RUFUS SEWELL AND FRANCES O'CONNOR TO LEAD NEW NETFLIX NEW ZEALAND SET LUXURY SKI RESORT SERIES QUEENSTOWN

    QUEENSTOWN SERIES   

RUFUS SEWELL GETS THE LEAD ROLE

Netflix has announced cast for their first New Zealand eight part original series QUEENSTOWN. This is the official synopsis released by the streamer: Beneath the glamour of Queenstown’s luxury ski scene, a privileged family and the people who work for them collide over power, loyalty and desire. Rufus Sewell and Frances O’Connor have been set as leads and will be joined by Alycia Debnam-Carey and Te Kohe Tuhaka!

CASTING NEWS: GUY PEARCE TO STAR WITH ALEX PETTYFER IN BLURRED EROTIC THRILLER AND IN MR. SUNNY SKY WITH HANNAH WADDINGHAM, RUFUS SEWELL

   MOVIE NEWS BULLETIN  

GUY PEARCE, ALEX PETTYFER IN BLURRED

In latest movie news bulletin today, we have Guy Pearce and Alex Pettyfer announced as leads in new erotic film thriller BLURRED in which they will also be joined by Maria Pedraza and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The film set in New York fashion world was already shot last summer. It is described as  a smart and sexy thriller with a brilliant cast set against the hustle and flow of New York’s fashion world, a beautiful, raw and intense thrill ride! Pettyfer is also producing.

 

MR. SUNNY SKY MOVIE REVEALS LEAD CAST

Speaking of Guy Pearce he will also star next to Hannah Waddingham in MR. SUNNY SKY  crime-thriller which follows Leonard Moore, a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul with whom he shares an instant connection. But Shirley’s husband is a dangerous man and soon the new couple’s burgeoning romance is thrust into a spiral of paranoia, suspense and violence. The cast will also include Rufus Sewell, Eduard Fernandez and Tom Davis with Daniel Ings in the lead.

SEE PAUL GIBSON, SAM NEILL, MIRANDA OTTO, CHRISTOPH WALTZ IN PORTABLE DOOR MAGICAL MOVIE TRAILER! SEE RUFUS SEWELL, OLIVIA WILLIAMS IN TROUBLE WITH JESSICA BLACK COMEDY TRAILER

   SEE RUFUS SEWELL IN  

THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA FIRST MOVIE TRAILER

Two trailers for you today, starting with black comedy movie THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA which will be offered to buyers at Berlin. Successful professional London couple Sarah (Shirley Henderson) and Tom are in deep financial trouble. Their situation takes a terrifying nosedive with the shocking behavior of uninvited dinner guest, Jessica (Indira Varma). Faced with the moral dilemma of their lives - and dragging their best friends Richard (Rufus Sewell) and Beth (Olivia Williams) with them - they make a series of choices that could either be their salvation or destruction. In short: the two couples find themselves having to move a dead body to ensure their imminent house sale doesn’t collapse.

 

 THE PORTABLE DOOR TRAILER 

FOR NEW SKY ORIGINAL MOVIE

Coming freshly from Sky today is first trailer for their fantasy movie THE PORTABLE DOOR which is out in cinemas in March and on Sky Cinema April 7th!  It follows Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Sophie Wilde), the lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co. They become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices, and Paul and Sophie discover the true agenda of the vast corporation where they work. Miranda Otto also stars.

IT IS A $7 BILLION HEIST IN NETFLIX KALEIDOSCOPE MINI TV SERIES WITH RUFUS SEWELL AND JAI COURTNEY!

  KALEIDOSCOPE SERIES  

OPENS THE YEAR AT NETFLIX

The series is a non linear one!

The first series to be launched this year over at Netflix, and you can always count on them to do shows celebrating criminals, psychos, manipulators and thieves, is KALEIDOSCOPE which is available for streaming as of January 1st with all of its eight non-linear parts, which means that no matter in which order the episodes are watched, the entire story still makes sense. The story of KALEIDOSCOPE is loosely inspired by real-life events surrounding Hurricane Sandy when $7 billion in bonds went missing from downtown Manhattan. Giancarlo Esposito, Jai Courtney and Rufus Sewell lead the show together with Paz Vega. Spanning 24 years, KALEIDOSCOPE follows a master thief and his crew who attempt an epic and elaborate heist the largest one ever attempted, and the vengeance, scheming, loyalties, and betrayals that surround it. 

CATHERINE ZETA JONES TO STAR IN DISNEY + NATIONAL TREASURE ADVENTURE TV SERIES! RUFUS SEWELL, VANESSA REDGRAVE, EVAN RACHEL WOOD TO LEAD ALL THAT I AM WW2 MOVIE ADAPTATION

 CATHERINE ZETA JONES JOINS

NATIONAL TREASURE SERIES

Beside starring in Netflix series Wednesday as Morticia Adams, Catherine Zeta Jones will also play a lead in Disney + new series NATIONAL TREASURE

Catherine Zeta Jones will star in National Treasure

as Billie, a badass billionaire, black market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter, who lives by her own code. She transformed herself from a penniless orphan to a shrewd, stylish business woman and adventurer. Billie’s used to getting what she wants and she wants the Pan-American treasure. But not just for the money. This treasure has deeper stakes for her. Zuri Reed, Lyndon Smith, Jake Austin Walker, Antonio Cipriano, and Jordan Rodrigues will also star. This Mira Nair directed series is set to explore timely issues of identity, community, historical authorship, and

Jake Austin Walker and Lisette Alexis will lead the cast

patriotism told from the point of view of Jess Morales (Lisette Alexis), a twenty-year-old dreamer who, with her diverse group of friends, sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover her mysterious family history and save a lost Pan-American treasure!

 ALL THAT I AM WW2 FILM 

CASTS RUFUS SEWELL, EVAN R. WOOD, VANESSA REDGRAVE

As Variety reports Evan Rachel Wood, Rufus Sewell and Vanessa Redgrave will lead movie adaptation of WW2 book ALL THAT I AM by Anna Funder, a true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf Hitler’s regime in Germany. Sixty years later, one of the group members, Ruth

Rufus Sewell will play Ernst Toller in the adaptation

Wesemann, is living in Sydney, Australia, and is the sole survivor of the four. One day she receives a package containing the posthumous memoirs of her old friend Ernst Toller and is drawn back into her memories, and the years in which the four emigrés smuggled highly classified documents from Hermann Goering’s office into the hands of Winston Churchill.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS TV SERIES TRAILER WITH DAVID TENNANT! RUFUS SEWELL, JAI COURTNEY TO LEAD JIGSAW HEIST NETFLIX SERIES!

 JIGSAW HEIST TV SERIES 

JAI COURTNEY & RUFUS SEWELL

Netflix and Ridley Scott are producing a new heist TV series JIGSAW loosely inspired by the real-life story where seventy billion dollars in bonds went missing in downtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy! Spanning 24

The eight part series is already shooting in Brooklyn

years, the series will describe what happened two decades before and a year after the heist. With Rufus Sewell as a security expert and Jai Courtney as a safecracker in the cast, the series will also star Giancarlo Esposito as a thief, Paz Vega as an attorney, Tati Gabrielle and others.

 

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

FIRST TEASER IS HERE

First teaser has been released for new adventure TV series AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS which is arriving later this year to BBC, PBS in USA, RAI in Italy, ZDF in Germany and French national television.  David

The series will most probably air for holidays

Tennant stars as literature's greatest explorer Phileas Fogg in a thrilling new adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel with Ibrahim Koma as

The characters have been changed to suit the woke agenda

his valet Jean Passepartout, and Leonie Benesch as headstrong journalist Abigail "Fix" Fortescue. First two episodes will premiere at Canneseries October 10th.

WITCHES AND MURDERS IN THE TRAILER FOR AGATHA CHRISTIE'S PALE HORSE BBC'S TV SERIES ADAPTATION WITH RUFUS SEWELL

     'THE PALE HORSE' TRAILER

FOR BBC'S LATEST AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES ADAPTATION

Just as I promised, I have for you the trailer for BBC's latest small screen adaptation of Agatha Christie THE PALE HORSE which will start

The series starts February 9th

airing February 9th. The two hourlong episode star Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee, Henry Lloyd Hughes and James Fleet. Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke play the trio of witches.

     What's The Story?

When a murder investigation is launched into the death of a young woman, a mysterious list of names is discovered in her shoe -prompting an inquiry not only to find the killer, but also to understand the list of names. Who wrote the list, and who do these names refer to? One of those named is widowed antique dealer Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell), who, despite

The series was produced by Poldark's Mammoth Screen

having found love again with new wife Hermia (Kaya Scodelario), is still haunted by the tragic death of his first wife Delphine. THE PALE HORSE tells the story of Mark’s investigation into how and why his name came to appear on the list, an investigation that leads him to the peculiar home of a

Rufus Sewell and Kaya Scodelario take the lead roles

trio of rumoured witches, The Pale Horse, in the beautiful village of Much Deeping. Word has it that the witches can do away with a rich relative, by supernatural means alone… Despite Mark’s scepticism towards the paranormal, he cannot help but be consumed by the

The series will stream on Amazon for the rest of the world from March 13th

increasingly strange and extraordinary things that begin to happen around him. Is this too the work of the witches of The Pale Horse, and does this mean he is next on their list? Or can he find a rational explanation and identify the killer before they catch up with him?

RUFUS SEWELL, KAYA SCODELARIO, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES TO LEAD AGATHA CHRISTIE'S PALE HORSE AT BBC! JANE AUSTEN'S SANDITON EPIC SAGA TRAILER WITH THEO JAMES, ROSE WILLIAMS

   THE PALE HORSE SETS

RUFUS SEWELL AS THE LEAD

BBC has unveiled the cast for their latest Agatha Christie adaptation, two part series THE PALE HORSE produced by Mammoth Screen! The cast will be led by Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee,

Kaya Scodelario and Rufus Sewell are leading the cast

Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Poppy Gilbert! Completing the cast are Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke as the trio of witches.

    AGATHA CHRISTIE ADAPTATION 
The series, which will also air on Amazon Prime, follows Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell) as he tries to uncover the mystery of a list of names found in the shoe of a dead woman. His investigation leads him to the peculiar village

Henry Lloyd Hughes and Bertie Carvel are starring as well!

of Much Deeping, and The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumoured witches. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives by means of the dark arts, but as the bodies mount up, Mark is certain there has to be a rational explanation.

    FIRST 'SANDITON' TRAILER

FOR JANE AUSTEN ADAPTATION

It won't air soon, sometime later this Autumn or winter, but PBS and ITV have released first trailer for SANDITON series based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. Rose Williams and Theo James star alongside Leo

Sanditon will air on ITV and on PBS Masterpiece later this year

Suter, Anne Reid and Kris Marshall in the eight part drama which tells the story of the impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams), and her spiky relationship with the charming Sidney Parker (Theo James). When a chance accident transports her from her rural

Leo Suter joins Rose Williams in the new historical series

hometown of Willingden to a would-be coastal resort Sanditon, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the make. The drama takes viewers from the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London and exposes the hidden agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself and ultimately find love.

BRAND NEW TRAILERS AND PHOTOS FOR BRITISH EPIC TV SERIES 'POLDARK' WITH AIDAN TURNER AND 'VICTORIA' WITH JENNA COLEMAN, RUFUS SEWELL

'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES

GETS A NEW ROYAL TEASER

The time when the titans will clash is nearing, people, with the beginning of September seeing ITV's epic drama VICTORIA and BBC's second season of POLDARK period set series facing of in the same primetime slot on Sunday evenings. VICTORIA will, though, air its hour and a half long opening episode on the last Sunday of August (but I hear it will clash with X FACTOR) and today we have new teasers for both new shows! As I said VICTORIA starts airing August 28th with eight episodes to be aired later in January on at PBS in USA too!

VICTORIA follows the longest ruling British monarch (Jenna Coleman) for the first three years from the time she is crowned queen in 1837 at age 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert (Tom Hughes). She comes to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and brutally colonised, robbed and enslaved half of the planet. The first season of VICTORIA will tell the story of the first years of the reign, beginning with the moment of the Queen's accession in 1837, following her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager with a weak grasp on her duties and responsibilities to her marriage to Albert. The show is a saga of interlocking circles – the circuits of power in Buckingham Palace and Westminster, the intermarrying royal houses of Europe and the scandals of the below-stairs palace staff. At the centre stands the new Queen – a spirited, passionate woman who must, somehow, become an enduring icon of strength and ruthless imperialism. Rufus Sewell plays Lord Melbourne, her right hand and friend.

'POLDARK' SEASON 2

 GETS A FEISTY NEW TRAILER

Meanwhile, after the short teaser a few weeks ago, British national broadcaster has released a dynamic trailer for the long awaited second season of their mega popular period set series POLDARK which starts its new run on Sunday September 4th starring famous heartthrob Aidan Turner. Eleanor Tomlinson returns as his beloved Demelza but as you can see from the trailer there will be trouble in paradise for them.

POLDARK IN TROUBLE 
Beside being arrested and fighting to save his mining business in the time of poverty, whilst also grieving the loss of his first child with his loving Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), we can expect Ross facing new battles, new family and new loves in the backdrop of the French revolution which casts a shadow over life in Cornwall. He will also go naughty again with his old love Elizabeth (Heida Reed) when ten new episodes of the late 18th century set series, based on Winston Graham's bestselling novels, hit the small screens! John Nettles has joined the cast as a wealthy landowner.

FIRST FULL QUEEN 'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES TRAILER WITH JENNA COLEMAN, RUFUS SEWELL, TOM HUGHES! PBS & BBC TO ADAPT 'KING CHARLES III' INTO TV SERIES!

 'KING CHARLES III' 

 TO BE TURNED INTO BBC SERIES

We're going royal today, minions, first with the news coming from Masterpiece on PBS and British BBC which are teaming up, according to 'Deadline', to produce a television adaptation of KING CHARLES III theatre play! The small screen adaptation of the hit Broadway show imagines current Prince Charles’ ascension to the throne following Queen Elizabeth’s death!  Mike Bartlett and Rupert Goold, who did the play, will also helm and pen the series.

 FIRST 'VICTORIA' TRAILER 

FOR THE NEW EPIC TV SERIES

And after a few teasers and clips British ITV has finally revealed the first official trailer for their upcoming new historical saga VICTORIA which will start airing in September (battling against BBC's Poldark in the Sunday evening slot, and airing in USA at PBS next year) starring Jenna Coleman.

EARLY YEARS
Told in eight episodes, the 19th century historical series will mainly deal with the younger years of Britain's monarch and the infamous enslaver and ruthless invader - from when she takes over the throne after King William IV's death and her ascension to power at the age of 18 to her eventual marriage to Prince Albert (Tom Hughes), chronicling both her private and public life. Rufus Sewell plays Lord Melbourne, her closest advisor and friend at the court.Stay tuned for more photos in next few weeks!

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.

LAVISH NEW PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET SERIES 'THE LIVING AND THE DEAD' WITH COLIN MORGAN AND 'VICTORIA' WITH JENNA COLEMAN, RUFUS SEWELL!

'THE LIVING AND THE DEAD' 

BRINGS BACK COLIN MORGAN!

Picture treats for you this Sunday, spylings, since we've got new photos from some of the upcoming period set television projects, starting with the most delicious of treats coming from BBC One which is bringing us our most deeply beloved Colin Morgan, be steady our hearts, to the small screens with his new Victorian series THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ready to start airing Tuesday June 28th! With Merlin's director Alice Troughton behind the helm the six part supernatural mini series will also star Charlotte Spencer.

VICTORIAN THRILLER  
Somerset 1894. When the death of his mother brings Nathan Appleby (Colin Morgan) and his vivacious young wife Charlotte (Charlotte Spencer) back to the family estate, they must turn the farm’s fortunes around – or risk ruin and the devastation of the local community. Though the farm and its future demand their attention, when a vulnerable teenage girl is brought to Nathan, seemingly possessed by a terrifying spirit, he cannot leave her to suffer. A pioneering doctor, Nathan has worked at the forefront of the emerging science of psychology and is an expert in mapping the dark places of the mind. He believes there is always a rational or scientific explanation to be found for life’s mysteries; though Harriet’s case is disturbing, he must use every psychological technique he has to find a way to cure her, to free her from this terrible burden. But what if Nathan is wrong, and it isn’t an illness of the mind? Could Harriet actually be haunted?

'VICTORIA' NEW PHOTOS

ARRIVE FROM THE COURT!

Also coming over from the British Isles, are gorgeous new photos from ITV's leading series in the upcoming Autumn season VICTORIA showing the ruthless enslaver Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman) at her coronation and frolicking around on horses with her prime minister Lord Meloburne (Rufus Sewell). The lavish eight part epic drama will chart the young tyrant’s life and loves. It follows the Queen from her accession to the throne at 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Albert, played by Tom Hughes