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Posted February 25, 2016 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Has Release Date and New Teaser Trailer


Fans of the early 1990s British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous have reason to be excited these days. Fox Searchlight recently set loose a new teaser trailer on the world. The producers of the film also confirmed a 2016 release date of July 22.

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieLocation filming in the U.K. and France is complete for the film that finds, appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots.

Blamed for a major incident at a fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

The film, which was written by Jennifer Saunders and directed by Mandie Fletcher, will also see the return of original cast members Julia Sawalha as Saffy Monsoon, Jane Horrocks as Bubble, and June Whitfield as Mother. Other stars reportedly set to join the Ab Fab universe include Emma Button, Kate Moss, Dawn French, Rebel Wilson, Cara Delevingne, Joan Collins, and Kim Kardashian.

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE opens in select theaters on July 22, 2016!

Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.