Holy whoa, Prometheus is just over two weeks away. Finally, all those burning questions will be answered in what is hopefully a masterful film of science fiction and body horror. Until then, though, we'll just going to have to be satisfied with more marketing that plays coy and promises big things that come from small beginnings.
With almost a month to the day until Brave arrives in theaters, you can expect to spend the next thirty-odd days inundated with new promotional material for Pixar's latest, the animation powerhouse's first non-sequel since Up back in 2009. A new clip, for example, promotes the Disney release with aplomb, hinting at the still-mysterious story whilst sticking to character, character, character.
Luckily for all the already-lucky folks hanging out on the Croisette, Lawless is screening at the at the Cannes Film Festival and has been received positively. Those of us not at Cannes have to wait until late August to see John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Wettest Country in the World. To tide us over, though, there are two new clips from the film online now, both featuring a rather intimidating Tom Hardy.
It's been five years since Paul Thomas Anderson's last film, the magnificent There Will Be Blood, so forgive me if The Master incites perhaps too much anticipation. It's the latest movie from the writer-director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and Hard Eight (aka Sydney) though, so yeah, excitement is entirely justified. As to prove it, the first official footage from The Master has debuted online, and damn if it isn't every shade of promising.
Paramount Pictures has released the first official clip from DreamWorks Animation's latest, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and it smoothly reintroduces the anthropomorphized animals voiced by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and David Schwimmer. It also establishes that wacky hijinks are sure to ensue as the gang has apparently stumbled into ownership of a traveling circus.
We've seen all manner of impressive, anticipation-stoking promotion for Prometheus, including many a teasing image and that behind-the-scenes featurette that closed out last week. 20th century Fox is starting this week off right and ensuring that the Alien quasi-prequel remains a much-discussed summer movie event by releasing the first official Prometheus clip.
This Wednesday, Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy The Dictator arrives at theaters across the nation, but today, a new extended clip reveals just about four minutes of the movie. Considering that the film clocks in at a brisk 83 minutes, those four minutes represent a pretty good little patch of The Dictator.
The clip has Baron Cohen as the de-bearded Admiral General Aladeen and the always-welcome Jason Mantzoukas as sidekick Nadal. Many a trailer and teevee spot has featured the two of them horrifying a couple of tourists on a helicopter flight over Manhattan, but this clip provides the full sequence of Aladeen and Nadal's helicopter adventure.
Chris Hemsworth is currently throwing down with Mjolnir as Thor in The Avengers, but next month he'll be kicking ass and presumably taking names with a hatchet as the titular woodsman in Snow White and the Huntsman. He's neither kicking ass nor taking names in a new clip from the fairy tale movie, now available to view online.
Universal has released a new official clip and a poster for Snow White and the Huntsman, both of them selling that the film is not exactly what fans of the fairy tale may have been expecting. This take on the familiar story is a big action-adventure with many a surreal, fantastic image against a grim and grimy aesthetic.
The first official clip from "The first film about our new millennium" has arrived online with a look at Cosmopolis clocking in at over one minute, complete with French subtitles. Two weeks ago, a domestic and an international trailer gave our most extensive peek at the adaptation of acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo's 2003 book. This clip, though, provides a sense of the heightened reality that director David Cronenberg is going for here.