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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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the world would be a funnier place with more Zach Galifianakis. Until the comedian strikes an exclusive deal with NBC to appear on the network three-times-a-week as an ambidextrous flute player though, we'll just have to settle for the odd big screen comedy, Arby's sighting and new installments of his online celebrity talk show.
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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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Over here at Movieline, we definitely adore Johnny Weir, so I was concerned recently when the skater said he was snubbed from the Stars on Ice tour for not being "family friendly." Then I watched last night's episode of Be Good Johnny Weir, which climaxed with Weir finding unorthodox, orgasm-inducing uses for an electronic massager. I mean, yeah, maybe "family friendly" is just code to snub Weir based on his flaming gayitude, but it also, perhaps, is a mantra that does not encompass basic cable O-faces. I guess we won't know for sure unless Evan Lysacek submits to the same televised situation, which I am all in favor of. Video, after the jump:
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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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