Hang out with Spielberg on Google+

YOU’RE INVITED TO A GOOGLE PLAY HOSTED HANGOUT WITH DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG AND JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE “LINCOLN” TRAILER ON SEPTEMBER 14th

FIRST-TIME-EVER EVENT WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE IN TIMES SQUARE

LONDON  (September 13, 2012) – DreamWorks Pictures/ Twentieth Century Fox and Google Play announced today that they will debut the theatrical trailer for “Lincoln” during a Google+ Hangout on at 0:00am in the UK on Friday 14th September.

The event will also feature a live conversation with Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who portrays Robert Todd Lincoln in the highly anticipated film slated for release in November in the US and January in the UK.

The “Lincoln” trailer will be the first film trailer to launch during a Google+ Hangout, which allows people to connect face-to-face-to-face via group video chat. In another first, the Hangout will also be broadcast live on the ABC SuperSign in the heart of New York City’s Times Square.

The Hangout is being hosted by Google Play, which boasts the world’s largest collection of ebooks and is home to millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, and a growing selection of magazines. Not to mention over 600,000 apps and games.

Fans interested in participating are asked to upload a short video to their own YouTube channel with the #LincolnHangout tag explaining who they are, why they are interested in “Lincoln” and what they would like to ask Spielberg and Gordon-Levitt about the film.

To learn more about the submission process and about how to tune-in to this live Hangout, visit www.lincolnmoviehangout.com.

Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln” is produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

In UK cinemas on January 25th, 2012.