Universal Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Closing the Ring on 21st April 2008 priced at £19.99. This tale of love, loss and redemption from director Richard Attenborough stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Pete Postlethwaite and Brenda Fricker.
In 1991, a small American town mourns the passing of Chuck Harris; father, husband and Second World War veteran. His widow, Ethel (Shirley MacLaine), refuses to mourn, drowning herself in alcohol and cigarettes as she neglects her …

Variety reports that Neve Campbell (“Scream” trilogy, Wild Things) has joined biopic Vivaldi, with Joseph Fiennes, Gerard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Lena Headey, Malcolm McDowell, Elle Fanning and Carice van Houten.
The movie is about Antonio Vivaldi’s early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice’s courtesans.
Campbell will play a Venetian courtesan with access to the city’s most powerful men in the pic, which is being produced and directed by Boris Damast.

We finally get a look at the UK trailer for Closing the Ring which is scheduled for release on December 28, 2007. The Works distribution company uploaded the trailer to YouTube which you can view here or via the embedded file below. Thanks to Christopher-Plummer.com for the heads up!

Bradley Whitford (“The West Wing”) and Neve Campbell are set to star in “Burn Up,” a four-hour global-warming thriller from scribe Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) and director Omar Madha (“MI5″).
U.S.-based Alchemy Television is distributing the project globally and is already talking to American networks about acquiring the two-parter, which comes from Kudos Film and Television and Seven24 Films. BBC2 and Global Television will air it in England and Canada, respectively.
In addition to Whitford and Campbell, British actor Rupert Penry-Jones …

Thanks to Titooy, we have our first Closing the Ring promotional picture at the gallery. Thank you!

The lovely Laura has sent 200 captures from the movie Partition, which I added to the gallery. Thanks, dear!
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