CBS Films has released the first trailer for The Words, a drama set for release on September 21st, 2012. The film stars Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who steals another man’s story and publishes it as his own, and how everyone deals with the consequences of that decision.

I saw this movie at Sundance this year and it’s a well-acted drama that, aside from being a bit predictable, plays out like a pretty good mystery story. Everyone in the cast does great work, so if you’re a diehard fan of Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons (who steals the show), Ben Barnes, Dennis Quaid, or Olivia Wilde, check it out when it hits theaters.

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Olivia Wilde has become something of a geek goddess in recent years with appearances in TRON: Legacy and Cowboys & Aliens, and now it appears that the actress is ready to take on a new type of movie: a comedy. She’ll star opposite Jason Sudeikis in Relanxious, in which the two will play lovers with distinct phobias. Sound weird? It is. More on the plot and other cast members after the jump.

Deadline has the details, which describe Wilde’s character as a woman ridden with anxiety who falls for an agoraphobe played by Sudeikis. Since they both have these issues, they’re stuck just talking about dates they would go on if they didn’t have their phobias. Things heat up and they have to choose whether or not to face their fears in order to pursue a real-life relationship. Brie Larson (21 Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live,” Anchorman) are joining in supporting roles as Wilde’s sister and Sudeikis’ best friend, respectively.

Writer Christopher Storer will make his directorial debut on this one. Like I said, I think it sounds pretty bizarre, but I like the cast, so we’ll see how strong the material ends up being. After all, most of the time a movie is only as good as its script.

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Update: Tron: Legacy writers give an update on the sequel – It’s happening!

When Tron: Legacy hit screens in December its opening weekend wasn’t that great ($44 million), which gave the impressions it would under-perform for Disney, but in the end it made $400 million worldwide, and in April director Joseph Kosinski said “we are working on the story now” for the sequel.

This was followed by the hiring of David DiGilio (Eight Below) in June to get started on the script, and now Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley/Tron) has suggested the sequel could hit in 2013.

Here’s Boxleitner talking to fan at Disney’s D23 Expo last week (via AICN):

Director Joseph Kosinski has previously said he’d love to return, but his next movie will be Horizons with Tom Cruise which is expected to start shooting later this year, so if he is returning to direct production on the sequel won’t begin until after he’s completed that (Horizons‘ release date is July 19, 2013).

The story for the sequel will likely start off with Quorra (Olivia Wilde) and Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) in the real world, and hopefully Cillian Murphy can return for a larger (potentially villainous) role as Dillinger Jr.

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After Disney dropped Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion Universal picked up the project, set Tom Cruise to star, and set a July 19, 2013 release date. Now according to Variety the studio has changed the title to Horizons (something Disney considered when it was with them) and they’re now searching for two female leads.

As we’ve come to expect with big budget tentpoles, none of the actresses are above the age of 35 and it’s all very vanilla. The names said to be testing soon include Brit Marling, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Chastain, Noomi Rapace and Olga Kurylenko.

Wilde being considered makes sense since she worked with Kosinski on Tron: Legacy, and Cruise met with Noomi Rapace for Mission Impossible 4 but she decided to appear in Sherlock Holmes 2 instead. Chastain is hot property at the moment after starring in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life and The Help, while Marling was the breakout star of this year’s Sundance Film Festival having co-written and starred in both Another Earth and Sound of My Voice. Olga Kurylenko is best known for playing Bond girl Camille in Quantum of Solace.

The graphic novel on which the movie is based is set “in a future where the Earth’s surface has been irradiated beyond recognition and the remnants of humanity live above the clouds, safe from the brutal alien Scavengers that stalk the ruins. But when surface drone repairman Jack discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off an unstoppable chain of events that will force him to question everything he knows.”

The two key female characters include Victoria, Jack’s right-hand woman and lover who serves as his eyes and ears while he’s on repair missions, and Julia, his fiancee on Earth before the alien invasion.

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Jon Favreau continues to prove himself as an excellent director with Cowboys & Aliens, a movie that is a good summer flick that ends up being not quite as good as the sum of its parts. It’s got a ton of energy, the cast is solid, and the effects are great, so even though the final product is missing that extra “spark,” it’s still a serviceable summer crowd-pleaser.

Favreau and his massive writing squad (Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Otsby) are clearly passionate fans of the western genre, and their love for the material comes through on screen. The director takes a modern approach to framing vintage character archetypes, and his history of fantastic visual effects from the Iron Man films serves him well yet again. This is much more western than sci-fi, and that’s to the film’s benefit; the characters take this alien invasion seriously, and there’s no joking tone or winking at the camera. It’s a big world, full of similar vistas, gorges, and sweeping plains that you might find in an old John Ford movie. Favreau also battled the studio when they wanted the movie shot in 3D; he held his ground and shot it on film to capture the texture of those classic westerns that came before.

Daniel Craig is stoic, rugged, and dirty throughout – in other words, he makes a great cowboy. Taking a page from Eastwood’s playbook, he lets his actions do most of the talking; his wandering amnesiac is a total badass, reminiscent (in attitude) of Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp in Tombstone. Harrison Ford gives one of his most inspired performances in years as the ridiculously-named Woodrow Dolarhyde, a hardass father with a good heart. The supporting cast does a good job, but ultimately their parts seb a bit undeserving of their talents. Guys like Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano, and Walton Goggins have earned a bit more than what they were given here.

The alien design is pretty by-the-numbers (although better than the atrocious designs in Battle: Los Angeles), and their excuse for invading is laughably bad. Olivia Wilde’s exposition gets a bit dreary at times, but it’s evened out by some memorable chase sequences across stark scenery via land, air, and sea. The climax also features some memorable shots, including one in particular that was clearly influenced by Neill Blomkamp’s District 9.

Listen, I liked this movie. It won’t be among my favorites of the year or anything, but the structure and predictability is exactly the kind of “turn off your brain” entertainment that most people go to the movies for in the first place. It’s well put-together, Favreau puts some style in it, and Craig and Ford go toe-to-toe in entertaining roles. But I still can’t shake the feeling that it was too predictable, the script suffers from its familiarity, and ultimately the movie just ends up coming up short. For summer fluff, Cowboys & Aliens is fine. Looking for anything more? Keep searchin’, cowboy. Until next time…

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We’ve had a number of trailers and TV spots for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens over the past few months, and Universal will no doubt be releasing a few more as we enter July.

Today sees the release of the third trailer, which contains even more awesome looking footage. Cowboys & Aliens is a fairly unknown property compared to other movies being released next month so I can understand why Universal would want to push the marketing. I just hope they follow the Super 8 route by not revealing the mystery before its release.

You can watch the trailer below:

In the movie cowboy Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) has no memory of his past, and stumbles into the desert town of Absolution in 1800s Arizona with a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. As the gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against an invading alien force.

Cowboys & Aliens also stars Olivia Wilde as elusive traveller Ella and Harrison Ford as Colonel Dolarhyde, and will be released July 29th 2011

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At the Spike Guys Choice Awards on Friday Universal Pictures released a new extended sneak peek from director Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens. The trailer contains some new footage, including more from Sam Rockwell which is always welcomed.

Watch below:

In the movie cowboy Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) has no memory of his past, and stumbles into the desert town of Absolution in 1800s Arizona with a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. As the gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against an invading alien force.

Cowboys & Aliens stars Olivia Wilde as elusive traveller Ella and Harrison Ford as Colonel Dolarhyde, and will be released July 29th 2011

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Two months after we see Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern we will see the actor swapping lives with Jason Bateman in The Change-Up.

In the movie, directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) and written by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (The Hangover), single guy Mitch (Reynolds) and overworked lawyer Dave (Bateman) embark on drunken night out together, and end up switch bodies and lives after urinating in a fountain (it’s a comedy, and therefore doesn’t need to make sense).

The first red band trailer has appeared online, and you can watch it below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Growing up together, Mitch (Reynolds) and Dave (Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they’ve slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie (Leslie Mann), kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch’s stress free life without obligation or consequence would be a dream come true.

Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave’s worlds are turned upside down when they wake up in each other’s bodies and proceed to freak the &*#@ out.

Despite the freedom from their normal routines and habits, the guys soon discover that each other’s lives are nowhere near as rosy as they once seemed. Further complicating matters are Dave’s sexy legal associate, Sabrina (Olivia Wilde), and Mitch’s estranged father (Alan Arkin). With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

The Change-Up will be released August 5th, 2011.

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Universal have released the second full trailer for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens. It’s a lot like the previous trailer, just with more plot details, more of Olivia Wilde, and more footage of the aliens attacking (we don’t actually see the aliens, that’ll probably be something they save for the movie itself).

You can watch the trailer below: (Is that an alien hand we see at 1:58?)

From the trailer it looks like Favreau has delivered another fun movie, but it’ll be interesting to see how general audiences respond to this. It’s not a well known property, but has a strong cast. It could go either way.

In the movie cowboy Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) has no memory of his past, and stumbles into the desert town of Absolution in 1800s Arizona with a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. As the gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against an invading alien force.

Cowboys & Aliens stars Olivia Wilde as elusive traveller Ella and Harrison Ford as Colonel Dolarhyde, and will be released July 29th 2011

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Universal has released the Super Bowl TV spot for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens. The ad contains plenty of new footage, include more of those aliens and a shot of Olivia Wilde naked in front of a bonfire and 500 Apache warriors.

Watch below:

In the movie cowboy Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) has no memory of his past, and stumbles into the desert town of Absolution in 1800s Arizona with a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. As the gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against an invading alien force.

Cowboys and Aliens stars Olivia Wilde as elusive traveller Ella and Harrison Ford as Colonel Dolarhyde, and will be released July 29th 2011

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