"R.I.P.D" TRAILER WITH RYAN REYNOLDS & JEFF BRIDGES! TOM HIDDLESTON IN "CAPA"! NEW SF SHOWS "BALLISTIC CITY" & "RACHEL RISING"! EDDIE IZZARD IN NEW "JEKYLL AND MR HYDE" TV SERIES

  TOM HIDDLESTON

 IS 'CAPA'

Now you already know how much HOLLYWOOD SPY adores Tom Hiddleston (especially after he blessed your Dezzy that one time :). Out dear Hiddlestud has a new gig: after becoming the legendary villain in THOR, he will now play a hero. He took the lead role in CAPA biopic, a film about the famous war photographer Robert Capa, a Hungarian kicked out of Hungary for writing against Fascism, who then moved to Germany where he was kicked out for being Jewish, then he moved to France and from there began a life-long commitment to make a stand against forces of fascism. The film will also have a female role, since it follows Capa and his partner Gerda Taro when they went to cover Spanish Civil War. Gemma Arterton was previously connected to the role.

  NEW SF & EPIC SHOWS

  RACHEL RISING, BALLISTIC CITY, JEKYLL & MR HYDE

In television news today, comic book RACHEL RISING by Terry Moore might be turned into a new TV show. According to "The Hollywood Reporter" the horror series centres around the titular Rachel, a young woman who wakes up in her own grave. She struggles to regain her missing memories in a town haunted

by friends, enemies and witchcraft. Meanwhile, over in UK, newly established Buccaneer Media is planning to adapt famous JEKYLL AND MR HYDE 19th century novel into new television series with Eddie Izzard in the lead role! "Deadline" reports that AMC is developing  Joseph Kosinski's BALLISTIC CITY sf show described as “Blade Runner meets Battlestar Galactica” and telling the story of a former cop thrust into the criminal underworld of a city housed in a generational space ship destined for an unknown world.

  R.I.P.D.  TRAILER

 RYAN REYNOLDS & JEFF BRIDGES

Your trailer for today is the first one for upcoming horror comedy action R.I.P.D or Rest In Peace Department which should start its

cinematic life this July starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker and Kevin Bacon. The film has Ryan Reynolds in the lead role playing  a recently slain cop who joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department (which watches the law and order in the underground world of the dead citizens) where he then tries to find the man who murdered him! He is assigned as partner to veteran officer Roy Pulsifer (Bridges), who needs his help when the dead threaten to overwhelm the living.

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HOT TRAILER FOR EPIC PIRATE SHOW "BLACK SAILS" WITH TOBY STEPHENS & TOM HOPPER! JUSTIN THEROUX IS "DOCTOR STRANGE"? WALKING DEAD'S MERLE IS YONDU IN "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY"!

We shall have a number of superhero news today, people! Beside recent rumours that Charlie Hunnam from PACIFIC RIM is also

being prepped for the role of The Flash in JUSTICE LEAGUE (a film which will happen only if MAN OF STEEL is a success this summer), another superhero info is that Justin Theroux is wanted for the role of DOCTOR STRANGE! Theroux already worked for Marvel before back in 2010 when he wrote the script for their IRONMAN 2! The film is supposed to come out after AVENGERS 2 in 2015 along with ANT-MAN film! DOCTOR STRANGE follows a formerly egotistical neurosurgeon, Stephen Strange who turns to the mystic arts after an accident damages his hands.

  GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

MICHAEL ROOKER IS YONDU   
I'm guessing the fans of THE WALKING DEAD will love this piece of the info - Merle has joined GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Actor Michael Rooker, who played the handless hillbilly in the zombie show, will play Yondu in the sf epic which will focus on the team of the superheroes who fight for the peace in galaxy. "Deadline" reports that Yondu hails from the Zatoan tribe on Centauri IV, the first planet to be colonized outside of the Sun's solar system in the 29th Century. Yondu does not possess any super-human abilities, but he is a skilled hunter with a bow and arrow, and has a mystical sixth sense that gives him limited empathic abilities with other life forms. Rooker joins Chris Pratt who will play Star-lord, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer and Zoe Saldana as Gamora!

  BLACK SAILS TRAILER

TOBY STEPHENS & TOM HOPPER

But the treat of the day is without any doubt the first long awaited trailer for new Starz eight part epic show BLACK SAILS which will sail us into pirate waters next year! Replacing SPARTACUS next January and starring British star Toby Stephens and MERLIN knight Tom Hopper,

the dynamic and hot new show will  be set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island", chronicling the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint! Toby Stephens plays Captain Flint, while Tom Hopper  will play Billy Bones, the first mate of The Walrus who is caught in the middle of the power struggle between Flint and his main dissenter Singleton! Threatened with extinction on all sides, the pirates fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality. Jessica Parker Kennedy will play a beautiful and capable French prostitute named Max. Gorgeous Hannah New will play Eleanor, the beautiful, courageous and determined owner of a rowdy Open Nassau saloon who wields considerable influence in her dual roles as fence/ supplier and party hostess!

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TOM CRUISE IN "YUKIKAZE" SF! CILLIAN MURPHY, JOHNNY DEPP, PAUL BETTANY, MORGAN FREEMAN IN "TRANSCENDENCE"! LOVELY TRAILER FOR "THE KINGS OF SUMMER" WITH NICK ROBINSON, MEGAN MULLALLY

It seems that Johnny Depp's new movie TRANSCENDENCE is getting quite a stellar cast. After Morgan Freeman and Paul Bettany have joined the

science fiction flick, the new face among them is Cillian Murphy. The story of the movie revolves around two leading computer scientists who work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain. Rebecca Hall and Kate Mara are also in the film which was supposed to have Kate Winslet as Depp's wife but she refused the role. Cillian is currently working on PEAKY BLINDERS TV series - a British gangster saga set in 1920s Birmingham.

  TOM CRUISE

IN 'YUKIKAZE' SF FILM 

While his current sf film OBLIVION is having a rather nice international opening this week, Tom Cruise is already preparing

another sf epic (I'm guessing his sect has something to do with his unusual love for sf) - a big screen adaptation of science fiction novel series YUKIKAZE by Chohel Kamayashi. Warner Bros. is producing the story set in the early 21st Century, three decades after an alien force known as JAM invaded Earth through a portal over Antarcica. The humans form an elite combat force to take out the alien threat on their home planet. Before that Cruise will also star next to Emily Blunt in yet another sf film - ALL YOU NEED IS KILL about a raw recruit, pressed into battle against an alien species, who gets killed in action, but he is reborn each day to suffer the same fate. 

  'THE KINGS OF SUMMER'

DELIGHTFUL TRAILER

Here's a very cute and rather heartwarming movie trailer - the first one for delightful comedy THE KINGS OF SUMMER which opens up in theatres around you May 31st! Starring Nick Robinson (that lovely kid from MELISSA AND JOEY sitcom), Moises Arias (from Disney's HANNAH MONTANA), Gabriel Basso  alongside almost unrecognisable Megan Mullally from WILL AND GRACE, the movie follows Joe Toy who, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods! The film is directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Jordan, thanks for tweeting about HOLLYWOOD SPY)!

Over at HOLLYWOOD SPY official Facebook page you can see today the first poster for amazing epic 300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE and for RIPD with Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges!

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MATTHEW GOODE & MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS IN "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD"! ADRIEN BRODY IN "HOUDINI" SERIES! "SONS OF LIBERTY" EPIC SERIES! "THE WAY WAY BACK" TRAILER WITH TONI COLLETTE, STEVE CARRELL, SAM ROCKWELL

Now, here's a type of cast we do approve of: two dashing lads (today's post is mostly for our ladies) we like a lot - Matthew Goode and Matthias Schoenaerts (RUST AND BONE) are, according to rumours from 'Daily Mail', sought for the lead male roles in the new movie adaptation of famous novel by Tom Hardy FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD! To be directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the film will revolve around a wilful, flirtatious, young woman, who unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men. HOLLYWOOD SPY has informed you before that Matthew Goode will headline the new TV show VATICAN playing Pope's secretary next to

Kyle Chandler. He will also play a captain in epic romance BELLE about a mixed race girl raised as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century who fell in love with a man of high social standing. All of this happens in the backdrop of a legal case that helped end slavery in England. That film also stars Tom Felton, Sam Reid, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson. Next year you shall watch Matthew Goode next to Paul Bettany in DESTROYER, which follows a British Navy Captain whose ship is led into a tense situation during the Falklands Conflict in 1982 and is bombed by the Argentine Air Force defending their rightful territory.

  'HOUDINI' & 'SONS OF LIBERTY'

    NEW EPIC SERIES

After their success with THE BIBLE, HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS and VIKINGS shows, History Channel is preparing other scripted series: one of them will see Oscar winner Adrien Brody starring in  HOUDINI mini series following the life of the famous master illusionist! The period project will follow Harry Houdini's rise to fame. History is also preparing SONS OF LIBERTY a mini series which will follow a defiant group of young men who band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation. Together, they called themselves the Sons of Liberty and lit the spark of what would become a revolution: the American Revolution.

  

TONI COLLETTE & STEVE CARRELL

THE WAY WAY BACK TRAILER
And I'm a bit late with this one: the first, rather funny trailer for starstudded THE WAY, WAY BACK which is supposed to open up in theatres this July starring our beloved Toni Collette next to Sam 

Rockwell, Steve Carrell (looking unusually hunky in the film), Maya Rudolph and Liam James. The movie brings the coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old introvert who spends a difficult summer vacation with his single mom, her not so warm and fuzzy boyfriend and his daughter. Having a hard time fitting in, the teen finds unlikely friendships with the prickly manager and the misfit workers at a run down water park.

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GORGEOUS "SUMMER IN FEBRUARY" TRAILER WITH DAN STEVENS, DOMINIC COOPER, EMILY BROWNING! 1ST PIC OF EVA GREEN AS ARTEMISIA IN "300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE"! ASHLEY JUDD JOINS KATE WINSLET IN "DIVERGENT"

It seems that one mega gorgeous and ultra talented actress in the form of Kate Winslet wasn't enough for DIVERGENT, but now another one - Ashley Judd - has joined the cast too! The movie adaptation of fantasy bestseller by Veronica Roth is set in a world where citizens are divided into five distinct factions, based on personality traits. The story follows Tris (Shailene Woodley), who is a "divergent," someone who doesn't fit into any one of the stringent factions. She discovers a conspiracy to destroy all the divergents, and must learn why divergents are so dangerous before it's too late! Ashley Judd will play Tris' mother joining Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Theo James and Maggie Q in the cast!

  ARTEMISIA FROM  EPIC

'300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE'

 And after the first glorious pictures from epic prequel 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE which showed Sullivan Stapleton as Themistokles, here's the first picture showing Eva Green as evil Artemisia, female general of the Persian army lead by emperor Xerxes (to be played again by brilliant Rodrigo Santoro). She pits him against the brave Greeks in the film which opens up this August and will feature tones of naval battles!
 

  DAN STEVENS IN

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY TRAILER
And after really beautiful ROMEO AND JULIET trailer yesterday, here's another gorgeous one: first clip for period set drama SUMMER IN FEBRUARY starring DOWNTON ABBEY's  Dan Stevens, Emily Browning and Dominic Cooper. Stevens and Cooper play a land agent and bohemian artist competing for the affections of Emily Browning's Florence. Set in the period before the World War One, the film brings a true tale of love, liberty and scandal amongst the Edwardian artists' colony in Cornwall!  The film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert  Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

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BREATHTAKING "ROMEO & JULIET" TRAILER WITH DOUGLAS BOOTH, HAILEE STEINFELD, DAMIAN LEWIS! BEN KINGSLEY, MICHAEL CAINE, KATE BECKINSALE, JIM STURGESS IN "ELIZA GRAVES"! "INFERNAL DEVICES" VICTORIAN FANTASY MOVIE ADAPTATION!

 Even though THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES movie adaptation is yet to hit cinemas this August starring Lily Collins, Aidan Turner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the prequel to the fantasy

saga by Cassandra Clare INFERNAL DEVICES has already been greenlit in Hollywood! While THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS follows a young girl in contemporary times who discovers she is from a race of angels known as Shadowhunters, and that her kind has been locked in an age-old battle with a sect of vampires known as the Downworlders, INFERNAL DEVICES will trade back alley raves for Victorian England, following a new girl who goes on a journey of self-discovery and also following ancestors of some of the characters from THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS. The fantasy prequel also consists of three books!

  MICHAEL CAINE & BEN KINGSLEY JOIN KATE BECKINSALE'S 'ELIZA GRAVES'

  In casting news today, two new names to join the cast of the exciting thriller ELIZA GRAVES are acting legends Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine. HOLLYWOOD SPY already reported before that the lead role went to Jim Sturgess who stars as a recent Harvard Medical School graduate, who takes an internship at a mental hospital. Once there, he becomes smitten with a patient named Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale). What he doesn't know is that the hospital has been overrun by its patients, who are now posing as doctors. 

  STUNNING 'ROMEO & JULIET' TRAILER

Here's the long awaited and absolutely breathtaking trailer for the new movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous tragedy ROMEO AND JULIET! Directed by Italian moviemaker Carlo Carlei the film is set in the fair city of Verona. Romeo (Douglas Booth) and Juliet (Hailee Steinfeld), the children of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, meet at a feast and fall deeply in love. Despite the sworn disdain their families hold for one another, they steal away and are secretly wed by Friar Laurence (Paul

Giamatti). It is not long, however, before trouble ensues… Unaware of his daughter’s transgressions, Lord Capulet (Damian Lewis), Juliet’s father, has arranged for Juliet to take the hand of Count Paris (Tom 

Wisdom) in marriage. Devastated and defiant Juliet seeks the counsel of Friar Laurence, who concocts a devious plan that will alter the lives of both families forever. The cast also includes Holy Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ed Westwick....

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HOLLYWOOD SPY EXCLUSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE "PACIFIC RIM" WITH CHARLIE HUNNAM, IDRIS ELBA, RON PERLMAN!

 Today we're spotlighting one of this summer's most anticipated science fiction movies - Guillermo Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM which is set in a near future where soldiers piloting giant robots battle against invading giant monsters who have mysteriously risen from beneath the ocean!

  PACIFIC RIM STORY 

The story of the movie is set in the near future, where giant monsters identified as "Kaiju" arise from a crevice in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a war which takes millions of lives and quickly consumes humanity's resources. To combat this new threat, a special type of weapon is designed: massive robots, known as Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. As time passes, even the powerful Jaegers prove almost defenceless in the face of a relentless enemy. On its last stand and on the verge of defeat, the remaining defending forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes — a former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) — who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the

early trials of the mechanical titans. Together, they must stand as the human race’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

  THE JAEGERS

  The main stars of the film are Jaegers, the last line of Earth's defence.  A Jaeger is a special type of mobile exosuit weapon: massive robots which are controlled simultaneously by each of its two pilot teams whose minds are locked in a neural bridge to control its every movements! There are five types of these mechanical titans, each defending one of the regions in Pacific Rim: CRIMSON TYPHOON is stationed in Hong Kong battlefield, he is the first and is the only one able to start a three-arm attack mode to fight to the death against the Kaiju, to defend the coastline of China and Hong Kong. STRIKER EUREKA is a

Jaeger designed to defend the coastline of Australia from the Kaiju. It is stationed at the Sydney Shatterdome. It contains a retractable "sting blade" on both arms laced with carbon nanotubes that channel thermal energy. It also has wings mounted on its back to maintain aerodynamic balance during turbulence in a fight. CHERNO ALPHA is a powerful Russian Jaeger defending the snowy mountain regions of Eastern Europe, while GIPSY DANGER is the American Jaeger defending North America. There's also COYOTE TANGO designed to defend Japan!  Kaiju monsters also have their names with The Trespasser being the first one to attack the Earth!

 

  PACIFIC RIM TIDBITS

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro the science fiction action, which opens up in cinemas July 12th this summer, also stars Idris Elba (whose role was originally meant for Tom Cruise), Robert Kazinsky (who, if you remember, was supposed to star in THE HOBBIT which Del Toro was previously supposed to direct), Max Martini and Ron Perlman. The visual effects are done by Oscar winners, while the music in the film is composed by Ramin Djawadi who previously worked on GAME OF THRONES and IRON MAN. Back in December it was officially announced that the work on the sequel has already started!

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