SANDOKAN EPIC SERIES STARTS SHOOTING, ED WESTWICK, JOHN HANNAH JOIN CAN YAMAN

 CAN YAMAN'S SANDOKAN 

EPIC TV SERIES ANNOUNCES FULL CAST

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.

HENRY CAVILL, HENRY GOLDING, ALEX PETTYFER, ALLAN RITCHSON, TIL SCHWEIGER MOVIE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE HITS CINEMAS THIS WEEKEND

     HENRY CAVILL'S    

MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

The movie hits cinemas this weekend

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:

 

NETFLIX RELEASES FIRST TEASER FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION

   100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE  

EPIC TEASER FOR NEW NETFLIX TV SERIES

I almost forgot that this one was in the making, but Netflix has sent us the first teaser for TV series adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE which will arrive sometime this year with sixteen episodes following the Buendía family and the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

 MARRIED AGAINST THEIR PARENTS'

wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía (Marco Gonzalez) and Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) leave their village behind and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo. Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude. 

 

ANTONIO VIVALDI BIOPIC IN THE WORKS TO BE HELMED BY OSCAR WINNING BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY EDITOR

    VIVALDI MOVIE BIOPIC   

IN THE WORKS WITH JOHN OTTMAN

Beside Amadeus series and Ravel movie, we are now getting a biopic on VIVALDI as well to be helmed by John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar winning editor according to Variety. Much of Vivaldi’s work was mysteriously lost for over 200 years, only to be rediscovered during World War I. Today, Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” is one of the most recognizable, recorded and performed classical composition in the world. Vivaldi joined the priesthood in the early 18th century to be commissioned to write music, much to chagrin of his jealous rival and church hierarchy. His first assignment was that of music director of an all-female orphanage orchestra where he developed a secret affair with a teacher. The film will tell his story of forbidden love, deceit and the transformative power of music.

SEE DELIGHTFULLY FUN TRAILER FOR NEW NETFLIX ANIMATED ADVENTURE THELMA THE UNICORN

  THELMA THE UNICORN  

FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE TRAILER IS HERE

Something animated for you today: we have a super fun first trailer for upcoming animated movie adventure THELMA THE UNICORN which should

Thelma's adventure starts this May

arrive to Netflix May 17th this year with Jon Heder, Will Forte and Zach Galifianakis lending their voices to the animated characters based on the book by Aaron Blabey.

 

THIS ANIMATED MOVIE FOLLOWS

 Thelma who dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma's wish comes true. She rises to instant international stardom, but at an unexpected cost. After a while, Thelma realizes that she was happier as her ordinary, sparkle-free self. So she ditches her horn, scrubs off her sparkles, and returns home, where her best friend is waiting for her with a hug. Check out the lovely trailer below and tell us what you think!

 

BEN RAPPAPORT, MATTHEW DAVIS, ANNA SOPHIA ROBB TO LEAD NBC DRAMA PILOT GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY

   NBC UNVEILS CAST FOR  

GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY TV DRAMA

It is the pilot season and NBC has unveiled lead cast for their new drama pilot GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY which follows four members of a suburban garden club all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom. Ben Rappaport is Brett, cool in a threadbare kind of way, he put his owndreams of starting a car restoration business on hold so his wife (now ex-

Ben Rappaport and Matthew Davis will take the male leads

wife) could finish law school. He continues his job as a manager of a garden store so he can take care of the kids. Melissa Fumero is Birdie. Entitled, rich, swathed in Chanel, a smoker, a drinker, self-destructive at times, toxic at others, but not without real pain beneath her facade, she is a successful author whose memoir, “Digging for Gold: Dancing Through Divorce,” is a bestseller. Matthew Davis is Joel, a police officer and a father of adopted son Tom,

Anna Sophia Robb and Alexander Hodge will play a couple

whom Birdie takes an interest in. Burned out by his job and life in this suburban town, he just needs the slightest push to embrace a dark side of his own. Anna Sophia Robb is Alice, your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. Alexander Hodge plays Doug, Alice’s husband. He once had dreams of being a wildly successful artist, but like Alice, his dreams have dwindled over the years, and now fills his time by painting signs for local restaurants.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ITV'S RED EYE AIRPLANE SET THRILLER MINI TV SERIES WITH RICHARD ARMITAGE WHICH STARTS NEXT WEEK

   RED EYE TV SERIES  

ARRIVES FINALLY TO ITV NEXT WEEK

After his erotic thriller series Obsession last year on Netflix and  then Fool Me Once, our smashing dashing Richard Armitage is returning to the

Red Eye starts next Sunday on ITV

small screens next Sunday when his new thriller mini series RED EYE arrives to ITV, Sunday evening April 21st. The six part drama has action set on an overnight flight from London to Beijing and in the corridors of power within Whitehall.

 

  THE STORY

 After attending a medical conference in Beijing and coming frighteningly close to dying in a car crash, Dr. Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage), arrives home and is immediately arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport. Exhausted and confused, Nolan is accused of the murder of a woman who was in the car he crashed. Despite his protests that he was driving alone, Nolan is set to return to China to face

The series will air in six episodes

charges.DC Hana Li (Jing Lusi), is the no nonsense London officer charged with accompanying Nolan back to Beijing. Her resentment for this assignment, and of Nolan himself, is immediate. However, in flight, when a first death occurs, Li begins to suspect foul play. Further deaths confirm that Nolan is in danger, and after a call from MI5, Hana finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy. Back in London, we follow Hana’s sister, scrappy reporter Jess Li (Jemma Moore), who is running her own investigation into Nolan’s extradition and finds herself running for her life from an unknown assassin. And in Thames House, the head of MI5, Madeline Delaney (Lesley Sharp), breaks protocol and risks her entire career to not only help Hana and Nolan stay alive but also to expose an international conspiracy that seems to implicate both China and people in her own government. Check out the first series promo below:

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DISNEY PLUS HISTORICAL MINI TV SERIES SHARDLAKE WITH ARTHUR HUGHES, SEAN BEAN AND ANTHONY BOYLE! AIR DATE AND TRAILER

 SHARDLAKE AIRDATE IS HERE 

FOR DISNEY'S NEW EPIC MINI TV SERIES

Disney Plus has graced us with the new trailer and streaming launch date (May 1st) for their and Hulu's historical mystery series SHARDLAKE which,

Shardlake starts this May on Disney Plus

based on the best-selling novels by CJ Sansom, sees lovely Arthur Hughes playing Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean) the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. 

 

 STORY OF SHARDLAKE SERIES

Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavoured due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. Anthony Boyle plays the cocky and good-looking Jack Barak, who leaves Shardlake unsure of whether he is an assistant, or Cromwell’s spy. Drenched in mystery, suspense and deception, this four-part drama, is an eerie whodunnit adventure, set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. Shardlake’s sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when Cromwell instructs him to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea. The commissioner was gathering evidence to close the monastery and it is now imperative for Cromwell’s own political survival that Shardlake both solves the murder and closes the monastery. He leaves Shardlake in no doubt that failure is not an option. Cromwell insists that he is accompanied by Jack Barak to Scarnsea, where the duo are met with hostility, suspicion and paranoia by the monks who fear for their future and will seemingly stop at nothing to preserve their order. Check out the new trailer below:

 

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: CONTINENTAL AFFAIR TO BECOME A FILM, ENGLEBY AND CALEDONIAN ROAD TV SERIES

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS  

MANGAN'S THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR

Lumanity Productions will make a feature film out of Christine Mangan's THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR to be helmed by Robert Budreau. It is a glamorous early 1960s romantic crime caper about Henri and Louise who fatefully cross paths one morning in

Continental Affair will become a film

Europe. He is living in exile after deserting his post in the French Algerian war. Louise is running from a shadowy past in London and the chains of gendered expectations. When she steals the money that Henri is supposed to protect, the two end up in a cat-and-mouse chase across continental Europe, from London and Paris to Belgrade and Istanbul with an unlikely bond forming when they share past crimes and secrets. And as their train hurtles toward its final destination with an assassin on their heels, Henri and Louise must decide what the future will hold and whether it involves one another. 

 

Engleby will become a series

SEBASTIAN FAULK'S ENGLEBY

Scotland's Freedom Scripted will turn Sebastian Faulk's novel ENGLEBY into a six part television series. Set between London and Cambridge, the six-part drama is a quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit. The series follows enigmatic outsider Mike Engleby (to be played by Noah Jupe who is also starring in Michael Douglas' Franklin historical series) as he graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. 

 

 

O'HAGAN'S CALEDONIAN ROAD

Caledonian Road will become a series

Fremantle and Sinestra will do a television adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's recently published CALEDONIAN ROAD a biting portrait of modern British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising, and declining, fortunes. The novel follows Campbell Flynn – an art historian and celebrity intellectual, entering the empire of middle age, and his inexorable downfall when he meets Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes, secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all that his privilege really involves.

FIRST LOOK AT RALPH FIENNES AND JULIETTE BINOCHE AS ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE IN THE RETURN EPIC TV MOVIE

  FIRST THE RETURN LOOK 

AT RALPH FIENNES AND JULIETTE BINOCHE

We have first look at a new retelling of Odysseus and his story with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in THE RETURN movie shown in a Bleecker Street reel which you can see below. After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan  war.His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Marwan Kenzari plays Antinous, the lead suitor for the hand of Penelope.  Uberto Pasolino directed the movie.