New Gangster Squad Trailer Unloaded

Here's the new trailer for Gangster Squad, the upcoming L.A. noir starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena, Robert Patrick, and Emma Stone. Via Apple:

Gangster Squad opens January 11.

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Star Wars' AT-TE Walker is (Almost) a Reality

I'm still waiting for my own C-3PO to take my drink order, but in the meantime this is pretty cool: Boston Dynamics is developing the LS3 -- Legged Squad Support System -- which is a walking, four-legged robot that looks like it could be a smaller, prototype version of a Star Wars AT-TE walker.

The AT-TE (left) and the LS3 (right)

The device is being designed for military support and is capable of carrying 400-pound payloads so that troops don't have to shoulder that burden. World News Australia (via Blastr) reports that the "vision for LS3 is to combine the capabilities of a pack mule with the intelligence of a trained animal. … The LS3 is capable of tracking certain visual and oral commands and uses GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and computer vision to guide itself."

Check it out in action:

No word yet on when we're getting AT-ATs, though.

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Zombieland Director Revs Up Spy Hunter Movie

Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer will direct and exec produce Warner Bros.' film version of the classic Midway video game Spy Hunter.

The news comes as WB Interactive recently announced that Spy Hunter will hit PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS on October 9th.

Vulture reminds us that the project has been set-up at Warners since 2010 where Chad St. John had been hired to script an adaptation of Spy Hunter for producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee.

Spy Hunter languished in development hell for years when it was at Universal, where directors such as Paul W.S. Anderson and John Woo were involved at different points and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was attached to star.

The classic arcade driving game follows super-spy Alex Decker who, in his tricked-out G-6155 CIA Prototype Interceptor, must hunt down rogue agents and destroy as many enemy vehicles as possible while avoiding civilian casualties.

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Suicide Squad #12 Review

I've kept up with Suicide Squad since it launched last fall, the reasons for which I'm not entirely sure. Though this series has shown potential all along, too often the execution is dull and the character dynamics nowhere near as entertaining as they should be. Issue #12 finally reveals who the team's traitor is. Sadly, that isn't enough to revive my flagging interest in the team or the series.

The recent series of events that have propelled the book's plot is bizarre, to say the least. The team managed to crash land in Central America last issue and found themselves the guests of a Mayan tribe, a tribe that turned out to still be fond of human sacrifice. That bizarre feel continues in issue #12 as the Squad fight to escape and wind up hopping from the frying pan and into the fire. There's an almost slapstick quality to some of the events here, which doesn't mesh at all with the generally darker tone of the series. The reveal of Regulus also proves underwhelming. Much like Graves in Justice League, it's difficult to take a villain of this sort seriously when they look this ridiculous.

There were certain aspects of Adam Glass' character work that proved enjoyable. The Deadshot/Harley Quinn dynamic is fun, and at times these two seem to be the only characters that really matter to the series in the long-term. I enjoyed the fake-out Glass delivered regarding the traitor, and also the brief focus on Amanda Waller and her family life.  But these elements aren't enough to salvage a book that is generally ailing. The art quality has improved somewhat under Fernando Dagnino, but the general storytelling flow between panels needs a lot of work. On a more fundamental level, the book needs a refreshed team lineup and a new conflict to focus on. There's too much about the current direction that simply isn't working.

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Studio Moves Gangster Squad to January

Warner Bros. has shifted Gangster Squad from its original September 7 slot to January 11, 2013 in order to re-shoot and re-edit a key set-piece in the wake of last week's theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado.

The period film -- which stars Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin -- featured a bloody gangland shootout in a movie theater in which several patrons are gunned down. The filmmakers will now re-conceive and re-shoot the sequence, a move that could not have been done with just six weeks until its original release.

Warner Bros. pulled the movie's trailers from domestic theaters following Friday's tragedy.

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Warners Pulls Gangster Squad Trailer

Warner Bros. is pulling the trailer for its upcoming release Gangster Squad from theaters following today's shooting massacre in Colorado because the trailer features a sequence where gunmen open fire in a movie theater, killing audience members.

The trailer is playing before some prints of The Dark Knight Rises, another Warners movie and the film playing when the massacre occurred.

"A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. could not say whether the trailer will be re-cut to eliminate the offending footage," according to TheWrap. "Though the trailer had run prior to screenings of The Dark Knight Rises, it did not play before the Aurora screening."

The trailer remained widely available online at time of publish.

Gangster Squad is slated for release September 7, but it remains to be seen whether that will now be changed in light of today's tragedy.

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