A couple of weeks ago the teaser trailer for Mr. Popper’s Penguins showed up online, and now an international version has arrived, which features nearly all new footage, to give us a fresh look at Jim Carrey trying to deal with a bunch of the seabirds descending into his life. Mr. Popper (Carrey) is a businessman whose life begind to change drastically when he inherits some penguins. As he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel. The film should reach the UK on August 5th, but click below for the international trailer.

While race is always a tricky issue to deal with – which is probably why Hollywood often handles it so badly, as you are potentially stepping into a minefield, so they tend to avoid anything even potentially difficult – The Help tackles it head-on, taking us to the American South in the 1960s, when every middle-class white woman had a black ‘help’, who was treated as barely a second class citizen. 

Based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel, here’s the official synopsis: ‘The Help stars Emma Stone (“Easy A”) as Skeeter, Academy Award®–nominated Viola Davis (“Doubt”) as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny—three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed—even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times.’

The movie is currently scheduled to hit the UK on October 28th, but click below to watch the new trailer, and we’ve also got three new stills from the movie you can take a gander at.

Will Ferrell deciding to make a Spanish-language movie always sounded like a strange proposition and to be honest that opinion is unlikely to be changed by the trailer for Casa De Mi Padre. The film, made in the overblown, melodramatic stlye of Latin American telenovelas, see Ferrell as Armando Alvarez, whoe has lived and worked on his father’s ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancé, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul’s success as an international businessman means the ranch’s troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul’s business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal). The film should hit cinemas mater this year.

Although it looks like the sort of movie that’s trying to hard, Carmel certainly has an interesting cast, with Lauren Bacall, Alfred Molina, Josh Hutcherson and Hayden Panettiere. The story follows a 17-year-old art prodigy abandoned by his drug-addicted mother in Carmel, a small town in northern California known internationally for its local artists. While trying to survive on his own, he is introduced to the high dollar underground world of art forgery. Click below to watch the trailer. The film should be released sometime this year.

If you’re expecting a sweet little adaptation of the fairy tale, prepare to be surprised, as this is something very different, and a trailer that makes Sleeping Beauty look like a very unusual film. It’s going to compete at Cannes, giving it some cachet, but what it Julia Leigh’s movie all about? Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.

Yep, that’s a little bit creepy. Click below for the trailer.

One of the more unusual, but potentially most pleasing, comic book adaptations of the year is Cowboys & Aliens, with Jon Favreau directing Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in the tale of a man with no memory (Craig), who stumbles into a wild west town, only to discovers that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). However Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by alien marauders from the sky. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation.

We’ve had a teaser before, but now the full trailer has arrived, so click below to take a look. The movie hits cinemas August 19th.