Watch the First Trailer for PADDINGTON

“Please look after this Bear. Thank You.” For those of us who grew up reading the Paddington Books, get ready for the little bear to make his debut on the big screen.

Set for Oscar Season 2014 and a December release date, here’s the first teaser for the forthcoming family adventure PADDINGTON.

Since the publication of his first book “A Bear Called Paddington” in 1958, author Michael Bond has written countless further stories about his creation from Darkest Peru.

The first ever live action film inspired by Bond’s best-selling books, will star BAFTA Award- nominee Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Iris, Notting hill) as Mr Brown, Academy Award-winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, Bridget Jones’s Diary) as the voice of Paddington Bear and Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Rabbit Hole, Moulin Rouge) as the evil taxidermist determined to wreak her revenge. The cast are joined by Golden Globe Award-winner Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky, Layer Cake, Made in Dagenham) as Mrs Brown and Academy Award- nominee Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Educating Rita, Harry Potter) Mrs Bird the housekeeper and Academy award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Harry Potter, the Iron Lady) to play Mr Gruber the owner of the antiques shop.

The story follows the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck (‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist…

From the Weinstein Company, the adventure begins in the UK November 28th, stateside December 12, 2014.

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