Back in January, the Michael Shannon/Jessica Chastain psychological thriller Take Shelter broke away from the Sundance pack when it was the first festival feature to land a distribution deal. After its Sundance premiere, the Jeff Nichols film earned high marks from critics, was suggested as a possible contender for this year's Best Picture race and -- just last week -- won the top critics award at Cannes. Finally, Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for Take Shelter so that you can see why this Ohio-set drama is garnering such positive buzz.
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Take that, #thefirerises! In a bit of viral marketing that rivals The Dark Knight Rises, Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the big-screen return of The Muppets under the cover of Green With Envy -- a fake romcom co-starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams. And Kermit. And Miss Piggy. Click ahead to up your nostalgia intake by 76 percent.
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Only a Death Eater would find the marketing for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II subpar -- after all, between that epic poster and that epic trailer, the final chapter in the mega-franchise looks positively, er, epic. The only problem? That Voldemort spell scream that gets looped at least three times during the latest television spot. Dude is the Monica Seles of dark wizards. Click ahead for another look at The Deathly Hallows.
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What do you do when an unfunny, giant-chinned comic takes your dream job away from you? Go on a nationwide tour and film the thing for a documentary, that's what! The first trailer for Conan O'Brien Can't Stop -- the film component of the "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" -- arrived online over the weekend, and brought with it the required amount of Conan O'Brien self-deprecation. Also, some previously unforeseen anger. Click ahead for a first look.
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If it's Sunday then it's time for another X-Men: First Class TV spot. Earlier, a sharp commenter observed, roughly, that at the rate we've been getting sneak peeks, teasers and trailers, all that's left to show at this point is the credits. But in this spot we've got crazy amounts of action, explosions and fight scenes. No time for heavy statements on revenge and options now; Professor X is about to bust a cap in someone's ass! Check it out below. [Coming Soon]
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You might've seen the new Green Lantern trailer in front of your 3-D Pirates of the Caribbean 4 screening, but just in case you're lucky enough to avoid that cinematic trashheap, here's the full trailer below. Charge up your power rings and take a look!
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You've already enjoyed the first American glimpse at Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's motion-capture epic, but now take a gander at The Adventures of Tintin trailer our friends overseas are enjoying. It's mostly the same with a new shots and scenes thrown in, but what's most disconcerting is that this trailer still has the same reticence to show the characters faces, particularly when one of them is speaking. Is it because, despite the metric ton of cash dumped on it, motion capture people still dwell in the uncanny valley of creepy dead-eyed mannequins? Maybe! At least they actually said Tintin's name in this one. Take a look below!
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The Hitler-rant-from-Downfall meme hasn't been especially fresh for a while now, but some enterprising soul found a useful contemporary application in this week's news that Lars von Trier was banned from the Cannes Film Festival for likening himself to a Nazi. Der Führer, who apparently had a meet-and-greet scheduled with the controversial filmmaker, is most displeased.
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The marketing machine for Transformers: Dark of the Moon is really ramping up now that early-bird journalists got their first look at the kinetic 3-D action stylings of Michael Bay -- a portion of which footage is now online for your perusal/approval -- and Paramount decided to move up their release date to June 29. After the jump, watch the 3-D trailer (in 2-D here, obviously) filled with wanton destruction, a tease of Dark of the Moon's conspiracy theory premise, and more glorious destruction as Decepticons tear through downtown Chicago.
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Fun fact: Jim Carrey guest starred on The Office last night, and in an episode full of celebrity cameos -- Ricky Gervais, Ray Romano, James Spader and Will Arnett among them -- he stood out with barely two minutes of screentime as "The Finger Lakes Guy." If only Carrey was able to exhibit that much funny in the icy full-length trailer for Mr. Popper's Penguins. Parents, here's hoping you're ready to see a choreographed penguin dance routine set to "Ice, Ice Baby" when you take the kids to see this next month.
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Is your best black tie attire in the cleaners? Fear not! You only need street clothes -- or even pajamas -- to attend the red carpet premiere of The Hangover Part II in Los Angeles. That's because your friends at Movieline HQ are hosting a live stream.
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If you've been dying to know what fabric Andy Samberg secretly dreams of being and why, Bert -- of Sesame Street fame -- is there for you. As part of a James Lipton-esque new YouTube series called Conversations with Bert, the felt icon will be picking the brains of your favorite actors and comedians. Watch the first episode featuring "pancake visionary" Andy Samberg ahead.
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It seems we're all about LEGO everything these days; we've already got LEGO versions of half of this summer's tent pole slate. But there's something special in the latest installment of LEGOmania, a gem of a re-envisioning commissioned by Disney Pixar that recreates the first Cars 2 trailer entirely in LEGO.
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Michael Bay is on some next level business with the July sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and I'm not even talking about 3-D. I'm talking about the squadron of stunt skydivers he enlisted for a sequence where Josh Duhamel leads a team of wingsuit-wearing soldiers into a Chicago battle zone from the air above.
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How do you follow up a quadruple Oscar-winning historical drama? If you're King's Speech director Tom Hooper, by filming a Captain Morgan Rum commercial. Check out the spot -- conveniently debuting on the eve of the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides premiere -- ahead.
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