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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I can't claim to know what Katy Perry was doing at the Kids' Choice Awards last night (apparently, she has taught little girls that the best way to get that mean boy to stop teasing you is to make out with little Katelynn, in front of him), but she certainly provided the ceremony with its most instantly viral moment: a full-force jet of green slime to the face that knocked the Smurfs voice actress over and recreated in live action something I've only seen before in Japanese anime. Disney stars, you dodged a bullet. Watch the moment on a loop after the jump:
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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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It's time to herald the return of a beloved Movieline feature: the Hollywood Kids. Longtime fans of this publication will recall it as being the deliciously dishy corner of our previous print incarnation. But for today's Twitterized, OCD-afflicted youth, we've decided to both streamline it -- it's now just one, single Hollywood Kid -- and dispense completely with the tedious printed word in favor of a far easier-to-digest, video-blog format. And best of all? A bona fide gossip legend will be bringing it to you every week! It's none other than the man, the myth, the Village Voice columnist, the fragrance: Michael Musto, ladies and gentlemen.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
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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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Fox News commentator Glenn Beck likely welcomed his most sizable liberal audience in years Wednesday night, where the right-wing's unofficial Czar of Crazy was expected to respond to James Cameron's point-blank fusillade of insults and debate challenges. Beck didn't disappoint -- for the most part, engaging Cameron with the kind of directionless, self-immolating logic for which he's famous before getting into the genuinely good stuff. Click through for the segment.
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That headline, while technically true, perhaps undersells the wry, entrancing joy of Plastic Bag, a short film directed by Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop) and indeed narrated by the legendary German auteur. It may not be without some precedent, but for sheer intelligence, wit and ambition, the 18-minute movie handily blows the "plastic bag" sequence from American Beauty out of the water (no pun intended; you'll see). Click through for the full video.
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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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We trust your weekend was filled with round-the-clock home-screenings of New Moon, during which you swooned 'til the wee morning hours to the gender-indeterminate dreaminess of above-the-title sparklepire Robert Pattinson. But if you never made it to Walmart, you can still enjoy some of the DVD bonus features -- not the revealing commentary by Taylor Lautner's abs, unfortunately, but rather a deleted scene, which has found its way onto YouTube.
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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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Time now for a Friday afternoon palate-cleanser: Hugh Jackman -- new global pitchman for Lipton Iced Tea -- steps, shimmies, spins and slides around a hotel filled with Japanese people. (But the announcer is British. So who's going to see this ad? It's global! Globalish people are.) Did Christopher Walken do it first, and better? Probably. Get over it, grumpypants! There are no new ideas. [Videogum]
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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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