The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part II Trailer - Commence Your Bitching, Internet

Years from now, we'll look back at the Twilight phenomenon.

Will the first question our children ask be "Why was this a big deal?" or "Why were people so vitriolic against it?" Fads come and go. We shake our heads and laugh at what we were so religious towards for a few brief years. Young and old, male and female, we've all been into crap.

It's the hatred to Twilight and its fans (or "Twihards") that baffles. What's the big deal little girls (You know, the target audience) are into it? They've always been into soap opera romances and that non-sense. Nothing new. "Bella Swanson is a horrible person and a terrible role-model for little girls?" Oh shut the Hell up. She's not real!

Hey if we're gonna play that game then Batman is a horrible role model for little boys. Guy witnesses his parents' murder and instead of going into therapy he dresses up like a black bat and beats up criminals at night. Even gets another, much-younger orphan involved! Ah, double standards!

I'll shut up now and tell you the trailer for the Twilight finale Breaking Dawn - Part II is online courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. Is it any good? Not really. For the "epic finale," it didn't grab me as particularly epic. But again... I'm not the demo they're going for, and that's fine. Girls will like it.

Don't rain on their parade, let them enjoy:

There Are Four Monsters University Teasers - Don't Ask Why

Pixar is braving into new territory; the dreaded prequel.

There might be feelings of reassurances from X-Men: First Class and Rise of the Apes (and let's go ahead and include Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom for continuity's sake). Those, however, are the exceptions to the rule. Filling in the back-story blanks tends to do more damage than good. But... this is Pixar we're talking about. Cars 2 notwithstanding, have they really let us down before (Don't start with the revisionist history on A Bug's Life!)?

We'll find out next June with Monsters University, the prequel to 2001's beloved Monsters, Inc. taking Mike and Sully (Billy Crystal and John Goodman) back to their college days. No, I didn’t know monsters had to have college degrees to terrorize your kids either.

Disney has released four teasers (via Disney, Huffington Post, iTunes, and Yahoo! Movies) attached to Brave this weekend. Excessive if you ask me (Come on, fellas, just pick one and avoid this hit-whoring, attention-grabbing bullshit). Follow the links above if you actually want to spot the differences in all four. Below is just one. Because we value your time, good reader:

First Look at Angelina Jolie as Maleficent

When Disney announced Angelina Jolie was playing the title role in Maleficent, the "true story" of Sleeping Beauty playing the sympathy-card on the iconic villainess, what was there to argue? One might tire of that sub-genre within a genre (the revisionist fairy-tale). But the casting was aces.

Jolie always had an exotic look to her and she's been known for her eccentricities over the years (That blurry-line between sibling-love and incest with her brother, writing then-hubby Billy-Bob Thornton's name on a tee-shirt in her own blood, adopting kids by the truck-load with Brad Pitt, etc.) It was never hard to visualize her sporting the black dress and horns.

This morning, the studio has provided the world a first-look at her in character, and she looks exactly how you thought she would.

The Dark Knight Rises Has a Fourth Trailer You Didn't Really Need

The last trailer for The Dark Knight Rises had a brilliance to how it eloquently sold the action, scope and finality to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. That was it, we all thought. From here on out, until its July 20th opening, the only new footage we'll get a glimpse of will be from various TV spots and official press clips to tide us.

Nope.

This morning comes a fourth trailer. There are new tidbits, some extensions of what we saw from the afore-mentioned television ads, and it still leaves the overall plot a mystery (At this point, I feel like we could guess what happens and not be too far off the mark). It's OK. Just unnecessary after the note of the last trailer left us on.

The Master Trailer #2 Gives First Look at Hoffman & Adams

"I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am...a man. Hopefully inquisitive man. Just like you."

The first trailer for PTA's The Master centered on an unrecognizable Joaquin Phoenix as drifter Freddie Quell, implied to be on the mentally-unstable side. Not a "traditional" trailer per say, that's what made it so good.

PTA and the Weinstein Company continue that trend with the second trailer giving us a first-look at Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the L. Ron Hubbard-like Lancaster Dodd and Amy Adams as his wife Mary Sue. If they opt to keep the trailers in this fashion and forgo presenting the narrative (Letting us discover that for ourselves when it opens on October 12), what is there to complain about as long as they stay this good?

Zimmer Composing Man of Steel

Variety just released an article saying Hans Zimmer will be scoring Zack Snyder's Man of Steel next year. Zimmer was rumored to be doing the score last year and debunked those rumors himself.

It's an interesting choice to say the least. While Zimmer's previous work seemed to fit perfectly into the world of Nolan's Batman, Superman seems to be at the opposite end of the musical spectrum. One thing to keep in mind is that this isn't the exact Superman we are familiar with either. Not much is known in the story of the new Clark Kent, but it seems clear that this is going to be something fresh for the character.

At this point I'm very interested and hope Zimmer is able to be even more creative and give us something huge and heroic that doesn't try to outdo John Williams' classic score, but fits well with this new identity for Superman.

Dark Knight Rises Promotional Posters

A few new posters for The Dark Knight Rises popped up online today and they aren't very pretty. These are very likely to be used with places like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and other retailers in the sections aimed towards kids. It would be a sad bit of information to find out these are being used to promote the movie in theatres. The one of Batman punching at the viewer is pretty bad, just look at the unfinished look to the cape between his legs. Sad. Bane is jacked up on something a little extra that we haven't seen yet as well. I do like the one above of The Bat though!

New TDKR tv spot

A new tv spot for The Dark Knight Rises has been released through the movie's official Facebook page. This one seems to be the most action oriented spot yet. Lots of stuff blowing up, cars flipping, and some nice shots of Batman and Bane duking it out. There is one quick shot near the end that is sure to be one of the most iconic images of this trilogy.

Weekend Box Office: June 15-17

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - $35.5 million

2.  Prometheus - $20.2 million

3.  Rock of Ages - $15 million

4.  Snow White and the Huntsman - $13.8 million

5.  That's My Boy - $13 million

6.  Men in Black 3 - $10 million

7.  The Avengers - $8.8 million

8.  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - $2.2 million

9.  Moonrise Kingdom - $2.1 million

10.  What to Expect When You're Expecting - $1.3 million

This is how bad this weekend's box office was: despite dropping a cringe-inducing 60% drop, Prometheus still blew away both of this weekend's new releases.  Ouch.

Kids' movies will generally win the box office - especially when there really aren't any other kids' movies around - so Madagascar 3 easily held on to top spot with an estimated $35.5 million.  With schools starting to let out for the summer, the animated threequel has also enjoyed a healthy box office run during the week, so its domestic total now stands at $120.4 million, with an addtional $157 million coming in from overseas markets.

The aforementioned Prometheus came in second again, this time with an estimated $20 million.  The sort-of Alien prequel has earned $88 million domestically, and $128.6 million overseas.  Whether it's any closer to the sequel some of us might like to see (I would), that remains to be seen. 

Rock of Ages, based on the far-superior Broadway musical, fell flat this weekend with almost sad $15 million.  Anyone hoping this would hold its own like Mamma Mia! did in 2008 - that managed an impressive $27.8 million and opened as the same weekend as The Dark Knight - are sure to be disappointed, as it seems this one is already a box-office dud, although it might find a second life once it hits DVD.

That's My Boy did so badly it could barely compete with the third weekend of Snow White and the Huntsman, landing in fifth place with an awful $13 million.  Hell, even Adam Sandler's Jack & Jill opened better than that back in November with $25 million.  That's just sad...although the movie did look dreadful.  Snow White, in the meantime, has earned an estimated $13.8 million to bring its domestic total to $122.6 million.  Not bad, but not all that great either.

Still in limited release, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom had the strongest performance per theater this weekend, earning an average $12,253 at its 178 locations.  The film has earned $6.7 million.

Pixar returns next weekend with Brave, their first girl-centered feature.  Also opening theaters is the big-screen adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the Steve Carell's apocalyptic comedy, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

Jonah Hill Cast in Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

With a release date scheduled for Christmas Day this year as well as filming having begun well over six months ago, it's surprising to hear casting is still going on for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

Deadline reports funnyman / dramatic actor Jonah Hill (Moneyball, 21 Jump Street) has joined the film in an unspecified role.  If you recall, Hill was originally up for the role of Scotty Harmony, the kid who loses freed slave Django's wife, Broomhilda, to the both evil and charming plantation owner, Calvin Candie.

Django Unchained tells the story of a slave-turned-bounty hunter, Django (Jamie Foxx) who - with the help of a former dentist, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) - goes on the hunt to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from the aforementioned evil plantation owner (to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio).

Hill has been on quite the roll since scoring an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in last year's Moneyball.  21 Jump Street (which he both starred in and co-wrote) was a hit earlier this year, grossing more than $100 million, while he also recently joined the cast of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf on Wall Street, with DiCaprio as well.  He also has the alien invasion comedy, The Watch, coming out next month with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.

More news on the film as it becomes available.

Source: Deadline