I meant to bring you this new UK trailer and the accompanying poster for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen way back on Valentine’s Day, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle. That I just got a ticket to a sneak preview jogged my memory, so I’m sharing them with you now.  Call me crazy, but as jaded and cynical as I consider myself to be, I have high hopes for this one. (Plus it's filmed partly in Scotland…with kilts…)

What this film has going for it is director Lasse Hallström. His films are almost always a quirky look at the human condition (My Life As  A Dog, Once Around, Cider House Rules) full of a lot of heart and he can even do all-out romance like Chocolate. (I’m not going to discuss Dear John). This film also has two charismatic leads in Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor (even if they are overly photoshopped in the posters). The supporting cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas (speaking English again. LOVE her reaction to the kilts!), Rachel Stirling (who appeared with Blunt in The Young Victoria) and Amr Waked as the visionary Sheikh who sets everything in motion. While technically a “romantic comedy”, it’s not your standard “rom-com”.  It’s of the kinder, gentler variety.

As I said this poster and trailer are aimed at the UK market and yet we, here in the US, get the film nearly a month and a half before they do on 20^th April.   I’ve seen nothing here and it opens in a little more than two weeks, on March 9.  What gives?  (I think I have to stop believing that the folks who make the decisions about how to market a film are inherently smarter than I am. Why would I assume that given how many times I’ve been left scratching my head this year alone? Pffft…)

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trailer from Yahoo

"Hey Fastbanger! My eyes are up here!"

"Just keep smiling and don't make me kick your ass again."

"You could try. I quite enjoyed it the last time. Especially the bit with your thighs wrapped around my head…'Oh the shark bites…with his teeth dear'…"

Your daily Fassbender today includes pics from the Haywire photocall held today February 15 at the Grand Hyatt in Berlin as part of the 62nd Berlinale. Haywire is screening out of competition at the festival but Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, director Steven Soderbergh and of course, star Gina Carano all came out in support of their film.

I have to say, these are the best pics I've seen of Carano. She certainly looks good in "the dress" (a reference to a line in the movie), even if she can't act her way out of a paper bag. Enjoy the pics!

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We have the first image from Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch starring James McAvoy and Mark Strong. The story follows an ex-criminal (Strong) who is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives a dogged detective (McAvoy) one last chance to catch the man he’s always been after. It opens in September in the UK. No US date yet. You'd better believe I'll be keeping an eye on this one! (Thanks to ScreenDaily for the pic.)

We’ve got two new images from The Hunger Games! One of them shows Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman  with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and if I didn’t know that was Stanley Tucci, I would never guess. That is some wig.  The ‘interviewer’ or emcee of The Games, apparently Caesar is famous for changing the color of his lips, hair, and eyelids for each of the Hunger Games.  The other images shows Katniss in the crowd in District 12 at “the reaping” which is when participants in The Games are chosen.

Here’s a new look at Channing Tatum-tot and Academy*cough*Award*choke*nominee*pounds head on keyboard* Jonah Hill from 21 Jump Street. Dressed in their prom tuxes amid debris and hiding behind bullet-riddled furniture, I’m guessing they won’t be getting the deposit on the hotel room back.

Still not sure how I feel about The Five Year Engagement but the leads are pretty damn likeable. Emily Blunt and Jason Segel might be nearly as charming as Jason Segel and Amy Adams were in The Muppets. Hmm…I’m sensing a pattern here.

…But then again, Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor were charming together in the trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Here’s a new look at the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) from The Pirates! Band of Misfits coming in March. The trailers for this are hilarious. Hopefully it will be available in 2D as well as the dreaded 3.

And finally, last (and certainly least) here’s another look at the master thespians of The Three Stooges, Will Sasso as Curley, Chris Diamantopolous as Moe and Sean Hayes as Larry. The movie’s out in April, though inexplicably not on the 1^st.

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Your daily Fassbender, doesn’t unfortunately include and ‘golf’ *cough* shots, but it does include a new image from Haywire plus  footage of that fight that we’ve been seeing in all of the clips and trailers for the film. You know the one, where former MMA fighter Gina Carano, who plays Mallory Kane, beats the living crap out of Michael Fassbender’s Paul. At least we can see how it was done so we know no Fassys were hurt in the process.

Haywire, an action thriller about a black ops soldier seeking revenge after being compromised during a mission, stars Carano, Fassbender, Ewan “My Heart is in the Highlands” McGregor *, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Bill Paxton. Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") directed. It finally opens for all the world to see this Friday January 20. See it or Gina Carano will find you and kick your ass.

*another Golden Globes reference. I’ll forever hear McGregor’s name that way after hearing Christopher Plummer say it.

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Didn’t I just say that there has been so much material released for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire that if you strung it all together, you’d have the whole thing? Well, apparently this is the goal since Relativity has just released (via Hulu) the first five minutes of the movie. Take a look, then we’ll discuss.

Somehow I'm less broken up about the idea of Gina Carano (or any women) beating the stuffins out of Channing Tatum-tot than I was about her doing damage to Michael Fassbender. (In fact I suspect that Tatum's wife, Jenna Dewan, could take him in a fight.) While I think the first part of the fight shown in this clip, coming as it does in the first few minutes of the movie, is designed specifically to elicit gasps and shock viewers at the sight of Tatum tossing Carano around the diner like a rag-doll, it's important that she turn the tables on him pretty quickly to get the audience back on track and not focused on the apparent abuse of a woman.

The other thing that struck me as I watched that clip: the section with the dialogue was like watching a high school play starring Bad and Worse. I had heard that Carano, for all of her impressive physicality, was the weak link in terms of dramatics. This leads me to believe there is truth to that. I'll save my final verdict until I've seen the whole thing, but it looks to me like her timing stinks and her line readings are amateurish.

Oh well, I still want to see the movie. I have to give props Mssrs Tatum and Fassbender for signing on for a film in which they are both beaten to a pulp (and worse) by a girl. Apparently a lot of other actors said no. 

Haywire, starring Carano, Tatum, Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and Michael Angarano, opens January 20th everywhere. That’s still over a week away. Lord knows what else we’ll have in the meantime. Here's a few pics of the LA Premiere. Sorry, Fassy was a no-show. I must say Carano can "wear the dress" and I have to applaud Ewan McGregor's fashion choices. He's never afraid to take a risk. Oh look, there's Ryan Kavanaugh with Gene Simmons. Yeah that makes sense. 

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Well, at least that’s what his character, Paul, claims in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire. And of course he's referring to something other than what you were probably thinking. There’s another great clip from the film coming your way, this one called “The Motive is Money” and it features Ewan McGregor trying to talk Fassy into “doing” Gina Carano’s Mallory.

I’m starting to think that if one were to string together all of the clips and trailers Relativity has released for this film, you’d have the damn film. Either they’ve lost confidence in their product (Gee, that’s never happened before, she said sarcastically referencing Machine Gun Preacher) or they’re just so damn excited they can’t wait for you to see it. (Yes, that was sarcasm again. It’s Tuesday and I’m on my first cup of coffee.) In any case, here's your daily Fassbender. Because I care.

You probably know the synopsis by now: Beautiful freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a  goes awry Mallory finds she has been double crossed and needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.

Haywire (finally) opens January 20 in the US and Canada and two days earlier on 18^th January in the UK.

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