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The Trailer for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours Refuses to Keep Things at Arm’s Length

What a week for the Fox Searchlight promo team: Last Tuesday, they debuted the trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s highly anticipated Black Swan , and today, it’s time for the trailer to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire follow-up 127 Hours , starring James Franco. There’s only one problem: Which of these horses will the studio back come Oscar time?

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The Trailer for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours Refuses to Keep Things at Arm’s Length

The Trailer for Inside Job Will Piss You Off

Calling all Howard Beales! The trailer has arrived for Inside Job , the newest lightning rod documentary from No End in Sight director Charles Ferguson, and it will probably make you want to get up from your chairs, open the window, stick your head out and… you get the idea.

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The Trailer for AMC’s The Walking Dead: No Sunshine, Just Zombies

And just like that, you found some plans for Halloween night. AMC has released a four-minute sizzle reel for their brand new zombie series The Walking Dead — which is scheduled to premiere on October 31 at 10pm — and it looks positively Romero-y (or, 28 Days Later -y?).

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Case 39 Trailer: The Best Shot-in-2006 Renee Zellweger Horror Movie of the Year

Congratulations, America! Like the rest of the developed world, soon you, too, will get to experience Case 39 . The horror movie that Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper shot all the way back in 2006 is finally (finally!) scheduled for release on Oct. 1 — never mind that interested parties could probably find it on DVD by doing a Google search — and based on the trailer, expect it to make slightly more than Twelve .

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Case 39 Trailer: The Best Shot-in-2006 Renee Zellweger Horror Movie of the Year

The Fair Game Trailer: Sean Penn and Naomi Watts Try to Handle the Truth

Because one movie about Plamegate wasn’t enough — raise your hand if you saw Nothing but the Truth — here comes the trailer for Fair Game , better known around these parts as Doug Liman’s self-professed “really great movie.” Um, about that: maybe it just needs a better trailer?

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The Fair Game Trailer: Sean Penn and Naomi Watts Try to Handle the Truth

Which Mad Men Dress is Christina Hendricks’s Favorite?

In a Newsweek Emmy roundtable , Christina Hendricks revealed that her favorite dress from Mad Men is the infamous purple dress with a pink sash from season one , a.k.a. “the Roger dress.” Said Hendricks: “I wore it in a scene in a scene with John Slattery in a hotel room, and I’m getting dressed and doing up this scene. I really liked that scene, so it stood out to me.” It also happens to be the dress used to outfit the unbearably fabulous Joan Holloway Barbie doll . [ ONTD , Project RunGay ]

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My Soul to Take Trailer: Wes Craven’s Scream 4 Warmup

It’s been five years since Wes Craven last directed a film (the solid little Rachel McAdams thriller Red Eye ), and sixteen years since he directed one that he wrote himself ( Wes Craven’s New Nightmare ). The new My Soul to Take ends both of those droughts, but the new trailer isn’t exactly thirst-quenching.

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My Soul to Take Trailer: Wes Craven’s Scream 4 Warmup

Kenny Powers Rides Again in the New Eastbound and Down Teaser

Eastbound and Down ended last season with Danny McBride’s baseball washout, Kenny Powers, abandoning his true love after by leaving her at a gas station and heading to Mexico. Apparently, he just got there.

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The Trailer for FX’s Terriers: A Shaggy Dog Story

For a certain group of the population — all television critics on Twitter, for instance — the name Shawn Ryan means “Must See TV”; the veteran showrunner made The Shield for FX and, as such, has a lifetime pass. Good thing, then, since from the looks of his new FX series Terriers , he’s going to need some slack.

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The Trailer for FX’s Terriers: A Shaggy Dog Story

The Next Three Days Trailer: Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson and Elizabeth Banks Remember Pittsburgh Exists

You don’t see a lot of movies set in Pittsburgh, huh? Mysteries of Pittsburgh , Wonder Boys and, um, that’s about it. (Thank goodness for the books of Michael Chabon, right?) So three cheers (and rivers) for Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days , the movie destined to put Pittsburgh on the Hollywood map… by giving Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson some terrible accents.

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The Next Three Days Trailer: Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson and Elizabeth Banks Remember Pittsburgh Exists