Some of you may have been skeptical when you heard that Seth Rogen was following up The Green Hornet and Paul with a cancer project. Maybe the first trailer for 50/50 will change your mind, however. About a young man diagnosed with cancer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), 50/50 is based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter (and Rogen's friend) Will Reiser. Rogen and a talented trio of leading ladies (Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston) co-star as Gordon Levitt's friends and family. But can they make cancer funny?
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When great casts land in generic trailers: The Sarah Jessica Parker-led I Don't Know How She Does It features a murderer's row cast of people you love -- Christina Hendricks, Busy Philipps, Seth Meyers, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, among others -- and yet looks as tired and bland as a rerun of Sex and the City. New rule: Parker shouldn't be allowed to narrate a film as anyone other than Carrie Bradshaw. And with that ringing endorsement, click ahead to watch.
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These penguins are out to turn you awn, girl. In the new Happy Feet 2 trailer, a bunch of polar animals chirp the songbooks of LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, and Mystikal. Yep, that Mystikal. The only difference is some lyrics have been subbed out for the word "fluffy," which makes it seem dirtier. And maybe it is.
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Back in February, The Hangover Part II teaser trailer coined a term for returning trio of Stu, Phil and Alan: the Wolfpack. (As in "The Wolfpack is back.") The latest bit of teasing for The Muppets takes that bit of branding one step further, aping the initial Hangover Part II trailer beat-for-beat -- up to and including the nonsensical pull quotes from a random array of made-up publications. Genius. Find out what The Hollywood Resnorter said about The Muppets -- er, "The Fuzzy Pack" -- by clicking ahead.
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For the first time since 2001's disappointing Ghosts of Mars, Halloween franchise creator John Carpenter returns to cinemas with The Ward this summer. In the frightfest, Amber Heard plays a haunted (but hot!) institutionalized woman who suspects that a ghost may have something to do with the disappearances of her fellow patients. Scary group showers and forced electroshock therapy ensue. Check out the trailer ahead.
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Every once in awhile a film comes along that rouses Academy voters, captures the hearts of theatergoers, and finds a place in the immense, lush tapestry of great cinema. Shark Night 3D, please prepare to be the first Jaws ripoff (or movie, for that matter) to win the Thalberg.
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Just two days after unveiling the poster for The Descendants, Fox Searchlight has premiered the trailer for Alexander Payne's first theatrical release since Sideways in 2004. Starring George Clooney as an overextended father who takes his two daughters on a trip after his wife is critically injured in a boating accident, the teaser promises father-daughter angst, marital melodrama, and Clooney in a Hawaiian shirt. Dig in ahead.
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If Little Miss Sunshine taught us anything, it's this: when you want to cast an affable leading man in an indie comedy, you go to Greg Kinnear. The latest film to take advantage of this truism? Salvation Boulevard, a religious satire that finds Kinnear on the run from the followers of a mega-church pastor (Pierce Brosnan), who may have murderous intentions. Click ahead for your first look.
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You might've seen the new Green Lantern trailer in front of your 3-D Pirates of the Caribbean 4 screening, but just in case you're lucky enough to avoid that cinematic trashheap, here's the full trailer below. Charge up your power rings and take a look!
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Take a deep breath, folks, and prepare for the nearly three minutes of tense exchanges and brutal violence (five words: boiling oil in the face) that comprise the first trailer for Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs remake. The setting has been moved to the Deep South, but the character relationships and abject horrors look to be faithfully evocative of Sam Peckinpah's original film, which taught audiences why you should never push a mild-mannered husband to the brink of desperation.
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DreamWorks has released the first trailer for their remake of the '80s horror comedy classic Fright Night, which either qualifies as heresy or amazeballs, depending on which side of the remake debate you're on. After the jump, watch smart-ass teenager Anton Yelchin do battle with his dreamy vampire neighbor, Colin Farrell, for moviegoers who were but a distant twinkle in their parents' eyes when the first movie came out.
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Luc Besson never got around to directing a sequel to The Professional, but it appears he may have written the next best thing. In theaters this September, Colombiana stars Avatar's Zoe Saldana as a vengeance-fueled heroine out to punish the people responsible for killing her parents when she was a child. Needless to say, she doesn't have time for your Mickey Mouse -- well, you know.
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Hot on the heels of Fast Five's post-racial success at the box office comes the first trailer for Lionsgate's Conan the Barbarian, a suitably metal-scored, sword-swinging affair featuring hunky Jason Momoa as the titular warrior. Coincidence of timing or part of a brave new movement in big, beefy action filmmaking? Consider this: the baddies are played by Rose McGowan and Avatar's Stephen Lang. Ah, fantasy: The great equalizer!
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I'd hate for any of us to get ahead of ourselves about next Oscar season when blockbuster season technically hasn't yet commenced, but still: This year's Sundance award-winner Martha Marcy May Marlene made a breakout star of leading lady Elizabeth Olsen in a fashion reminiscent of Jennifer Lawrence a year ago. The trophy-sniffing wizards at Fox Searchlight have it slotted for a prime October release date. You already know you should see it by virtue of its glowing critical response, so there's only one thing to do when watching the film's first trailer, which was released today: Guess the Oscar clip!
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Having enjoyed the work of Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, and An Education director Lone Scherfig, I'd been optimistically looking forward to the lit adaptation One Day. (Just look at this sexy, lip-parting smooch -- best movie poster kiss ever?) But as the first trailer for the decades-spanning romance reveals, there's another co-star angling for attention in the August release: Anne Hathaway's distracting British accent. Watch the trailer and see what I mean after the jump.
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