Anchor Bay Films has released the first trailer for the period action film Kill the Irishman [IRSHM] starring a who's who of movie tough guys. Ray Stevenson [RSTEV] plays the real life Irish mobster Danny Greene who fough a turf war with the Italian mafia over Cleveland in 1976. Vincent D'Onofrio [VDONO], Vinnie Jones [VJONE], Val Kilmer [VKILM], Christopher Walken [CWALK] and Paul Sorvino [PSORV] round out the cast.
Not satisfied with producing the Transformers franchise with Paramount, DreamWorks has started another robot on robot action film Real Steel [RSTEL], to be distributed through Touchstone Pictures. Hugh Jackman [HJACK] plays a boxing trainer in the future when the combatants are giant robots. Whatever happened to Robot Wars, the TV series where robots dueled to the death in tournaments?
Paramount has unleashed an "announcement trailer" for Transformers: Dark of the Moon [TFRM3] on Apple. The teaser suuposed that Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11 went to the moon with an ulterior purpose. After previously dissing the format, Michael Bay [MBAY] has come around and shot the entire film in 3D.
The full theatrical trailer for the 3D animated film from Blue Sky Studios Rio [RIO] on Apple has revealed the storyline. Jesse Eisenberg [JEISE] voices a blue macaw thought to be the last of his kind until a female macaw, voiced by Anne Hathaway [AHATH] is found in Rio De Janiero, Brazil. They are brought together for you know what, but it's not love at first sight. The story sounds identical to Pixar's Newt, perhaps it's responsible for the cancellation of the latter project.
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DreamWorks has released the full theatrical trailer for the sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four [IMNO4]. While the teaser looked like a complete rip-off of Jumper, the new trailer provides more of the back story as well as the typical teen angst a young hero experiences as he accepts his destiny. Alex Pettyfer [APETT] and Tim Olyphant [TOLYP] star in the film directed by D.J. Caruso.
Sony has revealed the first teaser trailer for their 3D animated film Arthur Christmas [ARTHC], which sets up the premise that Santa Claus has a son named Arthur, a million elves working under the North Pole, and a high-tech sled that looks like a flying saucer.
Originally scheduled for release this year, Summit's drama The Beaver [BEAVR] was postponed when Mel Gibson's [MGIBS] real life troubles put his boorish behavior in the public spotlight once again. Hoping enough time have passed for moviegoers to forget and perhaps forgive, Summit has uploaded the first trailer and decided to open the film in Spirng 2011. Directed by Jodie Foster [JFOST], The Beaver seems the perfect vehicle for Gibson and his public persona at his next film. The...
Moviegoers took a break this weekend as the top 12 films grossed less than of what they did last weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday. Tangled [RAPUN] moved up to the top with an estimated $21.5 million. The animated film declined 56% against its opening weekend.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 [HPOT7] tumbled 66% in its third weekend to $16.7 million. The latest Potter film is decaying faster than the previous chapters.
Amongst the other sophomore outings, Burlesque...
CBS Films has cut another trailer for the modern fantasy Beastly [BSTLY] based on the tale as old as time, Beauty and the Beast. With soft uplifting music playing in the background, the new trailer focuses on the romance between Vanessa Hudgens [VHUDG] and Alex Pettyfer [APETT]. Beastly had its release date pushed back from July 30, 2010 to March 18, 2011.
Since the weekend after Thanksgiving is traditional one of the weakest for new wide openers, studios have stayed away except for one this year, Relativity with The Warrior’s Way [WRWAY]. Korean superstar Jang Dong-gun plays an ninja assassin fighting his ex-clan in the Old West. The last Ninja Assassin starring a Korean superstar opened to $13.3 million last Thanksgiving for Warner Bros. Relativity’s lower budgeted R-rated actioner may fight just to get into the top five. Opening in 1622...
