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First trailer for Leap Year
Why does every romantic comedy trailer insist on showing you the whole movie? Leap Year [LEPYR] is no exception. Amy Adams [AMADA] plays a woman who travels to Ireland in order to propose to her non-committal boyfriend on February 29th, when by Irish tradition he must accept. If that flimsy set up is the story, then why end the trailer with the boyfriend proposing to her? We already know she's gonna end up with Matthew Goode [MTGOO], the guy she's been fighting cute with for the...
Read more »Weekend Pass: The World is Ending...Again!
Many contest the true nature of the Mayan prophecy pertaining to the year 2012, but that hasn’t kept Hollywood from using it as an excuse to destroy the planet. Director Roland Emmerich [REMME], best known for previously destroying the planet in Independence Day and in The Day After Tomorrow once again heaps fear and destruction upon mankind. Will the masses go for it?
Be they true or not, 2012 presents us with a plethora of eccentric prophecies and beliefs about the end of the world. ...
Read more »First trailer for Extraordinary Measures
CBS Films was launched by Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS Corp., as a new pipeline of content for their pay cable channel Showtime. Ironically, their first release Extraordinary Measures [XMEAS] has the feel of a made-for-TV movie. Brendan Fraser [BFRAS] plays the real-life John Crowley, who teams up with a doctor played by Harrison Ford [HFORD], to find a cure for his daughter's terminal disease. You know a feel good storyline is being driven home, when they pump up the music from Creed...
Read more »First trailer for Date Night
One would expect something more high-brow and intelligent from a comedy starring Steve Carell [SCARE] and Tina Fey [TFEY], but then again, Date Night [DATEN] is directed by Shawn Levy [SLEVY]. Instead, Date Night turns out to be a married couple wannabe version of The Hangover. I suppose emulating the highest grossing R-rated comedy ever is fine, as long as they aim for the R-rating.
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First trailer for Clash of the Titans
The teaser trailer for Warner Bros.' remake Clash of the Titans [CLASH] has been unsheathed. Sam Worthington [SWORT] stars as Perseus in a dark and grittier version of the 1981 original, whose stop motion effects have been updated with the latest CG effects. The heavy-pounding progressive metal as the trailer music seems to drive in the point that there will be wall to wall action.
First Trailer for Kick-Ass
Lionsgate has unveiled the teaser trailer for the comic adaptation Kick-Ass [KCKAS] directed by Matthew Vaughn [MVAUG]. The superhero action comedy stars Aaron Johnson [AJOHN] as Kick-Ass, Chloe Moretz [CMORE] as Hit-Girl, Christopher Mintz-Plasse [CMINT] as Red Mist, and Nicolas Cage [NCAGE] as Big Daddy.
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Box Score: A Christmas Carol delivered $31 million.
Moviegoers played scrooge at the weekend box office as A Christmas Carol [CAROL] open to a less than expected $31 million. Six weeks before Christmas proved a tad early for the CG animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic story. However, A Christmas Carol should hold up well at the box office as the holidays approach and folks get into the Christmas spirit. Robert Zemeckis' [RZEME] similar themed The Polar Express debuted with $23 million in November, 2004, but finished its first...
Read more »First trailer for Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
In what has to be one of the strangest trailer ever, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? [WDIG2] starts off like another gathering of married friends on vacation, until the music suddenly cranks up and the tone completely shifts into another genre. I guess Tyler Perry [TPERR] got bored with making relationship dramedies and decided to branch out into spousal abuse thriller.
I had to revisit the trailer for Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? just to make sure I didn't...
Read more »Dan Aykroyd voices Yogi Bear, Justin Timberlake says Boo Boo.
Before Hollywood started making movies based on toys, studios were mining cartoons and comic strips to turn into CG animated characters to star opposite live action actors. 2002's Scooby Doo began the trend that have beget Looeny Tunes: Back in Action, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks. Earlier this week, Owen Wilson signed on to voice Marmaduke [MARMA], a Great Dane with disruptive antics that drives his family bonkers. Now, Dan Aykroyd [DAYKR] is in talks to voice Yogi Bear [YOGIB], ...
Read more »Whisper Numbers: Moviegoers get an early Christmas Carol
The holiday movie season gets underway with a 3D animated retelling of the classic tale A Christmas Carol [CAROL]. Jim Carrey [JCARR] is motion-captured playing multiple roles in the Disney film directed by Robert Zemeckis [RZEME], whose previous effort, the PG-13 rated Beowulf, opened to $27.5 million in 2007. With even more 3D and IMAX screens that command higher ticket prices, the PG-rated A Christmas Carol should entice families looking to get into the holiday spirit. Swooping into...
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