https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcAlo8i2y8 Like the trailer says: the war is on. It'd be safe to add that the expectations are now officially high, both for the broad scope of this film's ambition as well as the latest evolution in detailed digital performances on display in the apes' conversations. They're as good as anything we've probably seen from this technology. War for [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd60i3ZnLOE If the old school poster is any indication (see below), Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is hoping his new indie feature The Book of Henry evokes kid-centric Amblin adventures from a generation ago (E.T., The Goonies, etc.), with a few dashes of twee for good measure. If the first trailer is any indication, he's not going to equal his ambition. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsG7WJVZv8 Who knew CGI overkill could be so glorious? In the hands of Luc Beeson - director of other sci-fi extravaganzas like The Fifth Element and Lucy - high energy spectacle is a guarantee. The latest trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets offers up more of exactly that, with two central performances by Dane DaHaan and Cara Delevingne that appear to be on target [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJgGsZo2wA From the studios that brought us an endless stream of Ice Age movies (but made up for that with entertaining entries like The Peanuts Movie and Rio), Blue Sky Animation and 20th Century Fox give us their holiday entry Ferdinand. Based loosely on the 1930s children's book "The Story of Ferdinand" (which was previously adapted into a short by Walt Disney Studios that went [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3NMtxeyfk Boo. In what is the antithesis of how a new Best Actor winner should strategically follow-up the biggest boost of his career, recent Academy Award recipient Casey Affleck reteams with actress Rooney Mara and filmmaker David Lowery (Pete's Dragon) in a strange, experimental low budget movie that had people talking at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Simply titled A Ghost Story, Affleck plays the deceased husband [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39udgGPyYMg More Spidey action. More villain reveal. Everything looks and feels exactly right, from this new trailer to the recent posters that debuted. Could this be the best Marvel movie since the first Iron Man? We'll know when Spider-Man: Homecoming opens on July 7, 2017.
https://youtu.be/SU-bdMPV0V4 Nicole Of Arabia? That's the epic vibe here in the trailer for Queen Of The Desert, starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman. It's the true life story of Gertrude Bell, an early 20th Century iconoclast who, among her many varied interests and talents, was a British spy. T.E. Lawrence himself shows up in the [...]
https://youtu.be/3cxixDgHUYw It's been a long time since last summer's surprise sizzle reel, but now we finally have the first official trailer for the Justice League. And it's good. Action packed. Legitimately funny. If this movie and June's Wonder Woman can both actually deliver on their previews, 2017 could finally be the year that the DC [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApRZVgOvxc More Minions. More Gru. And now there's Dru, too. It's a family affair in the second trailer for Despicable Me 3, starring the voices of Steve Carrell (as both Gru and Dru), Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, and Miranda Cosgrove. DM3, another likely surefire hit from Illumination Entertainment, opens this summer for the long 4th of July weekend on June 30, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_xlMWImhxk A perfect marriage of material and studio, the silly antics of the popular kids book series "Captain Underpants" fits DreamWorks Animation's cartoonish brand like a snug pair of boxer briefs. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - starring the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Jordan Peele, Kristen Schaal, Thomas Middleditch, and Nick Kroll as the evil Professor Poopypants - flies into multiplexes this summer right after school's out: June 2, [...]
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