Time again to remind you of life's most trustworthy truisms: 1) David Letterman is -- and always will be -- the king of late night, and 2) Jim Carrey is not just an A-List movie star, but perhaps the single greatest talk show guest of the past 20 years. Even when he's accused of "plagiarism," he shoots his pupils around, juts his jaw like an angered Katharine Hepburn, and comes out on top.
Winning the Palme d'Or was cool, and blowing out the box office on Memorial Day weekend was pretty nice, too. But as Fox Searchllght prepares to take The Tree of Life to its broadest audience to date -- more than doubling its screen count this weekend to over 100 -- what better time to bring out the big guns? And I mean big.
Here's the good news: Your first look at the trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill) is online, and, by the looks of it, the September baseball awards has awards season potential. The bad news: It debuted on Entertainment Tonight, which means talking heads Nancy O'Dell and Mark Steines add their own distracting commentary to the trailer. But, still. It's the first Moneyball trailer! UPDATE: Now with full trailer!
Today in strange celebrity baby news: Turns out Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda (born in 1989) after the video game princess. That's interesting! And now it's very public news considering the Oscar winner and his daughter costar in a new ad for Nintendo 3DS's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D game. Watch after the jump.
The Sundance comedy Our Idiot Brother is pretty much perfectly cast: From the titular Paul Rudd role to the hard-edged Elizabeth Banks part to the hipster Zooey Deschanel character, everyone is just right and apparently unafraid of typecasting. In this new trailer, Rudd harries his three sisters (Banks, Deschanel, and typically prickly Emily Mortimer), and Rashida Jones rushes in to act as a saving grace.
Back in 2010, Disney/Pixar announced that they had such a great time making the family film Cars -- which grossed nearly $250 million domestically -- that they would continue the fun with Cars 2 (due in theaters this June 24) and Planes, a sensible spin-off for the anthropomorphic transportation series that would get a direct-to-DVD roll-out in the spring of 2013. Now that the trailer for Planes is available, the question must be raised: Does Pixar want anything to do with this?
With Jon Favreau clearly in an Iron Man state of mind following a weekend of Marvel chatter alongside Robert Downey Jr., what better time for the geek-god director to tweet out a video of Wang Kang, a 25-year-old Shanghai office worker who came to his job dressed as Iron Man. Not red-suited Iron Man, either, but homemade stuck-in-a-cave-in-Afghanistan Iron Man. Click through to watch.
Various retailers and manufacturers over the years have attempted to exploit the "wizards chess" sequence in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with chess-set tie-ins of their own. Right on cue, as we await the conclusion of the Potter franchise next month, comes this commercial for the latest -- and at $249.95, the most expensive -- such set. It looks cool! And I feel old.
When Jon Favreau said that the summer of 2011 was going to be like Omaha Beach, it's unlikely he thought his own blockbuster would be one of the casualties. Yet despite mountains of advanced hype, lately the buzz seems a bit quiet on the Cowboys & Aliens front. Does that have to do with the film still being seven weeks from release, or with the somewhat still-born trailers? Whichever the case, Universal is ready to make a push: The studio debuted a new trailer for the genre mash-up during the Guy's Choice Awards on Friday night, and -- well, the results speak for themselves. Click through to watch the best Cowboys & Aliens trailer yet.
It's unofficially spoiler week here on the Internet. On Thursday, Paramount confounded J.J. Abrams fans by unveiling a Super 8 spoiler clip so huge that Movieline couldn't even post the teaser in good conscience. Now, Tom Hanks has tweeted a new Larry Crowne trailer that contains more plot points than Sofia Coppola's entire filmography. Click through to watch.
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a serial killer only to realize that your commitment to a full-time job is keeping you from achieving said aspirations? That's the case of Colin Hanks' character Ben in Lucky... until he wins the lottery, marries an annoying gold-digger (played by hilarious Movieline heroine Ari Graynor), and starts knocking off lookalike blondes. Take a look at the upcoming indie from Gil Cates Jr. (cousin of Phoebe!) ahead.
"Kinky sex, religion, a beauty queen, Mormon missionaries, kidnapped at gunpoint. There was something in that story for everyone. It was a perfect tabloid story." So says one of the talking heads director Errol Morris interviewed for his new documentary Tabloid. The film tells the story of Joyce McKinney, the beauty queen at the center of the "Mormon sex in chains case" which burned through the British tabloid media in 1977. Not intrigued yet? You will be after watching the dynamite Tabloid trailer ahead.
Ghost is one of the few movies that is watchable, unwatchable, Oscar-worthy, amateur, funny, lame, dramatic, and melodramatic. I mean, is it good? I feel the same away about Ghost that I do about Demi Moore's overalls in Ghost. How... embarrassing...ly hot? My mind is a Mobius Strip turning in Oda Mae Brown's crystal ball. Anyway, the movie has been adapted into a musical at London's Piccadilly Theatre, and my thoughts are decidedly more final. Watch the preview!
What's up with Ryan Reynolds's constant look of shifty-eyed pseudo-terror? It's like a Will Arnett character is threatening to break out of him at any moment. In four new Green Lantern featurettes, we watch the thespian tackle the more gymnastic parts of a superhero's job, all while judging his crazy-gorgeous, arguably-just-plain-crazy looks.
Whether wearing a purple leisure suit or animated as an Italian race car, one thing is clear: John Turturro has a thing for emasculating his male co-stars. In the latest clip from Cars 2, the veteran character actor does just that to Owen Wilson -- or, more accurately, his animated race car avatar does just that to Wilson's animated race car avatar -- though with decidedly less foul language than he displayed in The Big Lebowski. Watch the clip ahead.
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