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• Title: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Put Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt in a movie together and you’ve piqued my interest, throw in a quirky script from Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and you’ve now got my full attention. Adapted from the novel by Paul Torday comes the tale of a fisheries expert (McGregor) enlisted to help bring fly-fishing to the Middle East. Kristin Scott Thomas, Rachael Stirling, Amr Waked, and Catherine Steadman also star. Directed by Lasse Hallström, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen opens in theaters on March 9th.

• Title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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It may still be a year away, but we now have our first trailer for director Peter Jackson‘s return to Middle Earth in the first-half of the new movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins who is tricked by Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to join the quest of twelve dwarves (Richard Armitage, Graham McTavish, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner, Dean O’Gorman, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, John Callen, William Kircher, Peter Hambleton, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter) into the Misty Mountains to retrieve their treasure from the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). Several LoTR alums reprise their roles in the new film including Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Cate Blanchett, and Ian Holm. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in theaters on December 14, 2012.