So it's Saturday afternoon on Memorial Day Weekend, and all's quiet on the movie news front. Suddenly, a full five days before it's scheduled to debut online, a red-band teaser trailer for David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo makes its way to YouTube. It's handheld, reportedly grabbed off the screen ahead of a Hangover Part II screening, according to Sony. There's nothing we can do with it, because studios have rules against disseminating pirated, leaked or otherwise unauthorized material, and it's easier to observe them than to have an angry publicist blowing up your inbox or phone. But what if the studio is doing the leaking?
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Isaiah Mustafa is many things -- mostly the Man Your Man Could Smell Like -- but does he have what it takes to play a superhero? That's what the Old Spice pitchman (and Tyler Perry co-star) is hoping based on his homemade trailer for Luke Cage which debuted online late last week. Should Marvel take up Mustafa's suggestion and push Cage into development? Let's take a look at the video and discuss.
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It's not even June, but that doesn't mean Hollywood isn't already thinking about the dog days of summer. Right on the heels of the first trailer for Spy Kids: All the Time in the World comes a new clip for fellow August release, Fright Night. The Craig Gillespie-directed remake features Colin Farrell as a vampire and Anton Yelchin as the neighborhood kid who must stop him from biting people. Also, from being totally creepy. Click ahead for the lasciviousness.
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What's there to say about the new trailer for Spy Kids: All the Time in the World other than that the fourth installment in the franchise features Ricky Gervais as a talking dog? Oh, right: the film is apparently in 4D -- whatever that means. Click ahead for a first look at Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, which will likely make you mad, but make your inner 10-year-old cackle with delight.
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Last year at this time, a low quality trailer for the Rachel Weisz thriller The Whistleblower found its way online. Since then, the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films, who have finally released the official trailer. Based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer who ends up uncovering child sex slavery and human-trafficking in post-war Bosnia, the thriller co-stars Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci. Anti-sex slavery PSA impresario Ashton Kutcher, you're going to want to pre-order tickets for this one.
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Some of you may have been skeptical when you heard that Seth Rogen was following up The Green Hornet and Paul with a cancer project. Maybe the first trailer for 50/50 will change your mind, however. About a young man diagnosed with cancer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), 50/50 is based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter (and Rogen's friend) Will Reiser. Rogen and a talented trio of leading ladies (Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston) co-star as Gordon Levitt's friends and family. But can they make cancer funny?
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Roger Ebert today dusts off a fabulous old episode of Siskel and Ebert featuring the critics' recollections of great summer movies. You can (and should; it's not like you're working on a pre-holiday Friday) watch the clip after the jump, and with their vintage selections in mind, let's talk about what might be worth revisiting at home amid the blockbuster glut of Memorial Day at the multiplex.
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Lindsay Lohan may be under house arrest as of Thursday, but the troubled starlet is still able to make her art house debut via a new 90-second film by renowned painter Richard Phillips. The project, straightforwardly titled "Lindsay Lohan," was shot last month in Malibu and will play the first week of June in New York City's Gagosian Gallery. Take a look at the "psychological portrait" ahead and bonus points to whomever can guess which two 1960s films inspired the filmmaker and his muse.
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Anyone else really looking forward to watching Jason Sudeikis host the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on June 5? Good. Since we're all on the same page with that, it means we can all laugh at the bizarre promotional campaign MTV has produced for the awards, which features Sudeikis visiting various nominees in increasingly inappropriate ways. The latest youngsters to get the JaySud treatment? Twilight stars Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart. Click ahead for the awkward funny.
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When great casts land in generic trailers: The Sarah Jessica Parker-led I Don't Know How She Does It features a murderer's row cast of people you love -- Christina Hendricks, Busy Philipps, Seth Meyers, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, among others -- and yet looks as tired and bland as a rerun of Sex and the City. New rule: Parker shouldn't be allowed to narrate a film as anyone other than Carrie Bradshaw. And with that ringing endorsement, click ahead to watch.
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We've known about Amy Poehler for a long time. Upright Citizens Brigade? That's 12 years old now. Graduates of Harvard's 2011 class may have actually grown up watching the Baby Mama star, which is what makes her speech to them during Class Day that much greater. Also great? Amy Poehler's terrible movie that she name-drops in the first 30 seconds.
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There may still be a solid six months until The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I hits theaters in all of its placenta-chewing glory, but that doesn't mean that life has to be Bella and Edward-less until then. The dedicated Twilight fan base generates plenty of fan fiction each day about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's characters -- some that seems plausible, and some that seems a little deranged. In a recent segment on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live, series star Michael Sheen read an excerpt from one latter passage aloud.
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These penguins are out to turn you awn, girl. In the new Happy Feet 2 trailer, a bunch of polar animals chirp the songbooks of LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, and Mystikal. Yep, that Mystikal. The only difference is some lyrics have been subbed out for the word "fluffy," which makes it seem dirtier. And maybe it is.
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Back in February, The Hangover Part II teaser trailer coined a term for returning trio of Stu, Phil and Alan: the Wolfpack. (As in "The Wolfpack is back.") The latest bit of teasing for The Muppets takes that bit of branding one step further, aping the initial Hangover Part II trailer beat-for-beat -- up to and including the nonsensical pull quotes from a random array of made-up publications. Genius. Find out what The Hollywood Resnorter said about The Muppets -- er, "The Fuzzy Pack" -- by clicking ahead.
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If you sat through the unnecessarily long and anticlimactic American Idol finale on Wednesday night, the chances are good you saw at least one of these brand new Transformers: Dark of the Moon spots. What do they offer besides the promise of space robot-led Armageddon and that face Shia LaBeouf makes when he's nervous? Well, mostly that, but also some more of that Inception-like musical score. Click ahead for a look, but if you're at work maybe toss in some headphones. These are loud!
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