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.

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING JOINS LAMBERT WILSON, VIRGINIE EFIRA IN VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY EROTIC THRILLER 'BLESSED VIRGIN'! BBC TO TURN 'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES' NOVEL INTO 19TH CENTURY MINI SERIES

'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES'

 NEW BBC PERIOD SET SERIES

In the news from the epic front today, BBC Two is going to adapting Eugene McCabe�s Irish novel DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES into a

The series will have three hourlong episodes

three part historical mini series! It is a story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful, haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. It is set in a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom, centred around the 25th birthday of Beth Winters - the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy. As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, this powerful and gripping drama illuminates tensions that tear both families and nations apart.

 'BLESSED VIRGIN' 17TH CENTURY

DRAMA CASTS LAMBERT WILSON AND CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Lambert Wilson will lead the male part of the cast

We've had quite a few lesbiefriendly projects announced this week, and here's another one and it is period set too! 'Deadline' reports that Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson have joined young actresses Virginie Efira and Daphne Patakia in 17th century erotic thriller BLESSED VIRGIN

To be directed by famous Paul Verhoeven, it will see gorgeous Virginie Efira playing Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land.

Virginie Efira and Charlotte Rampling will star in Blessed Virgin

While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman. Steamy and scandalous and delightfully sinful :) The story is, apparently, based on historical facts about the abbess Carlini.