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Trailer Watch: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders

Courtesy Yahoo! Movies comes the full trailer for 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo supernatural thriller, Intruders. The film stars Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Bruhl, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Kerry Fox and centers around "two families whose lives are disrupted by menacing apparitions: in Spain, a mother tries to protect her son from a faceless stranger, while in Britain, a young girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes a real danger to her and her family."

Intruders premieres at the 59th San Sebastian Film Festival on September 16th and will be released in the US, the UK, Spain and Ireland on October 7th.

Trailer Watch: Knights of Badassdom

Joe Lynch, the director of the straight-to-DVD Wrong Turn 2: Dead End,

Knights of Badassdom stars Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Summer Glau (Firefly), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Margarita Levieva, Jimmi Simpson and Danny Pudi (Community) and a group of LARPers who accidentally summon a succubus whilst on a campaign, or whatever you call them. (Think: the last 30 minutes of Role Models crossed with Army of Darkness.)

The film doesn't seem to have a release date (beyond "2011,") so there's no telling when any of us will get to see it, but… methinks the trailer looks pretty funny. What dost thou say?

(Thanks to Twitch for the heads up.)

Trailer Watch: Drive red band trailer

Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn got the Best director award and a Palm D'Or nomination for Drive at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and this trailer makes it pretty easy to see why. An awesome cast (Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, and Christina Hendricks among them), some really solid stunt driving, and a few dark, dark moments. This looks pretty bad-ass.

Check out the trailer below or head over to IGN for the HD version:

Drive hits theaters on September 16th.

Trailer Watch: The Amazing Spiderman teaser trailer

Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man is one of those movies that people (on the internet) just want to hate on.

It's "too soon" for a reboot. Which is a stupid criticism, because in five or ten more years, a movie isn't good whether or not it came five or ten years after another movie. It's good on its own terms.

Marc Webb hasn't directed an action movie before. His DP has. (Although they're mostly Michael Bay movies and The Green Hornet, so… maybe that's not much of a counterargument.)

They're "Twilightizing" it by making Peter in high school. Parker was in freakin' high school when he got his powers. He was in high school for the first three or four years of the comic — and he probably would have been in high school longer, except that the first several years of the Marvel Universe (back in the 1960′s) were sort of set in real time. And Pete was one emo kid in those days, too, if you actually read the old comics. It was Spider-Man Nevermore ever other issue, for God's sake. Come on.

The new costume stinks. Well, I'll give you that. Anyway, we're stuck with it for at least one movie, so let's try to get past that. At least he has mechanical web shooters, right?

Anyway, this teaser has been up for a day or two in a cammed version, and it leaked earlier today before Yahoo! Movies finally put out the official version, and so here it is. (I don't post bootlegs here, y'all.) I seem to be in the minority about this teaser, but I kind of like it. I'm not in love, but I like it. The tone is good. The cast is good. The first-person stuff isn't the greatest CG ever, but it's cool enough for a teaser trailer. I'm optimistic.

The film stars Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, Emma Stone, Sally Field and Martin Sheen, and swings into theaters… in about a year: July 3, 2012.

So… what do you think?

Trailer Watch: Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters

We got a teaser trailer back in December, but this new trailer for Wong Kar-wai's take on an Ip Man biopic actually shows some footage.

Wong's Ip Man is one of his regulars, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, who has some action flicks in the past (Hero, Red Cliff) but isn't exactly Donnie Yen, but that doesn't seem to be too important, as Wong has so stylized the action that it doesn't really flow like a proper fight scene. For me, that's not really a good thing, but I'm still curious to see what kind of film Wong makes of the subject.

Trailer Watch: The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer

There's not a ton of new footage here, but it sure sets up an awful lot — and drives the nail in the coffin for any debate about whether or not Christopher Nolan's Batfilms are a "real" trilogy.

The Dark Knight Rises on July 20th, 2012.

Trailer Watch: The Thing

The trailer for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing… bizarrely also called The Thing… is here, and yep, it looks pretty good. If anything, it looks a little too much like the original… but that's prequels for you.

Also, it's nice to see Mary Elizabeth Winstead not looking like a Muppet. Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom), Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Elite) and Ulrich Thomsen round out the cast.

(Thanks for the heads up, Vanderlow58!)

The Dark Knight Rises teaser poster is here…

The official site for The Dark Knight Rises has revealed the official teaser poster for Christopher Nolan's third (and final) Batman film. Click on the poster to see it at full-size, although it probably won't fit on your screen.

The film hits theaters on July 20, 2012, and stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Marion Cotillard.

Trailer Watch: The Adventures of Tintin international trailer

Okay, I'm on board now. I still don't like the too-"realistic" designs of the film, but Spielberg knows how to work a camera — apparently, even a virtual one — and I think I can get over it for two hours. The first trailer piqued my interest, but this new one actually shows characters talking and interacting more, and it's all a bit more convincing.

For the uninitiated, the Tintin comics by Hergé follow the adventures of a young reporter, Tintin (Jamie Bell), and his dog Snowy as he journeys around the globe in search of a good story (even if you almost never actually see him write anything). The all-ages adventure comics were originally published from 1929–1976, and they are some of the greatest adventure comics ever made. (Various collected editions are in print, and should be available at good bookstores and comics shops everywhere.)

The Adventures of Tintin — adapting the two-part adventure comprised of "Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure" from the classic comics — sails onto the big screen on December 23rd.

(via Coming Soon)

Trailer Watch: Juan of the Dead

Latino Review (one of the bigger rumor monger sites I got bored of writing about when I did Movie Make-out) has scored the exclusive trailer debut for Cuba's first horror movie, titled Juan of the Dead.

Writer-director Alejandro Bruges describes the film: "It's a zombie film but it's about Cubans and how we react in the face of a crisis because we've had a lot of them here over the last 50 years. It is a social comedy, it has a bit of everything. It has horror, it has action and it pretty much laughs in the face of problems."

Anyway, it's funny. It's well-shot. The effects are low-budget but surprisingly good. It's one to keep an eye out for… whenever it gets into theaters. It'll probably debut on the festival circuit and score a limited release before turning into a cult hit on video.