What has Gore Verbinski done as a follow-up after directing the first three installments of the mega-franchise Pirates of the Caribbean? You'll see for yourself in the trailer below, though you may not understand it.
If you were blown away by Salma Hayek's overreaction to a slithering snake, then get ready for something even more out-of-hand: Patrick Stewart stone-cold losing it on stage because some fattie dared to put his hands in his pockets, or something. I'm paraphrasing! Still, this Glamour Awards spat between the knighted actor and British comedian James Corden is just so, so cringe-inducing that the writers for The Office might as well hang up their hats, confident it will never be topped. And then Zoe Saldana comes onstage and sells out her Star Trek predecessor! Man, if you need me, I'll have cringed myself into a fetal ball like a sawbug under attack.
I arrived a little late to the Japanese phenomenon that is The Big Tits Zombie, a 3D grindhouse throwback whose original trailer winked a little too hard at the viewer in April. The new one isn't really that much better, but at least it has an improved and more fully realized sense of vision, narrative and genre. Oh, who am I kidding? This makes George A. Romero look like Robert Bresson (if Bresson were NSFW).
Looks like the marketing team over at AMC has actually decided to rouse itself and cut together a real, honest-to-goodness trailer for Rubicon, the secret series that will premiere with virtually no promotion after the Breaking Bad finale this Sunday. The good news? It looks like it could potentially fill the clue-assembling void left by Lost and The X-Files.
A mysterious short film making the rounds appears to confirm that a new movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat is en route, stripping away the kitschy gloss of the early '90s in favor of a bleak, hyperviolent and aggressively tin-eared take on the classic video-game franchise. Dark Knight-era revisionism aside, there is something this sizzle reel has a combo no other action enterprise can claim: Jeri Ryan, Michael Jai White and deformed reptile babies! [Video after the jump NSFW, obviously.]
How do you follow up a bleak, underperforming, confusingly marketed film like The Road? If you're director John Hillcoat, you get hired by Rockstar Games to make a 30-minute film to promote the new game Red Dead Redemption, using only in-game assets. The short premiered on Fox at midnight last month; now it's online, and...this is basically just a compilation of the scenes that are already in the game? Who knew?
Back in February, we brought you 9 compelling images from the first trailer for Showgirls 2, an unauthorized, insane semi-sequel to Paul Verhoeven's camp classic that appeared to have been cobbled together from B-roll, spare footage of naked ladies writhing around, and sheer chutzpah. Now director Marc Vorlander has released a second trailer (and the film has been retitled to Showgirls Exposed, because duh, copyright issues) and it is so joy-inducing that it made me clap my hands together several times like I was either a seal or Paula Abdul. Let's get right down to it: here are the 9 best stills from this new masterpiece, and then the trailer at the end.
What a seven days for fans of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Of course last week the fabulous new trailer was released -- along with a new TV spot -- and both seemed to confirm one thing: Fans of the graphic novel series will be head over heels for Edgar Wright's film. Everyone else, well, that was a different story, but Wright and Universal are determined to change that. On the MTV Movie Awards pre-show, the director premiered an exclusive new clip from Scott Pilgrim and it looks perfectly accessible to geeks of all shapes and sizes. So, everyone! After the jump, the three key marketing moments in the clip.
Gay kissing! It's only the latest, most popular trend ever! Just ask Sandra Bullock, who'll make out with anyone! Or Jason Bateman and Dustin Hoffman, who've become Hollywood's glam new power couple! Or Christian Newswire, a site that blames the implication of gay kissing for American Idol's most boring season! OK, I'm going to stop using exclamation points now!
Lest you think the MTV Movie Awards only provided profanity and vagina lights, there was also a new teaser trailer for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. And, would you look at that: Harry Potter's all grown up!
It's been a while since a movie trailer was able to use Sha Na Na, The Crystals and The Rascals as irony free music cues, so for that reason alone you should be interested in Flipped. That it could also possibly be a return to form for director Rob Reiner -- legitimate question: when was the last time he made a good movie? -- and will likely make you cry tears of happy are only added bonuses. And hey, is that Aidan Quinn?
You most likely didn't have high hopes for Gulliver's Travels anyway -- the poster looks like one of those spoof movies in Tropic Thunder -- but goodness is this trailer truly awful. It would be tempting to wonder how far Jack Black has fallen, but since he did star in Year One all bets are clearly off.
It's wacky celebrity video day! Mere hours after we all hoisted a margarita to Gwyneth Paltrow's taco-making expertise, here we have Bruce Willis selling Sobieski Vodka for some reason (I'm sorry you didn't get the call, Leelee). It's all part of an advertising strategy that somehow warranted a New York Times profile despite adhering to the decades-old gambit of "Hire celebrity to sell product." Meh. They're no Seagram's wine coolers.
In her GOOP manifesto this week, actress/lifestyle icon/aspiring Food Network Star Gwyneth Paltrow includes a video in which she prepares a Mexican dinner, family style. I think we can all agree how it's remarkable that over the course of the six-and-a-half-minute clip, Gwyneth a) doesn't ostentatiously brag about her utter fluency in Spanish and b) actually speak in Spanish for at least half of the running time to demonstrate said fluency. Also remarkable: the amount of baby food and stomach crunches her punishing personal trainer Tracy Anderson will inflict on her for daring to eat an actual meal. Hope it was worth it, GP. Video after the jump:
Your Hollywood Kid Michael Musto was even more Hollywood this week: he just got done with shooting a cameo in the Smurfs movie, alongside other real-life celebs like Tim Gunn and Joan Rivers. Speaking of Ms. Rivers, Musto has the inside scoop on why she hated her new documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, then came around after the good reviews started pouring in. All that and some tantalizing blind items, too? Musto, you spoil us.
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