W.E., the music icon's second outing behind the camera after 2008's Filth and Wisdom, will open in cinemas on January 12, 2012 through StudioCanal.
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Andrea Riseborough, James d'Arcy, Oscar Isaac and Abbie Cornish star in W.E., a drama that plays out over two timelines to show the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.
The London Film Festival will host the UK premiere of W.E. on Sunday, October 23 at the Empire Leicester Square.
W.E. occupies a similar UK release slot to The King's Speech, which opened on January 7 this year and also featured a plot revolving around the fallout over Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson's affair.
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Watch a preview clip from W.E. below:
