When Luc Besson isn't directing standing ovation-worthy biopics these days, the French filmmaker is busy co-writing action thrillers for his studio EuropaCorp to produce like Taken, Transporter, Colombiana and up next Lockout -- the sci-fi adventure flick that sees Guy Pearce as a wrongly-accused government agent whose only shot at freedom comes at a very risky, space-age price.
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"I'll sleep when he's dead!" Amanda Seyfried declares in the new trailer for Gone, referencing the serial killer who has kidnapped her onscreen sis. You see, Seyfried's character Jill is frustrated because no one in her small town believes that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has now kidnapped her sister. That's because they didn't believe Jill's story to begin with (and they're probably bored with Jill's cliched dialogue). So now it's just Jill vs. a ticking clock vs. an unsupportive police squad who tries to convince Jill that this serial killer drama is all in her head.
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Todd Phillips doesn't feel like directing the new Hangover right now, so he's taking time to helm a cray-zay party movie where a self-declared "uncool" kid throws the bash of the century. Cars jump into pools! Music blares! Girls lick on some popsicles under Fiona Apple "Criminal" lighting! Parents call to make sure everything is going OK. It's like a grittier version of Blank Check. I've been waiting for this since '94.
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If the recipe for a good holiday blockbuster is three parts violence, one part witty banter and one part cross-dressing, then the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer guarantees that this December's Robert Downey, Jr. sequel will be the best blockbuster all season. Paint on your heaviest blue eyeshadow, drag your quippy sidekick away from his newspaper and click through for the trailer.
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If you've always wanted to see Santa Claus take a bong rip, two topless nuns kiss, a toddler get high off of second-hand marijuana inhalation and Neil Patrick Harris get an under-the-pants hand job in a night club called Heaven, you're in luck. The red-band trailer for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is here and offers all of those NSFW things -- and more!
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Darren Bousman (Repo! The Genetic Opera) has directed three Saw movies -- a fact which the trailer for next month's horror pic 11-11-11 makes a point to tell you. That pedigree, plus a handful of vaguely comprehensible images, shadowy scenes, a static shot of a statue, and (unintentionally) cheesy voice over tell you everything you need to know about the movie! Well, except for its plot. And who's in it. And why anyone should care. Watch the teaser and stick around for more Buzz Break.
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For the past few weeks, Movieline's own S.T. VanAirsdale has been listing Michael Fassbender as one of the top five front runners for next year's Best Actor Oscar for his work in Steve McQueen's* upcoming erotic drama Shame. Finally, a trailer for the acclaimed film has surfaced, giving evidence again for why Fassbender -- who played X-Men: First Class's Magneto -- is so worthy of your crushes, why he ran away with the Best Actor Award at this year's Venice Film Festival and why all of those early rave reviews for Shame were warranted.
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Have you heard about Act of Valor , the upcoming Navy-approved action film starring actual Navy SEALs as Navy SEALs on a covert mission that is based on actual Navy SEAL missions? The one that totally glamorizes Navy SEAL-dom and resembles, as EW points out, a feature-length Navy SEAL recruitment video? Not yet? Well, you're in luck, because now there's a trailer.
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It has been a long, wonderful, trailer-laden lead-up to The Muppets big screen comeback. We've enjoyed clever promos of the Green Lantern parody, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo send-up and straight-forward varieties. And now, for the final hurrah before Kermit, Miss Piggy, Jason Segel and the gang storm theaters November 27, here's the latest (straightforward) preview. Beware! Uplifting spoilers ahead.
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You know which underrated actor I love? Michael Biehn. You know which other underrated actor I love? Milo Ventimiglia. (Gilmore Girls forever!) So the tense, bloody trailer for Xavier Gens' apocalyptic horror pic The Divide pretty much had me at the get go, even before Biehn and Ventimiglia faced off for control of a roomful of survivors bunkered down in a basement after the world outside apparently succumbed to Sarah Connor's nightmare nuclear blast from Terminator 2. Watch the trailer and get more midday treats in today's Buzz Break.
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Good news and bad news about American Reunion based on the very first (and very redband) teaser trailer that has just surfaced: Jason Biggs's Jim still isn't locking the door when he masturbates. This could be good news for American Pie purists who hoped the franchise would get back to basics this April, and bad news for fans who hoped Jim would never have to pleasure himself again with footwear after marrying Alyson Hannigan's band geek Michelle in the third and most recent Pie installment, American Wedding.
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This morning Disney released the first full trailer for Joss Whedon's Marvel superhero party The Avengers, and ZOMG guys -- have there ever been two minutes of action more packed with hero shots, zingers, and things blowing up before this very moment? (Michael Bay might give Whedon a run for his money, but the Avengers trailer has what even his robot spectaculars don't: copious slow-mo superhero booty shots. Consider the bar raised.)
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The last time we saw John Cusack onscreen, he was turning back time in a hot tub. Now, Cusack returns to the multiplex to travel much deeper into the past -- far beyond embarrassing '80s ski suits and Rick Springfield singles and into the 1800s, where as Edgar Allan Poe, he helps search for a serial killer who uses Poe's own gothic stories as inspiration for his murders. Take a look at the first eerie trailer for The Raven below.
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This morning, we revisited Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman and this afternoon, we get to see the Academy Award-winning actress as a suburban ice princess who returns to her hometown in sweats to lie to Hampton Inn employees, blatantly flirt with her married high school sweetheart and drink around the clock. Click through to see the first trailer for Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody's next joint venture, Young Adult.
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Let's cut to the chase: Michelle Yeoh looks simply amazing in the first full trailer for Luc Besson's The Lady, the story of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and the two decades she spent as a political prisoner in her own country. The film played Toronto last month but doesn't yet have a U.S. release date, which is too bad because after glimpsing the uncharacteristically restrained (and gorgeously shot) work here by Besson, it's one of the more intriguing upcoming releases on my radar.
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