VIDEO: First Look - Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence Together Again in SERENA

Chideo shares the premiere of the U.S. trailer for SERNEA, based on the novel by American author Ron Rash, and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper as newlyweds running a timber business in 1930s North Carolina. Get a first look below!

The film, directed by Susanne Bier, is set in the North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s. George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions.

However, once Serena discovers George's hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton's passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

SERENA premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 13 and was released in the UK on Oct. 24. Magnolia Pictures will open the film in the United States on Feb. 26, 2015.

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Cooper is currently making his return to the Broadway stage in Bernard Pomerance's drama The Elephant Man. The play, directed by Scott Ellis, will being previews on November 7th and play a limited 14-week run at the Booth Theatre. The actor first portrayed the role at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 2012, in a production co-starring Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola.

Cooper first gained recognition in the television shows Alias and Jack & Bobby. He later appeared in a supporting role in Wedding Crashers (2005), Yes Man (2008), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009). He achieved fame with his roles in The Hangover trilogy (2009-2013), The A-Team (2010), Limitless (2011), Silver Linings Playbook(2012), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2013). He received critical acclaim in the film American Hustle playing alongside actorChristian Bale. His work in Silver Linings Playbook earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2011, People magazine named him the "Sexiest Man Alive". In 2006, he starred in Three Days of Rain on Broadway.

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