HBO has released
a trailer for the miniseries
Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet. The project, adapted from a novel by James M. Cain, was also a classic Hollywood movie from 1945 featuring Joan Crawford. The
Atlantic reported that after Winslet won an Oscar for her performance in
The Reader, "she was in a rare position for an actor of her caliber: she had no upcoming projects on the docket. So she certainly raised more than one eyebrow last August when she announced that her first post-victory role wouldn't be a baity feature film or a sprawling movie epic, but a miniseries on TV."
