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Watch Two New 'Burn After Reading' Character Featurettes

I'm taking comfort in the fact that even though we're entering the darkest time for new releases since January, it's only going to last three weeks. Then, on September 12th, we'll get Burn After Reading from Joel and Ethan Coen. Does that movie officially kick off awards season? I guess so. The Duchess, Blindness, and Appaloosa follow the next week, and I'm certainly interested in each of those for different reasons.

But even though I know Burn After Reading isn't very far away, it still feels like I'm going to have to wait a lifetime. That's probably because in summer, there are so many things on the wish list, and you usually only have to wait 14 days at the max for something you really want to see. So that extra week is going to be murder...

Anyway, Trailer Addict has two new character featurettes: Meet Osborne (John Malkovich) and Meet Linda (Frances McDormand). And so that you don't have to hop back and forth around The Big Picture to find the other featurettes that were posted a couple of weeks ago, we'll just give you all four now. The other two, of course, highlight Chad (Brad Pitt) and Harry (George Clooney).

Hurry, September 12th...hurry.

Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 10:07AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Deleted 'Iron Man' Scene Every Man's Fantasy

With Iron Man hitting video shelves on September 30th, Marvel and Paramount have leaked a deleted scene from the film to generate a ton of free publicity. And here's the best part: They were holding out on us. This scene actually rocks.

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are the featured performers, however, I can't take my eyes off their co-stars, and I think that's by design. Billionaire industrialist and bad boy Tony Stark takes home three ready and willing brunettes in the scene. That's right: It's our first Marvel foursome ever captured on film. Or the build-up to that, anyway.

It also provides a much-needed plot point, transitioning Stark from the West Coast to the Middle East. The scene takes place at Stark's home in Dubai, which just adds to the whole billionaire-who-could-score-a-foursome mystique of the character. But Marvel has never had a hero with this kind of sexual appetite before, so cutting the sequence out for theatrical purposes makes some sense, too.

Still, if it debuted on Access Hollywood, I think it would've been just fine to leave it in the film.

Again, an all-the-bells-and-whistles Iron Man is coming to DVD on September 30th, and you just watched the best commercial for it money could - but did not have to - buy. (Thanks to Trailer Addict for the video.)

Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 03:54AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , , | Comments1 Comment

New Clips and Poster from The Coen Brothers' 'Burn After Reading'

What do you get when you take The Coen Brothers, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, greedy but bumbling health club employees, the unpublished memoirs of a CIA agent, and blackmail? You get Burn After Reading, which looks like another potential classic from Joel and Ethan.

Before we saw anything from this film - posters, trailers, and clips - we heard Clooney talking it up as the conclusion to his "Idiot Trilogy" with the brothers, following O Brother Where Art Thou and Intolerable Cruelty. (Can't we just skip that second one?) And the more we've seen over the past few months, the more we truly understand what he means.

We've been tipped by a Big Picture reader to the existence of another new poster, again inspired by the legendary Saul Bass. The last time we published a poster for this flick, it was unapproved, so we had to remove it. I like this one better, anyway, which was on display over at JoBlo.

Very nice.

And there's more good news. In addition to learning that we'll be having a Big Picture Premiere for the film on September 11th - that's very exciting - Worst Previews has four brand new clips from Burn After Reading. If you don't know what an "Idiot Comedy" is in the world of Joel and Ethan Coen, these scenes ought to clear it up. Or you could just talk to people who really thought that Bigfoot press conference would blow the lid off everything.

Burn After Reading will open on September 12th. Let's hope it can live up to, well, every last ounce of footage we've seen so far.

Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 at 05:27PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , , , , | Comments2 Comments

Rainn Wilson "Chats" Up 'The Rocker'

After a little release date juggling, The Rocker will finally hit theaters next week. The movie stars Rainn Wilson from The Office as a has-been (or maybe that's a never-was) who sees another shot a rock god status when his nephew's high school garage band finds itself in dire need of a drummer for their gig playing the school prom.

It's got quite a few funny moments, and in particular, SNL cast member Jason Sudeikis gets a lot of laughs, and while I liked the movie, I think I like these incredibly bizarre and entirely unrelated promotional videos even more.

Wilson plays himself, hosting something called Book Chat. In the first episode, Wilson interviews someone he believes to be Maya Angelou. In fact, it's Slash from Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver. An honest mistake, I guess. And then, over the course of four installments, Wilson and his special guest talk absolute nonsense.

I realize that may not sound like a strong sales pitch, but I wouldn't share all four of them with you if I absolutely hated it. Again, having seen The Rocker, these videos are so different from the style of humor in the movie that I'm not sure it accomplishes what it's really setting out to do, but take a look anyway.

These remind me of Brule's Rules, the wildly peculiar John C. Reilly shorts from Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, although they're not quite as strange. Very few things are. That's beside the point: Rainn Wilson rocks out with his new movie out Wednesday, August 20th.

Gracias to MovieWeb for the vids.

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 01:15PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

New Clip Shows 'Death Race' May Be Stuck in Neutral

IGN has a brand new unrated clip from Death Race, and my, they've gotta be proud. This two-minute chunk of the Paul W.S. Anderson remake of Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 kind of confirms what we've all been fearing, namely that this might absolutely blow.

Unlike most movie critics, I actually do think there is some entertainment value in some of what "The Other Paul Anderson" does (OK, you got me: Just the first Resident Evil movie), because when you make video game movies, it benefits you to be campy. It would figure that, when remaking a Roger Corman movie that featured David Carradine in a junkyard Darth Vader outfit, you'd want that to be campy, too. However, Anderson has gone really gritty for his remake, as if this sort of race would one day sanctioned and televised for real. I realize it's just one clip, but this just doesn't look like it's any fun.

If you go back to last August, Joan Allen played a central role in a film with terrific action scenes. Even when taken out of context, the action in The Bourne Ultimatum is pulse-quickening stuff. The same cannot be said for this parade of fast cars, mindless explosions, and a little bit of death. It's predictable, drenched in a pointless amount of contrast, and loud.

The clip's best moment is the unintentional laugh it generates when Joan Allen says, in all seriousness, "Release the Dreadnought." Sadly, there's well over two minutes of this clip left after that.

Death Race helps wind down summer on Friday, August 22nd.

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 01:01AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , | Comments5 Comments
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