This is your first look at Emily Blunt in Rian Johnson’s Looper. Not often do we see the genteel Ms. Blunt doing anything as boorish and barbarian as wielding a shotgun (wearing a flannel shirt no less).

We also have a couple of new looks at Joseph Gordon-Levitt. From what he told us in one of last week’s teasers, it took more than three hours in a makeup chair every morning to get Gordon-Levitt to resemble a younger version of Bruce Willis. Kinda creepy.

Time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper”—a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)—is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good. . . until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.

Looper is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Garrett Dillahunt and Jeff Daniels.

The film is set for release in the US and the UK on September 28. I can’t wait.

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The Five-Year Engagement, which represents a reteaming of star Jason Segel and director Nicholas Stoller, opens this Friday here in the US after opening the Tribeca Film Festival last week.  Segel and Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) again wrote the script, as they did with The Muppets.

We have a great new red-band trailer to share with you, courtesy of Funny or Die.

Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. The film was written by Segel and Stoller. 

Segel and Emily Blunt, who do seem to have a sweet chemistry, play Tom and Violet, with a supporting cast that includes Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom).

The Five-Year Engagement opens in the US this Friday, April 27, but not until 22nd June in the UK. Enjoy the vaguely NSFW trailer (use headphones and you'll be fine):

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The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off in New York last night with a red carpet premiere for The Five Year Engagement. The happy couple Emily Blunt and Jason Segel were there along with costars Alison Brie, Kevin Hart and Dakota Johnson (Does she look like her mother Melanie Griffith or what?).  Also in attendance were some other New York-type peeps like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Andrew McCarthy and of course, the founder of the festival, Robert De Niro.

In addition to some pics, we have a couple of clips from the red carpet with Blunt and Segel, although not together. (Despite how much they praise each other in these vids, I couldn’t find one pic of them posing together. What’s up with that?)

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producers Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.

The film stars, in addition to Blunt, Segel, Brie and Johnson, Rhys Ifans, Kevin Hart, Mindy Kaling, Chris Parnell, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer and Jacki Weaver. It opens in the US on April 27, but not until 22^nd June in the UK. Enjoy the pics and clips!

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I’ve been waiting for a trailer for Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister since we first told you about it back in January. The film was a hit at its TIFF world premiere last fall and at Sundance where it received a standing ovation, but still left without distribution. I’m pleased to announce that IFC Films has picked it up.

It stars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel’s Getting Married) who reportedly replaced Rachel Weisz after she dropped out due to ‘scheduling conflicts’.

The film tells the tale of Iris (Blunt) who invites her friend Jack (Mark Duplass-one half of the directing team of the Duplass brothers, and the director’s husband) to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother (and Iris’ ex.) At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah (DeWitt), Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

Your Sister’s Sister is slated to open the Seattle International Film Festival at the end of May and will get a limited US release on June 15 and 29^th June in the UK.

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We have lot of goodies to share from Nick Stoller’s The Five Year Engagement, which has been picked to open The Tribeca Film Festival next week.. The romantic comedy, which stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, will kick off the festival, which runs from April 18-29, just a little over a week before the film's April 27 opening. To celebrate, we have new pics, tow funny new clips and a behind-the-scenes B-roll!

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. The film was written by Segel and Stoller. 

The Five Year Engagement charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple's relationship. Romantic comedies in general work or don't based on the chemistry of the leads, regardless of what situation a film contrives for them. Segel and Blunt do seem to have a sweet chemistry. It also, at first blush, appears to be a little less cliched than some examples of the genre.

This first clip tries to turn one such cliched theme on its head:

The second clip hints at why Brie and Pratt are so popular on their respective tv sitcoms:

The B-roll is longer than most clips but, if you're at all like me, you'll find this behind-the-scenes stuff fascinating.

The film stars, in addition to Blunt, Segel,  Brie and Pratt, Rhys Ifans, Kevin Hart, Mindy Kaling, Chris Parnell, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer, Jacki Weaver and Dakota Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith). It opens in the US on April 27, but not until22nd June in the UK. Enjoy the pics and clips!

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Hey, I didn’t say it! The writer/director of Looper, Rian Johnson (via Jeff Daniels) did!

Ok folks, it’s here at last, what we’ve been building up to all week, the official full-length teaser trailer for  Looper. By this time you’re probably at least vaguely familiar with the concept. Admittedly it’s a pretty nifty and mind-bending concept that we’re asked to wrap our heads around. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hired killer who works for the ‘mob of the future’ who recognizes one of his targets as his future self. 

Time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper”—a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)—is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good. . . until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.

Looper is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Garrett Dillahunt and Jeff Daniels.

(Rian Johnson by the way, directed a fantastic little neo-noir called Brick with JGL, but also The Brothers Bloom which I loved! Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo. If you haven't seen it, remedy that!)

Looper, meanwhile,  has been creating buzz since its announcement last year.  Johnson screened the teaser trailer at WonderCon a couple of weeks ago where the audience apparently went bonkers for it. The premise is good. I’m looking forward to seeing more! It opens in the US and the UK on September 28.

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Well, you made it to Hump Day, so you get to see the third of the three "vignettes" from Rian Johnson's Looper!  

As promised last week when we brought you the first look and the first poster for this time travel/action film,  the three vignettes have now all been released successively this week; all leading up to the release of the actual trailer tomorrow, Thursday April 12. (You can see Monday’s here and Tuesday’s here.)

There is a little bit more footage, as this one’s a little bit longer than the first two, and the footage is intercut with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Rian Johnson discussing the transformation process to turn JGL into Bruce Willis as a younger man.

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.

Looper will be released in the US and the UK on September 28.

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As promised, here’s the second of three "vignettes" from Rian Johnson's Looper!   As we told you last week when we brought you the first look and the first poster for this time travel/action film,  the three vignettes will be released successively this week all leading up to the release of the trailer on Thursday April 12. (You can see yesterday’s here.)

Each clip will be introduced by Johnson and his star Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  Again, it’s just fifty seconds worth of footage, even though they cram a lot into that small space. You know how I feel about trailers for trailers, but since we know so little about Looper, I’m relaxing my policy. One question though, despite the fact that he is a very talented actor, is it me or does Joseph Gordon Levitt always look stoned?

Looper will be released September 28 in the UK, Canada and the US. We'll be back tomorrow with more!

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