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First Look: ‘The Muppets’ teaser

Here’s an odd little surprise. If we’re really honest, one of our most anticipated films of 2011 is The Muppets, starring all of our favourite Jim Henson creations along with Jason Segal and Amy Adams. We’ve now finally got a sneak peek of the film. Sort of.

Disney has released a trailer for a new film called Green With Envy, complete with its own poster. Ostensibly a romantic comedy, it is described on Apple Trailers with the following synopsis: Love struck meets star struck when a small town couple (Amy Adams, Jason Segel) head to Hollywood and discover their dreams of hitting the big time may cost them the one thing that matters most – each other.

There’s even a Green With Envy Facebook group. This is actually the film-within-a-film from The Muppets, which will actually see the world’s biggest Muppets fan, Gary (Jason Segal, Gulliver’s Travels) teams up with Mary (Amy Adams, The Fighter) to help Kermit and the gang save their old studio from the machinations of greedy oil tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper, The Tempest).

The film is also said to have appearances from, well, everybody! People listed so far are Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Danny Trejo, Katy Perry, Mickey Rooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Dave Grohl, Alan Arkin, Liza Minnelli…it may be easier to check IMDB.

The Muppets will be released on 5 January 2012 in Australia from Disney.

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May 24, 2011
First Look: New trailer for Miranda July’s ‘The Future’

When we last saw Miranda July around these parts, it was with her disarming debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know back in 2005. Miranda July is a performance artist a performance artist who chose her last name based on the month that month that most facilitates her creativity, and her first film was largely compared with Todd Solondz’s Happiness in its frank depictions of adults, children and sexuality.

In The Future, she tells the story of a thirty-something couple who, on deciding to adopt a stray cat, change their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

This exclusive new trailer comes to us courtesy of Apple Trailers, bless their cotton socks.

The Future is playing in competition at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2011, and is due for release in US theatres on 29 July 2011 from Roadside Attractions.

May 10, 2011
First Look: Mystique character trailer for ‘X-Men: First Class’

Hot on the heels of the three character trailers for Banshee, Havok and Beast released yesterday, Fox has unveiled the latest set of clips from the hotly anticipated comic-book prequel X-Men: First Class, this time for the shape-shifting Mystique.

This clip features the character of Mystique, played as the villain by Rebecca Romijn in the original X-Men films, is the shape-shifting temptress and future hench-person of the big bad Magneto (Michael Fassbender). The young version of the blue Mystique/Raven Darkholme is played by “it girl” Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), and the clips feature a budding relationship between her and Hank McCoy (aka Beast). We also get a glimpse of the mentor role that Magneto will eventually play in her life.

X-Men: First Class is released in Australia on 2 June 2011 from Fox.

May 7, 2011
New International ‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailer

Another day, another new trailer. This brand new international trailer for the forthcoming X-Men: First Class, with stacks of new footage. This new trailer comes courtesy of 20th Century Fox and Bleeding Cool.

“X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.”

Excited yet? The film will star James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Oliver Platt, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Jason Flemyng, Morgan Lily, Zoe Kravitz and Bill Bilner.

We aren’t going to go through and tell you which scenes are new, and there is a simply joy in discovering that for yourself. All we can say for sure is that this retro origin-story approach seems to be finally giving director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass), who had been previously tapped to helm X-Men 3: The Last Stand before Brett Ratner took over, a chance to share his vision with the world.

X-Men: First Class will be released in Australia in 2 June 2011 by 20th Century Fox.

April 28, 2011
Trailer: ‘Cowboys and Aliens’

Cowboys and Aliens could be a theme for the last couple of years, with a rise of the western genre (True Grit, Meek’s Cutoff) and alien encounters (Battle: Los Angeles, Monsters, Green Lantern) alike.

Based on a 2006 graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, and with art by Luciano Lima, the film is set to star Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde as the folks in the old west who witness an alien spacecraft impacting the Earth. That’s right: it doesn’t get much better than Indiana Jones/Han Solo, James Bond and the ‘babe’ from TRON: Legacy going up against some aliens. Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man, is behind the camera on this one.

The last time westerns were combined with sci-fi technology was the ill-fated Wild Wild West remake, which was simply wiggity-wiggity-wiggity whack. With Will Smith busy raising an army of Hollywood children (and shooting Men in Black III without a script apparently), and Kenneth Branagh tied up with his Thor junket duties, this is one western adventures that will be free from craptastic rap songs on the soundtrack. As far as we know.

Cowboys and Aliens will be released in Australia on 11 August 2011 by Paramount.

April 27, 2011
First Look: New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4’ featurette

Ahoy there, mateys! Capn’ Jack is back, and this time he has a lady that is challenging his attention span. Disney has just released a brand-new featurette from the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides.

The clip features interviews with the cast and crew, and concentrates largely on the relationship between Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Angelica (Penélope Cruz). We also get to see a few more clips from the film, which we thankfully only have to wait a few more weeks for. There isn’t a whole lot of new footage in there, but this is looking more promising than the original clips that were released a few weeks back had previously indicated. Fingers crossed on this one.

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides is the first of a rumoured planned series of sequels following the end of the first trilogy with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” captures the fun, adventure and humor that ignited the hit franchise—this time in Disney Digital 3D™. Johnny Depp returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed adventure. Crossing paths with the enigmatic Angelica (Penélope Cruz), he’s not sure if it’s love—or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” the ship of the legendary pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know whom to fear more: Blackbeard or Angelica, with whom he shares a mysterious past. The international cast includes franchise vets Geoffrey Rush as the vengeful Captain Hector Barbossa and Kevin R. McNally as Captain Jack’s longtime comrade Joshamee Gibbs, plus Sam Claflin as a stalwart missionary and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey as a mysterious mermaid.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is released on 19 May 2011 in Australia by Disney.

April 27, 2011
First Look: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ – Red Skull

Few Marvel comics are iconic as Captain America, the human embodiment of the American flag. Thanks to Paramount, not only do we have a look at the Australian trailer for the film, but an exclusive image of the Cap’s nemesis: the Red Skull! Red Skull will be played by Australia’s Hugo Weaving, who is no stranger to big-budget epics like The Matrix or the Lord of the Rings films.

Based on the long-running Marvel comic, Captain America: The First Avenger, the film tells the story of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a runt of a soldier plucked from obscurity during the Second World War and made into an American super soldier by US government experiements. As the title implies, the film will also serve as a forerunner to the spin-off film, The Avengers, tying the storylines of the recent Iron Man films, The Hulk and the forthcoming Thor together as the ultimate super-team assembles.

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Captain America: The First Avenger will be released in Australia on 28 July 2011 by Paramount.

April 8, 2011