June 2, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer
The trailer for the latest installment of Star Wars, the animated Clone Wars is now available. The film will be in theaters August 15, 2008.
Yep, George Lucas is back with an animated feature from the Star Wars universe, this time telling a story that takes place between Episodes II and III, which will set up the upcoming Clone Wars TV series. If this all sounds oddly familiar, that's probably because the original Clone Wars animated TV series came out in 2003. Apparently this time it's 3D instead of 2D.
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April 20, 2006
Rehasing Movie Trailers
Editing and music are everything. You can completely change the tone and feeling by changing the cuts or the music. You've probably seen the rehashed trailers for The Shining and Back to the Future, but now TBS is doing the same for their promotion of their showing of The Lord of the Rings.
"It Sucks To Be Frodo" has to be one of the best, simply for the sake of originality, though the Frodo/Sam as lovers trailer is more well done. And the Gollum trailer has the makings of a great gross out comedy. (link via Kottke)
And while we're talking about rehashes, how about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Friends (link via InFuze).
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December 8, 2005
X-Men 3 Trailer
The trailer for X-Men 3 is now up. Go check it out in all of its mutated, Patrick Stewart goodness.
There's something about the X-Men movies I really get into. I think it might be the ensemble cast and the fact that we don't have to focus on one self-involved weenie (I liked Spiderman 2, but sometimes Peter Parker is just a weenie). We have a whole cast of characters going through similar--yet completely different--transitions. We're not limited to one or even four heroes. And it also gives a plausible explanation to continually introduce new characters. Their can only be so many radioactive accidents to create all those villains.
Anyway, May 26--I know where I'll be.
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December 1, 2005
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Trailer
Jack is back. The trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is now available, the first of at least two sequels which will come out in the summer of 2006 and 2007.
Pretty impressive for a movie based on a ride.
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August 19, 2005
Steve Taylor's The Second Chance Trailer
Steve Tayler makes his directorial debut (finally) with The Second Chance, a film that explores racism and the church. The trailer is now available and it hardly looks like the typical Christian movie. What else would you expect from Steve Taylor?
The movie stars musician Michael W. Smith, which sounds like an odd choice, but from the trailer he looks like he might be able to pull it off. For more on The Second Chance, read an interview with Steve Taylor.
Speaking of Michael W. Smith, have you heard about the tribute album? The Ultimate Music Makeover: The Songs of Michael W. Smith features Stryper performing "Friends," Shaun Groves doing "Rocketown," and All Star United on "Go West Young Man." Um, no comment.
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August 10, 2005
Walk the Line: Johnny Cash
Check out the trailer for Walk the Line, the new Johnny Cash biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.
The film covers Cash's early career recording at Sun Records in Memphis with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, his affair with June Carter and his break out performance at Folsom Prison.
Walk the Line comes out November 18.
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July 28, 2005
A Scanner Darkly Trailer
Whoa. You can say that again. A Scanner Darkly is an upcoming Richard Linklater film based on a story by Philip K. Dick and starring Keanu Reeves. But the best part is that it was made using rotoscoping, where animation is drawn over live-action film. Yeah, funkadelic.
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June 20, 2005
King Kong Trailer
Peter Jackson's latest creation, a remake of King Kong, will make a big splash on June 27 when the trailer premieres simultaneously on nine NBC channels. It has a potential combined audience of 109 million viewers, giving it the widest distribution of any promotional broadcast.
The two-and-half minute King Kong trailer will start on June 27 at 8:59 p.m. ET on NBC, SCI-FI, USA, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, Mun2 and Universal HD. In addition, the Volkswagen web site will get the true worldwide premiere, debuting the trailer online at 8:44 p.m. ET.
The official movie site for King Kong, www.kingkongmovie.com, will also go live at that time. You can official news, including Peter Jackson's production diary, at KongisKing.net.King Kong opens December 14, 2005. (link via InFuze)
Update: You can watch the trailer now. And read more about the digital King Kong.
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May 23, 2005
The Island Trailer
One of the most promising trailers shown during Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (well, aside from the obvious) was a sci-fi flick starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson: The Island. Or at least I thought so. I heard scoffs on either side of me, but the Orwellian action flick looked pretty cool. We'll see come July 22.
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May 9, 2005
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Trailer
Speaking of trailers, everyone's seen it but the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith trailers are available—and the online version is much longer than the shortened version that's starting to play on every channel.
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Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire Trailer
The teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is now available. It's short and sweet, but does give a nice glimpse at the beginning of how the characters have grown up from the first film to the fourth one. They're definitely not kids anymore (though they better hurry up and film the next three or they won't be teenagers anymore). (link via InFuze)
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Chronicles of Narnia Trailer
After all the hype The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe trailer is finally available.
The action looks pretty amazing, though it appears to be trying to compete with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I wonder if my friend Neal is right: Disney's going for epic and it's all wrong. This is probably sacrilege, but even if they get the feel wrong and it's just not a good adaptation, it still looks like a fun movie. (link via InFuze)
You can also see an older featurette on the Weta Workshop's special effects involvement.
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May 4, 2005
Narnia Trailer Coming Saturday
The media is buzzing over the trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which will debut across the world on Saturday, May 7 during ABC's showing of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's a lot of hype for what amounts to, well, hype.
And beyond hype, there's also a lot of pressure. Pressure to make buckets of cash for Disney, pressure to keep the story in line with C.S. Lewis' treasured book, pressure to live up to that other fantasy adaptation, Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
"You ultimately can only make something that appeals to your own sensibilities," says Auckland-born [director Andrew] Adamson, whose parents were both associate missionaries in Papua New Guinea. "I am not making religion an issue one way or another. It's a story about family. People should take from it what they want to take from it."
(link via YS Update)
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April 27, 2005
Joss Whedon's Serenity Trailer
You can catch the trailer for Serenity, the directorial debut from Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, and—wow. It's a sci-fi western based on his canceled series Firefly. In theaters September 30.(link via InFuze)
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