If you wrote off Dreamworks Animation's Megamind as a retread of The Incredibles, the latest trailer for the film probably won't to anything to change your initial opinion. All this thing needs is that rousing Michael Giacchino score and Samuel L. Jackson and it could basically call itself an unofficial sequel to the Oscar-winning Pixar film. So what could potentially separate Megamind from the DVD copy of The Incredibles sitting on your bookcase? Brad Pitt.
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The teaser trailer for Uwe Boll's Auschwitz has finally made its debut, and -- what's that you say? Why yes, the man behind Bloodrayne, Alone in the Dark and Postal has gone and made a movie about the notorious Nazi death camp, flinging awareness of it your way like a little graphic, NSFW poison dart. Just because I ducked doesn't mean you have to. Tell me what I missed (besides Boll playing a Nazi guard, pictured) after the jump.
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Call it Big Love with regular people. TLC has unveiled a promo for their sure-to-be controversial polygamy based reality series, Sister Wives, and it's guaranteed to make you long for the simple pleasures of watching Jon and Kate exploit their children and destroy their marriage.
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The world is ending and everything is terrible, but you already knew that. What you didn't likely know is that there is some mild comfort to be found in that very dystopia, as you'll see in the new trailer for Rutger Hauer's Hobo With a Shotgun. Even as you nod along with Hauer's downer monologue to a newborn baby ("People look at you and think how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your body on the streets."), the punctuating sprays of blood, brains and viscera will at least assure that that baby will be endlessly entertained. And so will you.
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Can a nose job lead to fame and fortune? It can if it's accompanied by Daisy Dukes and better lighting, as Gemma Arterton finds out in the new Stephen Frears comedy Tamara Drewe, and as plastic surgery devotee Heidi Montag knows all too well.
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Humpday isn't exactly the sort of movie that spawns a franchise, but here's the closest thing: The Freebie, about a similar kind of mumblecore couple in comically sexual crisis. It's even directed by -- and starring -- Katie Aselton, the wife of Humpday star Mark Duplass.
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Sure, the fall-movie season hype right now orbits a few big festivals and early awards favorites, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves. After all, we've still got Triple Dog* in front of us -- and it looks awesome.
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What a week for the Fox Searchlight promo team: Last Tuesday, they debuted the trailer for Darren Aronofsky's highly anticipated Black Swan, and today, it's time for the trailer to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire follow-up 127 Hours, starring James Franco. There's only one problem: Which of these horses will the studio back come Oscar time?
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Calling all Howard Beales! The trailer has arrived for Inside Job, the newest lightning rod documentary from No End in Sight director Charles Ferguson, and it will probably make you want to get up from your chairs, open the window, stick your head out and... you get the idea.
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And just like that, you found some plans for Halloween night. AMC has released a four-minute sizzle reel for their brand new zombie series The Walking Dead -- which is scheduled to premiere on October 31 at 10pm -- and it looks positively Romero-y (or, 28 Days Later-y?).
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Congratulations, America! Like the rest of the developed world, soon you, too, will get to experience Case 39. The horror movie that Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper shot all the way back in 2006 is finally (finally!) scheduled for release on Oct. 1 -- never mind that interested parties could probably find it on DVD by doing a Google search -- and based on the trailer, expect it to make slightly more than Twelve.
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Because one movie about Plamegate wasn't enough -- raise your hand if you saw Nothing but the Truth -- here comes the trailer for Fair Game, better known around these parts as Doug Liman's self-professed "really great movie." Um, about that: maybe it just needs a better trailer?
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Have you been wondering what Justin Bieber's sure-to-be Strasbergian turn on the season premiere of CSI will look like? Wonder no more, Bieber Feverers, as CBS can now offer the first moving pictures of Bieber as "a troubled teen who is faced with a terrible decision regarding his only brother -- a decision that leads him into an explosive confrontation with the CSIs." But first, 50 seconds about the utter insanity that is CSI.
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There is a moment while watching the international trailer for Little Fockers (Spanish-subtitled, because why not) where you may think, "This looks tolerable. Hey, Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller aren't at odds anymore. That's good, maybe they're doing something different with this franchise." Then Stiller's son projectile-vomits in his face, and Stiller himself squirts blood on his entire family.
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Yep, you read that right: There's a trailer for a commercial. But not just any commercial, mind you -- this is for Frank Miller's upcoming bit of ad wizardry for the new fragrance "Gucci Guilty." What can you expect when this thing premieres during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, besides that it'll automatically be better than The Spirit?
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