Rian Johnson’s second feature, The Brothers Bloom, could receive a June 4^th theatrical release date in the UK. Johnson received a lot of critical praise for his first feature, Brick, and he followed this up with The Brothers Bloom, a film that focuses on a pair of con men brothers played by Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo. The film also features an excleent supporting cast including Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane and Ricky Jay, who provides a voiceover for the film.

The film is really enjoyable and I would recommend it to anyone. Johnson is an excellent writer who has created absorbing worlds in his first two films and his skills as a director have resulted in really interesting and unique visions.

Despite playing at the London Film Festival in 2008 and receiving a limited US release date in the US in May 2009 the film has not yet received a UK release. Today though Rian Johnson confirmed to me on Twitter that there were plans for a UK theatrical release.

Although I’ve already seen the film, I will definitely be checking it out again when it hits UK theatres and I may even try listening along to Johnson’s downloadable commentary, which can be downloaded from here.

Check out the trailer embedded below.

Good news for those of us outside the US. Screen are reporting that Focus Features International have obtained distribution rights for Kick-Ass in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Latin America, while sister company Universal Pictures International will be releasing the film in New Zealand.

Although there is no release date set, Screen point to April as the debut date, at least for New Zealand. This would make sense, as the US release is due 16th April. We have contacted Universal for confirmation, but for now we’re assuming it’ll get a day-and-date release.

To celebrate the news that we won’t be waiting forever to see the film, why not watch the trailer? In fact better than that, watch the one below. It was found by FirstShowing, and features the excerpts of an interview with Matthew Vaughn.