The new trailer for Conan the Barbarian, which stars Jason Momoa, Rose McGowan, and Stephen Lang, is probably the reddest of "red band" clips I've ever seen. In the loud, fiery trailer, we see impaled heads, decimated torsos, and general blood splatter. Fun! But remember, this is serious: Robert Rodriguez's reported remake of the important film Red Sonja hangs in the balance.
So far, Cowboys & Aliens seems like a broad parody in the vein of absurd books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Twilight, but director Jon Favreau and producers Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard shed light on its rational intentions in a new featurette. Spoiler: They do not explain why super-slim Daniel Craig looks exactly like Edie Falco.
Linkin Park is as synonymous with the Transformers franchise as Shia LaBeouf. Or at least Tyrese. The rap-rock group has contributed songs to all three films in the series, and their latest, "Iridescent," has gotten its very own Dark of the Moon trailer. Not only does this new bit of marketing feature some fresh footage from the Michael Bay-directed blockbuster, it also makes everything look really somber. Translation: Sad Shia Alert! Click through to watch, but contemplate bringing a tissue before doing so.
"What has Rob Zombie been up to lately?" you asked to no one in particular. Directing a horror spoof commercial for Woolite, of course! "[S]ome of the consumers in our focus groups described what their clothes go through with laundry detergent like a 'torture,'" Jiri Kulikwe, general manager for U.S. household marketing at Woolite parent company Reckitt Benckiser, told the New York Times. "[We] got this crazy idea of the washing machine like a torture chamber for your clothes, and then we describe Woolite as the savior." Something like that! Click through to watch the Zombie-directed new spot.
If you only prayed to the movie gods for two things last year -- no more Chipmunks squeakquels and no more spoofs on that "I'm the King of the World" scene from James Cameron's Titanic -- I have some devastating news. God is smiting you by incorporating both of those things in the upcoming Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked film. Here's a taste of the trailers that will be haunting every theater-going experience for you between now and Christmas.
Time again to remind you of life's most trustworthy truisms: 1) David Letterman is -- and always will be -- the king of late night, and 2) Jim Carrey is not just an A-List movie star, but perhaps the single greatest talk show guest of the past 20 years. Even when he's accused of "plagiarism," he shoots his pupils around, juts his jaw like an angered Katharine Hepburn, and comes out on top.
"Wait, wait, wait, stop. Is this another Muppet trailer parody?" asks Jason Segel toward the end of the latest Muppets trailer parody -- this one mocking Green Lantern. "Why don't we just show a real trailer? What are we hiding? Did we make the movie in Swedish or something?" To answer his second rhetorical question with another rhetorical question: Why show an actual trailer when these parodies are so funny? Click through for the Muppet-related LOLz.
Winning the Palme d'Or was cool, and blowing out the box office on Memorial Day weekend was pretty nice, too. But as Fox Searchllght prepares to take The Tree of Life to its broadest audience to date -- more than doubling its screen count this weekend to over 100 -- what better time to bring out the big guns? And I mean big.
Here's the good news: Your first look at the trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill) is online, and, by the looks of it, the September baseball awards has awards season potential. The bad news: It debuted on Entertainment Tonight, which means talking heads Nancy O'Dell and Mark Steines add their own distracting commentary to the trailer. But, still. It's the first Moneyball trailer! UPDATE: Now with full trailer!
Today in strange celebrity baby news: Turns out Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda (born in 1989) after the video game princess. That's interesting! And now it's very public news considering the Oscar winner and his daughter costar in a new ad for Nintendo 3DS's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D game. Watch after the jump.
Tuesday, Movieline brought you word about a special audio recording of Go the F**k to Sleep that Werner Herzog did for the New York Public Library to celebrate the release of Adam Mansbach's new children's book. Good news to report: a clip of the recording has surfaced online, and it's as Herzog-ian as you would hope. "The windows are dark in the town child. The whales huddled down in the deep. I'll read you one last book, if you swear you'll go..." Well, you know. This is hilarious. Click through to watch.
In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, Matthew Broderick's title character famously says, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." In a new Atom.com sketch, New York City-based comedy trio Sidecar Comedy toys with that concept precisely by seeing how the John Hughes character would fare in the modern world. Check out the only Ferris sequel you'll need ahead.
Oh, man. The only way the Funny or Die video "Staying Positive with Jesse Eisenberg" could be any better is if Eisenberg himself was actually the star. He's not, of course, but comic Scott Gairdner does a fairly great impression of what the 30 Minutes or Less star would look like hosting an advice show for teen girls. "Should I like goth or hip-hop?" asks one of the youngsters hoping for some Eisenberg-y insight. Great question! And plenty more where that came from -- even a music video starring "Eisenberg" at the end. Click through to watch.
Cars, explosions, a roaring soundtrack, Dungarees, lighter fluid, and... a good cry? The Sundance favorite Bellflower defies categorization in the broad strokes, but its new trailer pitches the film as something of a study in fragility tucked in a destruction derby. Let's judge this clip, which I've already entitled Twisted Metal V: Feelings.
Sad news from Sweden this week as Gunnar Fischer, the cinematographer who shot Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and a fistful of other early-career efforts from the iconic auteur, has passed away in Stockholm. He was 100 and had recently been suffering from "an infection and a fever." Let's remember one of his finest screen moments.
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