Just hours after George Lucas and Lucasfilm announced a release date for the long, long, long in development Tuskegee Airmen action-drama Red Tails, the first trailer has debuted online. "We count our victories by the bombers we get to their targets, by the husbands we return to their wives, by the fathers we give back to their children," says a very determined Terrence Howard at a crucial moment in the very determined two-minute clip. Sounds heroic, Terry! But how does Red Tails compare to the 1995 HBO film, The Tuskegee Airmen?
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Munk yourself! Better yet: munk your whole family, because the new trailer for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked not only employs the phrase "Munk Yourself," but wants to treat your darling sons and daughters to the chipmunk-equivalent of Boat Trip. If Dave Seville's furor isn't in your family's budget, however, maybe you'll want to check out Happy Feet Two, which samples Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" in a sultry penguin dance-off. Whatever you decide to do this holiday season, know one thing: both you and your kids are at the mercy of vulgar, singing cartoon animals.
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Memo from director Brett Ratner: Don't mess with Ben Stiller, fool. In Tower Heist, a Ponzi-scheming Bernie Madoff-type played by the quite-nefarious-these-days Alan Alda defrauds the lowly workers in his luxury high-rise out of their retirement funds. In return, the jilted building employees (Stiller, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick) hire a criminal (Eddie Murphy) to help steal $20 million back from Alda. I want to call this movie Trumping Mr. Trump or Makin' Off with Madoff $, but I guess the uber-generic Tower Heist will do. The trailer is damn shiny.
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"You got something the other guys don't have. You exude something, you draw people in. [...] All the reporters love you." Yep, that's a quote about Ryan Gosling. Sorry: Ryan Gosling's character in The Ides of March, the hugely anticipated George Clooney-directed political thriller that will open the Venice Film Festival in August before heading to Toronto. Really, though: Gosling does exude something -- will the stuffy topic of political intrigue damp that down?
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Red State isn't an ominous enough title for Kevin Smith's new joint, the one that he ceremoniously purchased for his own distribution at Sundance, before Lionsgate chipped in to help with the VOD release. This is a grisly caper that combines the freaky backwoods barbarism of a Rob Zombie picture, the noir grandeur of There Will Be Blood, and the shape-shifting terror of Melissa Leo. Save our souls, indeed! (NSFW language, violence.)
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This ain't your father's Battleship! Check that: this isn't even your Battleship. The first trailer for the Universal production of Battleship has debuted online, and it promises a whole lot of ridiculous and nonsensical Michael Bay-y action. No fooling: Battleship looks like an amalgam of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and the last hour of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Thrust in the middle of this insanity is Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch, and while he was somewhat muted in the cool trailer for John Carter, he gets to run the full gamut of over-the-top emotions in Battleship. Check out his seven best faces from the trailer ahead.
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It's one thing to read through the slow drip of casting notices about an omnibus Hollywood romantic comedy and think, "Well, this cast is getting gigantic." It's quite another to see it in action. So! Say hello to the trailer for New Year's Eve, the non-sequel to Valentine's Day that features no less than 20 famous people named in the onscreen credits. Was that Halle Berry?
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Because the first person you think of when you think of Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder is David Lynch, the new trailer for Pearl Jam Twenty starts with the famed director (and part-time musician) asking EV when "music started being a thing" for him. Cue up a dissolve into 20-year-old Pearl Jam home movies, folks, because Eddie is having himself a pretty rocking flashback!
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A funny thing about the financial crisis that started in 2008 and continues to affect both Main Street and Wall Street to this day: it doesn't really translate that well to film. Well, feature films, anyway. The documentaries are great -- see Inside Job, for reference -- but from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps to the HBO film Too Big to Fail, the biggest news story of the last three years seems all too small and boring when high-priced stars are acting out its machinations onscreen. Into that arena comes Margin Call; can the star-studded fiscal drama succeed where others failed?
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You can finally call Comic-Con over, because the funniest trailer to emerge from the cosplayer cotillion is here: Knights of Badassdom casts Steve Zahn, True Blood star Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, and our man Danny Pudi as Dungeons and Dragons aficionados who "accidentally open up an otherworldly portal and unleash a real-life demon onto the playing field." Watch the very funny (and cute!) trailer after the jump.
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Robert Pattinson dons dandy tails, a dandy hat, dandy mannerisms, and dandy unintentional hilarity in the new trailer for Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami. Yay. He also quivers like Daniel Plainview in one shot, and before he can yell, "I've abandoned my child!" like a sessy vampire, you'll have visions of Dangerous Liaisons as you watch Uma Thurman wear period costuming.
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Another day, another outstanding trailer for an upcoming movie that you probably didn't think would get a push from Comic-Con. Hot on the heels of that breathtaking clip for Drive comes the balls-out trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, the previously thought-to-be second of Soderbergh's final five films. Good thing ol' Mr. Soderbergh isn't actually retiring!
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Move over, ubiquitous comedy presence Jason Bateman! When A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is released over Labor Day weekend in September it will be the third Jason Sudeikis film to hit theaters since February (Hall Pass and Horrible Bosses if you've got short term memory loss) against only two for Bateman (Bosses and The Change-Up). Try harder, Bates! Is the scandalously titled late-summer sex comedy the best of Sudeikis' comedy threesome?
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How did Catfish directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost decide to follow-up their controversial true-life ("true-life") documentary? By making a "found footage" horror movie, of course! (The moral: stick with what you know.) The pair return to theaters this November with Paranormal Activity 3, a prequel to the stories told in the first two films, but one that looks no less terrifying. (The moral: stick with what you know.) Click through to be jump-scared out of your office chair.
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Daniel Craig is the sort of mensch who I'd like to believe can do wrong. Unfortunately, when you're in everything, infallibility is not an option. The new trailer for Dream House, the sepia-postered film exhibits a few contrivances that I'd expect from -- well, a by-the-book psychodrama with a September release date. But I admit, the trailer is entertaining, even if it's a note-for-note reiteration of a movie that came out almost 10 years ago to this day.
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