For anyone excited about Wes Anderson’s latest, Moonrise Kingdom, as I am,  this post is like winning the lottery. (Well, okay so maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but it’s still pretty damn good.)

We’ve got fifteen brand new images plus seven great new character posters. The pics certainly give us a better look at a lot of the characters, our young hero and heroine, Sam and Suzy ( Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) specifically. One of the posters gives us a first look at Tilda Swinton as the Social Services matron (who looks like she might be related to Nurse Ratched)

Jason Schwartzman, with porn stache and scout uniform, just screams “major felony in progress” to me.

The movie was filmed in and around Providence, Rhode Island, including Prudence Island. From what I can tell it definitely has that 'New England summer vacation community in the 60's' thing going on. 

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Moonrise Kingdom stars Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban. It will open the Cannes Film Festival (we have to wait until tomorrow for the full Cannes schedule) on May 16 before it opens for us regular folks in the US and the UK on May 25. Check out the official website for a lot of great info.

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Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, which we first told you about  when we debuted the trailer in January, will have its World Premiere as the opening night film of the 65th Cannes Film Festival on May 16. (Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris had that spot last year and that worked out very well.)  To celebrate, there’s also a beautiful new poster for the film.(Actually the poster came prior to the announcement, but I'm just now getting to it.)

Moonrise Kingdom is the iconoclastic Mr. Anderson’s first film since 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, (the first live-action since ‘07’s The Darjeeling Limited with Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson-which I loved. Actually I loved The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Rushmore as well.).

“Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.”

From the press release on the festival’s official website:

“Moonrise Kingdom, the new film by American Wes Anderson, will open the 65th Festival de Cannes on Wednesday, 16 May in the Grand théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, with the Jury presided over by Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti in attendance.

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Thierry Frémaux, the Festival’s General Delegate, commented: “Wes Anderson is one of the rising powers of American cinema, to which he brings a highly personal touch, particularly in Moonrise Kingdom, which once again is a testimony to the creative freedom in which he continues to evolve. Sensitive and independent, this admirer of Fellini and Renoir is also in his own right a brilliant and inventive filmmaker.”

Gilles Jacob, President of the Festival, is glad to proclaim: “With Wes Anderson opening the 65th Festival de Cannes, young American cinema will be celebrated on the Croisette.”

The film will be released on May 25 in the US, The UK and Canada

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New Year, new movie: Focus Features has given us the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s eagerly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom.

Right off the bat, I have to say that if you’re a fan of Anderson’s previous fun, lyrical, non-linear films, including Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Darjeeling Limited and the Fantastic Mr. Fox, then I think you’re going to like this trailer, and ultimately, the movie as well. (If you need a crash course, this AMEX ad will pretty much tell you everything you need to know.)

The official synopsis:

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds(Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward)  who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. 

The only way to align that simple paragraph with what we see in the trailer is to filter it through Wes Anderson’s skewed, quirky, Crayola-colored vision of the world.

The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel and Jason Schwartzman.

Murray and Schwartzman are two of the usual players from Anderson’s repertory company. They’ve been with him since Rushmore. I love that Frances McDormand is finally in something else with Edward Norton (after Primal Fear, his first film) and I’ll see this just to find out if they have a meaty scene together. By the way, Bruce Willis has SEVEN films set for release in 2012. (I couldn’t believe it either.) As for Swinton, I can’t believe it took Anderson this long to cast her. They seem made for each other. The only thing that could make this cast better would be the inclusion of Adrien Brody, but you can’t have everything.

Moonrise Kingdom, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola (co-writer, with Anderson and Schwartzman, of Darjeeling Limited), gets a limited May 25 release. I can't wait for more! Enjoy the trailer!

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Bored to Death star, Jason Schwartzman and his wife, Brady Cunningham welcomed a baby girl on December 4 in Los Angeles, according to People.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox Premieres in London

They named her Marlowe Rivers Schwartzman…. and she’s one month old today!  So that means mom and dad just might be figuring out a schedule…. that she will shortly change, because that’s what babies do.  Their mission in life for the first few months is to keep mom and dad on their toes, always guessing.  You gotta love it…

Congrats to the happy, new parents!

Photo: WENN

George Clooney takes his lovely new lady Elisabetta Canalis to The Times BFI London Film Festival: Fantastic Mr Fox opening gala at the Odeon Leicester Square.  And perhaps he is ready to settle down with having some kids:

“I am planning to adopt. I am going to adopt some of Brad Pitt’s kids. I owe him.”

Even one kid running around my villa makes me nervous, so I’m definitely not a candidate for father of the year. If I need to surround myself with children and feel like I have this big extended family, I can always call Brad and Angelina and ask them to stay with me, just to remind myself why I’m so happy.”

At least he’s honest?  Also attending the premiere:

• Jason Schwartzman
• Jonathan Ross
• Sir Ben Kingsley
• Bill Murray
• Jennifer Tilley
• Cindy Crawford
• Thandie Newton
• Sophie Dahl
•  Jamie Cullen
• John Hurt
• David Morrissey

Pictures after the break

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