BEN CHAPLIN IN
'WIPER TIMES" WW1 SERIES
Since we're having a dry week when it comes to Tinseltown news, just like yesterday we shall focus on some of the upcoming British projects. I already wrote about BBC preparing new historical mini series THE WIPERS TIMES. It will be set in the backdrop of the World War One and now we know that the cast will include Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Michael Palin and Julian Rhind Tutt. Described as a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity, the mini series will follow two soldiers who created a satirical magazine that was published in the trenches during World War I! Ben Chaplin plays Captain Fred Roberts who discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916 and began publishing the blackly comic WIPERS TIMES for troops on the Western Front. Ben Chaplin has had great roles on TV recently from MAD DOGS to WORLD WITHOUT END. ERIC MABIUS IN
'DEAD LETTERS' NEW SHOW And here's an interesting piece of television news: "The Hollywood Reporter" writes that Hallmark Channel has in mind a new scripted series: titled DEAD LETTERS it will first air in October as a TV movie and it will then be decided whether it will be produced further on into a show. Charming Eric Mabius from UGLY BETTY will head the cast in the story of a group of postal detectives whose mission is to deliver letters and packages from the past - which (naturally) arrive when they're needed the most. Mabius will play Oliver, leader of the group, while Kristin Booth will appear as Shane, the newest member of the DEAD LETTER Office. The script has been penned by TOUCH BY AN ANGEL writer.
THE BOXTROLLS TRAILER
TONI COLLETTE & BEN KINGSLEY
Here's a delightful trailer for the new film coming from the creators of CORALINE and PARANORMAN. New stop motion animation THE BOXTROLLS will 
open up in cinemas later this September. With Ben Kingsley and Toni Collette leading the voice cast this 3D animated adventure is based on Alan Snow's novel in which the story follows a group of monsters who live underneath the idyllic town of Cheesebridge. While the townsfolk think they come out at night to steal their beloved children and cheese, they aren't actually dangerous at all, trying to raise an orphaned human named Eggs. When The Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous exterminator who is bent on eradicating them, Eggs must venture above ground to save them, where he teams with an adventurous young girl to save not only The Boxtrolls but the soul of Cheesebridge.movie