A new trailer has been released for Peter Jackson's much-anticipated The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in which the "merry dwarves are back along with menacing monsters and fresh footage... This one also has extra Gollum," Deadline.com reported. The film is set for a December 14 release, and will be followed by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on Dec. 13, 2013; and The Hobbit: There and Back Again on July 18, 2014.
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Cynthia Nixon will play poet Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion from British director Terence Davies (House of Mirth), who also wrote the screenplay for the film that "will trace Dickinson's life from precocious schoolgirl to the tortured recluse who saw only seven of her more than 1,000 poems published in her lifetime," the Hollywood Reporter wrote.
"I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind," Davies said. "It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work--and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I'm over the moon."
"When I read what Terence had written, I was consumed by the character he had so beautifully put on the page," Nixon observed. "Emily Dickinson's words and Terence's somehow dovetail to create a heady elixir. When I put the script down, I knew it was a story that I simply have to be part of."
