It’s a little more light-hearted in tone that you may have expected considering the subject matter – retired CIA agents are hunted down – which could just as easily have been a Bourne clone. Then again, Date Night and Knight and Day are already doing the light-hearted espionage thing this year…And to a lesser extent, Salt, which looks hard to take seriously. What do you think? I’d buy a ticket even if it was just a competition to see who could pull the most hilarious face. Oh, wait…

* that isn’t bald and Scottish

Source: Cinematical

Besides from the presumption that this will be the most important event in all our lives, and besides from Voldemort putting on a few pounds, this is a solid, epic trailer.

We almost take the excellence of the Harry Potter series for granted as it’s been going for so long. It’s been a unique event in cinema, watching the lead cast grow year on year from such a young age and seeing the tone of the movies darken considerably as they progress. What began as a children’s movie is now a thriller.

Another trailer concentrating purely on Part 1 will be released in a month’s time.

Part 1 of the Deathly Hallows adaptation will arrive in theaters on November 19. Part 2 is released on July 15, 2011. Both are in 3D.

Here’s the official synopsis for Part 1:

Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction—the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart.

Meanwhile, the wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort’s Death Eaters seize control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyone who might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to Voldemort: Harry Potter. The Chosen One has become the hunted one as the Death Eaters search for Harry with orders to bring him to Voldemort… alive.

Harry’s only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale—the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks.

Little does Harry know that his future has already been decided by his past when, on that fateful day, he became “the Boy Who Lived.” No longer just a boy, Harry Potter is drawing ever closer to the task for which he has been preparing since the day he first stepped into Hogwarts: the ultimate battle with Voldemort.

How do you think HP7 / HP8 are looking?

I’m interested to know what people think about the box office prospects for this film. Will it be a huge success and encourage a new wave of original big budget blockbusters or will it be a humongous flop and destroy Chris Nolan’s career?

We’ve already been treated this week to pictures of the aforementioned Twilight devotees lined up outside movie houses, waiting for the still-days off opening of the third movie in the box-office rampaging series – the David Slade-directed Eclipse – with all the steely determination of those waiting to snare the last few available berths in an underground shelter ahead of an unusually well forecast atomic apocalypse. But it’s not just the movies themselves which have proved bigger than that giant lizard that ate Tokyo – the tie-in soundtracks have also been runaway successes. Eclipse adheres to the formula set by its predecessors and comes to us in the company of not one, but two supporting records. One is a tedious old score with violins and cellos and all that sh*t that old people are into, while the other is a swoonsome selection of tunes by today’s most sizzlingly hot bands. Yeah, burn baby, burn! Woo! Ah!

Okay, okay, so soundtracks to teen movie events of the decade aren’t really designed for bitter, cynical reviewers, unless it is for the express purpose of providing easy, elephant-sized targets for us foul-hearted hacks to throw our venom-tipped darts at. They are instead firmly aimed at those adolescents who feel a bit funny in the tummy when Robert Pattinson gazes at Kristen Stewart with the smouldering look which won out in the extraordinarily competitive category of Best smouldering Look by Robert Pattinson at this year’s MTV Movie Awards.

Said adolescents are probably going to find plenty on the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack to, well, if not quite enjoy – seeing as any adolescent worth their grumpy salt doesn’t really enjoy anything – then certainly to play at high volume and hack off their parents. The majority of the music here charts a vaguely ‘80s inflected path between uptempo pop catchiness and nocturnal atmospherics, a template exemplified by Metric’s opener, Eclipse (All Yours). There are appearances from acts who are creditable without being like, totally ugly; including Vampire Weekend (who appear to have lost it between albums one and two like a post-shark hop Happy Days), Bat for Lashes, and movie soundtrack regulars Florence and the Machine.

Some of the bigger names serve up the more tedious fare, with the Dead Weather’s Rolling in on a Burning Tire finding Jack White once again delivering something that is simultaneously technically accomplished and crashingly dull. For their part, Muse manage to make the cosmic gigantic sound as exciting as finding a piece of lint in your belly button, with their Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) coming over like something ABBA might have cobbled together after a late-night viewing of 2001. And while Ours by 2005’s hot tips turned 2006’s sh*t heaps the Bravery is surprisingly listenable, it is undone by singer Sam Endicott’s constipated vocals, telling of a tummy trouble removed from that experienced by the Pattinson acolytes.

You can download the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack as mp3s here
Or get it on CD here

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack (Songs) – Track List
1. Eclipse (All Yours) – Metric
2. Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) – Muse
3. Ours – The Bravery
4. Heavy in your Arms – Florence and the Machine
5. My Love – Sia
6. Atlas – Fanfarlo
7. Chop and Change – The Black Keys
8. Rolling in on a Burning Tire – The Dead Weather
9. Let’s Get Lost – Beck and Bat for Lashes
10. Jonathan Low – Vampire Weekend
11. With you in my Head – UNKLE (feat. the Black Angels)
12. A Million Miles an Hour – Eastern Conference Champions
13. Life on Earth – Band of Horses
14. What Part of Forever – Cee-Lo Green
15. Jacob’s Theme – Howard Shore

Leave your thoughts on the Eclipse movie and the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack in the comments. If you’re looking for a particular song leave a description and someone normally replies.

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There will actually be two breeds of Predator in the movie, the one we all know and love, and these meaner, nastier foes who will take charge of the hunt. Hopefully fans will be relieved that the look of the Predator 2.0 hasn’t abandoned or radically changed what we expect.

And the thing does look pretty terrifying. No doubt the casting still bothers some, with certain fans worried it won’t live up to the manliness of the original. Don’t worry, the original movie isn’t going anywhere.

Here’s the red band international trailer -

Source: AICN

After all the waiting, after development hell, after taking a weird super hero, casting an odd choice for lead actor, and hiring an outside-the-box French film maker… we get this run-of-the-mill trailer for The Green Hornet:

Nothing looks particularly bad, it’s just all been done before. The goofy hero, the cooler hero, the gadgets, the slo-mo fighting …

But then again, Toy Story 3 is likely to be one of the best films of the year, and it had a very dull trailer. So there’s still hope, right?

The Green Hornet was directed by Michel “Eternal Sunshine” Gondry and stars Seth “Knocked-Up” Rogan. It opens January, 2011.

QUESTION: do we REALLY want to see Seth Rogan in 3D? Answer truthfully in the comments below.

Pretty cool, right? I really, really like the design. It feels very traditional, but not in the floating-heads-orange-and-blue way. Although there is some orange. And I guess that’s a floating face. Anyway, it looks awesome! It also ironically looks like the poster for a foreign film.

In case you missed it, here’s the trailer:

First up, a new trailer for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, the latest film from 300 director Zack Snyder.

The animation looks very impressive and for some reason I quite like the concept of a movie about talking owls. On the downside, looks like Snyder still hasn’t gotten over his fetish for slo-mo plus the film’s title is a bit too catchy for my liking.

Next up, the international trailer for an animated French film called The Illusionist. Anyone who is a fan of the brilliant The Triplets of Belleville will surely be excited by this, as it is the new film by that film’s director, Sylvain Chomet.

And finally, the first trailer for Never Let Me Go, the film based on the critically acclaimed book by Kazuo Ishiguro.

It’s got Oscars and Baftas written all over it.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader follows two of the four Pevensie kids from the first two movies, Lucy and Edmund, as they go to stay with their insufferable cousin Eustace. Not before long, all three of them are swept away to Narnia and they embark on another adventure with Caspian. There are dragons and one-legged creatures and rodents with swords.

Disney decided not to continue to co-produce the Narnia movies so Fox took over, but it doesn’t appear to have affected the style of the movies at all. Even the change of director doesn’t seem to have done that! What do you think of the look of the trailer?

Toy Story 3 has opened to rave reviews across the board, leaving this writer asking the question, ‘what? It’s out already?’ Naturally audiences across the globe have flocked to see the latest animated adventures of Buzz and Woody and Pixar’s newest film has already broken several records.

First of all, the film opened on Friday to the tune of $41 million in the US. This is double the opening gross for Up, Pixar’s last film, and slightly ahead of the previous best, Shrek the Turd’s $39 million.

Secondly, Toy Story 3 has rolled out in only a quarter of its worldwide territories and has already $44.8 million. This, says Disney, is ‘the biggest consolidated debut for a Pixar title from this bucket of release markets, almost doubling the (comparable) high set by Up.’ The film broke new records in Mexico ($14 million) and China ($9.5 million).

Quite spectacular, really. Pixar must be toasting themselves silly – they’ve done it again. Against all the odds, Pixar have never made a bad film and have successfully made the world’s first perfect trilogy, both critically and financially. Well done.

The rest of the box office is pretty much as you would expect. The Karate Kid and The A-Team target second and third respectively, while Get Him to the Greek is a non-mover at four. Shrek Forever After tumbles down the magical money ladder to number five, while the chart’s second non-mover, Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time leaps into number six. Ashton Kutcher chucklefest Killers gets shot into seventh place, with the only other new release Jonah Hex bombs into eighth, making only $5 million in its opening weekend. Oh dear.

Ninth and tenth places go to long-running Iron Man and Marmaduke, whatever the hell that is.

Sources: BoxOfficeMojo, Variety, Hollywood Reporter