The official Facebook page for Snow White and the Huntsman has posted a new sneak peak trailer for the movie. It’s essentially a shortened version of the trailer we got last year, but contains some new footage.

Watch below:

Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders and opening June 2012, focuses on the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) who is hired by the evil queen (Charlize Theron) to track down her runaway stepdaughter (Kristen Stewart). After realizing the queen intends to kill Snow White, he helps her escape, and the pair go on the run. The Huntsman then helps train Snow White in order to defeat the evil queen.

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After teasing us over the past few days 20th Century Fox has released the first official trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus which stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce and Rafe Spall.

You can watch the trailer below. It definitely has an Alien-vibe to it, and meets the hype that’s been building. Hopefully the actual movie does too.

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

20th Century Fox will release Prometheus on June 8th 2012.

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Yesterday 20th Century Fox released a short trailer preview for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in preparation for the first official trailer which will debut on Thursday. Now the studio has released a “two days to go teaser” which contains more snippets of footage and more talk from Ridley Scott.

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We can probably expect another one to appear online tomorrow. So far Prometheus is looking like one of the must-see sci-fi movies of next year.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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The first official trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus will arrive in 3 days, and in preparation 20th Century Fox has released a short preview which contains footage from the forthcoming trailer, along with a behind the scenes interview with Scott himself where he explains what we can expect.

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Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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Young Adult is basically an R-rated quasi-dramatic train wreck version of Just Friends which starred Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart. While Just Friends was playful romantic-comedy, this 94 minute feature sees a depressed hot mess (Charlize Theron) setting her distorted sights on more than satisfied target (Patrick Wilson). Let the awkwardness begin.

At the helm is 4-time Oscar Nominee, Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air). His signature use of blending plausible real-life scenarios with subtle moments of comedy is usually pitch-perfect. This time around, he struggles to bring the script by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body) together.

Mavis Gray (Charlize Theron) was the small-town beauty queen who made it out and found success in the big city; in this case, Minneapolis. She is currently feeling some pressure from her career as a fiction writer for a fledging young adult series (high school setting), and it doesn’t help that she just got divorced. To remedy this depression she finds herself in, she retreats to her hometown unannounced and secludes herself at a Hampton Inn with her socialite-looking dog, Dolce (makes sense when all she does is watch reality shows like The Kardashians).

As she pounds whiskey (straight-up), she decides the best way to get her life back on track is to seek out her first love, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson). Buddy is happily married to Beth (Elizabeth Reaser), and the couple who never ventured away from the quaint Minnesota town, just welcomed their first child. None of this deters Mavis, as she bides her time – drinking while writing what she observes at random fast-food joints – waiting to win back her lost flame.

While this could sound like a typical rom-com, the introduction to the Mavis character thwarts all those stereotypes and/or expectations right away. The broken character is instantly thrown at you and there is nothing funny about this initially. That is until Patton Oswalt – playing the high school loser no one remembers – weaves his way in and brings with him the comical, and surprisingly substantial, moments of this script. Charlize Theron does have the talent to carry a movie on her own, yet there are doubts that without Oswalt’s presence, one would be tuning out about halfway through.

Though a key part of the story; Patrick Wilson is essentially driving in just above cameo mode here. In his limited screen time though, his actions and persona properly showcase just how far-off the Mavis character is; which adds to the entertaining awkwardness that pops up during all their scenes. Even just the wardrobe choices say so much about how off our lead is when mingling in her hometown. The duo does not engage in the most shocking banter, and it is predictable in some respects, yet it does the job in keeping with the projected atmosphere. Moments such as this give credence that the screenplay is solid, but Reitman’s handling and piecing together of sequences isn’t as smooth as his past works.

It’s almost as if the “glue segments” were cut out due to time constraints or budget reasons. In other words, cinematically, this is not the most concise piece of storytelling through the lens, as it appears to be a mash-up or series of first draft thoughts, sans the polish rewrite. The transitioning to a new mood if you will, had lackluster execution; leading to a rough projection of what Reitman wanted to get out of the audience. Still, the brutal conversations are fairly entertaining and the performances sell it just enough to keep your attention all the way through.

Overall, Young Adult is a catchy independent film that could have used some commercial shine. While its storytelling methods and tone are all over the place, there are enough hooks (witty dialogue & fine acting) to encourage one to take-in this realistic entertaining debacle.

RATING: 3.5 out of 5

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With the trailers for both Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror online for everyone to view you may have already made up your mind as to which Snow White movie you’d prefer to see. The competition was pretty fierce a few months ago when Universal and Relativity were fighting for the earliest release date, but things appear to have calmed down recently with people seeing how different both films are.

Still, as we enter 2012 there’s bound to be some comparison between the two, both at the box office and critically, and Huntsman‘s Evil Queen Charlize Theron thinks everyone should just calm down and embrace both.

From Moviefone:

Why are there two Snow White movies?
I don’t know! But it’s not a big deal. Honestly, I feel like people are in such a panic about it. I want everyone to take a deep breath…

I’m not in a panic, I’m just confused…
[Laughs] Calm down, it’s going to be OK.

I feel better now. Thank you.
I think, also, now that the trailers are out, people understand they are two very, very different films. And there’s no way financers are going to throw that kind of money toward two films they didn’t feel like there was a market for both. So, everybody needs to chill out. It’s going to be amazing. We’re going to have two Snow Whites — incredible!

And you’re good in it?
Ah, well… [knocks on a wooden table] that was me knocking on wood! Transcribe that!

From the trailers it became clear Snow White and the Huntsman was my type of movie, but i’m sure there’ll still be an audience for Mirror Mirror

Below are the trailers for both. Mirror Mirror hits next March, while Huntsman will be released in June.

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The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contains our first good look at Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which stars Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Guy Pearce and Logan Marshall-Green.

In the image below we see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘s Noomi Rapace as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, a researcher and archaeologist. In an interview last month Rapace said Shaw was the “most complete person” she’s ever played, and she “turns into a fighter” halfway through the film after “a lot of things happen”.

Also in the image is Logan Marshall-Green (Devil) who plays a crewman onboard the space ship and the love interest of Elizabeth Shaw. A blonde Michael Fassbender plays an android named David.

Other images show us the characters of Charlize Theron and Idris Elba.

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

With 20th Century Fox’s marketing campaign seemingly under-way we can probably expect the teaser trailer to hit sometime soon. Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi hits June 8, 2012.

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Universal has released the first official Snow White and the Huntsman trailer, giving us our first look at footage from one of the two Snow White movies hitting next year. We’ve been told Hunstman is the more serious of the two, and the first 30 seconds of the trailer confirm that to be true, with charging battle scenes and Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen sucking the life out of a young woman.

The Evil Queen actually dominates the trailer. The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is seen wielding an axe and taking orders, but Snow White (Kristen Stewart) isn’t seen until half way through and doesn’t speak a word. Overall, it looks very promising.

You can watch the trailer below:

Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders and opening June 2012, focuses on the Huntsman (Hemsworth) who is hired by the evil queen (Theron) to track down her runaway stepdaughter (Stewart). After realizing the queen intends to kill Snow White, he helps her escape, and the pair go on the run. The Huntsman then helps train Snow White in order to defeat the evil queen.

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Other than some characters shots there has been little marketing material for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, but the first official trailer is expected to be released this week, and in preparation the studio has released a new banner featuring Chris Hemsworth as The Huntsman, Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen.

Click the banner below to enlarge:

Based on what we’ve seen and heard so far i’m more interested in seeing Huntsman than Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror. Singh recently described his movie as being “sickeningly kiddie”, which i’m sure there’ll be an audience for, but the darkness and seriousness of Huntsman is more appealing to me.

Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders and opening June 2012, focuses on the Huntsman (Hemsworth) who is hired by the evil queen (Theron) to track down her runaway stepdaughter (Stewart). After realizing the queen intends to kill Snow White, he helps her escape, and the pair go on the run. The Huntsman then helps train Snow White in order to defeat the evil queen.

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Back in 2009 George Miller was all set to shoot Mad Max Fury Road, a sequel to the Mel Gibson films which would be set shortly after the events of Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Miller had planned to shoot in the Australian outback as the series is set in a post-apocalyptic future following the breakdown of society, and the bleak outback fit the bill.

But then unseasonal rains hit the region, and while people living there welcomed it, Miller decided to delay shooting for a year in the hope of regaining the post-apocalyptic landscape. Well it’s been 9 months since shooting was delayed, and unfortunately for Miller the Australian outback is still full of life.

The director recently spoke about the situation to The Sydney Morning Herald:

…looking to start pre-production on the fourth Mad Max in October, Miller was hoping the desert would dry out to resemble the required post-apocalyptic landscape. The film crew had built a road in the desert and had stored 150 vehicles for the film, which will star Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Hugh Keays-Byrne. “The Mad Max landscape looked like Wales,” Miller told Garry Maddox. “There was a carpet of flowers on the location we were shooting on. There’s no way it’s going to brown off. Not only that, we wanted to shoot some of the shots on Lake Eyre but now it’s full of pelicans.”

Miller said the search is now on for a new (pelican-free) filming location both within Australia and internationally, possibly in Morocco, Chile or China. Miller also revealed that Fury Road will be the first part of a new Mad Max trilogy, with scripts being written for the fifth and sixth films.

Tom Hardy (Inception) will play the lead, and he’ll be joined by Charlize Theron and X-Men: First Class actors Nicholas Hoult and Zoë Kravitz. The film will apparently follow a convoy of women known as the ‘Fives Wives’ who require protection during a road trip.

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