HAILEE STEINFELD IS FAMOUS 19TH CENTURY POET IN EMILY 'DICKINSON' PERIOD SET TV SERIES! TOUCHING 'THE CHILDREN ACT' TRAILER WITH EMMA THOMPSON, STANLEY TUCCI

   HAILEE STEINFELD TO LEAD

EMILY DICKINSON TV SERIES!

The series will, sadly, be a comedy one

We've really had a great week announcing new period set projects and here's another one to finish it in the same vein: Hailee Steinfeld will lead Apple's costume series DICKINSON on the famous American poet, but it will be a half hour comedy series! 

DICKINSON
will be set in the 1800's during Emily Dickinson�s era with a modern sensibility and tone. It takes viewers into the world of Emily audaciously exploring the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn�t fit in to her own time through her imaginative point of view. Dickinson is Emily�s coming of age story � one woman�s fight to get her voice heard. The series will join two sf series from Ronald D. Moore and Steven Knight that I've announced earlier!

   'THE CHILDREN ACT'

TRAILER WITH EMMA THOMPSON, BEN CHAPLIN AND STANLEY TUCCI

Amazing trailer has been released for August 24th movie THE CHILDREN ACT! As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) flounders, High Court judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) has a life-changing decision to make at work - should she force a teenage boy, Adam (Fionn Whitehead), to have

The movie is the big screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel!

the blood transfusion that will save his life? Her unorthodox visit to his hospital bedside has a profound impact on them both, stirring strong new emotions in the boy and long-buried feelings in her. Ben Chaplin plays the boy's Jehova's Witness father. 

SHAKESPEARE SUNDAY: BBC SETS AIRING DATE FOR ANTHONY HOPKINS' 'KING LEAR' WITH EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON, JIM BROADBENT, TOBIAS MENZIES! STUNNING NEW 'MACBETH' WITH MARK ROWLEY

  BBC SETS DATE FOR 'KING LEAR'

WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON!
A little bit of Shakespeare for your enlightenment today, starting with Anthony Hopkins' TV movie KING LEAR which will air on BBC Two Monday 28th May! You can check out the trailer below the post!

THE BURDEN OF BEING A KING

Set in the fictional present, the 80 year old King Lear (Anthony Hopkins) divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril (Emma Thompson), Regan (Emily Watson) and Cordelia (Florence Pugh) - according to their

The new adaptation was directed by Richard Eyre!

affection for him. Cordelia refuses to flatter him, so he banishes her. Having acquired power, Goneril and Regan expel their father from their homes. At the

Hopkins was mistaken for a homeless man during the shooting

same time, Lear's prime minister, Gloucester (Jim Broadbent), is betrayed by his son Edmund (John Macmillan) and his other son, Edgar (Andrew

Tobias Menzies is also the part of the stunningly stellar cast

Scott), is forced to go into hiding. Lear becomes mad, Gloucester is blinded: both the kingdom and the family descend into chaos and warfare.

  NEW 'MACBETH' MOVIE

Macbeth aired in UK cinemas in March

WITH MARK ROWLEY

Speaking of Shakespeare's works done in a new light, check out this one: MACBETH  entirely shot on green screen and reinvented by director Kit Monkman starring The Last Kingdom's Mark Rowley! Monkman�s unique adaptation successfully bridges the gap between theatre and film by exploiting the capabilities of the green screen to portray the vast world of make-believe while maintaining the traditional values, language and themes of Shakespeare�s original theatrical play.

Super hunky Mark Rowley plays the lead role

A BRAVE NEW VISION OF THE OLD STORY
Brilliant young general MACBETH pulls off a glorious victory in battle before returning to an indolent court where honours are dispensed by whim. Spurred on by prophesying drifters and an ambitious wife, MACBETH sets his sights on the throne. In Kit Monkman's adventurous new adaptation, this compelling tale of unchecked ambition, soured friendship, lost intimacy and the descent into nihilism is encountered in a strange and claustrophobic territory partly conjured by the mind. The movie is currently available to stream and download on Amazon.

HUGH JACKMAN, EMMA THOMPSON, STEPHEN FRY, ZOE SALDANA JOIN LAIKA'S ANIMATED MOVIE 'MISSING LINK'! LAST 'MAMMA MIA HERE WE GO AGAIN' TRAILER WITH MERYL STREEP, JULIE WALTERS, COLIN FIRTH, PIERCE BROSNAN, AMANDA SEYFRIED, CHER, DOMINIC COOPER

ANIMATED 'MISSING LINK'

HIRES HUGH JACKMAN, STEPHEN FRY AND EMMA THOMPSON

First photo has been revealed from Laika's new animated adventure MISSING LINK which boasts a stellar voice cast including Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Timothy

Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson will lead the voice cast!

Olyphant, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Jackman is charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world�s foremost investigator of myths and monsters, but his small-minded high-society peers don�t recognize

First art from new Laika's animated movie Missing Link

this. His last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America�s Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man�s primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.

'MAMMA MIA 2' FINAL TRAILER

STELLAR CAST RETURNS AGAIN!

Mamma Mia returns this July!

When it comes to trailers, check out the final one for this summer's MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN which is out in cinemas this July, and there is also a new poster revealing the whole cast! Meryl Streep is dead in the sequel, but she will appear in flashbacks, while Cher arrives as Amanda Seyfried's grandmother while the movie reminisces on the youth of her mother and her three possible fathers played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. Since she is now also pregnant and very young like her mother was when she had her, she realizes she will need to take risks like her mother did.  Lily James plays young Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper is Amanda's husband, Julie Walters

The movie will feature other Abba songs which weren't used in the first film

is her aunt. Jeremy Irvine and Hugh Skinner play her dads when they were young, with Andy Garcia also in the cast.

'THE KING' HENRY V MOVIE WITH TIMOTHEE CHALAMET GETS JOEL EDGERTON AS FALSTAFF! KEELEY HAWES JOINS WW2 SERIES 'JERUSALEM'! EMMA THOMPSON TO TURN 'HARROW ALLEY' INTO 17TH CENTURY TV SERIES AT HBO

   'THE KING' HENRY V FILM

 JOEL EDGERTON JOINS TIMOTHEE CHALAMET AT NETFLIX

Joel Edgerton played Rhamses the Pharaoh recently

News from the period set projects today! A few weeks ago I informed you that Timothee Chalamet is going to play Henry V in THE KING a new Netflix movie adaptation of Shake- speare's plays Henry IV and Henry V, which will deal with the king's youth, and now he is being joined by Joel Edgerton who will play his famous companion knight Falstaff who often appeared in his plays. Chalamet will be prince Hal of England who takes the crown as King Henry V! David Michod of War Machine is directing the whole project

Keeley Hawes joins Jerusalem

KEELEY HAWES JOINS

  'JERU- SALEM' WW2 SERIES
Although everybody's fave Momma Durrell Keeley Hawes is to play British Home Secretary in new BBC series Bodyguard with our dearest Richard Madden, it seems she will rule politics in JERUSALEM as well over at Channel 4! She has just joined their new period set World War 2 series in which Emma Appleton plays a young woman who joins British civil service in 1945 and agrees to spy on her own government for the Americans. Luke Treadaway, Matt Lauria, Brandon P. Bell and Stephen Campbell Moore also star in the WW2 drama in which Keeley Hawes will play her exacting boss at the civil service, who becomes an unlikely role model of what a woman can achieve in a man's world. This means Keeley will have a series within the same year on each of UK's three biggest channels.

   EMMA THOMPSON TO PRODUCE

'HARROW ALLEY' 17TH CENTURY HORROR SERIES AT HBO

Emma will also write the small screen adaptation

Meanwhile, another great British thespian Emma Thompson will produce a period set horror TV series based on a long lost script HARROW ALLEY over at HBO! The story is set during the black plague in the 17th century and follows an English town as it deteriorates. It revolves around the fortunes of two men, likeable but lawless rogue Ratsey and well meaning alderman Harry, who are both trying to survive the dangers of the time. The script was originally written by classic Hollywood writer Walter Newman and is often, as 'Deadline' reports, used in film classes becoming in certain way legendary.

ANTHONY HOPKINS PHOTO FROM 'KING LEAR' WITH EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON, JIM BROADBENT, TOBIAS MENZIES, JIM CARTER! 'THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME' TRAILER WITH MILA KUNIS, JUSTIN THEROUX, SAM HEUGHAN

   1ST 'KING LEAR' PHOTO

FOR ANTHONY HOPKINS SUPER STELLAR TV DRAMA!

Anthony Hopkins and Florence Pugh

BBC and Amazon have revealed first photo of Anthony Hopkins as KING LEAR and Florence Pugh as his youngest daughter Cordelia from the latest TV movie adaptation! Hopkins plays a fictional present ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Emma Thompson is his eldest daughter Goneril, Emily Watson is Regan, Jim Broadbent is the Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Scott his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan his illegitimate son Edmund. Jim Carter, Tobias Menzies, Christopher Eccleston also star in the super stellar television movie.

   1ST 'THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME'

The movie is out this July in cinemas

TRAILER WITH MILA KUNIS, JUSTIN THEROUX & SAM HEUGHAN

In the trailer department check out the first one for Mila Kunis comedy THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME which gets dumped into cinemas this July following Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty year old best friends in Los Angeles, who are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex boyfriend

Justin Theroux plays the spy who dumped her

(Justin Theroux) shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action,

Sam Heughan (right) plays the charming British agent

on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious but charming British agent (Sam Heughan), as they hatch a plan to save the world.