Warner Brothers drop teasers for THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

Warner Brothers has started the marketing cycle for their upcoming fourth Matrix movie, The Matrix Resurrections.

They've revamped the OG 1999 Matrix website, What is the Matrix?, and it now offers you a choice of red and blue pills. The pills take you to different teaser clips where a voice creepily identifies what time it is for you.

The Matrix Resurrections seemingly picks up twenty-odd years after the events of The Matrix Revolutions, which ended in a truce between the human rebels and the machine AIs after they joined forces to defeat Agent Smith, but something strange has clearly happened in the interim. Old characters are back, but with new names and limited or no memory of what happened to them the first time around. Some characters also seem to be back in new bodies, or with new faces. Early previews have hinted at a much stranger (and probably even more divisive) film than the soulless cash-in many were expecting.

A full trailer is expected on Thursday. The film itself will be released on 22 December this year in cinemas and, in the United States, on HBO Max.

The film sees the return of Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Lambert Wilson, Daniel Bernhardt and Jada Pinkett Smith from the original trilogy, with new casting additions including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Yu Li Henwick, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt and Christina Ricci. The film is directed by Lana Wachowski (who co-directed the original trilogy) and co-written by Lana Wachowski with David Mitchell (yes, that one) and Aleksandar Hemon.

New DUNE film gets yet another teaser for its trailer

The first full-length trailer for Denis Villeneuve's new film version of Dune drops tomorrow. Having already given us a taste of the trailer (via a cinema-only teaser airing alongside Tenet), they've now given us a second teaser for the trailer in the form of Paul Atreidets (Timothee Chalamet) voicing the infamous Litany Against Fear.

All very impressive, with what appears to be Hans Zimmer's score crashing over the title card. But I think we're ready for the main trailer tomorrow, and the film itself which (pandemic permitting) will drop on 18 December.

DUNE trailer to be released on 9 September

A new Dune teaser attached to screenings of Tenet has confirmed that the first full trailer for the film will be released on 9 September.

The teaser - because trailers for trailers remain a thing - depicts the sequence from early in the story where the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) forces Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) to undergo a test using a pain box and her Gom Jabbar (a poison-coated needle). There are establishing shots of the vast deserts of Arrakis, a glimpse of an ornithopter (with actually beating wings!) and shots of key characters Duke Let Atreides (Oscar Issac), Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), Stilgar (Javier Bardem), Chani (Zendaya), Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard), Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin), Dr. Wellington Yueh (Chang Cheng), Dr. Liet-Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), the Beast Rabban (Dave Bautista) and Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa).

For some reason, the teaser has not been officially released online yet. The full trailer, hopefully, will be next week.

Dune is currently scheduled to open in cinemas worldwide on 18 December.

Trailer for the STAR WARS: SOLO trailer

Because we can't just have the trailer any more, Lucasfilm have released a trailer for the first trailer for Star Wars: Solo, their spin-off prequel movie about the young adventures of Han Solo.

Looks okay. We'll find out more tomorrow, apparently, when we get the full trailer.

Obsidian begins pre-announcing PILLARS OF ETERNITY II

Teasing announcements or pre-announcing things before announcing them or just plain announcing the announcement all seem to be the new thing, slightly tiresomely. The latest company getting in on the act is Obsidian Entertainment, who have begun pre-announcing Pillars of Eternity II, the sequel to their highly successful, Kickstarted 2015 computer roleplaying game.

Obsidian confirmed that Pillars of Eternity II was in development shortly after the game and it's two-part expansion, The White March, were released. However, that didn't officially constitute an announcement. They've now teased the game with a quote from the character Eder and some secret symbols in the game's fictional language. Sigh.

Pillars of Eternity II will, I strongly suspect, be an isometric, old-skool RPG like its predecessor. It's unknown if this game will be crowdfunded or not at this time. Their last game, the excellent Tyranny, was funded by a publisher, Paradox, so it'll be interesting to see which way they go this time.

I got about 20 hours into Pillars of Eternity (about halfway through the game) before I got a bit bored of it. I need to get back and finish it off. Unfortunately, the game suffered from being described as a "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate but featured inferior combat and a less-interesting story, both a problem when it's very easy to just go and play the updated version of Baldur's Gate instead. Tyranny showed more originality and flair, so hopefully Pillars II will be closer to that level of quality than the first game.

Trailer for the WARCRAFT trailer

Blizzard and Legendary have released a trailer for the WarCraft movie trailer.

The full trailer (trailer) will be released on Friday, but you'll have to wait until 10 June 2016 for the full movie (not a trailer).

A new movie poster has also been released. Intriguingly, most versions of the poster call the film just WarCraft, but the UK poster calls it WarCraft: The Beginning. Whether that's just a tagline or a hint the film's title may be changed is unclear at present.

Trailer for GAME OF THRONES trailer released

HBO has released a trailer for their first trailer for Game of Thrones's fourth season, which will be shown on Sunday. The trailer that is, not the actual fourth season, which will start on 6 April.

Next year I expect HBO will release a trailer for the trailer of the trailer of Game of Thrones's fifth season.