PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ENCHANTINGLY INSPIRING 'ME BEFORE YOU' ROMANTIC ADAPTATION WITH SAM CLAFLIN, EMILIA CLARKE

  NEW 'ME BEFORE YOU' TRAILER

SAM CLAFLIN & EMILIA CLARKE

I didn't get to show you this one yesterday, but it is such a delight that it is never to late for it: new, extended trailer has been released for this year's biggest romantic movie ME BEFORE YOU, the big screen adaptation of Jojo Moyes' international bestselling book which will romance its way into theatres June 3rd starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke.

LIVE BOLDLY 
Often times you find love where you least expect it. Sometimes it takes you where you never expected to go... Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke) lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26 year old goes from one job to the next in order to help her tight knit family make ends meet. Her normally cheery outlook is put to the test, however, when she faces her newest career challenge. Taking a job at the local "castle," she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident two years prior, and whose whole world changed dramatically in the blink of an eye. No longer the adventurous soul he once was, the now cynical Will has all but given up. That is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for, and find their lives and hearts changing in ways neither one could have imagined.

MATTHEW LEWIS, CHARLES DANCE AND JENNA COLEMAN ALSO STAR

This enchanting and deeply moving story, directed by Thea Sharrock, who gets her feature film directorial debut with ME BEFORE YOU, also star Charles Dance (as his dad), Matthew Lewis (as his brother), Jenna Coleman (as her best friend), Stephen Peacocke, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Joana Lumley Brendan Coyle (as her dad) and Janet McTeer (as his mom).

'MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE' TRAILER WITH LAUREN GRAHAM! GORAN VISNJIC IS VILLAIN IN 'TIME' SF SERIES! JONO KENYON TO LEAD ABC'S 'TOAST' HYBRID SITCOM

JONO KENYON TO LEAD

ABC'S 'TOAST' HYBRID SITCOM

With the news that AMC has renewed INTO THE BADLANDS epic series for second season and PBS their civil war saga MERCY STREET for a second run, there is also a piece of TV news coming from ABC that they have cast stunning Jono Kenyon as the lead in their hybrid sitcom TOAST! Coming from Shondaland and Scott Foley, if follows an engaged couple Max Leeds (Kenyon) and Paige, who, over their wedding rehearsal dinner, have their eclectic family and friends give toasts recalling anecdotes about the couple — but flashbacks reveal that the toasts don’t always get it right, as we watch the true story of their complicated, funny and relatable road to marriage. Tessa Ferrer will play Max' closest friend.

GORAN VISNJIC IS VILLAIN

IN 'TIME' SF ADVENTURE SERIES
 In other TV news, NBC's adventure series TIME has just cast Goran Visnjic as the main villain! It follows an unlikely trio (Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett) who travel through time to battle a master criminal (Visnjic) intent on altering the fabric of human history with potentially catastrophic results. Vulnerable, damaged and oddly emotional, Visnjic’s Garcia Flynn is a dangerous man who’s recently stolen a time machine and travelled with his team of soldiers to the hours prior to the Hindenburg’s explosion. Flynn is guided by a strange journal from some other period of time, and while his full plan is still shrouded in mystery, it’s clear that he must be stopped. Don't confuse this one with ABC's TIME AFTER TIME which will have young H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper through time!

'MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE' TRAILER

 JAMES PATTERSON ADAPTATION

Your trailer for today is for the movie adaptation of  James Patterson's MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE with Lauren Graham and Girffin Gluck! A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan; break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.

CHILDREN'S BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: LASSE HALLSTROM TO HELM DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS' FILM! SARA PENNYPACKER'S 'PAX' BESTSELLER TO GET MOVIE VERSION

LASSE HALLSTROM TO HELM

DISNEY'S 'NUTCRACKER AND FOUR REALMS' LIVE ACTION MOVIE

With Disney's ZOOTOPIA currently breaking animated movie records, it is perfect time for a kids' Saturday, don't you think? Starting with our fave Lasse Hallstrom who will direct the live action big screen version of THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS for Disney!

It is an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman’s Christmas Eve tale about a young girl who finds a Nutcracker doll among the family’s gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it. Under the cover of darkness, the Nutcracker comes to life, along with an evil Mouse King with seven heads, introducing Marie to the magical world of toys and the brave Nutcracker who will change her life forever.

SARA PENNYPACKER'S 'PAX'

TO BE ADAPTED INTO A MOVIE

Meanwhile, 'Deadline' reports that Sara Pennypacker's New York Times' No1 bestselling childrens' book PAX has been sold for feature movie adaptation.  The story about love and defining your family deals with a boy who is separated from his pet fox and how they try to find each other again during the devastation of war. It speaks about devastating costs of wars.

MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH A PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'THE 5TH WAVE' SF ACTION MOVIE WITH CHLOE MORETZ, NICK ROBINSON, RON LIVINGSTON!

'THE 5TH WAVE' SF MOVIE

DARKNESS, DESTRUCTION, INFECTION, INVASION

Before wishing you lovely Christmas Eve tonight and Christmas Day tomorrow, I will leave you to enjoy the festive end of the week with a spotlight on January's highly anticipated science fiction action movie THE 5TH WAVE. The big screen adaptation of Rick Yancey's bestselling apocalyptic sf saga will bring aliens to the theatres January 22nd!

THE STORY

Four waves (the first took electricity down, the second was massive tsunamis, the third a deadly bird virus,  the fourth - killing of the remaining humans) of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated and knocked humankind back to the Stone Age. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, as one of Earth's last human survivors, Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal 5th wave, Cassie teams up with a young man, her crush from the high school, who may become her final hope - if she can only trust him.

NICK ROBINSON AND CHLOE MORETZ LEAD THE CAST

Beside two massive teen stars Nick Robinson (JURRASIC WORLD, MELLISSA AND JOEY) and Chloe Moretz in the lead role of Cassie, the cast also includes Liev Schreiber, Maria Bello and Ron Livingston. J Blakeson of THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED is directing! 

NEW YA MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: KAZU KIBUSHI'S 'AMULET' SERIES AND MARI LU'S MEDIEVAL FANTASY SAGA 'THE YOUNG ELITES' TO BE TURNED INTO MOVIES

KAZU KIBUISHI'S 'AMULET'

TO BECOME MOVIE FRANCHISE

Big screen adaptations for you today, starting with 20th Century Fox who has bought the rights on Kazu Kibuishi's AMULET graphic novels with the plan to turn it into a possible new movie franchise! Voted best YA book a few years ago and sold in 2 million copies so far, it follows a young girl named Emily, her younger brother Navin, and their mother Karen as they move to their great grandfather’s house to start a new life. The house proves to contain a dangerous portal, and after a creature pulls Karen through it, the kids set out to save her in an alternate world inhabited by demons, giant robots, elves and highly intelligent animals.

 MARI LU'S 'YOUNG ELITES'

GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION

Another mega popular young adult saga to get a movie adaptation is also Mari Lu's fantasy series THE YOUNG ELITES which your dearest spy has just finished translating today for the readers in his country. As 'The Hollywood Reporter' wrote, 20th Century Fox and the studio behind MAZE RUNNER movies will work on this one as well. Planned as a trilogy, the saga has recently published second part THE ROSE SOCIETY. Lu's previous saga LEGEND has also been sold for an adaptation! 

Set in a medieval fantasy world, the story centres on the survivors of a deadly plague called the blood fever. Many of the teens that survive have been physically transformed and discover that they've acquired special powers. This secret group of gifted teens is called THE YOUNG ELITES, and their lives are threatened by a group called the Inquisition Axis, which is seeking to destroy them. The protagonist is Adelina Amouteru, who, post plague, has silver hair and only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. When a secret society that strives to protect THE YOUNG ELITES finds Adelina, it discovers she has powers like they’ve never seen before.