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This weeks previews were all over the place in terms of genre and release dates. I’m going to put them all in one post vs. devoting separate posts to each… Here’s a quick summary of each with the current release date [we all know they change them at will, so these could be wrong next week for all I know...].

Jump to read about College, Clone Wars, Quarantine, The next Mummy and Death Race…

College - Release date: Aug 29, 2008
A Superbad-esque romp of a movie about 3 highschool seniors who go on a college visit and are recruited by the rowdiest frat house on campus as prospective freshmen. Ready for the best weekend of their lives, they’re put throw numerous humiliations as part of the initiation process, but in return, they’re introduced to the college party scene – and to the ladies… The frat boys don’t like the attention the guys get and blackmail them by threatening to expose their age to the girls… so the guys have to come up with a cunning plan for revenge. Could be funny… could be terrible. View the trailer here: College Trailer

Clone Wars – Release Date: Aug 15, 2008
This is an animated movie which is apparently the beginning of a new series on Cartoon Network in the fall. Now it makes sense. Watching the trailer for it I kept asking myself, “what the hell is the point of this?” Lucas lost me with how he handled the latest Star Wars trilogy, so this isn’t my bag, but for those who are more die-hard Star Wars fans, this could be pretty cool… As far as I’m concerned the only true Star Wars trilogy is the original. I’m an Empire Strikes Back girl, all the way. Trailer is here: Clone War Trailers … I couldn’t get the official site to work for me, but if you want to check it out, it’s here: Clone Wars Official Site

Quarantine – Release Date: Oct 10, 2008
This looked pretty scary. My hubs actually said, “All right!” when it was done – but he loves the horror. lol… Quarantine follows a local news crew, who’s assignment is to spend the night at a firehouse, when they go along for a 911 call to an apartment building. They get there and hear blood-curdling screams and find a woman who’s been ‘infected’ by some unknown illness. The building is locked up and put under quarantine, leaving the news crew and journalist inside. When all is said and done, the only evidence of what happened inside is the film crew’s video tapes. This one might be too scary for me [because I'm a wimp], but it looks pretty decent for horror fans. It reminded me a little of Resident Evil, on a much smaller scale. It was tough to tell for sure, but it looks like a new twist on a zombie flick. View the trailer here: SonyPictures.com

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – Release Date: Aug 1, 2008
The Mummy movies aren’t for everyone. They’re goofy, but we love them, and this next one looks really good. The fact that Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are in it gives it a credibility it may not have had before. My only concern is Maria Bello replacing Rachael Weisz’s ‘Edie’… The story picks up 10 years later in the far East as the O’Connell boys – Rick, and son Alex – “unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin – a shape-shifting entity cursed by a wizard centuries ago” according to IMDb. I know we’ll go to see it, so I’ll let you know how Rob Cohen does at the helm of this one. Trailer is here:  Rob Cohen’s The Mummy Trailer

Death Race – Release Date: Aug 22, 2008
We’re Jason Statham fans [I think me moreso than my hubs], so I’m pretty sure we’ll go to see Death Race. It’s your basic violent action flick with hotties and fast cars. I’m surprised to see the likes of Joan Allen in this type of movie – it makes me wonder if there’s more to it than a just a shadey revenge story. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the guy behind all the Resident Evil movies, Death Race is the story of Ex-con Jensen Ames [Statham] and how he ends up in jail, is forced by the warden [Joan Allen] to drive in a televised death race that takes place over 3 days, as participating inmates brutalize and kill one another. The winner is the last man standing at the end, and he gets his freedom back. The whole thing takes place in the not-too-distant future, so it has a bit of a Mad Max feel to it. Here’s the trailer: Death Race Official Site