The good news: We have a trailer for Salt, the Phillip Noyce-directed spy thriller once meant to star Tom Cruise, then rewritten to accommodate the gifts of noted orphan-farming she-commando, Angelina Jolie. The bad news: It's dubbed completely in Russian.
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We'll make this fast: the trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has hit YouTube in what's almost certainly a leak, given the lack of fanfare and terrible quality. So if you want to go see it, check it out now! No magic dagger can grant you the opportunity to reverse time should you not be fleet of foot enough. (UDPATE: It's now online for real -- check it out after the jump.)
Meanwhile, how is it?
Before its full trailer was released just this week, James Cameron's Avatar had three notable preludes: its debut footage at Comic-Con, an online teaser trailer in August, and, of course, the big chunk of screen time from Avatar Day. Each of those clips was met by...well, let's say less-than-universal acclaim. That said, the newest, final Avatar trailer is probably its best yet.
James Cameron might beg to differ as long as his second, much-improved Avatar teaser awaits Web release this Friday, but the new trailer for Clint Eastwood's Invictus signals the arrival of the last real Oscar-bait sales pitch of 2009. And with its biopic creds, big themes, and bad accents by American actors, it is definitely selling hard.
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When Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass agreed to keep making Bourne movies for Universal, there was an implicit promise that in doing so, the studio would let the two men make a tougher, more uncommercial film like the Iraq war thriller Green Zone. Now, the trailer for Green Zone's been released, and we can see why Universal was so quick to accede to the pair's demands -- with a little trailer-cutting sleight-of-hand, Green Zone can be sold as The Bourne Identity, but with sand.
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Welcome to the wholly accidental Werewolf Week at Movieline, a fluke of timing in which we've become something of a repository for lycanthropian studies. You've seen the bad, and you've seen the awkward -- now see the mostly good as The Wolfman rebounds from its heavy gothic roots to a sleeker, more sinewy rock 'n' roll beast. (Alas, we can't do anything about Anthony Hopkins' cliches.)
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Serious Moonlight is supposed to be a light-hearted comedy, but it's got long odds. First, there's the unlikely premise: Meg Ryan duct-tapes cheating husband Timothy Hutton to the toilet until she can force him to fall back in love with her. Then, there's the side-story of loss, as Serious Moonlight is based on a script by Adrienne Shelly, who was brutally murdered before her film Waitress was scooped up at Sundance in 2007.
And finally, there's one other thing. And I think you know what that thing is.
The first trailer for Disney's upcoming Old Dogs, pairing Robin Williams and John Travolta as gay dads to Seth Green who learn they have two newborns from a previous gay marriage (or something -- I admit I was simultaneously paying some bills online while watching it), was hampered a bit by the old trailer pitfall of giving away too much, too soon. We have Williams, we have Travolta, and we have Green -- why get bogged down in the details?
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Channing Tatum himself tweeted news this morning of the first trailer for Dear John, his inaugural entry into the world of heart-tugging, lady-ready, three-hanky multiplex romance. More than a transparent gesture of self-promotion, however, the message signaled an implicit gesture of pride announcing Tatum's arrival just beyond your expectations. It wasn't "Look at me" so much as "Look at this": Love! Drama! Sex! Tension! War! Tears! More tears! What the hell is the dude from Step Up and G.I. Joe doing here? A lot, as it turns out.
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Mel Gibson's decision to make The Beaver part of his attempted comeback is so weird it just might work: Not only does it address his pariah nature head-on, but in its lunacy, it recalls Tom Cruise's similar go-for-broke comeback bid in Tropic Thunder. Too bad, then, that Gibson's got the crime thriller Edge of Darkness coming out first. A trailer for the film was just released. How is it?
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A new film called Women in Trouble has issued its final trailer before hitting theaters next month, and it's a doozy. Tying the Los Angeles-ensemble ethos of Crash, the colorful melodrama of mid-'80s Almodóvar, the fleshy femme roundelay of Showgirls, and the guyliner flair of Josh Brolin into one histrionic bundle, the trailer may very well be the coming-out party for this year's Little Film That Could. As in, could blow your effing mind.
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Hey kids, are you excited for the trailer to Toy Story 3? Well, enjoy as the clip does its damnedest to totally depress you. Andy's grown up and he doesn't need toys anymore! In fact, the unblinking gaze of Slinky Dog is really starting to make him feel guilty when he bypasses Mom's internet restrictions late at night. (This would also explain why the Potato Heads had their eyes plucked out when Andy turned thirteen.)
Months ago, before Werner Herzog had unveiled his mostly acclaimed Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans to festival crowds in Venice and Toronto, a freaky little trailer had shown up to to blow everyone's mind with anticipation. "What, you don't have a lucky crack pipe?" Nicolas Cage's title character inquired between lung-searing tokes, pointing a gun at grandmothers' heads and bellowing epithets at anyone within earshot. But that was then; today, a newer, safer spot trickles into the open.
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$360,578,644. That's how much the first Alvin and the Chipmunks made worldwide, so before you go dismissing the viability of turning a trio of helium-huffing woodland rodents into marketable movie stars, keep that figure in mind.
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Exactly two months ago, Fox Searchlight uncorked the first trailer for Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. To say it failed would be kind; piling the cute, the twee, the bouncy and flouncy into one star-studded burst, the trailer condescended to young demographics and rekindled a wholly unnecessary pro-/anti-Anderson debate among adults. In short, it sold anything but the movie the filmmaker has spent two painstaking years lovingly crafting from scratch. It deserved better. But did it get it with the latest trailer?
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