So you might remember that Angelina Jolie wrote and directed a feature -- a real good-time-party-blast called In the Land of Blood and Honey, about the illicit romance between a Muslim woman and a Serbian troop at the peak of the war in Bosnia. Now there's a trailer.
How does Christian Bale occupy himself between Batman movies? Apparently by filming Chinese historical war dramas like The Flowers of War (previously titled The 13 Flowers of Nanjing), which finds the actor playing another kind of hero in black -- an American priest who helps Chinese escapees dodge death during the Nanking Massacre. Not sexy enough for you? There is probably more graphic violence (including execution-style kills), impassioned screaming, Christian Bale facial hair styles (I counted three!) and sex with prostitutes in this trailer than in all of Dark Knight Rises.
The pop culture parodists at The Hillywood Show bring it with the Halloween movie-music mash-up of the season. Put your paws up and watch as they envision The Nightmare Before Christmas, only with Lady Gaga in place of Jack Skellington. The Monster Queen of Halloweentown! Somehow it's not much of a stretch. Bonus: It'll give you a plethora of Gaga Halloween costume ideas (sans the meat dress, which might be a bit tricky to pull off). More in your Thursday Buzz Break!
If you've always wanted to see Santa Claus take a bong rip, two topless nuns kiss, a toddler get high off of second-hand marijuana inhalation and Neil Patrick Harris get an under-the-pants hand job in a night club called Heaven, you're in luck. The red-band trailer for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is here and offers all of those NSFW things -- and more!
We may not have another Harry Potter film to look forward to (at least until the remakes), but there is some original Potter-related footage to anticipate still: A 48-minute documentary about the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and Part 2 that goes behind-the-scenes of the franchise's final leg with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Co. Click ahead for a teaser of the documentary, When Harry Left Hogwarts, which features the stars as they prep for their final scenes, dodge a set fire and worriedly speculate about their post-Hogwarts careers.
Kevin Smith was tickled when his Red State star Melissa Leo won the Oscar last year, as he tells it in Movieline's exclusive behind the scenes featurette from this week's DVD and Blu-ray release of the provocative horror film. In the clip, meet Leo's Sarah Cooper, the steely and devoted daughter of Red State's fire and brimstone villain Pastor Abin Cooper, as described in Leo's own words.
When Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson presented some of the first footage from their epic mo-cap collaboration The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn to this summer's Comic-Con audience, they also shared the film's "first motion-capture test" -- a cute video in which Jackson nervously auditions for the role of Captain Haddock with a bottle of Jack Daniels in hand. Now, the audition video is available for everyone to see via a new Tintin featurette.
Piranha 3DD may have been pushed to 2012, but the new teaser trailer suggests that the quality and spirit of the franchise hasn't been diluted. How could it have been, with returning fish survivor Ving Rhames dropping lines like, "Bring me my legs!" before gunning down the waters, Cherry Darling-style? Or with Baywatch's own lifeguard-slash-private eye extraordinaire, Mitch Buchannon, policing the bouncing bloodied bosoms fleeing from their piscine predators? All this and more -- "Double the terror, double the Ds" -- in today's Buzz Break!
What can you expect from the two Avatar sequels that James Cameron is currently writing for 2014 and 2015? No one is sure exactly but Nightline anchor Bill Weir was able to tease a few details from the franchise's filmmaker in a casual interview recently.
Because it looks complicated to make, has very limited mobility, and is kind of super creepy, this homemade Pixar-inspired costume -- a full-body reconstruction of the anthropomorphic Pixar Luxo lamp logo -- may not be the best costume idea for your Halloween movie-related revelries. But you've got to see it in action. Shivers. Check it out and stick around for your daily Buzz Break.
The Hostel films have never been especially distinguished paragons of the horror genre, just a bunch of stupid, sadistic bullshit for its own sake that plunged in box-office viability by more than 60 percent between its first and second installments. Still, that means it might be good for a few million bucks in the DVD market, so here's Hostel Part III -- straight to video, and straight to hell.
Love Sean Penn or loathe him, you have to at least admire any modern movie star harboring any degree of spontaneity or candor in an otherwise hypersensitive, overcalculated celebrity culture. (To say nothing of having the distinction of having been in both a Terrence Malick film and Scarlett Johansson's pants at the same time; the man is nothing if not a tireless striver for the American Dream.) Penn's latest flare-up occurred in the middle of an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, to whom the two-time Oscar winner ranted about the prominence of the Tea Party -- or, in Penn's delectable neologic parlance, the "Get the N-Word Out of the White House" Party.
For the past few weeks, Movieline's own S.T. VanAirsdale has been listing Michael Fassbender as one of the top five front runners for next year's Best Actor Oscar for his work in Steve McQueen's* upcoming erotic drama Shame. Finally, a trailer for the acclaimed film has surfaced, giving evidence again for why Fassbender -- who played X-Men: First Class's Magneto -- is so worthy of your crushes, why he ran away with the Best Actor Award at this year's Venice Film Festival and why all of those early rave reviews for Shame were warranted.
"The most chilling ghost story of our time?" you say, new trailer for The Woman in Black? We'll be the judge of that. So far it looks like Harry Potter has gone back in time to trudge worriedly through a haunted house stocked with creepy little girls and jump scares. Can't he just retire these spooks to some old paintings on the wall and be done with them, already? Expecto petr-ho-hum, if you ask me. But take a look for yourself, and stick around for more of your Friday Buzz Break.
What if Hollywood reformatted the plot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith from he-spy vs. she-spy to be he-spy vs. he-spy over the same she? Then you would have This Means War, the upcoming action comedy from McG which stars Tom Hardy (with his real accent!) and Chris Pine as two secret agents who go head-to-head after learning they are dating the same woman, played by Reese Witherspoon. Oh, and did I mention that This Means War also marks Chelsea Handler's live action blockbuster debut?
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