It’s already October—never the best time for trailers, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t get a couple of glimpses at some good-looking pictures slated for early next year. There’s Kill Your Friends, an American Psycho/We Are Your Friends crossover, Race, a powerful biopic about Jesse James, and a final trailer for Brooklyn—which will be a major awards contender this year. Also joining this week’s lineup is a sneak peak at A Very Murray Christmas, a Christmas comedy film directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Bill Murray as himself. Weird stuff.
Kill Your Friends
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Genre: Comedy
Director: Owen Harris
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, James Corden
Release Date: N/A, but Nov. 6th in the U.K.
Nicholas Hoult, a riot in Mad Max earlier this year, is everywhere. His latest project, Kill Your Friends, sees him playing a bad boy working for a music company in the '90s Britpop scene. The trailer, which looks like a cross between We Are Your Friends (the word "friends" is right there in the title!) and American Psycho, looks entertaining enough, and features a crazy competitive Hoult going nuts on all his friends as he tries to make it to the top. Poor guy doesn’t realize that no one cares about Oasis anymore.
Brooklyn
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: John Crowley
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Following in the footsteps of Boyhood and Whiplash, Brooklyn looks like it will make its way from Sundance to the Oscars. Based on Colm Tóibín’s novel and starring the immensely talented Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn follows a young woman who leaves her home of Ireland for New York in the 1950s. Initially homesick, she soon comes to love the city, especially after she’s swept off her feet by a nice Italian boy, played by rising star Emory Cohen. When a tragedy takes her back to Ireland, everything she begins to question everything she knew about “home.” This latest trailer shows off Ronan’s acting chops, really nice period clothing, and Cohen’s really attractive face.
Race
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Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons
Release Date: February 19, 2016
It’s not even 2016 yet, but looking at the Race trailer it seems we have a newish actor to keep ours eyes on. After wowing in Selma as civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis, Stephan James now plays Olympic runner Jesse Owens in Race, a biopic that chronicles his rise to fame and his decision to play in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Despite the obvious too-on-the-nose title, it looks like a pretty decent film, even if it’s bizarre to see Jason Sudeikis taking on such a serious role as Owens’s coach.
Bleeding Heart
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Diane Bell
Stars: Jessica Biel, Zosia Mamet, Joe Anderson
Release Date: December 11, 2015
It’s not exactly the greatest likeness, but Jessica Biel and Zosia Mamet playing sisters in a movie is certainly a draw. In Bleeding Heart, Biel plays May, a yoga instructor who appears to have her life together. After finding her lost sister Shiva, who is a sex worker, May gets sucked into that dark world, which includes Shiva’s abusive boyfriend Cody. Although it’s not the most inspiring of premises, it looks entertaining enough, and it's a real chance to see Mamet do something outside of the Girls world.
A Very Murray Christmas
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Genre: Comedy
Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Bill Murray, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Paul Shaffer, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Rashida Jones, Jason Schwartzman, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph
Release Date: December 4th, 2015 to Netflix
For their second collaboration, Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray are doing something different. Coppola is directing and co-writing A Very Murray Christmas, a comedy film featuring a large, wonderful ensemble cast. Murray stars as Murray, who worries that people won’t show up to his TV show because of a huge snowstorm hitting New York. To his delight, a bunch of friends and arrive to the Carlyle Hotel—where all of this is going down—to dance, sing and have fun. It’s not anything you’d expect from Coppola, and we can’t speak of its quality, but this 30-second trailer promises some great moments from some of the best people in the biz.
