THEY are known for their slightly offbeat and quirky films - and Hollywood stars are lining up to appear in their movies.
Now the latest film by Oscar-winning film makers the Coen Brothers, Hail, Caesar!, starring George Clooney, is to receive its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival this year.
The comedy drama, set in the golden age of Hollywood, stars Clooney as Baird Whitlock, a leading actor who goes missing from the set of the titular historical epic.
Josh Brolin stars as the "fixer", Mannix, who is despatched to find Whitlock, with the cast also including Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand and Christopher Lambert.
Hail, Caesar! will be the opening gala of the film festival on February 17 at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT).
At present it is not known if any of the star-studded cast will be attending the screening in Glasgow, as the festival is still negotiating with the film company, Universal.
A spokeswoman said: "Guests attending screenings will be announced closer to the festival."
Clooney recently visited Scotland, when he visited the Social Bite Cafe, which donates its profits to the homeless.
The showing will be the UK premiere of the movie and the festival considers it a coup.
The festival, which is a firm fixture in the city's cultural year, attracted 40,000 admissions last year.
The closing movie of the festival will be another UK premiere, Anomalisa, a stop-motion animation by Charlie Kaufmann, the lauded American screenwriter, producer, director, which won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film, which features the voices of David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is already being described as one of the best of 2016.
Tickets for both films will go on sale to the public on January 18.
The full festival programme will be announced on January 20 and go on sale on January 25.
Allison Gardner, the co-director of the annual festival, said: "We like to open the festival with something special to build audience excitement for the fortnight of films to come, and Hail, Caesar! is as big and beautiful a film as you can get.
"We are absolutely delighted to be screening the Coens’ wonderful, all-star salute to Old Hollywood, and especially privileged to be hosting the film’s UK premiere.
"A rollicking good time to be had by everyone."
Allan Hunter, festival co-director, added: "Charlie Kaufman has a rare ability to blow your mind and warm your heart at the same time.
"Anomalisa is a one of kind experience that finds incredible depths of human emotion in the plight of its stop-motion animated characters.
"I am so thrilled that we will be closing with the UK premiere of one of the year’s most unforgettable films."
Joel and Ethan Coen have been two of the biggest names in international cinema for more than 30 years.
They have won Academy Awards for Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and acclaim for films such as The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Hail, Caesar! is written, directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen.
The film is released by Universal Pictures worldwide and will open in UK cinemas on March 4.
In Anomalisa, Michael Stone (voiced by Thewlis) is a "customer services guru" with a thriving career.
On a speaking tour in Cincinnati, Michael checks into the Hotel Fregoli and meets Lisa (Jason Leigh).
The festival says that "Anomalisa offers a plaintive exploration of all the little things that make us human. It is funny, charming, surprisingly erotic, deeply moving and completely, wonderfully irresistible."
It opens in UK cinemas on March 11.
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