The trailer for Wes Anderson’s upcoming The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou debuted on Yahoo! Movies earlier this week. The film’s so far minimal official site has gone up with better looking versions of that same trailer. It’s out in December, most likely in limited release.

Jason Schwartzman, from Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, stars in I Heart Huckabees, the new film from David O. Russell (Flirting With Disaster and Three Kings). Its trailer debuted at apple.com earlier this week. It opens in limited release on October 1st.

A weird teaser for I Heart Huckabee’s, the upcoming film from David O. Russell (Three Kings, Flirting With Disaster), starring Ms. Watts, Jude Law, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, and Jason Schwartzman. The site has a plot synopsis, and Empire Movies has a few pictures. It’s out in October.

Flirting With Disaster, along with Trainspotting and Cop Land (which I never saw), will all have new, special edition DVDs released in June, according to Davis DVD.

September 21. (There’s a press release on the official site.)

Yahoo! Movies has the exclusive on the Kill Bill Vol. 2 trailer. It’s a fun trailer, with its cheesy rear-projection and over-dramatic musical cues. It’s out April 16, against Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher, featuring Pulp Fiction’s John Travolta.

Speaking of Travolta, at the supermarket yesterday, the guy in front of me was set to purchase the DVD of Staying Alive (yes, at the supermarket) until the cashier explained to the guy that it wasn’t the same movie as Saturday Night Fever, but rather a shitty sequel, co-written and directed by Sylvester Stallone.

Stallone’s next project, according to the IMDb? Co-writing and directing Rampant Scandal, a film about the deaths of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Is that a fucking joke?

For those of you wondering what the hell the deal was with the bloody cleaver picture on EXITWOUND all week, here’s the scoop:

Last weekend (Friday through Sunday) I shot production stills for a student short film. Francis Choung (who some of you might know as the drummer/Korean of FMTM) was the director. I’m pretty sure he wrote it, too. It’s called Father’s Keeper.

Overall, the shoot was quite a learning experience. I think a lot of people take for granted the work involved in producing a film. It can require a staggering amount of time to block, light, rehearse, and film even a ten second shot. Furniture has to be moved, lights set up, things measured, mags changed, and who knows what the hell else was going on that I didn’t understand. The final cut of the short is to be between five and seven minutes, but it took forty hours to set up and film about seventy minutes of footage. Crazy.

It’s quite exhausting. And really, I didn’t do shit. I just stood around and took pictures, but I was fucking beat at the end of each day of shooting.

It was a lot of fun, though. I would definitely do it again.

Anyway, over the three day shoot, I took close to 1200 photos. About half of them were trashed for being either out of focus or shaky (a good amount of stuff from Day 1 was junked because I didn’t think I needed a tripod) (I was wrong, obviously). About half of the remainder were at least clear, but they weren’t all that interesting. And that left about 300 that were good to great.

I posted 120 of those for Francis to check out. Most of them need to have their white balances corrected and some of them need to be cropped (which I didn’t do because I just wanted to get them up), but otherwise they’re the best of the bunch. I won’t be posting any of them to XW proper, so this will be the only place to see them (unless they make their way into an eventual press kit).

Have a look.

…and speaking of Ferrell, he has a cameo in Todd Phillips’ upcoming Starsky & Hutch movie, the trailer of which also just debuted online. I never really watched the show, but the movie looks good. Vince Vaughn’s moustache is gold. Incidentally, Vaughn is in Anchorman, so it all comes full circle. [via AICN]

Update [Jan.23]: Apple now has multiple sizes of the trailer (and the WB watermark is gone, too).

A great new trailer for the upcoming Will Ferrell movie Anchorman is up at the film’s official site.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 has been delayed from February 20th until April 16th. The Kill Bill Vol. 1 DVD has also been delayed from February 3rd until April 13th. More info is at CHUD.

Recon SF Figure Collection — Colin Miller’s toy collection has some great stuff, like custom Three Kings figures, but what’s also interesting is the weird French Big Lebowski movie poster and, if I’m not mistaken, a stand-up cut-out of Larry Fishburne?

Spartan — at least there’s a trailer at this generic site for David Mamet’s next picture. (Isn’t it kind of uncreative to start a synopsis with “This is the story of”?)

Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Ed O’Neill, and frequent Mamet player William H. Macy star. What’s interesting is I don’t see Mamet’s wife, Rebecca Pidgeon, in the credits. She co-starred in Mamet’s last five movies.

Mamet’s most famous for writing Glengarry GlenRoss (he won a Pulitzer for the play), but he’s also directed some excellent films, like House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and most recently Heist, all three of which feature lots and lots of double- and triple-crossing.

For those who have Encore, The Directors: The Films Of David Mamet recently debuted and will be on quite a bit in the next few weeks.

Twisted (trailer) — Starring Ashley Judd, who has an almost Jeff Bridges-like box office losing streak (no offense to “The Dude”, but his movies don’t do well, The Big Lebowski included). Anyway, Twisted. It’s got Sam Jackson, Andy Garcia, and Leland Orser, who’s probably most famous for being the dude that was forced to be a part of the “lust” murder in Seven. It’s directed by Philip Kaufman, who did The Right Stuff and most recently Quills. Finally, it’s set in San Francisco. What’s interesting, or maybe sad, is that I was more interested in the locations featured in the trailer rather than what was going on.

I’m better off re-watching Vertigo.

The Dan Band — they played the wedding in Old School. They have a CD of the two songs they covered in the movie, plus one other (although at $7, the price is kind of steep). According to IMDb, the singer, Dan (if not the whole band), will do a Bat Mitzvah in Todd Phillips’ next film, Starsky & Hutch.

Clerks Cartoon Test Footage by Powerhouse Animation — nice Galactus head in the background.

The accompanying note says it was done primarily in Flash, which is interesting. I don’t know if there’s been a feature-length animated movie done in Flash. I doubt it’s 100% Flash. The blurring and smoke were probably done in something else.

Hopefully the movie’ll be better than the short-lived animated series. I saw both episodes that aired on ABC and I thought it was awful. I tried to get the DVD from Netflix but it got lost in the mail, so I took that as a sign that someone doesn’t want me to watch all of them.

Related: a good look at the upcoming Dogma InAction Figures (why is it in the “Apparel” section of the Previews site, and not in, say, the “Toys & Models” section?).

Kill Bill Figure Sneak Peak — a very nice sculpt of Ms. Thurman (and her shoes). I can’t wait to see what the rest look like.

Update [Dec.31]: Here’s a look at The Crazy 88s.

Update [Jan.07]: …and a prototype of Go Go.

The Ladykillers (trailer) — I thought that first shot of Hanks was John C. Reilly. Whoops. So this is the next Coen Bros. movie, a remake of a 50’s movie of the same name. It looks pretty funny. Marlon Wayans getting slapped around by an old lady equals box office gold.

What’s more interesting than the trailer itself, though, is that Yahoo! Movies provided a QuickTime version of it (although it’s kind of shitty). Still, it’s the thought that counts, I guess. But what’s strange is that the QT version is only available from that link, and not from the film’s trailers page.

Update: The film’s official site has a better QuickTime version of the trailer.

The Village (teaser) — M. Night Shyamalan’s next. I’m definitely not a fan of the man’s work. I was loving Signs until its dumb ending, which, to me, ruined everything prior. Looks like this one may or may not have some big twist ending, too (potentially HUGE spoiler at AICN, and more to the point at IMDb boards). There seems to be debate as to whether the script the ending came from is real or a fake. Either way. [via AICN]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (trailer) — I never even heard of this before. Design-wise, I think it’s incredible. The color, the type, the “sets”, and machinery all work together nicely. Writer/Director Kerry Conran’s IMDb bio is interesting. I think it’s safe to assume that the program in question was used for this picture.

Walter Murch: An Interview with the Editor of Cold Mountain — Murch talks about editing in general, and what it was like to edit Anthony Minghella’s $80 million picture using Final Cut Pro 3.

Related: Joel and Ethan Coen: Editing Intolerable Cruelty.

Move over Jackass. Now Amélie is inspiring mischief. [thanks jose]

The Big Bounce (trailer) — is “It’s Your Thing” by The Isley Bros. the Elmore Leonard theme song now?

Torque (trailer) — didn’t anybody learn anything from Biker Boyz?

The Chronicles Of Riddick (trailer) — looks kind of like a rich man’s Dune.

The Onion | Non-Widescreen Version Of DVD Received As Hanukkah Gift — one error worth correcting: on a film shot 2.35:1 (approx) like The Matrix Reloaded, 47% of the picture is lost by “pan & scan”, not 30%. Films shot at 1.85:1 (Bottle Rocket, for example) lose 30% of each frame.

AFI’s 2003 Movies of the Year — is there a second page that I’m not seeing, or is it just a coincidence that no movies starting with the letter N and beyond are listed? I like the “rationale” for Return Of The King. It’s even better if you imagine David Cross saying it in his D&D voice. [via Kottke]

Spider-Man 2 (teaser) — I hope that delivering trailers via Flash doesn’t become the norm. This one seems to have an annoying hiss running through it. (But at least it isn’t in Real or Windows Media.) Besides the technical issues, I think the movie is looking good. [Update Dec.17] Apple’s got a QuickTime version up now.

Garfield (teaser) — is that dog supposed to be Odie?

Taking Lives (trailer) — not sure what to make of this. It’s directed by D.J. Caruso, who did The Salton Sea, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Done Deal: Script and Pitch Sales [via Coudal]

Fight Club Game Coming To PS2

The Farrellys’ Double Vision

The Passion Of The Christ — the site for Mel Gibson’s controversial Jesus flick is online, with a teaser trailer. The trailer kind of makes it look like a Michael Bay picture.

Here’s one thing doesn’t make any fucking sense about The Matrix Revolutions: the little girl? Her “parents” are programs, right? How did they have her? Did they rock the casbah and nine months later the mother gave birth? If so, why would the machines write programs that could have children? Or have sex, for that matter?

I had a similar question regarding Reloaded: How did that French asshole make the orgasm pie? Did he write it on a computer and it somehow materialized? Or did he bake it?