Based on true events, Hyde Park on Hudson stars Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The film centers around the first British Monarch to ever visit the United States, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth spent the weekend with the President in his New York cottage. During the same time, the President was having an affair with his cousin Daisy (Laura Linney). Hyde Park on Hudson also stars Olivia Williams, Samuel West, and Olivia Colman, and is directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill).
Based on the initial trailer, the film reminds me a lot of last year’s My Weekend with Marilyn, which earned Michelle Williams an Oscar nomination. Hudson could do the same for Bill Murray in 2012. Hudson hits theatres December 7th.
Check out the trailer, poster, and official synopsis after the jump…
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 After delighting audience and Oscar voters last year with Hugo, Scorsese is returning to to the past for his next film. Variety is reporting that the legendary director is teaming up with Richard Attenborough to produce a biopic, Silver Ghost, that will chronicle the founding of the Rolls-Royce car company. The drama will revolve around motoring pioneer Lord John Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu and his friendship with Rolls-Royce founders Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, his relationship with wife Cis and his secret love affair with his secretary, Eleanor Velasco Thornton. Thorton was the inspiration for the iconic Spirit of Ecstasy mascot, designed by British sculptor Charles Sykes, which to this day adorns all Rolls-Royce cars.
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 Anthony Mackie has been turning in solid supporting turns over his career and is currently involved in two high profile projects, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain. He’s added a third to that list as Deadline is reporting that Mackie is in talks to join Runner Runner co-starring Justin TImberlake and Ben Affleck. The flick, to be directed by Brad Furman (Lincoln Lawyer), will revolve around the world of offshore online gaming and an increasingly tense relationship between a business founder and his protege.
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 With the recent succes of Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway (the show racked up 9 Tony nominations, including best play), Disney has decided to revist the magical tale on the big screen. Deadline is reporting that Dinsey has tapped Jesse Wigutow to write the adaptation of Peter and the Starcatchers, upon which the play is based. The story is described as a fast-paced adventure that explains the backstory of an orphan named Peter who will eventually become the beloved Peter Pan.
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 Directed By: Larry Charles
Written By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly
Synopsis (From IMDB): The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Since his feature debut in 1994, Danny Boyle has built an impressive career with a mixture of low-budget cult classics, mid-budget studio misfires, and a certain Oscar winning smash hit. His great talent for presenting the most desperate of situations in a manner that leaves the audience feeling hopeful and uplifted, is a gift that many filmmakers strive for, yet few have managed to achieve.
His 1996 film ‘Trainspotting’ remains his finest work, and set up his fast paced and stylishly urban approach to filmmaking as the epitome of cool. Since then Boyle has rarely dropped the ball, only doing so when bending his style to the will of studios, but when left to his own devices, the results can be spectacular. Who can forget the night his 2008 indie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ took home eight Oscars, including Best Director? And to think, this great filmmaker almost hid his cinematic light under a bushel to become a man of the cloth!
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 One of the breakout stars from this past television season was New Girl‘s Max Greenfield. As the douchey yet lovable Schmidt, he managed to walk the tightrope of great comedic acting and being completely over the top. Now he’ll take his talents to the big screen joining Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler in the romantic comedy They Came Together. The film, according to Deadline, will see Rudd and Poehler reuniting with the director of Wet Hot American Summer, David Wain. Greenfield will play the wayward couch surfing younger brother of Rudd’s character.
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 Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is currently trodding the boards of Broadway in Death of a Salesman, will tackle another literary figure once the show closes in June. Deadline is reporting that Hoffman will be cast in the lead role in the adaptation of John Le Carre’s A Most Wanted Man. The film was one of several high profiles being pitched to foreign producers at Cannes Film Festival today. The film, directed by Anton Corbijn, will see Hoffman play a roguish chief of a covert German spy team, and shoot in Germany.
Read more on Phillip Seymour Hoffman is ‘A Most Wanted Man’ for Anton Corbijn adaptation…
 The publicity and promotional materials for ‘Prometheus’ have been in overdrive the past month or so, with perhaps too much being revealed for some. Recently the focus has been on clips, trailers, and videos, with only a few posters to go by…most featuring the giant monolithic head we’ve all come to know. Well, now we have a new type of poster to share with you, and it can be seen after the jump. It’s not amazing or anything (in fact, it’s a bit on the standard side overall), but it’s different and not just the severed head type of poster we see all too often these days. Give it a look below and see what you think…
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 Up until last year, many did not know the name of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, but he took the world by storm with his incredible film, A Separation. He was one of the darlings of the Oscar season, with the likes of Spielberg and Streep championing his work and everyone in Hollywood, including Angelina Jolie, was lobbying to work with the director. At the end of the season, Farhadi announced that his next project would be set in France and in an interview with Farhadi’s producer, Alexander Mallet-Guy, Screen Daily has learned that Oscar Marion Cotillard has been cast in his next film. Cotillard, who is recieving raves for her role in Rust & Bone, will play the lead role in the film that Mallet-Guy promises “will be an emotional social thriller in the vein of A Separation, with multiple twists aimed at keeping the audience in suspense from the first frame to the last.”
Read more on Marion Cotillard to star in Asghar Farhadi’s next film!…
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