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WATCH: ‘Man of Steel’ Teaser − General Zod Does Not Look Like Michael Shannon In This Clip

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The latest teaser for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel  is an effective one. The clip introduces General Zod via a grainy video transmission that makes Superman’s arch enemy look a lot creepier than he does in production stills. The voice clearly belongs to actor Michael Shannon , who plays Zod in this latest reboot of Warner’s Superman franchise, but the staticky image leaves the impression that the Kryptonian wack-job is wearing some sort of mask with weird eyes and an exceptionally elongated chin.  Either that or Zod trimmed his goatee and got some sleep after sending this transmission. (See the photo above.) The calm way in which the baddie warns that the planet Earth will “suffer the consequences” if Kal-El (Superman’s Kryptonian name) doesn’t surrender is also a nice chilling touch. There may be more to look at in a couple of days or so. ComingSoon.net  reports that another site IWillFindHim.com is counting down from 48 hours, possibly for a trailer.  Since I can’t read Kryptonian, or whatever language that is on the screen, I’ll take their word for it. I, Zod [ ComingSoon , I Will Find Him ] More on Superman: Warner To Announce New DC Superhero Movies (And Remember Those Joseph Gordon-Levitt Rumors?) What The Kal-El? The Seriously Weird Superman That Nicolas Cage Almost Played Follow Frank DiGiacomo on  Twitter. Follow Movieline on  Twitter.

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WATCH: Play Doctor With Jude Law Via Viral Ad For Soderbergh’s ‘Side Effects’

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

As ads for pharmaceuticals go, this clip for the anti-depression drug Ablixa is textbook perfect. Wooden actors progress from sad to happy with the help of digital dark clouds, sun rays, and, presumably, the being advertised. And there’s the de rigueur reading of possible side effects. Ablixa is not an actual prescription drug, however, and the video, which I’ve posted below is actually a viral ad for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming Side Effects , in which Rooney Mara plays a woman who turns to prescription drugs to battle her anxiety when her husband ( Channing Tatum ) is released from prison. The weird thing is that the Ablixa ad is so pitch perfect that I’m not sure why I should be watching it. As far as I can tell, the spot leaves nothing in the way of clues to the movie other than that Ablixa will probably figure into the plot and that some of the more serious side effects that the drug can cause may come into play. If you follow the prompt at the end of the ad and head to the Ablixa website , things do become more amusing.  You can participate in a video analysis with Dr. Jonathan Banks, who’s played by Jude Law,  and is a character in the movie. Even if you answer ‘No’ to Banks’ questions about whether you suffer from feelings of helplessness, suicidal thoughts and a lack of appetite or sex drive, the good doctor still suggests you may be a candidate for Ablixa. Somehow, I don’t think that’s a good thing, but we’ll find out when the movie opens on Feb. 8 Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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Ryan Gosling Don’t Look So Pretty In ‘Drive’ Director Winding Refn’s ‘Only God Forgives’

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Nicolas Winding Refn has said that the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspired him to become a filmmaker. So we shouldn’t be surprised that Ryan Gosling appears to be sporting a quasi-Leatherface look in what may be a poster for Only God Forgives.  (Check it out after the jump.)  Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a little, but the actor’s face does look pretty damn tore up. The Film Stage posted the image , which it indicates it received from a reader. Certainly, it doesn’t seem implausible as a poster. What better way to whip up interest in a film than to go with a poster that messes with Gosling’s pulse-quickening handsomeness . On Gosling and Winding Refn’s follow-up to their most excellent 2011 film  Drive ,   Only God Forgives is set in the Thai boxing underworld.  According to the Film Stage, this  is the synopsis: Julian (Gosling) lives in exile in Bangkok where he runs a Thai boxing club as a front for the family’s drugs smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother Billy is killed their mother, Jenna (Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in the city. She wants revenge and forces Julian to find the killer. Julian’s contacts in the criminal underworld lead him directly to The Angel of Vengeance, a retired police officer who knows everything and who is both Judge and Punisher. Jenna demands that Julian kill The Angel of Vengeance, an act that will cost him dearly. The fight scenes in this movie are apparently brutal and intense — as if the poster image doesn’t convey that — and, like Drive , Winding Refn sets many of his scenes to the kind of electronic music that gets under your skin and makes those shots even more emotionally palpable. In this case, he’s working with M83 of “Midnight City” fame. (Try not to get hooked on that song. I dare you.) Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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‘Side Effects’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Inches Toward Retirement With Pharmaceutical Thriller

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Folks like Steven Soderbergh know it can be a long, long road to retirement. But there are still (at least) two titles to come, including Side Effects . With this year’s box office lauded strip down Magic Mike as well as his other 2013 shoot Behind the Candelabra on the make, his segue out from the director’s chair may linger a year or two. There are promo obligations post-post production after all… And retirement is proving to be good business, anyway. After cashing in with $130 million for this year’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a second one is in the offing . Maybe after Soderbergh is finished with these, he can really embrace the retirement thing with a Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 3 ? Starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jude Law (many of whom are Soderbergh-vets), Side Effects revolves around a young woman who relies on prescription drugs to deal with anxiety as her husband heads home from prison. As might be expected, there’s also more going on as the trailer suggests, with the pulse of anxiety hitting a crescendo. The film is due out February 8th. Thoughts, Movieliners? Should Soderbergh cancel his retirement plans?

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WATCH: Snoop Lion Jumps The Bong In His Reggae Music Video Debut

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Oddly enough, after being moved by Snoop Lion’s Reincarnated  documentary at Toronto, I now have to say I agree with the little girl at the beginning of this music video who says she liked him better when he was Snoop Dogg.  I get why Calvin Broadus — Snoop’s real name — wanted to put his whole gangsta image behind him, even if it was purely a marketing decision. Artists must evolve.  But with this video for “La LaLa,”  he’s jumped the bong by making his bad-ass pot-smoking self a little too kid friendly. Okay,  you could say that the video is subversive because you have children dancing around in a  smoke-filled video that also shows an animated pineapple sucking on what appears to be a big fat spliff — I bet the boys at Fox News will love that — but the kids-say-the-darnedest-things interviews that appear in the video are annoyingly cute, a word I do not ever want to associate with Snoop.  I do, however, like the scene where Snoop goes into a coffin holding a dog and comes out wearing a Lion headdress. The rapper-turned-Rastafarian must have been serious when he lamented in Reincarnated   that he could not perform at the White House because his hip-hop songs “are too hard.”  He can certainly perform “La La La” at the White House if Obama is reelected. Check out the video below, then compare it to Musical Youth’s 1982 hit “Pass The Dutchie” video, which is below.  The songs bear no resemblance musically — “La La La” is as turgid as “Pass The Dutchie” is vibrant — but both songs were sanitized for mass audience appeal. (“Pass the Dutchie” referenced The Mighty Diamonds’ “Pass the Kouchie,” which was about smoking ganja. What you think?  Am I being too hard on the Lion? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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The Iceman Trailer: Yeah Right, Who’s Gonna Buy Michael Shannon As A Killer?

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Kidding! Michael Shannon was born to play oddball creepy-types, and I mean that in the best way possible. So his turn as Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer from New Jersey known as The Iceman who killed for sport and for gangsters for three decades, seems fitting. Anyone else feeling curious pangs of sympathy for the Mafia hitman-slash-family man who claimed to have murdered over 100 men over the course of his “career?” Kuklinski grew up in the Jersey suburbs with abusive parents before beating a bully to death at the age of 14; it was his first murder. His double life as loving father and husband and ice-cold killer is one of those fascinatingly true tales (read the gory details here , literally) and Shannon is one of a handful of actors who could probably pull off the dichotomy. So I’m morbidly curious about The Iceman , even as the head shots and stabby glimpses abound in this first trailer. Shannon and his various period wiseguy hair co-star with Winona Ryder, James Franco, David Schwimmer, and Ray Liotta. Oh, also? CHRIS EVANS AS AN ICE CREAM TRUCK-DRIVING HITMAN NAMED MISTER SOFTEE. Worth the price of admission alone, no? Based on the book The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer , The Iceman will debut at the Venice and Toronto film fests. [ Apple ]

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10 Years Trailer: Channing Tatum Hits His High School Reunion

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I’m sure Channing Tatum ‘s real life high school reunion was just like yours: Equal parts awkward, fun, and harrowing, with a few Step Up -style dance-offs. Watch Tatum and a deep cast of fellow millennials like Anthony Mackie, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Ari Graynor, Rosario Dawson, and Jenna Dewan in 10 Years and be thankful that your totally ’90s yearbook photos are safely tucked away in a dark, safe place and not being put on blast in a movie trailer. Ten Years marks the directorial debut of writer Jamie Linden ( We Are Marshall , Dear John ) and is produced by Tatum and his Magic Mike partner Reid Carolin. With Tatum and offscreen wife Dewan playing his onscreen girlfriend, this is a Step Up reunion of sorts… and a Mackie/Brian Geraghty Hurt Locker reunion… and a We Are Marshall reunion… and a What’s Your Number reunion… and a Dear John reunion… Verdict: Vicariously living through other people’s high school reunion > attending your own? Synopsis (via Yahoo ): In this ensemble comedy, 10 Years follows a group of friends on the night of their high school reunion who, a decade later, still haven’t quite grown up. Channing Tatum plays Jake, who is deeply in love with his girlfriend (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) and ready to propose—until he runs into his high school flame (Rosario Dawson) for the first time in years. Jake’s friend Cully (played by funnyman Chris Pratt) married his cheerleader girlfriend (Ari Graynor), and has been looking forward to the reunion so he can finally apologize to all the classmates he bullied in high school. However, after a few too many drinks, the jock-turned-family man ends up reverting back to his old ways instead. Meanwhile, longtime rivals Marty (Justin Long) and A.J (Max Minghella) spend the night picking up right where they left off, vying to impress the hottest girl in class (Lynn Collins). The famous one of the group, Reeves (Oscar Isaac) is now a rock star, but is still too shy to talk to his high school crush (Kate Mara.) Written and directed by Jamie Linden, and produced by Channing Tatum, 10 Years also stars Brian Geraghty, Ron Livingston, Anthony Mackie, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Aaron Yoo and Nick Zano. 10 YEARS hits theaters September 14, 2012 .

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10 Years Trailer: Channing Tatum Hits His High School Reunion

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I’m sure Channing Tatum ‘s real life high school reunion was just like yours: Equal parts awkward, fun, and harrowing, with a few Step Up -style dance-offs. Watch Tatum and a deep cast of fellow millennials like Anthony Mackie, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Ari Graynor, Rosario Dawson, and Jenna Dewan in 10 Years and be thankful that your totally ’90s yearbook photos are safely tucked away in a dark, safe place and not being put on blast in a movie trailer. Ten Years marks the directorial debut of writer Jamie Linden ( We Are Marshall , Dear John ) and is produced by Tatum and his Magic Mike partner Reid Carolin. With Tatum and offscreen wife Dewan playing his onscreen girlfriend, this is a Step Up reunion of sorts… and a Mackie/Brian Geraghty Hurt Locker reunion… and a We Are Marshall reunion… and a What’s Your Number reunion… and a Dear John reunion… Verdict: Vicariously living through other people’s high school reunion > attending your own? Synopsis (via Yahoo ): In this ensemble comedy, 10 Years follows a group of friends on the night of their high school reunion who, a decade later, still haven’t quite grown up. Channing Tatum plays Jake, who is deeply in love with his girlfriend (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) and ready to propose—until he runs into his high school flame (Rosario Dawson) for the first time in years. Jake’s friend Cully (played by funnyman Chris Pratt) married his cheerleader girlfriend (Ari Graynor), and has been looking forward to the reunion so he can finally apologize to all the classmates he bullied in high school. However, after a few too many drinks, the jock-turned-family man ends up reverting back to his old ways instead. Meanwhile, longtime rivals Marty (Justin Long) and A.J (Max Minghella) spend the night picking up right where they left off, vying to impress the hottest girl in class (Lynn Collins). The famous one of the group, Reeves (Oscar Isaac) is now a rock star, but is still too shy to talk to his high school crush (Kate Mara.) Written and directed by Jamie Linden, and produced by Channing Tatum, 10 Years also stars Brian Geraghty, Ron Livingston, Anthony Mackie, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Aaron Yoo and Nick Zano. 10 YEARS hits theaters September 14, 2012 .

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Antiviral Trailer: Get Squirmy With Brandon Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Body Horror Creep-Out

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

King of body horror David Cronenberg hasn’t dipped his toes back into the creepy-crawly well in years (his next, the Rob Pattinson starrer Cosmopolis , arrives later this month) but fear not: son Brandon Cronenberg is here to follow in his father’s footsteps with his own disturbing directorial debut! Who’s hungry for a story about cloned flesh-chomping, disease-surfing celeb hobbyists? Snack on the trailer for Antiviral after the jump. Caleb Landry Jones ( X-Men: First Class ‘s Banshee) stars as Syd March, an employee at a medical facility where celebrities grow viruses on their skin that are sold to fans eager for a way to get closer to their idols. When he steals an infection from superstar Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon) that turns out to be fatal, Syd must unravel the mystery behind her particularly squirmy strain. It’s a metaphor! Antiviral debuted at Cannes and will screen during next month’s Toronto Film Festival. Early reviews from the Croisette heralded Cronenberg Jr. as a compelling heir to his pop’s genre legacy and praised Jones’s central performance (you may also remember him from The Last Exorcism and Friday Night Lights ). Watch the trailer below courtesy of Yahoo! A word of warning to the needle- and blood-averse: Prepare yourself for a few very squirmy minutes. Verdict: Total appetite-spoiler. I guess that means it works? IFC Midnight will distribute Antiviral . Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Paranormal Activity 4 Trailer: Webchat Terror

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Yet another Paranormal Activity sequel is heading to theaters this fall, but the increasingly repetitive found footage franchise is introducing some new elements to its scare tactics. For instance, a blonde chick, after three movies of brunettes! Even more original: Paranormal Activity 4 will deliver its spooks via Skype — so tech-forward, so of the moment — the likes of which we totally haven’t seen before. Or have we? The October four-quel is set in November of 2011, five years after Katie (Katie Featherston) and her boyfriend (Micah Sloat) suffered the supernatural attacks that set the half-billion dollar Paranormal Activity train off into microbudget blockbuster history. Forget the dumb shenanigans that sent prequel Paranormal 3 running off the rails into horror hokum; this one’s about teenagers and the internet and webcam technology! … which might feel a lot more cutting edge if it hadn’t already been done, and well, by director Joe Swanberg in the horror anthology V/H/S , which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival just weeks after a fourth Paranormal Activity was announced. In Swanberg’s V/H/S segment, a girl and her boyfriend chat via Skype as strange happenings befall one of them, suspense building from the clever use of the obscured and fragmented perspective of “found” chat window footage. At Sundance, I spoke with one of the producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise and one of the major horror titles on his radar was — surprise, surprise — V/H/S . Conveniently enough for Paramount and the PA4 filmmakers, indie horror fave V/H/S won’t be released until October 5, and in limited release at that; shame mainstream audiences aren’t likely to even hear it before PA4 barrels along into wide release on October 19. Meanwhile, as fast and on the fly as these Paranormal Activity movies seem to be made, the last installment was something of an extra-unusual curiosity in that a good portion of footage (and, seemingly, entire plot threads) teased in earlier trailers were cut out of the final film . Shooting cheaply, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (the Catfish guys, back behind the camera on PA4 ), seemed to have filmed a number of potential endings that went discarded in favor of the lamest ending imaginable. I’ll admit I’m curious to see how they stitch together a story this time and if we’ll see anything from this and subsequent trailers in the eventual theatrical cut. Verdict: Oh, fine . Watch PA4 , but make sure to seek out V/H/S this October. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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