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Catch The New Video And Poster For ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

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Disney has released a new TV spot, along with a colorful new poster, for ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.

The latest video features Pink’s cover of the iconic song “White Rabbit.” P!NK will write and record an original song for the film and you can get a behind-the-scenes look at P!nk’s cover of “White Rabbit” in the featurette.

In the all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.

Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer. “

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. We are also introduced to several new characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.

Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.

Presented in Digital 3D, Real D 3D and IMAX 3D, Disney’s ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS opens in U.S. theaters on May 27, 2016.

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First Look Photos From ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Feature Johnny Depp And Sacha Baron Cohen

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Mia Wasikowska is Alice in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Here’s a first look at the new photos from Disney’s upcoming film ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter in the all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories.

Johnny Depp is Hatter in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Johnny Depp is Hatter in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

Johnny Depp is back as Hatter Tarrant Hightopp, better known as the Mad Hatter. When Alice returns to Underland, she finds the Hatter more mad than usual.

Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

Iracebeth, the Red Queen and former monarch of Underland who ruled with tyranny, malice and an extremely short temper, is played once again by Helena Bonham Carter. Iracebeth despises her younger sibling, Mirana.

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Sacha Baron Cohen is Time in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

Sacha Baron Cohen joins the cast as Time, a magical being who sits on a black throne in a castle of eternity. He has one human hand and one mechanical hand and possesses the Chronosphere, a glowing, spinning, metallic sphere inside the chamber of the Grand Clock that powers all time. If removed from the clock, the Chronosphere will allow the person who has taken it to travel the Ocean of Time to the past.

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Anne Hathaway is the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Anne Hathaway returns as Mirana, the mild mannered and kind White Queen. She is the beautiful younger sister to the spiteful Red Queen.

Also new to the cast is Rhys Ifans as Zanik Hightopp, the Mad Hatter’s father. He is much more conservative than his son, whom he holds to impossibly-high standards.

Alan Rickman returns as the voice of Absolem, the former blue caterpillar who is all-knowing and just a tad snobbish.

Stephen Fry once again provides the voice of Chessur, the Cheshire Cat, a cunning feline who is prone to grinning and disappearing.

Michael Sheen is back as the voice of McTwisp, the White Rabbit, who continues to be preoccupied with punctuality.

Matt Lucas returns as the voice of the Tweedles, the tubby twin brothers who are immature and more often than not, incomprehensible.

Timothy Spall once again provides the voice of Bayard, a giant bloodhound who used to serve the Red Queen but is now an ally to Alice and her friends.

Paul Whitehouse is back as the voice of Thackery, the anxious and tempermental March Hare who hosts the Hatter’s tea parties.

Barbara Windsor returns as the voice of the fiercely loyal Dormouse, Mallymkun.

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. We are also introduced to several new characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.

Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time.

Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.

Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer.

Presented in Digital 3D, Real D 3D and IMAX 3D, Disney’s ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS opens in U.S. theaters on May 27, 2016.

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SUFFRAGETTE – The Review

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By Cate Marquis

In the years just before World War I at the start of the 20th century, British women had been campaigning peacefully for the right to vote for about 50 years, to no avail. When aristocrat Emmeline Pankhurst, along with her daughters, joined this struggle and formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), all that changed. The label “suffragettes” originated as an insult but the WSPU embraced the term as they took to the streets in violent protest to force government to give women the vote.

This nearly-forgotten struggle is the subject of SUFFRAGETTE. The bold, emotionally-raw and worthy drama focuses more narrowly on a particular moment in that movement for women’s suffrage in Britain. While Emmeline Pankhurst, played by Meryl Streep, is a character in this story, the real focus of SUFFRAGETTE is on some of her followers, “foot soldiers” in this fight – Maud (Carey Mulligan), a poor uneducated mother working in a factory laundry, Edith (Helena Bonham-Carter), a college-educated pharmacist/physician, and Maud’s radical co-worker Violet (Anne-Marie Duff). Ben Whishaw plays Maud’s husband Sonny and Brendon Gleeson plays Inspector Arthur Steed, tasked with stopping the suffragettes’ violent attacks.

“Suffrage” is such an odd word, sounding like suffering when it actually means the right to vote. There was plenty of suffering involved in this struggle, especially by the poor women who lacked the resources and connections that Pankhurst had. Inspired by real events, this story takes place in a pivotal historical moment, when the fight for women’s rights coincided in Britain with challenges to class divisions, the early labor movement and opposition to the coming war, the ultimate war of choice that transformed both Europe and warfare.

Directed by Sarah Gavron, written by Abi Morgan, and led by a top-notch female cast, SUFFRAGETTE is woman-power in action as well as being a gripping historical drama. Not surprisingly, the film has a decided pro-women’s rights slant. The very personal viewpoint from which it is told might cause the film to resonate more with women than men. While Maud, Edith and Violet are fictional, they are drawn from real people and real events are depicted in the film. The film also illustrates the class divide of the era, something Pankhurst’s organization crossed.

The acting is superb, particularly Mulligan as the central character, but all the cast are good. Mulligan gives a moving, touching performance as a woman gradually drawn into the fight by circumstances of her life. In her few scenes, Streep captures the energetic and larger-than-life impression Pankhurst must have given her followers. Bonham-Carter gives a strong performance, damping down her quirky-character style to play more restrained character as brainy Edith.

The attention to period detail adds realism, the photography is lavish and Gavron’s firm direction paired with Morgan’s human-focused script makes this a moving, involving drama.

If this worthy film has a flaw, it is that the focus is too narrow, and that it does not give a big enough picture of the fight for voting rights for women, or the political context in which it took place as war loomed and workers were organizing for rights. Instead, it portrays the hardships and  restrictions confronting ordinary women, and the personal costs they faced for their activism. At the time, women were expected to stay home and care for children but, for poor women, this was rarely an option. Maud works along side her husband (Ben Whishaw), raising their son George (Adam Michael Dodd) in a cramped apartment. The conditions in the factory are appalling, hours are long, and girls as young as nine work under bullying boss Mr. Taylor (Geoff Bell). Edith is better educated than her supportive husband but she can only treat her patients under his authority as the male owner of a family pharmacy.

As the film shows, these women organized protest marches, petitioned Parliament, and even bombed mailboxes and broke shop windows. Many were jailed repeatedly, including Pankhurst, and the government responded to hunger strikes with brutal force-feeding. Emily Wilding Davison (Natalie Press) was a real person, as was the climatic event shown near the film’s end, and its pivotal role in the women’s votes movement.

The suffragettes’ actions contrasted with how their formal Edwardian dress, particularly the fashionable upper classes, appear to our modern eyes. By focusing on the more informally dressed working class women, it is easier to connect emotionally with the characters. One of the film’s strengths is its willingness to show men who supported this cause as well as those who opposed it. However, one of the film’s most startling moments comes at the very end, as a list of the dates when women won the vote in various country is a shocking reminder of how much remains to be done.

The story has links to the present, as women are still fighting for equal pay nearly a century later, a topic particularly being talked about in the film industry now. SUFFRAGETTE is a moving historical drama told from a human level, a worthy film that hopefully will prompt interest in this overlooked history, and one likely to garner some Oscar nods come awards season.

OVERALL RATING: 4 OUT OF 5 STARS

SUFFRAGETTE is playing in theaters now

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Here’s A First Look At The Trailer For ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

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See Alice return to the whimsical world of Underland and travel back in time to save the Mad Hatter in the new ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS teaser trailer.

Disney’s all-new spectacular adventure features the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories where Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.

Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. We are also introduced to several new characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.

Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.

Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS opens in U.S. theaters on May 27, 2016.

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Watch The SUFFRAGETTE Discussion At The Academy With Director Sarah Gavron, Writer Abi Morgan And Producer Alison Owen

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After winning the Best Actress Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards for her portrayal as Margaret Thatcher in THE IRON LADY, Meryl Streep came backstage for the standard Q&A with the press. As she stood there with her Oscar statuette, I asked her:

Q. For young girls today, young women watching the Oscars, what advice would you give to them if they are thinking about going into filmmaking or acting?
A. Or anything.

Q. Or anything?
A. Or anything.  Never give up.  Don’t give up, don’t give up.  I mean, many girls around the world live in circumstances that are unimaginably difficult.  And it’s not, you know, show business is a golf game compared to the way most kids grow up in the world.  But I would say never give up.

Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE movingly explores the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.

Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of the powerful drama about the fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain.

The stirring story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother who becomes an activist for the Suffragette cause alongside women from all walks of life.

Below is the SUFFRAGETTE discussion with director Sarah Gavron, writer Abi Morgan and producer Alison Owen on October 13, 2015 at The Academy.

Gavron says, “All of this happened 100 years ago. I was amazed that this extraordinary and powerful true story of ordinary women willing to sacrifice everything for the right to vote had never been told. There was a miniseries back in the 1970s titled Shoulder to Shoulder which made a generation of women more aware of this history – but, no feature film.”

When the BAFTA Award winner made her much-admired feature film directorial debut, 2007’s Brick Lane, she found kindred spirits in the project’s producers, Academy Award nominee Alison Owen and Faye Ward, and screenwriter Abi Morgan. Not long after, Owen remembers, “I was speaking with a friend, and I wondered why no one had ever made a movie about the Suffragettes. The Suffragette movement in the U.K. didn’t have the associations that the U.S movement did, closely allied – or perceived as being – with the Temperance movement. I realized that the subject to tackle was its being kick-ass, more like a guerrilla movement.”

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Gavron marvels, “Suddenly we had a team of women filmmakers mobilizing, realizing that we were all drawn to, and being inspired by, what those women achieved. It was time for us to tell their untold story with all its excitement and contemporary resonance.”

“We knew there was a looming responsibility, but we all felt so strongly that it came naturally. It was imperative to us that our film would speak to a wide audience,” comments Ward, a Golden Globe Award nominee. “We also wanted to make sure that its relevance to today would overcome any sense of this being a story locked in the past.”

Ms. Streep concludes, “The full measure of our equality as human beings has yet to be gained across the world as well as here at home. I think it will shock people that this was London in 1912-1913, and how hard won the vote is. I don’t think any young woman who sees Suffragette can conscientiously sit out any election after seeing how people suffered to give her the right to decide her own future.”

SUFFRAGETTE opens in St. Louis on November 6. Take your sisters, your mothers, your daughters – go see this very important and inspirational film!

Visit the movie’s official site: suffragettethemovie.com

It’s Election Day – Watch The #HopeForOurDaughters Video For Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE Movie

Photo by Brigitte Lacombe ©2015 Pathe Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved Back Row, Left to Right: Sarah Gavron (Director), Helen Pankhurst (Great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst), Laura Pankhurst (Great-great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst), Alison Owen (Producer). Front Row, Left to Right: Abi Morgan (Screenwriter), Anne-Marie Duff (Actor), Meryl Streep (Actor), Carey Mulligan (Actor), Helena Bonham Carter (Actor), Faye Ward (Producer).
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The new film SUFFRAGETTE is playing in select cities and expands nationwide throughout November.

Make gender equality a reality in our lifetime. Take a photo and share your hope for future generations of women on Instagram with hashtag #HopeforourDaughters.

Visit FightsNotOver.com to learn more about how you can help make change happen today and for every post, $1 will be donated to Equality Now. Watch the #HopeForOurDaughters video.

This Election Day, remember your vote counts. Exercise your hard-won right to vote.

Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain.

The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing Suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow Suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.

Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.

Produced by Academy Award nominee Alison Owen and Golden Globe Award nominee Faye Ward, SUFFRAGETTE is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Emmy Award winner Abi Morgan.

Visit the official site: www.suffragettethemovie.com

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Win Passes To The Advance Screening Of SUFFRAGETTE In St. Louis

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Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE movingly explores the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.

Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of the powerful drama about the fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother who becomes an activist for the Suffragette cause alongside women from all walks of life.

SUFFRAGETTE is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron and written by Emmy Award winner Abi Morgan. The score is from composer Alexandre Desplat.

The film opens in St. Louis on November 6th.

WAMG invites you to enter for a chance to win a pass (Good for 2) to the advance screening of SUFFRAGETTE on Tuesday, November 3 at 7PM in the St. Louis area.

We will contact the winners by email.

Answer the following:

  • What year did women in the US receive the right to vote?
  • What amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote?
  • Who was the President when Congress passed the Amendment, officially giving women the right to vote?

TO ENTER, ADD YOUR NAME, ANSWERS AND EMAIL IN OUR COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. A pass does not guarantee a seat at a screening. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis. The theater is overbooked to assure a full house. The theater is not responsible for overbooking.

3. No purchase necessary.

The film is rated PG-13.

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SUFFRAGETTE Movie Honors 95th Anniversary Of Women’s Equality Day With New Poster

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Every daughter should know this history, every son write it on his own heart. – Meryl Streep

I come to ask you to help to win this fight. If we win it, this hardest of all fights, then, to be sure, in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight when their time comes. – Emmeline Pankhurst (1913)

On August 26, 1920 the United States government accorded women the right to vote.

Each year, the President of the United States designates August 26 as Women’s Equality Day to commemorate this landmark decision.

In celebration of the 95th anniversary of the historic moment for equal rights, Focus Features has released the U.S. theatrical poster for SUFFRAGETTE.

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The moving and powerful SUFFRAGETTE shines a light on women who risked everything for the right to vote, in early-20th century Britain.

The cast includes Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep.

The female filmmaking team includes producers Alison Owen (an Academy Award nominee) and Faye Ward (a Golden Globe Award nominee), Emmy Award-winning writer Abi Morgan, and BAFTA Award-winning director Sarah Gavron.

This video below from Focus Features commemorates Women’s Equality Day and the impact of Emmeline Pankhurst (played by Meryl Streep in the film).

The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.

Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives. The film also stars Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, and Natalie Press.

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Anne-Marie Duff remarks, “This is the time to tell the Suffragettes’ story; there are countries whose regimes diminish women, and countries where there is a terrifying preoccupation with external appearances rather than with women who are achievers.”

Helena Bonham Carter adds, “Around the world, there are still glass ceilings for women. This is a subject we must continue to talk about.”

Meryl Streep notes, “The full measure of our equality as human beings has yet to be gained across the world as well as here at home. I think it will shock people that this was London in 1912-1913, and how hard won the vote is. I don’t think any young woman who sees SUFFRAGETTE can conscientiously sit out any election after seeing how people suffered to give her the right to decide her own future.”

Carey Mulligan reflects, “There is a general apathy towards voting, especially among younger people, despite so many voices being heard online. So for them to see the dedication, hard work, determination, passion, and grief that went into achieving equality in a voting system is important.

“SUFFRAGETTE is a universal story for today and about equality; the Suffragettes’ battle for change is still being fought, not only for women’s rights but for equality between races, between societies, between classes. Hopefully our film will inspire people to go out and do something to make the world a better place.”

With a moving score from Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat, SUFFRAGETTE opens on October 23rd in New York and Los Angeles – expanding across the country in the following weeks.

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Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter Are Rebels In New SUFFRAGETTE Poster

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Today is Emmeline Pankhurst Day in the U.K. Each year, this day pays tribute to the fight for women’s suffrage (the right to vote) and equal rights for women led by activist Emmeline Pankhurst.

Beginning in the early 20th century, the tireless work from Mrs. Pankhurst and the thousands of women she rallied as suffragettes had a ripple effect that reached across the globe, helping to eventually gain women equality in numerous other countries, including the U.S.

To celebrate the day, Focus Features has released the brand new SUFFRAGETTE poster of Ms. Streep, Ms. Mulligan, and Ms. Bonham Carter.

Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain.

The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.

Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives. The film also stars Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai, and Natalie Press.

SUFFRAGETTE is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Emmy Award winner Abi Morgan.

The European premiere of SUFFRAGETTE will open the 59th BFI London Film Festival.

SUFFRAGETTE opens October 23rd in NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES – Expanding nationwide in the following weeks.

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New SUFFRAGETTE Trailer Stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter And Meryl Streep

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Focus Features has released the brand new trailer for SUFFRAGETTE. The European premiere of the movie will open the 59th BFI London Film Festival.

Clare Stewart, BFI London Film Festival Director, says:

“We are proud to announce that the much anticipated Suffragette will be this year’s BFI London Film Festival Opening Night gala. Suffragette is an urgent and compelling film – made by British women, about British women who changed the course of history and it is, quite simply, a film that everyone must see.”

Director Sarah Gavron’s film starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Natalie Press, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, will open in limited release on October 23rd and will be in theaters across the country by Thanksgiving.

SUFFRAGETTE is written by Abi Morgan (“The Iron Lady,” “The Hour”) and produced by Alison Owen (“Elizabeth,” “Temple Grandin”) and Faye Ward (“Jane Eyre,” “Dancing on the Edge”).

SUFFRAGETTE is a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement.

Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.

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