LUKE EVANS JOINS EMILY BLUNT IN 'GIRL ON THE TRAIN'! 'ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS' TRAILER WITH JOHNNY DEPP, ANNE HATHAWAY! 'TEMPEST', 'DARKOVER', '244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM' SF TV SERIES

'THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN'

 LUKE EVANS JOINS EMILY BLUNT

Now we know why our favourite Welshman in the world Luke Evans has opted out of US Army propaganda SAND CASTLE movie with Henry Cavill: he will take a role in THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN instead! He replaces Jared Leto joining Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez and Rebecca Ferguson in the film in which he will play the husband of Haley Bennett's character. In the adaptation of Paula Hawkins novel Emily Blunt plays a divorced woman fascinated by a couple she watches on her commute to work. But events take a sinister turn when the wife (Bennett) disappears and the Girl on the Train starts to suspect she may be witness to a murder.

NEW SF TV SERIES

'TEMPEST' AT CW  
In TV news today, CW will produce utopian series TEMPEST about a young woman living in a utopian spaceship who finds out the ship is secretly powered by slaves and becomes enmeshed romantically and politically in the dangerous rebellion brewing below the decks.
AMAZON'S 'DARKOOVER'
Amazon is also going sf by turning DARKOVER sf novels into series! Marion Zimmer Bradley's saga has 25 books and it has been translated into almost 20 languages as a mix of fantasy and science fiction set on the exotic planet of Darkover.
244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM
Fox has bought sf series 244 DEGREES OF FREEDOM set in a world where robots have evolved in intelligence, influence, and social status, and humans have been relegated to a permanent underclass until one man is driven to lead a rebellion against the machines, risking everything to uncover a conspiracy that could spell the end of the human race.

DISNEY'S FIRST TRAILER FOR

ALICE THROUGH LOOKING GLASS

Disney has revealed the first trailer for their fairy tale movie ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS which is out next May! Alice (Mia Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father's footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit, Absolem, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Anne Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends - and enemies - at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.  Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and Michael Sheen also star.

1ST PHOTOS FROM EDDIE REDMAYNE'S 'FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM'! ANNE HATHAWAY, KEANU REEVES, DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN 'MODERN OCEAN'! ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, PAUL RUDD IN SF MOVIE 'MUTE'

EDDIE REDMAYNE'S PICS

FROM 'FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM'

Your main treat today is the first look of fresh Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, the lead hero of FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM which was written by Harry Plopper's J.K. Rowling! The movie is a prequel in a way, set in 1926, years before Harry and his friends joined the school of Wizardry, and follows world famous magizoologist Newt Scamander embarking on a marvellous journey through New York city. Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell, as wizard Graves, also star.

THE FAMOUS MAGIZOOLOGIST  
To open in theatres around the world in a year's time, November 2016, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM will see Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures. Years after that his book will become a textbook for students to learn from at Hogwarts!

'THE MODERN OCEAN' CASTS

ANNE HATHAWAY, KEANU REEVES AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Speaking of Harry Plopper, there's a mention of its lead star in the casting news coming from shipping drama THE MODERN OCEAN which has just gathered an ensemble cast including Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe alongside Chloe Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah and Jeff Goldblum! To be directed by Shane Carruth  THE MODERN OCEAN will see the competition for valuable shipping routes, the search for the hidden cache of priceless material and the powerful need for vengeance, converge in a spectacular battle on the rolling decks of behemoth cargo ships. This epic tale, fraught with danger and intrigue, takes us from the ancient trading houses of Algeria to the darkest depths of the ocean floor!

'MUTE' SF MOVIE 

CASTS ALEXANDER SKARSGARD AND PAUL RUDD  
In other casting news today, Hollywood's favourite blond hunk Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd will lead the cast of Duncan Jones (this Friday we shall have trailer for his epic movie WARCRAFT) directed MUTE! The film is set in Berlin, 40 years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler (Alexander Skarsgard), a mute bartender, has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared. But when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Paul Rudd) seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.

ANNE HATHAWAY, AUSTIN STOWELL, TIM BLAKE NELSON IN 'COLOSSAL' MONSTER MOVIE! NEW 'DANISH GIRLS' TRAILER SHOWS EDDIE REDMAYNE'S TRANSFORMATION

ANNE HATHAWAY TO LEAD 

'COLOSSAL WITH AUSTIN STOWELL AND TIM BLAKE NELSON

Now here's a cast that has been quickly rounding up lately: Anne Hathaway's monster action (I'm not joking) movie COLOSSAL has added Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell. Anne Hathaway will portray a woman who moves back to her hometown after losing her job and boyfriend, only to discover that she is somehow strangely connected to a giant lizard monster that materialized over Tokyo and is wreaking havoc on that city. Austin Stowell will play Hathaway's love interest, while Blake Nelson will portray a character named Garth, who has a drug problem that he doesn’t do a particularly good job of hiding.

Tim Blake Nelson has recently stepped into the helmer's seat and directed Christina Ricci in ZELDA Amazon series while Austin Stowell is playing a pilot in this week's released Spielberg's movie BRIDGE OF SPIES and is starring in TNT's PUBLIC MORALS. Hathaway has finished ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS in which she plays the White Queen and is also starring in THE BURNING WOMAN as a young woman whose teen daughter vanishes and she has to raise her infant grandson herself.

'DANISH GIRL' 2ND TRAILER

IN WHICH EDDIE REDMAYNE UNDERGOES TRANSFORMATION

In the trailer department today, the second trailer for Eddie Redmayne's DANISH GIRL has been released showing his transformation from painter Einar Wegener into a woman, after becoming the first person ever to undergo sex change operation. Starring next to Alicia Vikander and Ben Whishaw, Redmayne could become Oscar winner two years in a row!