Fox has released the full, theatrical trailer for the comedy Mr. Popper's Penguins [POPNG]. Jim Carrey [JCARR] stars as a businessman who is terrible with his personal life until he inherits six penguins. He transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland and begins to appreciate what's really important in life. The trailer also marks the first appearance of the versatile actor Clark Gregg as an animal controls officer.
Four years after completing a Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Disney returns with a fourth installment Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [PIRT4]. Johnny Depp’s [JDEPP] beloved Captain Sparrow is now the central character with an added love interest in the form of Penelope Cruz [PCRUZ]. Although the last film At World’s End banked $114 million during its opening over the 3-day portion of Memorial Weekend 2007, most fans were disappointment with the incomprehensible sequel....
Sony has released the full, threatrical trailer for their MGM-rescue comedy Zookeeper [ZOOKP], which is basically a remake of Hitch mixed with Dr. Doolittle. Kevin James [KJAME] plays another man going after a woman way out of his league in the form of Leslie Bibb [LBIBB]. Instead of Will Smith as a lovwe doctor, he gets lessons in courtship from zoo animals.
Paramount has unveiled the first trailer for for the 3D motion-captured film The Adventures of Tintin [TINTN] on Apple. Directed by Steven Spielberg [SSPIE] who also co-produced with Peter Jackson, the animated feature stars Jamie Bell [JBELL] as the title character created by Belgian comic artist Hergé. While the CG animation looks brilliant and first rate, the human characters appear as soulless as those in Robert Zemeckis' motion-captured animated films, which have already seen...
Ruling the weekend box office for a second weekend, the mighty Thor [THOR] collected an estimated $34.5 million. The Marvel superhero declined 48% in its second weekend to bring its total to $119.3 million.
Universal's raunchy comedy Bridesmaids [BRDSM] took second place with a better than expected $24.4 million. The well-reviewed film successfully connected with female moviegoers who made up 67% of the audience and hsould be rewarded with legs.
Fast Five [FFUR5] finished third with...
Sony Screen Gems has revealed the first trailer for the thriller remake Straw Dogs [STRAW]. James Marsden [JMARS] and Kate Bosworth [KBOSW] play a couple who return to her hometown in the South where they are harassed by the local white trash led by Alexander Skarsgard [ASKAR]. Fed up with having his masculinity questioned, the husband takes revenge Taken-style with extreme violence on the men preying on his wife and home.
Since it's Friday the 13th, DreamWorks has released the first trailer for the horror remake Fright Night [FRNIT]. Anton Yelchin [AYELC] stars as a high school student who suspects his new neighbor, played by Colin Farrell [CFARR], is a vampire. Unable to convince the authorities, he must expose the monster himself while protecting his girlfriend, Imogen Poots [IPOOT] and his mother, Toni Collette [TCOLL].
Two new releases hope to make their mark this weekend, but neither has a chance to unseat Thor [THOR] from the top spot. Marvel’s superhero based on the Norse God has garnered great reviews and word of mouth. As the first film rather than a sequel, Thor should drop less than 50% in its second frame to about $35 million.
Saturday Night Live’s Kristin Wiig [KWIIG] and Maya Rudolph [MRUDO] star in the R-rated comedy Bridesmaids [BRDSM]. Raunchy comedies led by women have traditionally...
Warner Bros. has finally debuted a trailer for the New Line comedy Horrible Bosses [HRBOS] on Apple. Jason Bateman [JBATE], Charlie Day [CDAY] and Jason Sudeikis [JSUDE] play three buddies who work for intolerable bosses, played by Kevin Spacey [KSPAC] Jennifer Aniston [JANIS] and Colin Farrell [CFARR] respectively. They devise a plan to rid of them permanently. But since this is a comedy rather than a drama, their murder for hire plot goes hilariouly awry. It's 9 to 5 meets Swimming...
Warner Bros. has unveiled the first trailer for the horror sequel Final Destination 5 [FDES5] on Apple. This time around, premonition saves a group from a suspension bridge collapse, only to have death stalk and kill them one by one in unexpected fashion. Nicholas D'Agosto [NDAGO] leads the new cast that includes David Koechner [DKOEC], who doesn't even survive the trailer.
