Imagine Rachel Getting Married, but instead of one emotionally unpredictable family member silently threatening to upset a family wedding, there are multiple. Enter Another Happy Day, the directorial debut of Sam Levinson (son of Barry) which features Ellen Barkin in a juicy comeback role as the volatile mother of the groom, Ellen Burstyn as her mother, Thomas Haden Church as her ex, Demi Moore as her ex's new wife, recent Verge designee Ezra Miller as her drug addict son and Kate Bosworth as her cutter daughter. If your head's not yet spinning, click ahead to see the family member-on-family member emotional crimes on display in the trailer for the messy matrimonial movie event of the year.
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Let's cut to the chase: Michelle Yeoh looks simply amazing in the first full trailer for Luc Besson's The Lady, the story of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and the two decades she spent as a political prisoner in her own country. The film played Toronto last month but doesn't yet have a U.S. release date, which is too bad because after glimpsing the uncharacteristically restrained (and gorgeously shot) work here by Besson, it's one of the more intriguing upcoming releases on my radar.
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Did you guys realize that Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale were starring in a little heist movie called Contraband? Me neither, but that's probably because Universal has quietly scheduled the film, from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, for a quiet box office death release next January. But we're going to need something to watch during that winter wasteland month so let's take a look and see if super-angry Mark Wahlberg, his abs, and and Kate Beckinsale undressing for the camera can't motivate us to buy tickets.
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As a longtime Harveyologist, few prospects on the movie beat seem more appealing to me than an unauthorized documentary about Harvey Weinstein. I mean, Harvey Weinstein! Just saying the name conjures both quivering fanboy chills and the faint, foggy effluvia of sweat and Diet Coke wafting over a freshly vacuumed and Febrezed red carpet. Harvey. Weinstein. Stirring, no? So why, why does the first trailer for Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project leave me so cold?
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This week's edition of Oscar Index made the point of allowing for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as an awards contender on paper, while withholding any specific hype until we'd all seen at least a trailer. Hours later, that trailer arrived. But even more interesting than the footage therein? How about the test-screening gossip trickling out around Stephen Daldry's magic-realist 9/11 tearjerker? [Warning: Spoilers ahead.]
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"There's nothing to worry about," a mental health professional explains in the latest trailer for The Human Centipede II as he attempts to comfort the mother of Martin, Tom Six's latest deranged medical mastermind. Of course, there is always something to worry about when your protagonist is a squat sexual deviant who fantasizes about stitching 12 people together in the most nauseating fashion imaginable, and even more so when you know that audience members at last week's premiere were so disgusted by the vile images before them that some vomited in the theater while others just passed out. So yes, you should worry, and if your stomach is strong enough, you should cautiously click through to watch the grossest movie trailer of all time.
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We've gone back and forth on the marketing for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, from parsing its initial, pseudo-bootlegged trailer to trawling its mysterious Tumblr to breaking down both NSFW and maybe too-SFW images to spending eight early minutes with David Fincher's adaptation of the international bestseller. In a nutshell, it looks good! And today's new, extended trailer looks even better.
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After disappointing most critics earlier this year in Unknown, an ironically familiar amnesia thriller, Liam Neeson returns to the box office this winter with The Grey. As a plane crash survivor who is forced to fend for himself in the Alaskan wilderness, Neeson stars alongside Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo and a pack of angry wolves in the action thriller from Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan. Take a look at the first trailer below.
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"This is something of a pointillist Wuthering Heights, a story told more with dots and dashes than with long, bold strokes," wrote Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek after seeing Andrea Arnold's bold take on the classic novel upon its Venice Film Festival debut. Now that the film's first teaser has debuted, you can see for yourself what she meant, windswept longing gazes and foggy moors and elemental snatches of scenery and all.
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"We must never forget our history," Leonardo DiCaprio warns in the brand new trailer for J. Edgar. Conveniently, this narrative demand means that you should probably see the very biographical drama from director Clint Eastwood that this trailer advertises. Take a look at DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover below in the film's first trailer.
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The NYC cop drama/thriller Son of No One set up quite a bubble for itself ahead of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Talented filmmaker Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting) had his muse Channing Tatum spearheading a cast including Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta and, going straight, Tracy Morgan, creds that helped the movie earn the festival's prestigious closing-night spot. And then came that notorious press and industry screening, piercing the bubble and hurling Son into indie limbo. Art-house ensemble piece or genre potboiler? Misunderstood gem or biggest swing-and-miss of 2011? And while I'd never suggest judging a film by its trailer, the latest spot does prompt the necessary question asked of all marketing: Does this preview actually make you want to see Son of No One? That's where things get complicated.
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Take it from Jennifer Aniston -- working as a New York City bike messenger is neither glamorous nor exciting. Unless you're Joseph Gordon-Levitt in David Koepp's upcoming bike messenger thriller Premium Rush, in which case transporting packages across town is a fast-paced career option with hot co-workers, adrenaline rushes and the occasional highly dangerous assignment.
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Have you heard about The Awakening yet? No, not the Kate Chopin novel about female empowerment or the Kate Beckinsale Underworld fourquel about vampire warrioress empowerment but Nick Murphy's period thriller about 1920s ghost empowerment. Rebecca Hall stars as an author/skeptic who is invited to a creepy boarding school in World War I-era England to investigate a phantom boy. Naturally, things take a supernatural turn for the worse and, well, take a look for yourself in the trailer below.
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Who can think about naked Scarlett Johansson photos today when the new trailer for Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo has just debuted, amirite?? Take a look at Crowe's first feature since Elizabethtown, about a single father (Matt Damon) who moves his family into a zoo to turn things around by helping animals and stuff. Also, to fall for impassioned zookeeper Scarlett Johansson. Quite a coincidence of timing, no?
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Uh-oh! The new full-length trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is out, and trouble is stirring in the womb of Bella Swan. "You did this!" Jacob spits at Edward, who's all like, "Ugh, I know, my bad." And then the wolves are all like, "Raaaahhhrrr." And then the new baby bump is all like, "Bllerrgh." And Bill Condon's all like, "Check out this sweet move I saw last night on Lifetime."
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