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First trailer for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terrence Winter (The Sopranos), based on the book by Nelson Johnson. Boardwalk Empire chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), a Prohibition-era bootlegger and prominent figure in the Atlantic City of the early 1920s, someone who's described as "equal parts politician and gangster." Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men), Michael Pitt (The Village), Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire), Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Dabney Coleman (The Guardian) also star. [imdb]
The real Avon Barksdale story. Trailer for the DVD release of a new documentary that details the life and times of real life Baltimore kingpin Avon Barksdale, the man on whom the infamous character from The Wire was based.(Nah Right)
Teaser trailer for HBO's Treme, from The Wire creator David Simon set in post-Katrina New Orleans. Go to Jezebel for 3 Things We Know About Our Favourite New Show. [imdb]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Ben Schwartz have been cast in J.J. Abram's new spy-action pilot Undercovers. British actress Mbatha-Raw will play the female lead in the series about a domesticated husband (Kodjoe) and wife (Mbatha-Raw) who are re-activated as CIA agents after years of retirement. Schwartz will play a young CIA agent. (THR)
Trailer for the new FX series Justified (previously titled Lawman), starring Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens:
'[a] modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism - a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under his placid skin and you'll find an angry man who grew up hard in rural Kentucky, with an outlaw father, who knows a lot more about who he doesn't want to be than who he really is.'
(via thisisbone) [imdb]
Featurette for Paul Greengrass' Iraq action-thriller Green Zone, starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, and Jason Isaacs. [imdb]
International trailer for Roman Polanski's political thriller Ghost Writer, about a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson, and Kim Cattrall. [imdb]