Trailer: VALKYRIE

There's been some bad word of mouth swirling around the production of Bryan Singer's upcoming thriller Valkyrie, mostly due to its release date being moved from its award season bow in December to early 2009. But is it as bad as some people are expecting? Variety has the film's trailer which may give us a hint of what to expect.

MPAA To Kevin Smith: Remove PORNO From Internet

It seems that even if you don't have any actual footage of your film in your trailer, the MPAA can still demand approval over it. That's what Kevin Smith found out yesterday, when the MPAA gave him a little call over the recently posted internet teaser trailer for his upcoming comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno.

As Smith himself explains over at Newsaskew-

The MPAA called and said we had to take it down.

Here’s why: Weinstein Co. (like most studios) is a signatory of the MPAA. As such, there are protocols involving trailers that we failed to follow.

As with features, all trailers get rated get rated by the MPAA. The majority of them are for general audiences (Green Band trailers), but trailers packed with adult content (like our teaser) earns you what’s called a Red Band trailer.
Well, we didn’t go through this process - simply because, we felt, that since the teaser didn’t contain any footage from the actual flick, it wasn’t technically a trailer.

Boy, was I wrong.

Turns out all promotional material for any film financed/distributed by a signatory of the MPAA has to be signed-off on by the MPAA - including internet-only materials.

I never realized this, as it’d never been a problem in the past: we’ve been doing ‘net-only teasers since Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and nobody ever raised a red flag before (not even on the last flick, for which we also put up two ‘net-only teasers in advance of the rated trailer). But I guess since the teaser was so, shall we say, racy… a rating was in order. We’re now officially submitting the teaser to the MPAA for rating. If they approve it, we’ll put it back up.

Of course, we still have the teaser trailer available here.

Get Teased By ZACK AND MIRI

Writer/director Kevin Smith premiered an internet-only teaser trailer for his upcoming comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno last night. If you are worried that it will be like most teasers and trailers and spoil much of the good stuff in the movie, don’t worry. As Smith explains on his blog-

Don’t call it a trailer, ’cause it’s not a trailer; it’s a teaser. There ain’t a frame of footage in this puppy that’s in the actual flick, so feel free to watch it without fear of "spoilers". This is just a little something to give you a bit of a feel for the flick.

Caution- If you are at work, you might want to slip on some headphones, unless your boss encourages (as oppossed to inspires) foul language in the office.

X-FILES 2 Trailer Is Here

Although the plot is still mostly underwraps, you can bet that when FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovney) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) reunite later this summer on the big screen, they will probably be investigating something spooky and/or supernatural. But that's what they did for almost ten years on their Fox TV series. But after watching the trailer below I do know one one thing- I hope that they packed some woolen underware for those snow scenes.

Glibness aside, the trailer (courtesy of the folks at IGN) does what a good teaser trailer should do- tease folks with what they movie is about without actually giving away a majority of its plot points. While I have been at best a casual fan of the series, I am interested in seeing what series creator Chris Carter and company can bring to the table after the show having been off the air for seven years. (And I'm not just talking about getting Mulder and Scully out of their fugitive status that the series ended them with.)



You can read about our recent chat with X-Files creator Chris Carter and producer Fank Spotnitz at April's New York Comic Con here.

X-Files: I Want To Believe hits theaters in July.

New PRINCE CASPIAN Trailer

With just a little over three weeks until it hits theaters, a second trailer for The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian has shown up over on MySpace. If there was any doubt that this film was going to be a bit darker and perhaps a bit more action oriented than its predecessor The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, than this trailer should put them to rest. Opening just a week before the highly anticipated return of Indiana Jones though seems like a risky gambit, giving the film only one week to catch it before their attention wanders away to a certain adventuring archaeologist.

Prince Caspian opens May 16.

NYCC: THE SPIRIT Teaser Trailer Premiers

As expected, yesterday's panel for comic book creator-turned-film director Frank Miller's adaptation of The Spirit at the New York Comic Con premiered the first footage seen from the film, in the f0rm of the teaser trailer below, courtesy of M-TV's Movie Blogs.





We'll have a full report on the panel presentation which featured Miller, the film's co-star Eva Mendes and two of its producers, Michael Uslan and Deborah Del Prete soon.

Regal Goes Red Band

Regal Entertainment Group has announced that they will begin using restricted "red band" trailers in their theaters, though they will be limited to screening only in front of R-rated feature films.

The Motion Picture Association of America, who not only rates movies but passes judgement on all advertising material for films as well, can assign a trailer into one of two categories. The commonly seen "green band" trailer is the designation for a coming attraction clip that has been approved for all audiences. A "red band" trailer will have more explicit material - sex, violence or both.

This is a great move for filmgoers, as it gives potential ticket buyers a better idea of the type of content an R-rated film has. Since they will only be shown in front of other R-rated features, no one can complain that the material is inappropriate for children in the audience because presumably if a parent had taken their kid to an R-rated movie, they would already have decided if it was appropriate for their little darling to be there or not.

Red band trailers were last seen around 2000, disappearing quickly out of theaters following a Federal Trade Commission report that accused Hollywood of marketing violent entertainment to children, never mind the fact that even then red band trailers were confined only to be screened in front of R rated films.

In a rare moment of realizing how to make the internet work to their advantage without ripping off consumers, the studios realized they could still present red band trailers on line. In the past year, racier trailers for films like Clerks II, Superbad and the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall have proven popular with web-savy moviegoers.

SPEED RACER: 2 New International Trailers

If you thought that the first Speed Racer trailer was technicolor eye candy of the highest order, wait until you get a look at the two international trailers for the live action anime adaptation that were released this weekend.

Latest IRON MAN Trailer!

If you were watching Lost this evening, you saw just a short version of the latest version trailer for the upcoming Iron Man film. Here's the full length version that will be hitting theaters tomorrow.

New GET SMART Trailer Hits The Web

A new trailer for the big screen adaptation of the classic comedy television series Get Smart has gone online. While the first trailer was more of an introduction of bumbling spy Maxwell Smart to a generation who might not be familiar with the original version starring Don Adams. This new one gives us a bit more about the story of how Smart, played to nearly deadpan perfection by Steve Carrell, comes to be the secret agent sent out to battle the villainous CHAOS (Edited to add: Errr... KAOS). You'll have to click over to Apple's site to see the trailer, as they can't be bothered to provide embed codes.

When this film was first announced, I winced. Having grown up watching reruns of the original series, long before anyone had ever dreamed of Nick At Night, I couldn't imagine anyone taking the place of Adams. But slowly, as details about the production leaked out I began to warm up to the prospect of a cinematic adaptation of the classic spy spoof. The casting of Steve Carrell is starting to look more ingenious with each new bit of the upcoming film we see, this new trailer reinforcing how he is making the role his own without straying to far from Adam's portrayal.

The new trailer also shows that the folks behind this new iteration have a certain affection for the original series. Check out this screen grab (click to make bigger) from the new trailer below-

You'll notice it is the same 1965 Tiger model sports car that Don Adams drove in the series.

New Trailer For Shyamalan's HAPPENING

Remember when we told you last week about the first trailer that had surfaced for M. Night Shyamalan's eco-thriller The Happening? Well, I hope you watched it then, because it has been taken down "at the request of the copyright holders."

Another trailer has no shown up online, this time via YouTube. This one features some different shots than the first trailer, playing up more of the mystery of what is the titular event of the movie versus showing us the effects, i.e., less people killing themselves, more people looking confused and scared by what is going on.

Watch it now before it disappears.



Of course, if you want to know more about what is happening to Mark Whalberg, Zooey Deneschel and the others, read our spoiler-filled script review here.

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Trailer!!

George Lucas sent me a Valentine today.

Not that he knows it, of course. But today is the day that we get our first glimpse of Harrison Ford back in action after nearly two decades as Indiana Jones with the teaser trailer for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Raiders Of The Lost Ark has always been one of my biggest cinematic loves, so it seems as if the franchise is sending that love back by having the trailer premier today.

If you’re heading out to the theaters today to see The Spiderwick Chronicles than you will probably see the new trailer in all its big screen glory.

If going to the movies are not part of your Valentine’s Day plans, the folks at Paramount Studios have made sure that the trailer is available at both the official Indiana Jones site and on Yahoo Movies. Or you could watch right here-

Trailer: STREET KINGS

To be honest, I haven't really been tracking the progress of the upcoming Keanu Reeves-starring police drama Street Kings for one simple reason- Keanu Reeves. Outside of his work in the two Bill & Ted movies and his role in Parenthood, Reeves has never really engaged me as an actor.

What does excite me now about the film, and which I can't believe I overlooked, is that the screenplay is co-written by James Ellroy, the great novelist behind L. A . Confidential (which also made a pretty good film), White Jazz, The Black Dahlia and other gritty noir tales. Of course, one could point out that he also is credited with the sctory for the 2002 cop thriller Dark Blue, though his original screenplay The Plague Season was rewtitten and softened to what eventually made it to theaters. Here, he shares a screenwriting credit with Kurt Wimmer, who wrote the 1999 version of The Thomas Crowne Affair.




Street Kings opens on April 11.

Trailer: YOUNG @ HEART

Rolling out of last month's Sundance Film Festival with some positive buzz is the documentary Young@Heart which looks at a New England senior citizens choir that specializes in rock and roll songs. Sure, one could make jokes quoting the Who's famous line about dying before getting old or how members of the Rolling Stones aren't too far off in age to the septuagenarians featured in the film's trailer below, but the film looks like kind of sweet. Besides, I'm wondering how the violin player fits into all of this. Do they perform some Dexy's Midnight Runners songs?




Young@Heart opens in theaters April 9.

Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING Trailer

We first told you about M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming thriller The Happening with our script review last summer.

Now that the film's release is less than half a year away, we've got a look at the film's first trailer, which should make its way to theaters shortly.




The Happening opens June 13.

Adam Carolla's THE HAMMER Trailer

Adam Carolla, the funny guy from MTV's old Lovelines series and the one half of The Man Show duo who didn't become a late night chat show host, has a new indie comedy called The Hammer coming out March 21st. And no, it is not a bio-pic about '80s pop star M C Hammer or '70s blaxploitation star Fred Williamson.

Instead, Carolla plays an amateur boxer who realizes on his 40th birthday that his life hasn't gone quite the way he thought it would. Hilarity, hopefully, ensues after he is given a real shot at a professional boxing career.

The folks at Independent Film Circuit have just released a trailer for the film, which is being hosted over at MySpace, but we're letting you see it here.

International Trailer For Wood's OXFORD MURDERS

One of my favorite directors is Alex de la Iglesia, the great, mad Spaniard behind the films Mutant Action, 800 Bullets and Ferpect Crime. After bukilding up a cult audience for his Spanish-language work over the last years, he completed work on his first English-language film, The Oxford Murders, last year.

Based on the international bestseller, the film stars Elijah Wood as an Oxford graduate student who joins forces with a professor, played by John Hurt, to solve a series of gruesome murders. When they discover that the killer is basing his crimes on certain mathematical theories, the two are in a race to solve the equations before the killer can strike again.

Unfortunately, while it was just released in Spain last Friday, the film has yet to find either a US or UK distributor. But to tease you a bit, here is the film's international trailer-




Via StalePopcorn.

STAR TREK Teaser Trailer (Officially) Online!

Last Thursday we gave you the heads up that the teaser trailer for J. J. Abrams' new franchise re-invention of Star Trek should be showing up attached to the front of Paramount's big Cloverfield release. Wellabout, twelve minutes after the teaser started screening in theaters, it showed up in bootleg form over on YouTube, to no one's surprise.

Now, Yahoo has the trailer's official online release, and you can check it out here.

The clip reveals absolutely nothing, just some interesting shots of construction culminating in the reveal that the thing under construction is the fabled USS Enterprise. Things are being held under tight wraps, and while Cloverfield showed that Abrams can keep a secret pretty well guarded, that movie didn't have a built-in fan base that was four decades in the making salivating for information on the film. It should be interesting to see if whatever is next revealled is officially released or leaked from various unauthorized sources.

At Home With The (Indy) Joneses (Plus Trailer Speculation)

Over at the official site for the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, a new production video has gone up featuring a brief tour through the Indiana Jones' home, or at least the set they created for the film. The clip is hosted by production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas who shows how the decor of Indy's residence has changed and evolved since we last saw his home all the way back in Radiers Of The Lost Ark. I really like the collection of pictures that have been scattered about the set, and I have a feeling that there will be lots to explore and discover with the inevitable DVD on "pause."

You can view the clip at the film's official site here.

While this clip is fun, I think everyone is anxious to see some actual footage from the film. The folks over at CHUD seem to think that there will be a teaser trailer released on Valentine's Day, with it going online, officially, not bootlegged onto to YouTube, the next day at the movie's official site.

TEETH Opens In NY, LA Today

While Sundance 2008 is just getting underway, the film that won the festival's best special dramatic award last year, Teeth, is just making its way to theathers this month. Starting today, the film will open in New York City and Los Angeles, opening wider in the following weeks. For a little taste as to what the film may be about, Roadside Attractions has sent along the following trailer-

DARK KNIGHT Trailer And Yet Another Poster!

If you happened to have skipped I Am Legend this weekend - and I don't blame you if you did - you wound up missing the premier of the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight. While cruddy looking bootleg versions have been popping up all over the internet all weekend, Warner Brothers has officially released it online at one of the film's many viral marketing websites.

Also this weekend, another teaser poster has shown up, this time over at Ropes Of Silicon. This latest poster harkens back to a poster from a few weeks back that also carried the "Why so serious?" tag line.

MY NAME IS BRUCE Trailer

"Bruce Campbell is the greatest actor of his generation!"

So one character tells another in the trailer for the upcoming comedy My Name Is Bruce, merely confirming what I've already known.

If you haven't heard about the film yet, the premise is simple- cult movie fan favorite Bruce Campbell plays a cult movie fan favorite actor named Bruce Campbell who is recruited by a small town to help them rid themselves of a supernatural horror that is plaguing them. Sure, the plot sounds like "The Three Amigos find Big Trouble In Little China," but it's got Bruce Campbell in it!

I've seen Campbell speak a few times and he definitely has a sense of humor about himself and his place in the Hollywood pecking order. He's further proved it with his books If Chins Could Kill and Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way. Hopefully, this will follow in the same vein. Check out the trailer and decide for yourself-

HAROLD AND KUMAR 2 Red Band Trailer

I have to admit that walking in to see Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle back in 2004, I wasn't expecting much. I'm not much for stoner comedies, but I have to admit that Kal Penn and John Cho's road trip antics won me over and Neil Patrick Harris's self-deprecating appearance had me howling. Now, Penn, Cho and Harris are back for another round with the provactively titled Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.

Here is the just released red band trailer for the upcoming flick. Needless to say, that as a red band trailer, there will be some raceier than normal material in it. Use caution for those of you wasting time at the office.



Via Movie City Indie

SPEED RACER Trailer!

This morning, we reported on the release of several photos from the Wachowski Brothers upcoming cartoon adaptation Speed Racer. And now we have the film's trailer, which hits theaters tomorrow.

Living up to the promise of the photos, the trailer captures the kinetic look of the original Japanese cartoon in live action. From the vibrant colors to the fast dialogue delivery of the businessman haranging Speed to the two glimpses of the Mach 5 flying through the air courtesy of its auto jacks, this looks to be the strongest attempt to translate a stylized comic art style into live action since Dick Tracy. It's fast becoming one of my most anticpated films of next summer.

THE ORPHANAGE: Poster And Trailer

Director Guillermo Del Toro has earned the reputation for creating some memorable horror films in both his native Spain and in Hollywood. Now, he is mentoring a protege, Juan Antonio Bayona, who latest feature, The Orphanage, has already been creating positive buzz on the fall festival circuit.

The film concerns a young woman who decides to reopen the orphanage where she was raised. However, she and her husband and son soon discover that there are spirits in the old home and they have unsettled business. Perhaps not quite the seasonal offering one would expect for a film opening a few days after Christmas, but after dealing with the holiday shopping and traveling, perhaps it's not such a departure.




You can view the trailer here.

Stephen Chow's CJ7 Trailer

It's been two-and-a-half years since Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle graced American cinema screens and fans of the Hong Kong comic/actor/director have been anxiously awaiting his next film.

Chow has done a good job on keeping a lid on specifics of the production, but it is known, after some initially confused reports, that the film will be called CJ7 and will feature Chow as a poor, widowed laborer who has an encounter with aliens. A teaser trailer for the film has now shown up online, and it doesn’t reveal much more than what we already know.

Maybe my expectations are set a bit high after the great one-two punch of Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung Fu Hustle, but the trailer leaves a bit under whelmed. Is Chow keeping the film’s jokes a close to his vest? Perhaps Chow is going to for a tone that’s different from his two previous comic masterpieces?

CJ7 is set for release in 2008.

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TEETH: Trailer and Teaser Poster

One of the most talked about films to come out of Sundance this past January was the independent horror/comedy Teeth. It stars Jess Weixler as a young girl who discovers she has a rather unusual condition- vagina dentata or teeth in her vagina. A satire on abstinence-only education and men and women's insecurities over their own bodies, the film was the object of a bidding war which saw Roadside Attractions come out as the winner.

In anticipation of the film hitting theaters next February, Roadside has released a trailer that plays up more of the horror elements of the film.

The fine folks at Roadside have also sent along the film's teaser poster-

CLOVERFIELD Trailer! Plus new website!

On Friday, we gave you a quick explanation for the unintiated what Cloverfield is. If you don't know, go back now and bring yourself up to speed. We'll wait...

OK. Now that we're all on the same page, I can point you in the direction of the film's full trailer, which premiered this past weekend in front of Roger Zemeckis' Beowulf. It's over at Apple's website and is available there in various QuickTime formats.

The trailer expands on the original teaser trailer and maddeningly still doesn't overtly reveal the creature or creatures that are attacking Manhattan. I say "overtly," as the trailer is currently being analyzed more closely than Abraham Zapruder's home movie of JFK's assassination. Personally, I like the title card at the begining that states "Camera retrieved at incident sit U.S. 447 area formerly known as 'Central Park'."

Also materializing over the weekend was a new website for the movie here, though as of now it only serves to forward one to the trailer at the Apple site.

Trailer Park: I AM LEGEND

Will Smith is the last man on Earth, being stalked by creatures who were once the rest of the population but have been mutated by a strange virus. Sound familiar? It should as I Am Legend is a remake of not only The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston, but The Last Man On Earth (1964) with Vincent Price. Both of those movies, as well as this new version, draw their inspiration from Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend.

This particular variation on a theme has been kicking around in Warner Brothers’ Development Hell.. err, Development Offices for quite a while. Ridley Scott was originally planning on doing it in conjunction with Arnold Schwarzenegger before an escalating budget killed the project. Rob Bowman also took a crack at the story, but it finally got into production under the aegis of director Francis Lawrence, after Michael Bay’s vision for the movie was passed on by the studio.
Two new trailers have been released for the film- One for US theaters and one for international audiences. Interestingly, they use primarily the same footage, but they create two differing moods. The International Trailer skews a bit more towards the horror elements of the story, while the US version subtly emphasizes the action elements.

The US Trailer-




The International Trailer-




I Am Legend opens December 14, 2007.

Trailer Park: THE EYE

Here's a little something for your weekend- the trailer for the upcoming American remake of the horror film The Eye. In it, a woman who has received an eye transplant that restores her sight begins to see otherworldly visions. The original, directed by the Pang Brothers, is an effectively creepy little film. Experience has taught us that an English linaguage remake will probably not be as good.