Trailers: ‘Hysteria’, ‘Storage 24’, ‘Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days’
As usual, this summer season looks to be stuffed with massively hyped, massively budgeted blockbusters, from May’sThe Avengersto August’sThe Expendables 2. Whenever you tire of glossy, expensive explosions in IMAX 3D, however — and at some point you will — there are plenty of other smaller movies on the calendar that could be worth a look.
After the jump, we have trailers forMaggie GyllenhaalandHugh Dancy’s Victorian-era sex comedy (yes, really)Hysteria, Noel Clarke’s sci-fi thrillerStorage 24, and the latest installment of Fox’s kid-friendlyDiary of a Wimpy Kidfranchise,Dog Days. Watch after the jump.
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London, 1880. Mortimer Granville, a dedicated and forward-thinking young doctor, is struggling to establish his career. While Granville preaches sanitation and germ theory, the old guard of doctors clinging to leeches and hacksaws, scoff at his upstart ideas, and show him the door. Granville’s fortunes change when he arrives for an interview at the well-appointed private offices of Dr. Dalrymple, London’s leading specialist in women’s medicine.
This feels less like a genuine period piece and more like a contemporary comedy dressed up in 19th-century clothing, but it also looks fairly charming — and way more interesting than the actual modern-day romcomWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting, which hits on the same day (May 18).
Next up isStorage 24, a sci-fi horror fromFdirectorJohannes Roberts.
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London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?
It’s not the most original trailer I’ve ever seen, but there seem to be some decent scares and some likable performances if you’re in the mood for something tense. Unfortunately,Storage 24doesn’t seem to have a U.S. release lined up yet. If you’re in the U.K. or Ireland, though, you can catch it onJune 29.
Finally, here’sDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days:
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During his summer vacation, “Wimpy Kid” Greg Heffley, the hero of the phenomenally successful book series, hatches a plan to pretend he has a job at a ritzy country club — which fails to keep him away from the season’s dog days, including embarrassing mishaps at a public pool and a camping trip that goes horribly wrong.
Diary of a Wimpy Kidisn’t a series that gets talked about much in these circles, but it’s actually quite a successful kiddie franchise. The first two films have grossed $148 million worldwide on a budget of $36 million, andDog Daysis the third installment. I don’t think there’s much in here for adults, but I could think of worse ways to spend time with a pre-adolescent.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Dayshits, appropriately enough, in the dog days of summer —August 3, to be precise.
