Remember Oscar season 2010-11? Remember we had to keep caring about The Fighter? I can't believe how long we had to care about The Fighter. For me it was the Cold Mountain of 2011. The louder you squawked, the better your Oscar chances. Did you wave your hands frantically a lot of the time? Did you steal your accent from an SNL table read? See you at the dais. Anyway, I'm still sore with Mark Wahlberg, and I'm approaching the international trailer for his new movie Contraband with that rancor. It comes out in January, so it has to be laughable. Let's laugh.
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It's still too soon after Green Lantern for me to embrace Ryan Reynolds as a rugged protagonist. When we erase his comic sensibilities, we're left with a geometric jawline, bleak opals for eyes (like expensive Frosty the Snowman), and an anxious self-seriousness that Van Wilder would've mocked. In the trailer for Safe House, he dons the hero face again playing a hunted man alongside Denzel Washington, who is killing it here. Trailer after the jump.
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Halloween may be over but that doesn't mean that the movie theater scares will be. How do we know? Because Dark Sky Films has released a trailer for Ti West's latest horror film The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton and Pat Healy as the last remaining employees of the Yankee Pedlar Inn who decide to investigate for ghosts one last time.
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You may not be able to see My Week With Marilyn until Thanksgiving, but you can watch Michelle Williams channel the Hollywood bombshell right now. In a song and dance clip courtesy of our friends at Moviefone, the probable Oscar contender shimmies and shakes out a rendition of Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave" in sequins. The temperature rises ahead.
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Say what you will about the legacy, taste and accomplishments of Gilbert Cates, the veteran producer and director who died today at age 77, but few people over the last quarter-century had more influence over the public perception of the Academy Awards. Maybe eight-time host Billy Crystal -- except that 14-time producer Cates was responsible for hiring him.
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Following in Hugh Jackman's Real Steel-shilling footsteps, the Muppets headed over to the WWE's Monday Night Raw last night to promote their upcoming movie. Only instead of providing six minutes worth of awkward, forced film promotion, the fuzzy characters brought their own brand of innocence and (what appears to be) some of their own writing to the ring. Surprisingly, Muppets meet Monday Night Raw almost worked...when the inanimate Jim Henson gang wasn't out-acting WWE's regulars.
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In the latest, Very Special Holiday Episode of Verbal Vogueing -- starring Movieline's own beloved Anthony Perkins doppelganger and Madonna enthusiast, Louis Virtel -- things get spooky. We're talking Halloween cliches so tired they're lazily wearing a slutty plastic bag costume from the gas station. But fear not: Louis is here to save Halloween with his snappy verbal stylings!
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If you thought you had seen the last Muppets parody trailer, think again. With less than a month until Kermit and Miss Piggy storm the theaters for their movie comeback, The Muppets Studio has a released another promo in which the fuzzy gang pokes fun at Paranormal Activity 3, Puss In Boots, Breaking Dawn and themselves.
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How hardcore is Tom Cruise? So hardcore that he actually scaled the tallest structure in the world -- Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which stands at just over a half-mile high -- for a perilous, stomach-churning action sequence in the upcoming Brad Bird-directed Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Video proof of the superstar's stunt hardcore-ness ahead.
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While at the Austin Film Festival to pimp this week's Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary, star Johnny Depp grabbed his guitar and took to the stage with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top for a surprise rock show. Because that's how you get the kids to come to your new period movie, folks! Viral marketing meets rock 'n' roll! Johnny Depp can do no wrong! Watch the video and stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Empire Magazine gathered ex-Hobbit pals Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry (otherwise known as Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan) for a reunion photo shoot to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring, in the December issue. It'll include Viggo Mortensen's behind the scenes photos, concept art, and stories from the set, and to whet your appetite Empire's released a brief "trailer" from its recent Hobbit cast reunion.
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If the recipe for a good holiday blockbuster is three parts violence, one part witty banter and one part cross-dressing, then the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer guarantees that this December's Robert Downey, Jr. sequel will be the best blockbuster all season. Paint on your heaviest blue eyeshadow, drag your quippy sidekick away from his newspaper and click through for the trailer.
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When Rhys Ifans crosses paths with Peter Parker & Co. as the villain The Lizard in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot, his performance will partially be obscured by CG accoutrements. But one element of the baddie should be a little more recognizable, even after, as Ifans suggests, audio effects will be employed to make him sound even more otherworldly. Not that he needed much help terrifying intrepid MTV reporter Josh Horowitz, as he did when he unleashed a voice akin to Gollum on steroids. Watch and listen for yourself after the jump.
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In addition to giving the Gaddafi assassination the ol' Taiwanese 'toon treatment, the good folks at Next Media Animation have processed the recent Avengers trailer through their kooky CG filters. The result? One and a half minutes of hilarious superhero (and gyrating ScarJo) action that imagines the titular crime fighters are called to assemble to battle the evil, cell phone-hacking, nude pic-distributing Loki. There's no way the actual movie will be this entertaining. Stick around for more Buzz Break!
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Director Dante Lam has been called the Michael Mann of Hong Kong cinema, and Movieline's exclusive clip from his latest pic, Fire of Conscience, demonstrates why: In the span of just over a minute, watch as a nighttime foot chase in a busy metropolitan street turns deadly as a portentous rain falls, all captured in gloriously saturated hues with menacing finesse. Watch the clip and get more details after the jump.
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