When the first trailer for Dinner for Schmucks appeared in the spring, it was slightly underwhelming. Or, as underwhelming as something featuring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd could possibly be. Still, it felt like anything but a big summer release. Schmucks seemed like the type of spring comedy that Carell (Date Night) and Rudd (I Love You, Man) specialize in. How could Paramount make this thing look bigger? Well how about by adding a Patrick Stewart sound-alike voiceover and Edvard Grieg's "In the Hail of the Mountain King"! Say hello to Dinner for Schmucks, v.2.0.
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Hey, who's game for a space-set version of Boxing Helena? That's what you'll get from the new Broken Bells video "Ghost Inside," which casts Mad Men's Christina Hendricks as an android whose galactic travel to a pleasure planet has a very high cost: most of her limbs. Don't worry, pervs -- her most Esquire-fetishized parts remain firmly attached. Video after the jump:
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It was one thing for Tom Cruise to reprise his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman and act opposite himself to promote the MTV Movie Awards, but it's a little weirder when you see him do the shtick opposite Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson and it's apparent that neither actor actually shared the set with him.
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You might remember from last week that Rachel Weisz means business. And now she has taken her business to Bosnia for The Whistleblower, the first trailer for which has made its way online. It looks a little rough -- like a rip of a VHS tape of a foreign trailer uploaded via dial-up (its pirate-suing producer Nicolas Chartier will no doubt get to the bottom of this) -- but the movie itself could be just the thing to get the distribution community stirring ahead of this fall's biggest festivals.
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From American Idol duo Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini to any number of WWE stars, human product placement in movies isn't anything especially new. But there is a certain, synergistic milestone quality to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's casting in Transformers 3, a foregone conclusion that appears to have been officially confirmed with a new video released by Victoria's Secret.
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Just as director Edgar Wright promised, once the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Facebook page reached 100,000 fans, a new trailer for the film was released to the public like a precious video game extra life. And if you like the Bryan Lee O'Malley source graphic novels, you're going to love this! Wait, you've never heard of the source graphic novels?
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After pandering squarely to its Bieber-feverish demographic, MTV has decided to go another way with the second MTV Movie Awards promo. Watch as Tom Cruise reprises his Jewish producer drag from Tropic Thunder, then subverts the space-time continuum to direct himself in the iconic underwear scene from Risky Business. 14-year-olds are going to be really confused when this doesn't end with a title card advertising Guitar Hero.
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It's been almost two years since the historic back-lot set known as New York Street burned down at Universal Studios, sending the backdrops to such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting and Back to the Future up in plumes of thick, black, haunting smoke. That would be the last studio product to catch fire for a while, alas. But hey, check it out: New York Street is back! And judging by the video below, it really is new and improved.
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This week, our Hollywood Kid takes on The Karate Kid, as Michael Musto hears that Jaden Smith will be doing very selective press to promote his upcoming star vehicle. Is it an attempt curb his tween ego, or do parents Will and Jada have another motive? In other news, Gwyneth Paltrow turns down a musical, and a big-name director is flying cross-country with a gaggle of boys in his private jet. If you don't know the answer to that blind item, trust me: someone here will.
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It's tempting to say Katherine Heigl is a polarizing figure, until you remember that for something to be polarizing it has to be equally loved and loathed. And when it comes to Heigl, people either tolerate her or want to send her into outer space on a one-way ticket. If you're in that latter group, the fact that she's a legitimate movie star has to sting just a little bit -- don't even try to fight that one, she is -- but the trailer for Life As We Know It might ease your pain. Spoiler: It ends with Heigl getting poop on her face.
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Sure, newcomer Victoria's Secret supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley may have the love interest role in Transformers 3 all sewn up, but do you think Heidi Montag is a quitter? Now that the Hills star is out of work, she's got all the time in the world to (literally) gun for the role that Megan Fox left open, and to that end, she's made a terrifying audition video for director Michael Bay that she just posted on her Facebook page.
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A foreign trailer for the Weinstein Company's longest-delayed film, Shanghai, surfaced recently after two years of mythmaking, rumor-mongering and general Web undermining. On the one hand, that's what happens for better or worse when Harvey Weinstein (or anyone, really -- but especially Harvey) drops a movie on his shelf. On the other, while I can't speak to the full-length feature, why is this even on a shelf in the first place?
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Nearly two years ago, American audiences got their first hints to brace themselves for the thriller Burning Bright, which Variety described as "[centering] on a 20-year-old and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane." Because, you know, it could happen to anyone. While it may have faded from our minds, it was never far from our hearts -- hence the overwhelming surge of emotion to suddenly find the film's trailer online and read that a DVD release is imminent. Go ahead, have a look.
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There was a time when Harrison Ford could have taken his part in Morning Glory -- as a legendary-but-washed-out news anchor relegated to working on a morning show -- and turned it into something really special. Unfortunately that time was almost 30 years ago, before he lost every ounce of his once-considerable charm. Needless to say, the new trailer for Morning Glory could work just a tiny bit better.
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In 23 seasons of The Real World, there have been countless roommates who spend the bulk of their running time either a) on the phone with the significant others they left behind, b) moaning to the camera about the significant others they left behind, or c) cheating on the significant others they left behind. The Drew Barrymore/Justin Long romcom Going the Distance is about a young couple doing a) and b) but fearing the possibility of c).
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