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Based off of the domestic and international trailers we’ve seen for Green Zone, I think it’s safe to say that audiences are already expecting this to be the next installment in the Bourne franchise. Well, the first poster has just arrived for Green Zone, and it certainly doesn’t seek to correct this assumption.
You can’t exactly call this a bad move from the marketing guys. The Bourne movies have been fantastic, especially the last two installments – which just happened to be directed by Paul Greengrass, the same guy that directed Green Zone. His pairings with Matt Damon have resulted in not only critical success but box office gold, so why would Universal shy away from the comparison? Anyway, Empire’s got the exclusive on the poster, which you can check out after the jump. Read»
Today we get trailers for not one Matt Damon movie, but two! And you know what, this trailer looks just as good as the other one.
Invictus is Clint Eastwood’s latest film sitting in the director’s chair, and this time he’s cast Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, newly in office as the President of South Africa, and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the captain of South Africa’s woeful rugby team. Amidst the powerful racial divide plaguing an anxious population in the wake of Apartheid, Mandela tasks Pienaar with leading the national team to the Rugby World Cup. He believes the universal language of sport is capable of reaching beyond the racial and political upheaval, and that it can speak directly to the human condition as the underdog team rallies an otherwise divided nation together.
We caught the poster a few days ago, which you can find here. Check out the trailer after the jump, or find it on Apple in HD. Read»
The last time Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass worked together, we got The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. The star and director are back together again, this time tackling the Iraq War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and a healthy dose of action and intrigue. The new trailer shows off a bit of both, and features Damon in the lead role of Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller as he leads his team of inspectors in search of WMDs. Miller begins to question his orders when his search turns up nothing but a trail of conspiracies and lies.
Will audiences turn up for an Iraq War movie? History would say no, but The Hurt Locker did well in the specialty market earlier this year and none of the previous war films that tanked had Matt Damon and his Bourne director. Also starring Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Jason Isaacs, Antoni Corone, and Nicoye Banks, Green Zone hits theaters on March 12, 2010. Hit the jump to see the trailer from Yahoo!
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Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit is moving towards a very, very cool cast. We already know that Jeff Bridges will play the role originated by John Wayne, Rooster Cogburn. Cogburn is an aging U.S. Marshal who travels with another lawman and a 14 year-old girl in search of an outlaw that killed her father. While the original was a starring vehicle for Wayne, the Coens plan to adapt the book it was based on more faithfully, and tell the tale from the girl’s perspective.
Now Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join the cast as well, setting the stage to make this one of the most anticipated projects of next year. Damon would play the fellow lawman, a Texas Ranger, while Brolin would play the killer. The girl has yet to be cast.
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We’ve got posters for two upcoming movies today!
The first one is a little old, but better late than never right? Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles stars Zac Efron, Claire Danes, and Christian McKay, and centers on a young and scrappy actor in the 30’s who manages to fanagle his way onto the cast of Welles’ stage production of “Julius Caesar.” If you haven’t already seen the very promising trailer, you can check it out here. Meanwhile, Cinematical debuted the poster a week and a half ago; you can see it below the jump.
The other is the first poster for Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela-Francois Pienaar drama, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The film, once titled The Human Factor, centers on South Africa in 1995, when Mandela allied with Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby team, to unite and heal his country after the abolishment of apartheid. That year, the underdog team went on an unlikely run to the Rugby World Cup Championship. Check out the poster below the jump as well, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
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Watch the trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s latest! Read»
Disney has released the trailer for Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece! Read»
Check out Universal’s 2009 preview, which includes Public Enemies, Fast & Furious, and The Wolf Man. Read»
