1ST IMAGES & TRAILER FROM LAVISH RUSSIAN HISTORICAL TV SERIES 'CATHERINE THE GREAT' WITH YULIA SNIGIR! JEWEL HEIST TV SHOW 'LAST PANTHERS' WITH SAMANTHA MORTON, JOHN HURT! RUTGER HAUER JOINS JOSHUA SASSE, JOHN STAMOS, RICKY GERVAIS, HUGH BONNEVILLE IN 'GALAVANT' EPIC SERIES!

'CATHERINE THE GREAT'

LAVISH HISTORICAL TV SERIES

You know, Scandinavians have VIKINGS, Italians have BORGIAS, Brits have TUDORS, so why wouldn't dear mother Russia have her own epic show depicting a part of their glorious and heroic history! Russian Channel One is preparing a lavishly epic historical series CATHERINE THE GREAT with Yulia Snigir playing the legendary Russian tzarina! The first season of 12 episodes, to arrive to the small screens in December, will capture the period from 1744 to 1762. She arrived from Germany to Russia as a German princess who will become the wife of Peter Fedorovich, the successor of the Russian throne. After being taught how to rule by Russian empress Elizabeth, 17 years later during the 1762 palace  revolution Catherine's husband was dethroned and she ascended to the throne as the new Empress of Russia. From arriving to the foreign country as a young girl to becoming the ruler of world's biggest empire, decades of her life were filled with treacherous games of high society, conspiracies, intrigues, betrayals and infidelities! Russian moviemaker Igor Zaytsev is helming the series which was done in the luxurious style seen in TUDORS and ROME. The second and the third season are expected to cover the years of her rule after the revolution! 

SIX THOUSAND COSTUMES
As you can see from the pictures, the costumes in CATHERINE THE GREAT will be extremely lavish. More than one hundred gowns will be worn by Yulia Snigir in the show and none of the dresses is lighter than 20 pounds! Most of the gowns have been taken from the archives, while the coronation and wedding dress are exact replicas of the real historical ones! Some of the massive scenes include thousands of male and female costumes and five thousand military vestments!

'THE LAST PANTHERS' TV SHOW

SAMANTHA MORTON, JOHN HURT & TAHAR RAHIM IN HEIST SERIES
In other TV news, UK's Sky Atlantic has chosen Oscar nominees Samantha Morton and John Hurt, and Tahar Rahim to star in their new series THE LAST PANTHERS! Based on the true story of legendary Serbian bank robbers Pink Panthers who stole over $136 million worth jewellery, the six part series will open with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and ‘banksters’ now rules. Morton will play a British loss adjuster charged with recovering the stolen diamonds whatever the cost, with Hurt as her nefarious boss. Rahim will chase the thieves as a French Algerian policeman! The show will be shot in UK, Serbia and France in their three languages.
RUTGER HAUER JOINS 'GALAVANT'
Meanwhile, ABC has cast Rutger Hauer in their musical historical comedy show GALAVANT in which Joshua Sasse plays a knight taking on the evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson) who stole the woman he loved. Hauer will play Kingsley, King Richard’s older, bigger and more badass brother who will threaten his little brother’s rule — and since he is a man so destined to be a great king that his parents named him Kingsley. GALAVANT's hilarious guest star cast also includes John Stamos as a dashing knight, Hugh Bonneville as landlocked pirate Peter the Pillager, Ricky Gervais as a medieval magician  Xanax, and Weird Al Yankovic as a singing monk.

SITCOM DAY: TRAILER & POSTER FOR 'LAST MAN STANDING' 4TH SEASON WITH TIM ALLEN! 'A TO Z' WITH BEN FELDMAN, CRISTIN MILIOTI! 'YOUR FAMILY OR MINE' WITH KAT FOSTER, KYLE HOWARD, RICHARD DREYFUSS

'LAST MAN STANDING'

TIM ALLEN REUNITES WITH PATRICIA RICHARDSON! 

What better way to end the old one and start a new week than with some humour: it's sitcom day here starting with hilarious new poster and a clip for the fourth season of one of the most beloved TV comedies LAST MAN STANDING with Tim Allen which will return to ABC this Friday, October 3rd with one hour special! Beside finding out whether Mike Baxter's oldest daughter will marry the father of her son, the new season will also reunite Allen with Patricia Richardson with whom he starred in HOME IMPROVEMENT for a decade! She will play a new neighbour of the Baxters who likes to use her saw early in the mornings which will annoy Mike. He will also have to put up with her bitterness towards her ex husband, who was suppo- sedly good with tools, but more often destroyed things around their house. Jona- than Taylor Thomas, who played their son in HOME IMPROVEMENT, already guest stars in LAST MAN STANDING as the boss of Mike's daughter. Speaking of ABC don't forget that Tuesday brings the premiere of their new sitcoms SELFIE and MANHATTAN LOVE STORY!

'YOUR FAMILY OR MINE'

WAR IN THE FAMILY AT TBS

TBS is already preparing a comedy series of their own: YOUR FAMILY OR MINE will have unusual structure - each episode will focus on a different side of the family.  The story will follow a young couple Kelli (Kat Foster) and Oliver (Kyle Howard) and will alternate between the two sides of the their family. Angela Kinsey will play Claire, Oliver’s sister in-law, married to his brother Jason (Danny Comden), who gets the brunt of her in-laws’ insults, which she doesn’t handle well. Richard Dreyfuss and JoBeth Williams play the parents of Oliver, Jason and Blake (Andrew Lees). Ten episodes will air next year!

NBC'S 'A TO Z' SITCOM STARTS

  THURSDAY WITH BEN FELDMAN

Meanwhile, a day earlier from Tim's sitcom, over at NBC this Thursday you will watch the first episode of A TO Z romantic comedy series, which was already released online this summer and I can say that I myself liked it. It stars Ben Feldman and Cristin Milioti as a star crossed couple whose relationship is being explored from A TO Z for eight months - from the time they met to their break up!

JOSH HOLLOWAY TO LEAD 'COLONY' SF SHOW! GUY PEARCE, DOMINIC WEST JOIN JUDE LAW, NICOLE KIDMAN, COLIN FIRTH IN 'GENIUS'! AIDAN GILLEN IS VILLAIN IN 'MAZE RUNNER 2'! KATHERYN WINNICK JOINS GERARD BUTLER'S 'GEOSTORM'

JOSH HOLLOWAY TO LEAD

'COLONY' SF TV SHOW

In today's television news, Josh Holloway has won the lead role in new USA Network sf show COLONY from 'Lost' scribe Carlton Cuse. Holloway will play Will Bowman, a former FBI agent trying to protect his family when Los Angeles becomes occupied by outside intruders. With the story set in the near future, the show will see Bowman being forced to collaborate with the occupational government and work to dismantle the burgeoning resistance movement inside the city colony in order to protect his family. Oscar winner Juan Jose Campanella will direct the pilot episode! 

DAILY CASTING NEWS

AIDAN GILLEN IS VILLAIN IN MAZE RUNNER SEQUEL
In other casting news today, GAME OF THRONES' star Aidan Gillen has joined the sequel to current cinematic hit MAZE RUNNER which will open in exactly a years time. In MAZE RUNNER SCORCH TRIALS he will play a villain called Rat-Man! In the sequel  the teens have escaped the maze and are now on the run in a world turned into a wasteland ravaged by solar flares! In the novels Rat Man is an officer in the enemy organization!
KATHERYN WINNICK JOINS GERARD BUTLER IN 'GEOSTORM'
Meanwhile, another epic TV show star, Katheryn Winnick from VIKINGS has joined Gerard Butler's fantasy action GEOSTORM  in which he will play a man sent into space to prevent climate controlling satellites from creating a cataclysmic storm capable of destroying the planet. Winnick will play Olivia, his ex-wife and the mother of his daughter. Jim Sturgess, Andy Garcia and Abbie Cornish are also in the cast!

GUY PEARCE & DOMINIC WEST

JOIN JUDE LAW, NICOLE KIDMAN AND COLIN FIRTH IN 'GENIUS'

Now if this ain't a star studded cast I don't know what is: Deadline reports that Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Laura Liney in GENIUS, in which Pearce will play F.Scott Fitzgerald while West will be Ernest Hemingway! Set in the world of literature, the film will tell the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Law) and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins (Firth). Kidman will portray Aline Bernstein and Linney will be Louise Perkins.

NEW 'JUPITER ASCENDING' SF TRAILER AND POSTER WITH MILA KUNIS, CHANNING TATUM, EDDIE REDMAYNE! 'STRETCH' TRAILER WITH PATRICK WILSON, CHRIS PINE, JESSICA ALBA! 'EAT, SLEEP, POOP' SITCOM AT NBC

'JUPITER ASCENDING' TRAILER

POSTERS WITH CHANNING TATUM, MILA KUNIS, EDDIE REDMAYNE

A sf treat for you today -  mindblowing new posters and a new international trailer for epic sf movie JUPITER ASCENDING which has been moved onto February 6, 2015 opening date. With a stellar cast including Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, James D'Arcy, Douglas Booth, it follows Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born under a night sky, with signs predicting she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along — her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

'EAT, SLEEP, POOP' BOOK

TO BECOME NBC SITCOM!
In TV news, beside the info that SyFy has renewed DOMINION and DEFIANCE, and that OUTLANDER will return to Starz in April, NBC will develop Dr. Scott W. Cohen's book EAT, SLEEP, POOP: A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO YOUR BABY'S FIRST YEAR into a half hour comedy series! The story will revolve around a celebrity paediatrician who is top of the line and revered at work but is not as good practising what he preaches with his wife and kids at home!

'STRETCH' TRAILER

PATRICK WILSON AND CHRIS PINE

The second trailer for you today is for STRETCH starring Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Ed Helms and Jessica Alba. Instead of a cinematic release, the movie will appear on Amazon on October 7th with Patrick Wilson playing a downtrodden man taking on a job as a limo driver to earn some extra money, where he picks up an eccentric millionaire (Chris Pine), who puts him through hell and back.

PATRICK WILSON & MATTHEW FOX FOR 'BONE TOMAHAWK' WESTERN! SARAH GADON JOINS JAMIE DORNAN, AARON PAUL IN '9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'! ZACHARY LEVI FOR 'TUNED' MUSICAL TV COMEDY

'BONE TOMAHAWK' WESTERN

PATRICK WILSON AND MATTHEW FOX AGAINST CANNIBALS

Now here's a duo of cowboys that you would love to see in a good western: always brilliant Patrick Wilson and LOST actor Matthew Fox will star in independent action western BONE TOMAHAWK and the cast will also include Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins. According to 'Variety' the movie will revolve around  four men who launch a rescue mission in order to save a group of captives from a tribe of cannibals who live on the edge of civilization. Patrick Wilson will portray a thoughtful cowboy whose life is interrupted by a tragedy, which hinders his rise to foreman in his cattle outfit. Matthew Fox will appear as an unscrupulous gentleman with sinister plans!

ZACHARY LEVI TO STAR IN

'TUNED' MUSICAL SITCOM
I told you yesterday that Eva Longoria is wanted by both ABC and NBC for the lead roles in their potential sitcoms, but she is also producing a third one together with Zachary Levi. He might also take the lead role in musical comedy series TUNED at NBC as an ambitious New Yorker whose life is upended by sudden musical hallucinations. While these vivid hallucinations threaten to completely derail his enviable life, he’ll eventually realize that they might lead him on a more fulfilling journey. Zachary Levi has proved his singing qualities in TANGLED!

'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'

SARAH GADON JOINS JAMIE DORNAN AND AARON PAUL

One of the upcoming movies I've mentioned a few times recently, THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX has just added gorgeous Sarah Gadon in the female lead. Jamie Dornan will play a psychologist who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul is going to play the father of the little boy, while Sarah Gadon will be his wife and the boy's mother! You will watch Sarah playing Luke Evans' wife in glorious epic DRACULA UNTOLD next month! You mostly remember her as the royal beauty with golden locks in WORLD WITHOUT END historical mini series!

AARON PAUL JOINS JAMIE DORNAN IN 'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'! KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S 'RED MARS' TO BECOME SF TV SERIES! BOTH ABC & NBC WANT EVA LONGORIA FOR THEIR SITCOMS!

EVA LONGORIA

ABC & NBC BOTH WANT HER TO TOPLINE THEIR SITCOMS

Two big networks are currently trying to lure Eva Longoria over to their side: both NBC and ABC want her to topline their new sitcoms. If she opts to star in NBC's TELENOVELA comedy, which she developed herself, she will play an ambitious telenovela star who struggles to stay on top in a world where the drama on-camera is nothing compared to the drama off-camera. If she chooses the untitled sitcom at ABC she will play a successful home renovator who can’t stop problem solving when she leaves the job site – especially when it comes to her boyfriend, her family, a random delivery guy, and basically everyone she comes into contact with. Eva Longoria's production company has already sold a number of different new TV series projects both to NBC and ABC for the upcoming developmental season. 

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S 'MARS'

TRILOGY FOR TV ADAPTATION!
Beside Ancient Egyptian series TUT with Ben Kingsley, Spike TV is preparing another epic series: 'Deadline' writes that they will turn Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction Mars saga into RED MARS TV show! To be written by GAME OF THRONE's producer Vince Gerardis, the story will chronicle the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. More utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster.

'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'

AARON PAUL JOINS JAMIE DORNAN

 In today's casting updates from Tinseltown, 'Variety' reports that Aaron Paul will join Irish superhunk Jamie Dornan in THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX a big screen adaptation of Liz Jensen's bestselling novel! In the movie to be directed by Alexandre Aya, Dornan will play a psychologist who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul is going to play the father of the little boy. Don't forget that later this year, you will watch Paul in ancient Egyptian sandals in EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS next to Christian Bale!

JOHN WOO'S 'THE CROSSING' EPIC TRAILER WITH TAKESHI KANESHIRO & ZIYI ZHANG! KATE BOSWORTH, JOHN TRAVOLTA, DEWON SAVA IN 'LIFE ON THE LINE' DISASTER MOVIE! JOHN KRASINSKI SITCOMS AT NBC, 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART' AT ABC

'LIFE ON THE LINE' 

KATE BOSWORTH & JOHN TRAVOLTA HEAD FOR DISASTER

Now, we've seen movies on all possible disasters, from earthquakes and floods, to tsunamis, volcanoes and extreme blizzards, and we've seen INTO THE STORM being deservedly trashed for horrid acting and bad filming this summer, but we haven't seen a movie about electricians fighting a brewing storm! John Travolta, Kate Bosworth and Dewon Sava will star in LIFE ON THE LINE, which will follow a crew of electrical lineman, who work high above the ground to fix the electrical grid and struggle to maintain their relationships with the women they love. But they will face serious danger when a massive storm threatens the place they live in.

NEW TV COMEDIES

JOHN KRASINSKI TO PRODUCE TWO SITCOMS FOR NBC
In TV news three new sitcoms have been bought by major networks! Deadline reports that John Krasinski will produce two untitled comedy series for NBC!. The first one will centre on a disgraced law student who, out of options, is forced to turn to the exotic and lucrative world of NYC garbage collection. The second one will follow a middle aged ad executive who unexpectedly  loses his job and cobbles together a ragtag team to launch his own grassroots agency from his garage.
FOLLOW YOUR HEART AT ABC
ABC has, meanwhile, opted for a romantic sitcom FOLLOW YOUR HEART from Aaron Kaplan about a widow and single mother who, after having given up on love, finds herself drawn to the new guy in her building. That’s because, unbeknownst to her, he was the recipient of her husband’s heart.

JOHN WOO'S 'CROSSING' TRAILER

 TAKESHI KANESHIRO AND ZIYI ZHANG IN EPIC DRAMA

And I have something truly epic in the video department today for you: first trailer for John Woo's THE CROSSING which arrives into Chinese theatres this December. I told you a few years ago that the film will follow a true story of a steamer ship dubbed Taiping, which sunk  between China and Taiwan during the Chinese Revolution in 1949, claiming the lives of over 1,500 people who were fleeing to the island after the war. The movie consists of a number of intertwining love stories of people caught up in the sinking, and one of them involves a couple played by our most beloved Chinese superstars Ziyi Zhang and Takeshi Kaneshiro. It is interesting that the epic movie was shot in two parts with the sequel sailing into cinemas next May! It is Woo's first movie after legendary RED CLIFF!

TRAILERS FOR DELIGHTFUL 'ELSA AND FRED' ROMANTIC DRAMA WITH CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE, AND DEEPLY MOVING FOR 'NOBLE' WITH DEIDRE O'KANE, LIAM CUNNINGHAM, BRENDAN COYLE

MOVING 'NOBLE' TRAILER

A DREAM THAT CHANGED A MILLION LIVES

Two trailers for you today, starting with a deeply moving one for inspiring Irish drama NOBLE which comes to British theatres next year. Starring Deidre O'Kane, Liam Cunningham and Brendan Coyle, the story is set in Vietnam,1989. Fourteen years after the end of the war. When Irish woman Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) she leaves behind an extraordinary life story. But the best is yet to come. Christina lands in a country "that she wouldn't be able to show you on a map". With a few dollars, a dream and her own hard-won courage, she  is about to change everything. For hundreds of thousands of people. Forever. NOBLE is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference. And of how she is proved right.

'ELSA AND FRED' TRAILER

 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER & SHIRLEY MACLAINE - IT'S NEVER TOO LATE FOR A DREAM LOVE

Do I have a delightful trailer for you today, people: it's the first one for ELSA AND FRED romantic drama which arrives into cinemas November 6th! Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine play the titular characters in the story of two people who at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true. Elsa has lived for the past 60 years dreaming of a moment that Fellini had already envisaged: the scene in 'La Dolce Vita' at the Fontana di Trevi. The same scene without Anita Ekberg in it, but with Elsa instead. Without Marcello Mastroiani but with that love that took so long to arrive. Fred has always been a good man who did everything he was supposed to do. After losing his wife, he feels disturbed and confused and his daughter (Marcia Gay Harden) decides that it would be best if he moves into a smaller apartment where he ends meeting Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live - be it more or less - is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases. Fred surrenders to Elsa's frenzy, to her youth, to her boldness, to her beautiful madness. George Segal, Scott Bakula and James Brolin also star!

INSPIRING NEW SONGS: ANASTACIA'S 'STARING AT THE SUN', HEARTWARMING 'SUPERHEROES' FROM IRISH BAND THE SCRIPT, POWERFUL 'LULLABY' FROM PROFESSOR GREEN & TORY KELLY!

ANASTACIA IS

STARING AT THE SUN!

Continuing our tradition of spotlighting some fresh new music at the end of the week, today I'm playing some inspiring new pop tunes for you, starting with one of the best pop vocals in music history, magnificent Anastacia who returned to the music scene earlier this year with the new album RESURRECTION (this is what her name means in Greek) after battling two cancers in recent years. STARING AT THE SUN is her second single from the album with the video shot as a short artsy movie with Anastacia appearing only in glimpses (if I got it right she suffered hernia and couldn't be at the set).

THE SCRIPT

HOW SUPERHERO LEARNS TO FLY
My favourite band in the world (after One Republic), brilliant Irish trio The Script, have released the first single from their new album NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE, and as always the song, titled SUPERHEROES, has outstandingly inspiring lyrics:
When you've been fighting for it all your life
You've been struggling to make things right
That’s how a superhero learns to fly
Every day, every hour Turn the pain into power!
Unlike most of todays trashy videos with empty glitz, Danny O'Donoghue and the guys have shot the video in African slums celebrating everyday heroes who rise when it is the toughest.

PROFESSOR GREEN

SING ME THE LAST LULLABY

And the last song today comes from British musician Professor Green whom you know as the author of one of the most powerful pop songs in last few decades, the Olympic anthem READ ALL ABOUT IT which he did with Emeli Sande. His new song is called LULLABY and the chorus in it is sung by Tory Kelly. The song is taken from his upcoming album GROWING UP IN PUBLIC.

All the time I have layed in your love

When your love kept me safe through the night

All the time I was sure you were mine

And before time demands our goodbye

Can you sing me a last lullaby?

NEW FOREIGN MOVIES: 'INFINI' SF ACTION WITH LUKE HEMSWORTH, DANIEL MACPHERSON, 'THE DEAD LANDS' EPIC THRILLER, 'BHOPAL' DISASTER FILM WITH MARTIN SHEEN, CANADA PICKS 'MOMMY' FOR OSCARS

'INFINI' SF MOVIE

IN THE DARK CORNERS OF SPACE

First I want to thank you, people, for helping us cross the number of 3,800,000 visitors today! I will reward you by spotlighting some of the great new foreign films today, starting with atmospheric Australian science fiction movie INFINI starring Daniel Macpherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Dwaine Stevenson, Harry Pavlidis, Kevin Copeland, Louisa Mignone, Tess Haubrich with Bren Foster and Luke Ford. The story focuses on a search and rescue team sent into a deep space mine to retrieve a stranded soldier.

EPIC 'THE DEAD LANDS' 

THE BIRTH OF WARRIOR SPIRIT
Another intense movie will come to us from the nearby New Zealand. THE DEAD LANDS, which will have US distribution too, stars James Rolleston as a Maori chieftain’s teenage son who must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by the band of villains, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden DEAD LANDS and forge an uneasy alliance with the mysterious “Warrior,” a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.

'BHOPAL' TRAILER

A PRAYER FOR RAIN

And yet another movie which has just been sold for US cinemas is India's epic drama BHOPAL starring Martin Sheen with the story describing the devastating 1984 Bhopal tragedy in India. More than 10,000 people died in what’s known as the world’s biggest industrial disaster when the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant overheated and released poisonous toxins into the air. Kal Penn and Mischa Barton also star in the story about those living in BHOPAL  through the tragedy and its unresolved aftermath. The film will be shown at the United Nations to mark the three decades of the disaster and will hit American cinemas November 7th!

PRIZE WINNING 'MOMMY' TO

REPRESENT CANADA AT OSCARS
Meanwhile, Canada has chosen award winning drama MOMMY to represent them in the foreign film race at next year's Oscars. Young Xavier Dolan has won Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival directing the movie which stars Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon and Suzanne Clément. The story is set in a fictional Canada, where a new law allows distressed parents to abandon troubled children to the hospital system. A widowed single mother decides to raise her violent son alone, finding new hope when a mysterious neighbour inserts herself into their household.

TIM BURTON'S 'BIG EYES' TRAILER WITH AMY ADAMS, CHRISTOPH WALTZ. ASTRID BERGES FRISBEY IS CHARLIE HUNNAM'S GUIENEVERE IN 'KING ARTHUR: KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE'! 1ST 'PARTNERS IN CRIME' BBC SERIES PIC WITH DAVID WALLIAMS

ASTRID BERGES FRISBEY 

 IS GUINEVERE IN 'KING ARTHUR KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE'

According to 'Deadline' Guy Ritchie has cast Astrid Berges Frisbey from the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (she was the mermaid) to portray medieval queen Guinevere in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. She will join Charlie Hunnam, who plays the king, and Idris Elba, as his mentor who teaches him how to become a warrior. She will play the unfaithful and ungrateful queen after she won the role competing against Alicia Vikander, Felicity Jones and Elizabeth Olsen. Warner Bros. is planning this as possible six movies franchise, but I'm not sure it will happen with such a bland cast.

'PARTNERS IN CRIME'

DAVID WALLIAMS IN AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES AT BBC ONE
Meanwhile, BBC has released the first image of David Walliams and Jessica Raine in their upcoming six part Agatha Christie series PARTNERS IN CRIME. To air in 2015 marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha's birth, the series will see them play a married couple of detectives solving cases in the 1950s!

'BIG EYES' TRAILER

AMY ADAMS AND CHRISTOPH WALTZ IN A TIM BURTON FILM

The first trailer has been released today for Tim Burton's new drama BIG EYES which is out this Christmas as a true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), one of the most successful painters of the 1950s. He earned staggering notoriety by revolutionizing the commercialization and accessibility of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The truth would eventually be discovered though: Keane's art was actually not created by him at all, but by his wife, Margaret (Amy Adams). The Keanes, it seemed, had been living a lie that had grown to gigantic proportions. BIG EYES centres on Margaret's awakening as an artist, the phenomenal success of her paintings, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, who was catapulted to international fame while taking credit for her work.