Bummed you won't be in the audience for tonight's world premiere of Passion Play at the Toronto International Film Festival? Here's some consolation. The first clip of Mitch Glazer's Southern-set drama has appeared online and it answers this question: What would Mickey Rourke's face look like if he saw Megan Fox sprout wings? Click ahead to find out.
Studios still think audiences want to know the entire story of a movie before they see it. For evidence, just see the trailer for Country Strong, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow as an unstable country star who embarks on a comeback tour organized by her husband/manager (Tim McGraw). Said tour also features a young singer-songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) who Paltrow gets involved with, and a former beauty queen (Leighton Meester) who wants to be taken seriously as an artist.
If you wrote off Dreamworks Animation's Megamind as a retread of The Incredibles, the latest trailer for the film probably won't to anything to change your initial opinion. All this thing needs is that rousing Michael Giacchino score and Samuel L. Jackson and it could basically call itself an unofficial sequel to the Oscar-winning Pixar film. So what could potentially separate Megamind from the DVD copy of The Incredibles sitting on your bookcase? Brad Pitt.
It's the guilty pleasure you won't admit you've been waiting for! After almost two months of teasing, CBS has finally released the first evidence of Justin Bieber actually acting on the season premiere of CSI. If you'll remember, the network initially described Bieber's role as that of "a troubled teen who is faced with a terrible decision regarding his only brother -- a decision that leads him into an explosive confrontation with the CSIs." And how!
You'd think Guy Ritchie's lightning-fast cuts and shotgun-to-the-face subtlety would make him a perfect candidate for directing advertisements. But his five-minute short film with Jude Law for Dior Homme is a little slow, very pretentious and doesn't even have one explosion! It looks pretty though.
The teaser trailer for Uwe Boll's Auschwitz has finally made its debut, and -- what's that you say? Why yes, the man behind Bloodrayne, Alone in the Dark and Postal has gone and made a movie about the notorious Nazi death camp, flinging awareness of it your way like a little graphic, NSFW poison dart. Just because I ducked doesn't mean you have to. Tell me what I missed (besides Boll playing a Nazi guard, pictured) after the jump.
Call it Big Love with regular people. TLC has unveiled a promo for their sure-to-be controversial polygamy based reality series, Sister Wives, and it's guaranteed to make you long for the simple pleasures of watching Jon and Kate exploit their children and destroy their marriage.
OMGlee, you guys. In two short weeks, Glee will return to the airwaves with its much-anticipated second season and bring with it a whole new slew of Gleegasms (and other Glee-related wordplay). An earlier promo teased a couple of upcoming moments -- like the cast singing "Empire State of Mind" while dancing with choreography straight out of Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- but this new clip from the season premiere offers fans a chance to see something previously unseen: Jane Lynch saddled with subpar material.
In case you haven't been to the zoo lately, this new clip from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps should save you a trip to the gorilla house. Michael Douglas takes Josh Brolin to task for some of his shadier business practices and the whole thing turns into a dick measuring contest. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps opens on September 24, and based on the clip, I'd say it's going to 60% he-man posturing, 35% financial gobbledygook, and 5% Shia LaBeouf looking awkwardly on like a confused young doe.
Never Let Me Go is one of my favorite books of all times, a subtle but powerful story about love and loss and humanity. And even though the movie version was packed with powerhouse actors like Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling, and Carey Mulligan, I was still nervous. After watching this clip, I've got no reason to worry -- Keira & Carey, I hope you two are already picking out dresses for the Oscars.
During his radio show this week, Ryan Seacrest had Larry King duet with him on Lady Gaga's ubiquitous smash hit, "Poker Face." Neither one of them can sing, but King gets bonus points (or demerits?) for the lascivious way he scats. Shiver. If you could read my poker face right now, you'd notice a look of outright disgust. Seriously, this is more disturbing than the trailer for Hobo with a Shotgun, and that includes a woman and baby being lit on fire. Click ahead to witness the horror.
Mel Gibson, all is not lost! Though the actor may be persona non grata in Hollywood after a series of damaging, jacuzzi-related voicemails leaked to the press this summer, there still remain three famous names who'd love to work with him: the Jonas Brothers.
The world is ending and everything is terrible, but you already knew that. What you didn't likely know is that there is some mild comfort to be found in that very dystopia, as you'll see in the new trailer for Rutger Hauer's Hobo With a Shotgun. Even as you nod along with Hauer's downer monologue to a newborn baby ("People look at you and think how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your body on the streets."), the punctuating sprays of blood, brains and viscera will at least assure that that baby will be endlessly entertained. And so will you.
Here's something nice for you to watch while you're eating an entire thing of Gallo salami slices at your desk (as I may or may not be doing currently): a workout video starring Inception's semi-bisexual breakout Tom Hardy. The clip was shot as Hardy buffed up for his unrecognizable role in last year's Bronson, and it's an interesting testimonial to the modern-day reality that our best actors need to be absolute gym fiends (and that loose, baggy gym pants can still be oddly revealing). Enjoy!
Grab the Kleenex. 35-year-old Australian Kristian Anderson was diagnosed with bowel cancer that spread to his liver in October of last year, and as a birthday gift to thank his native New Zealander wife Rachel for supporting him through chemotherapy, Kristian produced a video that includes Hugh Jackman, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, lots of "Subterranean Homesick Blues"-like poster boards, a Train song called "Marry Me," and their two adorable children. Those with hearts of stone, feel free to click ahead. To the rest: You've been warned.
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