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New Life Of Pi Trailer Debuts Ahead Of New York Film Festival Premiere

Just in time for its World Premiere at the New York Film Festival this Friday, a new and more sweeping trailer for Ang Lee ‘s Life of Pi has hit the web, setting up the 3-D adventure based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel. The fantasy-adventure follows “Pi,” an Indian boy who survives a shipwreck and is stranded on a boat in the ocean with a Bengal tiger along with some other charming critters. The trailer sets up the ship wreck that sees Pi (newcomer Suraj Sharma) survive the disaster at sea and finds himself in the company of the tiger, set to the tunes of Coldplay’s Paradise . Life of Pi, which also stars Irrfan Khan, Gérard Depardieu, Shravanthi Sainath, Suraj Sharma and Tabu, shot in Taiwan and India earlier this year. 20th Century Fox will release Life of Pi November 21st. Official log-line: Director Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship’s only other survivor – a fearsome Bengal tiger.

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New Apollo 18 Trailer Milks Transformers, Super 8 Fever For all its Worth

With all of the excitement about this week’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon release, it’s important not to forget the other lunar-themed film hitting theaters this summer: Apollo 18 . The Weinstein brothers may have delayed the premiere of this found-footage-horror flick six months but that doesn’t mean it is necessarily bad, right? Take a look at the second official trailer and see for yourself.

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Michelle Yeoh Deported from Burma Over Pro-Democracy Role

Michelle Yeoh, the star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Tomorrow Never Dies , was booted from Burma last week for working on director Luc Besson’s biopic The Lady , about Nobel Prize winner and Burmese government protester Suu Kyi. Burmese authorities blacklisted Yeoh for her “presumed support” of Kyi, who spent almost 15 years in house arrest. If Yeoh should fight for her right to visit Burma, I hope she storms the shores with Sheryl Crow’s defiant Bond theme . [ Moviefone ]

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Michelle Yeoh Deported from Burma Over Pro-Democracy Role