Hey Jude, don’t make it weird: A Paullish Jim Sturgess and Thirteen‘s Evan Rachel Wood fall head over heels in love during the always-turbulent Sixties in the new trailer for Julie Taymor’s Beatlepalooza Across the Universe. Hopefully, it comes off better than The Times They-Are A Changin’. (And where’s Clarence?)
Category: Trailer Bin
Buns in the Oven.
Writer-director Judd Apatow, late of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, gives fellow Freaks and Geeks alum Seth Rogen his time to shine in both the international trailer and the domestic trailer for Knocked Up. And, hey, look, Nick (Jason Segal) is here too. Does he get behind the drum set?
The Anakin Treatment (with a side of chianti.)
The world’s most epicurean cannibal gets psychoanalyzed by Dominic West (again, McNulty, get out of this film, and take Gong Li with you) in another new trailer for Peter Webber’s Hannibal Rising.
Rockets, Rear Windows, and Triple Axles.
More new trailers: Shia LaBoeuf (of Bobby, Constantine and Michael Bay’s forthcoming Transformers) takes a page from Jimmy Stewart while on house arrest in the new trailer for Disturbia, also with David Morse and Carrie-Anne Moss. Billy Bob Thornton attempts to get into space on his own volition in this look at The Astronaut Farmer, also featuring Virginia Madsen (seemingly stuck in wife roles these days), Tim Blake Nelson, and J.K. Simmons. And Will Ferrell joins Jon “Napoleon Dynamite” Heder in the rough-and-tumble world of men’s figure skating in the trailer for Blades of Glory, his next Anchorman/Talladega-type project. (Also hanging around this one, Craig T. Nelson and Will Arnett.)
Lookout Below.
Brick‘s Joseph Gordon-Levitt inadvertently gets caught up in a bank heist in the new trailer for Scott Frank’s The Lookout (a.ka. Memento meets Inside Man?), also starring Jeff Daniels (back with Squid and the Whale beard) and the future Mrs. Borat, Isla Fisher.
Snakes in the Bayou | Cop ‘Stache.
In the trailer bin, Samuel Jackson takes drastic measures to save Christina Ricci from herself in the bizarre new trailer for Craig Brewer’s exploitation homage Black Snake Moan, also with Justin Timberlake and S. Epatha Merkerson. And the Shaun of the Dead team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright unfurl another trailer for their cop comedy Hot Fuzz, now with a brand-new moustache joke exclusively for American audiences.
Portrait of the Cannibal as a Young Man.
Premiering today on Amazon, the new trailer for Peter Webber’s Hannibal Rising, with Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, and Dominic West. Hmm….even with the Jimmy McNulty voiceover, I’m not enthused. What’s next, Hannibal meets the Wolfman?
Thirteen Hosts.
Another preview I haven’t seen: This time, it’s the new trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Thirteen, starring Clooney, Roberts, Pitt, Damon, and the usual assortment of Hollywood cads and roustabouts. I quite liked Twelve (and thought Eleven was so-so), so I’m up for another go.
Die Hard with an Ogre.
In the preview bin, the brand new teaser for Live Free or Die Hard (a.k.a. Die Hard 4) and the full trailer for Shrek the Third. I can’t see either on my current connection, so sorry if they’re terrible.
Spartans via Kiwi.
Two more minutes before my Internet time runs out and I disappear back into the ether…so, before I go, here’s the full trailer for Zack Snyder’s 300. Not as effective as — and somewhat derivative of — the grand teaser (and still no sign of McNulty or Faramir), but I’ll probably still catch it, if nothing else than to see what’s in store for The Watchmen.