
Phase 4 has released a green band and red band trailer for That’s What She Said, a female-led comedy that premiered at Sundance. Anne Heche, Alia Shawkat, and Marcia DeBonis star as three women in a rough patch: “Looking to turn the day around, this fearsome threesome embark on a day of misadventure that only New York City can offer.” That’s What She Said is directed by Carrie Preston, who you may know better as Arlene on True Blood.
I would like to support the mission of this movie, but the tone in the trailers is so abrasive—it looks like an unpleasant watch. But if you are closer to the target audience, hit the jump to watch both trailers. That’s What She Said opens on October 19.
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Open Road has released a red band trailer for End of Watch. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena star as two Los Angeles beat cops who get in over their heads when they decide to independently take down a drug operation. At the very least, End of Watch will look way different than your typical cop drama. Writer/director David Ayers (Street Kings) employs some found footage angles, but isn’t chained to the format, which makes for a unique, ambitious aesthetic. And it’s hard to go wrong with Gyllenhaal and Pena as your leads, though this trailer is sadly light on affable co-star Anna Kendrick compared to the green band trailer. Natalie Martinez, Frank Grillo, America Ferrera, and David Harbour also star.
End of Watch opens on September 21. Watch the red band trailer after the jump.
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A red-band trailer has gone online for the thriller The Loft. The film centers on five friends who have a loft where they can go to cheat on their wives. Their perfect locale hits a bit of a snag when they find a woman brutally murdered in the loft, and they don’t know who’s responsible. I first thought that this would be a claustrophobic film where the five friends would be turning on each other since they each have a key to the loft. Instead, they start suspecting their wives to be jealous murderous who discovered their husbands’ secret. It’s an odd approach, although it makes sense since the guys seems sleazy enough to distrust the woman they’ve wronged rather than the dishonest guys in their company. The only question is whether or not we’ll care what happens to the five adulterers, and if we’d rather see them get their comeuppance than solve the mystery.
Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer. The impressive cast features Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Rachael Taylor, Rhona Mitra, Valerie Cruz, and Isabel Lucas. The film currently has no release date.
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The red-band trailer for the R-rated comedy Bachelorette has gone online. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Isla Fisher as three deeply self-centered bridesmaids who go on a hunt to repair their friend’s wedding dress after they ruin it. I caught the film at Sundance, and thought it was at its best when it was being unapologetically mean-spirited. However, the movie loses its momentum when writer-director Leslye Headland tried to explain why her characters are such horrible people. The tame all-audiences trailer didn’t do a very good job of selling the film, but the red-band does a better job of show off the humor, especially the jokes from Caplan. It still doesn’t want to show how bitter and angry the characters are, which is fine. Why spoil some of the best jokes?
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The film also stars Rebel Wilson, James Marsden, and Adam Scott. Bachelorette hits VOD on August 10th, and hits theaters in limited release on September 7th.
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A new red-band trailer/outtake reel for The Watch has gone online. For those unfamiliar with the film, it follows a neighborhood watch gang who stumble upon plans for an alien invasion. There are some regular clips that have appeared in other trailers, and then the outtakes are more like alternate takes that are followed by the actors cracking up at their shenanigans. I’ll have my review online tomorrow, but I’ll say now that if you want to avoid spoiling some of the jokes for yourself, maybe hold off on watching this until after you’ve seen the movie.
Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer/outtake reel. The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade. The Watch opens Friday.
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Magnolia has released a red band trailer for the horror anthology V/H/S. The premise centers on a group of petty criminals who find a cache of VHS tapes: “As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.” I had weeks of nightmares based on the videotape footage in The Ring, so this looks terrifying. I cannot see this. Based on our reviews from Sundance and SXSW, V/H/S is worth a watch if you can handle it.
Ti West, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Adam Wingard, and Glenn McQuaid teamed up to direct V/H/S. The movie premieres on VOD August 31 before it hits theaters on October 5. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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I’ve been running cold on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but Fox has now released a new red-band trailer for the film, and I’m starting to warm up to the flick. While it looks like half of the movie will be speed-ramped, I can now make out the action on screen, and characters are actually talking to each other. I’m also surprised at how bloody this looks, and I’m starting to wonder if Fox will release two R-rated blockbusters this summer (the other is Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus). Keep in mind that director Timur Bekmambetov‘s previous film, Wanted, went out in the summer of 2008 with an R-rating and raked in $341 million worldwide, although having Angelina Jolie in your movie doesn’t hurt.
Hit the jump to check out the “Red-Band” (unrated would be a more accurate description) trailer. The film stars Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Anthony Mackie, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opens in 3D on June 22nd.
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A red-band trailer for Piranha 3DD has gone online. Like the first movie, the sequel is all about boobs and blood, but this trailer is mostly about the former rather than the latter. Yes, the trailer has plenty of killer-fishy menace, but don’t expect seeing any gruesome kills. Instead, expect to see lots of bare breasts, and I assume no one will complain about that.
Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer. The film stars Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, Chris Zylka, Meagan Tandy, Katrina Bowden, David Koechner, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, Paul Scheer, and Gary Busey. Piranha 3DD currently does not have a release date.
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Sony has released a five-minute red-band trailer for 21 Jump Street. I’m not going to watch it. I’m already sold on the movie since I’ve only heard raves about it. I’ve been told directly “I know your sense of humor and you are going to love this movie.” I was pretty much sold back when the first red-band trailer hit. Watching five minutes of the movie would just spoil more jokes for me, so I’m going to pass.
However, if you need more convincing, you can check out the trailer after the jump. The film stars Jonah Hill (who also co-wrote the script), Channing Tatum, Nick Offerman, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, and Rob Riggle. 21 Jump Street opens March 16th. I’ll be seeing the film at SXSW, so look for my review later this week.
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The red-band trailer for the R-rated comedy That’s My Boy (previously titled “I Hate You Dad“) has gone online. The film stars Adam Sandler as rich party animal who tries to avoid going to jail for tax evasion by getting his estranged and independently-wealthy son (Andy Samberg) to front him the cash to pay back the IRS. The jerk-off dad decides to make this play during the son’s upcoming nuptials and chaotic hilarity ensues.
There are two surprising things about this trailer. First, this is Sandler’s first R-rated comedy since 1996′s Bulletproof. Second, I chuckled a few times during this trailer, which doesn’t make sense since I can’t remember the last time an Adam Sandler movie made me do that. Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer. The film also stars Leighton Meester and James Caan. That’s My Boy opens June 15th.
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Last week, the red-band trailer for The FP went online, and today Drafthouse Films has released the green-band version. Both trailers do a good job of setting up the movie’s premise: With an 80s-style vibe, the plot pits two gangs against each other, and their differences are settled by playing “Beat Beat Revolution” (based off the real-world rhythm-dance game Dance Dance Revolution). The red-band version is heavy on the swearing, but it also does a better job of showing off the fun dialogue and intentionally corny lines like “He wasn’t expecting the unexpected!” The FP may seem like a commercial or a comedy sketch gone on too long, but I’m going to trust the positive word from the film’s premiere at last year’s SXSW Film Festival.
Hit the jump to check out the trailers. The film stars Jason Trost, Lee Valmassy, Art Hsu, Caitlyn Folley, Nick Principe, Brandon Barrera, James DeBello, Sean Whalen, and James Remar. The FP opens March 16th.
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Fox Searchlight has debuted an online-only red-band trailer for Steve McQueen‘s Shame. Like the previous trailers, Fox Searchlight has refused to manufacture a controversy based on the NC-17 rating or pretend there’s a titillating aspect to McQueen’s movie. I really dig this new trailer, and the way it’s cut together does a subtle job of conveying the sexual addiction of the film’s protagonist, Brandon (Michael Fassbender). The trailer is interspersed with brief clips from Brandon’s sexual encounters, but I couldn’t spot any nudity (although you can probably find some if you go through frame-by-frame).
Hit the jump for the trailer. The film also stars Carey Mulligan and James Badge Dale. Shame opens in limited release this Friday.
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The red-band trailer for American Reunion has gone online. It serves as a helpful reminder that Jim (Jason Biggs) should never masturbate ever again. He’s just not very good at it. However, it does lead to a good gag involving a sock. There’s not much else to say about the trailer since there’s no footage beyond the scene I mentioned. It’s really more of an announcement that people in their 30s are making a teenage sex comedy.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The film also stars Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nichols, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, and Shannon Elizabeth. American Reunion opens April 6, 2012. [Update: We've added hi-res versions of the images we ran yesterday.]
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I want to warm up to the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing but there are still a few hurdles it has yet to clear. As you’ll see in this new red-band trailer, the reliance on CGI effects is somewhat distracting and in some ways diminishes the brutality of the original when hands broke apart and you could feel every bone snap. There’s also the issue of the plot. I’ve been told that this is not a remake but part of one giant movie since where it ends is exactly where the 1982 film of the same name picks up. However, judging by the trailers, it still has the same overarching plot: alien infects, takes the form of scientists, kills everyone off one-by-one and the audience wonders who’s human and who’s about to explode into phantasmagoria. Thankfully, I’ve heard from one person who’s seen and they liked it. Hopefully I’ll feel the same way.
Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton. The Thing opens October 14th.
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The red-band trailer for David Gordon Green’s The Sitter has gone online. As star Jonah Hill says in the intro to the trailer, “It’s the filthiest R-rated babysitter movie ever made,” and then he tells some rude children to “Try a little ‘Shut-the-Fuck-Up’ next time.” As for the trailer itself, it’s got a bunch of great jokes, and I really hope I like it more than Green’s last film, Your Highness. The guy has a talent with foul-mouthed comedy (he’s directed the majority of Eastbound and Down episodes) but with Your Highness and to a lesser extent Pineapple Express, the execution couldn’t live up to the concept. But children who act like adult ass-holes are always good for laugh and so is Hill.
Hit the jump to check out the red-band trailer. The Sitter opens December 9th.
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