DISNEY REVEALS 'ZOOTOPIA' CHARACTER PHOTOS AND CAST WITH JASON BATEMAN, IDRIS ELBA, OCTAVIA SPENCER, SHAKIRA! DAN STEVENS, JASON SUDEIKIS JOIN ANNE HATHAWAY'S SF MOVIE 'COLOSSAL'!

DAN STEVENS JOINS

ANNE HATHAWAY'S 'COLOSSAL

Remember how I recently informed you that Anne Hathaway is going to star in a monster movie? And you couldn't really believe it? To add to your disbelief, an elegant and refined DOWNTON ABBEY star has joined COLOSSAL as her boyfriend! 'Variety' reports that Dan Stevens (who is currently shooting BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in which he is a much more beautiful beast unlike the actress who plays the beauty in it) will play the ex boyfriend who realises the error of his ways and fights to win her back.

  Anne plays a woman who moves back to her hometown after losing her job and boyfriend in New York. She soon discovers that she is strangely connected to a giant creature that is wreaking havoc in Seoul, South Korea. Jason Sudeikis has also been added to the cast!

  DISNEY'S 'ZOOTOPIA' 

CHARACTER PHOTOS ARE OUT

Disney has revealed cast members and character pictures for their new animated movie ZOOTOPIA which arrives into theatres next March following rookie Officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) who arrives to the city of ZOOTOPIA and discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn't so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), to solve the mystery. Pop sensation Shakira is ZOOTOPIA's pop star Gazelle.

CHIEF BOGO THE BUFFALO

Idris Elba is Chief Bogo, head of the Zootopia Police Department. A tough cape buffalo with 2,000 lbs of attitude, Bogo is reluctant to add Judy Hopps, Zootopia's first bunny cop, to his squad of hardened rhinos, elephants and hippos.

MAYOR LIONHEART

J.K. Simmons lends his voice to Mayor Leodore Lionheart, the noble leader of Zootopia, who coined the city's mantra that Judy Hopps lives by: "In Zootopia, anyone can be anything."

CHEETAH CLAWHAUSER

Nate Torrence lends his voice to the Zootopia Police Department's most charming cheetah, Benjamin Clawhauser. Clawhauser loves two things: pop star Gazelle and donuts. From his reception desk, he greets everyone with a warm smile and a helpful paw, covered in sprinkles.

BELLWETHER THE SHEEP

Jenny Slate provides the voice of Assistant Mayor Bellwether, a sweet sheep with a little voice and a lot of wool, who constantly finds herself under foot of the larger-than-life Mayor Lionheart.

MRS. OTTERRON

Octavia Spencer will give her voice to Mrs. Otterron, a desperate otter who turns to Officer Judy Hopps for help in solving her husband’s mysterious disappearance.

FINNICK THE FENNEC

Tommy “Tiny” Lister lends his voice to Finnick, a fennec fox with a big chip on his adorable shoulder.

WEASELTON THE CROOK

Alan Tudyk appears as Duke Weaselton, a small-time weasel crook with a big-time weasel mouth, who tries to give Judy the slip during a police chase.

FLASH THE SLOTH

Raymond Persi lends voice to Flash, the fastest sloth working at the DMV — the Department of Mammal Vehicles.

BBC'S 'THE DRESSER' PHOTOS WITH IAN MCKELLEN, ANTHONY HOPKINS! GORGEOUS 'FATHERS & DAUGHTERS' TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AARON PAUL, AMANDA SEYFRIED! 'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODE 5TH SEASON

'THE DRESSER' BBC MOVIE

STARRING IAN MCKELLEN AND ANTHONY HOPKINS

Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!

TELEVISION HEADLINES 

'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom with its almost 100 episodes is close to syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane, Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!
NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of space in NBC's new schedule.

'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS' 

 TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL

And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS! When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should arrive to theatres next month around Europe.

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.