PATRICK DEMPSEY JOINS COLIN FIRTH, RENEE ZELLWEGER IN 'BRIDGET JONES' BABY'! BRADLEY JAMES, TOBIAS MENZIES JOIN KATE BECKINSALE, THEO JAMES IN 'UNDERWORLD 5'! OCTAVIA SPENCER JOINS CHRIS EVANS IN 'GIFTED'

PATRICK DEMPSEY JOINS

'BRIDGET JONES' BABY'

A piece of delightful movie news my ladies will like: McDreamy is joining the third Bridget Jones movie! Patrick Dempsey will star in BRIDGET JONES' BABY although it isn't known whom he will play alongside Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth who return to their original roles together with director Sharon Maguire who helmed the first movie. The movie will be based on the newspaper columns that Helen Fielding wrote and not on her BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY bestselling book and will follow the mishap-prone British publishing executive as she enters her 40s and finds herself unexpectedly expecting! Hugh Grant is not returning to the franchise.

'UNDERWORLD 5' CASTS

BRADLEY JAMES AND TOBIAS MENZIES AS VILLAINS 
Meanwhile, besides landing, earlier this summer, OUTLANDER and ROME star Tobias Menzies UNDER- WORLD 5 has now cast MERLIN's dearest hunk Bradley James and gorgeous Clementine Nicholson too. Joining Kate Beckinsale, who is returning as vampire warrior Selena, and Theo James, Nicholson will play Lena, the Nordic Coven’s greatest warrior and daughter of Vidar! Bradley James will be the male villain. The movie, which starts shooting next month in Prague, will see Tobias Menzies playing werewolf Marius, a mysterious new Lycan leader!

OCTAVIA SPENCER JOINS

CHRIS EVANS IN 'GIFTED'

A few weeks ago I've announced that our dearly beloved Chris Evans will lead the cast in GIFTED and now he is joined in it by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer with whom he already starred in outstanding sf thriller SNOWPIERCER. The film follows Frank Adler (Chris Evans), a deliberate underachiever who is raising his niece Mary (McKenna Grace) in rural Florida. When he enrols her in school for the first time, she is labeled as GIFTED. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing in his way is her grandmother Evelyn and the dilemma that he doesn’t have custody of the child. He decides to take legal action. Octavia Spencer plays Frank's outspoken landlord and a good friend to both him and Mary. Lindsay Duncan plays Evelyn, Frank’s mother who is aristocratic and proper and who took over the custody of Mary after her daughter committed suicide.

CHRIS EVANS TO LEAD CUSTODY BATTLE IN 'GIFTED'! MOVING 'MISS YOU ALREADY' TRAILER WITH TONI COLLETTE, DREW BARRYMORE. ISABEL LUCAS, LUKE FORD IN KELLAN LUTZ'S 'SFv1" SF FILM. 'DAWN' SF TV SERIES FROM 'LILITH'S BROOD' SAGA

CHRIS EVANS

TO LEAD 'GIFTED' DRAMA

Our favourite of Hollywood hunks, Chris Evans is one of those big blockbuster stars that also like to give strong dramatic performances and one of such is expected to be seen in the latest movie he has joined: in GIFTED he will play an underachiever named Frank Adler, a man raising his young niece Mary in rural Florida, who is quickly labelled as gifted after she starts school. Frank soon finds himself locked in a custody battle, fighting the girl's mother Evelyn for the right to raise Mary - and he's prepared to sue.The movie is to be helmed by SPIDERMAN director Marc Webb.

SF MOVIE/TV UPDATES

ISABEL LUCAS, LUKE FORD JOIN KELLAN LUTZ'S 'SFv1' SF FILM
In today's sf news, Australian science fiction adventure SFv1 has added Isabel Lucas from IMMORTALS and TRANSFORMERS and Luke Ford to the cast lead by Kellan Lutz and Rachel Griffiths. Set in the future when humanity has spread out into interplanetary colonies, the film follows Sy (Kellan Lutz) , a drifter who falls in with Kane (Daniel MacPherson), an off-world military contractor trying to rescue his daughter Indi from peril while evading a global crisis caused by the military contracting company he works for.
'DAWN' SF NOVEL TO BECOME TV SERIES
Meanwhile, Octavia E. Butler's sf novel DAWN, from her Lilith’s Brood saga, will be turned into a TV series by Allen Bain. The sci-fi tale tells of humanity’s last survivors who are saved by an ancient alien race just before the destruction of the earth. They are given the choice of either mating with the aliens to create a new mixed species, or die as the last humans.

'MISS YOU ALREADY' TRAILER 

TONI COLLETTE AND DREW BARRYMORE ARE BEST FRIENDS

The second trailer has been released for moving drama starring Toni Collette and Drew Barymore MISS YOU ALREADY out this November. It is an honest and powerful story following two best friends, Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore), as they navigate life's highs and lows. Inseparable since they were young girls, they can't remember a time they didn't share everything... Secrets, clothes, even boyfriends... But what happens when both are hit with life-altering news - one has cancer, the other gets pregnant.  The drama celebrates the bond of true friendship that ultimately can never be broken, even in life's toughest moments.