Here's the trailer for Metallica Through the Never, Predators director Nimród Antal's attempt at giving Metallica the 3D treatment they've until now only found in high school notebook margins. In the film, METALLICA ROCKS. Also, Chronicle and Amazing Spider-Man 2's Dane DeHaan gets in a van accident, police and rioters fight, and there's a guy on a horse, and somehow all that is ostensibly involved in the periphery of this concert experience. That's why the band can tell themselves this isn't Bieber-inspired.
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Horrible Bosses 2 is still another year out, but if you're just looking for another Jason Sudeikis comic farce with interludes of Jennifer Aniston's overt sexuality, good news: you can have that right now with We're the Millers.
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber's first comedy since Dodgeball, the film sees Sudeikis play a low-level drug dealer who gets roped into a big smuggling job. To raise less suspicion at border patrol, he employs neighbor/stripper Jennifer Aniston, street teen Emma Roberts, and the weird-looking kid from Son of Rambow to pose as his family. Thurber, meanwhile, employs Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, a violent orca, and a grossly-engorged testicle clearly stolen from the Farrelly Brothers' prop chest to keep the laughs coming between the strip teases and federal crimes.
Here's the trailer, which makes the film at least look like a pretty fun ride. If nothing else, appreciate that it gives a convincing origin story for Sudeikis's unchanging '50s dad hair.
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Though 2009's (500) Days of Summer earned largely positive reviews for its quirky, offbeat take on romantic-comedy, some felt they'd rather see Joseph Gordon-Levitt play it a little less twee--you know, maybe fall in love as a Jersey Shore cliché addicted to workouts and pornography. Among those critics: Joseph Gordon-Levitt himself, apparently. So, for his feature writing and directing debut, he's corrected that problem with Don Jon. In the film, he stars as a dude who, as he describes himself, cares only about such numerous essentials as his body, his pad, his ride, his family, his church, his boys, his girls, and his porn. Proving that one can indeed have too many passions, his last two professed loved come into contention when he falls for fellow Jersey cliché Scarlett Johansson, an old-fashioned girl with a shrill argument against the X-rated arts.
Julianne Moore also appears to provide sage wisdom on non-pornographic love, while Tony Danza unexpectedly shows up as Jon's father and an earthly reminder of Angels in the Outfield. Here's the trailer:
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The idea of a carbon copy overlaid with Vince Vaughn didn't work so well for 1998's Psycho, and does not sound like a great idea anyway, but Québécois writer-director Ken Scott is nonetheless giving it another shot in the English-language remake of his Starbuck, Delivery Man. The original, only two-year old film centers on a man whose sperm donations have resulted in the births of over 500 children, who collectively file suit to learn the identity of their father. As you could probably have guessed, in this redo, that father ends up being someone from Wedding Crashers. Here's the first teaser. If you're expecting a joke about masturbating in a cup, you're surprisingly wrong somehow.
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It's only been a couple weeks since The World's End's first trailer, but already there's another with a ton of new footage from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost's latest unlikely small-town happening. The film wraps up the trio's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, combining the zombie hive-mind of Shaun of the Dead and clandestine danger of Hot Fuzz with a new ostracizing threat: robots in human flesh. Not only that, there's now another hurdle to jump beyond a series of fences. There is also a small hedge. Sequels always have to add more villains.
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Now that he's had a few sessions to work through all his various daddy issues, Superman is finally ready to move on and get to punching things in the latest trailer for Man of Steel. All the stuff about growing up, setting an example for man, and occasionally taking in a serene arctic daybreak has been dropped here in favor of showing the straight-up hero versus villain side of the tale. Zod comes to Earth, demands Superman's surrender, and Superman responds with a combination of exchanged punches, screaming, and apparent compliance. Also, he gets buried in a hoarder's skull collection, Amy Adams gets dressed up in bad guy armor, and don't worry, there's still the eye beams--and that's all in addition to the parts with Clark's childhood, his fisherman years, some Daily Planet stuff, and presumably at least a few words spoken outside of dramatic monologue. Find out on June 14 whether the film is five hours long or just one really long montage Zack Snyder has set to 3 Doors Down.
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Absent from filmmaking for over twenty years, Alejandro Jodorowsky has at last returned to haunt you with more violent imagery and sand with La Danza de la Realidad. In comparison to the director's most famous creations, the surreal cult films The Holy Mountain and El Topo, this looks fairly whimsical--you know, besides the immediate bucket of guts, but that's only to be expected. The film reportedly takes an autobiographical look at Jodorowsky's Chilean childhood, following in the Fellini tradition of stylizing the events with an intricate, surreal beauty. Meanwhile, following in the Barnes & Noble calendar section tradition, there are also some dogs in funny costumes. Here's the trailer:
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With The Wolverine hitting theaters in just two months, 20th Century Fox has released yet another trailer for their ongoing saga of Hugh Jackman not singing. Based on a famed comic arc from Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, the film sees Logan visit Japan, where he faces death and sushi, which he's at first very reluctant to try, noting that raw fish sounds so gross. Later, though, someone finally tricks him into eating some, and once it's revealed what he's just consumed, Logan is surprised and delighted to find himself enjoying the cuisine, chuckling at how silly he'd been to avoid it. In the epilogue, back in the U.S., he picks up some more sushi from a suburban strip mall, but he notes to Cyclops that he's been to Japan and it's way better there. "Have you been? You should really go in spring." I don't know why they made a movie out of that.
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Now one year since early Anchorman 2 teasers first brought everyone back together, here's a new teaser, with even more of the cast saying spouting catchphrases and/or showing symptoms of mental illness. Savor it, because the film still isn't coming out until Christmas.
Also, in further Anchorman cameo news, turns out Drake shot a scene in the sequel this weekend, spotted Saturday choking Brick with a hockey stick. Apparently Degrassi didn't teach this guy his lesson about taunting troubled outcasts.
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In Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, giant monsters rise up from the Pacific ocean to wage war on man, and man responds by creating massive, powerful mech-suits to fight back the beasts. Meanwhile, in rip-off expert The Asylum's Atlantic Rim, that also happens, but due to trademark and budgetary constraints, now it happens in the Atlantic, the robots are controlled by looking like you're going bodyboarding, and the biggest star is Maverick and Die Hard 3 supporting actor Graham Greene. Otherwise, same thing. Here's the trailer:
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