It’s a bit difficult to judge what tone Contraband is going for from this trailer, as it seems to suggest it’s both a dark, gritty thriller and a nice jolly heist-type film. Either way, Giovanni Ribisi appears to be chewing scenery spectacularly. Mark Wahlberg plays Chris Farraday, who long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best – running contraband – to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target. The film’s due out March 16th, 2012.

The trailers for movies that are hoping for a major awards runs are starting to arrive, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is certainly one of those, with Stephen Daldry directing Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in this 9/11 themed story. 11-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father (Hanks), who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey – an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity, who are all survivors in their own ways. It’ll be in UK cinemas on February 3rd, 2012. Click below for the trailer, while the new poster is above.

It would appear that no moment of Paranormal Activity’s Katie went undocumented, as Paranormal Activity 3 takes us back to her childhood and shows that things were screwed up for her long before the first film, with a poltergeist causing hell for her and her family when she was kid. Now a new trailer has arrived, which to be honest does make it seem the franchise may be teetering on the edge of ridiculousness, but it’ll probably make shed loads of cash anyway. Catfish’s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are directing this one, and it’ll be in cinemas on October 21st.

The trailer for New Year’s Eve really doesn’t care whether you think any of the storylines look fun, it’s purely about trying to cram in as many famous faces as humanly possible – and seeing as the film has an enviable cast list, there’s plenty of people to cram in. So take a look below and see if you can spot Ashton Kutcher, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Carla Gugino, Jessica Biel, Sofia Vergara, Alyssa Milano, Lea Michele, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, Halley Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sienna Miller, Julie Andrew, Jon Bon Jovi, John Lithgow and more. The set-up of the film is similar to its predecessor, Valentine’s Day, but this time set on New Year’s Eve, with the lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwining over the course of the day. The film’s due out on December 9th.

It must be a strange life being a puppeteer, especially if you’re Kevin Clash – a man whose face is almost completely unknown but whose voice and be-Muppeted arm are adored by children across the globe as Elmo. Now there’s a documentary all about Clash, tracing his journey from being a slightly Jim Henson obsessed teen making his own puppets, to his life now travelling the world with his little red chum. The film won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and has been lauded at various other festival screenings. Hopefully we’ll all get to see it soon, but click below for the trailer.

During the years Don Coscarelli was trying to put together a sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep, Paul Giamatti was said to all ready to star in it. However when that didn’t pan out, Giamatti signed on for Coscarelli’s John Dies At The End instead, which as this trailer shows, is going to be a rather strange sci-fi trip. Here’s the slighly odd synopsis, but click below to get a real feel for the flick: ‘It’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can’t.’ The movie should be out sometime next year.