TRAILERS AND POSTERS FOR NICOLE KIDMAN'S NEW MOVIES 'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' WITH DAMIAN LEWIS, JAMES FRANCO AND 'STRANGERLAND' WITH JOSEPH FIENNES, HUGO WEAVING

   'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' 

 TRAILER & POSTER WITH NICOLE KIDMAN AND DAMIAN LEWIS

Well, it seems we're having a Nicole Kidman day! Earlier this week I showed you first photos from Werner Herzog's epic drama QUEEN OF THE DESERT and now here's the poster and the trailer!

  Nicole Kidman is Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) who, as historian, novelist and member of the British secret service, played a decisive role around 1920 in setting the course for the new political order in the Middle East. As an educated young woman, for whom no suitable husband can be found in England, she journeys to Tehran. After a tragic love affair with diplomat and inveterate gambler Henry Cadogan (James Franco), she decides to give up on her private life and discover the region as an explorer. Before the backdrop of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire she learns languages, translates literature, meets with Muslim dignitaries in Cairo, Basra and Baghdad and earns their trust. Predestined to be a mediator between the Orient and the British Empire, she contributes to defining the new borders in the region after the First World War. And then love enters her life once again. Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson also star!

  'STRANGERLAND' POSTER

NICOLE KIDMAN & JOSEPH FIENNES AND HUGO WEAVING

A poster for Nicole's other movie is out too: ready to premier this July in USA cinemas, STRANGERLAND follows newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's (Joseph Fiennes) whose lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae (Hugo Weaving). It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily. Suspicions run riot, rumours spread and public opinion turns savagely against the Parkers. With temperatures rising and the chances of survival plummeting with each passing day, Catherine and Matthew find themselves pushed to the brink as they struggle to survive the mystery of their children's fate.

1ST 'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' EPIC CLIP AND PHOTOS WITH NICOLE KIDMAN, DAMIAN LEWIS, ROBERT PATTINSON. HUGH JACKMAN HAS 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY'! VANESA LACHEY JOINS MARK PAUL GOSSELAAR IN 'PEOPLE ARE TALKING'

 HUGH JACKMAN

TO STAR IN 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY'

After you see him as the evil pirate Blackbeard in epic adventure PAN, our favourite Australian super hunk Hugh Jackman will star in the new film from Allan Loeb the director of ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL. COLLA- TERAL BEAUTY will see him star with Rooney Mara in the story which revolves around a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.

  'PEOPLE ARE TALKING' SITCOM

VANESSA LACHEY IS MARK PAUL GOSSELAAR'S WIFE!

Earlier last month I announced most of the sitcoms that have been ordered into whole seasons by the major networks and now some of them are in the process of recasting before the shooting starts. One of them, NBC's PEOPLE ARE TALKING has just done it by putting gorgeous Vanessa Lachey in the lead female role instead of Meaghan Rath. This might lead to one of the most beautiful couples we've ever seen on TV since she will play the wife of Mark Paul Gosselaar! PEOPLE ARE TALKING is an unabashed comedy about two diverse couples — one played by Mark Paul Gosselaar and Lachey and the other by Tone Bell and Bresha Webb — who are neighbours and best friends.

  'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' FIRST PICTURES AND CLIP

NICOLE KIDMAN & DAMIAN LEWIS

And your visual treat for today are the first pictures from Werner Herzog's upcoming new epic drama QUEEN OF THE DESERT bringing us the first look on Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis, James Franco and Robert Pattinson in the sprawling epic story. The film had its premier at this year's Berlin Film Festival (where it received mostly negative reviews) and should hit European cinemas this Autumn although it still doesn't have a USA opening date.

EXPLORER AND WRITER
 Filmed in Morocco QUEEN OF THE DESERT is a historical biopic and a chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century who is credited with helping to catalyse the creation of the Middle East. Damian Lewis is Lt. Colonel Charles Doughty Wylie, an unhappily married British soldier who starts a turbulent affair with Bell between 1913 and 1915, before he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.