The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to \u201cW.E.,\u201d Madonna\u2019s directorial debut of a feature film. \u00a0W.E. is a romantic drama co-written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian, produced by Madonna and Kris Thykier and executive produced by Scott Franklin (BLACK SWAN). \u00a0It stars Abbie Cornish (LIMITLESS), Oscar Isaac (DRIVE), James D\u2019Arcy (MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD), Andrea Riseborough (NEVER LET ME GO), Natalie Dormer (\u201cThe Tudors\u201d), Richard Coyle (PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME), James Fox (SHERLOCK HOLMES) and Laurence Fox (\u201cInspector Lewis\u201d). \u00a0The announcement was made by TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein and President of Production Donna Gigliotti. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Spanning six decades, W.E. juxtaposes a contemporary love story with that of King Edward VIII and American divorc\u00e9e Wallis Simpson. \u00a0<\/p>\n
W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women – Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson – separated by more than six decades. \u00a0In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward\u2019s VIII\u2019s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorc\u00e9e Wallis Simpson. \u00a0But Wally\u2019s research, including several visits to the Sotheby\u2019s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple\u2019s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally\u2019s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D\u2019Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to \u201cW.E.,\u201d Madonna\u2019s directorial debut of a feature film. \u00a0W.E. is a romantic drama co-written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian, produced by Madonna and Kris Thykier and executive produced by Scott Franklin (BLACK SWAN). \u00a0It stars Abbie Cornish (LIMITLESS), Oscar Isaac (DRIVE),\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1626,1627],"class_list":["post-6775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-madonna","tag-w-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}