Apparently Soul Surfer tells the inspiring story of Bethany Hamilton, "who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith." That's a hell of a true story. Good luck figuring it out from this first teaser trailer though! This preview looks more like the inspiring story of attractive kids hanging out at the beach and surfing and then hanging out with Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid. So just how did this genius marketing team manage to cut a trailer for a film where the protagonist is missing an arm without actually ever showing the one-armed girl? Well, upon closer inspection, they didn't quite manage it, but points for effort! I've provided screen shots after the jump in case you blinked.
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Last week's apocalypse hype frenzy died down a bit in the last few days, but Hollywood's here to pick up the slack! According to the latest Battle: Los Angeles trailer, aliens will be invading in the near future to wipe out our species and harvest our natural resources. Go ahead - buy a big tub of popcorn and laugh it up, but keep in mind that recent scientific evidence totally backs this premise.
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Hollywood may be taking a bit of a break from quality this time of the year, but fortunately, we still get to play catch-up with great foreign films just making their way to the states. Case-in-point: the new trailer for Carancho, an Argentinian love-story/film-noir set in the world of insurance pay-outs for car accidents. The preview, which is violent, kinetic and sexy all at once, evokes shades of Amores Perros, Bringing Out the Dead and maybe even a little of David Chronenberg's Crash. And then there's the swaggering Argentinian rock song that ties it all together. You may want to watch this one twice.
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Remember those halcyon days following the SAG nominations, when people actually entertained the notion of Hilary Swank sneaking into the Best Actress race? Good thing that's over, because otherwise Swank could have a big, fat, direct-to-DVD problem on her hands: The silly thriller The Resident.
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While Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher's sex comedy No Strings Attached and Jason Statham and Ben Foster's violent non-comedy The Mechanic wouldn't appear to have too much in common, both films have just released restricted red band trailers to let you know that they are seriously R-rated. So based on the two trailers, which film will lose more money from 13-year-olds buying tickets to other films and sneaking in? Let's take a look at the breakdown of sex, violence and language in each trailer to get a better idea.
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Welcome to 2011, where we finally transition "trailer announcements" and teasers with no actual footage to "trailer intros." In the case of this presumably leaked look at Amber Heard in John Carpenter's The Ward, this term literally means the first half of the trailer. Coming soon: The Movieline 10-second Verdict. But yes, the first look at The Ward offers several mysteries to ponder including: "Why did Heard set her house on fire?" and "Who/what is that creepy shadow in the community shower?"
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Like a phoenix rising from the stagnant pre-New Year's Eve cesspool of news, here comes the teaser for the new Wong Kar Wai martial arts film The Grandmasters, with Tony Leung kicking and punching his way through...what's that? There's no kicking or punching in the teaser? Oh. There's almost no indication of what the film looks like, you say. That seems about right for today. But here at Movieline HQ, this teaser made us wonder: Is this one-minute blast of calligraphy really any less revealing than the unexplained imagery in the much-drooled-over Tree of Life trailer?
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So just as news breaks that Natalie Portman is pregnant, here's Portman playing an expectant mother in the just-released trailer for The Other Woman. High-five, IFC marketing team! Oh wait...her child dies within the first thirty seconds of the trailer? Hmm. I'm actually going to take back that high-five now.
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Did you see Skyline in November and think to yourself, "Man, this crappy movie would be so much better if it aired on TNT and starred Dr. Carter from ER"? If so, then Falling Skies is the television series for you!
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It looks like a teaser and a full trailer for the new teen-alien-thriller series I Am Number Four were not enough. Now we've got a new "extended look," which seems like it should show us a new angle of the movie that those non-extended looks just couldn't cram in. Right?
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It's the day before Christmas Eve, and if you're anything like me, you're probably wondering, "Hey! What will be the next quirky and still totally by-the-book comedy with an almost-famous cast to be marketed as an indie film, complete with a Sundance premiere?" Well, just in time for your consideration, here is the trailer for Cedar Rapids, in which Ed Helms plays a naive man who leaves his small town for the first time only to be schooled in the ways of getting drunk, screwing and fighting by the wacky John C. Reilly.
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As if on cue, Universal has released a new trailer for Your Highness, the medieval stoner comedy from David Gordon Green starring likely Oscar nominees Natalie Portman and James Franco. Let's just get this out of the way pre-jump: Norbit, Norbit, Norbit, Norbit. Outstanding! Now onto the trailer.
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Jersey Shore's second go-around proved why The Real World never brought back casts for multiple seasons: People become aware of how they're perceived, they play to those perceptions, and their madcap innocence becomes a controlled calculation. But just wait: The addition of new cast member Deena, who at first seemed like a redundant hellcat, might add a fresh soupcon of stank that the show could use. Preview after the jump.
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This holiday season has gone on long enough! Bring on the bubonic plague, necromancers, ritual sacrifices, eviscerations and all the other rollicking, desaturated 14th-century good times promised by the forthcoming B-flick Black Death. I know! How did this not get fast-tracked for Christmas weekend?
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When a trailer starts with Eric Bana telling a young girl who was raised in the woods, "You're dead. I've killed you," you know you're in for something a little different. Especially when the next shot is of said girl running and screaming like a banshee over a pulsing score from the Chemical Brothers. Thankfully, the trailer for Hanna never looses steam, veering wildly from Kick-Ass-style cool to fairy-tale wonder to the tender, coming of age moments of the titular young assassin, played by Saoirse Ronan. Oh, and it's from the director of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement.
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