When it was announced that Sony was going forward with a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise so soon after director Sam Raimi placed his mark on Peter Parker, many eyebrows were raised at the timing. After all, Spider-Man 3 came out in 2007, a mere four summers ago -- it's not like people are clamoring for reboots of other 2007 blockbusters like Ocean's 13 or Live Free or Die Hard. (Or maybe they are?) Regardless, we're here now, and The Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to hit theaters next summer. Does the new teaser offer anything that Raimi's Spider-Man films did not?
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If there's anything The Dark Knight Rises doesn't have enough of, it's viral buzz. Oh. Wait. Anyway, now it's officially, literally likable: Christopher Nolan's mega-anticipated summer 2012 blockbuster-in-the-making is on Facebook -- as is its high-def, bleaker-than-bleak teaser trailer.
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This Nov. 23, you will have a very important decision to make as a (credit) card-carrying moviegoer: Should you see Jason Segel's Muppets reboot or Martin Scorsese's first 3-D feature, Hugo. You've already viewed the trailer for Jim Henson's big screen reunion. Now you can make an informed decision by checking out the first trailer for Hugo, Scorsese's fantastical adaptation of Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret starring Asa Butterfield, Chloë Moretz, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen.
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While the poster for the prequel/reboot of The Thing was pleasingly old school, the new trailer is old school in the worst way possible. Packed with jump scares, corny monster noises, and enough parkas to fill out a section at Eastern Mountain Sports, the new trailer seems like something Dimension might have cut together for Phantoms 2. Alas! Scott Pilgrim muse Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Animal Kingdom star Joel Edgerton, you deserve better.
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Yesterday, Movieline told you that Glee: The 3D Concert Movie would open in theaters two days early for the biggest fans of Fox's lucrative music series. Today, the trailer for the pseudo-concert event has arrived, allowing you to decide whether or not it's worth a $30 sneak peak preview ticket.
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If you were disappointed with the meaningless first poster for John Carter (née of Mars), the Andrew Stanton-directed adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's book series about a Civil War soldier who gets mysteriously transported to Mars, some great news: the trailer for JC has come online, and it's gorgeous, haunting, awesome, and totally obtuse. Also, awesome! Take it away, Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch and Peter Gabriel's cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage"!
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"Don't talk to anyone, don't touch anyone. Stay away from other people!" If the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion is a little paranoid-inducing, maybe that's for the best. Once the birds start weaponizing avian flu for use on us humans, it's only a matter of time before the streets empty themselves of humanity. Jude Law's bubble boy suit isn't looking so silly now!
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As you can see from the headline, This Must Be the Place has a pretty strange premise. Oscar winner Sean Penn stars as a Robert Smith-like Goth rocker who comes to America to see his dying father for the first time in 30 years, and then searches for the S.S. officer that made his life hell in Auschwitz. There are also Arcade Fire jokes. Click through to watch -- though be mindful of the volume varying music cues.
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Sherlock Holmes -- Guy Ritchie's 2009 blockbuster take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous 19th century investigator -- struck such a chord with its witty bromantic banter and sense for high period adventure, why not repeat the formula for the sequel? After the jump, watch the first trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, featuring everything you loved about the first film, now with a new villain, a girl with a dragon tattoo, and Robert Downey Jr. in drag!
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Speaking of trailers for Happy Madison productions, Adam Sandler's company has just rolled out another preview, this time for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. The comedy features long-time Sandler collaborator and comedian Nick Swardson as a bucktoothed Iowa grocery bagger who dreams of hitting it big as a porn star after discovering a filthy family secret. Do you dare click through?
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Higher Ground comes with a wealth of advanced praise. Vera Farmiga's directorial debut about a woman going through a spiritual coming of age in the '60s premiered at Sundance to rave reviews, and the new trailer is packed to the gills with pull-quotes and flowery adjectives. Engrossing! Haunting! Startlingly Bold! Sounds great. Which is what makes the trailer so disappointing -- this doesn't really look like the work of the next great voice in American filmmaking, does it?
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Well, here you go: After a light drizzle of poster curios and shadowy stills comes the heavy rain of this new, full-length UK trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. And it really does have everything: Intrigue! Humor! Planes! Explosions! Dogs! And an ensemble of actors doing their best to salvage the uneasy relationship between cutting-edge mo-cap and characters just exaggerated enough not to be totally creepy.
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Wow. Just wowwwwwww. When it was announced last year that Adam Sandler would play his own twin sister in the comedy Jack and Jill, it seemed like a joke -- specifically, the type that Sandler and Judd Apatow made about the star's career in Funny People. Only, it's not a joke; Jack and Jill is real, and it's got the craziest trailer you'll see all summer.
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It's coming up on two years since Restless was first announced as Gus Van Sant's follow-up to Milk (click here to learn how Bryce Dallas Howard planted the seed for its development), and while its film reels might be covered in a layer of dust from sitting on the shelf for so long, boutique box office prospects seem bright. Ish. After all, Restless looks like the (500) Days of Summer-y twee romance that recent bomb The Art of Getting By only wished it could be!
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"One simply has to maximize your appeal. Bring out all your qualities. Make you look and sound like the leader that you could be," says one political advisor to an off-screen Meryl Streep-as-Margaret Thatcher in the first teaser for The Iron Lady. "You've got it in you to go the whole distance," says another. The men are talking about Thatcher's political aspirations, of course, but they might as well be talking about Oscar season. Is this Streep's best chance to get off the Academy Award schneid?
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