Posts Tagged trailers
Movie Trailer: Percy Jackson & the Olympians
This full trailer has just been released for the ancient Greece-themed Percy Jackson & the Olympians. The film was directed by Chris Columbus, who also directed the first two Harry Potter films and produced the third.
The film (full title Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), was adapted from the first in a series of books by American writer Rick Riordan.
It stars Logan Lerman (Gamer, The Butterfly Effect) as the demigod protagonist, and also features Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson and Uma Thurman.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is due out in February 2010.
Movie Trailer: Daybreakers
Vampire action flick Daybreakers is the first mainstream film to be directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.
The Australian siblings – best known so far for their 2003 zombie/alien crossover Undead – have snared some big names to bring us the story of a world where most of the population have become vampires and human blood is a precious, dwindling resource.
Starring Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill, the film is due out at the start of 2010. While it’s built on the not-so-subtle allegory of earth’s greedy over-consumption of natural resources, it’s supposed to be as much comedy as action, and we’re asked not to take it too seriously.
Movie Trailer: Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans
For those of you that haven’t already seen the early promos for Werner Herzog’s forthcoming Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, it’s well worth having a dig around. The film, a remake of an 1992 Abel Ferrara film, stars Nicolas Cage and looks insane.
I have no idea if this film is going to be any good. On the one hand, it’s Nic Cage. However, I am a firm believer that no actor who carries on getting work as long as Cage has, is capable of producing nothing but the stinkers this man has squeezed out in the past few years. He could well be back on form with this one.
Plus, I mean just watch the trailer, will you? The guy looks as though he might at any second ACTUALLY murder someone’s grandmother, and not just in the film! You’d be an accessory to NOT go and see it!
Source: ComingSoon.
Movie Trailer: Grown Ups
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Following on from the rather good Funny People, 2010 will see the release of Grown Ups, the next Adam Sandler-penned comedy.
With a solid cast of former Saturday Night Live cast members including Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James and Sandler himself, the film is about five childhood friends who reunite after 30 years apart, following the death of their school basketball coach.
The humour in the trailer looks very much as you’d expect from this cast: a mixture of gross-out, slapstick and deadpan. The only thing missing was a Chris Rock racism skit, but maybe that’ll be in the next trailer.
Source: GeekTyrant.
Movie Trailer: Kick-Ass
Here’s a teaser trailer for the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass comic.
I have to admit, I’ve never been a fan of Millar’s output, which I always considered tried that little bit too hard to be edgy, while other (IMHO, better) writers managed it with a bit of subtlety and grace. I hated the Wanted comic and I’ve heard the film version, while vastly different to the source material, wasn’t worth the time of day either.
I have to admit though, this film (directed by Matthew Vaughn, of Layer Cake/Stardust fame) looks kinda cool.
The story centres around a young, bored teenage boy named Dave Lizewski (played by relative newcomer Aaron Johnson), who decides one day that he’ll fight back against the injustices of the world by donning a costume and assuming the mantle of the crime-fighting, though super power-free ‘Kick-Ass’. As you’d expect from Millar, not all goes according to plan.
The film also stars Nicolas Cage as fellow vigilante, ‘Big Daddy’, as well as Superbad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Kick-Ass is due for release in the second quarter of 2010.
Source: Empire.
Movie Trailer: Clash Of The Titans
Here’s a brand new trailer for the Clash Of The Titans remake, directed by Louis Leterrier (The Transporter 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk) and featuring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and fast-rising star Sam Worthington.
I don’t know about you, but having watched the trailer I am very, very excited about seeing this film.
Hey, I loved the original too, but I think this might just be a fitting tribute to an all-time classic, something that is very rare in today’s film industry.
Source: Cinematical.
Movie Trailer: Sherlock Holmes
Here’s a new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. There’s a little bit of new footage, edited to be heavier on action and with (slightly) less reliance on corny one-liners.
After watching it, I have to say the jury’s still out on whether it’ll be any good.
Will I go to see it either way? Most probably.
Source: MTV Movies Blog.
Movie Trailer: Despicable Me
Despicable Me is a forthcoming animated feature from the executive producer of Ice Age, starring Steve Carrell as Gru, the world’s #2 supervillain, and following his disaster-fraught scheme to steal the moon.
Also featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Julie Andrews and, er, Russell Brand, Despicable Me looks like enjoyable, slapstick fun.
The film is due out mid-2010.
Source: GeekTyrant.
Movie Trailer: Darfur
For those not familiar with the filmography of Uwe Boll, the infamous German-born director is responsible for some of the lowest-ranking films of all time on the IMDb. His back catalogue consists mostly of video game adaptations such as House Of The Dead and Alone In The Dark. Those that I’ve watched, I can honestly say have gone beyond the realms of ‘so bad its good’ and into something altogether more horrifically awful.
With his new film, Boll focusses on the ongoing conflict in Darfur. Starring Edward Furlong, Matt Frewer, Billy Zane and Boll stalwart Kristanna Loken, the dialogue in Darfur is alleged to be improvised by the actors on-set and filmed mostly with hand-held cameras in order to give it a better sense of realism.
I don’t know how this will turn out, but no doubt the film will cause a considerable stir. Whether that be from those familiar with the real-world conflict, from Uwe Boll’s numerous detractors, or from those looking to take Boll on in another boxing match, remains to be seen.
Source: Cinematical.
Movie Trailer: YELLOWBRICKROAD
This looks interesting. YellowBrickRoad, a suspense-horror film directed by Jesse Holland, which looks like an atmospheric mixture of The Evil Dead, The Shining and The Blair Witch Project.
Centred around a mysterious wilderness trail that was supposedly the last place anybody saw the residents of a sleepy rural American town, before they were discovered by a search party variously frozen to death and brutally slaughtered.
Not many details are available at present, but it looks suitably tense and creepy, very well filmed and with a great musical score.
The film’s tagline is: “They were searching for an evil in the forest… but the forest found the evil in them.”
Source: GeekTyrant.