Warner Bros. Animation has shared the very first trailer for the forthcoming Batman movie Batman: The Killing Joke.
The animated featured-length is based on the highly controversial and highly acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. It explores Batman’s twisted relationship with the Joker, providing the origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime and focussing on the Joker’s shooting of Commissioner Gordon’s daughter Barbara.
It stars Kevin Conroy, Ray Wise, Mark Hamill and Tara Strong. A release date has yet to be announced.
Rihanna just released her video for ANTI highlight "Needed Me," a gift she's bestowing on the internet "just because it's 4/20." It's the third single she's released from the album to date — "Work" and "Kiss It Better" came first — and the video was directed by Harmony Korine, the director best known for 2013's lurid Florida fantasy Spring Breakers. (He's also directed videos for Cat Powerand Sonic Youth.) She teased the video on Twitterand Instagram early this morning, and the NSFW label definitely applies here — there's plenty of nudity and violence crammed into three minutes.
"Needed Me" really does feel like something of a Spring Breakers sequel, one that happens to feature one of the biggest pop stars on the planet (sorry, Selena Gomez): it's full of mask-wearing gunmen, motorcycles ripping through shabby neighborhoods, and dimly lit strip club scenes. Rihanna's clearly in charge, whether she's strutting through the club with a pistol like she owns the place or lounging around a beachfront condo in some kind of sheer gown. She heads into the back room and takes down her adversary with a few shots to the head, and it's a chilling, bloody scene. "Work" is still riding high on top of the Billboard charts, but "Needed Me" is one of the best songs on ANTI, and this video might be compelling enough to help Rihanna take her own place at the Hot 100's peak.
We might know what Benedict Cumberbatchlooks like as the character, but how does he act as Doctor Strange with all the mystery and magic surrounding him? Now is the first chance to sort of find out as the teaser trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange has arrived, though it concentrates on Strange before he assumes his true powers.
You may well know the story by now, but just in case... Talented, arrogant New York surgeon Stephen Strange's world is rocked when he's badly hurt in a car accident. Looking to help regain his skills, he turns to an unusual mystic and healer known as The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Chiwetel Ejiofor is fellow sorcery student (and potential future rival) Baron Mordo, while Rachel McAdams as another New York-based medic who serves as Strange’s main connection back to humanity. And then there's Mads Mikkelsen as the still-unknown villain of this first outing.
We're promised a lot of weirdness for this one that the trailer only hints at, since Strange's experience expands to encompass various dimensions (including the Quantum Realm first glimpsed in Ant-Man's climactic scenes) and director Scott Derrickson plans to make full use of 3D to bring it all to life. That's for the film itself, though; for now enjoy Cumberbatch standing with his back to us (it's something of a habit) contemplating the Window of Worlds on the poster for the movie.
Doctor Strange will hit UK cinemas on October 28 before arriving in the US on November 4.
Last time Rihanna shared a video, she dominated headlines for a while to come. Her last visual for the Drake collaboration "Work" helped solidify the popularity of the song and the album it belongs to, Anti. Now, she's turning her attention to her next reigning Anti record for yet another revealing, NSFW-leaning video. This time around, the soon-to-be-remixed track "Kiss It Better" receives its own vignette. The track itself is expected to be pushed as one of Rihanna's next major singles, so expect this video to rack up millions of views. Initially previewed and teased earlier in the week, the video for "Kiss It Better" is available for viewing above.
The film tells the story of ‘peculiar children’, endowed with special and unusual powers and abilities who live under the watchful eye of Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), a shape-shifting matriarch who can turn into a bird at will. Speaking to Empire, Burton told us that Miss Peregrine is a “weird Mary Poppins like character - a strong and mysterious person who looks like she could turn into a bird. That’s Eva.”
This two-and-a-half-minute trailer gives us a good idea of some of the peculiarities we can expect, which includes invisibility, flight, strength, and in the case of one memorable child, jagged monster-like teeth in the back of her head.
Having been in the works since 2010, Seth Rogen’s long-awaited Sausage Party is finally set to make its way to theaters. Screened at SXSW last night and on tap for a wide release last this summer, the R-rated CG animated movie — the first ever — pokes fun at the likes of Disney and Pixar and stars Rogen as a sausage named Frank who leads “a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.”
Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon and written by Rogen along with Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir, Sausage Party — whose star-studded cast includes Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton and Salma Hayek — is due out August 12.
It's easy for Marvel trailers to just look like more fighting, but this week's new look atCaptain America: Civil War does a good job of making it seem like all that fighting is really about something. It's one of the best Marvel trailers in a while — and it all leads up to the tease of a long-awaited character at the end. The movie comes out on May 6th.
Game of Thrones
There's little over a month to go until Game of Thrones starts up again, and this week HBO finally started dishing out some of its footage. This is a pretty wonderful trailer that forgoes the epic violence that could be included in favor of a worried, mournful — and, later, intense — look at where the show's many characters are going. Season six begins on April 24th.
Kubo and the Two Strings
Laika, the studio behind Coraline and The Boxtrolls, is back with another unreasonably gorgeous stop-motion animated film. Kubo and the Two Strings is trying to be a charming, magical adventure, and it each trailer makes it look like Laika could just pull it off. The movie comes out on August 19th.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays an eccentric socialite and terrible singer in Florence Foster Jenkins, a wry take on the life of a famously bad American performer. It's directed by Stephen Frears, who made The Queen, and co-stars Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg. It's out in the UK on May 6th; it's not clear if there's a US release date yet, but it's been picked up for distribution.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Here's what happens when The Lonely Island make a film. Popstar has tons of comedians and cameos and is just generally about Andy Samberg doing ridiculous things (the trailer has brief nudity, by the way). There is a very good chance that you will enjoy this trailer exactly as much as you enjoy The Lonely Island's music. The film is out on June 3rd.
A Hologram for the King
A Hologram for the King, the Dave Eggers book, is a strange, energetic, almost-Kafkaesque story about a man, totally lost in Saudi Arabia, on an impossible quest to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. A Hologram for the King, the movie, is maybe none of that except for the Saudi Arabia bit. If the book's character is in there, it's all covered up by some of the cheesiest voiceover you've seen on a trailer in years, trying to pitch us on a totally normal feel-good Tom Hanks movie. Let's hope there's more to it. The movie comes out on April 22nd.
Vice Principals
It's been a few years since Eastbound & Down, and now Danny McBride is returning to HBO in another wild and likely offensive form. Vice Principals has McBride and Walton Goggins co-starring as petty, immature men fighting for the top position at a high school. The series starts up in July.
The Adderall Diaries
I have no doubt that A24 (the distributor behind Spring Breakers, Ex Machina, and Room) has good taste, but I'm getting the impression that it's really good at making trailers, too. An international trailer for the The Adderall Diaries was put out by another distributor last week, and it made the whole thing look like a cheesy, low-budget drama. This week, we have A24's version, which makes the movie look like it could be an unsettling thriller. James Franco stars. It's out in the US on April 15th.
Our Little Sister
After playing at Cannes and opening in Japan last year, Our Little Sister is headed to the UK and on demand. The film is supposed to be a beautifully shot portrait of three women and their younger, estranged half-sister, which is all pretty clear within an instant of opening this trailer. It's out April 15th.
The Trust
You never know which side of Nicolas Cage you're going to get in any given Nicolas Cage movie, but take my word that The Trust has the exact side you've been looking for. The film has him playing a cop who's trying to pull off a heist, and Cage seems to be hitting that perfect mix of serious and goofy that's always fun to watch. Also, Elijah Wood plays his partner. It's out on May 13th
The Ranch
Just remember, this is how Netflix actually makes its money.
