Tag: Trailers (1-10 of 76)

May 21 2013 10:10 AM ET

'The Wolverine' trailer: 'A man can run out of things to live for' -- VIDEO

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the story of how our favorite clawed misanthrope got his scowl back, while this year’s The Wolverine (which mostly ignores that earlier film, like, completely) is about a man ready to give that scowl — and those claws — up. In the new trailer, we get still more insight into how terrible Logan’s life has become. He’s having nightmares of killing Jean Grey and not caring for his wildman beard. And then an “old friend” discovers a cure for his immortality: ”A man can run out of things to live for.”

Psych! Logan has to fight with/against a number of rogues: Yukio, Viper, and the Silver Samurai. I kind of wish Dream-Jean was sticking around — Hemlock Grove gave Famke Janssen a nice lick of malice.

Watch the new trailer below.

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May 13 2013 10:09 PM ET

James Franco's 'As I Lay Dying' trailer: Depression-era Mississippi and Tim Blake Nelson

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When James Franco, the sometimes over committed but admirably ambitious multihyphenate, claimed that he was going to direct an adaptation of As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner’s classic novel about a family’s journey to honor the request of their dying mother, we were cautiously optimistic.

The multi-character, stream-of-consciousness novel seemed out of reach for any director. But Franco has given it a go, and assembled an enviable cast including Danny McBride (Tropic Thunder), Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus). Though it’s too early to judge the outcome, we finally got a glimpse at his vision in the first trailer, which lingers on the bucolic Mississippi landscape before escalating the tension with the helpful narration of a prescient innocent. It’s mercifully unsentimental and does not take pains to put the viewer at ease. Check it out for yourself below.

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May 11 2013 05:56 PM ET

Sundance winner 'Fruitvale Station' starring Michael B. Jordan debuts trailer -- VIDEO

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The minds behind Fruitvale Station — winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — are giving the public a sneak peek at the acclaimed film with the first trailer, released today. The film stars Friday Night Lights‘ Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old San Francisco Bay Area man whose 2009 shooting by Oakland BART police sparked outrage and protests in the city.

The Weinstein Co. bought Ryan Coogler’s directorial debut from the festival for $2 million. Fruitvale Station — a candidate to win big during the upcoming awards season — will be released July 26. Watch the trailer here:

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May 7 2013 05:18 PM ET

'Ender's Game' trailer: Harrison Ford recruits Asa Butterfield as 'a new kind of soldier'

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The film adaptation of Ender’s Game invades theaters on November 1, and with less than six months until takeoff, Summit has begun its marketing campaign in earnest.

You’ve already seen Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford as Ender Wiggin and Colonel Hyrum Graff. You’ve glimpsed Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian. You’ve gotten your first look a tatted-up Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham. And you’ve peeked at the inside of the Battle Room. But get ready, Launchies: the first official Ender’s Game trailer is here.

The clip, which just hit “the nets,” amps up the action and portrays Ender as the fearsome commander that fans of Orson Scott Card’s novel know him to be. We don’t see much of Ender as a timid launchie, but that’s likely because his journey was compressed into a single year for the film. Director Gavin Hood explained the practical change to EW back in December.

The trailer also touts the high-profile cast (see a full cast gallery), which not only includes Butterfield, Ford, Kingsley, and Steinfeld, but also Viola Davis, who’s playing a re-conceived version of Anderson, and Abigail Breslin as Ender’s sister, Valentine. Davis provided my favorite moment in the trailer with her cautionary line to Ford: “You really don’t see them as children, do you?” Those few words suggest that the novel’s theme of childhood manipulation has made it safely onto the screen in Ender’s Game — or at least I hope so.

For first looks at Valentine, the Battle Room, the fellow Launchies, and the inside of the the International Fleet’s space station, watch the clip below, but do so at your own peril. It’s VERY spoilery:
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May 4 2013 01:34 PM ET

Movie trailers: Survey finds many turned off by seeing best scenes in promos

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Movie trailers have become an art form and source of entertainment unto themselves (Exhibit A: 2013′s Golden Trailer Awards). But they still have a job to do: Sell the movie, get butts in seats on opening weekend.

The most effective way to do that with a trailer is debatable, especially when it comes to how much of a movie’s plot a preview should reveal. Do revealing trailers encourage audiences to see the full film, or do they make viewers feel like they’ve already seen the whole movie, deterring them from buying a ticket?

It’s a topic that EW has pondered before, but now there are some stats that appear to provide the answer to that question, thanks to a survey recently conducted by research company YouGov Omnibus. READ FULL STORY »

May 4 2013 01:20 PM ET

Golden Trailer Awards: Six things we learned

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Last night, trailer editors gathered at the Art Deco-inspired Saban Theater in L.A. to learn who would receive the highest honor in their field — the Golden Trailer. Attendees in Hawaiian shirts, sequined dresses, suits and ties, and high-heeled boots settled in around the auditorium for two hours of supercuts.

Co-hosts Rob Schneider and Aisha Tyler took turns making fun of the movies the trailers were selling, including resurrecting some punching bags from the most recent awards season, like Les Miserables. Between such outdated jokes, the audience was treated to “nano trailers” — cuts of cuts from the nominated films.

If you look forward to going to the movies at least in part because you get to watch 20 minutes of trailers, the Golden Trailer awards is for you. Here are six things we learned about this thankless, often overlooked industry and its greats last night:

Awards season never really ends

It just gets more fun! The tone at the Golden Trailers was very low-key, with lots of joking around. The nominees and winners didn’t take the event too seriously, but there were still some nice moments when winners thanked their colleagues for challenging them to be more creative and push the boundaries of their field. READ FULL STORY »

May 3 2013 09:31 AM ET

'Ender's Game': Harrison Ford introduces a teaser for the teaser -- VIDEO

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Teasers for teasers of trailers: They’re so hot right now!

The latest YA adaptation to perpetuate this trend is Ender’s Game, the highly anticipated sci-fi adventure based on Orson Scott Card’s beloved novel. Stars Asa Butterfield (Ender Wiggin) and Harrison Ford (Hyrum Graff) are on hand to introduce this 10-second sneak peek at footage that appears in the real teaser trailer, which will on May 7. Even though it’s slight, fans will be thrilled to get a glimpse at Ford’s growling colonel, Ender and his fellow cadets, and Ben Kingsley’s Mazer Rackham in action. Battle school is in session, people. Well, almost:

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May 2 2013 08:39 PM ET

New 'White House Down' trailer shows the film's -- and star Channing Tatum's -- funny side

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Roland Emmerich can always be counted upon to deliver disaster spectacle, and it’s looking like that’s going to hold true in his next movie, White House Down. The latest trailer for the upcoming movie has no shortage of Stuff Blowing Up, including iconic buildings like the U.S. Capitol.

White House Down stars Channing Tatum as a man applying for a job as a Secret Service Agent. After he’s denied that job, he takes his daughter to the White House for a tour on the same day it comes under attack, and he gets the chance to prove himself when he ends up protecting the President (Jamie Foxx).

This newest trailer depicts White House Down as more of a rollicking action movie than the tense thriller seen in the first trailer. Check out Tatum flexing both his comedy and action muscles (and his real muscles!) below: READ FULL STORY »

Apr 25 2013 06:15 PM ET

'Tiger Eyes' trailer: Judy Blume novel finally comes to the big screen -- VIDEO

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Though they’ve sold zillions of copies, won praise from critics and librarians everywhere, and taught millions of kids about tough topics like sex and bullying, none of Judy Blume’s 20-odd novels has ever been made into a feature film — until now.

This summer, an adaptation of Blume’s 1981 YA book Tiger Eyes will hit theaters and On Demand, bringing the celebrated author’s work to the big screen for the first time. The movie stars Arrow‘s Willa Holland as Davey Wexler, a teen who moves from New Jersey to New Mexico after her convenience store owner father is shot to death. The movie should be a fairly moody meditation on grief — though nostalgia hounds will be tickled to spot Felicity star (and former Pink Power Ranger) Amy Jo Johnson as Davey’s mother, Gwen. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 24 2013 06:59 PM ET

Watch Sean Maher, Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, more Whedonverse favorites in newest 'Much Ado About Nothing' trailer -- VIDEO

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Much Ado About Nothing just got another trailer, this one made for the U.K. The newest peek at Joss Whedon’s take on the beloved Shakespeare comedy spotlights the Bard’s wittiest couple, Benedick and Beatrice – much like the first trailer – though here there’s less merry war and more mountains of affection.

To the tune of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof) are shown falling for each other – and literally falling down the stairs of Whedon’s house (where the film was made during a 12-day shoot). The trailer gives us more glimpses of the play’s other central couple, Hero (Jillian Morgese) and Claudio (Fran Kranz), and also features footage of the villainous Don John (Sean Maher) plotting to ruin their wedding and getting it on with Conrade – a role that got a gender reversal in Whedon’s interpretation.

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