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netbros — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:09:21 -0800

Just Add New Zealanders — a compilation of short-form film, music videos, movie trailers, and interactive promos. Check out the locations section for photos of the world-class scenic beauty New Zealand is famous for.

Everything new is old again

You Should See the Other Guy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:37:34 -0800

Movie trailers: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951), starring Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, and Peter Lorre; Forrest Gump (1949), starring Jimmy Stewart. From the creator of Ghostbusters (1954), with Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin. via I Watch Stuff

Double the action! Triple the excitement! One man. One Solution. Arnold Schwarzenegger this summer is. . .Little Tortilla Boy!

Ndwright — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:41:29 -0800

ifc.com's Top Fifty Movie Trailers Highlights include: 48. The Man Who Wasn't There, "a dreamlike, semi-abstract distillation of the genre (noir) to its core elements." 36. Spider-Man, featuring a surprise reveal of the superhero-nature of the film pulled early because of its prominent usage of the twin towers prior to 9/11. 24. Schindler's List, underscoring the idea of the film being more about the Holocaust itself than its actors or director 19. Unbreakable, a spellbinding trailer far, far better than the actual movie. 10. The Shining, no more needs to be said 7. Dr. Strangelove, appropriately surreal 4. Miracle on 34th Street, one of the earliest meta-trailers and finally, 1. Alien, whose trailer perfectly encapsulates its respective film

Let's put a smile on that face

Manhasset — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:36:14 -0800

Toy Story 2 / Dark Knight mashup SLYT

An Orgy Of Savage Lusts!

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:01:37 -0800

Trailers From Hell. Cult directors (and other industry types) introduce and comment on trailers for cult films. For instance, Allison Anders on Peeping Tom, Rick Baker on The Man Of A Thousand Faces, Joe Dante on Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, Jack Hill on White Heat, Dan Ireland on The Haunting, Mary Lambert on The Masque Of The Red Death and Edgar Wright on Carnage. (Flash menu and intro unfortunately)

Trailers of Historically Significant Films

kirkaracha — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:43:59 -0800

Trailers of Historically Significant Films Digital History has trailers (Windows Media) for a ton of movies from 1919 to 2004 (sorted by year of release) using a very loose definition of "historically significant." [via MonkeyFilter]

The Room: Best/Worst/Best Vanity Project Ever

boost ventilator — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:03:20 -0800

The Room: The Movie. Triple-threat (actor/writer/director) Tommy Wiseau made his cinematic debut in 2003 with the The Room (see trailer and various scenes), "a blend between a softcore porn flick and a Tennessee Williams stageplay." Wiseau ("who's not just one of the most unusual looking and sounding-with an unidentifiable Eastern European accent-leading men ever to grace the screen, but a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" seem the apotheosis of cinematic self-restraint...may be something of a first: A movie that prompts most of its viewers to ask for their money back-before even 30 minutes have passed." - Variety), allegedly raised $6 million outside Hollywood to cover production and marketing costs of the self-described "black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies" (see various rough dress rehersals). Audience members, including comedian David Cross, have been "marveling at the bizarre editing, bad bluescreen, uncomfortably explicit sex scenes and, of course, the enigma of Wiseau himself" as the film played monthly for years in Los Angeles. Available on DVD, diehard "roomies" swear by the theatrical experience, shout out their own commentary, hurl spoons at the screen and singalong to the soundtrack. Some call it "The Rocky Horror of the New Millenium" and stage "Room" parties. If you look at the marketing campaign or survived a screening you might see The Room as "a seminar on how NOT to make a movie." [Inspired by Boing Boing]

Big in a New Light

adrober — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:29:45 -0800

Remember that Shining trailer from a few weeks back? Now they've done it with Big. (embedded WMV)

A boy, a dog and a post...

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:05:50 -0800

He broke all the rules... because there was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and no way out... He's a one-man army... He's the voice over king Don LaFontaine. [link to MP3 interview in case you want to skip all the text]

The Lion, The Witch, And Disney.

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 08 May 2005 04:38:06 -0800

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (link to trailer) is due out from Disney on December 9, 2005. The book by CS Lewis has already been made into a movie by the BBC, however, the old films can not match the epic promised by director Andrew Adamson. (Previously discussed here.)

Serenity

rexruff — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:02:26 -0800

Serenity The trailer online. This makes me soooo happy. I've been watching and re-watching the DVD set far too many times to be healthy.

Hitchcock's Trailers

matteo — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:59:44 -0800

MURDER! MYSTERY!! TREACHERY!!! ROMANCE!!!! Hounded by spies… Hunted by police… Double crossed by the woman he loves… in THE 39 STEPS.
Alfred Hitchcock's trailers, 1934-1956

It's Crispin Glover

mr.marx — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:49:59 -0800

What is it? It's Crispin Glover's feature film. (NSFW)

Put out to pasture in a bombing range

LondonYank — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:56:30 -0800

Slab City, CA "is not so sinister as it is a strange, forlorn quarter of America. It is a town that is not really a town, a former training grounds with nothing left but the concrete slabs where the barracks stood. [...] The land belongs to the state, but the state, like the law, does not bother, and so the Slabs have become a place to park free. More than 3,000 elderly people settle in for the winter, in a pattern that dates back at least 20 years." [NYT Reg Req]

shrek 2

reklaw — Sat, 22 May 2004 15:44:35 -0800

Shrek 2: The First Five Minutes. Forget trailers; this is the future.

My Precioussssss

MintSauce — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:01:21 -0800

Final Lord of the Rings trailer [Quicktime Movie]. No sign of it yet on the official site. (Via BBC)

Don't be silly. It's just a flesh wound.

quonsar — Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:17:32 -0800

Automatic Bad Movie Trailer Generator What's the worst movie title you can imagine? And who just has to be in it?

Enjoy the show (but first...)

Frank Grimes — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:17:47 -0800

The Key Art Awards honor theatrical trailers, posters, TV commercials, Internet ads and more. Here are this year's winners.

"Trailers of rumoured, vague threat?"

troutfishing — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:13:39 -0800

"Trailers of Mass destruction" : By Wolfowitz Productions, starring Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw. A red hot tale of sex, intrigue and death. (scroll to bottom of page). Amidst the controversy over Wolfowitz's admissions in a Vanity Fair interview about the use of Iraq's alleged WMD threat as a pretext for war, Hollywood comes to the rescue!

Famous SPUN Cook Show

bureaustyle — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 23:49:05 -0800

Famous SPUN Cook Show
quicktime link: High Bandwidth and Low Bandwidth

Vintage Vehicles - Teardrop Trailers

madamjujujive — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 19:03:34 -0800

Teardrop trailers were all the rage from the '30s to the '50s, and in vogue today with vintage aficionados. Some are woodies, some are made for motorcycles and most have lots of personality crammed into truly small space. The build-it-yourself bug spread with this 1947 Mechanix Illustrated article (pdf file alert) complete with plans. Follow one man's contemporary build-from-scratch adventure detailed in a photos essay, or get plans to build your own.

robbie01 — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:01:35 -0800

The trailer for Red Dragon is here. Remaking 1986's "Manhunter"? Cashing in on a successful franchise with bigger-name stars? I thought CSI's William Peterson did a fine job as FBI agent Will Graham, but can you go wrong with Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes and Harvey Keitel? What other movies from the last decade deserve to be given a bigger budget Hollywood recreation and decent promotion?

kokogiak — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:03:04 -0800

Escapism, Star Wars style - The new Star Wars Ep II trailer, "Mystery" is out there - not the 'breathing' teaser, but a longer one. It's supposed to be unlocked by EP I DVD owners only, but of course there are mirrors. Post others inside if you find them. Star Wars haters can just move along, there's plenty other news today.

Sal Amander — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:56:29 -0800

The Spiderman Teaser Trailer has just been released, and does it look cool! Too bad that we have to wait until May '02 to see it.

honkzilla — Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:42:48 -0800

I musta slept though a lot, since there's a buttload of new movie trailers over at quicktime.apple.com including Disney's Summer 2001 animation offering as well as their Christmas release with voices by David Spade and John Goodman, and MGM's Silence of the Lambs sequel, Hannibal, (a lame pre-preview width nothing to it at all, really), the newest Highlander film which I didn't even know was coming out on September 1st, and the full-length Final Fantasy preview which, may I add, looks kick-ass awesome! And the only reason I went there was to get another look at the Charlie's Angels preview I caught on the front of a showing of Godzilla 2000. Mmmm, Cameron Diaz. I see you baby, shakin' that ass.