Hey guys, Crazy Aunt Julia is back and in a movie! It is called Eat, Pray, Love, and as near as I can tell from the trailer, it is about a woman who gets tired of having sex with Billy Crudup and James Franco, so she goes around the world eating carbs until she gets to have sex with Javier Bardem. Anyway, that's not the important part...the important part is that Jules is going for it. No more of this "minimally acting ice queen" business we've seen as of late in Duplicity and the Ocean's movies -- instead, this is way closer to the kooky aunt we know, love, and want to get drunk with. As proof, make those damn kids take a nap, grab a glass of cabernet, and enjoy both the trailer and this collection of the 9 best Julia Roberts faces from it:
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Audiences may not have known what to expect when TV Land announced its first original sitcom, Hot in Cleveland -- after all, this is the network that built its brand on vintage Alka-Selter commercials aired during stale episodes of Designing Women. But after seeing the first clip from Cleveland, Movieline is ready to make a bold prediction about the fate of the show and its Golden star.
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Did Michelle Williams take the career we thought Katie Holmes was going to have? Once upon a time, Holmes was regarded as the Dawson's Creeker with the most promise, an actress with subtlety and star power who'd certainly have a healthy life in movies after her show happened. And then, things happened. Now, Holmes is only a part-time actress, and one of her scattered few projects is The Romantics, where she goes head to head with Anna Paquin.
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HBO's most expensive pilot ever, Boardwalk Empire, established its must-see creds early via affiliations with director Martin Scorsese and ex-Sopranos writer Terence Winter. Its first teaser didn't hurt much either. So if Empire's new teaser feels a little like it's merely piling on the epic scale and gilded pedigree of the whole enterprise, you're forgiven for asking it to lay off maybe just a bit.
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Apologies again for subjecting you earlier to the trailer for Iron Cross. It was for your own good, I swear -- newsworthy, topical and emblematic of a larger issue at hand with bad cinema. More and more bad cinema has entitlement issues, from crummy, lazy romantic comedies worth a fraction of the $10-$12 they coax from you to overwrought dramas that barely hide their contempt for viewers. And bad cinema begets bad trailers like the one mentioned above. They can all take pointers from the admittedly NSFW preview for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, which spins camp, satire and genre comprehension into a splendid little whirlwind of publicity worth probably 1,000 times its budget. And it doesn't even sell a movie.
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By now you know all about the controversy surrounding Iron Cross, the handiwork of one Joshua Newton and the final film of the great Roy Scheider. Perhaps the saddest thing about the scandal afflicting this film and Variety -- which allegedly buried a bad review of the film over Newton's $400,000 ad buy and putative Oscar campaign for Scheider -- is how much sturm und drang and bitter angst is being expended over something as monumentally dreadful-looking as this. Click through for your slightly-used evidence.
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Two of this year's most anticipated movies have already finished their EPKs, and now you get to watch a little bit of 'em. Sound good? First up, we have Predators, the Robert Rodriguez-produced reboot of the series that essentially tries to get away from the Alien vs. Predator franchise by simply ripping off Aliens, not featuring them. It's a small but crucial difference! In the other corner, we've got some making-of footage from the next Twilight installment, Eclipse, and it's actually way more involving than the film's teaser trailer. Green-screen shenanigans, Bryce Dallas Howard's terrible wig, people being flung all over the place, brand-new shirtless jailbait...what's not to like?
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The trailer is out for Nicole Holofcener's guilty comedy Please Give, and for the most part it really feels like film itself: There's a lot of sharply observed, awkward funnytimes involving Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall, and then it kind of just ends! Alas, there is one notable scene the trailer simply couldn't include, and that's the delightful opening montage of breasts being placed in a mammography tray, set to "No Shoes" by The Roches. Trust Movieline when we tell you that you have not seen this many bare boobs in a movie in the last decade. (Hey, Sony Pictures Classics, let's put that on the poster!)
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A snappy U.S. trailer is making the rounds today for the upcoming film Boogie Woogie, which makes the ensemble satire look like, as Vulture notes, "Valentine's Day but about art." You know what doesn't make the movie look like that? The original international trailer, which is just one hot lesbian sex scene after another, with the occasional shot of Heather Graham, Gillian Anderson, and Amanda Seyfried. (There's just something about Seyfried, international trailers, and girl-on-girl action, isn't there?) Movieline's got both trailers for you. Go ahead and pick your favorite -- the verdict is yours.
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After an unsuccessful, off-putting foray into nu-metal teasers, the ad campaign behind Ridley Scott's Robin Hood has refocused itself for this week's full trailer. Now, we get a more classical approach to the story, a lengthy backstory for Robin (Russell Crowe) involving his dead father, and a whole lot of shots of Maid Marian, action hero. (Cate Blanchett donning chain mail didn't help Elizabeth: The Golden Age much, but let's hope she fares better here). Does it all seem a little familiar? Yes, but I'd argue to its advantage. The trailer says, "This is your father's Robin Hood -- just much, much more expensive-looking," and there's nothing wrong with a traditional approach done right. Let's just hope all those scenes of straight-shooting arrows inspire some spatial coherence from Scott's action editing.
VERDICT: Interested.
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Kim Masters wrote something yesterday about how Taylor Lautner may soon usurp the role of Twilight franchise mascot from Robert Pattinson -- if he hasn't done so already. It seemed a little unlikely to me, if only because Pattinson's the one among them who can actually act when provided any halfway-decent material. But between all the broody portent and LOLZ-y line readings, there's something kind of touching about Lautner in the first trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
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The full, 90-second teaser for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is due tomorrow, but why not tease the teaser with a 10-second version today? Here's what you get: two full lines, one of which is a howler. Shots of the Pacific Northwest! Bella and Edward on a bed, not in a bed. And, of course, the Taylor Lautner torso. Sadly, no one is marrying vampire babies or cracking rib bones yet. Give it time, kids. Give. It. Time.
VERDICT: If they're going to tease tomorrow's trailer, I'm going to tease tomorrow's verdict. Oh, who am I kidding: I loved it so much, I don't want to have sex with it til marriage.
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For the first, mostly irrelevant analog minute of the new Tron: Legacy trailer, a familiar-looking man with a voice for luxury car commercials delivers big news to a younger man in his 20s: he was paged the night before by the boy's long-missing father. This is shocking for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the fact that someone in 2010 can still get paged. A motorcycle voyage to Flynn's Arcade, a mysterious portal to the unknown ... do you see where all this is leading? Precisely! Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges is still being held against his will by an evil, blacklight-abusing microprocessing regime, and only his son can get save him, after 93 minutes of Light Cycle races, Ultimate Identity Disk tournaments, and Michael Sheen showing off his wicked Air Guitar Hero moves in an outfit even gayer than the one he wore in New Moon!
Verdict: My memory stick just involuntarily uploaded.
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Jimmy Kimmel welcomed the blue-tied Robert Downey Jr. to his post-Oscar special Sunday night, where the actor unveiled the latest trailer for Iron Man 2. I'm just going to slap a huge SPOILER ALERT on this because everything that can possibly be good about the movie -- Downey's wan heroism, his chemistry with Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell turning the villain knob to 11, new outfits and gadgets, guitar wankery beneath roaring gunfire, etc. etc -- is all given away right here in under three minutes. Oh, and look: Scarlett Johansson! And her stunt double! This is filthy!
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After an energetic but brief blast of a teaser, Apparition has released the full trailer for The Runaways, and it's much closer to the tone of the movie than that first clip -- they even added appropriately Quaaluded Dakota Fanning narration to drive home that "drowsy rock movie dream" vibe. What else is there? Would you settle for some underage lesbian shenanigans?
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