break all possible records!

which hits Russia August 22nd, Brazil from September and then moves to Serbia, Croatia and rest of Balkans in October. The movie is expected to break records in Russia.

Also starring Eddie Marsan and Tinatin Dalakishvili, it follows a young girl Abigail who lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find his father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.

'THE LAST KINGDOM'

SEASON FOUR PHOTOS ARE IN

Good news, people: Netflix has released first photos of Alexander Dreymon in the fourth season of their super popular 9th century epic series THE LAST KINGDOM which is currently in production. Bad news: it seems

Alexander Dreymon returns to the role of Uhtred, the braves man in the kingdom

it won't air any time soon, but sometime next year. Alexander Dreymon is again playing Lord Uhtred of Bebanburg who, after the death of King Alfred of

The fourth season should be based on 2013 The Pagan Lord book

Wessex, will now have to lend his help and support to his son against his ruthless mother and her evil minions. As we've seen at the end of season three, she has no intention of respecting her late husband's final wish of Uhtred

The new season should arrive sometime in 2020

becoming the new king's right hand and the protector of the kingdom. The new ten episode season of the historical series is being shot over in Hungary.

Finan and Uhtred will get into new mischievous adventures no doubt

If the producers will stick to the Bernard Cornwell's books the new season should see Uhtred's grown up kids as well! Beside Mark Rowley, Ian Hart, Arnas Fedaravicius, Toby Regbo, Millie Brady and others in the old

Large battle scenes are being shoot near Budapest, Hungary

cast, we will also see Stefanie Martini as Eadith, Uhtred's new love, and always lovely Jamie Blackley as Aethelred’s new right hand Eardwulf.

'THE NAKED WANDERER'

ANGUS MCLAREN IS NAKED!

Two delightfully fun projects for you today! You already know that your trusted spy absolutely adores Australian films and their stars (this nekkid cutie from the poster is one of them) and I'm more than happy that another

Angus will wander naked sometime this year!

adorable comedy is coming from Down Under!

THE NAKED WANDERER will hit cinemas sometime this year starring irresistible Angus McLaren as Jake who, devastated when girlfriend Jasmine turns down his proposal to marry, walks all but naked up the Indian Ocean coast for charity. He is driven by media scoundrel Brian King's (John Cleese) 200k incentive to complete the walk and an ulterior motive to prove his worth to Jasmine. The walk makes Jake a celebrity, which appeals to Jasmine, but it's too late. Jake has fallen for mesmerizing backpacker Valerie. A spiteful Jasmine flies in and declares she will marry Jake after all. Jake turns Jasmine down but then Valerie vanishes.

'ODE TO JOY' TRAILER WITH

NARCOLEPTIC MARTIN FREEMAN

Ode to Joy starts next month!

Meanwhile, over in USA, August 9th is bringing us new romantic comedy ODE TO JOY in which Martin Freeman plays Charlie who suffers from cataplexy, a symptom of narcolepsy that causes sudden bouts of paralysis whenever he experiences strong emotions - in particular, joy. He develops a variety of techniques to deny himself too much pleasure and happiness, but they're put to the ultimate test when he falls in love. Morena Baccarin plays the love interest, with Jane Curtin, Jake Lacy and Melissa Rauch also in the cast of the Jason Winer (Modern Family, Life in Pieces) directed movie.

'INVISIBLE MAN' HIRES

OLIVER JACKSON COHEN AS LEAD

Oliver Jackson Cohen is set to lead the film

A philosophical question for you today: should you rejoice if one of your favourite actors gets the lead role in a major film but is set to play an invisible man? What are you to feast your eyes on, then? That is exactly our predicament, but we are still very happy for our dearest Oliver Jackson Cohen who just got a major gig at Universal. He will take the lead role in their INVISIBLE MAN which will start shooting this month in Australia. The cast already includes Elizabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer and Storm Reid!

Oliver Jackson Cohen is one of our favourite faces which has graced so many big historical series from World Without End and Dracula toMr. Selfridge, The Great Fire, Emerald City, and probably our favourite of his work - Man in an Orange Shirt in which he shined brightly next to another of our faves Julian Morris.

In the adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel, Elizabeth Moss will be Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex boyfriend's suicide. She begins to rebuild her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is not actually dead! Stay tuned for more news on the project from the franchise which includes Luke Evans'Dracula Untold and Tom Cruise's The Mummy.

JUDE LAW'S 'THE THIRD DAY'

SENDS PADDY CONSIDINE AND

Emily Watson has joined the cast

EMILY WATSON TO AN ISLAND

Earlier this summer I informed you that British Sky and HBO are continuing their collaboration and have hired Jude Law to lead their new mystery island mini series THE THIRD DAY and now they've added new cast members: Paddy Considine, Emily Watson and Katherine Waterston as Jess, a woman who Sam encounters on the island. The series, which will air next year, should start shooting this summer.

THE SIX EPISODE SERIES
will see Jude Law playing Sam, who is being drawn to a mysterious island off the British Coast and thrown into the unusual world of its secretive inhabitants. Isolated from the mainland, the rituals of the island begin to overwhelm him, and he is confronted by a trauma from his past. As the line between reality and

Paddy Considine will also star in the Marc Munden directed series

fantasy blurs, Sam finds himself immersed in an emotional quest that puts him at odds with the islanders and begins to threaten their way of life.

NETFLIX 'BRIDGERTON' SAGA

POLLY WALKER TO LEAD THE CAST IN REGENCY LONDON

Netflix has revealed the cast for their new period set costume series BRIDGERTON that your trusted spy has informed you about earlier this

Phoebe Dynevor is Daphne Bridgerton, the picture-perfect young debutante has been waiting her entire life to make her grand debut on the marriage mart. Poised to be the season of 1813’s forthcoming Incomparable, Daphne’s set to take the town by storm – but not everything goes exactly as planned for this diamond of the first water, especially after she meets a certain Duke.

summer. The small screen adaptation of Julia Quinn's best selling series of historical romance novels, produced by Shondaland, will star Polly Walker,

Rege Jean Page is Simon Basset. Having newly returned to London, the Duke of Hastings finds himself the primary topic of conversation amongst marriage minded misses and ambitious mamas alike. Yet, for reasons of his own, our devastating Duke has zero interest in his title, society, or taking a wife.

Phoebe Dynevor (whom we remember from BBC series Dickensian and The Village), Regé Jean Page beside Jonathan Bailey, Golda Rosheuvel,

Polly Walker is Lady Portia Featherington, perhaps the most ambitious mama of all, determined to make advantageous matches for each of her daughters – and is forever pushing them on some rather disinterested parties. Cunning and ruthless, Lady Featherington hustles to get what she wants, no matter the cost.

Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Ruth Gemmell and Adjoa Andoh! In the eight episode drama Julie

Luke Newton will be dashin Colin Bridgerton, used to disarming his fellow society members with good natured jokes, though a serious sense of adventure lurks behind those swoon-worthy eyes. Colin takes a liking to the newest young lady in town — but it’s this infatuation that winds up giving him more than he may have bargained for.

Andrews will be Lady Whistledown, the narrator of the story. The series will shoot this year in London for 2020 airing at Netflix!

THE STORY OF BRIDGERTON IS
set in the sexy, lavish and competitive world of Regency London high society. From the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair to the aristocratic palaces of Park Lane and beyond, the series unveils a seductive, sumptuous world replete with

Jonathan Bailey will be Anthony Bridgerton, quintessential English nobleman, the eldest Bridgerton sibling and dutiful head of the family since assuming his late father’s title of Viscount. Endlessly handsome, charming and rich, he’s quite the catch on this year’s marriage mart. But if he has any hope of fulfilling his oftentimes overwhelming duty of marrying and producing an heir, Anthony must first learn to temper his pursuit of pleasure.

intricate rules and dramatic power struggles, where no one is truly ever on steady ground. At the heart of the show is the powerful Bridgerton family.

Golda Rosheuvel will be Queen Charlotte. The veritable tastemaker of London society, Queen Charlotte finds herself living for the sordid gossip that Lady Whistledown prints, though she’d swear she’s above such mundane musings. It’s only when the ton’s newest gossip writer takes aim at the palace that Queen Charlotte knows she must do something about it.

Comprised of eight close-knit siblings, this funny, witty, daring and clever group must navigate the upper ten thousand’s marriage mart in search of romance, adventure and love.

'THE KING'S MAN' TEASER

WILL BLIND YOU WITH STARS

The King's Man is out February 2020

That is, if you manage to recognise all of them in it! The beginning of the week brings us a rather dynamic and exciting teaser for THE KING'S MAN a period set prequel to Kingsman movie series about a mysterious British intelligence agency. This one explores its origins with the help of a rather stellar cast: gorgeous Harris Dickinson next to Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Gemma Arterton (as Mata Hari), Liam Neeson, Daniel Bruhl, Rhys Ifans (as Rasputin), Charles Dance, Matthew Goode (as Tristan), Tom Hollander (who plays three rulers George V and

Ralph Fiennes is T. E. Lawrence in Matthew Vaughn directed prequel

his cousins Wilhelm II of Germany, Nicholas II of Russia) ,Djimon Hounsou, Stanley Tucci (as Merlin), Alison Steadman (as Guinevere), Neil Jackson, Robert Aramayo (as Yugoslav hero Gavrilo Princip), and Joel Basman (as Gawain).

THE STORY OF THE KING'S MAN
Out next February, it will be set in World War I era: as a collection of

Gorgeous young actor Harris Dickinson takes the role of his protege!

history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them!

1ST DEV PATEL PHOTO

FROM THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD MOVIE

Two photo delights today: first photo has been released of Dev Patel in THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD announcing its premiere this October at London Film Festival. Tilda Swinton, Hugh

It is possible that the movie will first air in Venice or some other festival

Laurie, Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard also star in the period set movie about a good-hearted young man who meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England as he sets out to become a writer.

NEW 'THE WITCHER' PHOTO

REVEALS GERALT'S HORSE

After a whole set of character photos that Netflix released two weeks ago for THE WITCHER epic fantasy TV series, they've now released a photo of Henry Cavill as the demon hunter and his faithful horse Roach! It will follow

The Witcher might be getting a trailer next month at San Diego Comic Con

Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter in a world invaded by demons where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.

'US' MINI SERIES ADAPTATION

SETS TOM HOLLANDER AS LEAD

David Nicholls' super popular bestseller US is getting a four episode mini series adaptation over at BBC and they've already set the cast to be led by Tom Hollander as Douglas Petersen who is blindsided when his wife Connie

Tom Hollander and Tom Taylor will visit some of world's most beautiful cities

(Saskia Reeves) tells him that she’s not sure she wants to be married to him any more. Agreeing to still go on their planned family grand tour of Europe, Douglas vows to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with their son Albie (Tom Taylor).

'RED SEA DIVING RESORT'

POSTER WITH CHRIS EVANS

The movie was directed by Gideon Raff

Netflix has, meanwhile, released a gorgeous poster for their action movie THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT which will stream at the streaming network from July 31st starring Chris Evans, Ben Kingsley, Michiel Huisman, Alessandro Nivola, Greg Kinnear!

Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, this is the incredible story of a group of Mossad agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The undercover team carrying out this mission is led by the charismatic Ari Kidron and courageous local Kabede Bimro.

'EISENHORN' EPIC SF SERIES

BASED ON WARHAMMER 40,000

After Warcraft and Assassins Creed movies and Halo and The Witcher TV series which are currently in production, another major game will be turned

Dan Abnett wrote books inspired by the game

into a small screen series: as Hollywood Reporter writes today, Warhammer 40,000 will become TV show titled EISENHORN with The Man in the High Castle's Frank Spotnitz as the showrunner! The series will be based on Dan Abnett's novels connected with the game.

The series will be set in a world where mankind teeters on the brink of annihilation. While humanity’s armies wage unending war across a million battlefields, in the darkness, a secret conflict rages, fought by the agents of the Imperial Inquisition. EISENHORN will see Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and his band of investigators fight to thwart the monstrous schemes of aliens, heretics and demons before mankind’s doom is sealed.

NEW 'LAST CHRISTMAS' PHOTOS

WITH EMILIA CLARKE AND HENRY GOLDING IN FESTIVE LONDON

New photos have been released for this year's festive romance LAST CHRISTMAS inspired by Wham!'s famous song as a sort of a love letter to festive London starring Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding! Not much is

Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke lead the romantic movie

known when it comes to the plot of the November 8th movie, except that we know that in the 2016 Brexit set film Emilia Clarke will be a hopeless girl Kate who works as an elf in a Christmas shop even though she hates holidays

The film also deal with homelessness a topic dear to George Michael

and everything about them, while Golding will play Tom, a night-time courier who volunteers at a homeless shelter and does not fit into the modern world. He actually loves holidays. Emma Thompson (who also co wrote the film) will play Kate's mother from ex Yugoslavia! The movie will also include a

The movie should hit the big screens later this November

scene shot at Alexandra Palace ice rink. Since Emma Thompson started writing the script while George Michael was still alive, the project has his approval and will feature his music, including a previously unreleased track that will play at the movie’s conclusion.

'CATS' TRAILER WILL PROBABLY

SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU!

Cats will meow this December, literally!

Attention, spylings, we have a special broadcast today with fresh news and updates from Comic Con which is raging currently over in San Diego. The day brought us the very first trailer for the live action movie musical version of famous CATS and I don't know what to say, as someone said somewhere in comments it looks like stuff of nightmares with people in purrrfectly terrible masks of cats. And plus an annoyingly bad rendition of legendary song Memories by infamously overrated Jennifer Hudson. If it is any consolation, at least part of the cast is amazing (if you can get over the fact that Taylor Swift is in it as well): Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Laurie Davidson, Jason Derulo, Rebel

Judi Dench leads the cast as Old Deuteronomy!

Wilson, Idris Elba, James Corden, Ray Winstone, are just some of the better known names in the Tom Hooper directed musical which is out a few days before Christmas.

CATS THE MOVIE MUSICAL
Based on the book “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot, the musical follows the Jellicle cats, a family of felines who go before the group’s leader Old Deuteronomy to see who will be selected to travel to the Heaviside

Sir Ian McKellen is, naturally, Gus the Theatre Cat!

layer for a new life. Over the course of a single night, their tribe makes what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

'HIS DARK MATERIALS' TRAILER

PLUS DEMON ANIMALS PHOTOS

BBC has, meanwhile, released new trailer and photos (showing all the animals in the story) for their epic fantasy small screen TV series adaptation of

James McAvoy leads the cast as Lord Asriel!

Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS which will also air on HBO later this Autumn! The first season follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a seemingly

Lyra and her demon animal Pan!

ordinary but brave young girl from another world. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and becomes a quest

Armoured battle polar bear Byrnison

to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. As she journeys through the worlds, including our own, Lyra meets Will, a determined and courageous

Stelmaria the snow leopard!

boy. Together, they encounter extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living and the dead in their hands. James McAvoy

Mrs Coulter's golden monkey demon!

is her father Lord Asriel. The new photos show polar bear Byrnison, snow leopard Stelmaria, Lord Asriel's dæmon, the golden monkey, dæmon of Ruth Wilson’s Mrs Coulter and Pan, Lyra's demon.

'THE WITCHER' TRAILER

ARRIVES FROM THE CONTINENT

Here it is, the main treat of this year's television season: the first teaser for Henry Cavill's THE WITCHER epic fantasy TV saga which will hit Netflix

Henry Cavill's look in the series is reminiscent of Lord of the Rings elves

later this year. Also starring Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan it will be based on the best selling fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski.

THE WITCHER TV SERIES
is an epic tale of fate and family revolving around famed monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) who lives in the world of The Continent where

Anya Cholatra is Sorceress Yennefer

humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and good and evil is not easily identified! But when destiny hurtles him toward

Freya Allan is Princess Ciri

a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.

'STAR TREK: PICARD'

NEW TRAILER ENGAGED!

Comic Con in San Diego was really spectacular last night when it comes to the science fiction genre bringing us three amazing new trailers for sf series. Amazon has finally released the first real trailer for STAR TREK: PICARD

Star Trek Picard will air on Amazon Prime

series which will air sometime later this year on Amazon Prime (and on CBS All Access for those who care to give the streaming service their money). Not much is known about the plot of the new spin off from the Star Trek franchise, other that it will see Patrick Stewart playing famous Enterprise captain in his older years, breaking his retirement (which he enjoyed producing vine and playing with his new dog) and going on a new interstellar adventure. What we do know now is that, much to the joy of Star Trek fans, his old Enterprise crew members

Captain Picard's new dog is called Number One :)

Deanna Troi (Martina Sirtis), Data (Brent Spiner) and Commander Ryker (Jonathan Frakes who is also directing some of the episodes) will all appear in the series together with Jerry Ryan's Seven of Nine! Santiago

The new series will see Picard meets some interesting new alien species

Cabrera and Harry Treadaway will lead the new cast. The more contemplative series will have one storyline, not episodic plots.

'SNOWPIERCER' TRAILER

FOR THE NEW TV SERIES VERSION

Meanwhile, TBS released a trailer and first photos for what they are hoping will become their own tentpole sf series, post apocalyptic drama SNOWPIERCER based on the cult sf film with Chris Evans, but this time, at

least judging by the trailer, on a much grander scale. Jennifer Connelly (as the head of hospitality who is also the voice of the train), Daveed Diggs (as an ex detective who gets the task to track a killer in the train), Alison Wright, Lena Hall, Mickey Sumner, and Steven Ogg will lead the show in which the only living inhabitants of Earth live in a constantly moving massive train as the temperature outside is well bellow minus 100 degrees Celsius! It will air on TBS next spring set more than seven years after the

world has become a frozen wasteland, and following the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation.

'WESTWORLD' TRAILER

FOR SPECTACULAR SEASON 3

HBO has released a stunning trailer for the third season of their utopian drama WESTWORLD which will obviously be much more dynamic, spectacular and action packed than the slow moving, overly complex second

Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores is ready to take on the real world as well

season which disappointed the fans. Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton (who will obviously wreck some chaos in a WW2 setting as well), Rodrigo Santoro, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright (whose Bernard will have a new image), Luke Hemsworth, and Tessa Thompson all return alongside

Aaron Paul joins the cast of the new season as a member of the outside world

new cast members Aaron Paul (he will play a construction worker from Los Angeles with a robot co-worker named George who meets the vengeful fugitive host Dolores) and Vincent Cassel in the season that will see androids conquering the outside world as well.

JAI COURTNEY JOINS

Kate Beckinsale will give herself some jolts

KATE BECKIN SALE IN JOLT ACTION COMEDY MOVIE

Well, they will certainly make a hot couple on the big screens! Australian superhunk Jai Courtney has just joined British beauty Kate Beckinsale in action comedy JOLT together with Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale and Laverne Cox!

JOLT
directed by Hysteria's Tanya Wexler, will see Beckinsale play Lindy, an acid-tongued woman with rage issues. Lindy controls her temper by shocking herself with an electrode vest. One day she makes a connection with Justin (Jai Courtney), which gives her a glimmer of hope for a shock-free future but

Australian superstar Jai Courtney takes the lead male role

when he’s murdered, she launches herself on a revenge fuelled rampage in pursuit of his killer. Meanwhile, detective Vicars (Bobby Cannavale) and detective Nevin (Laverne Cox) mark Lindy as their chief suspect.

'CATHERINE THE GREAT'

HBO VERSION OF THE TRAILER

I've already showed you Sky's trailer for it, but now HBO has released their own one for CATHERINE THE GREAT four part mini historical series with Helen Mirren! The series will follow the late years of the 18th century

Helen Mirren already played English queens Elizabeth I and II

Russian tzarina as she enters the relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke). Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress

The series will air on Sky in Europe, and HBO in USA this Autumn

Catherine the Great develops a unique and devoted relationship with him as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day

The series follows the relationship between Catherine and Potemkin

Russia. The cast will also include Joseph Quinn, Gina McKee, Rory Kinnear, and Richard Roxburgh. Check out HBO's trailer below which is much more dynamic and atmospheric than the Sky's one.

'CASANOVA IN RUSSIA'

LAVISH NEW RUSSIAN TV SAGA

Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic takes the lead role

You know your trusted spy is always the first one to inform you about the new period set projects arriving from all corners of the world, and today I have the first photos of Serbian star Ivan Bosilychich in new historical series CASANOVA IN RUSSIA (Казанова в России) that will air on Russian national TV.

LOVE IN RUSSIA
Set in imperial Russia, during the rule of Tzarina Catherine the Great, in 1764-1765, the lavishly expensive 12 part series will follow the great Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova during his stay in Russia, filled with conspiracies, intrigues, insidious murders and fatal passions. It will be an adventure in the spirit of the Three Musketeers, only on the banks of the Neva, not the Seine. In the centre of the plot is the story of how Casanova, sent to Russia with the plan to infiltrate Catherine the Great's court as a Vatican spy, got carried away by a female serf

Anton and Iliya Chizhikov are directing the project

peasant on the banks of the Neva, so much that he went to extreme lengths to buy her. That accidental meeting will make history's most famous womaniser and seducer to believe that a live could be spent next to just one woman.

The new historical series will be shot in twelve hourlong episodes

Beside being the famous lover, Casanova was also one of the most educated people of that time, he translated legendary Iliad and co wrote the libretto for

The series was shot in Russia in utmost secrecy

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. A friendship with famous Voltaire also left a great impact on that, less known, side of his life. Produced by Favorit Film and Brothers Chizhikov, the saga, which will air next year on Russian National

The series sees Casanova fall in love with a poor woman

Broadcaster, will also star Maria Skuratova as Casanova's love interest, Mariyana Spivak as Catherine the Great and our dear Ilya Malakov (from Furious or Kolovrat) as her general and lover Potemkin!

NEW 'CURSED' PHOTOS

UNVEIL MERLIN & ARTHUR

Netflix has published new characterphotos from their new epic series CURSED with Katherine Langford as Lady Nimue from Arthurian legends, Devon Terrell as King Arthur (who is suddenly a black man, go

Katherine Langford is Nimue, Lady of the Lake

figure) and Gustaf Skarsgard as Merlin. The ten episode saga will be a re imagining of the famous legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a teenage heroine with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful and tragic Lady of the Lake.

LADY OF THE LAKE LEGEND
After her mother’s death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the

Devin Terrell is your latest King Arthur if you can believe it, folks

course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Based on

Gustaf Skarsgard is definitely not your kind old man Merlin the Wizard

Tom Wheeler's yet to be released book, CURSED also stars Peter Mullan, Lily Newmark, Shalom Brune Franklin, Daniel Sharman, Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates, Catherine Walker and Billy Jenkins.

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