When you woke up this morning, you probably said to yourself, “you know? I think I really want to watch a superhero movie about a car.” Welp, your dreams have come true thanks to Wanted’s Timur Blackmambatov and directers Alexandr Voitinsky and Dmitriy Kiselev.  The $8 million dollar movie comes to us courtesy of Mother Russia and though I don’t understand what’s going on since it’s in the native tongue, I do have the foggy notion that it seems to be a sweet mashup between Transformers and Spider-Man, can you dig it? [via]

It seems that Mel Gibson, who hasn’t acted in a movie in seven years, couldn’t be bothered to perfect his Boston accent.  Not that I’m complaining, because it’s a mercurial thing, the boston accent, something most native Bostonians spend a lifetime running away from.  Well, the educated anyways. 

This thriller, where Gibson sees his daughter murdered on the steps of his home and that MacGuffin leads to shady corporate coverups, looks like standard material.  But I’m interested!

Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale) directs the movie, which is a remake of the very highly regarded UK mini-series from 1985 – also directed by Martin Campbell.

Goddamn, if I didn’t shed a tear with Randy Newman singing over the montage of Andy growing up.  Men of a certain age and time have been there when the difficult decision to put away childish things comes, and yet, we hold on to toys and action figures and recycle our memories into sugar-coated summer movies in the hopes of feeling a fleeting moment of happiness that we felt then.

It’s obvious this one, written by Oscar-winner Michael Arndt, is aiming for the themes of homelessness and abandonment and finding a place in the world as it prepares to leave you behind.

Thomas Jane making his directorial debut with what looks to be a fairly creepy, fun movie.  It’s going straight to DVD, which means you can look for it on torrent sites within the next few months.

Geek Tyrants said it, “hearkens back to classic Twilight Zone and film noir elements, rides the dark edge of comedy, and feels like an old DC Comic book that you can reach in to… and often times it feels like it will grab you right back.”

It feels so right to have Disney making classic 2D cell animated films again.  [via]

Warner Bros. debuted the first teaser for their reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which will star Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach from Watchmen) as Freddy Krueger.

It’s going to be pretty difficult to top the original, but at the very least I’m excited for a few scares and to watch Haley’s take on the iconic character made famous by Robert Englund.

Englund made the character both scary and a demon worth rooting for. Whenever I watched one of those movies, I would inevitably cheer on Kreuger to gruesomely murder those stupid high school characters. Let’s see of Haley can do the same or something totally different.

A Nightmare on Elm Street scares its way into your dreams April 30, 2010.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you watch a trailer and think to yourself, “holy shit this movie exists and some ass-clown of a studio executive decided to green light it.”

They are calling it “the new Blair Witch.”  Whatever that means.  I suppose the difference between then and now is that over the ensuing decade nobody is going to believe this is real footage; however, that doesn’t make this look any less scary.

Ah, the Kristen Bell promise from me to you.  Sometimes it’s great and um, sometimes I have to post on trailers like this.  Still, I think Bell is one of the more underrated comedic actresses going, even if I am worried she’s going to end up trudging the same desert sand as Sandra Bullock.

Slashfilm has premiered the trailer for Jason Reitman’s new flick Up in the Air.  It premiered at Telluride to positively rapturous reviews.

It boasts an impressive cast: George Clooney plays a professional downsizer, flying from city to city, accumulating frequent-flier miles, and firing employees the bosses are too scared to fire themselves. On his way to a million miles, he makes a connection with a fellow traveler played by Vera Farmiga. Their relationship is threatened when Clooney’s job falls in jeopardy. 

Also making appearances are Jason Bateman (previously paired with Reitman in Juno), Danny McBride and Zack Galifianakis.

The teaser doesn’t give much away, but features a very Tyler Durdon-y speech from Clooney.

A new documentary on William S. Burroughs is in production and the trailer looks pretty great. Titled “A Man Within,” the film is directed by Yony Leyser and features a cornucopia of his collaborators, including: Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, V. Vale, Anne Waldman, James Grauerholz, Genesis P-Orridge, and David Cronenberg. Peter Weller narrates and Sonic Youth composed the soundtrack.

Disney has just debuted the second full-length theatrical trailer for The Princess and the Frog, their return to both hand-drawn animation and classic princess fairy tales.  Truth be told, I want this movie to succeed way more than I have an interest in watching it.  But it feels like if this movie succeeds then tradition 2D, hand-drawn animation will be in vogue again and if it fails we may have to rely on Japan’s animation industry for that fix.

Always curious by anything Rachel Weisz does, but I’m not sure about this one.  Visually, it’s quite striking.  Otherwise, the new movie from director Alejandro Amenábar (The Sea Inside, The Others, and Open Your Eyes), looks like a tough pill. 

Historical movies like this, are always a tough sell, especially when no one in the movie seems Egyptian.  Regardless, Weisz plays the Atheist female philosopher Hypathia trying to preserve her culture’s wisdom during a time when Christianity was on the rise in the Egyptian Empire.  Of course, there’s a love triangle too, as these movies often do.