Today’s Preview Update is featured below. Six new trailers. Easy A, Tales from Earthsea, Charlie St. Cloud (#2), Get Low (#2), The Green Hornet and Resident Evil: Afterlife.

EASY A

	Plot Summary: An innocent lie about losing her virginity makes one high schooler into a modern day Hester Prynne as she uses modern social media to boost her credibility. Release Date: September 17, 2010
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	Rating: A- Commentary: A terrific trailer, giving enough plot details to be interesting without going overboard on the gimmick. Don’t look at the synopsis as a sign of what to expect from this film, the trailer is much more agreeable.	Rating: B Commentary: It’s a fairly straight forward poster that doesn’t go too far overboard on the fluff or detail. Emma Stone’s facial expression sells most of the poster.
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: Not likely, but if it’s as good as it looks, I would not be at all unhappy about some consideration.

TALES FROM EARTHSEA

	Plot Summary: Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro sets off on his first animated adventure following a wizard and a young prince as they try to discover what is haunting his world and causing great disturbances. Release Date: August 13, 2010
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	Rating: C+ Commentary: It’s not a very daring trailer and highlighting Ponyo as one of two films from Studio Ghibli is not a wise move since that film was such a disappointment. The premise doesn’t sound that great and nothing in the trailer really drives me to see it.	Rating: None Commentary: I don’t review placeholders.
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: Although Miyazaki is a known quantity with the Academy, his son is not. Depending on whether critics embrace this film or not will determine its Oscar fate. As even critics managed to seek the underwhelming Ponyo.

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD, trailer #2

	Plot Summary: He promised his younger brother that he would play catch with him every day and teach him a great many things, but when the boy dies and his ghost insists Charlie continue their training sessions, Charlie’s guilt forces him to stay even when a beautiful girl enters his life and takes his breath away. Release Date: July 30, 2010
	Trailer	Previous
	Rating: C+ Commentary: Not worse than the previous trailer, but not that much better. The previous focused on drama while this one focuses on hope. It’s a subtle distinction for me, but to the target audience, it may help drive up attendance.	Previous Preview: Charlie St. Cloud
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview

GET LOW, trailer #2

	Plot Summary: Wanting to find out what people really think about him, an aging recluse hires a mortuary to stage a living wake where he will tell his life story and put to rest all of the rumors and quandaries held by the surrounding community. Release Date: July 30, 2010
	Trailer	Previous
	Rating: C+ Commentary: The trailer isn’t much better, just slightly transformed by more scenes. It’s the same silly plot with a few critics notices trying to get people to think it’s better than it probably is. Previous Preview: Get Low	Rating: C Commentary: Thematically, it just doesn’t seem to fit. There’s nothing symbolic of funerals or self-exploration, just a pair of actors in a field of wheat doing nothing of terrible importance.
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview

THE GREEN HORNET

	Plot Summary: After his father is murdered, a millionaire playboy joins his father’s closest confidant in a scheme to get close to the murderers by posing as criminals. Release Date: January 14, 2011
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	Rating: C Commentary: I wondered while watching this when I would get to see something cool. Everything in the trailer is carefully planned to look cool without actually being cool. It’s not likely to be a very good movie considering its January berth, but we could end up surprised.	Rating: None Commentary: I don’t review placeholders.
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: I don’t really see any element of this film as being Oscar caliber.

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE

	Plot Summary: The mutating virus of the first three films has ravaged the world and Alice, the series’ protagonist, further attempts to unite the survivors and find a safe refuge from the vicious undead creatures the virus has created. Release Date: September 10, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Rating: D+; C- Commentary: The first trailer is all about the thrills, carefully avoiding any details that might hint at the film’s plot, but it does make a big deal about the newest technology for 3D while showing several scenes that just show what kind of gimmick the technology is. The second trailer actually gives more information about the plot and, up until the last couple of minutes, looks less like a time-waster with buckets of blood and violence in 3D.	Rating: C- Commentary: You get what you pay for and this is exactly the kind of poster that will appeal to exactly the demographic that the producers want and pretty much turn off everyone else in the process.
	Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: None.