'MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY' TRAILER WITH DEV PATEL, JEREMY IRONS, STEPHEN FRY! FINN JONES TO LEAD 'IRON FIST' MARVEL TV SERIES! JUSSIE SMOLLETT, DEMIAN BICHIR JOIN MICHAEL FASSBENDER IN 'ALIEN: COVENANT'

FINN JONES TO LEAD

'IRON FIST' MARVEL TV SERIES

Probably the main television news of the day is that young star Finn Jones, whom you mostly remember by that delight- fully gay role of his in GAME OF THRONES as Ser Loras the Knight of Flowers, will take the lead role in Netflix series adaptation of Marvel's IRON FIST! The expert of ancient martial arts, who, as 'EW' reports, at age of 9 travels with his family from New York to a lost mystical city called K’un-L’un. After some tragic twists of fate, he is adopted by the city’s ruler and taught advanced martial arts and the mystical power of the Iron Fist that gives him enhanced healing, telepathy, along with super strength and reflexes. As an adult, Rand returns to his native New York and begins a career as a superhero. DEXTER's Scott Buck will be the show runner. After Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, it will be fourth Marvel series at Netflix.

'ALIEN: COVENANT' CASTS

JUSSIE SMOLLETT AND OTHERS

In movie news, the cast is being rounded up for Ridley Scott's science fiction prequel sequel ALIEN: COVENANT, the second movie in his ALIEN prequel trilogy started two years ago by PROMETHEUS! The first batch of young actors to join Michael Fassbender, who reprises his original role of android David, includes EMPIRE's superstar Jussie Smollett along with Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo (Selma) and Callie Hernandez! The movie which will take place ten years after the previous one will also have  Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride and Demián Bichir in the cast together with Australian star Alex England whom you are watching this weekend in GODS OF EGYPT! Billy Crudup is also in talks.

THE STORY
To open in cinemas October next year, ALIEN: COVENANT will follow the crew of the colony ship Covenant, travelling to a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. They discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but it actually turns out to be a dark, dangerous world. And the sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

'MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY' 

WITH DEV PATEL, JEREMY IRONS

Your trailer for today is an inspiring one for ensemble drama movie THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY starring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Stephen Fry and Toby Jones! Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

'THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS' TRAILER WITH MICHAEL FASSBENDER, RACHEL WEISZ, ALICIA VIKANDER! COLT PRATTES TAKES LEAD MALE ROLE IN 'DIRTY DANCING' REMAKE

'DIRTY DANCING' TV REMAKE

COLT PRATTES TAKES THE LEAD

Earlier this winter I've informed you that ABC is preparing a TV movie remake of DIRTY DANCING and that Abigail Breslin will play Baby, played originally by Jennifer Grey, and now we have new casting updates! Hot actor and dancer (he was the one dancing with Pink in her TRY video) Colt Prattes will take on the Patrick Swayze's role of Johnny Castle. There are also some rumours around the net that WILL AND GRACE's Debra Messing has joined the cast too and will play Baby's mother. The three hour special, set in the 60's, will again follow the two of them falling for each other during dance classes at a summer camp!

'LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS' TRAILER IS HERE!

WITH MICHAEL FASSBENDER, RACHEL WEISZ, ALICIA VIKANDER

And your trailer for today is the long awaited first one for new Michael Fassbender movie THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS the adaptation of M.L. Stedman's bestselling novel. The movie is out in cinemas this September. Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender), a lighthouse keeper, and his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander) are living off the coast of Western Australia. When they discover a baby girl who has washed up on a lifeboat, they decide to adopt her as their own child. But as the child grows older, they discover the consequences of passing off the child as their own, especially after they meet a woman (Rachel Weisz), who lost her baby daughter and husband at sea around the same time Tom and Isabel adopted their child. It is the movie thanks to which Fassy and Vikander have started that real life relationship.

MONDAY VISUAL TREATS: FIRST PHOTOS OF BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS 'DOCTOR STRANGE' AND MICHAEL FASSBENDER IN 'ASSASSIN'S CREED'

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

IN THE FIRST PHOTO AS MARVEL'S 'DOCTOR STRANGE'

Only a couple of visual treats for you for the beginning of the last week this year! This week's cover of Entertain- ment Weekly gives you the first look at Benedict Cumber -batch as DOCTOR STRANGE! We probably should not expect a trailer any time soon since the shooting is still on! This film will be somewhat different from others in the Marvel Universe with Cumberbatch playing a surgeon who turns into a powerful sorcerer! The unusual cast also includes Tilda Swinton (as the female Ancient One), Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Scott Adkins and Mads Mikkelsen (as the main villain whose name is yet to be revealed)!

MICHAEL FASSBENDER IN

NEW 'ASSASSIN'S CREED' PHOTO  
We also have a new photo of Michael Fassbender in the adaptation of famous video game ASSASSIN'S CREED revealing more of his hooded costume. In a film opening in a year's time, he will play both the modern assassin and his 15th century ancestor whose memories he can use through technology. Marion Cotillard, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons also star.