MUMBAI:Sony Pictures is readying for the 18 December release of The Monuments Men - the Oscar-season sweet spot - with the latest trailer to drop.

George Clooney directs and heads the cast of the thriller about a World War II platoon of art historians and museum directors tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue priceless art from the Nazis.

Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett also star.