MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, REESE WITHERSPOON, SCARLETT JOHANSSON IN 'SING' VOICE CAST! SET PHOTOS OF JENNA COLMAN FROM QUEEN 'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES! CHRIS PINE, ERIC BANA, BEN FOSTER IN 'FINEST HOURS' TRAILER!

'SING' ANIMATED MUSICAL 

CASTS MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, REESE WITHERSPOON AND SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Now, here's a delightful project: Matthew McConaughey will lead the voice cast of the animated movie SING set for December 2016 release with more than 85 hit songs in it! He will be as Buster Moon, a dapper koala who runs a once great theatre that has fallen on hard times. Seeing the thing he loves most in his life coming to ruin, Buster connives to restore the theatre’s fortunes by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Seth MacFarlane will be a crooning, con artist mouse; Tori Kelly a timid teenage elephant suffering from stage fright; Reese Witherspoon the overtaxed mother of a litter of 25 piglets; Taron Egerton a young gorilla from a crime family eager to break out of the family business; and Scarlett Johansson as a punk rock porcupine looking to ditch her arrogant boyfriend and embark on a solo career.

'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES

JENNA COLEMAN SET PHOTOS

In TV news, 'Daily Mail' has published first photos from the lavish sets of ITV's upcoming new historical series VICTORIA showing Jenna Coleman as the British monarch in her royal gown and massive crown and Rufus Sewell as her prime minister Lord Melbourne. The eight episode epic saga will follow VICTORIA's early life from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert!

DID YOU KNOW?  
An entire RAF base in Yorkshire has been converted into a studio for the seven month shooting. The producers of this year's best British historical shows POLDARK and INDIAN SUMMERS are standing behind this one as well!

 'THE FINEST HOURS' TRAILER

 WITH CHRIS PINE, ERIC BANA, BEN FOSTER, CASSEY AFFLECK

You can also get thrills from the second trailer and a new poster for THE FINEST HOURS action drama out this January with Chris Pine in the lead role. In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. Eric Bana, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, Graham McTavish and Cassey Affleck are also in the star studded cast!

1ST PHOTO OF JENNA COLEMAN AS QUEEN 'VICTORIA' IN NEW EPIC TV SERIES WITH RUFUS SEWELL! 'DAD'S ARMY' CHARACTER POSTERS WITH CATHERINE ZETA JONES, BILL NIGHY, MICHAEL GAMBON! LOUIS TALPE IS PRINCE ELIAB IN 'OF KINGS AND PROPHETS' EPIC SERIES!

 'VICTORIA' EPIC TV SERIES

FIRST JENNA COLEMAN PHOTO

ITV has released the first photo today of Jenna Coleman as the ruthless British enslaver Queen VICTORIA in their new historical series which will have a 90 minute opening episode followed by seven hourlong ones. Charting her early life from accepting the crown at age 18 till her marriage to Prince Albert, the drama will also have Rufus Sewell as Lord Melbourne, Victoria's first prime minister and her intimate friend which started many rumours back in the day. The ensemble cast also includes Paul Rhys as Sir John Conroy, the ambitious controller of the Duchess of Kent’s household, who controlled Victoria’s upbringing, hoping to rule through her, when she came to the throne. Peter Firth is queen’s conniving uncle the Duke of Cumberland, and Catherine Flemming  is the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria’s mother. Eve Myles is Mrs Jenkins, the Queen’s senior dresser.

 'OF KINGS AND PROPHETS' 

LOUIS TALPE IS PRINCE ELIAB
In other news from epic TV series 'Deadline' reports that Belgian actor Louis Talpe has landed a season long recurring role on ABC’s midseason drama OF KINGS AND PROPHETS. Postponed for recasting and reshooting after a rather terrible first trailer, it is an epic Biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny. Talpe will play Eliab, King David’s (Oliver Rix) proud and single minded older brother. King Saul is played by Ray Winstone while Nathaniel Parker is King Achish of Philistia!

 FUNNY 'DAD'S ARMY' POSTERS

  WITH CATHERINE ZETA JONES, BILL NIGHY, TOBY JONES

Meanwhile, a number of delightful character posters have been released for new British movie comedy DAD'S ARMY the remake of legendary BBC classic series which will march (or die trying) into cinemas next February with a stellar cast lead by Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson. They're joined by Corporal Jones (Tom Courtenay), Private Godfrey (Michael Gambon), Private Pike (Blake Harrison) and Private Walker (Danny Mays), plus Catherine Zeta Jones's visiting journalist Rose Winters who's writing an article on the home guard.

BRITISH EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
The story is set in the waning days of World War II in the small village of Walmington-on-Sea, where Captain George Mainwaring (Jones) is leading a group of volunteers in the Home Guard. In a bizarre twist of fate, Mainwaring and his men might just become Britain's last line of defence against the Nazis when they discover a spy in their village.