It’s always exciting to keep tabs on an Oscar-winning director’s follow-up film. For “Slumdog Millionaire” helmer Danny Boyle, that film is “127 Hours,” based on the true story of Aron Ralston, who got his arm stuck under a boulder while out hiking the Moab in Utah and … well the title says the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
Two-titles with two syllables are not this week’s theme. This Trailer Wednesday focuses on two films of the thriller genre, Darren Aronofsky’s (“Requiem for a Dream,” “The Wrestler”) latest film about rival ballet dancers and a film based on the true story of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame from Doug Liman, director of “The Bourne Identity.” Read the rest of this entry »
Two distinctly opposite methods of transportation are the focal point of the two trailers on hand this week. The first is a train and the second is some kind of alien spaceship. They are two November films: Tony Scott’s “Unstoppable” and the sci-fi flick “Sklyine” from the Strause brothers. Read the rest of this entry »
At Comic Con a couple weeks back, a 40-second teaser for “The Avengers” was shown at the Marvel panel. What does this mean? Marvel has developed a logo. That’s about it. You can still watch it, however, as the clip has made its way online for all of us to watch despite it being completely inconsequential. If you needed Samuel L. Jackson’s voice to remind you this is a film about many heroes coming together to stop a mighty evil force, then you got it. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »
How is this for contrasting trailers? The teaser for the Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror film “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and this winter’s kid-friendly film based on the classic cartoon, “Yogi Bear.”
“Dark” debuted its footage at Comic Con. Del Toro described the film as being “as serious as an attack of [expletive] gonorrhea.” See if you can tell why by watching the teaser. That comment makes me wonder just what Del Toro would say about this simply awful looking “Yogi Bear” trailer. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s Trailer Wednesday is brought to you by the letter “V.” “V” as in “Violence.” I suppose we should expect nothing less from the first week of trailers post-Comic Con. Although these are mostly teasers, I figured it would be far more interesting than bringing you the latest “TRON: Legacy” trailer or the second “RED” trailer though both films should be great.
We’ll go in order of building suspense. That means starting with the brief teaser for Nicolas Cage in “Drive Angry 3D,” going on to next May’s vampire action film “Priest” starring Paul Bettany and on to the trailer that blew the most minds at Comic Con, Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch.” Read the rest of this entry »
Two highly intriguing fall films made this week’s Trailer Wednesday. If you can’t tell, I’m really high on David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” aka The Facebook Movie. Last week brought us the first full-length trailer for the film. Alongside it we have “The Town” Ben Affleck’s sophomore feature after “Gone Baby Gone” a few years back. Read the rest of this entry »
A comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis as well as a supernatural horror thriller from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan cover opposite ends of the spectrum in this edition of Trailer Weekend. Why not? Read the rest of this entry »
There was so much to put into Trailer Wednesday this week that I decided to hold it all for the weekend and blow your minds with TRAILER WEEKEND, which will feature SIX movie trailers for upcoming films, most of which we won’t see until this fall. Read the rest of this entry »
According to Warner Bros in this brand new trailer, if we don’t go see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” (parts one and two) this November and next July, we’re missing out and the single biggest movie event of our generation. Fair enough. Read the rest of this entry »
One is a big commercial action property led by funny-man Seth Rogen and the other one of those early fall borderline awards season dramas. They have nothing to do with one another, but not every Trailer Wednesday can have a theme. It’s the movie version of the comic-turned-TV series “The Green Hornet” and the Sam Rockwell and Hilary Swank criminal justice drama, “Conviction.”
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They always love to throw a good trailer my way on Thursday morning after a Trailer Wednesday. Seems like everything in the family realm wants a first look before “Toy Story 3″ on Friday, even though the Narnia property no longer belongs to Disney. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is the third adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic series and the trailer has just arrived. Read the rest of this entry »
This Trailer Wednesday is for the kids: two upcoming animated (or at least partly animated) features: one due out this winter and one not until next summer. The first, is Disney’s twist on one of the few fairytale princesses they haven’t turned into a franchise: Rapunzel, the focus of their upcoming movie “Tangled.” The second is Sony Pictures Animation’s attempt to bring those iconic blue tiny people to the big screen in “The Smurfs.” Read the rest of this entry »
After debuting at the MTV Movie Awards last night, the first teaser trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1″ is now online.
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More animated super-villainry and long-distance relationships come to us this Wednesday. First up is Will Ferrell in DreamWorks’ “Megamind” and second is the late-summer romantic comedy “Going the Distance” with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore. Also, I’ve now embedded the clips from YouTube right here on Movie Muse for the first time, so that should make this much easier for you. Read the rest of this entry »
