Paramount has unleashed the full, theatrical trailer for World War Z [WWARZ] on Apple. Brad Pitt [BPITT] stars as an United Nations scientist who travels around the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that has turned the infected into fast-running zombies that overrunning armies and threatening to end humanity. No one is safe, even if you are airborne in a helicopter or an airplane. World War Z begins June 21st.
The first DreamWorks Animation movie to be distributed by Fox, the prehistoric family tale The Croods [CROOD] banked $44.7 million to lead the weekend box office. Families were 70% of the audience, which gave an CinemaScore of A indicating strong word of mouth.
Gerard Butler has a hit again as Olympus Has Fallen [OLYHF] debuted in second place with a strong $30.5 million. The first two action films set in the White House appealed to males over the age of 25 that made up 73% of the...
Vin Diesel has debuted a brief teaser for the sci-fi sequel Riddick [RIDC2] on Facebook. The sequel to Chronicles of Riddick harkens back to the original Pitch Black that introduced the escaped convict who could see in the dark. Riddick returns to theaters on September 6th.
The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s...
An international trailer for the U.K. market has been unveiled for the action drama Hummingbird [HUMNB]. Jason Statham [JSTAT] stars as an ex-special forces soldier who runs away from a court marshal. He assumes another man’s identity, finds work in a Chinese restaurant owned by a gangster, befriends a nun, and avenges a girl's death. Hummingbird opens in the U.K. in May, but Lionsgate has not set a release date Stateside.
The first major animated event movie of the year arrives this weekend in The Croods [CROOD]. DreamWorks Animation looks to bounce back after Rise of the Guardians flopped during Thanksgiving which led to layoffs and cutbacks. Nicolas Cage [NCAGE], Emma Stone [ESTON], and Ryan Reynolds [RREYN] lend their voice to the PG-rated adventures of a prehistoric family leaving their cave for the first time to explore a fantastic new land. The original story could suffer from a lack of brand...
Paramount has unleashed a new international trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness [TREK2] on Apple, with the one below targeted at the UK. The mysterious character played by Benedict Cumberbatch [BCUMB] is revealed as an agent of Starfleet who turns treacherous by attacking London and killing top leaders of Starfleet. Dr. Carol Marcus, played by Alice Eve [AEVE], is revealed in her underwear. And the U.S.S. Enterprise is shown crashing into the San Francisco Bay, destroying Alcatraz...
Focus Features has released the debut trailer for the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks [WSSWL] on Apple. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, the ripped from the current headlines film "is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. Detailing the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history, the film charts...
Fox has unearthed another full trailer for the Blue Sky Studio animated film Epic [EPIC] on Apple. Rather than focusing on the soaring Avatar-like adventure of a human in a hidden forest realm, the new trailer plays up the jokes as well as identify all the cast members led by Colin Farrell [CFARR], Josh Hutcherson [JHUTC], Amanda Seyfried [ASEYF] and Christoph Waltz [CWALT]. Epic hits theaters on May 24th.
Fox Searchlight has unveiled a new domestic trailer for the thriller Trance [TRANC] on Apple. Without the redband trailer's blood, torture and blown head, the greenband trailer plays like a hypnotic, dubstep-infused version of Inception with its premise centered on memory and a heist. Directed by Danny Boyle [DBOYL], Trance opens on April 5th Stateside.
Fox has released the full, theatrical trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Turbo [TURB1] on Apple. Ryan Reynolds [RREYN] voices a snail who drowns in nitrous oxide and somehow gains the power of super-speed in a strange mix of Cars and Fast & Furious. Somehow, this talking snail ends up racing in the Indianapolis 500 against human driven racecars. That is a pretty far out concept, even for a cartoon.
