Get Ready for Period Movies

No, not THAT kind of period…the kind where movies are set in all types of historical and cultural settings — everything from the 1780s to the 1960s. Will we be able to handle a bunch of them all at once? I guess the box office will tell that story.

More after the jump…

Here’s a rundown of period movies scheduled for release in 2008:

• Changeling, a 1920′s missing-child drama from Universal/Clint Eastwood (and Angelina Jolie pictured)
• Australia, a WWI epic from Fox/ Baz Luhrmann
• The Secret Life of Bees, Searchlight’s mid-century Southern tale
• Doubt, a 1960s Catholic-school drama from Miramax
• The Duchess, an 18th century Keira Knightley quill-and-wig extravaganza
• Frost/Nixon, a political saga from Ron Howard
• Revolutionary Road, a Sam Mendes/Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration
• Milk, a biopic from Gus Van Sant
• Defiance from Ed Zwick, Shanghai from Mikael Hafstrom, and Miracle at St. Ann from Spike Lee, all WWII throwbacks.

Image: Changeling, Imagine Entertainment, 2008

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