SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM NAOMI WATTS, BILL MURRAY DRAMA MOVIE THE FRIEND

   FIRST THE FRIEND  

MOVIE IMAGES WITH NAOMI WATTS

Also premiering over in Toronto beside all the period set movies I told you about, is THE FRIEND starring Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, and a charismatic Great Dane named Bing who propel this wise and insightful character drama

The film will open September 8th in Toronto

based on the acclaimed novel by Sigrid Nunez and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. The cast also has Owen Teague, Constance Wu, Ann Dowd and Carla Gugino.

THE FILM FOLLOWS 

Iris (Watts) has had a long, complex friendship with Walter (Bill Murray). Walter is an irresistible charmer, a brilliant author, a lover of many women, and a master at letting down loved ones. When he dies suddenly, Iris is left to deal with all he left behind — three ex-wives with unfinished business, his interrupted literary legacy, and his beloved beast Apollo (Bing). It's not that Iris doesn't like dogs, but this is Manhattan, and she’ll get kicked out of her building if they find out she’s pretty much trying to house a horse.Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding to the animal, she begins to come to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life.

 

NEW ISABELLE ADJANI PICS AS DIANE DE POITIERS FROM NEW HISTORICAL MINI SERIES! NAOMI WATTS IS SAVING BILLY HOWLE FROM A MOUNTAIN BLIZZARD IN INFINITE STORM SURVIVAL MOVIE TRAILER

 DIANE DE POITIERS SERIES 

NEW ISABELLE ADJANI PICS

Isabelle Adjani shared this one on her Facebook

The production started last September over in France and the airing of the two 90 minute episode mini series DIANE DE POITIERS will be sometime this year on French television, but we have some new photos of Isabelle Adjani as the famous royal mistress. The cast will also include Samuel Labarthe as King François I, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, Gaia Girace as queen Catherine de Médici with Joey Starr as Count of Kervannes, Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Guillaume Gallienne as Ambroise Paré, Hugo Becker as king Henri II himself, and Jeanne Balibar

First photo of Isabelle in full costume at the sets in France

as Marguerite de Navarre. Diane de Poitiers was for more than twenty years the favorite of Henri II, King of France. A woman of character and legendary beauty, Diane nonetheless remained a simple courtesan and her position at

The series will probably be presented at Series Mania

court remained fragile. Wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici compromising his dreams of domination? And her passion with Henri, twenty years her junior, and without which she is nothing, can that really last forever?

  INFINITE STORM TRAILER  

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

The movie is out March 25th in USA

After she is done saving her kid from bad guys in Desperate Hour, Naomi Watts will try to save Billy Howle from certain death at a snowy mountain in INFINITE STORM which will storm its way into cinemas March 25th directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man (Billy Howle), and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. The movie is based on a true story! 

RYAN REYNOLDS USES THE HELP OF HIS YOUNGER SELF IN ADAM PROJECT NETFLIX SF ACTION MOVIE TRAILER! NAOMI WATTS FACES A HOSTAGE SITUATION IN DESPERATE HOUR THRILLER TRAILER

  THE DESPERATE HOUR  

TRAILER WITH NAOMI WATTS

Desperate Hour is upon us end of February

It will be a turbulent weekend with Superbowl trailers, so stay tuned, people, Rings of Power Amazon's epic tv series trailer is coming up too and I have a massive spotlight on it ready for you on Monday, but before that, two trailers I did not have the time to show you this week. First up, THE DESPERATE HOUR a riveting suspense thriller with Naomi Watts and directed by Phillip Noyce in which she stars as Amy Carr, a widowed mother trying to restore normalcy in the lives of her teenage son and young daughter. While going on a run near her home, Amy receives a terrifying phone call from her son revealing he has been

Naomi Watts leads the Phillip Noyce directed suspense thriller

taken hostage after a school shooting and the whole area around the school is in lock down. How will she save her son? The movie will arrive to Video on Demand and selected theatres February 25th!

 

   THE ADAM PROJECT WITH  

RYAN REYNOLDS OLD & YOUNG

A bit later, on March 11th over at your favourite streamer Netflix, we will have Ryan Reynolds' new action movie THE ADAM PROJECT from director

Adam Project streams March 11th

Shawn Levy.  It also stars Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner. Adam Reed, age 13, and still grieving the sudden death of his father a year earlier, walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. Together they must embark on an adventure into the past to find their father, set things right, and save the world. The three working together, both young and grown Adam come to terms with the loss of their father and have a chance to heal the wounds that have shaped them. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams

Zoe Saldana and Ryan Reynolds lead the cast

discover they really don't like each other very much, and if they're going to save the world, they're first going to have to figure out how to get along.

MOVING TRAILERS FOR PENGUIN BLOOM TRUE STORY WITH NAOMI WATTS AND ANDREW LINCOLN AND COWBOYS DRAMA WITH STEVE ZAHN, ANN DOWD

  PENGUIN BLOOM TRAILER  

AN INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY

We've been announcing this one for at least half a decade and now we finally have a trailer for PENGUIN BLOOM true story movie with Andrew

Penguin Bloom arrives later this month

Lincoln and Naomi Watts. Coming to Netflix January 27th, it is based on the best selling book of the same name, and it tells the story of Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts) a young mother whose world is turned upside down after a shocking, near fatal accident leaves her paralyzed. Sam's husband, (Andrew Lincoln), her three young boys and her mother (Jacki Weaver), are struggling to adjust to their new situation when an unlikely ally enters their world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin. The bird's arrival is a welcome distraction for the Bloom family, eventually making a profound difference on Sam's life, teaching her how to live again. 

 

  COWBOYS MOVIE TRAILER  

WITH STEVE ZAHN & ANN DOWD

Cowboys arrives this spring!

Speaking of deeply moving stories, check out the first trailer for drama movie COWBOYS which arrives to cinemas April 15th starring Steve Zahn as a troubled but well intentioned father who has recently separated from his conservative wife and who runs off with his trans gender son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife's refusal to let their son live as his authentic self. Meanwhile police detective (Ann Dowd) pursues them, but her resolve about the case is tested the more she learns about Joe's family. The tale of rescue, family betrayal and a father and son on the run was written and directed by Anna Kerrigan.

 

1ST PHOTOS FROM SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT WITH JUDI DENCH, SHADOWPLAY WW2 SERIES WITH TAYLOR KITSCH, SOPHIA LOREN IN THE LIFE AHEAD, NAOMI WATTS IN PENGUIN BLOOM

FIRST PHOTOS FROM

SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT WW2 MOVIE WITH JUDI DENCH

First photos from a bunch of new period set movies for you today starting with SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT in which Judi Dench plays a headmistress of a finishing school in an English seaside town in 1939 to which

The movie also stars James D'Arcy and Jim Broadbent

influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher (Eddie Izzard) there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem

SHADOWPLAY WORLD WAR 2 SERIES WITH TAYLOR KITSCH
There is also the first look at Taylor Kitsch as Max McLaughlin a Brooklyn cop assigned to set up a police force in post-World War II Berlin in SHADOWPLAY high end historical TV series! His mission is to take down

Shadowplay also stars Michael C. Hall as Max' superior

"Engelmacher" Gladow, the Al Capone of post-war Berlin, played by Sebastian Koch! But Max has an ulterior motive: he is also on the trail of his brother Moritz (Logan Marshall-Green) who may be behind gruesome acts of revenge against former Nazis.

THE LIFE AHEAD NETFLIX MOVIE WITH SOPHIA LOREN

Netflix has released first photo of Sophia Loren from their new movie THE LIFE AHEAD set in seaside Italy, where a Holocaust survivor with a

The film is an adaptation of Romain Gary's bestselling novel

daycare business, Madame Rosa (Loren), takes in 12-year-old street kid Momo, the boy who recently robbed her! The two loners become each other's protectors, anchoring an unconventional family.

PENGUIN BLOOM TRUE STORY FILM WITH NAOMI WATTS
Screen Daily has published first photo of Naomi Watts in real life drama PENGUIN BLOOM in which she and Andrew Lincoln lead the true

Glendyn Ivin is directing the true life story for the big screens

story about a family that rediscovers hope when it adopts an injured magpie chick after a near-fatal accident leaves a mother of three paralysed from the waist down. Jacki Weaver also stars.

1ST PHOTO OF TIMOTHEE CHALAMET AS THE KING IN NETFLIX HENRY V MOVIE! ANDREW LINCOLN JOINS NAOMI WATTS IN HEART WARMING PENGUIN BLOOM DRAMA

Andrew Lincoln will be the father of the Bloom family

ANDREW LINCOLN

JOINS PENGUIN BLOOM!

I remember that I announced this one some four or five years ago, but it seems PENGUIN BLOOM is finally moving on with production with Andrew Lincoln being cast next to already announced Naomi Watts who is producing the heart warming story based on the bestseller by Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom.

  PENGUIN BLOOM
is a true story of a unique little bird that saves a family. Cameron and Sam Bloom and their three boys were an everyday family until a shocking, near fatal accident left Sam paralysed. She fell from a balcony while on holiday in Thailand, and was left paralysed from the chest down. As the family struggled to adjust to her new situation, an unlikely ally entered their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick which the Bloom clan called Penguin. The wild bird became a mascot for the family.

   1ST 'THE KING' PHOTO

ARRIVES FROM NETFLIX!

Netflix has released the first photo from their historical movie THE KING which will premiere at Venice Film Festival this year starring Timothee

Timothee Chalamet leads the David Michod directed movie

Chalamet as Hal, a wayward prince, who ascends the English throne upon his father's death, and must navigate the palace snake pit, chaos and inherited

Joel Edgerton will play Sir Falstaff, Ben Mendelsohn is King Henry IV, Robert Pattinson is dauphin of France in the new historical movie.

war against France. The adaptation of a number of Shakespeare's plays also stars Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris!

OPHELIA PERIOD SET DRAMA WITH DAISY RIDLEY, NAOMI WATTS, CLIVE OWEN, TOM FELTON FINALLY GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATE!

   'OPHELIA' TRAILER SENDS

Ophelia finally arrives next June!

DAISY RIDLEY INTO 14TH CENTURY

Even though it premiered back at the very beginning of 2018 at Sundance Film Festival, OPHELIA period set drama is finally getting a theatre release this summer, opening in Northern American cinemas June 28th! The reimagining of Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet, has the story told from Ophelia's perspective! The movie, set in the 14th century but spoken in modern language, is based on the award winning book by Lisa Klein and is

Massimo Cantini did the amazing costumes in the movie

also directed by a woman - Claire McCarthy who is currently directing BBC epic series The Luminaries, an adventure mystery set in the midst of New Zealand's 1860's gold rush!

THE STORY OF OPHELIA  
Daisy Ridley appears in the movie as the titular character. She plays the most trusted lady-in-waiting to the Queen Gertrude of Danmark (played by

Daisy Ridley plays the lead role of Ophelia in the film

Naomi Watts) who took her into Elsinore Castle as a rebellious and motherless child! Soon enough, Ophelia captures the attention of the young

Naomi Watts plays Gertrude the Queen of Denmark!

Prince Hamlet (played by George MacKay) and a forbidden love blossoms and passionate romance kindles between the two in secret! As the kingdom is

The dialogues in the movie are spoken in modern language.

on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue, lust and betrayal begin to tear Elsinore Castle apart from within in this reimagining of the famed

The movie is based on an award winning book by Lisa Klein

Hamlet. When Hamlet’s father is murdered and the prince’s wits begin to unravel into an insatiable quest for vengeance, Ophelia sharply navigates the

Clive Owen plays evil king Claudius.

rules of power in Denmark all while struggling to choose between her true love and her own life. The movie, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival also stars Clive Owen as Claudius and Tom Felton as Laertes with Nathaniel Parker as the king!

1ST 'OPHELIA' TRAILER WITH DAISY RIDLEY, NAOMI WATTS, CLIVE OWEN, TOM FELTON, GEORGE MACKAY! 1ST 'ALL IS TRUE' PHOTO WITH KENNETH BRANAGH AS SHAKESPEARE NEXT TO JUDI DENCH, IAN MCKELLEN

   1ST 'ALL IS TRUE' PHOTO

FROM KENNETH BRANAGH FILM WITH JUDI DENCH, IAN MCKELLEN

1st photo has been released for Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare drama ALL IS TRUE which also stars Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, set in 1613 when Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground.

The movie will get a limited week long release in December ahead of the awards season but will get official release date in 2019

Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife (Dench) and daughters. In so doing, he is forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. McKellen is the Earl of Southampton.

   'OPHELIA' TRAILER

STARRING DAISY RIDLEY, CLIVE OWEN AND NAOMI WATTS

Speaking of Shakespeare first trailer has been released for Claire McCarthy's OPHELIA period set drama which is arriving into cinemas next January starring Daisy Ridley as the titular character.  She plays the most

Daisy Ridley and George MacKay are Ophelia and Hamlet

trusted lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Danmark (played by Naomi Watts). She soon captures the attention of Prince Hamlet (played by George

Massimo Cantini did the amazing costumes in the movie

MacKay) and a forbidden love blossoms. As war brews, lust and betrayal begin to tear Elsinore Castle apart from within in this reimagining of the

The movie is based on a book by Lisa Klein

famed Hamlet. The movie, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival also stars Clive Owen as Claudius and Tom Felton as Laertes and Nathaniel Parker as the king! 

GORGEOUS NEW PHOTOS FROM EPIC MOVIES 'ROBIN HOOD' WITH TARON EGERTON, JAMIE DORNAN, JAMIE FOXX, 'OPHELIA' WITH DAISY RIDLEY, NAOMI WATTS, CLIVE OWEN

 NEW 'ROBIN HOOD'

PICS ARRIVE FROM SHERWOOD!

Epic bliss and splendour today, my spylings, with new photos from some of this year's upcoming historical movies arriving for your pleasure and delight!

Young Taron Egerton takes the role of the legendary archer

Earlier last year I showed you first photos from the latest big screen version of ROBIN HOOD and now the studio has released a bunch of new ones and

Ben Mendelsohn is the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham

there is one thing that will immediately pop into your eyes - the costumes will obviously have a certain edge differing from what you might expect from good old Mediaeval times.

A GRITTY NEW TAKE
Directed by Otto Bathurst, this gritty new take on the classic Robin Hood story will see young Taron Egerton playing the legendary archer from the Sherwood forest, with Jamie Foxx as Little John, the leader of outlaws group

Jamie Foxx plays Little John the leader of Merry Men

Merry Men. Eve Hewson appears in the film as Maid Marian while Jamie Dornan is Will Scarlet, half brother of Hood, member of Merry Men, and

Eve Hewson is the new Maid Marian

husband of Marian. Ben Mendelsohn is the villain as the Sheriff of Nottingham with Paul Anderson as Guy of Gisborne! Tim Minchin is Friar Tuck, Josh Herdman is Righteous and Björn Bengtsson is Tydon!

NEW 'OPHELIA' PHOTOS ARRIVE

FROM 14TH CENTURY DENMARK

Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly has  revealed a new photo from another costume drama in their latest issue! Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts in OPHELIA!  Based on Lisa Klein’s novel it follows the lowborn protagonist

Ophelia will premiere next month at Sundance Film Festival

as she becomes the most trusted lady-in-waiting for Naomi Watt's queen Gertrude and strikes up a relationship with her son, Hamlet (George MacKay). Along the way, Ophelia gets caught up in the court’s deadliest

The movie is directed by Claire McCarthy

betrayals and secrets, all while trying to find her own path. Clive Owen as Claudius and Tom Felton as Laertes, will also visit 14th century Denmark!

PERIOD SET MONDAY: 1ST 'VICTORIA' EPIC TV SERIES 2ND SEASON CLIP WITH JENNA COLEMAN, TOM HUGHES! 1ST 'OPHELIA' PHOTO WITH DAISY RIDLEY AS HAMLET'S TRAGIC LOVE

FIRST 'VICTORIA' CLIP

FROM THE SECOND SEASON!

Period set news for you this Monday, people, starting with the first clip from the second season of VICTORIA epic series released today to celebrate Victoria's Day. It shows a scene from the christening of Victoria's (Jenna Coleman) and prince Albert's (Tom Hughes) first child that was born at the end of the first season.

The second season will see her expand her family with new babies (she had nine kids in total) while trying to balance family life with her royal duties in mid 1800's. Prince Albert is, meanwhile, still struggling to find a suitable role for himself in their marriage and in the kingdom. VICTORIA will also face the Irish potato blight of 1845, where more than a million people died and people hated her calling her the famine queen cause she donated just 2000 pounds. When it returns this Autumn, with eight episodes plus a two hour Christmas special, VICTORIA will also have some new actors in the cast, Diana Rigg as the new Duchess at court and Victoria's new Mistress of the Robes and Martin Compston to name two. David Oakes returns as everybody's favourite charmer Prince Earnest, Albert's brother.

FIRST 'OPHELIA' PHOTO

DAISY RIDLEY AS HAMLET'S LOVER

The first photo, of Daisy Ridley in the title role, has been published for OPHELIA movie, which, set in the 14th century but spoken in a contemporary voice, is a dynamic re-imagining of the Shakespeare’s tragedy that tells the untold story of her tragic romance with the prince. She is the Queen’s (Naomi Watts) most trusted lady-in-waiting. Beautiful and intelligent, she soon captures the attention of the handsome Prince Hamlet (George MacKay) and a forbidden love blossoms. Clive Owen is Claudius, Tom Felton is Laertes and Devon Terrell Horatio.

GORGEOUS 'THE BOOK OF HENRY' MOVIE POSTER WITH LEE PACE, NAOMI WATTS! RUTH WARE'S SEA MYSTERY 'THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10' GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION

'THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10'

TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION!

Not much to report, today, people! CBS Films will adapt Ruth Ware's mystery novel THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 which follows a journalist given an irresistible travel magazine assignment, a week on a boutique ultra luxury cruise ship with only a handful of unimaginably wealthy travellers. A dream assignment turns nightmarish when she watches a passenger get thrown overboard after a violent act and all of the passengers seem to be accounted for the following morning as the ship sails on like nothing happened.

'THE BOOK OF HENRY' POSTER

 LEE PACE AND NAOMI WATTS

A really gorgeous new poster has been released for Colin Trevorrow's drama THE BOOK OF HENRY which should open up in cinemas this June starring Lee Pace and Naomi Watts in the lead roles! I will post the trailer here as soon as one is released!

THE BOOK OF HENRY is the story of a single mother raising two boys, one of whom is a genius. After she discovers a book written by her son containing a plan to right a terrible wrong happening next door, she attempts to execute the plan, and in the process discovers new strength as a parent.

'THE SEA OF TREES' OFFICIAL TRAILER WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, NAOMI WATTS, KEN WATANABE! 'AMAZONS' TV SERIES OF FAMOUS AFRICAN FEMALE WARRIORS

'AMAZONS' EPIC SERIES

ON AFRICAN FEMALE WARRIORS

How about something unusually epic to start your new working week this Monday? As 'Deadline' reports NCIS producer Charles F. Johnson is preparing AMAZONS, a live action television series about famous African female warriors!

The series will tell the story of AMAZONS, an army of 6,000 female soldiers who fiercely fought against the French Colonial army and other enemies of the Dahomey Kingdom. The kingdom was the last non colonized West African empire which existed from 1600-1894 and was unique in that men and women had societal parity and shared ruling authority over the government.

'THE SEA OF TREES' TRAILER

WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, KEN WATANABE, NAOMI WATTS

It's a very boring Monday, people, and the only thing the spy has to show you is the first official trailer for Gus Van Sant's new drama movie THE SEA OF TREES starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts. The movie has already opened around Europe after it got booed at Cannes Film Festival.

SUICIDE FOREST
Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as THE SEA OF TREES, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to commit suicide (it really exists with an average of three suicides a week). On his journey to the suicide forest, he encounters Takumi Nakamura (Ken Watanabe), a Japanese man who has  lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and reconnects him to his love for his wife (Naomi Watts).

NEW ANIMATED MOVIES 'LARRIKINS' WITH HUGH JACKMAN, MARGOT ROBBIE, NAOMI WATTS, 'GUARDIAN BROTHERS' WITH MERYL STREEP, NICOLE KIDMAN, 'BLINKY BILL' WITH TONI COLLETTE, RYAN KWANTEN, RUFUS SEWELL

'LARRIKINS' ANIMATION CASTS

HUGH JACKMAN, NAOMI WATTS AND MARGOT ROBBIE

Animated day today, people, with tons of animated movies having announced stellar voice casts, starting with Dreamworks animation LARRIKINS (Australian slang for a maverick) which will use voices from some of Australia's biggest stars Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne and Margot Robbie! This animal rock 'n' roll musical will follow a desert dwelling marsupial known as a bilby who has lived under a rock his entire life before he is kicked out by his parents and told to get a life. He does so by going on a road trip with a band in the Australian Outback.

'THE GUARDIAN BROTHERS' 

GET MERYL STREEP AND NICOLE KIDMAN FOR THE VOICE CAST
Meanwhile, The Weinstein Company has bought distribution rights on Chinese animated adventure THE GUARDIAN BROTHERS (aka The Little Door Gods in China) with Meryl Streep, Mel Brooks and Nicole Kidman lending their voices! It follows a Chinese family in danger of losing its wonton soup shop that’s been passed down generation after generation for hundreds of years. When the family’s grandmother passes away, the restaurant is left in the hands of a little girl named Raindrop and her mother (Nicole Kidman). Millions of miles away in the Spirit World, we meet The Guardians – who have watched over and protected the humans on Earth for centuries. Times are tough up in the Spirit World and two brother Guardians are forced to retire from the business they’ve loved since the beginning of time. Back down on Earth, Raindrop and her mom are fending off a rival soup shop owner’s attempt to sabotage the family restaurant. When the retired Guardian brothers find out, they spring into action.

'BLINKY BILL' ADVENTURE

 WITH AUSTRALIAN VOICE CAST

There is also another Australian animated adventure featuring voices from some of Oz's greatest stars such as Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Rufus Sewell, David Wenham and Barry Humpries known as Dame Edna. BLINKY BILL will be released in UK, Europe and USA this August and September following the little koala with a big imagination who is an adventurer at heart and dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps.