If you're already sick of seeing the same cheery holiday movie previews (and that would be unfortunate since it's only August), behold: a yuletide trailer that will get your cynical juices flowing. How am I so sure? Because Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas offers the only preview clip in the history of man (and movie trailers) to begin with the words, "I shot Santa Claus in the face. He's real and I shot him in the face." Jump ahead to watch the stoner-on-Santa violence and to see what happens when Neil Patrick Harris runs into Jesus Christ at a bar. (It's hilarious, I assure you).
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The word around Movieline HQ has Ralph Fiennes's directorial debut Coriolanus making a splash -- but not too big a splash -- in a congested awards season to come. A lot of that depends on how The Weinstein Company positions the Shakespeare updating/adaptation, even among its own robust 2011 Oscar crop that also (for now) includes W.E., The Iron Lady, My Week With Marilyn and The Bully Project. It couldn't hurt to emulate this trailer from UK distributor Lionsgate, which adroitly knits the war, revenge and family angles into a tapestry of highly regarded actors including Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox and Jessica Chastain. Let's get a look.
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Paramount Vantage wants you to fall in love with Like Crazy like crazy. (Ding!) Less than a week after debuting the teaser trailer for the Sundance award-winning brokenhearted romance -- and after fixing an apparently cruddy and blogger infuriating sound-mix with a second teaser -- the full-length trailer for the film has arrived with less fanfare, but more Felicity Jones. Judging from the two-minute clip, that's a huge win; girl's gonna be a star! Click through to watch.
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Call the trailer for The Odd Life of Timothy Green the flip-side of yesterday's grim sociopath drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. Just like in that clip, a mysterious child is born, except this one's not a soulless weirdo -- this time, he's a cute soccer player! And his mom isn't an exasperated Tilda Swinton -- it's a plucky Jennifer Garner! Luckily, one major similarity they share is quality. I can't believe I want to see this quaint Disney jam.
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The last time I saw a trailer as eerie as We Need to Talk About Kevin's has to be... hmmm, Buried? With Ryan Reynolds acting all "traumatized"? I think so. We Need to Talk About Kevin pairs Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly as hapless parents who can't figure out why their son Kevin is such a creep. Hint, Tilda: He's soulless.
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As your ninth grade English teacher once explained to you with an air of fake intrigue, William Shakespeare may not have written all of his works. Scandal! In the trailer for Roland Emmerich's new Anonymous, that theory plays out in a full period-piece drama. And like you in ninth grade, Anonymous is not aware of how overwrought it is.
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"I'm not a real babysitter," Jonah Hill warns one bratty child in the trailer for David Gordon Green's next R-rated comedy, The Sitter. "I'm more of a sit at home on the couch, do what I say or I'll kill you babysitter." Only Hill never gets to bark orders from a reclined position because his crush object (played by the wonderful Ari Graynor) lures him into taking the kids on a "motherf*cking minivan" field trip. And if you know anything about good-bad babysitting adventures, you know that Hill's compliance will lead to a standoff with insane drug dealers. As they all do. Click through to see the legitimately funny, profane red band trailer.
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What do you do when your two middle-aged alcoholic neighbors -- one, a raging homophobe and the other, a flamboyant gay man -- scream insults at each other all day long? If you're Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchell D, and encountering this problem in San Francisco in the late '80s, you start recording. Then, thirty years later, you splice the audio together with interviews to make a Tribeca Film documentary called Shut Up Little Man! Take a look at the trailer ahead.
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Let's get this out of the way up front: the latest trailer for Moneyball looks like the previous trailer for the film. It makes what many believed to be an unadaptable book into something dramatic, funny and altogether thrilling. At least in trailer form. (It helps that Brad Pitt is putting on the "full Redford" in the campaign; dude looks like Roy Hobbs's son.) That said, there is a quibble -- at least from a baseball standpoint.
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Oh, how quickly a night at the Moscow nightclub can devolve into a life or death alien situation. One minute, you're posing for pictures with your friends as house music grinds behind you and the next, you're on your back shooting flames into the air and yelling Rambo-style at invisible invaders who have come to Earth to steal your electricity and destroy your golden retrievers. (Or something.) It's a tough battle, but you, as an American twentysomething tourist, are somehow most equipped to fight it. At least that is the story of Emile Hirsch's character in Chris Gorak's The Darkest Hour. Let's view the trailer for this 3-D sci-fi flick ahead.
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When the teaser trailer for Killer Elite arrived in June, it presented a wealth of ridiculous awesomeness (Jason Statham jumping out a window while attached to an interrogation chair) and even more ridiculous facial hair (Clive Owen's villainous moustache; Robert De Niro's Saddam Hussein beard). Both traits are still present in the new full-length trailer, as well as a host of clichéd one-liners that would even make Arnold Schwarzenegger groan with delight. Ahead, Movieline's complete inventory of the madness.
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Of course Justin Timberlake is the star of In Time, the futuristic sci-fi romp where the only currency on Earth is time: He investigated this phenomenon on his 2006 album FutureSex/LoveSounds, making keen observations about the sexiness of backs, the fun of summer lovin', and the cybernetic world of skinny ties. Whee! Welcome back to the future, JT. Amanda Seyfried's Bridget Fonda haircut waves at you from 1994.
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When Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola took to Comic-Con to present his new horror project Twixt, he blew minds in Hall H by live-editing footage from his iPad. Now you can watch the first trailer for Twixt to get a taste of what Coppola's got cooking with his Gothic murder-mystery tale about a hack novelist named Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) who befriends a ghostly girl named V (Elle Fanning) while searching for his next story in a small California town.
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As a wise man (Okay, Elvis) once said, only fools rush in. But then we've all been foolish once or twice, haven't we? So prepare your heartstrings for the familiar aching that will ensue as you watch the dreamy first trailer for Like Crazy, Drake Doremus's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner about two college kids (Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones) who fall for each other right before graduation and then discover that love, and life, gets a lot more complex when your soul mate is half a world away.
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Back in April of 2010 -- the same day Paramount started looking for a writer to reboot Mighty Mouse (true) -- it was announced that Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz would co-star in Deathgames, about a "young man (Lutz) who is kidnapped and forced into the savage world of a modern gladiator arena, where men fight to the death for entertainment of the online masses. Jackson orchestrates the games, overseeing them from his computer lair with the help of twin ladies who see to his every desire." Sounds like Gamer. How did it turn out?
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