Roland Emmerich may be best known for producing some of the most epic disaster porn this side of the Mayan apocalypse (The Day After Tomorrow, 2012), but he trades catastrophic earthquakes for large-scale Elizabethan England stampedes in his latest venture, Anonymous. Not that the premise is any less ridiculous: the film is based on the unorthodox theory that William Shakespeare did not write the 37 plays and 154 sonnets that have immortalized him in culture today.
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When a trailer begins with Joseph Gordon-Levitt jumping shirtless off a flaming diving board in slow motion while Metallica blares in the background, it seems pretty safe to assume that we're not dealing with the usual feel-good, barely-edgy Sundance comedy. Or so I thought. But in fact, about halfway through, the Metallica self-consciously stops, and after that, it's hard to be so sure.
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It doesn't rank as Steve Carell's first post-Office project, but Crazy, Stupid, Love will be the first chance fans get to see the former Dunder-Mifflin branch manager outside of the friendly confines of Scranton when the film is released on July 29. Not that anyone will notice Carell when Ryan Gosling's Situation-like abs are on full display.
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As announced on Monday, the Tribeca Film Festival will debut a work-in-progress cut of the new documentary Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon. Because of course Kings of Leon needs a documentary. Light your sex on fire and watch the NSFW first trailer for Sky ahead.
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There are no words. Unless, that is, you count the words to the theme song for Snot Bubble Boy, a short animated film that premiered last week at the Phoenix Film Festival before bursting on the scene at this week's Florida Film Festival. Two things: 1) You will have this jingle stuck in your head for hours to come, and 2) the campaign to qualify this for consideration, nomination and live-TV mention on Oscar night starts right... now.
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At the beginning of the trailer for The Best and the Brightest, Neil Patrick Harris is just struggling to get his daughter enrolled in a good kindergarten program in New York. By the end he's a famous poet reading sleazy text messages from a friend to an enraptured upper-class audience. How did we get here?
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I'm on the cartoon throwback beat today, so it seems only right to follow through with the new trailer for the upcoming Thundercats prequel series. Observe young Lion-O!
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In case you were still in denial about Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to TV and films, the first trailer for The Governator has arrived online to prove the former California governor wasn't kidding about becoming an animated superhero. Let's discuss this one ahead.
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If you've ever found yourself wondering why Anchorman 2, Wedding Crashers 2 and Zoolander 2 never came to fruition, perhaps watching the new trailer for The Hangover Part II will clear things up. Maybe it is a good thing Paramount never wanted to spend money on the Channel 4 News Team.
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It's unofficially Teen Wolf Week here at Movieline -- find out later whether or not the Michael J. Fox classic made it into the Final Four in our inaugural basketball movie tournament -- and what better way to celebrate than with a lengthy look at the MTV reboot of the brand. Or, maybe not.
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Yes, yes. TNT's Falling Skies is some kind of film event even though it's a television show, thanks to the involvement of co-creator/big time movie producer Steven Spielberg. But that's not the only semi-related pop cultural reference that comes to mind during the frenetic two and a half minute trailer for the "powerful new original series," a trailer that dares your mind not to wander to just about a dozen other sci-fi properties that are not Falling Skies. Focus, class!
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Miss Representation may sound like a lost Kelly Clarkson single (and a pal to Little Miss Apprehension), but it's a Sundance selection and the eleventh documentary acquired by Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network. The subject? The skewed and often misogynistic representation of women in news and popular media. The commentators? Everyone from Condoleezza Rice and Gloria Steinem to Jane Fonda and Rosario Dawson. In the trailer, we explore questionable punditry about women in the media and glimpse at the larger issue at hand: Is the wrong message about women still the main one?
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It's a bit of a stretch on this trailer's part to bill True Legend as coming from "the creators of The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill, but it's certainly true that director Yuen Woo Ping was likely a driving force in your favorite scenes from these films. The legendary fight choreographer has also orchestrated amazing action sequences in Kung Fu Hustle, Fist of Legend, Once Upon a Time in China and more than thirty other kung fu movies. And now, he's finally stepped up to directing.
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Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest film, will open the Cannes Film Festival in May, but only one question should be on your mind before clicking ahead to watch the new trailer: Does the infamous Carla Bruni-held baguette make an appearance here? The answer may surprise you.
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Given that previous films from Japanese shock cinema master Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) have featured title screens written in semen, explicit homages to the conclusion of The Grapes of Wrath and uh, the entire earth exploding, the trailer for 13 Assassins actually looks kind of tame. But that's like saying David Lynch's Blue Velvet looks "normal" compared to Inland Empire.
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