Earlier this month, a full-length trailer was released for Cloverfield. Before then, the film's title was only a rumor, with the project being better known by its release date — 01-18-08 — or as "J.J. Abrams' new monster movie." Even with this trailer, little is known: What is known: Cloverfield is an American-made film about…
Category: Trailers
Sneak peeks, teasers, and trailers for films still to come.
Don't Blink
When a movie, show, or franchise is successful, it not only spawns cheap imitators, but also encourages the funding and development of similar properties and adaptations. Without the success of Spider-Man and X-Men, we'd likely not have Heroes, for example. Observe RiffTrax's description of that show: Imagine, just imagine, if ordinary citizens suddenly began to…
Son of Dorkman
After stumbling across the excellently-choreographed Ryan vs. Dorkman Star Wars fan films, I started watching for more from the dynamic duo of Ryan Wieber and Michael Scott. Hearing their interview on Geekza was cool, but I wanted to see more. I found it when I subscribed to Scott's YouTube channel, as shortly thereafter, he posted…
When the Whole World Looked Up
I discovered In the Shadow of the Moon last month when I thought my moviegoing for 2007 was complete and looked at the year's remaining releases to confirm. I was pleasantly surprised to find Ron Howard's name attached to this documentary about the first lunar landing. It made me keen to see the film's theatrical…
How Ironic
Courtesy Ctrl+Alt+Del comes this trailer of the film adaptation of the Marvel comic book, Iron Man: For those (like me) who are far less comics-savvy than Showbits reader Gene D.: no, that isn't War Machine in the trailer. "Iron Man's original suit in the comic books was gray," writes Gene; "Later, it became the familiar…
Go North, Young Woman
New Line Cinema, the studio that brought us the Lord of the Rings film adaptations, has released a teaser trailer for its December 7th, 2007 release: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass. The film is based on a book originally published in the UK in 1995 — two years before Harry Potter — under the…
Missed It By That Much
Get Smart was the first "classic" show I stumbled across in a summer that began a love affair with Nick at Nite. The show and its brethren were sheer genius: famous actors in classic situations, presenting clean comedy my parents and I could enjoy together. My family continues to bond over this media even today:…
Freak the Mighty
New trailer for Shrek the Third is up. Some franchises that don't warrant sequels are dragged out past their prime just to make a buck. Somehow, this series doesn't seem to fit that category. I wasn't looking forward to Shrek 2, but I saw it and enjoyed it almost as much as the first; I…