I feel like it’s been at least weeks, even months, since the last plot-free, Jason Statham action thrill-ride, good thing then (?) that Safe is just around the corner. Here he plays a “second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit”, the Russian Mafia take a dislike to him, and you know the rest. There’s a little Chinese girl for to save too.
Another in Jason Segel’s quickly ascending path to the comedy A-list, Jay and Mark Duplass write/direct a film about slacker Jeff (Segel), dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, spending the day with his brother (Helms) as they track down his possibly adulterous wife. Jeff, Who Lives At Home is out March 16th.
Unfortunately placing more importance on the producer status of tiresome The Hangover’s Todd Phillips than exciting music video director Nima Nourizadeh’s debut on the silver screen, the full trailer for Project X does however promise much and looks like following through on an excellent teaser after all. Project X is out March 2.
Sony are notorious for product placement, but the new trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution is a disgrace even by their standards. First giving limelight to one of their phones, then the new PSP Vita and lastly one of their awful tablets, the studio might talk of it as a witty take on the very product placement that has turned themselves into a laughing stock, but it’s anything but. Oh, and the film looks pretty dreadful too. Resident Evil: Retribution is out September 14th, Sony products available now! We, however, will not be buying any of them, nor a cinema ticket.
Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s long-anticipated return after the wonderful Fantastic Mr. Fox over three year ago. Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman, the story follows two twelve year olds (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) who fall in love and run away into the woods leaving an entire community on the lookout. Moonrise Kingdom is out May 25th in limited release.
Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor, go, err, salmon fishing in the yemen, as a Middle-Eastern sheikh hope to fulfill a dream of bringing to sport of fly-fishing to the desert. Sadly, however, it looks like it needed a fun, indie director holding down the fort, not Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, Dear John) and the scribe of 127 Hours. Out on March 9th.
Set in an icy Wisconsin, insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska (Kinnear) is thrown into the more serious side of deception than he had ever imagined by an ex-con locksmith (Crudup). Thin Ice is out February 17th in the States.
David Wain (Role Models) returns with this new “raucous comedy” starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a city couple who are forced to spend a few months in the country after husband George is fired. Out February 24th.
In a week of big name trailer, Fox are next to set out their stall. A prequel, or is it, Ridley Scott returns to hit Alien roots with Prometheus, boasting the stellar cast of Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba as humanities explorations of a far off planet threaten its very existence itself. Out in theatres June 8th, 2012.
Well you can’t say they haven’t given us advanced warning about this one, December 2012’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey finds a trailer a year precluding its release, and how does it look? Well the trailer is pretty boring, and Martin Freeman isn’t too convincing in more of a straight role, but then this is the Hobbit and Peter Jackson we’re talking about, so we won’t write it off just yet. An Unexpected Journey is out December 14th, 2012.
