Remember the A-Team teaser from a couple months ago? The one introducing us to the revival of the beloved '80s-TV mercenaries, adapted to slicker, more contemporary and/or insanely expensive action-film tropes? If so, the new trailer that premiered this morning will help flesh out the dimensions of that nostalgia trip. If not, you're in for a treat! A bombastic, plotless, oversharing treat, but a delicious one nevertheless.
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Forget Bruce Willis and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. If Sylvester Stallone really wanted to get people excited for The Expendables, he would have found room for Angelina Jolie. If you count Gone in 60 Seconds (and really, why wouldn't you?) she's been a major selling point in four $100 million-plus summer blockbusters since 2000. And judging from the new trailer for Salt, Jolie will add another to the list come Labor Day. When did she become one of the most bankable action stars in Hollywood?
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So let's say you're Arnold Schwarzenegger. You're the governor of California, a state suffering from an unprecedentedly upside-down economy and mass panic about jobs, education, home foreclosures and the like. You're also one of the most celebrated action stars of the last half-century, invited by one of your hallowed peers to join him in the Tough-Guy Epic to end all Tough-Guy Epics (at least until the sequel). Do you politely decline the offer, opting instead to focus on your policy and governing responsibilities at home, where they're most needed? Or do you take a few days to join the Tough-Guy Epic abroad and secure your cinematic legacy? Come on! As the new Expendables trailer proves, that's an easy one.
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Gather 'round, everybody -- I've got a very special edition of The Two-Minute Verdict for you today. In this installment let's all have a look at the new trailer for Step Up 3D, the third film in the popular dance-crew/romance franchise that helped launch Channing Tatum and The Proposal director Anne Fletcher into their respective big new careers. Now you can get to know tomorrow's stars today all over again -- and in about one minute flat -- with this handy 10-frame glimpse of raw talent at work. And the trailer is embedded as well in case you do in fact want to see any of them, like, move. Honestly, the floating Icee streams aren't quite the same without that, but you make the call.
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Remember the original trailer for Fox's big-budget Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz summer action tentpole Knight & Day? The one with all the flirty repartee and zinging bullets and stunts and voice-over and expensive star power fritzing your brain into little spastic flashbacks to, say, 2002 or so, well before Sam Worthington was in everything? This new trailer will only heighten that sensation and the overall stakes -- at least until the gratuitous beachgoing and green-screen bullfighting ring jolt you awake.
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When word came from the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice that there was one car accident after another while shooting, you'd be forgiven for thinking, "Car accidents? I mean, I know it's a Bruckheimer movie, but I thought this would just be about Nicolas Cage wearing a funny wizard hat and shooting some CG fireballs." Now, the full trailer for the film can reveal the bigger picture: It's like Gone in 60 Seconds, but with Nicolas Cage wearing a funny wizard's hairpiece and shooting some CG fireballs.
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Maybe it's because it stars Lee Pace and Judy Greer as the Winslows, two of the most likable actors I can think of. Maybe it's because Owen Wilson sounds just so doggily happy. Or maybe it's because I just got a dog. I don't know -- it's definitely something, because this Marmaduke trailer kind of did it for me.
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You've read the review, you've seen the eerie, slightly cryptic teaser. And now, for those anticipating Animal Kingdom's theatrical landfall in America later this year, there is an actual trailer to hold you over. It preserves all the ominousness and foreboding of David Michôd's extraordinary Australian crime drama, with a little more story background, a broader glimpse at the most evil mother since Mary tormented Precious, and, of course, hinting at the greatest filmic use of Air Supply since that video for "Making Love Out of Nothing at All." Yes, folks, it's that good.
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If you haven't been constantly refreshing your news feed in anticipation of the fanboy-pleasing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer, it'll play a lot better as a witty spin on your usual Michael Cera film. The opening moments seem to set up the umpteenth plot in which sadsack Cera falls for a beautiful alterna-girl, then somehow scores with her, doffing his size-small Threadless tee to hop into bed. That's only the beginning, though: How many of Cera's other films then forced him through a videogame-like gauntlet of bosses in order to prove his love?
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Let's talk about track records. Al Pacino has a good one with HBO, where he won an Emmy for Angels in America. Barry Levinson had a good one as a director, and then he made a streak of movies in the last decade (Envy, Man of the Year) that I think we should just agree to not talk about. Now, Levinson is teaming with Pacino for an HBO film called You Don't Know Jack about "suicide doctor" Jack Kevorkian. Based on the trailer, could this revive the Levinson's fortunes?
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Showtime has debuted the trailer of its upcoming "Weeds but with cancer" dramedy, The C Word, and it afford us our first look at 2009 breakout Gabourey Sidibe in a non-Precious context. Might even arch-nemesis Howard Stern find something to like in this clip?
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Hey fanboys, get excited! Here's the new trailer for Ramona and Beezus, based on the classic series of, uh, "graphic novels" by Beverly Cleary, and starring, let's say, "Captain America frontrunner" Selena Gomez. No, no. This is not working. All that boy-friendly advice from Disney is so hard to actually put into practice!
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It's the rare movie that would relegate its expansive cast of Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, and Jonah Hill to mere title cards in its trailer, but the new DreamWorks animated film Megamind is selling itself as Will Ferrell's one-man show. It's an ironic change of pace, as the movie (about a villain who finally vanquishes his superhero rival, then grapples with the loss of his life's goal) didn't even have Ferrell in the cast until a few months ago, when it cast him to replace lead Robert Downey Jr. The tweaks didn't stop there, either: A few months later, the studio changed the film's name from Oobermind to the current Megamind.
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Thanks to our friends across the Web street for pointing out this trailer for The Greatest, which has actually been around for a while but bears noting for several reasons. First, if you've ever had the tabloid daydream of what Carey Mulligan will look like pregnant (and seriously, who hasn't?), then this will finally realize that visual. Second, it's a job well done that actually makes me want to see the film again. Third, if you have seen this already (it's been on the festival circuit since Sundance '09), then you'll know that for some reason it spoils the most shocking moment in the whole movie. Knowing that, if you're game, it's after the jump.
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We live in a bold new era of reproductive sciences, yet Hollywood has only begun to take notice of that fact. Most notable was 2008's Baby Mama, which felt less like a standalone film than it did a 90-minute episode of 30 Rock devoted entirely to the Liz Wants a Baby plotline. Coming soon is The Back-Up Plan, in which Jennifer Lopez plays a single gal with an atomic biological clock, who inseminates herself with her best friend's sperm only to meet the man of her dreams and hope he doesn't dump her for being ... too hungry? Finally, we have a project opening this August that until now was referred to as The Baster, but now is called The Switch. Sadly, our suggestion of Vagjacking Kassie has fallen upon deaf ears. In any case, its trailer debuted today. Let's investigate.
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