Awesome Trailers

The music sounds awfully familiar, and the CGI isn’t up to Avatar standards, but we’re still impressed with this concept trailer for Alex Popov’s sci-fi action flick, which he says cost just $150 to make.

A strange sensation pulls ordinary people from their lives, convincing them the city they live is actually some sort of a maze, and that they must escape, searching every day for the EXIT.

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) does his best to offend the Arab world – and everyone else – with his latest outlandishly stereotypical character, based loosely on Saddam Hussein. Still, it looks pretty funny.

Can’t get enough of the zombie genre? Keep an eye out for this film by airsoft gun maker Airsoft GI and CGI studio Northern Five Entertainment. It’s bound to be an ad, but at least it’ll be fun to watch.

It’s been 10 years since the last MIB, but we’re stoked for Agents K and J to get back on the job, saving Earth from all manner of crazy aliens, and cracking us up along the way. Out May 2012.

Inspiration can come from anywhere, but you don’t necessarily have to admit where it came from. Otherwise, this not-Transformers has enough eye candy to be a good renter or Netflix filler.

Big Lazy Robot’s short film Keloid looks promising just based on its AI-focused premise. It doesn’t hurt to realize that this trailer contains no live footage and is composed entirely of CGI either.

The fate of the Hollywood adaptation of BioShock isn’t clear yet, but even if it doesn’t air fans of the franchise can still look forward to Jared Pelletier’s indie production, slated for summer 2013.

As the year comes to an end, let’s review the year in film, courtesy of supercut master hatinhand, who notes that amongst all the blockbusters was a yearful of weird, wild and wonderful movie-making.

Aeon Flux gets pissed off when she hears that a vampire’s teenage wife is more beautiful than her, so she hires Thor to kill the kid. A surprisingly intriguing re-telling of the fairy tale.

The new trailer reveals way more of the incredible environments, spacecrafts, and creature animations from Andrew Stanton’s (Finding Nemo/Wall-E) first live-action film. Oh, and is Led Zeppelin from Mars?

A 5-part web mini-series in the vein of 60s spy movies – stylish, sexy and action packed – but with the hyperbolic humor of the 21st century. A must see. Watch the first episode here.

Jason Statham plays a former ____ who somehow ends up rescuing a ____, pissing off the ____ in the process. Gunfight, car chase, 600 dead, killer lines, kissing scene, roll credits.

Amanda Seyfriend stars as a woman who is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her has returned when her sister disappears, and sets out to face her abductor, in Heitor Dhalia’s Gone.

Two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) play estranged father and son in this adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir. Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy).

Pixar outs the first full-length trailer for its upcoming Brave, the story of Merida, a young archer whose impulsive ways bring chaos to her parent’s kindgom. A surprising new style for Pixar.

The first trailer for the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi novel The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class) plays the heroine, teen-turned-gladiator Katniss Everdeen.

The class of ’99 is back and ready to get all that grown man sh*t out of the way for a taste of the old reckless high school life. It’s not just the boys who are ready to party: MILF! MILF! MILF!

(NSFW: Language) This trailer basically walks us through the whole movie. But no one’s going to see this for the story anyway. We hope there are more fights and jokes than what’s here though.

Germany meets The Walking Dead in this upcoming zombie web-series from director Moritz Mohr. Even if there’s no subtitles, quality zombie kills are the international language.

Sure, we get some new Muppets later this month, but the UK gets Mongrels for a second season. This warped, adults-only “multispecies” puppet show needs to find its way to the US. Now.

When a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, the facility’s house-sitter must carefully move the hidden criminal there to another secure location in Daniel Espinosa’s Safe House.

(NSFW: Language) A take-off of the classic Fox TV series. We don’t know how anyone could look at Channing Tatum and believe that he’s a high school student, but whatever. It could still be funny.