New Trailer For The Diary Of A Teenage Girl

Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård's graphic movie

A comic-book movie with a difference, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is based on a much-loved illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. It’s the kind of thing chin-stroking film critics (especially German one) might call a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age tale about a girl growing up in swinging San Francisco in the 1970s. The movie has a new trailer you can catch below.

The young girl in question, Minnie, is played by an eye-catching Bel Powley. Her flawless Californian tones belie London roots as Minnie, a gifted cartoonist and writer, navigates all the perks and pitfalls of being a teenager as she experiments with sex, drugs and Iggy Pop posters.

Her mum (Kristen Wiig) is seeing a well-meaning but hazy character called Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), who soon becomes the focus of Minnie’s infatuations. She records all her most intimate thoughts and experiences – and they get pretty intimate – in a series of tape recordings and illustrated diaries. As her life oscillates from heady peaks to deep troughs, her illustrations come to life around her in a riot of shape and colour against the dying embers of the hippie era. Think the Fabulous Furry Freak Sisters or Bedknobs And Joss Sticks.

Directed by feature first-timer Marielle Heller and lauded at Sundance, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl arrives in UK cinemas on August 7.

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Exclusive New Poster For Tom Hardy's Legend

Getting a little Kray-zy

Why play one role when you can play two? In the next demonstration of Tom Hardy’s formidable acting prowess, the Londoner plays not one but two Kray brothers in Legend. The film's stylish new poster, making its world premiere here, eschews its stars handsome visage (in either of his guises) and plumps instead for a smartly illustrative approach. Click on it for a closer look.{Legend Teaser Poster}

For a time in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray ruled East London with fists, pistols and pure, simple intimidation. Their gang, the unimaginatively-named but viciously effective The Firm, took control of the shadowy underworld and carried out armed robberies, arson, racketeering, assaults and murder.

LA Confidential’s Brian Helgeland is piloting us through this crime arena, adapting John Pearson’s book The Progression Of Violence. Legend dips into the dark underbelly of the swinging ‘60s, when sharp-suited gangsters warred for turf and control, and innocent people were caught in the middle of the conflict, although criminals like Ronald and Reginald Kray liked to claim they only went after the competition.



Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Taron Egerton, Tara Fitzgerald and Chazz Palminteri fill out the main cast for the film, with Legend to arriving September 11. For more on its lead actor, check out Empire’s handy guide to the Tom Hardyverse to date here.

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Julia Roberts And Jennifer Aniston Celebrate Mother's Day

Garry Marshall prepares for another celebration

Now officially a sort of anthology franchise, Garry Marshall's ensemble holiday movies have just reached episode three. Mother's Day will be the follow-up to Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, with Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis all in negotiations to head up what will undoubtedly be another large cast.

Not to be confused with the Mother's Day in which Rebecca De Mornay killed a number of people, this one will, unsurprisingly, tell the intertwining stories of several mothers as the day approaches and they wait for their bunch of daffs. Or whatever. 

Marshall aside, the film has slightly different DNA to its predecessors. Anya Kochoff-Romano (Monster In Law) and Lily Hollander replace Katherine Fugate as the writers, and while the previous two films came out of New Line, that's not a done deal this time. The "package" is "going out to buyers" shortly.

It will, however, mark a reunion for Marshall and Roberts: their fourth collaboration following Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and Valentine's Day. Don't take the latter as evidence that Roberts will reprise her previous character though: Jessica Biel and Ashton Kutcher were both in Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve playing different roles each time. Maybe they'll show up in this one too.

Shooting starts in August.

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House of Cards Adds Neve Campbell For Season 4

Looks like Season 4 of House of Cards could be getting more interesting.

Neve Campbell has joined the cast of the Netflix drama as a new series regular, Deadline reports. No word on who the former Party of Five star will play, but perhaps she'll pose a new threat to Frank and Claire's plans as they

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Max Landis And Nick Antosca Ready To Scare With Channel Zero

A new anthology horror TV series

Chronicle writer Max Landis already has one big horror project on the way, with Victor Frankenstein, based on his script, landing later this year. He’s now teaming up with Hannibal TV writer Nick Antosca for Channel Zero, described as a new scary anthology show. 

The series will be based at the US SyFy channel and aims to model itself roughly on American Horror Story by telling one narrative across each season. But unlike Ryan Murphy’s series, Channel Zero – in its first season at least – will be based on an existing story, in this case Kris Straub’s Candle Cove. It spins a yarn about a mysterious 1980s children’s TV series, the show’s role in a string of murders and one man’s dark secret.

Straub’s story originated online as part of the communal creepypasta project, where users share tales and generally try to terrify the living daylights out of each other. Landis, who is already busy as a writer and director, and has a variety of projects on the go, will produce and oversee the show with Antosca, who is handling the writing. “We love the idea of doing seasons of TV like rich, character-driven horror novels, and for Channel Zero: Candle Cove we’ve expanded this great short story Candle Cove into something really nightmarish and haunting and surreal,” Landis and Antosca say in a statement reported by Deadline. “We can’t wait to dig in deeper and bring this to life.” There’s no indication yet of when the show will debut. 

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Reese Witherspoon Fighting Ashley's War

Abi Morgan will adapt the true-life tale

Reese Witherspoon continues to find interesting projects to produce and potentially star in. And now she along with Fox 2000 have The Iron Lady and Suffragette writer Abi Morgan aboard to adapt Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s book Ashley’s War. 

The nonfiction book, which carries the subtitle The Untold Story Of A Team Of Women Soldiers On The Special Ops Battlefield, follows what happened when the US Army Special Operations Command created a pilot programme to allow elite female soldiers on the battlefield alongside the likes of the Green Berets serving in Afghanistan. The unit, known as CST-2, put its potential Army candidates through a rigorous selection process that resulted in the troops seeing action. First Lieutenant Ashley White became the first CST member killed in action. 

Witherspoon may well take a role in any eventual film, but Morgan will have to write the script first. She has Suffragette, with Sarah Gavron directing, due on October 30 and is attached to a variety of projects, including Taming Of The Shrew, The Rules Of Inheritance and Little House On The Prairie. Witherspoon has several films of her own in development and is attached to David E. Kelley’s new series Big Little Lies.

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Rooney Mara In Talks For David Fincher's New Utopia

She's up for the HBO version of the Channel 4 show

We already know that David Fincher has decided to dive headfirst into small screen work, and is gearing up to direct every episode of Utopia, adapted from Dennis Kelly’s Channel 4 original. He’s locking in a regular collaborator for one of the lead roles, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s Rooney Mara in negotiations.

Utopia set things in motion with the discovery of a manuscript for a legendary graphic novel known as The Utopia Experiments, long shrouded in mystery. When a small group of previously unconnected people unites in their shared interest, things take a much darker turn.

It turns out that they are by no means the only ones interested in the manuscript. Targeted swiftly and relentlessly by a murderous organisation known as The Network, the terrified group are left with only one option if they want to survive: run. 

Mara will play the Jessica Hyde character as portrayed in the original by Fiona O’Shaughnessy, though all involved are figuring out a way to fit the hefty shooting commitment for the show’s first season into her film-focused schedule.

HBO is pushing hard for Fincher to start work on the new Utopia, which has scripts by Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn. And the director has time in his diary, because Video Synchronicity, his planned series based on his early days in the music video production business, has been shut down after filming just a few episodes because it wasn’t gelling with what the cable channel’s bosses were hoping for. Utopia, which already has a series order, will kick off production later this year. Mara, meanwhile, will be seen in Pan (due October 16), Weightless, Lion, Kubo And The Two Strings and Todd Haynes’ Carol, which won rave reviews at Cannes and generated Oscar talk for Mara and Cate Blanchett. 

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