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First Official Posters and Synopsis for Carey Mulligan's upcoming Electric Slide and Effie films

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Collider.com  has two official posters and synopsis (of both films) of Carey Mulligan 's upcoming films, The Electric Slide and Effie . Check them out below! Read the Synopsis and see the movie posters for... [click images to enlarge!] THE ELECTRIC SLIDE , directed by Tristan Patterson   Based on the article “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Greatest Bank Robber”, written by Timothy Ford and published by GEAR Magazine, THE ELECTRICE SLIDE tells the true story of suave hipster and celebrity-magnet Eddie Dodson, who in 1980s Los Angeles owned and ran one of the city’s most stylish art deco furniture stores. Celebrities flocked to buy the latest pieces and Eddie was living the high life along with the Hollywood elite. But when Eddie met cool and unimpressed Jenny, he decided to do the most outrageous thing he could think of to win her attention - he robbed a bank. Eddie discovered in himself the uncanny ability to charm pretty b...

Movie News: Carey Mulligan in talks to board Ealing’s Effie

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According to Screen Daily , Carey Mulligan is in talks to star in a new film which An Education co-star Emma Thompson wrote and will star as well. Read part of the article below... Carey Mulligan, the UK sensation who is being tipped for awards glory in An Education , is in advance discussions to star in the title role of Effie, being sold here by Ealing Studios. The film is written by Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, who will also star with Greg Wise. Richard Laxton will direct the drama, which is about one of the great scandals of the Victorian era. It follows the story of John Ruskin (Wise), the eminent Victorian art critic, and of his marriage to Effie Gray (Mulligan). As her troubled husband’s behaviour becomes ever stranger, Effie must gather her wits about her to avoid scandal while ensuring escape to the arms of the man she really loves: the dashing artist – and darling of her husband’s critical eye – John Everett Millais. Thompson plays La...