Here's something you don't see every day: a high-profile franchise summer sequel just a month out from release getting delayed by a whopping nine months.  Yet that's exactly what is happening to G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  The sequel/sorta-kinda reboot to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was set for nationwide release on June 29th, but has been suddenly pushed back to a new release date, on March 29, 2013.

The sixth installment in the improbably stronger-than-ever The Fast and the Furious franchise is set to go into production this summer.  As such, the production needs a heavy for the familiar racing and heisting crew to go up against this time, someone with the charisma to equal the combined musculature of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson.  That someone is the increasingly busy Luke Evans, who is set to play the competition.

Paramount Pictures has unveiled the final domestic poster for next month's action-figure-based sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  The one sheet has the requisite Photoshop effects, three characters holding guns, one character rocking a sword, and one faceless villain who may or may not also be holding a weapon of some sort.

Yesterday, a new domestic trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation dropped plenty of quips, lots of action, and the utter devastation of London thanks to some insidious Cobra machinations.  Today, Paramount Pictures has followed up that theatrical trailer with an international version that actually changes it up a bit.  Those G.I. Joe elements are still present, but there are fewer quips and considerably more ninjas doing ninja stuff.

A full theatrical trailer for the Hasbro sequel G.I. Retaliation has arrived online, setting up the basic story, such as it is, and throwing out a lot of quips, visual effects, action beats, and pretty much everything you'd expect from a G.I. Joe sequel trailer.

We've been seeing no small amount of images from G.I. Joe: Retaliation as of late, including three official stills just yesterday.  Paramount is opening up the promotional floodgates for its sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and since the film has a big ensemble of characters bearing the names of Hasbro action figures, today there's a new crop of character posters for eight of those action-figures-turned-action-heroes/villains.

Paramount has taken the liberty of issuing three previously-unseen images from G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  While the sequel's predecessor, 2009's goofy action-romp G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was pretty successful commercially and found some fans for its unapologetic and agreeable stupidity, these new pictures highlight two crucial things Retaliation has that its forebear didn't.  First and most importantly, there's Adrianne Palicki.  Second, there's Dwayne Johnson. 

We've previously seen a bunch of images from the upcoming sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and they consisted pretty much exclusively of characters wielding guns and swords.  There's more of that today, as eight new images from Hasbro and Paramount's sequel/sorta rebootish have arrived online, showing Roadblock, Jinx, and Snake Eyes all getting their guns and swords on.  That's not all, though, there are also comparatively relaxed stills in which castmembers are not sporting lethal weapons.

Jason Statham has driven excessively fast in many, many films, so it was not unreasonable to expect that he might do so in the next sequel or two in The Fast and the Furious franchise.  After Fast Five proved last year that this is the rare franchise that only gets bigger on its fourth sequel, Universal was guaranteed to move forward on the not really-titled Fast Six, with a Fast Seven in the pipeline.  Statham, an action movie fixture, has reportedly turned down a role in the next sequel.

The big summer action movie is a notable export of these United States, and it's no surprise, since explosions and cool sword fights are like a universal language.  Dwayne Johnson may speak English, but his emphatic delivery and swaggering charisma are also universally appealing, so both are amply on display in two new international spots for G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  Both commercials fit templates established by previous Retaliation marketing, but you'll find some new footage, too.