HQ screen captures from Spartacus: Blood and Sand 1.5 have been added to the gallery. I decided to watch the show after all and I find it gets better after the first few episodes (although it has yet to touch the quality of Rome). While I’m not too fond of computer-generated sets and scenery, it works sometimes for this show. As usual, screencaps with nudity and too much gore have not been added. Anyone else watching it?

A behind-the-scenes featurette for The Tudors season 4 has been released by Showtime. The featurette provides an in-depth look at the new season, including interviews with Michael Hirst, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tamzin Merchant, Joely Richardson, and Henry Cavill. You can see Henry VIII’s children at the end; Sarah Bolger is back as Princess Mary and they have new actors for Elizabeth and Edward.

Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, and Rhys Ifans are set to star in a new movie about Queen Elizabeth, the Essex Rebellion, and Shakespeare. Although I’m not too excited for yet another Queen Elizabeth movie (or a movie about Shakespeare not being the real author of his plays), the plot looks interesting in that it’s taking place later on in Elizabeth’s reign rather than at the beginning.

2012 director Roland Emmerich has revealed to Empire magazine that his William Shakespeare film be titled Anonymous and announced the first cast members.

Emmerich previously said that the film is about “how it came to be that William Shakespeare was not the author of his plays. It’s not Marlowe, it’s De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. It’s kind of like a political thriller. It’s about who will succeed Elizabeth and the cause of that thriller, the Essex Rebellion, we take on and we learn how the plays were written by somebody else.”

Freida Pinto is starring alongside Henry Cavill in War of the Gods (or Dawn of War?). NDTV has the news here. I am glad they are finally moving forward with this movie!

Indian beauty Freida Pinto is going places. After bagging a role in Woody Allen’s film, the Slumdog Millionaire actress is set to portray a Greek priestess in War of the Gods.

The film, about the Greek mythology, will be directed by Tarsem Singh and begins production in April.

The story revolves around a young warrior Theseus who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods to defeat evil and the powerful elder gods of the Titans in order to save mankind, Variety reported online.

Pinto, 25, will portray Phaedra, an oracle priestess who must join Theseus, played by Henry Cavill of The Tudors fame.

Phaedra joins Theseus to prevent the cataclysmic war from erupting.

The first trailer for Centurion has been released at IGN. By the sounds of this article, people are surprised at how epic the movie looks. Screen captures from the trailer are in the gallery!

Another Jane Eyre adaptation is in the works! Mia Wasikowska of Alice in Wonderland will play Jane Eyre and Michael Fassbender will play Mr. Rochester. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books and the two actors cast in the movie so far seem to me to be perfect for the roles! Cinematical has the casting announcement.

Edit – According to The Film Stage, Imogen Poots, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, and Sally Hawkins might be joining the cast. I was right about Jamie Bell playing St. John! As Imogen Poots’ role is still unknown, I think she might make an excellent Rosamund Oliver.

Dench will play Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper of Thornfield Manor who hires Jane, and disproves of Jane’s relationship with Rochester. Bell will play St. John, a young clergyman who helps Jane in a time of need, and turns out to be connected to her by blood. Hawkins will play Mrs. Reed, Jane’s terrible aunt, who terrorizes and abuses Jane as a orphaned child. Poots’ role is currently unknown.

According to Variety, a new adaptation of The Three Musketeers is in the works.

Alexandre Dumas’ classic 17th century adventure “The Three Musketeers” is set to get the “Sherlock Holmes” treatment.

Producer Lionel Wigram, the creative force behind helmer Guy Ritchie’s take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuth, has tapped screenwriter Peter Straughan (”The Men Who Stare at Goats”) to update Dumas’ swashbuckling tale to appeal to young, contemporary auds.

Wigram, a former Warners creative exec who oversaw the first three “Harry Potter” pics and who now has a first-look deal with the studio, has set the project up at Warner Bros.

“The Three Musketeers” tells the story of the hot-headed D’Artagnan as he joins forces with three veteran musketeers to stop the evil machinations of the villainous Cardinal Richelieu.

More trailer screen captures have been added to the gallery. I replaced the screen captures of Season of the Witch with higher-quality ones. I also added screen captures from the trailer of Creation.