May 14 2009 'Nine' Trailer: Some Babes Dancing Around Daniel Day-Lewis

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Hey, there's this now: a trailer for Nine. No, not numeral 9, the animated, post-apocalyptic ragdoll film that looks so promising--this is spelled-out Nine, a new film by Chicago director Rob Marshall that, to the untrained eye, looks basically like Chicago with mostly better actors. (To my untrained eye, anything with burlesque musical numbers is some kind of variant of Chicago.)

So here it is, Chicago 2:

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Nov 2 2007 'There Will Be Blood' Trailer Spews Dramatic Oil

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If you're going to wait five years between projects, you'd better have a good excuse. And if it isn't that you were busy destroying your career, ending your marriage, endangering your children, and consuming huge amounts of snack food, the second best justification just might be filming Daniel Day-Lewis as a despicable oil tycoon.

Paul Thomas Anderson has done just that (the latter) with There Will Be Blood, and in this new trailer it looks phenomenal. Never in my memory has someone describing why they're a huge asshole looked so entertaining. Denis Leary should be worried.

There Will Be Blood Trailer [Apple]

Oct 22 2007 AM Poster Post: 'There Will Be Blood' Forecasts Bleeding

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All the movie geeks I know are already excited about There Will Be Blood just because it's a new Paul Thomas Anderson film, which pretty much guarantees some degree of pretentious success.

But what about the teenage girls? How best to draw in that coveted 10 to 17-year-old female market that has made the woman-boy Zac Efron an international star? Simple. Show them Tiger Beat's latest replacement for the aging JTT, There Will Be Blood star DLL DDL--Daniel Day-Lewis. What girl can resist that NASCAR mustache, that inviting wink, that pained grimace? With a poster like this, opening night is going to look like the inside of a Claire's.

There Will Be Blood Poster [IMPA]