Great start to celebrating Rob’s birthday.  Queen of the Desert finally has a US distributor and release date of September – 1000 screens is not bad for an indie.  That’s going to be a busy month for some Rob fans at the cinema.  According to THR:

“Director Werner Herzog‘s Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman and James Franco, has been picked up by Atlas Distribution Co., marking the first time the entity will distribute a movie without Atlas Shrugged in the title.

Queen of the Desert tells the true story of Gertrude Bell, played by Kidman, who was a British spy, an archaeologist, and more at the turn of last century and ended up playing a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era.

Atlas Distribution was founded by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow to distribute their trio of Atlas Shrugged movies, and they said a year ago they’d keep the company intact, infuse it with $25 million and release more films.

Queen of the Desert is the first in that effort, and it is planned for release in late September on 1,000 screens.

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The film also stars Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence, a contemporary of Bell’s who was immortalized in the 1962 epic film Lawrence of Arabia. The movie is produced by Nick Raslan, and Sierra/Affinity is handling international sale.”

Fantastic news.