Coen Brothers' HAIL, CAESAR! to Hit Theaters in 2016

By: Oct. 29, 2014
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According to Deadline, the Coen brothers' all-star drama HAIL, CAESAR! has received a release date February 5, 2016.

The film is set in 1950s Hollywood, and will feature a host of colorful characters, and center on a studio fixer during a single day.

Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, and Jonah Hill star in the film.

Tatum is best known for his roles in Step Up (2006), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Dear John (2010), THE VOW (2012), 21 JUMP STREET (2012) and MAGIC MIKE (2012). He has also appeared in films such as Coach Carter (2005), She's the Man (2006), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), Fighting (2009), and The Dilemma(2010) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).

Fiennes has had a storied stage career in the UK, including appearances in Regent's Park's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet; National Theatre's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Fathers and Sons, Ting Tang Mine, The Talking Cure and Oedipus the King; the RSC's The Man Who Came to Dinner, Playing with Trains, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost and many more.

Fiennes has also appeared on Broadway in 2006's Faith Healer and Hamlet, for which he won the 1995 Tony Award.

Fiennes recently appeared in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. His upcoming projects include Two Women, Salting the Battlefield, Bond 24 and Flying Horse. Among his past credits include The Invisible Woman, Skyfall, Great Expectations, Wrath of the Titans, the Harry Potter series (as Voldemort), Coriolanus, The Reader, In Bruges and more.

Johansson can currently be seen on the big screen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, with Chef, Lucy, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Widow in the wings. She just voiced the part of 'Samantha' in the Oscar-nominated movie Her and has also recently appeared in Under the Skin, Don Jon, Hitchcock, The Avengers and more. Her Broadway credits include A View From the Bridge in 2010 and last year's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.


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