Below is the disgusting, bloody, brilliant, funny, and heartfelt red band trailer for ZOMBIELAND, which stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin. Bill Murray and Amber Heard make special appearances in the film, but their anticipated scenes aren’t in the either trailer, so sit tight, young zombie-killing enthusiast!

Watch this red band trailer as Woody’s character gives us an inside look on his emotions, the blood and guts and zombie goo flow like wine, and the jokes and puns soar like a baby eagle whose mother just let him loose in this big beautiful world. ZOMBIELAND invades your theater on October 9th!

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Also check out my ZOMBIELAND Comic-Con interview with Jesse Eisenberg!

Soon, we’re going to be remaking films that haven’t even come out yet. First an English-language remake for Swedish LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was announced in 2008, the same year the original film opened. Now, producer Guillermo del Toro’s 2007 Spanish THE ORPHANAGE is set for its very own remake.

Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden has just signed on to the direct the English-language remake. The good news is, del Toro is very much involved in this project, and has written the new script with Fessenden. The original script was penned by Sergio G. Sánchez and directed by del Toro’s protégé Juan Antonio Bayona. Fessenden’s background is in low-budget horror (WENDIGO, THE LAST WINTER), and he was apparently “handpicked” by del Toro for the gig.

The original ORPHANAGE was so scary that I honestly felt nauseous just trying to find an accompanying picture for this item. Damn you, bag head boy.

No word yet on casting or filming dates. Any ideas on who you’d like to play Belen Rueda’s role as Laura?

And for some vintage memories of THE ORPHANAGE, check out Chase and Rusty’s 2008 video review. It still terrifies and amuses me.

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Here is the new poster for the upcoming film, THE OPEN ROAD, which stars, as you can see, Justin Timberlake and Jeff Bridges. I can already tell that this film is going to be seeping with an unbelievable amount of energy. Per the film’s IMDb page, THE OPEN ROAD “centers on the adult son of a baseball legend who, together with his girlfriend, embarks on a road trip with his estranged father.”

I love to see Timberlake airing out his acting talents, so I am definitely intrigued to see THE OPEN ROAD when it hits theaters August 28.

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Jennifer Aniston has signed on to star in Michael Sucsy’s feature directorial debut, GOREE GIRLS. This isn’t the type of movie we’re used to seeing Aniston in. First off, it’s set in prison. Aniston is a cute and innocent gal, and I don’t think she’d last long inside bars. Fortunately for her character, though, she has a musical talent. GOREE GIRLS is “the true story of an all-female country band in a Texas prison in the 1940s…The eight women who formed one of the first all-girl C&W acts in the country became a public favorite and were eventually pardoned.”

I cannot wait for this movie to be realized. I just have a hard time seeing Aniston bellowing out country tunes, while a fellow cellmate picks away at her state-issued banjo, and the rest of the jailhouse proceeds to carry out the same-sex two-step. I am going to classify this story, and this casting, as well…interesting.

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CBS Films is apparently headed back to the Wild West in order to resurrect one of America’s favorite television shows of the past, GUNSMOKE. GUNSMOKE still holds the title for “the longest-running primetime scripted drama (it had been the longest-running primetime series until “The Simpsons” eclipsed it this year).” The idea is to modernize the story (pumped with action, modern plot twists, and a “contemporary look”), while simultaneously keeping its setting of the American West intact. The show, which began in 1955 “focuses principally on three characters: Dillon, the crimefighting leader of Dodge; town physician Galen ‘Doc’ Adams; and Miss Kitty Russell, owner the Long Branch Saloon. The show’s plot lines revolve around dramatic, sometimes gritty, events and a fair share of outlaws and desperadoes.”

Gregory Poirier (NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS) is already close to finishing the first draft of the screenplay, so it looks like this movie is really moving along. I am definitely interested to see where this project ends up.

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Last week, after a preview screening of Judd Apatow’s FUNNY PEOPLE, we gave a few Dallasites the chance to show what they were made of when it came to their own comedic stylings. The final product is a mash of jokes ranging from cute to entertaining to borderline disturbing. I think there were one or two funny ones in there as well. I kid, I kid.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated! And keep your eye out for our camera next time you come to one of our screenings, because it could be you that ends up on Gordon and the Whale dot com!

“SMILE ‘TIL IT HURTS: THE UP WITH PEOPLE STORY explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. The group was born in response to the counter-culture of the ’60s, spun from the controversial maneuverings of a religious sect called Moral Re-Armament, backed by millions of corporate dollars, and launched around the globe to exemplify conservative American values. Told by former Uppies whose compelling stories take us on an intimate journey, the film reveals what happens when ideology, money and groupthink converge to co-opt youthful idealism.” (official festival synposis)

SMILE ‘TIL IT HURTS is a lucky film in a number of ways. It’s about a fascinating and bizarre slice of recent American history. It cracks open all sorts of weird secrets about said bizarre slice. It’s recruited all sorts of former “Uppies,” who all have something interesting (and sometimes frightening) about their time with Up with People. But more than any of that, it’s an extremely well-made documentary. It is, at turns, very informative and very funny, very strange and very affecting.

It’s hard to imagine that anyone could have ever taken Up with People seriously. Archival footage of various concerts and events they sang at are often eye-wideningly hilarious. Clean-cut American kids dropped into the African savanna, singing for indigenous people who had surely never seen anything like them (I’ve never seen anything like them), can only prompt disbelief. And then they start reeling off the list of places they went and people they met – across every country and continent, to meet every world leader you could name. They sold out the Hollywood Bowl. They captivated Nixon. They performed at Super Bowl halftime shows. And there were just so damn many of them! But the music? My God, the music. As one cast member put it, “it’s drivel beyond comparison.”

But Up with People was not just some embarrassing song and dance troupe determined to make you smile (’til it hurt), it was a boggling propaganda machine originally formed by the ultra-conservative religious sect, Moral Re-Armament (MRA), and later financed by a bevy of corporations that will blow your mind.

Former Up with People and MRA member John Sayre says it best when he says that, “at some point, [Up with People] became something else.” But what exactly? One of the main questions posed in SMILE ‘TIL IT HURTS is whether or not Up with People, and likewise the MRA, was a cult. Certainly, both groups were often led by stringent, charismatic leaders. Most of the former Up with People and MRA members interviewed in the film express a common feeling of being consumed with the ideals and practices of their associated groups. There were strict rules, and stepping out of line, or speaking for yourself (even marrying without express permission), could led to punishment or demotion within the associations, even a full excommunication. Some of the former members walked away before this could happen, and some of them still reel from the pain inflicted on them by a glorified music group.

SMILE ‘TIL IT HURTS tells the not-so-squeaky-clean story of one of America’s great punchlines, and does it in so compulsively watchable a manner, anyone can enjoy it. It’s hilarious and it’s sad, and it can’t help but make you want to question even the purest of intentions.

After the preview from Entertainment Tonight for Peter Jackson’s new film THE LOVELY BONES popped up online, it was only a matter of time before we were given the gift of the legitimate, full length trailer. And I’m happy to say to you that time is now.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the beautiful, imaginative, and mysterious trailer for THE LOVELY BONES, starring Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, and Stanley Tucci. The film centers around a young girl who is murdered and watches over her family, and subsequent killer, from heaven in an attempt to choose between retribution or restoration.

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I’m not going to lie. It is kind of uncomfortable watching NATION’S PRIDE, a fake trailer of sorts done for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Just something about Nazi heroism being celebrated rubs me the wrong way. The purpose it serves is part of a larger plot within Tarantino’s WW2 epic, concerning a theater that shows Nazi propaganda films. This plot point can be seen in the most recent of trailers as the Basterds discuss the theater as a target. It is all in good fun I suppose, done as a would-be trailer in the same vein of something you would see for BAND OF BROTHERS…with a twist of irony, of course.

To be a good sport and keep up the game of pretend, the film is about the “valor” of Nazi war hero Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl) and hails from Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

Check it out below.

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Cinemash has released a new movie mash-up, this time combining “Heroes” star Milo Ventimiglia with Park Chan-wook’s classic OLDBOY. For the past few weeks, the Cinemash guys have been recruiting actors to star in their recreations of scenes from famous movies, such as POINT BREAK and DIRTY DANCING, but whereas those two were hilarious, the OLDBOY mash-up really isn’t.

The beginning clip with the golden parachutes is pretty funny but the rest is like a high school drama class remake of one of the most impressive action sequences in modern cinema. The only way Cinemash could have competed with the original OLDBOY hallway scene would’ve been if the whole thing had been comedy-driven. Maybe I’m being a bit hard on it because I haven’t been the biggest Milo Ventimiglia fan since he broke Rory’s heart on “Gilmore Girls” (don’t ask).

Like I said, Cinemash has some other very funny mash-ups, which you can check out on their website, after your check out the OLDBOY CINEMASH right HERE! They still have TRAINING DAY coming up, which promises to be all kinds of funny. After you watch the Cinemash OLDBOY, refresh your mind with the awesomeness of the original clip below.

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I read Alice Sebold’s THE LOVELY BONES a couple of years ago in anticipation of the Peter Jackson film based on the book. Well, the wait has been long, but we’re finally getting a trailer this weekend, attached to JULIE AND JULIA. The movie is about Susie Salmon, a young girl who is tragically murdered and watches over her family from heaven.

Despite what Entertainment Tonight would have you believe, the movie is not “CSI: The Afterlife” and I’m afraid the trailer will try to sell the movie in that misleading way just to get people interested in the picture. Still, it’s nice to finally see the footage Peter Jackson has been cooking up. The story needed someone visually creative like Jackson to bring Susie’s heaven to life and it looks like he’s succeeded. Look for it in theaters on December 11.

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Funny man Jason Segal, who last charmed audiences with his awesome dudeness in the bromance I LOVE YOU, MAN, has signed on to Jonah Hill and Max Winkler’s THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK. This is great news for a comedy that I already have very high hopes for. Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman were already signed on to star as two of the film’s four main characters. With the addition of Segal, HANDBOOK is in need of only one more comic. THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK is “about four 20-something guys, who inspired by a book of the same name, set out overseas in search of a mysterious location described in the book.” It won’t be for kids, though, as it’s set to “be an edgy, broad R-rated comedy.”

Road trip comedies are usually a lot of fun, but when you have a good story and comedic actors of the caliber of these three, you have a hit. So far this movie is doing well in the assembly of cast, we’ll have to wait and see if it complements through its storyline.

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The trailer for THE KILLING ROOM has popped up online and boy, is it intense! The film tells the story of four volunteers that sign up for a routine research study…or so they think. It turns out that what they have really agreed to be part of is a disallowed, top secret governmental experiment designed to tests the limits of the human mind in the most viscous of ways. Put me in a room with Nick Cannon’s comedy and I’d go crazy, too!

The film stars Timothy Hutton, Peter Stormare, Chloe Segivny, Shea Whigam, Clea DuVall and, of course, Nick Cannon. It comes from director Jonathan Liebesman, who is on everyone’s radar now thanks to BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.

The film showed at Sundance this past year to mixed reviews. It hits DVD shelves October 13th of this year.

Not sure how I feel about the “inspired by true events” line on the poster and in the trailer. It’s an age old marketing trick in film to take the tiniest of details from a real life event, inject it into the story and say that it was “inspired by true events.” If that were the case, isn’t every film “inspired by true events,” since our creativity is formed out of our day to day interactions? Someone, somewhere once got locked in a room, accidentally giving us THE KILLING ROOM.

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With the first film not even in theaters yet, and a constant questioning of “Is it good? Is it not good?” you would think all Snake Eyes would be on the first installment of G.I. JOE. But not for director Stephen Sommers, who is already discussing the sequel to THE RISE OF COBRA.

Sommers recently sat down with Super Hero Hype, where he spoke about his next projects on the formidable horizon. Here’s what Sommers had to say:

“I’m getting very excited about doing G.I. JOE 2. I’m working on TARZAN at Warner Brothers and they’re a bunch of great people. (It will be) live action but we’ll contemporize it. It’ll still be a period movie, but it’s almost like THE MUMMY, it took place in Ancient Egypt and the ’20s and ’30s, but it felt more contemporary, that sort of deal.”

It has long been said that the first film was only a set-up for characters like Cobra Commander and Destro, noting that IMDb now has Joseph Gordon-Levitt listed as “The Doctor/Rex” whereas before it had him as “Cobra Commander.” If you have already got wind of the supposed twist, then the idea of a second film seems plausible – meaning it is not entirely out of the question that a second film has been in mind all along. Here’s what Sommers had to say about the potential that another JOE film holds:

“This movie has a beginning, a middle and an end, and it wraps up and it’s really nice, but at the same time, there’s so much more that only fans know about that is yet to come and there’s so much more to do with these characters and so much more to do with the whole world. There’s a lot of characters that I haven’t even used yet.”

I guess we shall see if any of us will even want a sequel when G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA hits theaters this Friday, August 7th. Chances are, they will probably make one whether we want them to or not.

And I think the real question that needs to be raised from this interview is, will Sommers give us the pleasure and the privilege of seeing Brendan Fraser as TARZAN, returning him to the loincloth he vacated so long ago after GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE?

Well, I was hungry… Here is the first look of Fruit Chan’s DON’T LOOK UP, which is his English-language debut, and it looks like he has a gifted eye for horror. It looks like Chan is going to introduce himself to us with quite a bang. This bloody image is quite creepy, and I think it gives us all an idea of what to expect in the film. If this image didn’t, then one of the names in the cast might help: Eli Roth, Mr. Torture Porn himself. DON’T LOOK UP is a remake of Hideo Nakata’s DON’T LOOK UP, which is interesting. The Chinese filmmaker, Fruit Chan, is making his English-language debut by remaking a Japanese horror film. Here’s what the story is all about:

“Evil spirits released from old celluloid causes a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project.”

This is definitely an intriguing idea, but I hope it manages to squeeze out a little more depth than the average gorefest. DON’T LOOK UP stars Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin, Reshad Strik, and Eli Roth, and is apparently making going to be screened at The Sitges Film Festival.

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