Yesterday evening a trailer of Alice in Wonderland was released accidently, and I managed to watch it before it got taken down. It looks amazing! Anyhow, sometime later this afternoon the trailer will be officially released, so keep an eye on this blog if you want to catch that. For now, here are the trailers that were released in the past week.
Whiteout: Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is a lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica whose investigation of the continent’s first murder draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer. Release Date: September 2009 (UK, US)
I Love You, Phillip Morris: When Steve Russell turns to cons and fraud to allow him to change his lifestyle, his subsequent stay in the state penitentiary results in his meeting the love of his life, a sensitive fellow inmate named Phillip Morris. Release Date: February 2010 (US)
Triangle: The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. Release Date: October 2009 (UK)
Bright Star: A romantic drama based on the secret 3-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, outspoken student of high fashion, which was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25. Release Date: November 2009 (UK)
Surviving Crooked Lake: A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls. Release Date: 24 July 2009 (US)
Mystery Team: At age seven, Oakdale’s Mystery Team was a band of kid detectives dedicated to solving child-sized mysteries (like who put their finger in the pie, and who stole the tricycle), and the town loved them for it. Now they’re eighteen years old, about to graduate from high school, yet they’re still storming the playground to bust little kids, and the town of Oakdale is sick to death of it. When a little girl sees their sign advertising “Mysteries Solved, Ten Cents,” she asks the gang to find out who killed her parents. The Team embarks on a mystery that takes them deep into a violent conspiracy that sees their lives threatened, their friendship strained and tests their claim that they’re “real detectives.” Release Date: unknown
Coco Avant Chanel: Thee story of Coco Chanel’s rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. Release Date: July 2009 (UK), September 2009 (US)
Despicable Me: A trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable and evil Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon. Release Date: July 2010 (US), October 2010 (UK)
Cemtary Junction: Cemetery Junction, set in 1970s England, follows three blue-collar friends who spend their days joking, drinking and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. Release Date: April 2010 (UK)
An Education: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age. Release Date: October 2009 (UK, US)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: A young boy discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. Release Date: February 2010 (UK, US)
Whip It!: In Bodeen, Texas, the indie-rock loving Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in Austin and tries to join as Babe Ruthless. Release Date: October 2009 (US)
District 9: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions in Johannesburg, South Africa suddenly find a “kindred spirit” in a government agent from MNU that is exposed to their mysterious biotechnology. Release Date: August 2009 (US)
Spread: Set in present Los Angeles, Spread is an iconic look at the lure of sex, money, and access that Hollywood offers to the beautiful people, and the karmic price that Nikki must ultimately pay to live that lifestyle. Release Date: August 2009 (US)
Brothers: In a small, snowy Pennsylvania town, a young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) comforts his older brother’s wife (Natalie Portman) and children after her husband (Tobey Maguire) goes missing in Afghanistan. Release Date: December 2009 (US)
Ong Bak 2: A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts. I still haven’t seen the first movie, but I’ve heard a lot of people say it’s pretty badass. Judging by this trailer, I guess this movie will be as awesome too. Release Date: October 2009 (US)
Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel: In the sequel, David Seville (Jason Lee) sends Alvin (Justin Long), Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler), and Theodore (Jesse McCartney) off to school, saying “it’s good for them.” Little did he know, the Chipmunks feel like “Chipmunks Out of Water” because of all the (human) kids around. Release Date: December 2009 (UK, US)
The Collector: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer’s country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps. Release Date: July 2009 (US)
Funny People: When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act. There have been quite a couple of trailers released for this movie, but this is the first red band trailer. Release Date: 31 July 2009 (US), 28 August 2009 (UK)
Big Fan: Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking garage attendant from Staten Island and hardcore New York Giants football fan, struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player. Release Date: August 2009 (US limited)
Giallo: A psychotic killer stalks the streets, kidnapping and murdering beautiful women. An enigmatic police inspector (Adrien Brody) works against the clock to find him, before the latest missing girl becomes his next victim. Release Date: unknown
Trailers courtesy of FirstShowing and Film School Rejects
I’m one of the few people that didn’t love Juno when it came out last year. Sure it was a fun little movie, but it wasn’t as super or as fantastic as some people were claiming it to be. Now comes Diablo Cody’s (the screenplay writer who did Juno) newest movie Jennifer’s Body. Starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, this just looks crazy.
Described as a Heathers-like dark comedy, Jennifer’s Body tells the story of a seemingly-perfect cheerleader whose life is thrown into disarray when she gets possessed by a demon, begins eating boys in her small town, then faces off against her best friend and the Satan-worshipping band that made her evil.
Amelia: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank), who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. I think this could put Swank as a contender again as Best Actress at the Oscars this year.Release Date: October 2009 (US), November 2009 (UK)
The Invention of Lying: A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain. Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill.Release Date: September 2009 (US), October 2009 (UK)
Inglourious Basterds: There already have been a couple of trailers out for this Tarantino flick, but this French one has a completely different vibe to it. During World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “the Basterds” are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a young French girl named Shosanna who runs a movie theater in Paris that is frequented by soldiers. Release Date: August 2009 (US, UK)
Couples Retreat: A comedy about four couples who head to a tropical resort for a vacation. While one of them is there to work on their marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort’s therapy is not optional. Release Date: October 2009 (US, UK)
The Informant: The government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon). Release Date: October 2009 (US), November 2009 (UK)
Planet 51: Because Ice Age is out in cinemas today, a couple more animation trailers have been released. This is the second trailer of Planet 51, where its inhabitants live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture and recover his spaceship. Release Date: November 2009 (US), December 2009 (UK)
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: Another animation trailer! This time it’s the second full length trailer for Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. Inspired by Judi and Ron Barrett’s children’s book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. Release Date: September 2009 (US,UK)
Forbidden Reality (aka Smersh XXI, aka The Interceptor): Based on the novel by popular sci-fi writer Vasiliy Golovachev, the film is about an agent who is betrayed by his partner while transporting a new psychic weapon. Believed to be dead, he escapes and takes new identity so he can live in peace. But is later forced to return to Moscow to confront a secret organization. The trailer is completely in Russian (without subtitles) so it’s a bit difficult to follow what is happening, but the visuals look pretty cool. Release Date: unknown
I love a good vampire movie, and I love a good sci-fi movie. Add those two together, and you’ve got a movie that’s got me very much intrigued. Even though Twilight was better than I expected (review will follow soon), it’s still not the type of vampire movie I’m looking for. Daybreakers though is something completely different and I’m curious to see more of it.
Here’s the description:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Ethan Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps (Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan) on a way to save humankind.
I always like it when the vampire’s are not necessarily the bad guys, but most of the time it’s still “we must remain a secret, the humans must not find out about us, blablabla”. Finally a movie that dares to shaken that up a bit. The whole vampires main stream society thing is something I’ve been dying to see for ages, and with this sci-fi-ish angle it’s really got me excited for it.
I noticed that so many trailers come out, I can’t keep up with blogging about them in single posts. I’ll still go on with Trailerrific for the posts that really look amazing and that I want to blog about straight away, but I’ll also do every Thursday a post containing all the trailers that came out this week.
This first week is a bit longer cause I’m catching up on a lot of other trailers I missed out on:
The Box: Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden), a suburban couple with a young child, receive a wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human somewhere in the world. From the director of Donnie Darko and Southland Tales. Release Date: October 2009 (US), December 2009 (UK)
The Time Traveler’s Wife: This is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap. Release Date: August (US, UK)
The Stepfather: Michael Harding returns home to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who’s always there lend a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side? Release Date: October 2009 (US), November 2009 (UK)
Love Happens: A romantic drama about a widower (Aaron Eckhart) whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman (Jennifer Aniston) who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn’t yet truly confronted his wife’s passing. Release Date: September 2009 (US), November 2009 (UK)
Mr Nobody: Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto) leads an ordinary existence at his wife’s side, Elise, and their three children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. Release Date: unknown
Zombieland: Columbus (Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other. Release Date: October 2009 (US, UK)
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra: directed by big action filmmaker Stephen Sommers, of The Jungle Book, Deep Rising, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Van Helsing previously. Release Date: October 2009 (US, UK)
Whiteout: Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is a lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica whose investigation of the continent’s first murder draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer. Release Date: September 2009 (US)
Creation: English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work. Release Date: September 2009 (UK)
The Last Airbender: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations. Release Date: July 2010 (US)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon: After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in Bella’s blood being shed, a sight that proves too intense for the Cullens, who decide to leave the town of Forks, Washington for Bella and Edward’s sake. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Release Date: November 2009 (US, UK)
Fame: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. Release Date: September 2009
Cold Souls: Paralyzed with anxiety over an upcoming role, Paul Giamatti stumbles upon a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Giamatti enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. But complications ensue when a soul-trafficking mule borrows Giamatti’s stored soul for an ambitious, but unfortunately talentless, soap-opera actress. Release Date: August 2009 (US)
Pandorum: Two crewmen awaken from hyper-sleep aboard a spacecraft. None of their equipment is working, and their memories are incomplete. What was their mission? How much time has passed? Where are they? As they try to piece things together, they discover they are not alone, and the ship’s new inhabitants – tribal warriors carrying crudely made weapons – are moving among them, intent on killing all aboard. Release Date: September 2009 (US, UK)
Miss Nobody: A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder. Release Date: unknown
Thirst: Beloved and devoted priest (Song Kang-ho) from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things turns for worse, he struggles to maintain whats left of his humanity. From the director of Oldboy and the Vengeance trilogy. Release Date: July 2009 (US)
World’s Greatest Dad: A very dark comedy about a man (Robin Williams) who learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Release Date: unknown
Veronika Decided To Die: The story centers on Veronika, a woman in her mid twenties who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful and awakens in a mental hospital where she learns that she has five days to live. The film follows her recovery as she finds true love and a newfound will to survive. Release Date: November 2009 (US)
I love Studio Ghibli’s movies and this latest one looks cute! I’ve seen almost all of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies (including Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle); I think I’m only still missing one of them.
Ponyo (known as Ponyo On the Cliff in Japan) is about a 5 year old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who wants to become human. I blogged about the Japanese trailer ages ago, but this US one shows much more and is easier to follow. It’s a bit jarring though to hear the English dubbed voices; I prefer the original voices and usually avoid all dubbings. It just doesn’t sound right!
I adore some of Roland Emmerich’s older movies: Stargate, Independence Day, even Godzilla. But then came The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC. And while they had just as a crappy plot and cool special effects as his older movies, I always felt something special was missing that those older moves did have. (Theory: I was 10-14 when those first 3 movies came out, and 20-24 when the other 2 were released. It’s highly possible that my age did have something to do with it)
Anyhow, now comes his newest movie 2012. About the world ending in 2012. Cue a ton of disaster sequences, well-known landmarks collapsing, and lots of panicky people. The cast includes John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover.
I think the trailer look awesome, although again it gives waaay to much away. Seriously Hollywood: cut back on the plot summary trailers. We don’t want to see the entire movie, before it’s out yet. Just give as a nice introduction to what the movie is about, which actors are in it, and one or two action sequences to give a feel what type pretty visual effects we’ll be getting. Nothing more.
Wow, Bruce Willis with hair! Surrogates looks like a nice action sci-fi movie. It kind of seems to fall in the line of movies like I, Robot and Paycheck; not great films, but pretty decent action flicks. Here’s the description:
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.
I only think that maybe this trailer gives too much away (I might be wrong though):
