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Shanghai Trailer: Why, Exactly, Has This Been on the Weinsteins’ Shelf for Two Years?

A foreign trailer for the Weinstein Company’s longest-delayed film, Shanghai , surfaced recently after two years of mythmaking, rumor-mongering and general Web undermining. On the one hand, that’s what happens for better or worse when Harvey Weinstein (or anyone, really — but especially Harvey) drops a movie on his shelf. On the other, while I can’t speak to the full-length feature, why is this even on a shelf in the first place?

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Shanghai Trailer: Why, Exactly, Has This Been on the Weinsteins’ Shelf for Two Years?

The Love Ranch Trailer: Helen Mirren, Get Some

As Liz Lemon said recently about those famous Helen Mirren-in-a-bikini photos : “How is it possible? Is she a wizard?” Judging from the new trailer for Love Ranch , a based on true events tale about a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada, the answer is yes. To wit: Mirren’s character is married to Joe Pesci, but ends up rolling around in bed with a hunky and decades-younger Argentine boxer, played by actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta. Hey, it’s Peris .

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The Easy A Trailer: Bad Reputation

Three things in Hollywood will never go out of fashion: Comedies about losing virginity, setting literary classics in high school and 20-something actors playing teenagers. So it’s probably a good thing for Easy A that it has all of these things in excess. And that it’s also the first opportunity at a leading role for Movieline favorite Emma Stone doesn’t hurt either, just so long as your tolerance for Tom Cruise jokes hasn’t waned since 2007.

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The Adjustment Bureau Trailer: Men With Hats

Remember how in Saved by the Bell , Zack Morris could snap his fingers and time would completely freeze, allowing him to regale the audience with a fourth-wall breaking monologue? Well imagine if a shady group — clothed in the best suits a ’50s G-Man could buy — had that power, but instead of using it to make unheard quips about their buddies, they used it to make sure Matt Damon followed his predestined plan. Say hello to The Adjustment Bureau .

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The Chatroom Trailer: Sad Face Emoticon

By being both an entry in the Un Certain Regard category at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and also the latest from famed Japanese horror director Hideo Nakata (the original versions of The Ring and Dark Water ), Chatroom is saddled with a lot of advance expectations. And once the trailer begins with the sound of a modem dialing up, you unfortunately know it won’t possibly be able to match them. Log on to Prodigy and check it out.

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Movieline Casts David Chase’s New Movie

Paramount Pictures has announced that on May 8th in Manhattan, they’ll be holding an open casting call for the three leads in David Chase’s new film, “a musical-driven coming of age story set in suburbia.” So, basically, That Thing You Do! Got it. While it’s nice that the studio has given a modicum of hope to struggling actors everywhere, if you think Chase’s first post- Sopranos project is going to be some Todd Phillips-like free-for-all with a bunch of no-name first-timers, you’re crazy. Cue up some Journey, check out the casting notices, and take a look at our suggestions on who should star:

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The American Trailer: Does This George Clooney Film Owe a Debt to Lost?

I’ve been looking forward to the Anton Corbijn-directed, George Clooney-starring thriller The American for a while, and the new trailer doesn’t disappoint. Not only is it beautiful, spare, and visually striking, but it appears to be a big-budget feature version of “The Economist,” one of my favorite episodes of Lost .

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The Piranha 3D Trailer: Jaws With Smaller Fish

What kind of movie is Piranha 3D (besides awesome)? It’s the kind where the lead characters — in this case Elisabeth Shue as a town sheriff and Adam Scott (yes!) as some kind of scientist with a predilection towards flannel — are barely even glimpsed in the full-length trailer. Because there’s no time for them when you’ve got Doc Brown, Matt Hooper and a bunch of badly animated CGI piranhas…

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Jonah Hex Trailer: So Bad, It’s Good?

Have we learned nothing from Sandra Bullock? Like the embattled actress, Jonah Hex has spent the last few months in seclusion, fighting off rumors of trouble only to emerge this week in the public eye . Alas, the new Jonah Hex trailer forgot to bring a secret adopted baby as narrative cover.

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Get Low Trailer: Life at a Funeral

If you’ve ever wanted to attend your own funeral, you’ll appreciate the premise of the Robert Duvall/Bill Murray comedy Get Low , which sees Duvall’s character throwing a funeral party while still alive. There’s just one problem: instead of eulogizing his awesome “I’m an ornery old man” beard, most people in town would rather roast the man.

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Get Low Trailer: Life at a Funeral