EON Productions and Barbara Broccoli’s new movie Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool gets its first trailer and totally points to the Oscar buzz possibly coming Annette Bening’s way …

“An absolute masterpiece in film-making” – Hollywood News

“Bening is excellent as Grahame: imperious, vulnerable, romantic, sexually excited about her younger man, wanly aware of secrets she cannot share with him.” – The Guardian

“Bening nails Grahame’s hyperventilator’s voice and flighty demeanor, as well as the seemingly out-of-nowhere sultriness that, for example, Nicholas Ray (Grahame’s second husband) used to striking effect in the 1949 noir A Woman’s Secret. Yet Bening also gives you a full sense of Grahame’s often-tortured depths, be it the obsession with her looks (her upper lip being the prime offender) or the scandal she courted” – Slate

 

Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and director Paul McGuigan talk about Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner’s most intriguing of friendships…

Produced by Barbara Broccoli and Colin Vaines, directed by Paul McGuigan, reuniting Jamie Bell and Julie Walters, featuring new music by Elvis Costello and shot both in Liverpool and at Pinewood Studios, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is based on writer Peter Turner’s true and personal story of what happened when Hollywood came to Liverpool in the late Seventies. The early festival word is good and the first trailer proves why…


Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool opens in the UK on November 17th and 15th December in the US.