Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano
Director: Jon Favreau

Summary: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution, a town about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation against the alien force.
Release date: July 29th 2011

Ironclad (2011)

Cast: James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox, Kate Mara, Charles Dance

Director: Jonathan English

Summary: Follows the siege of Rochester Castle in 1215 when the despised King John reneged on his signing of the Magna Carta and led a mercenary army to force the rebel barons of England to come back under his tyrannical rule.

Black Gold (2011)

Cast: Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas, Tahar Rahim, Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, Seven Years in Tibet)

Summary: Set in the Arab states in the late 1920's, the story centers on a young well educated Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and liberal father-in-law while serving his duty to protect his country after oil is discovered in the Gulf.

Adapted from book Arab by Hans Ruesch
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The Lady (2011)

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis

Director: Luc Besson



Summary: A biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the heartrending choice she had to make about whether to return to England and nurse her husband who was dying of cancer, or to carry on fighting for democracy in Burma where the controlling military junta had grown paranoid about her popular support.



From Dark Horizons: "Luc Besson's biopic of current Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been shot under top secret conditions in Paris, Bangkok and the UK. As time and production winds on though, it's becoming hard for Besson to keep his film a secret. A release for this Fall in the UK is already locked in though, which means the attention will only become more focused from here on out."



Director Besson talks of what compelled him to tell her story:

“It is the fight of a woman without any weapons, just her kindness and her mentality. [Suu Kyi] is very Gandhi like. She says we should have the right to decide our future, we should have the right to express ourselves. She is asking for things we all have and don’t even think about any more.

How often in history do you have a person, a woman, who never curses, never steals anything, never does anything illegal and you put her under house arrest for 24 years, it is just insane.”



Teaser trailer

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Aung San Suu Kyi - article in Wikipedia

The Raven (2012)

Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Pam Ferris, Brendan Coyle

Director: James McTeigue

Summary: A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet teams with a detective in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

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Lily Collins cast as Snow White

Julia Roberts has already been attached to Tarsem Singh's film as the evil stepmother and now we have news that Lily Collins (daughter of singer Phil Collins) has landed the lead role of Snow White. Lily was seen previously as Sandra Bullock's daughter in Blind Side. Armie Hammer, who played dual roles of Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, has been cast as Prince Andrew Alcott.

Lily Collins, Armie Hammer, Julia Roberts

ComingSoon: "The film will eschew the traditional story in favor of a more modern tale full of comedy and adventure. After her evil stepmother kills her father and destroys the kingdom, Snow White bands together with a gang of seven quarrelsome dwarfs to reclaim what is rightly hers."

Filming to begin in May with release set for June 2012

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Water for Elephants (2011) - video interviews

Water for Elephants is set for release April 22
Here are interviews with stars Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon

Robert Pattinson

Reese Witherspoon

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