The offi­cial trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has been released and promises a swash­buck­ling adven­ture with everyone’s favorite pirate Jack Spar­row. Sorry, Cap­tain Jack Spar­row, of course. The fourth install­ment of the pop­u­lar fran­chise will con­tinue where it left off with At World’s End: Cap­tain Jack Spar­row is out to find the fab­u­lous Foun­tain of Youth.

A mys­te­ri­ous woman from Jack’s past (Pené­lope Cruz) and the infa­mous pirate Black­beard (Ian McShane) are also look­ing for the Foun­tain of Youth, as well as Bar­bossa (Geof­frey Rush). Throw mer­maids and zom­bies into the fray and it promises lots of enter­tain­ing moments. Also, Keith Richards will reprise his role as Cap­tain Teague, Jack’s father. Oh, and did I men­tion that Cruz’ char­ac­ter is actu­ally Blackbeard’s daughter?

If you’d rather opt for glo­ri­ous quick­time, head over to Apple’s trailer site. The film will hit the­aters on May 20th, 2011. If you can’t wait until then, you may want to check out the real inspi­ra­tion behind the movie – On Stranger Tides by Tim Pow­ers. Obvi­ously, they changed a lot but in the script but that’ll be as close as you can pos­si­bly get.

Alright now, the first trailer for the Green Lantern movie has landed. Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jor­dan, aka Green Lantern, in this film about one of the might­i­est super­heroes in the DC Uni­verse. Well, first things first – here’s the trailer (if you’d rather enjoy it in glo­ri­ous Quick­time, head over to Apple):

The trailer looks def­i­nitely more science-fiction-oriented than other super­hero movies. Oh, and the trailer starts with a funny line. Every­thing starts get­ting more inter­est­ing when he meets the alien Abin Sur. When Abin hands over his ring to Jor­dan, the adven­ture starts. The visual effects are well done except for Reynolds Green Lantern suit. I seri­ously hope it’ll look bet­ter when the film hits the movie the­aters next year. Any­way, there’s no men­tion of Par­al­lax in the trailer who is listed at IMDB as the supervil­lain the Green Lantern has to bat­tle to save Earth.

Green Lantern is due to be released on 17 June 2011.

Activi­sion plans to dis­trib­ute feature-length game cutscenes as game-based movies within the next five years. Accord­ing to Eurogamer Activi­sion boss Bobby Kotick made this pre­dic­tion at the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Enter­tain­ment Con­fer­ence in Cal­i­for­nia. Kotick referred to Star­Craft II’s hour-long cutscenes, of course.

“If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audi­ences – for whom we have their credit card infor­ma­tion and a direct rela­tion­ship – and say to them, ‘Would you like to have the Star­Craft movie?’… and say we have this great hour and a half of lin­ear video that we’d like to make avail­able to you at a $30 or $20 price point, you’d have the biggest open­ing week­end of any film ever,” Kotick said.

So, Activi­sion wants to cap­i­tal­ize on the rela­tion­ship it already has estab­lished with its cus­tomers. In other words, they want the cus­tomers to pay some $20 or $30 for ren­dered in-game cin­e­mat­ics they can watch in the game. I mean, what’s this dude smok­ing? I can watch three films in the movie the­ater or I can buy two new Blu-ray movies for 30 bucks.

How will Activi­sion deliver the movies? Kotick didn’t elab­o­rate on that but it sounds like it’s going to hap­pen via the Inter­net. Wait a moment! Didn’t Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment do some­thing sim­i­lar some time ago? Yes! There is some­thing on Ama­zon and other stores that’s called Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment DVD Col­lec­tion. It con­tains cutscenes from Star­craft, Dia­blo 2, and War­craft 3. Well, it already worked once but I’m sure Bliz­zard didn’t try to sell you this col­lec­tion for $30.

The Green Hor­net trailer is sweep­ing the blo­gos­phere as it has been made avail­able for pub­lic con­sump­tion. Slated for release in Jan­u­ary 2011 the film stars Seth Rogen as the title char­ac­ter and Jay Chou as his manser­vant Kato. The Green Hor­net will also fea­ture Cameron Diaz and Chrisoph Waltz. While I like Rogen he wouldn’t have been my first choice for this movie so I guess this should make it interesting.

Unfor­tu­nately, the trailer doesn’t look very remark­able. I had to laugh a bit though, so let’s hope for the best. I’m con­fi­dent Rogen will get the part of Britt Reid right but I’m not so sure about the other part. Well, we’ll have to wait until the movie is released, but until then, enjoy the trailer:

Iron Man 2 Movie Poster

Harry from Ain’t It Cool News says that Iron Man 2 kicks it up sev­eral notches across the board. Looks like they didn’t fuck up the sequel after all! This time around there’s a lot of stuff going on. Tony Stark is addicted to being Iron Man, his power source is slowly poi­son­ing him, Whiplash pops up from nowhere, Justin Ham­mer is intro­duced, Pep­per Potts gets more respon­si­bil­ity, and there’s your beau­ti­ful femme fatale – Black Widow.

All things con­sid­ered, Iron Man 2 offers lots of plots and sub-plots and some his­tory between Tony Stark and his father. Also, the actions seems to be well dosed – the Monaco scene from the trail­ers isn’t the best sequence. At least, that’s what Harry says. Accord­ing to him this film throws a chal­lenge to Thor, Cap­tain Amer­ica, and The Avengers. Oh, there’s another infor­ma­tion I man­aged to gleam from the com­ments: Stan Lee’s cameo in this movie is his briefest yet.

Of course, you don’t com­pletely trust one source. So, there’s a review up over at ComingSoon.net that essen­tially says the same thing. They give it 8 out of 10 points, mostly because of the high expec­ta­tions some peo­ple may have from the first movie. Well, I guess we just have to see Iron Man 2 for our­selves. Con­sid­er­ing the unique release pat­tern of the movie, visit the offi­cial movie site for infor­ma­tion on when the sequel hits the­aters in your country.

A few days ago, the sec­ond trailer for the Clash of the Titans remake appeared on the net. For the first trailer – which isn’t all that dif­fer­ent from the lat­est one – get to my first post about the remake. The lat­est trailer is a full minute longer and fea­tures a bunch of new scenes. Since the movie should hit the­aters today, I’ll try to watch it this week­end. If you liked the music, look for “The Bird and the Worm” by The Used.