When we last saw a trailer for November's sure-to-be animated smash Tangled (a 3D version of the story of Rapunzel), it was presented as some lazy, Disney-lite fairy tale that seemed like a total snooze. Not this time! A new trailer has arrived, loaded with the type of swashbuckling fun and quick wit that your 12-year-old inner self would find positively charming. Will your adult self feel the same way, though?
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Wondering if you should see the Angelina Jolie/Johnny Depp romantic thriller The Tourist? We've got the trailer for you, but then we also have these essential details: bullet trains, Venice canals, sniper rifles, dancing at a glamorous ball, speedboats, Angelina Jolie in a cowl, someone burning a letter with a candle, a high stakes card game conducted on a red felt table, Johnny Depp running for his life on a rooftop, no shots of Angelina Jolie's shoulderblades, weird accents, cavernous hotel rooms, long-range camera shutter "click" noises, a slinky dress collecting in a heap at someone's feet, and a high-tech computer that makes noisy "computer" sounds when scanning something.
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"Is there anything more terrifying than this moment?" says one of the doomed-to-be-part-of-a-sex-centipede co-eds at the beginning of the trailer for The Human Sexipede. Well, probably. But, fear not. The highly anticipated (and slightly redundant) porn parody of The Human Centipede has arrived and, surprise: It looks pretty funny! Click ahead to enjoy the nudity free-but-still-NSFW trailer. Here's a promise: You'll feel better about yourself after watching this than you did after watching The Human Centipede.
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In anticipation of the new book, The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (out October 12), Lucasfilm has done one of the things that Lucasfilm does best -- create a trailer. Even when it comes to the more questionable chapters of the Star Wars saga, the trailers are fantastic, so why not release a trailer for the "making of" book celebrating the greatest chapter of them all, Empire?
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Move over, freakishly consistent Ken Jennings. On Jeopardy! last night, mild-mannered Roger Craig toppled Jennings' single-day earnings record of $75,000 with $77,000 in winnings. What, what! The 33-year-old graduate student locked down the record when he knew "the inspiration for this title object in a novel and a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River," was The Bridge on the River Kwai. Of course the two-day champion still has 72 more days to go before besting Jennings' overall winning streak, but fingers crossed. After the jump watch his completely benign celebration.
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First we get news of an awards season release date, and now here's an ultra-serious, smile-free trailer for Tyler Perry's ensemble piece For Colored Girls, which is based on a play with a much longer title. Academy members, expect champagne and fruit baskets on your doorsteps soon with a personal note from Perry.
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Since I'm Still Here came out, have you been a little down on Joaquin Phoenix? Remember the happier, somewhat saner times with this brand-new animated clip, which dramatizes an odd, years-ago encounter between Phoenix and director Werner Herzog where the latter came to the former's aid after a car crash. We promise: There's absolutely no face-defecating or back hair removal.
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"A man who has seen the things I've seen; experienced the loss and pain that I've experienced... I transcend race, hombre." So says Kenny Powers at the beginning of the first real trailer for the second season of HBO's Eastbound & Down. That the disgraced former Major Leaguer -- who escaped to Mexico during the season one finale -- has a wicked set of cornrows should come as no surprise to anyone who has seen a subway ad or billboard promoting the Sept. 26 premiere. That Powers has a collection of firearms, however, might.
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If there are two things that get hearts racing here at Movieline HQ, it's Friday Night Lights and Diablo Cody's Red Band Trailer. So you can only imagine the joy we've taken out of the latest installment of Cody's outstanding web-series, which features her interview with FNL star Kyle Chandler. Ahead, the four biggest revelations from their almost too adorable sit-down. Early spoiler: Unfortunately, you won't see Louis Virtel this time around. Upside: Coach Taylor!
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The major networks aren't going to like this one bit. HBO has unveiled the first trailer for Todd Haynes' 5-part mini-series adaptation of Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce, and it basically screams Emmys. Prepare to see all these people conga line up the podium during the ceremony next year... unless the awards telecast gets relegated to cable.
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If you were one of the tens of people who watched The Vampire Diaries this past week, you got a little treat -- the debut of the first TV spot for the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Each new peek at additional footage from the penultimate Potter flick gives us something new to coo over: Hagrid dueling with the Death Eaters in the sky! The destruction of the Burrow! Ghost Dumbledore! The exciting trailer after the jump.
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The Disney Channel is taking a break from showing Jonas Brothers flossing and "That's So Raven" reruns to air a quick sneak peek at some additional scenes from Tron: Legacy. I would say it's only about a third of stuff you haven't already seen in the trailer, but still! It's all glowy and cool and computery and stuff. And isn't that what we really want in our Tron?
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After his last role as the rugby player who defeats apartheid, Matt Damon teams up with director Clint Eastwood again to play George, a seemingly average Joe who has a special connection with the Other Side in the newly released trailer for Hereafter. But will it be scarily good or just screamingly awful?
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And you thought Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was the craziest idea for a movie ever. The trailer for Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale has popped up online and it does for Santa Claus what Jack Frost did for snowmen, while also finding time to use every single Christmas-related one-liner you could possibly imagine. Sample, said ominously: "Santa is going to find out who's naughty or nice." Is he?
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The horror genre often likes to segue between bloody kill-em-offs and creepy ghost stories, and it looks like we're in the middle of that transition once again. Just as the slashers inspired by Scream eventually gave way to the J-horror of The Ring, now it seems like the torture porn genre famously led by the Saw series has ceded ground to low-budget haunted house movies like Paranormal Activity. Can Saw 3D stem the tide?
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