--- description: Question: what do you get when you combine a long list of A-list stars (Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Robert De Niro,... title: Watch: 'American Hustle' Trailer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f4f8c392724ed52/698a8e3516d8841acec442d8/dorp_03702fd.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) # Today's Movie Trailer: 'American Hustle' by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Oct 10, 2013 4:28 PM CUT  Richie Dimaso (Bradley Cooper, left) and Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) talk in a gallery at the Frick Museum in Columbia Pictures' AMERICAN HUSTLE. Richie Dimaso (Bradley Cooper, left) and Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) talk in a gallery at the Frick Museum in Columbia Pictures' AMERICAN HUSTLE.Francois Duhamel—© 2013 Annapurna Productions LLC All Rights Reserved. by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Oct 10, 2013 4:28 PM CUT Question: what do you get when you combine a long list of A-list stars (Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Robert De Niro, Louis C.K. and more), a director who has already had major awards success working with those stars (David O. Russell, of _Silver Linings Playbook_), intense 1970s hair and costumes, New Jersey accents and [based-on-a-true-story](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/16/david-o-russell-abscam-american-hustle "undefined") cred? Answer:[ early Oscar buzz](http://screencrush.com/american-hustle-trailer-bradley-cooper/ "undefined") for _American Hustle_. Check out the new trailer for the movie, above. _American Hustle_ is due in theaters on Dec. 25, 2013. (**Q&A**: [_Silver Linings Playbook_’s Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/15/qa-silver-linings-playbooks-bradley-cooper-and-david-o-russell "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7117129/todays-movie-trailer-american-hustle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7117129/todays-movie-trailer-american-hustle/"},"headline":"Today's Movie Trailer: 'American Hustle'","datePublished":"2013-10-10T16:28:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:54:26.975Z","description":"Question: what do you get when you combine a long list of A-list stars (Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Robert De Niro,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7117129/todays-movie-trailer-american-hustle/","keywords":["Trailer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f4f8c392724ed52/698a8e3516d8841acec442d8/dorp_03702fd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f4f8c392724ed52/698a8e3516d8841acec442d8/dorp_03702fd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Christian Bale;Bradley Cooper","caption":"Christian Bale;Bradley Cooper","creditText":"Francois Duhamel—© 2013 Annapurna Productions LLC All Rights Reserved.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7117129/todays-movie-trailer-american-hustle/","name":"Today's Movie Trailer: 'American Hustle'"}}]}] ```