The first full trailer for Madonna’s royal romance W.E. has premiered online.

The three-minute promo teases the upcoming drama’s twin storylines, which detail the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James d’Arcy and Oscar Isaac can all be glimpsed in the trailer, which is set to a dramatic violin and piano score.

W.E. serves as Madonna’s second directorial outing after 2008′s Filth and Wisdom.

The movie’s UK premiere takes place on October 23 in Leicester Square as part of the London Film Festival. It will be released in cinemas in the US on December 9, and in the UK on January 12, 2012.

W.E. first screened at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it was met with mixed reviews from critics.

Watch the trailer for Madonna’s W.E. below:

Haven’t seen Sucker Punch yet? Here are the first five minutes from the Zack Snyder-directed film, which has earned $21.8 million so far in theaters since opening last Friday. The clip features more footage from the film towards the end.

After months and months of buzz, rumors and hype, Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch is finally about to drop in theaters. MTV News has been on this film’s case from day one and recently had the opportunity to catch up with the cast and director for a few in-depth chats.

First up, the lovely leading ladies addressed the film’s most outrageous moments.

“I think, for me, when we’re on the B-25 bomber plane and we’re being chased by a dragon and I’m shooting at it,” said Vanessa Hudgens, who plays Blondie. “It’s pretty intense.”

“I got to do this really fun green-screen moment where I was being lowered upside down on a harness 40 feet in the air,” Jena Malone, a.k.a. Rocket in the film, explained. “I had to clear out my mag on my UMP [Universal Machine Pistol] while I was shooting all these robots that I was doing a double-flip over in the middle of a bullet train.”

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You can’t talk about the visually-stunning, action-packed, fierce-female-driven Sucker Punch without mentioning the costumes worn by the leading ladies—layer upon layer of bondage harnesses, fishnet underthings, leather laceups and the occasional sailor suit. So when we sat down with stars Emily Browning, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish for a chit-chat, the discussion was fashion first.

Jamie started out by explaining the way that costumes helped the girls get into character—and to make the transition as actors from their real-world scenes to the epic dreamworld in which their battle takes place. “We had a lot to play with,” she explained, “with power and strength, but still being really vulnerable. It’s a wide range of different costumes that help put you in a different kind of mood.”

And in some cases, the mood wasn’t good. Jena said of their “institutional” costumes, “We were wearing these gray, drab…frocks! It’s just, like, dirt—you put it on and there’s a weight on your shoulders.”

Although she was quick to add that the depression lifted when the costumes came off: “And the next day we’re wearing these dance warm-up costumes that make you want to stretch and move your legs and move around…and the next day, we’re in our fight uniforms, where it’s like—instantly, you just walk out of your trailer and nobody’s gonna f— with you!”

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The gallery and video vault have been updated with coverage of Abbie’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, March 22. She mainly discussed Sucker Punch and the related stunt work and injuries but also chatted a little bit about Limitless. Check out the footage in two parts and the screencaps right below!

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- Talk Shows: Jimmy Kimmel Live! – 2011

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