Posted by Anthony Pearson Jan 5, 2012, 21:09 GMT
Return to M&C's full 2012 Movie Preview. Daniel Day Lewis portray's Abraham Lincoln in LINCOLN - Biopic directed by Steven Spielberg When is it released? - December 2012 (US and UK) Who does it star? - Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Sally Field, Lee Pace, James Spader, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn, Michael Stuhlbarg, Hal Holbrook, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross. What is it about? - 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. A masterful biography of the 16th President Abraham Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointingpolitical career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most tumultuous periods. Find out more about this movie in our database here.
----- Epic all star crime drama from director Ruben Fleischer - GANGSTER SQUAD When is it released? - October 19th (US), November 9th (UK). Who does it star? - Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Josh Pense, Giovanni Ribisi, Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Robert Patrick and Mireille Enos. What is it about? - Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.Find out more about this movie in our database here.
----- Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti western is finally here with - DJANGO UNCHAINED When is it released? - December 25th (US), December 26th (UK). Who does it star? - Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Kurt Russell, James Remar, Michael Kenneth Williams, Kerry Washington, RZA, Don Johnson, James Russo and Anthony LaPaglia. What is it about? - Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself, and after assisting Waltz in taking down some bad guys for profit, is helped by Waltz in tracking down his slave wife and liberating her from an evil plantation owner. And that doesn’t even half begin to cover it! This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.Find out more about this movie in our database here.
----- Drama featuring Vanessa Hudgens as a homeless pregnant teenager - GIMME SHELTER When is it released? - 2012 (TBA). Who does it star? - Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Stephanie Szostak, Emily Meade, Ann Dowd and Tashiana R. Washington. What is it about? - About a pregnant teenager turned away by her Wall Street father because of her decision to have her baby. Forced into the streets, she embarks on a desperate journey of survival.Find out more about this movie in our database here.
----- F. Scott Fitzgerald classic American tale THE GREAT GATSBY is given the extravagant Baz Luhrmann makeover When is it released? - December 25th (USA), TBA (UK). Who does it star? - Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Tobey Maguire, Callan McAuliffe, Amitabh Bachchan, Gemma Ward, Jason Clarke, Daniel Newman, Elizabeth Debicki and Jacek Koman. What is it about? - Baz Luhrman lavishly adapts "The Great Gatsby." From author F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is regarded as one of the great American novels.The movie is set on Long Island, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. Find out more about this movie in our database here.
----- Period film chronicles the dawn of the oil boom in Arabia - BLACK GOLD When is it released? - TBA 2012 (US), February 24th (UK). Who does it star? - Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim, Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.What is it about? - Arabia- early 20th Century. Under the unforgiving desert sky, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to his rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib will adopt Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee that neither man can invade the other. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination.Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt. The stage is now set for an epic showdown for control of the Yellow Belt, for control of the two kingdoms, for control of the future.Find out more about this movie in our database here. ----- SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN - Ewan McGregor attempts to realise the impossible task of introducing Salmon to the Yemen When is it released? - March 9th (US and UK). Who does it star? - Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rachael Stirling, Tom Mison and Catherine Steadman. What is it about? -From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning® screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain's leading fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. Find out more about this movie in our database here. ----- American Depression drama from acclaimed director John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition) - WETTEST COUNTRY When is it released? - August 31st (US), TBA (UK). Who does it star? - Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, Noah Taylor, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke and Dane DeHaan. What is it about? - The film is an adaptation of Matt Bondurant's "The Wettest Country in the World." Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, "Wettest County" is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. Forrest, the eldest brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; Howard, the middle brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; and Jack, the youngest, has a taste for luxury and a dream to get out of Franklin. Driven and haunted, these men forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father’s business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath the Depression and drought. Find out more about this movie in our database here.
