It seems to be famine or feast with Spielberg. Having kept himself away from director duties for a few years, he now has a rush on. Tintin and War Horse are both due out by the end of the year, with Spielberg going once again for what served him well in 1993, namely working on a big adventure spectacle movie in parallel with a more serious historical piece. As if that wasn’t enough, he is also moving forward with his Abraham Lincoln biopic, Lincoln and has been talking a little about what everyone can expect.

Lincoln was shot on the evening of 14th April 1865 and died the following day and Spielberg intends to focus on the four months leading up to then. Although that feels like a tiny fraction of so eventful and significant a life, it was a pretty busy few months. During that approximate time-frame, he was re-elected, abolished slavery and the civil war ended. Although it is not going to be a Civil War film per se, there will be battlefield scenes, which seems inevitable given the subject matter. Spielberg wants to emphasize the massive accomplishments of the final months of Lincoln’s life, but will release the film at the tail end of 2012 in order to avoid having it fall during the US presidential elections and becoming a polarising feature of what will doubtless be another fiercely contested election.

Casting for Lincoln is almost absurdly rich, including Daniel Day Lewis (as Lincoln), Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Hawkes, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and David Strathairn. We may have a while to wait, but this one has been fermenting with Spielberg for years and should be another richly compelling historical drama.

Source: Playlist.

Steven Spielberg has added another quality name to his already esteemed line-up of actors in his forthcoming biopic of Abraham Lincoln by casting Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley.

Deadline brings news that the Little Children star will play another villain of sorts in the form of Alexander Stephens, an opposer of Lincoln’s slavery reform agenda. He’ll join the likes of Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Hawkes, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins and Daniel Day-Lewis (in the titular role) in the film, entitled Lincoln, this autumn.

Comeback king Haley is currently working with another starry ensemble in the form of Tim Burton’s next horror yarn, Dark Shadows.

Last week I had the unparalleled pleasure of asking Bradley Cooper a few questions about his controversial movie hit, Limitless.

For anybody who hasn’t seen the movie yet, you can take a peek at Adam’s review. We picked his brains from here to Hollywood but the fun didn’t stop there… During the roundtable with The Hangover star it became apparent to us all that Cooper is a delightfully knowledgeable film buff! Swoon.

On Limitless: 

Audiences most popularly know you as ‘Phil from the Hangover,’ has it been refreshing playing and promoting a completely different character like Eddie Morra?

I love Phil from the Hangover and I love Eddie too so it was nice to be cast in a different genre of movie for sure and where the burden of the storytelling was really on my shoulders; I loved that challenge. Also being able to play a guy who goes through such a transformation, physically and emotionally. But I don’t mind being associated with the Hangover, I’m honoured to be a part of it.

Do you think Eddie’s a good guy?

I do. I don’t think that he is malicious in anyway at all. Certainly we don’t know what his objective is on the drug. It’s not to make money that’s for sure. We don’t ever really know what it is.

He becomes very powerful and focused when he takes NZT, do you think power always corrupts or does Eddie escape that?

I don’t think he escapes it. That’s sort of the point of the movie that it’s a treacherous road. That’s the main thrust if there’s any particular theme to the movie. It’s about, not the price of power but the challenges of power.

Would you say there’s an undercurrent on how men and women deal with failure and success?

I think that calls along the line of the power question in how you deal with a lack of power or alternatively a surplus of power?

If you could take NZT and it were risk-free, would you?

Yeah, I’d probably take it both ways!

We all wonder if the real life superstars have some sort of pill for success, if there is a secret formula, what do you think it is, purely hard work or does luck play a role as well?

In terms of being successful as an actor I think luck plays a huge role! It’s like what Oprah said, although maybe she echoed somebody else, but she said ‘luck is preparation meets opportunity.’ That’s pretty true. I know that I certainly went to Grad school with guys who were tremendously talented as actors! I remember certain opportunities that we would all have but the way some people deal with that is by sabotaging themselves. It’s interesting; luck plays a huge role. But it’s impossible, I think, to do anything for any duration if you don’t work hard. Definitely as an actor, from my experience I don’t know how you could do it without working hard.

You’re also a producer on the film, how did the project come to you?

I ran to it! It was out there and I read it and I loved it. Then I tried to get a meeting with Neil Burger who had just signed on to direct it. It had been around for years – Leslie Dixon wrote it in 2007, I think or 2008 – and Heath Ledger was going to take it on at one point and then Shia LeBeouf. So it had been around for a while and I just went for it.

How was it balancing your role as an actor and a producer on the film?

It was actually a wonderful marriage because basically all that credit does is allow you to participate without apologizing! Instead of saying, ‘I’m sorry…but what about this?’

If you could use NZT to perfect any talent or language, what would it be?

German. I’d love to learn German. You remember the movie A Fish Called Wanda? Where John Cleese just loves German? That’s like me!

During the movie Eddie rockets through this vast emotional spectrum, were there any particularly interesting scenes for you to get into?

The scene where he finds the dead body. We were very keen to make it feel real. So often in the movies you see those scenes and they’re not right. I remember when I was a kid and my parents would ask me to turn the lights off before I come upstairs. There was one light in the living room and I would always turn it off and from the minute I turned it off until I’d run up the stairs I wouldn’t stop screaming because I thought I would scare away any of the ghosts. So when we were doing that scene and he hears something in the background and he just starts yelling. That just sort of happened and it felt like a real thing that Eddie would do as opposed to a typical ‘I find a dead body, I call the cops’ scenario if somebody’s not used to that world. That was a scene I found really fulfilling because we really made to make it different and make it like if a regular guy were to walk into a room and see a dead body, like what the fuck would you do?

[SPOILER:]

Which ending for the film did you prefer?

The one that’s in the movie. For sure. I feel like the ending that we chose for the movie was more ambiguous for the viewer in terms of: is he on the drug/is he off the drug? Was he lying to Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) or not? Because it could be just as dark an ending as the alternate if he’s lying to Carl. That whole thing was a ruse in a way. He’s not off the drug, he’s still taking the drug and he doesn’t know what the hell he’s going to do. He claims, ‘look I’m off it but I’ve retained some of the power.’  We departed from the ending in the book before I came aboard. Leslie Dixon’s script chose a different way to go.

On The Crow, Hyperion and Paradise Lost:


How far down the road are you with the remake of The Crow?

I’m not sure where we are with that. I mean, it makes tracks on the internet but I’m really not sure.

What about Hyperion?

We are just finishing the deal to write that so that’s going ahead. If you haven’t read the books then they’re fantastic. Oh my God! Ideally we’d like to do them all but we’re actually combining them because it’s kind of a mammoth undertaking, these four books, to consolidate and turn them into script form. The first one, we’re going to write two scripts, so the first is kind of a combination of Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, which is three out of the four, and then we’ll see where that takes us in terms of the second one.

Are you still keen to direct it?

It’s a dream! But that’s like saying you want your first movie to be Avatar! I’d have to have NZT and give it to the studio head in order for them to let me direct that movie.

How far a long are you with Paradise Lost?

We just finished, hang on, I’ll show you. [Cooper takes out his Blackberry to show us a photo for him wearing a skintight black suit covered in sensors] It’s going to be motion capture and I had never done anything like that! We’ve been doing these tests all this week. So yeah, we’re still shooting, I hope so anyway! (laughs) That would suck if I went through all that and we don’t shoot it! Yeah, it’s full on. That was our second day and we were just testing out the different rigs and doing some preliminary work in terms of a few scenes. We did one where Lucifer lands and talks to his minions and it’s really exciting. We’ll start shooting in January I think.

How do you feel about playing the biggest baddy there ever was?

Oh man, I can’t wait. I can’t believe I am doing it! I remember on the A-Team tour we were here actually, in London, and I had met Ralph Fiennes; I’d never met him before but he’s a friend of Liam’s [Neeson]. I remember we were just talking and he asked what I wanted to do and I said it’s crazy, there’s this project Paradise Lost and all I really want to do is play the devil. I remember he said to me, ‘You’re going to do it.’  And the way he said it to me, you know when somebody says something and it seems so real, like they know something, and I thought, ‘Great, yeah.’ But you never know until you’re shooting. I mean I say it now and then bam, Shia Lebeouf is Lucifer in a month! (laughs) But we’re all scheduled, with Alex Proyas, who is wonderful! He did the original Crow movie, and Dark City, I don’t know if any of you saw it but it was fantastic.

On The Hangover:


You’ve played a huge variety of roles from the cool suave guy to the jerk in Wedding Crashers, was there any character that stood out for you, one you’d go back and do again?

Well, Phil wasn’t easy at all. The guy in the Hangover. In fact I was probably had the most trepidations about that character more than anyone I’ve played. Just because I didn’t think I could pull it off. He’s such a commander and chief and is so secure with himself and so quick-witted. He’s just cool, to me he’s like the coolest guy in the world. And he’s got this moral philosophy which is just so bizarre! He’s got to run the show in a lot of ways and so when Todd [Phillips] cast me I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to pull it off. But now I feel we’ve created a guy that, I mean the second film, it was so effortless to play Phil and I love him so much that I would do five Hangovers just to play him because I really do love that character! And he’s changing for example in the second movie you saw his vulnerability with Alan and I just really love that guy.

Are there any plans for further Hangover adventures or is it too soon to tell?

No plans but I hope there is. I think there should be a trilogy to close it all up. Done.


On Directing and the Future:


You’re doing a lot behind the camera then, do you think one day you’ll move on from acting completely into directing and producing?

Just a director. I’d love to direct. Yes, I’d retire absolutely.

Who are your top directors then, whose footsteps do you aspire to follow in?

Oh there’s so many! Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson and Scorsese and Spielberg. Catherine Bigelow’s great. Julian Schnabel’s fantastic, Guillermo Del Toro’s great. I don’t have this idea of making just David Leen movies or something like that.

If your long-term aim is to duck out of acting and move into directing what’s going to be your King Lear to crown your acting career?

I think the reason why I imagine giving up acting is because I would love directing so much that I would probably then only want to direct. That’s why that would happen I think if my hunch is right about how much I would love directing. I don’t really have a part in mind it’s more really about working with directors. That’s the motivation for me, to be on a Jonathan Glazer or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson set; that’s the goal for me. It may change and it may become a role but at the moment it’s that.

Have you got any projects lined up with any of those directors?

None! (laughs) Honestly, I’ve been trying to just sit down with Jonathan Glazer for about 8 years! I’m not kidding, I even went to high school with his agent and I’m like, ‘Hey man, is there any way I can get a meeting’ and he’s all shrug, ‘I dunno.’ So maybe one day.

Are there any actors you aspire to work with in the same way?

Oh well, Daniel Day Lewis for sure! Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. There’s so many, Tom Hardy, I’d love to work with Tom Hardy, I think he’s incredible! I think Michael Fassbender’s incredible and Carey Mulligan is great, there’s a lot of young actors that are really good and who I’d love to work with.

Limitless is Available on DVD and Blu-ray from 1 August 2011

The formidable list of Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky are in talks to star in Lincoln.

The new additions will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field, who will play Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd respectively, in Dreamworks Pictures’ Abraham Lincoln biopic.

Lincoln is based on Doris Kearns’ biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals, and was adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner (Munich).

Steven Spielberg (E.T.) is attached to direct, with production expected to commence in Virginia later this year.

Source: THR

Forrest Gump’s momma Sally Field has been cast as the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, in director Steven Spielberg’s next biopic.

She will appear alongside Daniel Day-Lewis who is playing the title role in the film (which goes by the single moniker of Lincoln). This will mark the first time the Brothers & Sisters actress has appeared in a film by the ET auteur, although it does, for some reason, feel like the two have collaborated before. Maybe it’s because Field embodies that homely, all-American persona that the director has mined in the past.

The film (which will focus on Lincoln’s ascension up the political ladder, which set into motion the abolition of slavery and the end of the Civil War) is due to begin production this autumn.

Via Deadline

Entertainment Tonight visited the set of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes sequel and returned with some new footage from the film.

Not only do we get to see what Robert Downey Jr. would look like as an old woman (it’s not pretty…), our first look at Noomi Rapace is secreted therein too. Ritchie and Co have assembled quite a cast for this sequel, which has an unexpectedly high standard to meet.

If you want to go into it completely unspoiled then a few action sequences are shown off but the double act of Downey Jr. and Jude Law is entertaining and even director Ritchie gets involved from the sidelines.  Still a shame not to see Stephen Fry make an appearance as Mycroft Holmes, nor Jared Harris as Moriarty but I’m sure the forthcoming trailer will put that right.

Here’s the clip,

Via The Playlist.

While shooting for Guy Ritchie’s sequel to Sherlock Holmes continues apace in London eager snappers are out in force to capture the cast in their finery and today we’ve got our first look at Stephen Fry whose casting seemed completely appropriate and makes the next date with Holmes and Watson all the most tantilsing.

Yesterday Stephen Fry tweeted the following,

Lordy crumbs. Rather a late night at the Standard Theatre Awards. Victorian collar pinch a tad on Sherlock set. Heigh ho.

And now we get our chance to see said collars on Mr Fry and he looks the very essence of dapper on set in London, and this is the first look we’ve got of Sherlock’s brother Mycroft. We’ve already seen the other intriguing addition to the cast, Noomi Rapace in the first still from the film.

Other pics show the detecting duo of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law and this sequel is certainly generating a lot of interest, here are the pics,

Splash News, as is obvious from the watermark, own these pics.

Filming continues in merry old England for Guy Ritchie’s follow up to his surprisingly successful take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation and tonight we get the first official look at Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and their new companion in Sherlock Holmes 2.

JoBlo scored the picture, which is our first real look at the production outside the obligatory set pics which leaked a few weeks ago, and it’s our first chance to see Noomi Rapace. It’s good to see that Ritchie’s blend of clinical deduction and high explosives seems to be returning along with the cast and crew.

Sadly though there’s still no look at newcomers Stephen Fry or Jared Harris as Mycroft Holmes and Moriarty respectively. Maybe next time.

Pic ahoy,

With the merest whiff of Oscar accompanying it the news broke today that Daniel Day-Lewis is to take on the role of Abraham Lincoln in the much delayed Spielberg project.

He won’t be hunting vampires, nor will the film focus on the final moments of his life, but the casting of Day-Lewis in such an iconic role conjures up some wonderful images and it’ll be a long wait to see this on the big screen.  Liam Neeson stepped down from the role a few months ago and Spielberg’s search for a man who would be President has ended with a fine choice.

With his Tintin film and the ambiguously titled Robopocalypse on the cards, as well as the recently filmed War Horse, there’s a lot of Spielberg in our future and that’s just fine with me. Below, in the press release, the man talks about the role and the actor.

Two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis will star as the 16^th President of the United States in DreamWorks Studios’ Lincoln to be directed by Steven Spielberg.  The announcement was made today by Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Studios.”Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema’s distant future. I am grateful and inspired that our paths will finally cross with Lincoln,” said Steven Spielberg.  “Throughout his career, he has been exceptionally selective in his choice of material,” added Stacey Snider, “which makes us feel even more fortunate that he has chosen to join with us for Lincoln.”

Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner.  It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.

It is anticipated that the film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.

Doris Kearns Goodwin won her Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time, the story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the home front in World War II.  Kushner’s prize was for his play Angels in America, which later became an Emmy Award-winning television special.  He had previously worked with Spielberg on Munich for which he was nominated for an Oscar in the Adapted Screenplay category.

Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney’s Touchstone distribution label.

The game is afoot once again with Guy Ritchie returning to the big smoke with Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. to shoot the sequel to his well received take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the long lenses were out in force today and a few pictures have emerged.

Sadly these pictures do not include the new names on the cast list this time around, with Jared Harris, Stephen Fry and Noomi Rapace all signing up to spice up proceedings for the next film.

Here are the pics,

JustJared had the pics first, so pay a visit if you fancy spreading the love.

After much speculation it seems Guy Ritchie has found the final piece of the puzzle for Sherlock Holmes 2 as the role of Professor Moriarty has been cast.

Not Daniel Day Lewis, or Brad Pitt, but the man who has oozed English charm in the recent series of Mad Man, Jared Harris.

Harris joins the returning detecting duo of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, along with the recent additions to the cast, Stephen Fry as Holmes’ older brother Mycroft and the original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace.

Bleeding Cool also did a bit of digging and have hauled out the name of Russel Brand, soon to be seen in the Arthur remake, as another potential addition to the cast.

Having Harris on board seems to be a fine prospect, though I only know him from his time on Mad Man, he’s also supposed to have a role in the Tomas Alfredson adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which has an even more impressive cast than this film.

Latino Review had the name of Harris first, and they know their onions.

Excellent casting news today for the female lead in the next Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes film.

Following her critically lauded performance as Lisbeth Salander in the big screen adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, it was widely expected that Rapace would find her way to Hollywood and THR are reporting that she will be be starring in Ritchie’s return to Baker Street along with the original stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

Rachel McAdams, who was woefully underused in the first film, will be appearing in the sequel but it is understood that Rapace’s character (a French Gypsy according to the report) will be the main female role.

This news confirms the story running around a few months ago that while McAdams was to return for a second run around the Big Smoke she would not be in a leading role.

And without wishing to plough excessively over old bones, the report talks of Moriarty and Holmes’ brother Mycroft being in the mix, and whether it’ll be the oft-mentioned but unlikely Brad Pitt or Daniel Day-Lewis in either role the news that Rapace is involved should make the fast tracked sequel all the more enticing.

Not so long ago Jude Law was among the recent additions to the Martin Scorsese cast for his 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret along with the mighty Christopher Lee and Ray Winstone, and in talking to Empire today Law gave up a few hints about this project and the fast tracked sequel to Sherlock Holmes.

In short, Law’s role is as I suspected when his casting was announced,

I don’t want to give too much away, but I play Hugo Cabret’s father.

And unless there’s a dramatic turnaround in the book (I’m still reading it) Law won’t be on set too much, and only seen on screen in flashback, and so that’s it for Cabret so far but then Law opens up about the second coming of Sherlock Holmes.

It looks likely that we’re going to shoot the second Sherlock Holmes in October…I don’t know yet where the story will go…but there are a lot of Sherlock Holmes novels to choose from.

If the announced release date for the sequel holds then Ritchie will have a full fifteen or so months from the first take to the premiere, and with the wild rumours of Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis as Moriarty flying around it looks likely that Holmes’ nemesis will be turning the screws in the next installment.

This is the rumour moving across the internets tonight and it’s shone the spotlight on Guy Ritchie’s fast tracked sequel to his take on Sherlock Holmes.

There will no doubt be an inclination on the part of Warner Bros to expand on the unexpected success of the first film and that means delving deeper into the Holmes mythology, and given his shadowbound presence in the first film you can bet that Guy Ritchie will look to bring Professor Moriarty to the fore in the sequel.

There was an early rumour that Brad Pitt was set to play Holmes’s rival (and this rumour did the rounds before the film was even released), but this name has been swept aside as SuperHeroHype have an unconfirmed report that Ritchie is courting Daniel Day-Lewis for the role.

Day-Lewis would be a great choice in pretty much any role, and his recent involvement in Rob Marshall’s Nine  illustrates that he has no problem stepping into more commercial shoes, and once you conjure the image of a Day-Lewis shaped Moriarty it’s hard to shake.

Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Gary Oldman are also in the frame according to the unnamed source, but of course they are – this is a studio’s wish list for an iconic villain, and the team of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law certainly sold the first film to many people so another big name makes sense. It’s just a shame that Ritchie can’t cast Mark Strong again.

So, who do you want to see pitting wits against Messrs. Downey Jr. and Law?

As you’ll have seen from Jon’s post last night, Duncan Jones was given the credit he deserves last night for winning the The Douglas Hickox Award for his direction of his debut film, Moon. Others to prosper were Carey Mulligan in the Best Actress category for An Education, Tom Hardy for Bronson, Andrea Arnold for Fish Tank and Daniel Day Lewis who won the Richard Harris Award.

Our friends over at T5M.com have sent us the links from some great interviews that they conducted at the awards last night including one with Sir Michael Caine who won the Lifetime Achievement Award (The Variety Award) at the event. You can view a full list of winners on the official BIFA website here.

You can view the video interviews below.

Sir Michael Caine – Winner The Variety Award:

Anne Marie Duff – Best Supporting Actress (Nowhere Boy)

The Thick of It  – Best Screenplay

John Henshaw – Best Supporting Actor (Looking for Eric)

Duncan Jones – Best British Film (Moon)

Most of the cast of were out in force last night at the World Premiere of Rob Marshall’s latest movie, Nine. Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Dame Judi Dench, 4 of the seven leading ladies from the movie were all in attendance in London’s Leicester Square and all looked fabulous (no matter what the Daily Mail say about Nicole Kidman’s outfit!). Daniel Day-Lewis, the lead male in the movie (who also gets to work with Fergie, Sophie Loren, Marion Cotillard – poor chap!) plays director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Nine is out 18th December and looks fantastic with big songs, a wonderful cast and a great director in the form of Rob Marshall. I’ve put some more photos which are from the Daily Mail below. Head over to the Mail website to check out the rest.

The Weinstein Company have released the third and most likely last trailer for Rob Mashall’s Nine has been released and it’s probably the best one so far telling us a little more about the story and showing us much more from the main cast which includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.

Nine is scheduled for release 18th December so it’s a great one to go to over the Christmas period. You can watch the new trailer in HD on Apple.

With the release of Rob Marshall’s ‘Nine’ drawing ever close (18th December), three new posters have been released for the movie which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.

From the look of the posters, it seems The Weinstein Company who are producing the movie have done their best to get hearts rates up using the ultra sexy cast to promote the movie in the best way they know how. Apparently another poster will be released today but in the meantime, you can check out the three below by clicking to enlarge.

I know that one of the posters has come from Cinematical. I’ve not tracked down the original source of the other two as yet.

No sooner than I post the news that Rob Marshall will be directing Pirates 4, a new trailer has been released on Yahoo for his Marshall’s new movie, Nine which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren. It’s set to hit cinemas 25th November which is now getting closer.

This new trailer has a song sung by Kate Hudson over the top of it and gives us our first sense of what the soundtrack may be like. It sounds awesome and although I don’t normally like this kind of movie, I’m very much looking looking forward to this one.

Check it out below or head over to Yahoo to view in HD.

Yahoo / The Weinstein Company have debuted a great little behind the scenes look at Rob Marshall’s ‘Nine’. The footage shows Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren prepare for their song-and-dance numbers. I’ve embedded it below or head over to Yahoo to view in HD.

This movie does look like it’s going to be a real show both in it’s artistic content and in the fact it’s a movie based on the stage. Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs and although I’m not usually a big fan of musicals like this one, it does look excellent.

Check it out at a cinema near you on Christmas Day.