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Holly and I got into the studio Tuesday to record a podcast episode about the Muppets. The episode will publish in a couple of weeks, closer to when the movie debuts. The latest trailer just hit today, and when Holly saw it, I heard her cackling from my office.
One of the top videos on YouTube’s “Most Viewed” list is the trailer for the film Find Makarov, based on the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The trailer was preceded by breathless awe-inspiring hype like this: The verdict: “Simply, the greatest Call of Duty-inspired project I’ve ever seen. It was amazing.” The trailer: [...]
A couple of months ago we talked about an aspiring filmmaker who made a short (5 minute) video and stuck it on YouTube. A month later he landed a $30 million movie deal. His YouTube video looked like something produced by a Hollywood studio. So here is a new video that has that same kind [...]
It’s a sleigh-load of trailers the week before Christmas
by Marshall Brain | December 23, 2009
This has been a great week for trailers. Here are nine that came out in the last few days: Iron Man 2: Mass Effect 2: Clash of the Titans: Star Wars: Force Unleashed II: Karate Kid (2010) Robin Hood: Frozen: Alice in Wonderland (fifth): Invest:
If you’ve been following Nathan Fillion on Twitter, you might have noticed his advice back in May on how to tell whether your date is a robot: “Go to see Pixar’s UP. If your date doesn’t cry, robot.”
I’m pretty sure that same rule is going to apply to “Where the Wild Things Are,” which opens in U.S. theaters on Oct. 16.
New New Moon: What do you do when a trailer needs a spoiler warning?
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 15, 2009
We’re all familiar with the phenomenon of trailers that show off every great part of the movie they’re promoting, making the movie itself ultimately disappointing. “Meet the Robinsons” is a good example — the T. rex and its big head/little arms dilemma was the star of the show, and it was all over the previews. And then there are the trailers that just don’t capture the sense of the movie, which I hope is what’s going on in the ones I’ve seen for the forthcoming “The Road,” based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel.
What I don’t see as often are the trailers that give everything away — like the newest one for “New Moon,” which debuted during MTV’s Video Music Awards. Barring major departures from the book, it more or less has the whole plot covered.
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