“In 2014, the world’s greatest heroes will join forces for the biggest movie ever.” A serious boast? Not if you’re the blockheads (and bodies) that are Lego folks. The first trailer is out for The Lego Movie — written and directed by the Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs/21 Jump Street duo of Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — and there’s no shortage of big-name licensees to be seen including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even the 2002 NBA All-Stars, featuring Shaquille O’Neal in a period-correct No. 34 Lakers jersey. You might have heard of some of the folks in the voice cast of the Warner Bros-Village Roadshow toon: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman:
Hot Trailer: ‘Only God Forgives’
They killed his brother. But “it’s a little more complicated than that.” A month after it screened in Competition at Cannes, Only God Forgives has a new trailer out today. Writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn reteams with his Drive star Ryan Gosling for the violent tale of … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Elysium’
It’s 2154, and a new caste system is in place. Earth is populated by the have-nots, while the privileged live in a veritable utopia aboard a massive spaceship. Earth-bound ne’er-do-well Max Da Costa (Matt Damon) gets some souped-up surgery and invades the ship monitored by Secretary of Defense Delacourt … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘White House Down’
Sony‘s ramping up its White House Down campaign with less than three weeks to go until the June 28 Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx actioner enters the summer blockbuster fray, sandwiched between Paramount‘s World War Z and Disney‘s … Read More »
Hot Trailer: Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’
Having returned from his recent cinematic tour of European capitals, Woody Allen sets his new film in San Francisco. Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett as a pampered New York housewife who has it all — until her wealthy husband (Alec Baldwin) is exposed as a crook and … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Man Of Steel’
The final prerelease look at Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot starts with about a minute worth of Kal-El/Clark Kent’s rather unconventional youth and gives way into a quick-cut melange of explosions, outer-space action and general mayhem. But it also finds time for a brief tender moment between Our Hero (Henry … Read More »
Hot Trailer: Liam Hemsworth’s ‘Paranoia’
What happens when a young gun working with and against old rivals gets trapped in a serious double cross? The FBI gets involved, careers are endangered and lives are threatened. Liam Hemsworth plays the up-and-comer seduced by life on the other side of the tracks in Paranoia, … Read More »
Studio Pushback Forces NATO To Rethink Shortened Trailers For Theaters
The National Association of Theatre Owners met with resistance from some studios when it went to the majors with a controversial set of movie trailer guidelines last week. It wants studios to limit trailers to two minutes, down 30 seconds from the MPAA-set standard, and to only advertise films within a four-month pre-release window. NATO-repped theater owners want more control over the promos that run ahead of movies and argue that shorter trailers will make moviegoing more appealing to audiences. Exhibitors would then have extra promo time to use as they choose, whether that means squeezing in additional trailers, house ads, or other inventory. But some distribution pros tell me it’s purely a money-driven move designed to squeeze more revenue out of pre-roll programming they fear could hurt studio marketing efforts. Read More »
Hot Trailer: Jennifer Aniston And Jason Sudeikis’ ‘We’re The Millers’
Jennifer Aniston as a stripper. Ed Helms as a drug lord and Jason Sudeikis as a small-time dealer and his reluctant mule. Nick Offerman as a swingin’ camper. Emma Roberts as a gutter punk. Warner Bros just released the first trailer — a red band — for … Read More »
‘Dark Knight’ Was YouTube’s Most-Watched Movie Trailer In 2012
Google seems to have data for virtually everything. What’s interesting about its list of the hottest trailers from this year is that a video game — Activision’s Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 — walloped anything out of Hollywood, taking the top two spots and four places out of the top 10. Sony and MGM’s James Bond film Skyfall held two spots. One TV show made the list, NBC’s Revolution. YouTube bases its rankings on how many times a clip was viewed, how long people stayed with it, and how many people found the video by searching for it instead of clicking on an ad. YouTube will discuss its findings and show the top trailers here. Now, here’s the ranking for the top trailers on YouTube in 2012: Read More »
New Trailer: ‘The Apparition”
This supernatural thriller directed and written by Todd Lincoln is from Joel Silver’s Dark Castle and distributed by Warner Bros. It stars Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill, and Luke Pasqualino, and has a release date of August 24th:
HOT TRAILER: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ 3D
‘Spider-Man’ Sneaks Include New Trailer To Debut Online Tonight
Sony Pictures just launched The Amazing Spider-Man 3D trailer online after an entire day of sneaks in theaters around the world. The new eight minutes of raw Spider-Man footage attracted big crowds in the 13 cities where it debuted (NYC, LA, Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Mexico City, Moscow, Rio, … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘The Three Stooges’
Here’s the first look at Fox’s The Three Stooges, the Farrelly brothers’ long-in-the-works take on the comedy trio. Its winding road started with the original plan to cast Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Jim Carrey in the lead roles; eventually, the brothers went with Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘The Five Year Engagement’
Universal’s The Five Year Engagement opens April 27, 2012 and stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. It’s helmed by Nicholas Stoller, who directed Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Stoller and Segel co-wrote this one, and Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman produced.
Hot Trailer: ‘The Grey’
The Liam Neeson-starring thriller The Grey is due out January 27 from Open Road Films and centers on an expert in survival skills whose plane crashes in the arctic wild. He must lead a group of survivors to safety while fighting off some bad doggies. So is it the winter … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Brave’ From Pixar

Disney has issued a trailer for Brave, the Pixar film that opens June 22, 2012 with voice talent that includes Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane.
Hot Trailer: ‘Being Flynn’
Writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) adapted Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, about a young man (Paul Dano) whose longtime missing-in-action father (Robert De Niro) turns up at the homeless shelter where the son works. Focus Features plans a spring 2012 release.
Hot UK Trailer: ‘The Iron Lady’
The UK trailer for the Weinstein Co’s The Iron Lady hit the web today. It’s the best glimpse yet of Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher, a performance that has positioned her as the Oscar Best Actress frontrunner. The biopic, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and co-starring Jim Broadbent, hits U.S. theaters … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Safe’
Jason Statham plays yet another bad-ass good-guy in Safe. This time he’s protecting Mei (Catherine Chan), a 12-year-old numerical prodigy who has in her head a code the Triads, Russian Mafia and corrupt cops are determined to get. Boaz Yakin wrote and directed the Lionsgate release that opens March 2, … Read More »

