Direct Download Links For Plenty Of Trailers

Here's a load of direct download links for trailers new... and slightly not so new.

The trailer for Jumper looks intriguing, despite having a director I know isn't really up to the job and somewhat uneven cast. I'm hopeful for something modestly successful, though. Perhaps it's just a personal thing I've had about teleportation since Alan Cumming visited the White House. Download this first promo in 1500k WMV; 330k, 850k or 1500k Quicktime; or 1500k RealMedia.

The Mama's Boy trailer might need an introduction but it isn't getting one. 480p, 720p, 1080p. Right click to save and rename the file as notexactlyjuddapatow.mov to ensure it works.

Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour wasn't on my radar at all until I was sent a link to the trailer. Then it passed right into the centre of my radar for a second or two, dimmed quickly and then passed right back into the outer reaches. I hope it's great, of course I do, but this trailer really isn't convincing.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is getting another 3D rerelease this October - hurrah! - and while early reports suggested a 3D version of Vincent would be playing with it I haven't heard a peep on that front in months. There's no mention of Vincent in the trailer, either. The fat lo-def, 480p, 720p and 1080p versions all looks suitably gorgeous.

I've been remiss in not posting the trailer for Jimmy Carter - Man From Plains before now. i'm sorry. Pick from 480p, 720p, 1080p - right-click on your choice and rename the file neverforgetbedtimeforbonzo.mov to ensure it works.

There's a second US trailer for No Country For Old Men. Hi-res lo-def, 480p, 720p and 1080p options exist for your choosing.

And, if you have Net Transport you can nab the trailer for Love in the Time of Cholera (otherwise just left click on it to stream it in - bah! - Windows Media Player).

Direct Dowload Link For Redband No Country For Old Men Trailer

Here's the redband trailer for No Country For Old Men. Explosive stuff. A must see trailer. Left click it to play, right click it to save.

If anybody can extract the direct FLV file URL I'd appreciate it.

Country For New Posters

Here's a nice big version of the new No Country For Old Men Poster. Click upon it for expansion.

I expect the UK poster will be very different - they've got months to ready it, anyway. Sigh.

Direct Download Links For Nice, New And Shiny No Country For Old Men Trailer

A spiffing new encode. Enjoy it in hi-res, 480p, 720p or 1080p.

Movie Minesweeper - The Plant A Flag In Hollywoodland Edition

- JoBlo appear to have the first image of an 'alien' from James Cameron's Avatar.

- James McTeigue is attached to direct an adaptation of John Burdett's novel Bangkok 8. The synopsis at Variety makes it sound like a cross between Taxi Driver and The General's Daughter gone Thai. Maybe. The piece also states that McTeigue was an uncredited director on The Invasion - as well as or instead of the Wachowski Bros. I wonder?

- William Wisher is to script the World War II drama Escape of the Pacific Clipper. I see a formation of Second World War aerial actioners coming over the horizon. Will they bomb? (Pun intended).

- Spike Lee is directing Stalag 17 on Broadway.

- More WWII shenanigans with The Lost Squad. The big screen adaptation of the Chris Kirby comic book is to be written and directed by Saint and Mather - or, to give them their full names, Stephen St. Leger and James Mather. You can download a trailer for their short film Prey Alone or check out storyboards and more at the Saint and Mather site. Personally, I'm not impressed. At all.

- David Ondaatje's remake of Hitchcock's The Lodger is set up to go at Sony. Apparently using the same source material as Hitch - Marie Belloc Lownde's novel - this version will, all the same, be updated to a present day LA setting. If you know the passwords (sorry - can't help you, but help me if you can) you can watch some of Ondaatje's shorts online, including the documentary Undressing Hitchcock and Hitch pastiche Waiting for Dr. Maguffin.

- Nostradamus nonsense ahoy in the comic book adaptation The Foundation. Paramount have snapped up the rights and assigned two of the publisher production duties on the film.

- The Fantasia Fest line-up has been unveiled.

- Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have renewed their pact, with a fresh 1 billion dollar cash injection. Some of this seems set to be wasted on a World of Warcraft movie.

- Djimon Honsou has signed to star in Jeff Wadlow's Get Some. I dare say he won't be taking the lead role of a 'rebellious teen' who joins an underground fight club.

- Rialto Pictures are the leading lights in US theatrical reissues. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is to celebrate the distributor's tenth anniversary by screening a retrospective of their releases. Seventeen films are on the program - I don't know which seventeen, but the full catalogue is online. Some of the greatest films I've ever seen are in that line-up (plus a few heaps of Godard).

- Envoys of the Weinstein company are phoning up members of the public and telling them to go and see Sicko.

- John Turturro has based his performance in Transformers on Michael Bay.

- Charles Hyer is directing the first Eloise film in a proposed series adapted from the beloved kids' books. This one will come from Eloise in Paris with Eloise Goes to Hollywood lined up as the first sequel.

- I'm sure I already told you that Laurence Fishburne is writing and will direct a movie of The Alchemist.

- Paul Giamatti and Emily Mortimer are set to star in Pretty Bird.

- Download the script for No Country For Old Men and marvel.

- Capone at AintItCool has interviewed Steve Zahn. I love Steve Zahn.

- IGN have penned an update on the progress of the JLA film. Personally, I think we'll see a Superman Returns sequel first - easier to cast, for one thing - but, well, nobody knows for certain.

- Paramount are sneaking in some screenings of Transformers next Monday, screenings that are seemingly entwined with an alleged attempt to cook the books.

- Disney are launching a Ratatouille wine.

- According to Jeffrey Wells, Russell Crowe is to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Ridley Scott's Penetration.

- The DVD specs for Eaten Alive are out.

- Nintendo are expected to unveil WiiWare today - a shopping channel for original, downloadable games. Indie developers will be welcome.

- There are 11 Harry Potter 5 clips online now.

- Warners are to make a series of tween-centric direct-to-DVD films from the Clique books.

- For one day only: Palm Pictures will be streaming The Method online on June 29th. That's tomorrow, as I write. The film is, apparently, really rather good indeed.

- Richard LaGravanese and Hanif Kureishi have tied for the feature film award at the Humanitas awards this year.

Direct Download Link For No Country For Old Men Trailer

Download it now.

All New Official Sites

Some upcoming films now have wide open official sites. Speed Racer, Halloween, Hotrod and No Country for Old Men to be precise. And I Am Legend is not live as I write, but probably will be by the time you read this.

Good thing, this internet. Particularly for marketing films, it would seem.

Posters For Paranoid Park, No Country For Old Men, Control And Synecdoche, New York

Ioncinema scanned a series of Cannes posters. Nice work.

Coens Missing From the Chacun Son Cinema DVD

Of the 33 shorts made by a varied selection of world famous directors premiered at Cannes this year, only one is missing from the DVD release, and that's World Cinema by the Coen brothers.

Does anybody have any idea why it's missing? Hopefully it will be included on the No Country for Old Men DVD. I'd hate to see it vanish forever.

Direct Download Links For No Country For Old Men Clips And Trailer

You can now download and keep any or all of the No Country For Old Men clips I was pointing you towards earlier.

Clip 1, 2, 3, 4 and clip 5 - gorgeous.

Or how about the trailer?

Movie Minesweeper - The New Music Edition

- There was a clip from Harry Potter 5 on Ellen t'other day and HPana are hosting it on their site. Download the WMV file directly or settle for YouTube.

- There's a big screen version of Mama, I Want to Sing! coming and so far signed to appear are Patti LaBelle, Lynn Whitfield and Ciara. Two out of three 'aint bad.

- Nuri Bilge Ceylan's next film is to be Daydreams, a crime thriller. Climates is just coming out here on DVD in the UK, so go, queue it now if you haven't seen it already.

- Richard Gere is to produce and take the lead human role in Hachiko: A Dog's Story. A remake of a 1987 Japanese film (with a title that translates to approximately the same thing) the story's origins are apparently some true events - though beyond 'man takes in a dog, they bond', I have no idea what these events are. Can anybody shed some light?

- Tim Rice is setting lyrics to Tchaikovsky for Nutcracker - The Untold Story. And it gets worse: Elle Fanning is the lead, backed up by John Turturro (as the Mouse King) and Nathan Lane, while Andrei Konchalovsky is directing. This one runs an icy finger down my spine.

- Back From Hell at last, the Hughes Brothers are lugging about an increasingly full diary. The latest addition is The Book of Eli, a post apocalyptic yarn about a man who may somehow be able to save humanity with the titular book - this could be The Postman, could be Escape From New York... let's face it, it's erring towards The Postman on current evidence. Their other projects (if you want a reminder) include a film version of Kung Fu and The Ice Man, about a serial killer who fits snugly into a new role as a mafia hitman.

- Brett Ratner is to film lots of carnival jollity in 3D. Waste.

- Lucasfilm deny any plans to issue the Star Wars trilo... er... trilogies (?) on either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.

- CHUD have pretty much confirmed that Karen Allen will be in Indiana Jones and the Most Likely to Be City of Gods... and that - SPOILER ALERT - she's the mother of Indy's son.

- Ken Branagh has indeed joined the cast of Valkyrie. Meanwhile, that film's co-scripter Christopher McQuarrie will see his World War I script No Man's Land go before cameras couretsy of Mark Cuban and 2929.

- Aint it Cool are hosting one Transformers ad, IESB are hosting the other. Yaaaaaaaaaaawn.

- The NY Times seem to believe the Tintin trilogy will be released in 3D. I mean, I assumed as much, but this is the first real suggestion that it has been somehow announced to somebody somewhere. They also tell us that Jackson is directing the first film in the sequence, Spielberg the second and... the third? Well, will it be Frank Darabont? Only time will tell.

- Nintendo have lined up a truly amazing list of composers for their upcoming Smash Bros. Dojo game.

- Some new, some old, some spoilery, some not safe for work - more images from Hostel 2 have turned up.

- Sony are to co-produce a whole new slate of films with Stephen Chow.

- Rachel McAdams lies about her age. Why? In a few years, it's only going to make it look like she's aging prematurely. Silly girl.

- Glen Kenny quite liked Bouelverd de la Morte. Best of all, he's quite clear on how it differs from Death Proof.

- There are more No Country For Old Men clips out there. Gotta catch 'em all.

Three More No Country For Old Men Stills

Cinempire have a new gallery of stills from No Country For Old Men - see them below. They also posted one image of those cheeky Freres Coens on set.

The two images I turned up previously (see the first, see the second) were somewhat more dramatic, don't you think?

The Coens: Out With The Old, In With The New?

No Country For Old Men is to premiere at Cannes; Burn Before Reading - and my best info maintains Before, not After - will start shooting in the late summer; A Serious Man is scheduled to start filming afterwards.

Both Serious and Burn are financed in the same two-picture deal between Focus and Working Title.

So what happened to Hail Caesar! and Suburbicon? Are they gone forever? And what about their untitled comedy about the Itallian catwalk model? It's reasonable to speculate that A Serious Man is, in fact, one of these previously touted projects under a new name. Both of the named projects were definitely about serious men. But then again... there's been such a long break since the last original Coen script that a few may have stockpiled in the meantime.

My best info suggests that George Clooney's role in Burn is as an asassin while Brad Pitt's role is as a personal trainer. I'm still digging for more...

The Coens Go Beyond Final Cut

Well, congratulations to those Coen brothers - they seem to be getting just what they want with No Country for Old Men. According to Variety, the worldwide distribution plans for the film have shifted quite dramatically. You don't really need to know the details, just that this was done at the request of the Coens.

Essentially, the original plan was for the film to be released in August in the US. The brothers dissented, wanting a later release - and they got their way. Even though it meant a shuffle of paperwork, plans and presumably dollars between the film's distribution partners, Paramount Vantage and Miramax.

Most directors don't even battle for final cut; the famous few do; the Coens have gone beyond this and their wishes are governing the film's global distribution pattern. Of course, if it backfires financially, I dare say they'll be made scapegoats.

Sound And Vision In No Country For Old Men

On his official site, Carter Burwell has discussed the score to the new Coens film, No Country For Old Men, and posted two sample tracks and another still, as seen above. It's all splendid stuff.

Alongside his sample tracks A Jackpot and Blood Trail (End Titles), Burwell had this to say about the soundtrack:

The film is the quietest I've worked on. Often there is no sound but wind and boots on hard caliche or stocking feet on concrete. Then again there are shootouts involving an unknown number of shooters with shotguns and automatic weapons. It was unclear for a while what kind of score could possibly accompany this film without intruding on this raw quiet. I spoke with the Coens about either an all-percussion score or a melange of sustained tones which would blend in with the sound effects. We went the latter route.

The all-percussion score sounds like fun, and I look forward to doing it sometime, but it is such a cliche to have drums accompany "action" that this sound immediately pulled the film back into familiar territory. The sustained tones, however, kept the film unsettled. Skip Lievsay, the sound editor, and I spoke early about these approaches and he sent me some examples of processed sound effects just as I sent him examples of tone compositions, mostly sine and sawtooth waves and singing bowls. When the film is mixed the effect will be that the music comes out of and sinks back into the sound effects in a hopefully subliminal manner.

The end titles of the film raised an interesting question: the entire film takes place without songs or identifiable score, so what could play over five minutes of end titles that wouldn't be self-conscious (like wind or sine waves) or intrusive (like a pop song)? I ended up writing a tune that features the only acoustic instruments in the score, but they take quite a while to appear. The first sounds are percussion but almost sound like sound effects. The next sounds are the sustained tones which are featured in the rest of the score. Only after two minutes of this do truly familiar instruments arrive - guitar and bass - which then play to the end along with the percussion. Hopefully this somehow works with the rest of the film, although we won't really know this until we mix the film, and maybe not until much later.

Burwell's site is really quite incredible and very much worth a visit.

This Year's Cannes 'Could Be' Roster

Ocean's 13, Earth and The Valley of Elah are reportedly battling it out for the opening night spot at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Earth is a feature length offshoot of the BBC's Planet Earth series (What?!? Is this a remix, deleted scenes or best of compilation? Sounds like it might be a bit of a swizz) and wouldn't have existed in this form at all if all that March of the Penguins ballyhoo hadn't happened, mark my words.

Other films expected to screen include Grind House, No Country for Old Men, Mr. Lonely, Into the Wild and Paranoid Park. At least two of those weren't directed by Harmony Korine, Sean Penn or Gus van Sant, so it's not all bad.

No news on Son of Rambow yet, but I'd love to see it in competition.

Return To No Country

Here's your second look at the Coen's next film, No Country for Old Men. This appears to be a behind-the scenes, snap, unlike the still I ran a few weeks back.

Carter Burwell For Free And A First Look At No Country For Old Men

Courtesy of Craig Clark, I found my way to Carter Burwell's website where you can download full tracks - sometimes an entire film's soundtrack - from his ouevre. As well as any number of Coen brothers films, this does include work on the upcoming The Hoax, as well as Fur, the daft Diane Arbus fantasia by Steven Shainberg.

This is truly a treasure trove; fill your iPod, be happy.

Though there is nothing there to listen to from No Country For Old Men, the next Coens picture, Burwell does announce that the score is being written now and will be recorded in February. He is also kind enough to include a still - possibly quite a spoilerish one. So, here it is...