When we last saw some marketing for I Am Number Four -- the latest bit of teen pop from Dreamworks and director D.J. Caruso -- it looked an awful lot like Twilight. The brooding male lead who isn't what he seems...the porcelain-skinned ingenue who has his heart...the jumping and flying and assorted chasing. All that was missing was vampire fangs. Does the latest trailer rectify that omission?
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Just as excitement and anxiety for the upcoming holiday approaches its peak, here comes Hollywood with a reminder of the rapidly approaching Christmas 2011. Thanks guys! The teaser for Arthur Christmas plays out like most other recent CGI animation teasers; that is, it's more of a short film featuring the characters rather than a preview with any footage from the film. But hey, it finds a way to play off everyone's current fascination with UFOs, which is something. I guess.
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Remember that first Battle: Los Angeles teaser that was a little bit more elegant, artsy and awesome than anyone expected? Its editing and image composition were so well orchestrated with the unique, dreamy space pop that it looked like it might actually transcend the cheesy, B-movie trappings of the aliens-invade-Los Angeles genre. Well, B-movie fans rejoice. This new trailer has cheese to spare.
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Scant days after taking a look at the first official photo from the set of The Beaver, we've now been blessed with the first trailer for the Mel Gibson/Jodie Foster joint that J.Fo swears will regain Mel Gibson a place in America's heart. And, as any relationship expert can tell you, the best way to a large, multicultural country's heart is through a talking beaver puppet.
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Nothing can liven up a fairly dull day like a brand-new trailer. Unfortunately for everyone, the first look at Terrence Malick's forever-gestating Tree of Life is only attached to theatrical copies of Black Swan (see it, see it, see it) and not yet online. (Though that hasn't stopped some outlets from falling prey to ambitious pranksters.) So without Sean Penn and Brad Pitt to warm our cockles on a chilly Friday, we're left with Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer and Mary-Kate Olsen, as some devil woman in an updated version of Beauty & The Beast? Oh, come on.
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From Britain, here comes what looks like a feel-good underdog story about two rock bands in Dublin, based on a memoir by Telegraph critic Neil McCormick. Ben Barnes plays McCormick, the frontman for an up and coming rock n roll band who are competing for the spotlight with their friends' band...U2. Whoa. Bummer.
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I suppose the trailer for Disney's nature documentary African Cats kind of begs for a lot of smart-ass jokes about cornering the same "people-like-documentaries-about-cute-stuff" market as March of the Penguins and Babies. So much so that making said jokes seems kind of obvious and futile. Uh...plus that shot of the mother cheetah carrying her cub in her mouth is really adorable.
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One day, God-willing, there will be an amazing DVD consisting entirely of previews for Boa vs. Python, the almighty Sharktopus and every other Megalodon/Mega-Python/Gateroid direct to video creature feature of the last five years. Hopefully with commentaries. But for now, we'll take these trailers one at a time and give thanks when a new one brightens an otherwise drab week. That brings me to Megashark vs. Crocosaurus which features the two title characters battling it out as well as a grown up Jaleel White (that is, Steve Urkel from Family Matters) flexing some pretty hefty acting muscles.
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Because not enough indie movies tackle martial ennui, here comes the trailer for Every Day, a dysfunctional family dramedy designed to remind you how dysfunctional families operate, just in time for Thanksgiving. Pass the cranberry sauce!
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When Movieline caught up with original Mean Girls writer Tina Fey at Comic-Con this summer, she seemed decidedly against the idea of a sequel to Mean Girls. "Paramount was very generous and solicitous with me for several years, saying, 'Would you like to do it?' And at the time, I was like, 'They should just let it be what it is!'" Fey said. Maybe Paramount should have listened to Fey after all.
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For those of you who just can't get enough train-related shenanigans but are sad that Unstoppable has come and gone, Jake Gyllenhaal is ready to pick you up at the station with his new thriller Source Code. Bad news, though: there's a bomb aboard the train and it's going to explode. Repeatedly. It's like Groundhog's Day, if every day ended with bits of Andi McDowell's charred remains flying all over Chicago.
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The easy joke over the last eighteen months was that audiences wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the Seth Rogen-led version of The Green Hornet and Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern. Well, this week, an easy distinction revealed itself: The Green Hornet doesn't look like death warmed over. Let's call this latest trailer the "Suck it, Green Lantern" edition.
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It's always disappointing when a trailer gives away the plot for the entire movie, but the trailer for Dead Awake shows that sometimes the alternative is just as bad. From what I could figure out: Nick Stahl's girlfriend (Amy Smart) died ten years ago in a car accident. Only, Stahl is trying to convince a detective that it wasn't an accident. But it turns out the detective he's been talking to is also dead. Oh, and Stahl is dead too, but he doesn't know it. Only Rose McGowan knows. Then Stahl's girlfriend is alive again, or at least around. Or was that a flashback? Somebody help.
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I've waited years for a movie to get prom right. Mean Girls came close with its ludicrous prom queen coronation sequence, but otherwise you rarely see prom depicted for what it is (at least to me): a disillusioning display of social status, pettiness and rented decorations. Teen cinema is so often invested in "popularity" as a legitimate high school force that proms are treated like magical and climactic events as opposed to well-chaperoned letdowns. But maybe Disney is on to something with its new movie Prom, a flick that looks a bit more Degrassi than de rigeur.
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After the soul-crushing awfulness of the trailer for Green Lantern, it's nice to know that at least one summer movie in 2011 won't be a total disappointment. The trailer for Cowboys & Aliens -- which will get some serious placement in front of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part I this weekend -- has premiered online and it's nowhere near as silly as the title might have you believe. In fact, it looks pretty harrowing. Well, for a movie about cowboys fighting aliens.
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