MIRA SORVINO, GERALDINE CHAPLIN JOIN JANE SEYMOUR, JOAN COLLINS, DENISE RICHARDS IN GLOW AND DARKNESS EPIC TV SAGA! WW2 EPIC EIGHT HUNDRED BREAKING RECORDS IN CHINA

More news from the production (they're in Cordoba right now) of Jose Luis Moreno's lavish epic TV saga GLOW AND DARKNESS (Resplandor

Mira Sorvino has also joined the cast

y Tinieblas) which has now added Mira Sorvino and Geraldine Chaplin to the cast that already includes Jane Seymour, Joan Collins and Denise Richards. The 9 episode English language series, planned as a 3 season saga, will seeDominic Andersen portraying Francis of Assisi who lived during the life and times of some of the most important figures of the Middle Ages who met him during the 13th century, a spectacular period of history ruled by ambition, cruelty, religion and the clash of Christian and Saracen cultures. The historical figures that we will see include Richard the Lionheart (Steve Buyers), queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Jane Seymour), Pope Urban II (Bruce Davison), Ferdinand of Navarre (Daniel Lundh), Frederick I Barbarossa (Adrian Bouchet), Frederick of Swabia (Callum Kerr), Hermann of Thuringia (Sander Jan Klerk), Raymond III of Tripoli (Joe Layton), Henry VI (Robert Maaser), Saladin (Adam Bond), King Baldwin (Landher Iturbe), Maria of Champagne (Denise Richards), King of Jerusalem Guy de Lusignan (Marc Hughes), prince of Antioch Reynald De Chatillon (Bart Edwards), Roger of Moulins (Aron von Adrian), Walter of Brienne (Myles Clohessy), John I Lackland (James Cartwright), Balian of Ibelin (Fernando Gil) and many others.

The film hits US cinemas August 28th

Somethingfrom Asia: currently ruling newly opened Chinese box office with the earnings of over $50 million in just one week is their historical epic THE EIGHT HUNDRED (Ba Bai) which might cross $100 million till the end of the weekend. The first Chinese film to be entirely shot with IMAX cameras is a riveting war epic coming from the acclaimed filmmaker Hu Guan. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army. It is expected that the film, which lasts more than two hours and which 

The film is the highest earning Chinese movie this year so far!

cost about $80 million to make, might earn over $200 million just in China with their audiences starving for new films after the corona lockdowns. The film also hits USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia at the end of August.