Have we learned nothing from Sandra Bullock? Like the embattled actress, Jonah Hex has spent the last few months in seclusion, fighting off rumors of trouble only to emerge this week in the public eye. Alas, the new Jonah Hex trailer forgot to bring a secret adopted baby as narrative cover.
After the nearly career-killing disaster that was The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan could have tried yet again to recapture the faux-Hitchcock weirdness of The Sixth Sense, or he could have blown things up to start over. Well, it looks like someone went out and got himself a large quantity of dynamite. And a bunch of DVDs. Say hello to M. Night Shyamalan v.2 in the trailer for The Last Airbender...
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When you're a 30-something straight dude who's already said pretty much everything he can say about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and a new trailer avails itself to the world on Friday afternoon, there's really only one rational way to approach it: Through the contemplative medium of poetry, seventeen syllables at a time.
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If you've ever wanted to attend your own funeral, you'll appreciate the premise of the Robert Duvall/Bill Murray comedy Get Low, which sees Duvall's character throwing a funeral party while still alive. There's just one problem: instead of eulogizing his awesome "I'm an ornery old man" beard, most people in town would rather roast the man.
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In the upcoming film Beastly, Mary-Kate Olsen curses handsome-but-vain Alex Pettyfer (the rising star who was just cast in I Am Number Four) with a twisted visage that teaches him that real beauty comes from within. Fortunately, there's one thing about the newly hideous, frequently shirtless Pettyfer that survives unscathed: his killer abs.
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Our old friends at New Sensations are at it again, and this time they've delivered to us the trailer for their True Blood porn spoof, Tru: A XXX Parody. How do you send up a show that's already pretty racy? By playing it straight, apparently!
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Stop me if this seems familiar: There's a new cop comedy coming out that pairs a loose-cannon SNL veteran with a growling, resentful partner in a semi-sendup of the 80's buddy comedy genre. Here's the difference, though, between Cop Out and Adam McKay's new Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg starrer The Other Guys: I actually laughed at the Other Guys trailer.
You may remember that at Sundance this year, Movieline flipped for Lisa Cholodenko's comedy The Kids are All Right, which stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian parents, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson as their children, Mark Ruffalo as their sperm donor, and Annette Benining's omnipresent glass of red wine as itself. So, what are we to make of this new trailer advertising the film?
Nothing says mainstream romantic comedy like the use of a past sell date pop song in the trailer. And since The Back-Up Plan has already co-opted Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" and Percy Jackson (yes, that Percy Jackson) has laid claim to Lady Gaga, what other song but "Empire State of Mind" could the trailer for Sex and the City 2 use to underscore all its glittery insanity and cast sojourn to Abu Dhabi? Yep, Abu Dhabi...
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Americanization! Here we have the trailer for Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks, which is the English-language remake of Francis Veber's 1998 French comedy The Dinner Game. The differences between the two -- and the apparent softening of the new film -- are instructive.
I'm a little late getting to this extraordinary trailer for the thriller 4.3.2.1, which, at a glance, seems to be much more of a British phenomenon than anything Americans would get too carried away with. But a closer look reveals a number of factors that make the new film by young U.K. actor/writer/director Noel Clarke an international breakthrough waiting to happen. I mean, how can you say no to a movie promising lipstick lesbians, a diamond heist, Emma Roberts threatening to kill someone and Kevin Smith -- on an airplane! -- all in one insane place? Click through for the mildly NSFW goods.
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The trailer is out now for Tilda Swinton's festival stunner I Am Love, which you may remember was the subject of our conversation with her back at Sundance (that is, when we weren't talking about Conan O'Brien). It's ravishing and totally incomprehensible -- just like the film!
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Whoo boy, you guys. Indie upstart Hannover House has released a three-minute (!) trailer for the Joel Schumacher drugs-and-rich-kids drama Twelve, which was hissed at during its Sundance debut but at least stars actors with a certain amount of teen cachet, like Chace Crawford and Emma Roberts. Naturally, the best time to release a movie with them is opposite The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. In the clip, you'll see several of Movieline's twelve things wrong with Twelve, and you even get a glimpse of PC Peterson, premature ejaculator. (Between his cameo and Kim Zolciak's stint as a featured extra in the upcoming The Joneses, it's a good time to be a moonlighting Bravo star!).
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"Hey, there's a new Splice trailer," I said today to my Movieline comrade-in-arms, who had caught the film back at Sundance. "That movie is f***ing disgusting," he replied. Between that recommendation and this clip, I think I'm starting to get excited.
Admittedly, Life During Wartime's U.K. trailer -- its first overall -- is coming at you a little tardy after first making its rounds late Wednesday. But the truth is that every Movieliner but me fell ill with misanthropy after more than a few minutes contemplating Todd Solondz's latest, and I'm only now getting to the updated file on misery-cinema's Patient Zero. And what have we here? Well, it involves people being cruel, clearly. And talk of China. And... it's quite possibly terminal.
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