Now this is rather cool, in order to make sure no film in history has been hyped as much as James Cameron’s Avatar, a rather cool new interactive trailer has been launched through the official movie site, which allows you to download a special app that takes you into an interactive trailer. The way it works is that once the application has installed and launched, it plays the trailer, before pausing at various points and offering hotspots that you can click on. This then takes you into featurettes about various characters and offering behind-the-scenes info about the movie, as well as offering plenty of new footage. The application with also show you the latest Avatar Twitter updates and various other bits and pieces. It’s certainly something a little different, so if you want to check it out, head over to http://www.avatarmovie.com/air/ and install the interactive trailer application. It’s a shame we can’t just embed it below, but it’s worth downloading and taking a look nevertheless.

Although Michael Cera has had a lot of success in the past couple of years, his quiet nerd schtick is in danger of getting a bit old, and so he seems to be deliberately trying to play with it in Youth In Revolt. In the film he starts out as his Juno-esque bumling quiet guy who’s fed up with being unlucky in love, and so creates a rebellious alter-ego called Francois, who’s more dangerous and able to get the girls. However his new persona starts to run out of control, getting him into all sorts of trouble. The Miguel Arteta directed film also stars Justin Long, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi and Ray Liotta, and is due in cinemas in the UK early next year.

If ever a film looked like it was hoping for awards success, it’s this one. James McAvoy plays Valentin, the new secretary of legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (of War and Peace fame), who gets more than he bargained for with his new job, as the aging Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) has pretty much created his own religion, that includes vows of poverty and celibacy. His wife (Helen Mirren) isn’t particularly impressed by this, especially as she comes to believe Tolstoy may have signed a new will leaving his novels to the Russian people, rather than his family. The film, from director Michael Hoffman, may not sound that exciting, but the trailer makes it look like it may actually be a lot of fun, and more humourous than you’d expect. If nothing else, it’s got an incredible cast. The film arrives in the UK on February 19th, 2010.

Family Guy’s first Star Wars parody, Blue Harvest, was a massive success, scoring huge ratings on its first airing in the US and becoming one of the bestselling DVDs of the year in both the US and UK. Now Seth McFarlane’s done it again with Something, Something, Something Dark Side, which takes on the story of The Empire Strikes Back in Family Guy’s own inimitable style. The special episode is out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on December 28th, but click below to take a look at the hilarious trailer for this new Family Guy Star Wars treat.

With Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones premiering in London yesterday, and the film due for a limited Oscar-qualifying run in the US on December 11th (although it’s not getting a full US release until early January, and won’t arrive in the UK until January 29th) a new poster and the first two clips from the film have been released. You can click below to see the new clips, taken from the story of a girl who gets murdered and then narrates the search for her killer from heaven. There’s also a new poster, which you can see a larger version of if you click on the image to the left.

Although some of this 2.5 minute clip will be familiar to anyone who watched the Avatar Day footage, it does feature plenty of new shots to look at, with Sam Worthington’s Na’Vi Avatar being chased by a viscious looking creature (apparently called a Thanator) on the alien world of Pandora and running for his life. If nothing else, it suggest James Cameron’s movie is going to be quite a visual feast, and that the CG is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen before. Anyway, take a look at the clip below and see whether it gets you more excited about the film or not. Avatar is in UK cinemas on December 17th. (Clip courtesy of IGN.com)