Welcome to Trailerpalooza, where we give you the most talked about new trailers of the week. This week, we have a silent film, Depp and Thompson strike back, an international trailer for Andrew Niccol's latest, two red-band trailers for two already released films and a nice little mash-up trailer.
First, let's start with The Artist, a movie set in 1927, and it follows George Valentin, a popular silent film star. But as more talking pictures come in, his career could end completely. That's not the same for Peggy Miller. She went from an extra to a major movie star. The movie shows how their different lives collide with each other. The movie got major buzz at Cannes this year and the film's main star, Jean Dujardin, won the Best Actor prize. The Weinstein Company has major faith in this film and hopefully, audiences will give it attention, because this trailer looks amazing. After it hits TIFF, it'll open in limited release November 23rd.
Another film that looks amazing is The Rum Diary, a film that's been in limbo for a while until now. Based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp plays a journalist who travels to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Quickly, he adopts to the lifestyle of the city and becomes entangled with an American women who's engaged to a big businessman. The film also has a great supporting cast that includes Giovanni Ribisi, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins. The last time Depp and the late Thompson teamed up together was back in 1998. That movie was the weird, incredible and hilarious cult classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. FilmDistrict will release the film on October 28th.
However, The Rum Diary has some competition. In Time, which was written and directed by Andrew Niccol, the man who brought us Gattaca and Lord of War. It comes out the same day. The film is set during the "near future" when time is used as money and people live until 25, unless they acquire more of it. Justin Timberlake plays a man accused of murder and is forced to go on the run, along with a mysterious women (Amanda Seyfried) in order to stay alive. This new international trailer shows a lot more footage than the first two trailers gave us. You can take a look now.
There are two new red-band trailers for two films that came out today, actually. They both seem like last-minute decisions in order to get more of an audience, I think. The first is Our Idiot Brother. Recently, ABC refused to air advertisements for the comedy and that prompted The Weinstein Company to put this together. This is definitely a red-band trailer, filled with profanity and Steve Coogan holding his balls. The other is Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which I don't exactly know how that one's red-band. I guess it's more creepier, especially the teeth part of it. Ew. Like I said before, both films are out today and I look forward to both.
Before we go, I want to show you this very interesting mash-up trailer between the upcoming Drive and Star Wars. It basically takes the audio of the Drive trailer and puts it with footage from the original trilogy. Watching Han Solo play Ryan Gosling's character is priceless. Check it out!
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