2011 December | The Movie Blog

Extended Indonesian Trailer for THE RAID with Extra Fight Scenes

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The crowd at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival adored director Gareth Evans’ The Raid, an Indonesian martial arts epic that tracks a SWAT team sweeping through a highrise infested with drug dealers. When Sony picked up the domestic distribution rights, they soon released a red-band trailer that has zero dialogue and all kinds of awesome. Not to be outdone, the Indonesian studio has released an extended trailer with additional fight scenes, an amped up original music track and 1000% more bold-faced type!

Although Screen Gems has acquired the remake rights of The Raid, Sony Pictures Classics will release the original in the spring of 2012. Hit the jump to check out the new trailer.

Thanks to Twitch for bringing this extended cut of the trailer to our attention. While both trailers have about the same runtime, the new one has at least a few more action segments. I noticed an extra “guy-getting-shot-in-the-face-point-blank” scene, because you can never have too many of those. There were definitely more hand-to-hand sequences in the new trailer as well. I’m sure they left plenty more in the movie. Check out the trailer below:

Here’s the synopsis for The Raid:

Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building’s lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city’s worst to survive their mission. Director Gareth Evans (Merantau) and rising martial- arts star Iko Uwais reunite in this adrenaline-fueled action film.

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Full Trailer for JOHN CARTER Starring Taylor Kitsch

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Good Morning America had a sneak peek of the new John Carter trailer earlier today, which probably wasn’t the best way to present a hard sell to an unfamiliar audience, not to mention a critical group of fans ready to tear into the film adaptation that dropped the most interesting half of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars. Disney followed up quickly with the full trailer that gives you a better sense of the film. It looks big, like the event film that Disney needs it to be.

Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Haden Church, and James Purefoy star in director Andrew Stanton‘s first live-action feature. John Carter opens in 3D on March 9, 2012. Watch the trailer after the jump.

I am optimistic. This is my first contact with the property, so I have no sense of the story. But I trust Stanton with the story after he spent the last decade studying at Pixar University. If nothing else lands, the creature designs are intriguing, and the look of Mars is encouragingly massive. Unfortunately, the best point of comparison at this stage in the promotional campaign is Green Lantern, and we all know how that turned out. Essentially, I am rooting for this to be the entertaining galactic adventure that Green Lantern failed to be.

Trailer via IGN:

Official synopsis:

From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes “John Carter”–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). “John Carter” is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

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Teaser Trailer for WRONG, Quentin Dupieux’s Follow-Up to RUBBER

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Writer/director Quentin Dupeiux made some noise on the 2010 festival circuit when he unleashed Rubber, alternately wowing and perplexing the varied audiences of Cannes, Toronto, and Fantastic Fest. The hyper-meta movie about a tire who kills people is right in my wheelhouse of movies that talk incessantly about their own structure; ultimately, it never quite connected, but marked Dupeiux as a filmmaker to watch.

The next Dupeiux film to watch for is Wrong, which will premiere as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition lineup at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. A teaser trailer has been posted online, and promises that Wrong—led by Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, and William Fichtner—will strive to out-strange Rubber. Watch for yourself after the jump.

Today is the day for short, bizarre teasers, following the first look at Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. Tim and Eric are funnier, but as you’ll see below, Dupeiux would win in a contest to create the most striking visual*. Trailer via The Playlist:

Here’s the Sundance logline:

WRONG / France (Director and screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux) — Dolph searches for his lost dog, but through encounters with a nympho pizza-delivery girl, a jogging neighbor seeking the absolute, and a mysterious righter of wrongs, he may eventually lose his mind… and his identity. Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner.

And a few screencaps from the trailer: