SHERIDAN SMITH TO LEAD FIJI SET MINI SERIES CASTAWAYS FOR PARAMOUNT! SEE VIRGINIE EFIRA IN JUST THE TWO OF US MOVIE TRAILER

Paramount + has commissioned a five episode TV series adaptation of Lucy Clarke's THE CASTAWAYS and has set Sheridan Smith and Celine Buckens as the lead of this new UK original. They will play  sisters Lori

The series is based on Lucy Clarke's book

and Erin on the holiday of a lifetime in Fiji. After a huge fight, Erin never boards the island-hopping flight to their tropical resort – and the plane, with Lori on board, never arrives at its destination. Months later, no wreckage has been found, no survivors discovered. With the search abandoned, Erin remains a lone, desperate voice refusing to give up hope. Suddenly, Lori’s credit card is used in a corner shop in a remote village in Fiji. On the CCTV, Erin recognises the plane’s pilot back from the dead. She immediately sets out from the UK to find him and discover the mystery of her sister’s fate. Jumping between the two sisters’ perspectives, we follow Erin’s present day investigation and Lori’s struggle for survival following the crash onto a tropical and remote desert island. As dark secrets are revealed both in the past and present day, each shocking twist and turn slowly reveals the truth about what happened to Lori and her fellow passengers – a truth that someone on the island will kill to keep secret. 

We also have suspenseful trailer for Valerie Donzelli's JUST THE TWO OF US (L'AMOUR ET LES FORÊTS) with our queen Virginie Efira, which will

The film will premiere at Cannes this month

have its world premiere at Cannes. Sticking to films with real life stories, after Revoir Paris, Waiting for Mr Bojangles and Other People's Children, Virginie Efira co-stars opposite Melvil Poupaud as a woman who falls passionately in love with the man of her dreams and rapidly cements the relationship with marriage. When they relocate far from her family and friends, her new life slowly turns from dream to nightmare as she comes to understand that she is in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man. PS If the writers' strike, which started Tuesday, continues in USA, you can expect more news from the French and other European fronts, as your spy will turn his little eye away from Hollywood due to shortage of US movie news.