Although the non-fiction book "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman" was an exposé into the pharmaceutical industry, its feature film adaptation Love and Other Drugs [LVDRG] from the looks of the trailer released on Apple has been turned into a Jerry Maguire-esque romance. Jake Gyllenhaal [JGYLL] and Anne Hathaway [AHATH] reunite after playing a less than happy together couple inBrokeback Mountain. Like prescription drugs, this trailer should come with a warning: picking up women...
Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for the thriller The Next Three Days [N3DAY] directed by Paul Haggis [PHAGG]. Russell Crowe [RCROW] and Elizabeth Banks [EBANK] play a married couple with a perfect life. When she is imprisoned for a murder she says she didn't commit and she exahusted all her appeals, he decides the only way to save her was to break her out of prison. Judging by the trailer, he succeeds and the couple become fugitives on the run. Hopefully, the film will have more...
Three new wide releases look to divide and conquer the box office this weekend. Sylvester Stallone [SSTAL] has assembled a who’s who of male action stars for The Expendables [XPNDB]. In a summer filled with cartoon violence and CG thrills, The Expendables promises to deliver R-rated mayhem for moviegoers nostalgic of ‘80s action films. Liongate’s marketing has been prevalent in hyping the first on-screen meeting of Stallone, Bruce Willis [BWILL] and Arnold Schwarzenegger by showing nearly...
Sony has released the first trailer for the James L. Brooks-directed comedic drama How Do You Know [HDYKN]. Reese Witherspoon [RWITH] stars as a woman (though not revealed in the trailer, a softball player) who is caught in a love traingle between her current boyfriend, Owen Wilson [OWILS] as a baseball player for the Washington Nationals, and her old flame, Paul Rudd [PRUDD] in his usual role as the straight man suffering from a life crisis. Jack Nicholson [JNICH], who won an Oscar for...
After leaking the redband trailer during Comic-Con, Sony has now uploaded the greenband trailer for The Virginity Hit [VRGNH]. The R-rated film seeks to be the American Pie of the post-Youtube generation.
Little was known about the sci-fi movie with a no star cast when Skyline [SKYLN] popped up on Universal's release schedule for November 12, 2010. Now Apple has the first trailer and teaser starts off with Dan Rather reporting on Stephen Hawkings' recenty warning about extra-terrestrial life. While the special effects looked like it came off a home computer, the trailer does deliver with its money shot of people getting sucked up into the air like a vaccum by an alien ship. Cloverfield and...
A smart sci-fi thriller gives way to a dumb action comedy as The Other Guys [OTHRG] topples Inception [INCPT] at the weekend box office. The buddy cop movie bagged an estimated $35.6 million in a return to comedic form for Will Ferrell [WFERR]. Mark Wahlberg [MWAHL] co-starred as his mismatched partner in crime-fighting.
Inception woke up with another $18.6 million in second place. The Christopher Nolan-directed film has banked $227.7 million after its fourth weekend.
For his first role after shooting to fame playing Captain James T. Kirk, Chris Pine [CPINE] chose to star opposite Denzel Washington [DWASH] in the thriller Unstoppable [USTOP]. Fox has released the first trailer and it looks like a trainwreck, literally. Since we all know the movie is likely to end with the heroes stopping the runaway train, the filmmakers can't help themself but to place as many obstacles as possible in its path for the train to plow through at high speed.
If Avatar stands on the forefront for what's possible with native 3D filmmaking, then surely Jackass 3D [JCKA3] stoops far down on the other end of the spectrum. Here's the first trailer showing happens when Johnny Knoxville's [JKNOX] motley crew get a hold of the 3D gimmick.
Another weekend, another pair of male stars headlining a broad comedy looking to take down Inception [INCPT]. Will Ferrell [WFERR] and Mark Wahlberg [MWAHL] star as The Other Guys [OTHRG], two bumbling desk cops thrust into action when NYPD’s finest, played by Dwayne Johnson [TROCK] and Samuel L. Jackson [SLJAC], are taken out of the picture. This is Ferrell’s fourth collaboration with director Adam McKay [AMCKA] as their last film, the R-rated Step Brothers, debuted at $30.9 million in...
