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Watch the First Trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes , Guy Ritchie’s 2009 blockbuster take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous 19th century investigator, struck such a chord with its witty bromantic banter and sense for high period adventure, why not repeat the formula for the sequel? After the jump, watch the first trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , featuring everything you loved about the first film, now with a new villain, a girl with a dragon tattoo, and Robert Downey Jr. in drag!

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Watch Nick Swardson Break Into Porn in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Trailer

Speaking of trailers for Happy Madison productions , Adam Sandler’s company has just rolled out another preview, this time for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star . The comedy features long-time Sandler collaborator and comedian Nick Swardson as a bucktoothed Iowa grocery bagger who dreams of hitting it big as a porn star after discovering a filthy family secret. Do you dare click through?

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14 Exuberant Photos From the New York Premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

It might be ending with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 , but that doesn’t mean you have to curl up into the fetal position and cry for the next two months. After all, the cast of Deathly Hallows was in great spirits at the New York premiere of the final Potter film in New York on Monday night, and the photographic proof of their joy is downright contagious. Click through to see Dan, Emma, Rupert, Tom and Matthew — as well as some surprise guests — beaming like proud Hogwarts graduates.

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Watch the First Trailer for Vera Farmiga’s Directorial Debut Higher Ground

Higher Ground comes with a wealth of advanced praise. Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut about a woman going through a spiritual coming of age in the ’60s premiered at Sundance to rave reviews, and the new trailer is packed to the gills with pull-quotes and flowery adjectives. Engrossing! Haunting! Startlingly Bold! Sounds great. Which is what makes the trailer so disappointing — this doesn’t really look like the work of the next great voice in American filmmaking, does it?

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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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Twilight Star Producing Whitey Bulger Crime Pic

Notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger , who partially influenced Jack Nicholson’s character in The Departed , will get his first post-arrest big screen close-up courtesy of Twilight star Peter Facinelli. The actor is producing an adaptation of Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob , written by former kickboxing champ and Bulger enforcer Edward MacKenzie, AKA Eddie Mac.

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Accept Your Mission and Watch the First Trailer for Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

“The president has initiated Ghost Protocol,” intones an über-serious Tom Wilkinson at the start of the trailer for Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol . “The entire IMF has been disavowed.” Yikes! What happens now, super agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)? “So, what happens now?” Yes — just asked that question. Stop being difficult and just cue up some Eminem — the first trailer for the fourth Mission: Impossible film is live and online.

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TRAILER: Brit Marling Yearns for a Second Chance in Melancholy Sci-Fi Drama Another Earth

It’s Brit Marling Day at Movieline! Since you’ll be seeing a lot more of her in the near future , take a gander at the new trailer for Another Earth , the first of two Marling-starring Sundance flicks coming to theaters courtesy of Fox Searchlight. Alternate planets, tragedy, romance, and Marling’s captivating screen presence — it’s all here. As a bonus, it’s also got Ethan from Lost ! Bet this ends better.

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TRAILER: Let’s Have Quirky Teenage Sex in a Whimsical Pool of Tears in Submarine

Our own Christopher Rosen (who I affectionately call “Crose” or “Croze” or “Croseanne Cash,” in case you were wondering) reviewed the UK trailer for the cute-ass Sundance fave Submarine before, and since then, it’s gotten cuter. In this new-ass American trailer for Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut, romantic kiddies enjoy quirky sex with each other and remain tolerable while doing so. Put on your hip Serge Gainsbourg-theme condom and hump along.

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Watch the Red Band Trailer for 30 Minutes or Less with Jesse Eisenberg and Danny McBride

Is releasing red band trailers before actual trailers a new Hollywood thing? Just one day after Universal unveiled a scatological look at The Change-Up , here comes an R-rated peek at Sony’s 30 Minutes or Less , the follow-up action-comedy from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer that stars Jesse Eisenberg as a pizza boy. Click ahead to see if this one — wait for it — delivers.

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