ASIAN TUESDAY: GUAN XIAOTONG, DYLAN SPROUSE TO LEAD CHINESE EPIC ADVENTURE 'TURANDOT' BASED ON PUCCINI'S OPERA! STUNNING TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR FAN BINGBING'S 'LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' EPIC ADVENTURE

   'TURANDOT' EPIC MOVIE

DYLAN SPROUSE JOINS GUAN XIAOTONG IN THE CAST

Guan Xiaotong will be princess Turandot

While Disney is preparing Nutcracker movie out of the famous ballet, China is turning Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT opera into a film as well! Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse have already been cast!

TURANDOT  a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity. Foreign princes who

Disney star Dylan Sprouse will take the male lead

come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would be put to death. One day, Calaf (Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past. The film, directed by Xiaolong Zheng, is now shooting.

   'THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' SEQUEL

 POSTERS & TRAILER ARE IN!

Speaking of stunning Asian fantasy movies, check out the breathtaking character posters and trailer for Chinese  computer animated motion capture action fantasy adventure film THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 written and directed by Guo Jingming, which should be released in China on 6 July!

THE LEGEND OF THE RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 
has the story set in the Odin Mainland which is separated into four countries, Water, Wind, Earth and Fire, and in each lives a group of soul masters protecting their county with their soul powers. The most powerful seven of them are known as Noble Lords! Asian superstars Fan Bingbing, Kris Wu, Cheney Chen, William Chan, Lin Yun, Amber Kuo, Wang Duo, Roy Wang, Karry Wang, and Jackson Yi lead the cast of the fantasy adventure.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING! FRENCH 18TH CENTURY DRAMA 'ROYAL EXCHANGE' WITH LAMBERT WILSON

 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE

POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

After I remind you to scroll down and check out our Sunday spotlight on freshly ordered comedy pilots to which I added new trailers, we shall move

The movie arrives to cinemas this August!

onto two new international historical movie projects as Hollywood is mostly sleeping today. First, you can check out the first poster for World War II drama THE BOMBING coming from China with Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody joining Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse!

Out this August in Chinese cinemas, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

  'THE ROYAL EXCHANGE'

LAMBERT WILSON RULES SPAIN AS KING PHILIPPE

The movie was out in France last winter!

Meanwhile, over from France comes period set movie L'�change des princesses or THE ROYAL EXCHANGE starring Lambert Wilson! In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4 year old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14 year old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds

The movie is the adaptation of a Chantal Thomas book!

enthusiastically to both proposals, and the ceremonies are promptly organized. The exchange of the princesses is to take place with great pomp on a small island, in the river bordering the two countries. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned.

BRILLIANT TRAILERS FOR 'THE MEG' WITH JASON STATHAM & PREHISTORIC MEGALADON SHARK, 'THE WIFE' WITH GLENN CLOSE, JONATHAN PRYCE, MAX IRONS, HARRY LLOYD

  'THE WIFE' TRAILER

WITH GLENN CLOSE, JONATHAN PRYCE, HARRY LLOYD, MAX IRONS

First posters and trailer have been released for September 2018 drama THE WIFE! Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're

The Wife is out this September in cinemas

about to meet her. It is crucial you get to know this woman - many of us already do and don't even realise it. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent, devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work,

The movie is based on a Meg Wolitzer's novel

Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. Harry Lloyd, Max Irons, Christian Slater also star.

  'THE MEG' TRAILER WITH

JASON STATHAM & LI BINGBING

While we're waiting for Dwayne Johnson's giant gorilla to attack box office this weekend in Rampage, Jason Statham's giant shark MEG has arrived

Meg is pleased to eat you this August!

with the first trailer and she is 'pleased to eat you' as the first poster says! This action underwater drama is a sort of an aquatic Jurrasic Park since the main villain is a prehistoric shark megalodon! Based on a Steve Alten book it is out this August !

A PRE HISTO- RIC MEGA- LODON! 
A deep-sea submersible, part of an international undersea observation program, has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific with its crew

The movie was shot over at New Zealand!

trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to

Jason Statham and Li Bingbing lead the cast!

save the crew, and the ocean itself, from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying

It took more than 20 years for the book to find its way to the big screens

creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below� bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.