With Jon Favreau clearly in an Iron Man state of mind following a weekend of Marvel chatter alongside Robert Downey Jr., what better time for the geek-god director to tweet out a video of Wang Kang, a 25-year-old Shanghai office worker who came to his job dressed as Iron Man. Not red-suited Iron Man, either, but homemade stuck-in-a-cave-in-Afghanistan Iron Man. Click through to watch.
Various retailers and manufacturers over the years have attempted to exploit the "wizards chess" sequence in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with chess-set tie-ins of their own. Right on cue, as we await the conclusion of the Potter franchise next month, comes this commercial for the latest -- and at $249.95, the most expensive -- such set. It looks cool! And I feel old.
When Jon Favreau said that the summer of 2011 was going to be like Omaha Beach, it's unlikely he thought his own blockbuster would be one of the casualties. Yet despite mountains of advanced hype, lately the buzz seems a bit quiet on the Cowboys & Aliens front. Does that have to do with the film still being seven weeks from release, or with the somewhat still-born trailers? Whichever the case, Universal is ready to make a push: The studio debuted a new trailer for the genre mash-up during the Guy's Choice Awards on Friday night, and -- well, the results speak for themselves. Click through to watch the best Cowboys & Aliens trailer yet.
"Kinky sex, religion, a beauty queen, Mormon missionaries, kidnapped at gunpoint. There was something in that story for everyone. It was a perfect tabloid story." So says one of the talking heads director Errol Morris interviewed for his new documentary Tabloid. The film tells the story of Joyce McKinney, the beauty queen at the center of the "Mormon sex in chains case" which burned through the British tabloid media in 1977. Not intrigued yet? You will be after watching the dynamite Tabloid trailer ahead.
Ghost is one of the few movies that is watchable, unwatchable, Oscar-worthy, amateur, funny, lame, dramatic, and melodramatic. I mean, is it good? I feel the same away about Ghost that I do about Demi Moore's overalls in Ghost. How... embarrassing...ly hot? My mind is a Mobius Strip turning in Oda Mae Brown's crystal ball. Anyway, the movie has been adapted into a musical at London's Piccadilly Theatre, and my thoughts are decidedly more final. Watch the preview!
What's up with Ryan Reynolds's constant look of shifty-eyed pseudo-terror? It's like a Will Arnett character is threatening to break out of him at any moment. In four new Green Lantern featurettes, we watch the thespian tackle the more gymnastic parts of a superhero's job, all while judging his crazy-gorgeous, arguably-just-plain-crazy looks.
Whether wearing a purple leisure suit or animated as an Italian race car, one thing is clear: John Turturro has a thing for emasculating his male co-stars. In the latest clip from Cars 2, the veteran character actor does just that to Owen Wilson -- or, more accurately, his animated race car avatar does just that to Wilson's animated race car avatar -- though with decidedly less foul language than he displayed in The Big Lebowski. Watch the clip ahead.
This is one where it's probably best just to do a quick intro and get out of the way: To commemorate the 20th anniversary of their post-feminist partners-in-crime road trip Thelma and Louise, co-stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis dropped by Toronto's shimmering Bell Lightbox for a special screening and discussion with Toronto International Film Festival honcho Noah Cowan. The fest's YouTube page put just about 100 seconds of the Oscar winners' chat online; here's hoping for there is more where that came from. Check it out:
You'll note that the new trailer for The Help calls Kathryn Stockett's source material a "sensational bestseller." That may be, but not much else is screaming "sensation" here: Viola Davis's one-note dignity, Bryce Dallas Howard's adversarial prissiness, and Emma Stone's smiley do-gooder shtick aren't providing much in the way of originiality. But maybe I'm just cynical; check out the new international trailer and let's hash this out.
Just days after Gwyneth Paltrow joined Twitter, her fellow Best Actress Oscar winner Nicole Kidman has also jumped into the 21st century by posting a YouTube message to her fans. Check out the sweet sentiments Kidman shared from the set of HBO's Hemingway & Gellhorn below.
The Guard has screened to very strong reviews at film festivals from Sundance to Berlin to Tribeca, and the brand new trailer for the film makes it look like the type of funny and irreverent import that would fit well on your DVD shelf in between Hot Fuzz and In Bruges. The only problem: what kind of accent is Oscar nominee Don Cheadle attempting here? Your guesses are welcome ahead!
This clip from the French Bridesmaids junket was uploaded to YouTube over a week ago, but only now is its splendor started to light up newsfeeds and Facebook scrolls across our great nation. Here's all you need to know: Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are quizzed about scatological humor, and they both (along with the giddy interviewer) devolve into hysterics. It may be the first and last time you ever see movie stars really laugh.
Forget whatever you read about Green Lantern not having -- ahem -- buzz. The forthcoming comic franchise starter has been on the promotional warpath during the last 24 hours, and the release of eight (!) clips overnight has turned this one into an X-Men: First Class-like market saturator. While many of the new peeks highlight and expand scenes previously glimpsed in the trailers, at least one clip offers something brand new: a look at Parallax, and the special effects work that once seemed so dodgy. Click through to investigate.
You know how some mornings you wake up and go to work and browse the Web and wonder what you ever did to deserve the psychic flogging colloquially referred to as "popular culture"? And then some mornings you do it all over again despite thinking you simply can't put yourself through another... freaking... pace... of... any of it? And then there's that one rare morning when the dawn is just the right hue, the coffee is just the right flavor, and the culture gods you thought long dead or absentee at best actually signal their interest in satisfying you, if even for only five and a half minutes and preceded by a 30-second ad? This is that morning.
New Era Cap Co. has unveiled a third commercial in their ingenious Yankees/Red Sox rivalry campaign featuring Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski. In the latest spot, the Something Borrowed scene stealer recovers from that nearly face-breaking punch that Baldwin delivered last month with a highly-detailed pet prank. Enjoy while wondering how Movieline's favorite Twitterer is the only person or animal here who gets away with not wearing any of the products he is advertising.
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