After just debuting the teaser last week, Paramount has quickly followed up with the full theatrical trailer to the western remake True Grit [TGRIT]. Maybe I've been playing too much "Red Dead Redemption", because this totally reminds me of the bounty hunter mission where John Marston rides around the declining Old West looking to capture an outlaw.
The Facebook movie added millions of moviegoers as Sony's The Social Network [SOCIL] earned an estimated $23.0 million in its opening weekend. With excellent reviews and award buzz to attract older adults, The Social Network should continue to be liked by audiences through the award season.
Legend of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole [GHOOL] remained in second place for a second weekend with $10.6 milllion. Tha animated family film declined just 33% from its debut.
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Sony Screen Gems has cut a new music video, I mean trailer, for Burlesque [BURLS]. The second trailer plays pretty much identical as the first, except for a couple of jokes have been replaced by more shots of Christina Aguilera with love interest Cam Gigante [CGIGA].
Paramount has uploaded a second trailer for the low-budget horror sequel Paranormal Activity 2 [PNAC2]. A couple with a newborn baby is terrorized by the same supernatural forces that haunted the victims in the original film.
One movie about business gives way to another as The Social Network [SOCIL] takes over the box office. Directed by David Fincher [DFINC], the drama chronicles the real-life founding of Facebook at Harvard by Mark Zuckerberg and friends, that later turned into enemies. The PG-13 rated film has been generating awards buzz evert since its premiere in Toronto and Sony has spend heavily to hype up The Social Network as an event film that captures the current cultural zeitgeist. Will the...
Rogue has unleashed the domestic trailer for the latest genre-bending fantasy The Warrior's Way [WRWAY] on Apple. Blending the high-wire action of martial arts films with the gun-slinging shootouts of westerns, the English-language film stars Korean actor Jang Dong-gun as a samurai assassin hiding out in the American badlands until he is tracked down by his fellow clansmen. Then it turns into an episode of 'The Deadliest Warrior: Ninjas versus Cowboys' as the ninjas bring their knives to a...
Universal has released the full trailer for the Rogue produced sci-fi film Skyline [SKYLN] on Apple. The film is basically the alien invasion of War of the Worlds meets the no name actors running away from monster of Cloverfield set in Los Angeles. Skyline is directed by the Brothers Strause, whose visual effects company Hydraulx has worked on films like 2012 and Avatar as well as the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles [BATLA] , which has a similar premise to Skyline. In fact, Sony is claiming...
The first live-action film produced by DreamWorks for Disney is I Am Number Four [IMNO4], a title sure to induce a snicker or two when first revealed inside theaters. Alex Pettyfer [APETT] stars in your graden-variety young adult sci-fi film about a teen with special powers on the run from adults who just don't understand. I Am Number Four doesn't just share a similar premise as Jumper, it will also open on President's Day weekend.
Paramount tosses its hat into the Oscar ring with the first teaser for the Western remake True Grit [TGRIT] now up on Apple. The Coen Brothers [COEN] looks to have constructed another haunting tale of desperation and retribution. Newcomer Hailee Steinfeld plays a fourteen-year-old girl who enlists the help of a drunken U.S. Marshal to avenge the death of her father by finding the killer before a Texas Ranger catches him first. The most recent Academy Award winner for Best Actor, Jeff...
Warner Bros. has released a second trailer for the 3D family film Yogi Bear [YOGIB] that's strictly for the kiddies. The animated shenanigans of the CG bears voiced by Dan Aykroyd [DAYKR] and Justin Timberlake [JTIMB] are played up, while the comedic talents of the live-action Anna Faris [AFARI] is barely shown in a couple brief glimpses.
