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Movie trailer round-up: ‘Wreck-It Ralph’, ‘Flight’ & Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes what looks to be the next best video game movie in recent memory following Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Wreck-It Ralph brings together the voices of John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, and Sarah Silverman to tell a story about a video game villain who wants to turn good. Here’s a nice brief synopsis for you:

Wreck-It Ralph (voice of Reilly) longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix (voice of McBrayer). Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes… so when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun (voice of Lynch), Ralph sees it as his ticket to heroism and happiness. He sneaks into the game with a simple plan—win a medal—but soon wrecks everything, and accidently unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens every game in the arcade. Ralph’s only hope? Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Silverman), a young troublemaking “glitch” from a candy-coated cart racing game who might just be the one to teach Ralph what it means to be a Good Guy. But will he realize he is good enough to become a hero before it’s “Game Over” for the entire arcade?

The animated, ingenious tale is directed by Rich Moore who previously worked on cartoons The Simpsons and Futurama. Watch the teaser trailer above and I guarantee you’ll be hooked. If that support group scene featuring classic video game baddies such as Doctor Robotnik and Bowser from the Sonic and Mario franchises, respectively, doesn’t brighten your day…

Wreck-It Ralph is out November 2.

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A flight from Sydney to Los Angeles…

Travel site Kayak.com is offering what at first glance looks like standard one-way flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California.  If you are a Lost fan those particular locations should ring a bell.  If you look further into the flight details, more Lost clues come to the surface.  The airline?  Oceanic Airlines.  Take-off date?  September 22.  Airfare?  $4,815.16.  Taxes and fees?  $23.42.  Flight duration?  10 hours, 8 minutes.  Clearly the site is playing with the Lost numbers that are key to the show’s mythology: 4 8 15 15 23 42 and 108, as well as other show factoids: The Losties crashed on September 22, 2004, on an Oceanic Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles.  So what’s really going on here?

Obviously the people at Kayak.com are Lost fans and couldn’t resist the urge to offer up this flight in anticipation of the final season.  When you actually go to buy a ticket for this flight, the site redirects you to the Lostpedia website, specifically to the Oceanic Flight 815 page.  After some digging, Slashfilm traced it all back to BoingBoing and the Twitter account of a staff writer.  When asked about this easter egg, a Kayak PR rep responded “It’s a mystery,” with a smiley face emoticon.

[Via CNET; HolyKaw]