While we just listed a number of films you should see this summer, it seems there are already a few more to look forward to in 2011. Focus Features has set release dates for Cary Fukunaga‘s Jane Eyre and Joe Wright‘s Hanna for spring 2011. Read the full story

Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle Of The Ninth, the sword-and-sandal actioner starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland, has been pushed back to February from its original September release.

Meanwhile, David O. Russell’s The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, will likely open sometime in December, according to Mr. Marky mark himself. [The Playlist]

Both pieces of news aren’t too surprising. We haven’t heard much of Eagle in the past months by way of teaser trailers, screen shots, etc. and Focus Features (who produced the film) pushed the Ryan Fleck/Anna Boden indie It’s Kind Of A Funny Story to Eagle‘s exact release date, suggesting a change to avoid conflict.

As for The Fighter, it’s a period drama starring to of the more high-profile actors working today and a director who many believe is a visionary, so an awards-push release date always made sense.

Both of these films are highly anticipated and some of the more ambitious cinema out there right now. One hopes they’re both well made and well seen, be it in September, December or February.

Will you see these films?

Young British actress Romola Garai is set to star in Lone Scherfig’s One Day, produced by Focus Features. [THR]

Day tells the story of two friends (Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess) who meet one day every year for two decades, slowly realizing they’re meant for each other.

Garai will play the woman Sturgess’ character weds and then eventually divorces. So much for spoilers.

The young actress’ burgeoning resume includes Atonement, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and BBC’s Emma. This will certainly help.

Are you excited for One Day?

For all those reading with their fingers crossed for a promising fall season to counter what looks to be an underwhelming summer season coming up, here’s some hope. The Playlist Nation comes bearing gifts, as Sofia Coppola‘s much-anticipated, Stephen Dorff-led Somewhere gets a December 22nd release date while Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden‘s (Half Nelson, Sugar) next film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, will come to a theater (kind of) near you on September 24th, pushed up from an initial November release date. Story stars Zach Galifianankis, Emma Roberts and Lauren Graham and will concern “A clinically depressed teenager (who) gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.” [IMDB]

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Though the 2009 film year will be remembered for Kathryn Bigelow’s triumph, Lone Scherfig (director of the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated An Education) was close on the coat tails, reaffirming what a truly dynamite year it was for women directors.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid producer Nina Jacobson revealed Scherfig’s next potential project, an adaptation of David Nicholl’s novel One Day that will star Anne Hathaway and Jim Strugess.

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From Focus Features’ impressive 2010 line-up comes the trailer for a new documentary titled Babies, directed by Thomas Balmes. I saw the trailer before Precious last week and was wondering when it would be released online. Check it out below or in HD on Yahoo.
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The trailer for Noah Baumbach‘s new feature Greenberg has been released by Apple. The film stars Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Duplass, Dave Franco and Chris Messina. Check it out below or on Apple in HD. Read the full story

Today we have the trailer for Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre, which won both the cinematography and directing awards at Sundance this year. Check it out below via TrailerAddict:

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