‘W.E.’ gets January UK release date

W.E., the music icon’s second outing behind the camera after 2008’s Filth and Wisdom, will open in cinemas on January 12, 2012 through StudioCanal.

Andrea Riseborough, James d’Arcy, Oscar Isaac and Abbie Cornish star in W.E., a drama that plays out over two timelines to show the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

The London Film Festival will host the UK premiere of W.E. on Sunday, October 23 at the Empire Leicester Square.

W.E. occupies a similar UK release slot to The King’s Speech, which opened on January 7 this year and also featured a plot revolving around the fallout over Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s affair.

From DigitalSpy.