Lionsgate Films UK will release on Blu-ray director Mike Newell's Great Expectations (2012), starring Helena Bonham Carter (The Deep Blue Sea), Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient), Robbie Coltrane (GoldenEye), and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse). The preliminary release date set by the studio is March 25th.
Director Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Young orphan Pip finds his life changed forever soon after encountering and lending assistance to escaped convict Magwitch (Fiennes) on the marshlands near his home. Later, after being summoned to attend the stately home of Miss Havisham (Carter) and finding himself mesmerised by the old lady's beautiful but cold-hearted niece, Estella (Helena Barlow/Holliday Grainger), Pip learns that he has been granted an inheritance by a mysterious benefactor. After moving to London to be educated as a gentleman under the guardianship of lawyer Mr. Jaggers (Coltrane), a now adult Pip (Irvine), believing he now has the necessary social standing, sets about convincing Estella that he is worthy of her love.