I remember when Darren Aronofsky was attached to direct his own take on Wolverine and I was super-duper pumped about it but now it seems like The Wolverine is just struggling to make itself known in a crowded summer of high profile blockbusters. Without a visionary talent like Aronofsky, the bad taste left in people’s mouths from X-Men Origins: Wolverine paired with an over-saturated superhero market make a film like The Wolverine easy to be side-lined.

I’ve yet to make any judgements as I’ve only seen the first trailer (no need to spoil any more details) but I like the direction of a superhero stripped of his powers, although that had technically been done before in Spiderman 2. As far as I can tell, The Wolverine looks a lot more stripped down and atmospheric than that not-so-great Origins film.

Take a look at this new trailer coming to you straight from CinemaCon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYPWMM9W1A

The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper, Rila Fukushima as Yukio and Tao Okamoto as Mariko and opens on July 26.

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Last month, Guillermo del Toro unveiled an alternative Pacific Rim trailer packed full of new footage to a excited throng of WonderCon attendees and they loved it. While the new trailer was originally intended only for those at the popular convention, adamant del Toro have seemed to wiggle it loose from him. Have a look below and tell me if this is something that you’re interested in, aren’t sold by or will wait on reviews before you go see it.

As Del Toro wrote in a note accompanying the trailer: “Enjoy, my friends!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA92Rw6kNWw

Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo del Toro andstars Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Idris Elba (Prometheus) and Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). It opens on July 12, 2013.

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For those of us who always have wanted to see Hermoine’s bad side unleased, Sofia Coppola‘s The Bling Ring will be sure a strike a chord. Emma Watson stars in this based-on-a-true story of a group of teenagers who shoplift from stores and burglarize the homes of rich celebrities.

Based on a piece in Vanity Fair, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins” by Nancy Jo Sales, this will only be Coppola’s fifth feature film following other such vibrant independent features as The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Somewhere. Coppola’s films have a penchant for probing celebrity and usually are pretty glum and self-reflective so I expect on top of the highs of the thrill, we can expect the film to embody similar themes. Have a look at the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4LzhgExvrc

The Bling Ring stars Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann, Gavin Rossdale, and Paris Hilton (an actual victim of the real-life Bling Ring) and will hit theaters on June 12.

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Based on one of the greater works of the Bard, Much Ado About Nothing has had no shortage of theatrical adaptations with Joss Whedon‘s take serving as the fourth (or fifth if you consider the Hindi adaptation, Dil Chahta Hai). Although they hardly ever demolish at the box office, Shakespearean work is often recycled in cinema every decade or two and often by unexpected and interesting talent. If you’re trying to place Whedon’s name, you’ll sure to be familiar with his last project: The Avengers.

Coming off the Marvel megalith, Whedon opted to crank out with black-and-white passion project in a mere 12 days with many of his regular collaborators hoping aboard. This premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year but won’t find it’s way into regular distribution until later this summer.

I will actually be catching a screening of Much Ado About Nothing tomorrow at the Press Launch for the Seattle International Film Festival so there’s no way I’ll be watching this trailer just yet.

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

The film stars Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Reed Diamond, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Spencer Treat Clark, Riki Lindhome and Ashley Johnson and hits theaters June 7, 2013.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4

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After learning Kung Fu in The Matrix, Keanu Reeves has directed his very own Kung Fu movie starring a mostly Chinese cast entitled Man of Tai Chi. This is Reeve’s first directorial effort but he seems greatly aided by choreographer Woo-ping Yuen of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Matrix trilogy and the two Kill Bills.

Talking about the film, Reeves said:

 “It’s an English-Chinese Kung Fu movie and it’s basically about a young man who gets involved in underground fighting to save his temple and whether or not he loses his soul.”

I simply cannot imagine this being anything but a steaming pile of you know what with lots of spinning, kicking, wire-work and punching but feel free to check out the trailer for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtOTSyjiU60

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So far the Thor camp over at Marvel has offered up a first look at Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman in what looks to be an Asgardian Christmas card and a standard character poster where Thor is holding his iconic hammer but today we get to dig into the real goodies, as the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World has arrived.

Following the aftermath of The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World returns superhero Thor to Asgard where he must battle a powerful race of dark elves led by the malicious Malekith the Accursed to save his own planet, Earth and the rest of the nine realms.

This one is sure to debut on the big screen in front of Iron Man 3 which releases next weekend but if you can’t wait until then, dig in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j41qNcjDoc8

Thor 2 is directed by Game of Thrones helmer Alan Taylor andstars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins and opens in theaters on November 8, 2013.

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I definitely feel like we’ve gotten very little respite from the sequel-mania dominating movie news of late but what can you expect at this time of year right before blockbuster super-season. This latest bit of massive studio film news comes as an alternative trailer for The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman out of Japan courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. If you’re keen to have a little more of the story revealed and catch some more bites of the action sequences, take a look at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAJz4rF_1M

The Wolverine also stars Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper, Rila Fukushima as Yukio and Tao Okamoto as Mariko and opens wide on July 26.

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With the first trailer just debuting, this afterlife secret agency flick, R.I.P.D., which stands for Rest in Peace Division, sure seems to remind me a lot of Men in Black. Sure, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith may have been replaced by Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds respectively, but with all the gadgetry, puns and aliens (or I guess they’re the undead?) this totally feel like a dark alley we’ve walked down before.

However inoffensive this trailer may be it but hardly sells me on the idea of actually attending the film in theaters. While the original Men in Black film was a light and commendable romp, the sequels bogged themselves down and the formula got old quickly. I just can’t see R.I.P.D. doing enough to distinguish itself as a fresh enough idea. Accordingly, this really doesn’t inspire much confidence for this filmgoer. Having said that, this trailer does seem to go after the Men in Black audience so I guess we’ll see exactly how close that tone of the film is to M.I.B. in the coming months.

I’ll try to hold off judgement for now because R.I.P.D., like Men in Black, is a comic book adaptation and so I assume it must have it’s fair share of differences… well, that’s actually not true at all. I mean, they both use abbreviations with an “I” in them!

Take a peek and see if you notice all the M.I.B. similarities too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X07xNrVd7DU
 
R.I.P.D. is directed byRobert Schwentke and stars Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds,Kevin Bacon, Mary Louise-Parker, Stephanie Szostak, Marissa Miller, and James Hong and opens July 19th.

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