Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games

Jennifer Lawrence's and Bradley Cooper's long-in-the-making Depression-era drama "Serena" may not have a U.S. release date yet, but audiences can get a glimpse of the dynamic duo's third film together via a newly released trailer.



Directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier (an Oscar winner for foreign-language film in 2011, for "In a Better World"), "Serena" tells the story of a North Carolina timber baron (Cooper) and his enterprising new wife (Lawrence), who doesn't take kindly to finding out that her husband has a son from a previous relationship. (Watch the trailer above.)



Production on "Serena" began in 2012, on the eve of "The Hunger Games" making Lawrence a global star and before the success of "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle," which earned back-to-back Oscar nominations for both actors and a statue for Lawrence.



Given the star power and Oscar pedigree of those involved, one can't help but wonder what's taking "Serena" so long to reach the screen, and why it has yet to capitalize on Lawrence's and Cooper's hot streaks. Bier took a year and a half to complete the film, and protracted productions rarely bode well for the final product.



In November, when "Serena" was being shopped to distributors, the Hollywood Reporter quoted an unnamed person close to the film as saying it was in good shape. "There were no reshoots or anything like that," the person said. "It was just a real precision edit because the story is about a woman's descent into madness. And Susanne is a total perfectionist." Take that with a grain of salt, of course, and note that Bier has already made and premiered another movie, "A Second Chance," since starting "Serena."



"Serena" is set to bow at the London Film Festival next month and opens in Britain on Oct. 24; Magnolia Pictures is distributing the film in the U.S., with a release planned sometime next year.

Jennifer Lawrence has opened up on the hacking scandal, saying: "Just because I'm a public figure, just because I'm an actress, does not mean that I asked for this." The celebrity world was rocked when dozens of female celebrities had their iClouds hacked and revealing pictures were leaked. "It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe that we even live in that kind of world," Jennifer added.



Speaking to Vanity Fair, The Hunger Games actress, who was one of the most high-profile victims of the scandal, also told the magazine that she considered writing a statement at the time but "every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. "I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for," she said. "I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years." "Time does heal, you know," Jennifer continued. "I'm not crying about it anymore. I can't be angry anymore. I can’t have my happiness rest on these people being caught, because they might not be. I need to just find my own peace."



The 24-year-old Oscar winner dated fellow actor Nicholas Hoult for four years, and the pair starred together in the X-Men series. The actress is now rumoured to be dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Chris is apparently so smitten with the young actress that he has told his estranged wife Gwyneth Paltrow that he would like their children Apple, ten and Moses, eight, to meet her in the near future. "Chris has fallen hard for Jen, and they are having a lot of fun together," a source told RadarOnline. The source told the website: "It won't be happening right away, Chris wants to make sure this relationship is going to just fizzle out before taking such a big step."