Previous trailers for Life Of Pi have concentrated on the epic visual and lush feel on Ang Lee’s movie, but now one has arrived which actually gives us more of a look at the plot – although it still all looks pretty incredible. The film is based on Yan Martel’s Booker Prize winning book about Pi Patel (played by newcomer Suraj Sharma) who, after a shipwreck, shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan (although we’ve only seen a tiger in the footage seen so far). The potential Oscar-bait movie is currently due out December 21st.

The Details certainly has a good cast, with Tobey Maguire in the lead (who replaced the originally cast James McAvoy), joined by Ray Liotta, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Line, Kerry Washington, Sam Trammell and Dennis Haysbert. Maguire and Banks play a couple whose marriage starts disintegrating when raccoons start burrowing in their garden. Yes, that’s right, this is a movie about the trauma of raccoons. Apparently the animal pests set off a chain of events that ends up with infidelity and murder! The film arrives in the US on November 2nd, but no UK release is set yet.

42 tells the true story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie stars Harrison Ford as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (The Express) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the colour line in the big leagues. The film is due out next spring.

Ever since Twilight, studios have been looking to create their own young adult supernatural franchises. One of those arriving soon in Beautiful Creatures, based on Kami Garcia’s novel. Beautiful Creatures is set in the US South and is about two star-crossed teenage lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a local boy, and a mysterious new girl, Lena (Alice Englert), who uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. Beautiful Creatures is the first of a five book series, so the studio will be hoping the movie is a success so they can line up some sequels. It hits cinemas early next year.

Nature Calls stars Patton Oswalt as Randy, a boy scout trooper leader who is disgusted with the way that kids these days don’t like to go out into the woods, make campfires or set up camps. Conversely, his brother Kirk (Johnny Knoxville) is a dad who doesn’t care if his kids want to go outdoors. With Randy unable to take it anymore, he forms a plan to ‘borrow’ all of the children at Kirk’s son’s sleepover and take them for a camping trip in the woods. This, of course, leads Kirk to gather his friends and go hunt his brother down. The movie hits US cinemas on November 9th, but no UK release is currently set.

Gambit has been in the works for a long time, with the Coen Brothers intially thinking of directing this remake of a 1960s Shirley Maclaine and Micheal Caine movie. However after delays due to financing, they handed the directing reigns to Michael Hoffman, although Joel and Ethan did provide the script. Now we have the trailer, which gives us out first taste of the movie.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Private art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) devises a finely-crafted scheme to con England’s richest man and avid art collector, Lionel Shabandar, (Alan Rickman) into purchasing a fake Monet painting. In order to bait his buyer, he recruits a Texas rodeo queen (Cameron Diaz) to cross the pond and pose as a woman whose grandfather liberated the painting at the end of WWII.

‘BAFTA award winner Sir Tom Courtenay, Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci and Academy Award© winner and veteran comedienne Cloris Leachman round out the cast.’ The movie hits UK cinemas on November 21st.