Trailers

Redband trailer for “That’s My Boy” sets new low for Hollywood marketing

Above is the new trailer for “That’s My Boy,” starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, which is about as heinous as two minutes of “comedy” could possibly be. Redband trailers are typically used to show off a movie’s best crude jokes… and apparently, in this movie, the best crude joke is Sandler saying “It tastes

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New trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

A new trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” hit the web this evening, and it’s about what you’d expect. Upon hearing the title, one’s obvious thought is: How easily can America’s favorite president and America’s favorite film creature be merged? This trailer seems to indicate the answer is “Not very easily”–hence the lazy

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Director aims to finish “Dark Blood,” River Phoenix’s final movie, via crowd-funding

When 23-year-old River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in 1993, he was working on a movie entitled “Dark Blood,” directed by George Sluizer. The project, which Sluizer said was 80 percent finished, was put to rest. The insurance company wanted all the footage destroyed, but Sluizer refused and kept it for himself. Now 79

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New trailer for Luhrmann, DiCaprio’s “Great Gatsby”

When Baz Luhrmann announced that he would be helming a new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”–in 3-D, no less–nobody expected it to be a straightforward, classical treatment of the material. (That was already attempted in 1974 by Jack Clayton and Francis Ford Coppola, and the result was less than satisfactory.) Nonetheless, I

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Teaser Monday: First glimpses of PTA’s The Master and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Today, teasers for two of the most anticipated upcoming films–which couldn’t be more different from one another–hit the web. The more exciting of the pair is the one for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix in his return to formal acting. The teaser does exactly what it should — it doesn’t let you

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New trailer: Michel Gondry’s The We and the I

I am of the opinion that Michel Gondry’s film adaptation of The Green Hornet last year was colossally underrated; too few understood that it was a parody, not a straightforward superhero film. But nonetheless, it’s good to see the French director return to his roots–low-budget, culture-centric filmmaking–with The We and the I, the trailer for which is embedded

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