HOLLYWOOD SPY

'FRONTIER' EPIC TV SERIES

STARRING JASON MOMOA

While Jason Momoa is slowly preparing to rule the aquatic world as Aquaman, he will first patrol the FRONTIER in the new historical scripted epic series which will start airing in Canada on their Discovery Channel from November 6th and sometime later on at Netflix (everywhere around the world except in Canada) as well, depicting the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Today you can check out the first poster for the upcoming series and also some of the cast pictures and as you can see the costumes

will feature a lot of fur (worn by beautiful animals and ugly humans) as one needed to protect oneself somehow back in the 18th century from the freezing Canadian winter!

UNTAMED NEW WORLD
Told from multiple perspectives, the six episode series takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close quarter

hatchet fights and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts. The cast includes Alun Armstrong (Braveheart), Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey), Allan Hawco (The Book of Negroes) and

Jessica Matten while Evan Jonigkeit plays Captain Chesterfield, the right hand to Lord Benton (Alun Armstrong) and the nemesis of

Declan Harp (Jason Mamoa). He is a vicious man who lives by a code. From humble beginnings he has become politically motivated in this

new and unpredictable world. Merlin's and Dracula's Kathie McGrath also stars taking one of the female roles.

A KINGDOM UNTO ITSELF

The opening episode will see Michael Smyth (Landon Liboiron) landing in the New World on an HBC ship where he is ordered by Lord

Benton to venture into the Frontier in search of fur trader Declan Harp, the man responsible for the murder of Benton’s soldiers at a remote outpost.

Only one month until #Frontier premieres on @DiscoveryCanada. pic.twitter.com/UDB9b0qCJi
— Frontier (@FrontierSeries) October 7, 2016

NEW 'ALLIED'POSTER

BRAD PITT & MARION COTILLARD

Two new posters for you today, starting with the first one for World War II movie ALLIED starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard which should hit cinemas later this November around the world also starring Matthew Goode.

Set in 1942, it sees Brad Pitt playing an intelligence officer in North Africa who encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines played by Cotillard. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. I must admit that poster looks cheap as hell and beyond.

NEW 'LION'POSTER

DEV PATEL AND NICOLE KIDMAN

Another touching drama that has just got a new poster is the adaptation of Larry Buttrose novel LION in which Dev Patel plays a grown up version of a five year old Indian boy who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Nicole Kidman plays his adoptive mother with David Wenham as the father. The movie will start its release November in North America, in December in Europe and from January in UK and Australia and Germany.

PETER JACKSON TO PRODUCE

'MORTAL ENGINES' ADAPTATION

Good news and bad news, people, Peter Jackson is returning to movie making with his Hobbit and Lord of the Rings team Fran Walsh

and Philippa Boyens, with whom he will produce the big screen adaptation of Philip Reeve's epic novels MORTAL ENGINES, bad news - they're writing the script as well and they might make it as deadly boring as them Hobbitses were! Peter's visual effects expert Christian Rivers will direct!

MORTAL ENGINES is set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth's cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive

Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the Outlands who will change the course of his life forever.

JACK O'CONNELL TO LEAD

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN BIOPIC

There definitely is a resemblance: as news come from Pathé production company, young Brit Jack O'Connell is set to take the lead role in their untitled biopic of scandalous fashion designer ALEXANDER MCQUEEN! Based on late designer's biography Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson the movie will be directed by Andrew Haigh! Back in year 2009 McQueen organized one of his greatest shows which featured a reworking of his greatest designs from the past 15 years! It was dedicated to his mother whose death triggered his depression and suicide. The film explores McQueen’s creative process in the months leading up to the show providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the global brand – a moving celebration of a visionary genius whose designs transcended fashion to become art.

BLAKE LIVELY GOES BLIND

IN 'ALL I SEE IS YOU'

While you can currently enjoy the tabloid articles on how she organized a perfect 40 birthday celebration for her husband Ryan Reynolds, gorgeous Blake Lively is looking to continue her slate of very unique movies after Age of Adeline and The Shallows with ALL I SEE IS YOU which has just got an August 2017 release date!

ALL I SEE IS YOU follows a blind woman (Blake Lively) and her husband (Jason Clarke). When her sight unexpectedly returns, she begins to discover the previously unseen and disturbing details about themselves, their marriage and their lives.

'THE TERRANAUTS'

TO BECOME SF TV SERIES

In TV news, CW is going to make a new sf series by adapting T.C. Boyle's novel THE TERRANAUTS, which is by the way out today, for the small screens with Jim Parson's producing. The Terranauts is described as an epic story of science, society, sex, survival and, ultimately, human folly and ambition. Partly inspired by the real life Biosphere 2 experiment, the story revolves around eight scientists enlisted to run a biosphere that will prove vital for humanity’s survival in an off-Earth colony. Their goal is to successfully create a sustainable environment to house generations to come, but things don’t quite go as planned.

'COME AND FIND ME' TRAILER

STARRING AARON PAUL!

Speaking of relationship mysteries, you will see those in the trailer for Aaron Paul's COME AND FIND ME as well which is out November. David (Paul) and Claire’s (Annabelle Wallis) idyllic relationship comes to an abrupt and mysterious end after Claire disappears without a trace. Devastated but incapable of letting go, David follows her trail down a frantic and increasingly dangerous path. Shocked at discovering Claire was living a double life, he’s forced to risk everything if he ever wants to see her again.

DOUG LIMAN TO HELM

'UNEARTHED' SF ADAPTATION

We're going sf today, people, for the end of the week, starting with the info coming from Doug Liman who will direct the big screen adaptation of UNEARTHED sf adventure novel from These Broken Stars authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, whose first part is out in bookshops next year.

UNEARTHED is a sf YA thriller described as Lara Croft meets Indiana Jones, set in deep space. Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe join forces in a tomb raiding race on a newly discovered planet to unravel the secrets of an ancient, long- extinct civilization ... only to uncover a revelation that could spell the end of the human race.

'COLD SKIN' THRILLER WITH

DAVID OAKES & RAY STEVENSON

Meanwhile, you can also check out the first poster and first photos from period set fantasy thriller adventure COLD SKIN starring our most beloved Borgias, Victoria and Pillars of the Earth most charismatic star David Oakes and Ray Stevenson. Directed by Xavier Gens (The Divide) it should hit cinemas sometime next year and we are still anxiously waiting for a first trailer! It is based on a book written by Albert Sanchez Pinol!

COLD SKIN has a story set on the edge of the Antartic Circle, in the years after World War I, where a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the

end of the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a

horror he refuses to name. The rest is forest, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then the night begins to fall...

REBECCA FERGUSON TO

LEAD 'THE LADY AND THE PANDA'

Now here's a new role for Girl on the Train and White Queen star Rebecca Ferguson: as 'Deadline' reports she will lead Justin Chadwick directed THE LADY AND THE PANDA movie!

The film is based on Ruth Harkness’ original detailed correspondence. When, as the 1930s New York socialite, she lost her wealthy husband unexpectedly, she took over his expedition to China. Ignoring the dictates of society, she joined forces with an unproven but dashing Chinese guide with whom she travelled down the Yangtze and deep into the uncharted Himalayas where they rescued an orphaned baby panda. When Ruth took it back to the U.S., she created a nationwide sensation but before long realized the animals are best preserved in their natural habitat.

SERGEI BODROV TO HELM

NEW 'SAMSON AND DELILAH'
He almost won an Oscar for his movie on Genghis Khan, but now, Russian film maker Sergei Bodrov is returning to the epic genre with SAMSON AND DELILAH! He will direct the epic

adventure movie adaptation of Ze’ev Jabotinsky's bestseller! The cast is currently being assembled for a movie which should start shooting next summer in Africa. Bodrov, who has other epic movie experiences since he also helmed Ben Barnes and Kit Harington in Seventh Son epic fantasy a few years ago, will shoot a movie on Samson, a fierce warrior, a wise judge, and a brave defender of his people. As 'Deadline' reports, Jabotinsky’s book brings a unique interpretation of the Biblical story which empowers Samson with supernatural strength, yet at the same time never losing sight of the character’s human qualities.

TOM CRUISE TO GO EPIC

AS LEGENDARY 'METHUSELAH'

Speaking of epic projects of Biblical proportions and budget, Warner Bros. has just brought another foreign movie Oscar nominee Joachim Ronning(Kon Tiki), who recently finished Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Talesfor Disney, to direct Tom Cruise in the epic adventure movie on legendary METHUSELAH, a man who lived for almost 1,000 years without ageing, developing a set of unparalleled survival skills during his life. Tom Cruise is obviously in the mood for epic adventures, which is unusual for him since he usually does contemporary action flicks, as he has just finished shooting THE MUMMY reboot in which he leads the cast.

NEW 'SING' POSTERS

FOR THE ANIMATED MUSICAL!

What do you do when Hollywood Spy reaches 5 million visitors? I guess you SING like all these adorable animals are doing in the new animated movie we're spotlighting today with the

new character posters! Coming from Illumination Entertainment it will bring music to cinemas this December featuring more than 85 classic pop tracks from famous artists!

SING YOUR TAIL OUT!
In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, a koala named Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) works to keep his theatre from closing down. To this end, Buster and his sheep friend Eddie (John C. Reilly) hold a singing contest to raise money, and the entire town auditions for a part in the show.

The leading five are an overworked pig named Rosita (Reese Witherspoon) with her pig partner named Gunter (Nick Kroll), an arrogant and gambling white mouse named Mike (Seth MacFarlane), a punk rock porcupine named Ash (Scarlett Johansson), a timid teenage elephant named Meena (Tori Kelly), and a British gorilla named Johnny (Taron Egerton), who wants to sing instead of following his family's criminal footsteps.

STELLAR VOICE CAST

The exquisitely stellar voice cast includes Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an optimistic koala, who plans to save his theatre from

closure by holding a singing competition; Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, a domestic pig, who gave up her teenage music dreams to become a devoted wife of Norman, and mother to 25 piglets; Seth MacFarlane as Mike, a white jazz mouse with a big Frank Sinatra-esque voice and an arrogant attitude; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a crested porcupine punk rocker who takes part in an alternative rock music group with her boyfriend; John C. Reilly as Eddie, a Suffolk sheep, and Buster's partner that doubts the future of the theatre; Tori Kelly as Meena, a teenage Indian elephant with an exquisite voice, and severe stage fright; Taron Egerton as Johnny, an English accented

mountain gorilla, who wants to sing, but his father wants him to follow his family’s criminal footsteps; Nick Kroll as Gunter, Rosita's German

accented, very optimistic and bubbly dance partner; Nick Offerman as Norman, a domestic pig and Rosita's oblivious husband; Garth Jennings as Miss Crawl, an elderly green iguana who is Buster's assistant and offers Johnny piano lessons; Jennifer Saunders as Miss

Nana Noodleman! Rea Perlman also lends her voice to one of the characters in the hilarious animated movie!

'STRANGE NEW THINGS'

HALEY JOEL OSMENT JOINS RICHARD MADDEN IN SF SERIES

We're again all sf today, starting with the news coming from 'Deadline' that one of our most anticipated of the upcoming TV series Amazon's

and Richard Madden's STRANGE NEW THINGS has just cast Haley Joel Osment in one of the roles!

STRANGE NEW THINGS is based on Michel Faber's book set in the near future, when Earth is becoming unsustainable. Richard Madden stars as Peter, a priest who is sent into space to help found a new colony, but what he ends up discovering not only puts his faith to the test but life as we know it. Osment will play Sy, a man who used to grow large quantities of marijuana before being recruited to work on the new colony as chief botanist.

INTENSE 'LIFE' SF TRAILER

RYAN REYNOLDS, REBECCA FERGUSON & JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Monday brings us the first trailer for sf thriller out next year LIFE starring Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson! It follows a six member crew of the International Space Station that is

on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew

begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.

LUKE EVANS TO KIDNAP

KELLY REILLY IN '10X10'

Forgive me for shedding a tear, but it seems our dearly beloved Welsh hunk Luke Evans will again play a negative character! He's just scored a lead role in Noel Clarke's 10x10, a thriller in which he will be Lewis, a seemingly ordinary guy who under the surface hides a singular obsession – revenge – and the focus of his obsession is Cathy (Kelly Reilly). In broad daylight, he kidnaps her and takes her to his home, where he’s built a soundproofed cell measuring 10 feet by 10 feet and where he plans to extract a dark secret from her past. But as his motive begins to unravel, it becomes clear that Cathy is a formidable match for her kidnapper.

You will next see Luke playing Gaston in Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast, while Reilly leads Sky's new epic TV series Britanniaset in Roman times.

OLIVIA WILDE TO

BECOME 'A VIGILANTE'
After just giving birth to her second child two weeks ago with her husband Jason Sudeikis, lovely Olivia Wilde will jump into action. She will lead A VIGILANTE a movie directed and written by Sarah Daggar Nickson playing The Woman, a secretive figure who rids victims of their domestic abusers! Next year Wilde will also join Logan Marshall Green, Whoopi Goldberg, Chloe Sevigny and James Franco in BLACK DOG, RED DOG, a movie about the life of poet Stephen Dobyns as he deals with his relationships with women and with mortality, from his childhood to his time as a young journalist and then his transition to poetry.

'FULLER HOUSE'

2ND SEASON TRAILER IS HERE

Netflix has released the first trailer for the second season of their popular FULLER HOUSE sitcom which will be focused on different holidays celebrated among the members of the Tanner, Fuller and Gibler families, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. Returning to the small screens for the second year, the family experiences a new year of life’s moments — the start of a new school year, budding romances and coming together for the holidays. Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Michael Campion, Elias Harger, Scott Weinger and John Brotherton all return to their roles from December 9.

REESE WITHERSPOON JOINS

DISNEY'S 'A WRINKLE IN TIME'

Disney's big screen adaptation of Madeleine L'engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME has added Reese Witherspoon! She will play Mrs Whatsit in the story of a girl who, with her brother and a friend, goes on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father. Chris Pine plays the father, Gugu Mbatha Raw is her mother with Oprah Winfrey also in the cast.

'I, REBEL' SF SERIES
In TV news, David Goyer is to produce new sf series I, REBEL, about an astronaut, lost in space for eight years, who crash lands on Earth to find the world colonized and enslaved by a humanoid alien race. His rise from slave to rebel leader will spark a revolution.

MOVING 'GIFTED' TRAILER

CHRIS EVANS & OCTAVIA SPENCER

A new trailer has been revealed for touching drama movie GIFTED with our dearly beloved Chris Evans! Out next April, exactly on your spy's birthday, it follows Frank Adler (Chris Evans), a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven year old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary! Octavia Spencer also stars!

'WONDER WOMAN'

EPIC NEW TRAILER IS HERE!

It is here, it is here, and it is spectacular, lovely and epic! The new trailer for next year's biggest super hero adventure WONDER WOMAN is here with the lasso of truth, swords, horses and all the epic hoopla announcing the movie which will arrive into cinemas next June! Don't miss gorgeous scenes with slow motion bullets, Amazon throne room, breath taking beach vistas, swords hidden under evening gowns and deadly weapons! With the cast lead by Gal Gadot, the movie has a female director in Patty Jenkins!

PRINCESS OF AMAZONS
Diana, princess of the Amazons, played by Gal Gadot, was raised on a sheltered island and trained to be an unconquerable fighter. After an American pilot Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine) crashes on the island and tells her about a world war that is happening, Diana leaves her home to try to stop the war. As you know Connie Nielsen will be her mother, Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, a revolutionary leader, who struggles to shelter her only daughter from the outside world. Robin Wright is Diana's aunt Antiope, who trains Wonder Woman to fight preparing her to deal with that world. Lisa Loven Kongsli is Antiope's lieutenant, Menalippe! This trio of immortals is responsible for both raising and training Diana, the only child born on

the mythical isle, but they don’t always agree. The movie will have three settings with the second part of the movie set in War World One London, and the third part in modern days.

'PASSENGERS' CLIP & POSTER

STARRING CHRIS PRATT AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE

Fantasy treats for you today, starting with some sf with the new poster and TV spot for PASSENGERS sf thriller which is

out this Christmas week!

On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction... until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all!

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS TRAILER

FOR 'A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' MINI SERIES

Meanwhile, Netflix has dropped the first trailer and photos for their A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS mini series which will be released around the world on January 13th! A small screen adaptation

of Lemony Snicket book's it brings the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, whose evil guardian Count Olaf

(Neil Patrick Harris) will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their

parents’ mysterious death. The eight episode series also stars Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.

GERARD BUTLER TO LEAD

'KEEPERS' TRUE MYSTERY FILM

Now, here's another movie on isolated lighthouse keepers! Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Joe Alwyn will star in KEEPERS inspired by an unsolved true mystery!

The story is set on an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast. There, three lighthouse keepers arrive for a six week shift. As Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Joe Alwyn) settle into their usual, solitary routines, they stumble upon something that isn’t theirs to keep. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to? When a boat appears in the distance that might hold the answer to their questions, a battle for survival ensues as personal greed replaces loyalty and three honest men are led down a pat

'FALLEN'TRAILER & POSTER

FOR THE YA BOOK ADAPTATION

You can also check out a new trailer and a poster for the movie adaptation of popular

Lauren Kate YA novel FALLEN! Lucinda "Luce" Price is a seventeen year old living a seemingly ordinary life until she is accused of a crime she didn't commit. Sent off to the imposing Sword & Cross reform school, Luce finds herself being courted by two mysterious students to whom she feels oddly connected. Isolated and haunted by strange visions, Luce begins to unravel the secrets of her past and discovers the two men are fallen angels, who she learns have loved her for centuries. Luce must choose where her feelings lie, pitting Heaven against Hell in an epic battle over true love. As you can see from the mildly hilarious trailer Jeremy Irvine and Joely Richardson are probably the only cast members who can act.

'CLOSE TO THE ENEMY'

JIM STURGESS IN WW2

Two period set series for you, spylings, coming to us at BBC before the end of the year, both describing the tough times of World War 2! Premiering November 14th at BBC 2 CLOSE TO THE ENEMY will have

seven episodes set in a bomb damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War. Jim Sturgess, Alfred Molina and Alfie Allen lead the cast!

CLOSE TO THE ENEMY follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson (Jim Sturgess), whose last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter (August Diehl), starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the Jet engine. Callum uses unorthodox methods in his attempt to convince Dieter to work with the British and eventually a friendship develops between the two men, but soon tensions arise. Over

the course of the series, Callum encounters a number of other characters whose stories all intertwine. These characters include Victor (Freddie Highmore), Callum’s younger brother, struggling to deal with psychological trauma caused by his experience in the fighting; Harold (Alfred Molina), a Foreign Office official who reveals some startling truths about the outbreak of the war; Rachel (Charlotte Riley), an Anglophile American married to his best friend, and Kathy (Phoebe Fox), a tough, young woman working for the War Crimes Unit, fighting to bring war criminals who have escaped prosecution to justice. All these characters are trying to rebuild and move their lives forward in the aftermath of the war, a war that scarred them all so deeply.

'MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS' TV SERIES

FAMILY, LOVE AND WAR!

Starting next Sunday on BBC One after the shocking finale of Poldark is another World War 2 series MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS consisting of five hourlong episodes set in the Northern Ireland!

MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS
written by Barry Devlin, who wrote legendary British classic series Darling Buds of May with young Catherine Zeta jones, is set in the

fictional village of Moybeg on the shores of Lough Neagh during World War Two exploring the impact of a large United States Army Air Force

(USAAF) airfield on the neighbouring community. In the focus are the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after the airfield with 4,000 service men and women lands

in the middle of their rural parish in 1943. Hattie Morahan takes the lead role of Rose, who is torn between her husband Michael (Owen McDonnell) and charming US Air Force liaison officer Captain

Dreyfuss (Aaron Staton)! The cast also includes Eileen O’Higgins, Des McAleer, Ryan McParland, Kerr Logan and Charles Lawson!

'POLDARK' SEASON 3

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!

Although the second season gloriously ended for BBC's tentpole drama POLDARK this Sunday evening with some shocking twists and events, British national broadcaster has already released a teaser for the third season revealing some of the things

we will watch in the third run along with some of the new characters who will join Aidan Turner in the historical drama. There are rumours that BBC might air it next spring instead September to avoid the clash with ITV's Victoria!

OLD AND NEW CAST
In the third season Eleanor Tomlinson will return as Ross's brave wife Demelza, Heida Reed as Elizabeth, pregnant and married to Jack Farthing as evil George Warleggan, Ruby Bentall returns as Verity, now a

mother, with Luke Norris as Dr Dwight Enys and Gabriella Wilde as Caroline Penvenen, his love. New additions will be Demelza's brothers,devilish Drake (Harry Richardson) and religious Sam (Tom York) with Ellise Chappell playing the new governess at the house of

Warleggan. Set in 1794, the new, nine episode, season will see Ross traverse new family, new loves and new battles, as the French revolution casts a shadow over life in Cornwall!

'ROGUE ONE' BANNERS!

FOR A STAR WARS STORY!

They've done with the trailers, but with just a little bit more than a month till the premiere, Disney has released a new TV spot for ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY along with two new banners with the

main characters and the stormtroopers! Felicity Jones is leading a team of rebels in the film, including Diego Luna and Riz Ahmed, who

are trying to steal the plans of the infamous Death Star! Mads Mikkelsen plays her father who took part in building the planet destroying mega weapon!

DAN STEVENS IS DICKENS IN

'MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS'

Now this is certainly a lovely cast: as 'Deadline' reports today, Dan Stevens is to play young Charles Dickens in THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS next to Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens' father.

Based on Les Staniford's book, the movie will describe how Dickens wrote his famous A Christmas Carol! The story begins in October 1843, when Dickens was broke and distressed with his previous three books having failed. Rejected by his publishers, he set out to write and self publish a book he hoped would keep his family afloat, and after six fever pitched weeks, he created A Christmas Carol.

'THE DIABOLIC'SF YA NOVEL

MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD!

If you're into YA sf, you will be interested to know that Columbia Pictures has bought the movie rights to the last week published THE DIABOLIC by S.J. Kincaid, a mix of Red Queen and The Hunger Games: as the galaxy’s most fierce warrior, a humanoid teen masquerades as a senator’s daughter and a hostage of the galactic court. When the power mad emperor learned the young girl’s senator father is planning a rebellion, she is summoned to the Galactic Court to be turned into a hostage. The deadly humanoid assumes her identity and has an awakening as she deals with all the backstabbing and politics inherent in a crumbling empire.

SANDERSON'S 'COSMERE'

TO BE TURNED INTO MOVIES

Variety, meanwhile, reports that DMG Entertainment will spend close to $300 million to turn Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE saga into three movies! These books are a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, and they unfold in a number of different worlds and time periods, but are unified by an intricate system of magic that drives the plots. The team that wrote Saw is already writing a script for THE WAY OF KINGS, the first in Sanderson's THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE series. Their plan is to simultaneously adapt the first book of his MISTBORN series as well!

'THE GREAT WALL' POSTER

FOR EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE

Not much to report today, just some new posters for the movies we're waiting to see in the cinemas, starting with a new one for epic historical fantasy adventure THE GREAT WALL which starts rolling around the world from December till February next year.

Starring Andy Lau, Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal and greatly miscast Matt Damon and directed by legendary visual genius Yimou Zhang (as his first English movie), it follows an elite mediaeval force which, in the battle for humanity, makes a heroic stand atop the Great Wall of China to combat an army of monsters.

NEW 'DENIAL' POSTER

RACHEL WEISZ & TIMOTHY SPALL

A new poster has also been released for another period set movie, Rachel Weisz starring DENIAL based on the acclaimed book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier"! It recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, the burden of proof is on the accused, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Tom Wilkinson also stars with Jack Lowden and Andrew Scott in the movie which is out in USA and will open in UK in January.

TOM HOLLAND JOINS

'THE CURRENT WAR' MOVIE ON THOMAS EDISON

It is official, people, Spiderman has joined Alfonso Gomez Rejon directed drama THE CURRENT WAR! Young Tom Holland will

star in the movie about the battle between George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and his rival Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) to create a sustainable electricity system and sell it in the U.S.A. With Katherine Waterston joining as Westinghouse’s wife Marguerite Erskine, and Nicholas Hoult as Serbian genius Nikola Tesla, Tom Holland will be Samuel Insull, Edison's first assistant!

THE CURRENT WAR takes place in the late 1880s and revolves around the two scientists and their battle over the supply of electricity. Edison championed the use of a direct current for electric power distribution over an alternating current, which was backed by Westinghouse Electric and a host of European companies.

EDDIE REDMAYNE IN RIVAL FILM 'LAST DAYS OF NIGHT'

It is interesting that another movie on the subject is being shot as well next year. As 'Deadline' reports THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT will be an adaptation of Graham Moore book with Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne playing famed lawyer Paul Cravath, who was tasked with defending Westinghouse after Edison won the race to the patent office and sued his rival for an unheard of sum of $1 billion. As you know Edison was an evil and arrogant man who stole a lot of ideas from Tesla and was an enemy with him as well!

'ROMAN EMPIRE' EPIC SERIES

WITH AARON JAKUBENKO AND SEAN BEAN AS NARRATOR

Now here's something new that you can watch as of today over at Netflix! November 11th marks the beginning of season one for ROMAN EMPIRE: REIGN OF BLOOD a stylish mix of documentary and historical epic that chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall. The series features Sean Bean, who's no stranger to epic adventure but here he is only a narrator, that hunky elven prince Aaron Jakubenko from MTV's godawful epic

series Shannara here upgraded as the emperor himself, Jared Turner and Edwin Wright!

REIGN OF BLOOD!
In the first, opening episode of the six hour series, that airs today, titled Born in Purple, fighting an implacable enemy in Germany, Marcus Aurelius trains his decadent son Commodus to succeed him, while

rumour and intrigues brew back in Rome. The Germanic tribes strike as Marcus Aurelius succumbs to disease, leaving a skeptical Emperor Commodus to prosecute a war that doesn't interest him. The death of

Marcus Aurelius brings a century of Roman triumphs and victories to an end, transferring power to his spoiled, unprepared son Commodus. He rises to power as Rome's new emperor, but not everyone supports his

ascent. Among those conspiring against him: his older sister Lucilla. Commodus defeats his sister's coup but withdraws from governing, allowing others to amass power while he engages in an affair and banishes his wife. Later on a disastrous grain shortage leaves

Commodus isolated, inspiring him to train as a gladiator in a bid to unite Rome. Lavish imperial games at the Colosseum are highlighted by the emperor's bloody victories, but his paranoid abuses of power lead to a final betrayal.

'FURIOUS' EPIC TRAILER

FROM NEW RUSSIAN SPECTACLE!

You may cheer and rejoice, my spylings, because we are journeying to brave Mother Russia today and tomorrow spotlighting some of their upcoming epic films. We start our Russian movie weekend with the new trailer and photos from their epic historical spectacle FURIOUS or LEGEND OF KOLOVRAT (Легенда о Коловрате) which should storm into cinemas sometime next April if I'm not mistaken! Ilya Malakov, Aleksey Serebryakov and Alexandr Junior Iliin are leading the

cast of the 13th century movie.

LEGEND OF KOLOVRAT
The story starts in the XIII Century. Russia is fragmented and is about to fall on its knees in front of Batu Khan of the Golden Horde. Incinerating the city of Ryazan and bathing Russian land with blood, the invaders do not meet serious resistance, and only one warrior challenges them. Young Knight Yevpaty Kolovrat gathered 1700 people from his soldiers and the survivors of the siege, and went after Batu Khan with a

sole purpose of avenging the carnage. Kolovrat's forces suddenly attacked the rear guard of Batu Khan's army and annihilated it in a

fierce battle. Perplexed, Batu Khan sent a much larger force led by his relative Khostovrul. Khostovrul promised to capture Kolovrat alive, and

for this purpose challenged Kolovrat for a duel. A man of extraordinary strength, Kolovrat split his opponent in half with his sword, and

proceeded to kill the surrounding Mongols, splitting many of them down to the saddle. The remaining Khostovrul's soldiers retreated and killed Kolovrat from a distance using stone launchers. In a sign of respect to

Kolovrat's bravery, Batu Khan returned his body to his soldiers and let them return home his name will forever remain in the memory of the people. He was warrior who has become a legend. His was the feat that

has lived on for centuries. FURIOUS is not just a story about the war against Mongols and Tatars but about a man's faithfulness and love for his birthplace.

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