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New Social Network Teaser: Sony Finally Stops Its Relentless Detagging

It may not be the imminent full trailer , but the second teaser for David Fincher’s The Social Network is so clever (and so much better than the first one ) that it’s been frustrating how determined Sony was to stamp it out whenever it popped up online this week. Finally, now that the NYFF -tied announcement about the film has been made, the studio has finally given the teaser its official online unveiling. Watch, enjoy, and “like” it.

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Win a Duet with Susan Boyle

After skyrocketing to fame and makeover fortune because of Britain’s Got Talent , Susan Boyle is hoping to make another unknown singer a star via a YouTube competition dubbed “The Susan Search.” Anyone interested simply needs to upload a performance of “Silent Night,” and the winner will record a track with Boyle for her second album. Said the Scottish vocalist (and potential Glee star ), “There are a lot of people out there who wouldn’t have the confidence or perhaps the means to enter a big competition like Britain’s Got Talent ….so this might be a lot less daunting.” [ The Mirror ]

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Why is the New Machete Trailer So Glum?

Machete is supposed to be fun, right? After all, when that fake trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s low budget Danny Trejo vehicle played in the middle of Grindhouse , and then that hoot of a teaser poked fun at Arizona a few months ago, I’m pretty sure we were supposed to smile, eat some stale popcorn, and get psyched. So why does the new full-length trailer play it so straight?

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Now Playing at Movieline: Stephanie Zacharek’s Video Review of The Kids Are All Right

Guess what, everyone? It turns out you don’t have to wait ’til Inception for the second high-quality entry in the summer-movie sweepstakes: A week before Chris-mas, here come Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo to shatter the art house in The Kids Are All Right . It’s so good . It’s like Toy Story 3 , but with middle-aged lesbians, their adopted kids and a cutie-pie sperm donor where the CGI playthings go. It’s actually even more like Inception , except we’ve seen it. God, I’m so breathless with how good this movie is. Gaspcall911. Take over for me, chief critic Stephanie Zacharek!

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So You Think You Can Dance Quick Kicks: Is Our Alex Going Home?

Clasp your hands over your mouth and mutter something incoherent about Jesus, because tragedy hit So You Think You Can Dance this week. Alex Wong, the heavily favored contestant and candidate for Dance Emperor, busted his Achilles tendon while rehearsing a high-flying Bollywood routine. It gets worse: Because he couldn’t perform last night, he’s relegated to tonight’s bottom three dancers. If he’s not well enough to dance this evening, the judges have no choice but to throw his injured body into the street. You heard it right, Alex Wong stands a very good chance of elimination tonight, and he didn’t even drop his dance partner like Robert did. We’re in hell! Before our emotions get the best of us, let’s analyze the remaining dancers’ work from last night and trade secrets about who has the nicest bone structure.

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Grease Director Randal Kleiser on the Sing-A-Long, the Sequel, and Rooming with George Lucas

There were all sorts of reasons that Grease shouldn’t have worked: it was coming at the tail end of the musical’s golden age in 1978, it was a period piece, and its stars were way, way too old to be playing teenagers — yet something about that perfect lead casting of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and those irresistible songs made it a phenomenon. Now, as Paramount re-releases Grease in a new sing-a-long format, Movieline called up director Randal Kleiser to reminisce and dish. Want to know what he thinks of Grease 2 , modern-day musicals, or his very first role in a student film directed by George Lucas? Read on.

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Grease Director Randal Kleiser on the Sing-A-Long, the Sequel, and Rooming with George Lucas

The Social Network Will Open the New York Film Festival, New Full-Length Trailer Coming Soon

You know that new second teaser for The Social Network that you keep chasing around the internet like some game of Whack-a-Mole, trying to catch before Sony pulls it down? Well as the studio told Movieline, that teaser — which is awesome, for those who haven’t been lucky in tracking it down — is actually exclusive to the New York Film Festival. And hey, look at that: The Social Network is going to open the New York Film Festival on September 24 , a full week before it opens nationwide. Fear not, though: you’re about to get something new much sooner than that.

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Moment of Truth: Marshall Curry on Bringing Racing Dreams — and NASCAR’s Next Wave — to Life

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Marshall Curry, whose Racing Dreams opens Friday in New York and July 23 in Los Angeles. After earning an Oscar nomination for his gripping 2005 political documentary Street Fight , filmmaker Marshall Curry turned to perhaps the last subject anyone would have seen coming: NASCAR. More specifically, the “Little League of NASCAR, ” where the adolescent subjects of Curry’s fine new film Racing Dreams have a lot more at stake than just a trophy at the end of their 20th lap.

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Sons of Anarchy and Conan O’Brien: Tracking the Day’s Bitterest Emmy Reactions

Considering that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter called one-time NYC Hells Angels president Chuck Zito a “delusional bitch,” it goes to reason that he wouldn’t have the kindest words for the Emmy voters after they completely snubbed his series this morning. And sure enough, he didn’t: “They are lazy sheep,” Sutter wrote in a scathing blog post. Predictably, he didn’t stop there — but Mariska Hargitay, you may want to cover your ears.

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Sons of Anarchy and Conan O’Brien: Tracking the Day’s Bitterest Emmy Reactions

ESPN Pledges No Conflict Over LeBron James Special

ESPN executives have assured viewers that tonight’s LeBron James prime-time free-agency special , The Decision , does not violate the network’s policy of not paying for interviews. This, despite James’s marketing company selling the ads (for charity, it announced). Be advised: James is expected to deliver his big announcement within the first 10-15 minutes of the hour-long show, which begins at 9 ET. That’s great news for Cavaliers fans; the earlier they can get to drinking in the post-LeBron era, the better. [ THR ]

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