Lots of new trailers!

Three brand new trailers for three movies I can't wait to see. The Coen brothers' follow up to No Country For Old Men is, of course, something completely different: Burn After Reading, the story of a former CIA agent (John Malkovitch) who leaves a digital copy of his tell-all memoirs in a gym run by Frances McDormand and a hilarious-looking Brad Pitt (guys, he actually used to look like this). It looks like a return to teh balls-out funny Coens of The Big Lebowski -- this red band trailer really delivers. The final shot of Pitt dancing on the treadmill sold me. An embeddable one for Choke: MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News Now, from reading about the movie, it seems pretty faithful to Chuck Palahniuk's book, but you wouldn't know that from the trailer. It looks like a romantic comedy, albeit one with a dark edge. The trailer hardly goes into Victor's choking or his mother situation, much less the weirder stuff that goes on in the book. This is probably a case of a studio not knowing how to market a movie, which is almost always disastrous, business-wise. Not that I figured it would be a box-office smash, but still. The trailer does show that Sam Rockwell was the perfect choice for Victor, despite being a little old; he has the look and the sensibility that I pictured reading the novel. Finally, what is probably my most anticipated movie of the summer has just released a red band trailer (these things are everywhere now). Step Brothers stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as the titular siblings, and I shouldn't have to say anymore to make you watch it. The gratuitous swearing, the attempted live burial, the bunk bed collapse. All these things make for a movie that I will love.

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New Watchmen image!

Thanks to AICN, we've got a picture of the golden-age Minutemen from Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen, and I can't think of a better way to start off this week. It's goofy, it's silly-looking, but that's how it is in the book! Then again, this is probably at their holiday party. But this image is another sign that Snyder is on the absolute right track, and I have no idea how I am going to be able to wait another year for this movie.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button trailer!

A first preview of David Fincher's upcoming film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has popped up on Twitchfilm.net (I wish I could embed it here, but no dice). Despite the fact that it's in Spanish, I think you get a pretty good idea of what's going on. Fincher, as always, seems to be on top of his game aesthetically; plus, Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are infinitely more likeable (and, in my view better actors) than almost anyone in Zodiac (Robert Downey Jr excluded). Pitt-Fincher collaborations have always been solid, and I'm sure this will be the case as well. Enjoy! (More/better reviews coming soon, I promise!)

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Mister Lonely trailer

The movie I've been hearing about & anticipating for years now, Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, starring Diego Luna & Samantha Morton as celebrity impersonators who go to a commune full of their peers, finally has a trailer out. The trailer says the film is in competition at Cannes, which means that we'll hopefully see it out before the end of the year (especially if it does well). I can't wait for the film, and the trailer even made me tear up a bit. Check it out!

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Insane Tokyo Gore Police trailer

Without one word of dialogue in the trailer, I know Tokyo Gore Police is going to be awesome. In this five minutes of ridiculous footage, there is more blood than culd possibly be measured, plucked eyeballs, a woman with a crocodile head as her bottom half (??!), awesome fighting school girls with sword arms, and more gore than you can shake a stick at. It's so awesome, it makes me use phrases like "shake a stick at." All I can say is check it out. (Thanks to Twitch for hosting the video.)

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Towelhead clips!

Having just finished Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead (and loved it), I came to search out any news on Alan Ball's (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) adaptation. No trailer or release date as of yet, but IESB has some clips of the film that get me more excited for the movie. But will it be called Towelhead, as the novel is and the working title was, or Nothing Is Private, the name under which it premiered at last year's Toronto Film Festival? If I had to guess, even though right now it's being called Towelhead, I'd put my money on Nothing is Private, because the original title is just too controversial. If you thought the outrage by conservative radio/tv hosts over movies like Stop-Loss and Rendition was ridiculous (and I do), then just wait until this movie comes out, non-offensive title or not. Yikes.

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Two new international Speed Racer trailers

Via AICN comes the news that two new international trailers for what promises to be one of the summer's biggest movies, the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer have been released. These make me even more excited for the film -- while in plot, it might just be any other family movie, the visuals are so crazy that I get psyched just watching the trailer. I really can't wait for this one!

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Casting news: Gentlemen Broncos

Jared Hess' new project Gentlemen Broncos has attracted some pretty darn good talent. The film is about a teen who goes to a fantasy convention with his manuscript, only to have the manuscript ripped off by a famous fantasy author. The teen will be Michael Angarano, who starred in Snow Angels, which I am still excited to see; the author will be Jemaine Clement, and the main character of the book, who comes in book-to-life sequences, will be played by Sam Rockwell. I really couldn't be more excited about this news -- Flight of the Conchords and Eagle Vs. Shark were two of my favorite comedy projects of the year, and I absolutely love Clement, and Rockwell is one of those actors I will go to almost any movie if he's the star. Angarano, though I don't know him, seems like a rising star with some talent. It looks like, from the talent, that Hess is moving away from Nacho Libre and back to legitimately funny, quirky comedy. I can't wait for this one!

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Behind the scenes footage from Step Brothers!

Courtesy of Movieweb comes this hilarious video of b-roll footage from Step Brothers. Starring my two favorite actors, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, as two rivals whose parents get married, but then split up because of their sons' constant bickering. The two then obviously have to hatch a plan to get them back together. With Semi Pro and then this, I'm so excited for the return of R-rated Will Ferrell in 2008. And seeing John C. Reilly attack him in skinny jeans, calling him a fucker, made me laugh big time. Step Brothers is the movie I'm probably looking most forward to this summer.

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More on Cloverfield

So, the time for Cloverfield is almost here -- man, I remember when January 18, 2008 seemed interminably far into the future! Harry Knowles from AICN has seen the film and has a write-up here. I know that Knowles has a knack (to say the least) for going overboard about projects that he likes, no matter what, but damn, does his review make it sound good. Like, better than it has any right to be, being directed by the guy who did The Pallbearer and only produced by JJ Abrams, whose work I haven't really liked to this point anyway. I guess I'm just a sucker for movies that take the typical (the monster movie) and show it from a different point of view (in this case, as Knowles puts it, in the eyes of the people running away from the monster, rather than the people trying to save the world). It's a much more populist view on the monster movie, and, in real life, would we even have any heroes like there are in most movies? I'm going next weekend, for sure.

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