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Warner Bros. has released a short teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It’s preceded by an introduction from both producer David Heyman and director David Yates (who also helmed Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince), as well as some brief behind-the-scenes looks at the making-of for the last two films.
Catch the teaser after the jump. Read»
Lionsgate has released a teaser for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, the story about a regular teenager who decides one day that he’s going to become a superhero despite having no superpowers whatsoever. Caught on tape stopping an attempted mugging, he suddenly finds himself at the center of an emerging subculture of wannabe superheroes, regular joes dressed up in homemade costumes trying their hand at a little vigilante justice.
Based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass was independently made by Vaughn and co. before they took it to the studios. The film received an overwhelming response from fans at Comic-Con and early screenings, and Lionsgate subsequently scooped up the distribution rights. What this means is that Vaughn was basically free to make the film as he intended, which is purportedly very faithful to the very graphic, very violent source material. So far, we’ve seen an awesome set of posters and now we get a pretty awesome teaser, too. I definitely feel like a red-band trailer is in the works though, as it seems like this rather sterile (if effective) piece of marketing has got its hands tied behind its back. Hit Girl may look all sweet and sassy now, but she makes one hell of a bloody mess that we haven’t seen yet. Still, it’s got me excited for what’s to come, and I can’t wait to see more footage roll out for this.
Check out the teaser, which comes courtesy of MySpace Trailer Park, after the jump. Read»
A new teaser has arrived for Despicable Me, an animated comedy featuring Steve Carell as the world’s #2 supervillain, Gru.
The first teaser for Despicable Me was amusing enough, but didn’t entirely enlighten us as to its plot. The second teaser sheds a bit more light, but it’s still fairly vague when it comes to story. It paints the story as if Gru is on a mission to unseat Vector, the apparent #1 supervillain in the world. However, according to the official synopsis, the film actually follows Gru on a mission to steal the moon, a mission that gets interrupted when he runs into 3 orphaned girls and they see in him something no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
Check out the somewhat underwhelming teaser, which popped up on Apple, after the jump: Read»
The first teaser for Salt is up now at Yahoo, which casts Angelina Jolie in the title role of Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian double agent and goes off the reservation to clear her name.
The teaser sells the movie as your standard spy-intrigue thriller, with plenty of butt-kicking thrown in courtesy of Angelina. She took on the role that was originally supposed to be played by Tom Cruise; when he dropped out, they just swapped genders and continued forward. I’m curious to see then how it’ll play out – if it’ll be more like Ripley in Alien (who was originally written as male) or if the filmmakers will just take advantage of Jolie’s physical assets to sell some sex appeal. It’d be refreshing to see the former, as we all know how Ellen Ripley went down in strong-female-characters lore.
In any case, I’m not completely hyped about the film yet, but director Phillip Noyce has done some good work in the past and Jolie ain’t no slouch either. Check out the teaser after the jump and decide for yourself. Read»
Enter the world of Pandora in James Cameron’s sci fi epic Avatar! Read»
UPDATED! Full trailer added! Check out a new poster and two teasers for the first Public Enemies trailer. Depp, Bale, and Mann – need we say more? Read»
The live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese anime film now has a Japanese-language teaser up, with lots of Gianna Jun slicing and dicing!
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