A few months ago I informed you that science fiction classic novel NEUROMANCER from William Gibson will be turned into a ten episode sf series and now our dearest Callum Turner has been announced as the lead star. The story of the novel and the new series follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Callum Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Graham Roland will be the show runner and executive producer of the new television series.
As Deadline reports today, Kornel Mundruczó and Kata Wéber, Hungarian married couple of film makers, have hired Amy Adams as the lead star of their new movie drama AT THE SEA. Set to start its production this June in Boston, the film follows the life of Laura (Amy Adams) after a long rehabilitation, as she returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her life without the career that gave her fame, fortune and, most importantly, identity.
It will be offered to buyers at Cannes this year, but we already have three lovely posters for period set movie ghost drama CAN YOU HEAR ME? directed by Simon Hunter and starring Peter Facinelli and Charlotte Radford who also wrote the script for this film herself. They star alongside James Cosmo, Matt Barber, Hoyt Richards and Grahame Fox in the film which follows romance between a woman and an
The film will be shopped in Cannes
American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
WHAT'S THE STORY?
In this supernatural romance, Samuel, an attractive American officer is
shot while fighting on the front line in 1918 France. He makes a bargain
with the 'Almighty' to return to his beautiful bride in England,
Annabel, until the last bell tolls. He arrives home and begins to resume
his life as normal. Though slowly Samuel realizes he is a spirit,
unable to let her go, he fails to tell his wife the truth. Now carrying
his child, for a time Annabel remains unaware of the cruel reality.
Finally she receives a telegram informing he has been " killed in
action", and forced to contend with the fact She's been living with a
ghost, she in turn must learn to let go!
Arriving to the small screens sometime soon this year is four episode mini TV series THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS based on the Sunday Times best-selling debut novel by the same name by Irish author Karen Perry.
The series will air on Irish RTE
To air on Ireland's national broadcaster it stars Colin Morgan, Toni O’Rourke, Kerr Logan, Simon Callow, and is directed by award-winning director Hannah Quinn (Vikings: Valhalla).
Essaouira, Morocco. A bustling, vibrant, seductive city, now home to
struggling artists Harry, Robin and their three-year-old son, Dillon.
With little support, adapting to life as new parents in their friend
Cosmo’s tiny apartment hasn’t been easy, but despite the sleep
deprivation, the couple remain devoted to their little boy. And then one
evening, everything changes. Harry leaves a sleeping Dillon
It will be a four episode mini series
alone for
the briefest of moments when an earthquake hits. Harry races back to
rescue his child, only to find his apartment in rubble and no evidence
of Dillon.
Three years later, thousands of miles away in Dublin, Harry spots a
six-year-old boy in a crowd – a boy he is convinced is Dillon. Harry
must prove his son is alive, even if he can’t quite believe it himself.
Harry’s obsession tears apart his marriage, exposing shameful secrets
and shattering the one thing he and Robin had left – trust.
Why won’t Robin believe Harry? What is she hiding? Can the boy really be Dillon? And how far will Harry go to find their lost son? THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS is a deeply atmospheric and masterfully crafted tale of love
and loss that will chill you to the bone.
Well, he is definitely the man of the hour and you can see why in Glen Powell's new movie trailer HIT MAN which hits Netflix June 7th also starring Adriana
Hit Man hits Netflix this June
Arjona and directed by Richard Linklater who also wrote the script together with Powell.
THIS ACTION COMEDY FOLLOWS
Gary Johnson the most sought-after
professional killer in New Orleans. To his clients, he is like something
out of a movie: the mysterious gun for hire. But if you pay him to rub
out a cheating spouse or an abusive boss, you'd better watch your back
he works for the cops. When he breaks protocol to help a desperate woman
trying to flee an abusive husband, he finds himself becoming one of his
false personas, falling for the woman and flirting with turning into a
criminal himself.
Coming sometime soon to Channel 4 in United Kingdom is new thriller mini TV series THE GATHERING starring Warren Brown and RichardCoyle. Eva Morgan stars as working-class student
The Gathering arrives soon to Channel 4
Kelly, who is attacked at an illicit rave on a tidal islet alongside her friend Jessica (Sadie Soverall), an elite gymnastics teammate who seemingly has it all. Vinette Robinson stars as Jessica’s controlling and toxic mother Natalie and Warren Brown is Kelly’s hard working father Paul who struggles with his own impulse control. Richard Coyle stars as successful solicitor Jules, Sonny Walker as Adam, Ryan Quarmby as Charlie and newcomer Luca Kamleh-Chapman as Bazi. It is a whodunit – or, in this case – a whydunit, focusing on a group of disparate teenagers and their parents, each character has a motive for attacking Kelly. An accomplished gymnast, on the National Team pathway, Kelly is committed to her strict training schedule but finds freedom and liberation in the joyous, unregulated world of free running. Each episode privileges a different character’s lens to give insight into the respective worlds of these teenagers and their families and allows the viewer to speculate who committed the crime.
A series that leans into the controversial and the provocative, it examines the intertwined sex lives, loyalties and rivalries of a group of teens. And asks how they can negotiate their sense of identity and freedom in the face of surveillance parenting.
HELEN MIRREN, PIERCE BROSNAN AND BEN KINGSLEY EYED FOR THE LEAD CAST
After being sold in more than ten million copies around the world, Richard Osman's book series THURSDAY MURDER CLUB is being adapted into a movie to be directed by Chris Columbus and now rumour has it that Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley will lead the cast as three of the four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime. Variety reports that 14 studios fought for the movie rights on this one.
It will open Monte Carlo Television Festival this June, but Kevin Costner has released first image from his six episode historical series THE GRAY HOUSE that tells the hidden-history tale of four Southern women — a Virginia socialite and her mother, a formerly enslaved Black woman and a high-end prostitute — who served as key espionage agents for the Union. The foursome are credited as unsung heroes who helped end the nation’s brutal cleavage in 1865. Mary-Louise Parker, Amethyst Davis, Daisy Head and Ben Vereen lead the cast. Costner and Morgan Freeman are producing.
After years long delay due to covid Lux Vide and Italian RAI are finally starting production on SANDOKAN epic TV series next Monday. It is set in the mid 19th century on the island of Borneo, where the native Dayak tribes are dominated by ruthless Brits at the height of their colonial power.
Initially, Sandokan (Can Yaman) just goes about his pirate business without taking
Ed Westwick, Can Yaman and Alessandro Preziosi will star
sides, leading his motley crew that includes trusted sidekick Yanez de Gomera (Alessandro Preziosi). Everything changes during a raid when Sandokan intersects and elopes with Marianne (Alanah Bloor), the daughter of the British consul (John Hannah). Pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, (Ed Westwick) will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Marianne’s heart.
Also in the cast are Madeleine Price, Gilberto Gliozzi, Mark Grosy and Samuele Segreto.
Beside the announcement that he is expecting his first child with his girlfriend, Henry Cavill has another reason to celebrate this spring as Guy Ritchie directed movie adaptation of Damien Lewis book MINISTRY OF UNGENTLE- MANLY WARFARE is hitting theatres this weekend from Friday April 19th and beside Cavill in the lead it has an extremely hunky cast which also includes Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding, Allan Ritchson, Cary Elwes, Til Schweigeran and Hero Fiennes Tiffin! It is pretty much the same story we have seen in BBC series SAS Rogue Heroes but this time told for the big screens.
The movie was directed by Guy Ritchie
THIS EPIC ACTION COMEDY
tells the story of the first-ever special forces
organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming.
The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and
mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely
unconventional and utterly “ungentlemanly” fighting techniques.
Ultimately their audacious approach changed the course of the war and
laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare. See the trailer below and tell us what you think: