Last year, we wondered whether Hilary Swank and Annette Bening were fated to have yet another Best Actress rematch at the Oscars... then Swank's Amelia bombed and Bening's Mother and Child wasn't even released in 2009 (instead, it made a negligible ripple earlier this year). Maybe we were just a little premature, since Bening's got The Kids Are All Right coming very soon and Swank has Conviction (formerly named Betty Anne Waters). Lets dig into the new Conviction trailer and guess at her odds.
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And you thought Harry Potter was the only British children's book adaptation hitting theaters this year! The first trailer for the next chapter in the Chronicles of Narnia series has hit the Web, and amid all the talking lions and glowing swords, there is one thing that cannot be debated: Tilda Swinton will haunt your dreams.
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Hope you didn't get your hopes up about that Smurfs teaser trailer: it has arrived (via Yahoo), and it has about two seconds more of Smurfage than could be gleaned via today's first still. But! There is a brief snatch of the new theme song, and it's been remixed with Tone Loc's "Wild Thing," because why wouldn't it be? (Here is why: because the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel already took "Single Ladies.")
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Luke Wilson is only 38, but his career's already gone through several phases. There was the indie phase where he played on-screen muse to Wes Anderson, the leading man phase where films like Old School tried to exploit his everyman appeal, the gotta-pay-the-rent phase where he ambled over a map of the Unites States recalling his sexual exploits for AT&T or something, and then the HBO phase, which is upcoming. So where does the new trailer for Middle Men fit into things?
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"From Warner Bros. Pictures, the studio that brought you Happy Feet..." That's as specific an internal endorsement as Warners is ready to give its this fall's animated epic Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, whose new trailer declines to mention director Zack Snyder ("From the director of Dawn of the Dead, 300 and Watchmen" just didn't have the same family-friendly ring) and a voice cast including Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving. This one will live and die by its animation, thank you very much. Lucky them: The strategy worked.
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Christ, can fall get here fast enough? This has been one of the most uninspiring summer movie seasons ever, and it only makes the quality releases coming in a few months all the more essential. Yesterday, Sofia Coppola threw us a life preserver by way of her trailer for Somewhere, and now it's Never Let Me Go's turn.
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When Movieline saw the first public screening of Casino Jack Bagman back in January, director George Hickenlooper described his newest film as "Goodfellas in Washington." And if that's the case, then it's no wonder the trailer is wall-to-wall with Rolling Stones music cues. But where's Joe Pesci when you need him? [UPDATE: Casino Jack is still alive and well in the U.S.; what follows is a foreign sales trailer -- and an explanation from director George Hickenlooper.]
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The Somewhere trailer is out and I'm short on time (plus it's not embeddable), so let's make this brief: is this the ultimate Sofia Coppola movie or what? There's a dreamy blond waif straight out of The Virgin Suicides, a past-his-prime actor living out his ennui in a hotel just like in Lost in Translation (and a wacky cultural side trip to Italy that may provide more region-specific humor in the vein of "Lip my stocking"), and the deliciously composed shots and decadence of Marie Antoinette. Does that sound like a negative, derivative appraisal? Quite the contrary: those things couldn't make me more excited. Come out already! [Apple]
The first real trailer for the Martin Scorsese HBO series Boardwalk Empire has appeared online -- first because mostly wordless and ethereal teaser trailers don't count -- and the enjoyment you get from it depends solely on your answer to one question: Did you always want to see Steve Buscemi as Tony Soprano? If the answer is yes, then good news! You'll love this blood-soaked 90-second jaunt through 1920s Atlantic City. If the answer is no, however -- well, at least there's Michael Shannon.
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Did you watch How to Train Your Dragon and think, "Gee, if only Disney had made this film, but without dragons and charm"? Then say hello to Rapunzel Tangled, the next non-Pixar film from Disney that will probably disappoint and lead to Cars 4 or Toy Story 7. Wait, it's in 3D? Oh, never mind -- this thing is going to make a boatload.
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What has Gore Verbinski done as a follow-up after directing the first three installments of the mega-franchise Pirates of the Caribbean? You'll see for yourself in the trailer below, though you may not understand it.
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I arrived a little late to the Japanese phenomenon that is The Big Tits Zombie, a 3D grindhouse throwback whose original trailer winked a little too hard at the viewer in April. The new one isn't really that much better, but at least it has an improved and more fully realized sense of vision, narrative and genre. Oh, who am I kidding? This makes George A. Romero look like Robert Bresson (if Bresson were NSFW).
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Looks like the marketing team over at AMC has actually decided to rouse itself and cut together a real, honest-to-goodness trailer for Rubicon, the secret series that will premiere with virtually no promotion after the Breaking Bad finale this Sunday. The good news? It looks like it could potentially fill the clue-assembling void left by Lost and The X-Files.
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A mysterious short film making the rounds appears to confirm that a new movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat is en route, stripping away the kitschy gloss of the early '90s in favor of a bleak, hyperviolent and aggressively tin-eared take on the classic video-game franchise. Dark Knight-era revisionism aside, there is something this sizzle reel has a combo no other action enterprise can claim: Jeri Ryan, Michael Jai White and deformed reptile babies! [Video after the jump NSFW, obviously.]
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Back in February, we brought you 9 compelling images from the first trailer for Showgirls 2, an unauthorized, insane semi-sequel to Paul Verhoeven's camp classic that appeared to have been cobbled together from B-roll, spare footage of naked ladies writhing around, and sheer chutzpah. Now director Marc Vorlander has released a second trailer (and the film has been retitled to Showgirls Exposed, because duh, copyright issues) and it is so joy-inducing that it made me clap my hands together several times like I was either a seal or Paula Abdul. Let's get right down to it: here are the 9 best stills from this new masterpiece, and then the trailer at the end.
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