Enchanted Serenity of Period Films: emily watson

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Little Boy (2012)

English actors Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin will star in the movie “Little Boy,” to be produced by Eduardo Verástegui (shown on right) at Baja Film Studios, where “Titanic” was filmed.

Budgeted at $24 million, Little Boy is a family drama set in small-town America in the early days of WWII. The film revolves around an 8-year-old with developmental problems. His only friend is his father, and with his departure to war, the troubled boy is forced to confront the cruelty of schoolmates and others. Jakob Salvati plays the lead child role.

Production will begin in Baja California at the end of August and will open in theaters sometime in 2012. The film will also shoot in Rosarito beach, Ensenada, Tijuana and Tecate.

“Things will happen in this adventure that will make you reflect and laugh, and whose powerful ending will touch your heart,” said the producer. “It’s a story for grownups told from a boy’s perspective.”

Tom Wilkinson is also reported to be in talks to join the cast.

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Oranges and Sunshine (2011)

Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Helen Grayson, Tara Morice
Director: Jim Loach
Summary: The film tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the childcare scandal of forcibly relocating poor British children to Australia and Canada and sets out to reunite estranged families and bring worldwide attention to the cause.

Based on Humphrey's book Empty Cradles

[Throughout the 1940's and 50's, some 130,000 young British children were forcibly shipped off to distant parts of the Commonwealth, some without their parents' knowledge, in order to "populate the countries with good white British stock". Once in places like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and Rhodesia, these orphans were essentially treated as slave labour and some suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their new guardians. - Dark Horizons]

BFI video interview with director Jim Loach, writer Margaret Humphreys, Emily Watson, screenwriter Rona Munro
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War Horse (2011) - first look

War Horse is set for release Dec 28, 2011 with anticipation for Oscar season...

Dreamworks synopsis:

From director Steven Spielberg comes “War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war—a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.

Based on book written by Michael Morpurgo