ComingSoon has confirmed that the first (non Comic Con exclusive) movie trailer for Wolverine will be attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still on December 12th. And apparently Fox isn’t going to put the trailer online until some later point, forcing comic book geeks to see their potentially bad sci-fi remake (I say potentially, because I have yet to be impressed with the footage released thus far, and the move of announcing the attachment of a Wolverine trailer smells of desperation).
And we all know that the trailer will be bootlegged and leaked onto YouTube. It always happens. And its a shame because hundreds of thousands, if not millions are [...]

One of the movies I’ve been looking forward to is Superbad director Greg Mottola’s Adventureland coming of age film based on his own experiences at the Long Island amusement park. Set in 1987, the film follows James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight recent college grad forced to take a minimum wage job at an amusement park when he realizes he can’t afford his dream tour of Europe. Writer/director Greg Mottola – best known as the director of the hit comedy Superbad – channeled his own experiences as a low-paid amusement park employee while making the film.

Co-starring Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig and Martin Star. I hear it’s [...]

Could the first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s Sci-Fi 3D epic Avatar be on its way? MarketSaw posted these very convincing photos of a batch of packaged 35mm film trailers. Fox’s The Day The Earth Stood Still hits theaters on December 12th, could the teaser be attached to that film? I can’t imagine that Cameron would want to release an Avatar trailer not in 3D, would he? Some have pointed out that the lengthy running time listed on the boxes might point to it being a fake.

As you know, the second trailer for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the first trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek will be attached to Quantum of Solace, which hits theaters this Friday. The only way to see the Star Trek movie trailer this weekend (aside from the inevitable blurry shaky youtube bootlegs) will be in the theater (the trailer will be posted online on Monday morning).
Yahoo has announced that the Watchmen trailer will premiere online on Thursday night at 5:00pm pacific time. So if you want to see the new Watchmen trailer and don’t want to pay for Bond, check back online this Thursday night. You’ll even get to see it [...]

I’ve never really thought about it before, but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a movie trailer narrated by a woman. Variety has an article which cites a quote from Don LaFontaine, known as “The Voice of the Movie Trailer”, who as you might recall, recently passed away:
“I think women are vastly underrepresented in this area,” LaFontaine said in 2006. “You’d think that for films directly aimed at women, chick flicks, the logical choice would be for a woman to narrate the trailer. But studios hold focus groups and the people in them, women included, seem to prefer the male voice.”
Ryder also notes that William Morris represents only three female [...]

The official Star Trek movie website has been updated with a countdown clock. Apparently the new trailer, which will be attached to Quantum of Solace this Friday, won’t appear online until Monday, November 17th at 10:00am pt / 7:00am et. So if you want to see the new Star Trek trailer, your first chance will be only in theaters.

Paramount was supposedly howing off the new trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek on a 15 minute loop on the lot on Friday. Here is a brief decryption of what you will see:

A 60’s style corvette convertible tears down the road, a policeman in hot pursuit.
The driver, a 13-year-old boy, leaps from the car right as it goes off a cliff.
Reveal: the policeman has a hover bike
The Policeman asks “Who are you? What’s Your Name?” The boy answers “James Tiberius Kirk!”
Kirk years later, a young man (Chris Pine) is riding a hover bike
Voice Over: “You never found yourself here, you never really fit in. What you choose to do with [...]

United Artists has provided /Film with four new production photos from Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie. Apparently, a new trailer will premiere tomorrow night around 8:00pm PT, so check back then. As always, click on the stills to enlarge.

Official Plot Synopsis: In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Tom Cruise stars in the suspense film, VALKYRIE, based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (CRUISE) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one [...]

You’ve seen the latest extended Watchmen movie trailer which premiered during the Spike TV Scream 2008 Awards, right? Did you see lower Manhattan?
For those of you who don’t know, Doctor Manhattan can alter his body’s size, and unlike The Incredible Hulk, he doesn’t have magical stretchy pants which grow and shrink with this power of transformation. The result is that Dr. Manhattan spends most of his days naked. And Zack Snyder didn’t try to find away around this for the big screen adaptation.
/Film reader Oscar comments that Dr. Manhattan can “control all matter, you don’t think he can make his own clothes grow the way does his body? He doesn’t [...]

We haven’t updated Star Trek in a while, so lets get to it. During a recent online chat with The Guardian, director JJ Abrams was asked why he got involved in the film. And I think his answer says a lot about what we should expect from the final film: “It didn’t feel like a classic reboot or prequel. It is a brand new thing inspired by characters that are poised to make a big comeback.”
JJ Abrams insists that the film’s running time won’t be much longer than 120 minutes, ranting to MTV that he’s “sick of these two hours and forty-five minute movies.”
Abrams also claims that when he showed [...]

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has decided to lift their long-running ban of movie trailers during the Academy Award telecast. But there is a catch: Each movie studio will be allowed to run just one spot (30 or 60 seconds), and that spot must be an Oscar exclusive. Sounds like a good plan to boost ratings.
I think everyone will agree that the Oscars has become increasingly artsy/indie over the last two decades (hey, remember when Raiders of the Lost Ark won 4 Academy Awards?), which probably put off a lot of mainstream filmgoers. The ratings have been in decline. I’m not a sports fan, yet I watch [...]

Twenty-five minutes of Watchmen was screened for select press in Los Angeles today. I couldn’t make the trip (I’m taking a break from traveling for a while), but our friends at FirstShowing were in attendance. Here are some of the news highlights:

The current running time is 2 hours and 43 minutes, and Zack Snyder doesn’t expect it to get much shorter. Wow, that’s even longer than I expected it would be.
Snyder said he would not be involved with a prequel/sequel if Warner Bros stupidly decided to make one. But the real question is, would Warner Bros be stupid enough to make one?
The next movie trailer will be [...]

Universal Studios has announced that they will be providing theme park visitors with an exclusive first look at The Wolfman. The footage will premiere on the LED screens on the Terror Tram as part of Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights (which begins October 3rd). That’s right. Universal is trying to lure moviegoers to their theme park with the promise of an extended movie trailer? Has it really come to this?

/Film reader Tom H noticed that the same exact shot from Ghost Rider, was used in the new trailer for The International. Both films are produced by Columbia Pictures / Sony, so they obviously own the rights to the footage. In the Ghost Rider clip, which can be seen here, the car explodes as Ghost Rider rides by the car on his bike. In the International trailer, the Ghost Rider CG is absent, and the clip is shown right after someone enters something into an ATM machine. I’m assuming the clip is only used to make the trailer more exciting and won’t appear in the actual film. But you never [...]

It was announced that the full trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be attached to JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek, which hits theaters on May 8th 2009. The teaser trailer is due out by the end of the year, possibly attached to Eagle Eye, which is written and produced Transformers 2 screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Before you complain that May is too late for the full Transformers trailer, remember that the full length trailer for the original film was attached to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, which was released in late May. So the timeframe is almost exactly the same, if not a little bit [...]