A few months back, we had our first look at Naomi Watts as Princess Di in the first trailer for the once-thought to be Oscar contender. However with its lack of festival play and studios lack of interest in sweeping it up (it was eventually picked up by the very unknown Embankment Films), it’s Oscar chances seem to be disintegrating by the day.

Whether this means Watts won’t be earning the nomination that so many people expected her to garnish from this is unclear but it does mean a resounding lack of faith in the product they are pedaling. Take a look at the trailer and see if you think that Watts still has a shot at a nom.

Diana is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and stars Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews. Although it is still without an official release date, it’ll be sure to hit theaters in the thick of this year’s Oscar season.

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A seeming onslaught of material for Ridley Scott’s (Gladiator, Alien) The Counselor is bursting from the gates with a second, or third if you count the foreign teaser, trailer just released. With a script penned by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road), this Fox 2000 stars Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, in the story of a lawyer turned drug smuggler who gets too deep in a dirty business.

While it’s Oscar changes are unknown, The Counselor will hopefully be the caliber of film that’ll turn churn up some interest some award’s season, or at least be an epic time at the theaters. With the talent involved, I’m really expecting something special.

Check out this third trailer and if you they’ve bought your ticket yet.

The Counselor is directed by Ridley Scott, written by Cormac McCartney and stars Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. It hits theaters October 25.

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Gaining some incredible traction out of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, All is Lost is a supposed powerhouse. Starring Robert Redford and only Robert Redford, it follows a sailor trapped at sea. When a film gets as overwhelming positive response as this has, I make it my mission to learn as little about it as possible so there’s no chance that I’ll be voluntarily watching the trailer. However, the vast movie-going public likes to know what they’re in for so I offer you the trailer for All is Lost.

For a little more info, check out the follow synopsis per IMDB; “After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.”

Sound off and let me know what your anticipation levels are looking like for this.

All is Lost is directed by J.C. Chandorand stars Robert Redford. It hits theaters on October 18.

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Based on the true life story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative, Lone Survivor stars Mark Wahlberg and may be more than just your run-of-the-mill actioner. Based on The New York Times bestseller, this story of heroism, courage and survival is directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and has a cast of underrated, but apparently doomed, actors.

I’m gonna go ahead and guess by the name of this one that only one of the crew will make it out alive. My money is on Wahlberg’s character since he is the biggest profile name and touted as the star. Any other wagers?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMFLzf-DXXU

Lone Survivor is directed by Peter Berg and stars Mark Wahlberg,Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana. It will be released by Universal Pictures in limited theaters on December 27, 2013 and will go wide on January 10, 2014.

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Just two days after our first look at David O. Russell‘s American Hustle, the trailer has hit the streets and the praises are written on the wall. Based on actual events from the FBI Abscam files, American Hustle follows Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams as they work the system with stolen and forged goods. Per Wikipedia, “The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property but was converted to a public corruption investigation.”

These hustlers embody the characteristic fashion of the 70s – suits, furs, hairdos and otherwise. As this trailer earns anticipation and props from O. Russell fans and Awards progosticators alike, I’m sticking to my guns when I say that this is gonna receive a barrel of awards at this year’s Oscars.

Take a look at the trailer and tell me what you think the most likely nominations are. I would say nominations for Best Picture and Best Director are a lock (and this could very well be the year that O. Russell wins big) and Bale, Cooper and Adams are all strong contenders.

American Hustle is directed by David O. Russell and stars Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Robert De Niro, Michael Peña, Louis C.K. and Amy Adams. It opens in limited theaters on December 13 and opens wide on December 25.

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For all their blatant immaturity, the crew over at Jackass has proven to be a continuing source of laughter. Having single-handedly turned home-video entertainment from the innocent platform founded on America’s Funniest Home Videos into the internet and television culture of “fails”, Johnny Knoxville and company capitalize on our desire to see other’s in pain. While Jackass 3D had it’s moments of “Oh dear lord, I do not want to watch that,” it also had moments of near-brilliance and undeniable hilarity.

With his latest project, Knoxville seems to be going down the Sacha Baron Cohan route and doing more of a “satirical” character than a disjunctive series of pain-inducing skits. How well this will work is someone hinted at from the trailer, as some moments seem pretty darn funny and others, not so much. Personally, I’ve always thought Knoxville’s Grandpa bit to be pretty hysterical but I still have my doubts of it working as a feature length film.

 Do you think Knoxville’s Irving Zisman and grandson Billy (Jackson Nicholl) will be able to sustain laughs for an entire movie?

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is directed by Jeff Tremaine and stars Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nicholl. It hits theaters on October 25.

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What many probably don’t know is that Ben Stiller is not just a face that appears in many of your favorite comedy classics as he’s also an acclaimed director… well at least in my eyes. He directed The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey, Zoolander and Tropic Thunder and now returns to the director’s chair in what some are calling a film that may even be looking at Oscar nominations. Now, surprisingly enough, this wouldn’t strictly be the first time Stiller has lead his film to the Oscars as Robert Downey Jr. earned perhaps the strangest nomination of all time for his black-faced role as Australian Kirk Lazarus.

In his latest directorial star-vehicle, Stiller stars as the titular character in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Mitty (Stiller) is a timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams. When a film negative disappears, he embarks on a true-life adventure in the whirl of his delusions.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by and starring Ben Stiller, it also features Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott, and Patton Oswalt. It opens Christmas Day, 2013.

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With Keanu Reeve‘s directorial debut, 47 Ronin, he has held the wooden acting that has come to define his career in a movie essentially riffing off of 300, except with an army of warriors a fraction of the number. The production has already been plagued with setbacks, re-shoots, director shifts and Reeve’s acting so it’ll be a miracle if this sees much of a return on its investment.

The story follows an outcast warrior who, joined by 47 ronins, must battle of a bunch of blatantly CGI beasts. Reeves is the star of the show as a “half-breed”, which here I’m assuming to mean half-American, half-Japanese, and will be joined by an otherwise strictly Japanese cast that includes. Rinko Kikuchi of Pacific Rim, Hiroyuki Sanada of The Wolverine, Tadanobu Asano and Kou Shibasaki.

47 Ronin is directed by Keanu Reeves and stars Reeves, Rinko Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano and Kou Shibasaki. It hits theaters this Christmas, December 25.

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It’s strange to think that Baz Luhrman‘s revelatory Romeo + Juliet is almost 20 years old so it kind of makes sense that perhaps the most filmed story in the history of the world is ripe for another installment in the 2000s. Carlo Carlei tackles the tale of star-crossed lover who commit the most silly and hasty suicides in the history of silly and hasty suicides. God, I hope you already knew that. If you didn’t, please get off the internet and go read a book.

With little American credits to his name (outside of a story that broke my little heart when I was a child, Fluke) Carlei is a vastly unknown talent but he is joined by Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natascha McElhone as well as Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet and Douglas Booth as Romeo. While the trailer just looks like more of the same, I guess it’s not the worst thing in the world to have a new generation be introduced to Shakespeare’s most famous work. Any nowadays, it takes a movie adaptation for kids to be familiar with anything, amiright?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mdm6SafPM

Romeo and Juliet is directed by Carlo Carlei and stars Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Natascha McElhone. It hits limited release on September 6.

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Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambienand Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is a bold filmmaker that challenges the borders of traditional filmmaking. He’s an artist with a vision so exact that he will invent technologies in order to get the kind of shot that he wants – take for example the car gig which captured what was once called an unfilmable scene in Children of Men. With Gravity, he’s promised to deliver a whole new sci-fi experience with some of the longest single shots in the history of film.

This latest trailer seems to be Alfonso teasing that promise and seemingly fulfilling it. While this was originally supposed to get a release last year, it needed months extra in post production. The question is: will it be worth the wait?

Take a look at the trailer and see if you think so.

Gravity is directed by Alfonso Cuaron and stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. It will fall into theaters on October 4.