Trailers

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" premiered its official trailer today and, in 2 minutes and 21 seconds, it manages to hew to every preconceived notion we harbored about the movie (burnished images, John Williams musical uplift) while offering a measure of hope through star Daniel Day-Lewis that this could be something truly special. Just listening to Day-Lewis' Kentucky-tinged accent as he rails at his advisors that "blood's been spilled to afford us this moment ... now ... now ... now!"

Internet video giant YouTube has found itself drawn into a global drama being played out in violent Mideast protests over a 14-minute video trailer for "Innocence of Muslims," raising questions about the website's responsibilities as the Internet's preeminent distributor of video. The trailer has been blamed for inciting violence in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. Obama administration officials said Thursday that they have asked YouTube to review the video and determine whether it violates the site's terms of service, according to people close to the situation but not authorized to comment.

One ran a low-profile Christian charity from a sleepy suburb east of Los Angeles. The other was a financially strapped gas station operator just out of federal prison. In the last year, these men, both Egyptian immigrants, became unlikely collaborators in an endeavor that has shaken the stability of the Middle East. Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, the president of the Duarte-based charity Media for Christ, and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a convicted felon from Cerritos, emerged Thursday as forces behind "Innocence of Muslims.

Fans of Emily Bront ë 's 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights" may notice something unusual about the latest adaptation, slated to open in America on Oct. 5. Brooding heartthrob Heathcliff doesn't look like the typical Englishman of the moors -- he's played by black actors James Howson (as an adult) and Solomon Glave (as a boy). This is, in fact, something like Bront ë intended from the start. In her novel, Heathcliff is introduced to us as "a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect.

When Marcus Tyson visited his new campus days before his senior year was set to begin, he stood in a nearly empty parking lot and declared that the trailer before him looked "like prison. " By Tuesday, the first day of school, mounds of dirt and workbenches had disappeared, but the white-and-green portable classroom remained. "Still pretty awful," said Marcus, 17. Culver Park Continuation High School, now stuck in the back of a parking lot between the district's adult and middle schools, began classes this week with about 50 students in a single portable unit.

For fans of “Downton Abbey,” it feels like decades since we last saw the Crawley family, and it's still another long, Lady Mary-less four months until the costume drama returns to PBS  in January. Luckily, the show's producers are, like Lord Grantham, doling out tips on Christmas morning, unusually generous with information about the season ahead. We've already seen preview clips hinting at tension between the formidable dowager countess, played by Maggie Smith, and Lady Cora's American mother, Martha Levinson, played by Shirley MacLaine.

The holiday weekend is crashing down upon us. It's time to swallow the last bit of summer before serious fall kicks in. OK, here in Los Angeles we don't really have to worry about fall, but it's the idea of the thing. Kids are in school and all that. Gas in Los Angeles is averaging $4.16 a gallon, but will that stop us from jumping in our cars to get out of town one last whirlwind? I doubt it. I'm going. To speed us along our way, here is a brand-new trailer for the movie version of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road.

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. With its rhythmic pounding, the hypnotic new trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" recalls the 2009 spot for the Coens' "A Serious Man," only then it was Michael Stuhlbarg's head and not Joaquin Phoenix's fists making all the noise. The "Master" trailer offers a tantalyzing glimpse at the way Anderson approaches one of the movie's primary concerns -- the human conflict between primal instincts and transcendent, spiritual ambitions.

Welcome to the first edition of the Book Trailer Screening Room. Today we bring you Andrew McCarthy, Antoine Wilson and Jonathan Evison. McCarthy is yes, the same Andrew McCarthy who was a heartthrob in the 1980s. In recent years, he's mixed travel writing -- serious, award-winning travel writing -- in with his career as an actor. And his acting talents show in the trailer for his first book, "The Longest Way Home. " There he sits, anxious in the face of his impending nuptials; there he goes, hiking wild jungles (scary crocodiles!

Four years after a dilapidated Coachella Valley trailer park known as Duroville became a national symbol of slum housing, Riverside County officials were well into investing millions in a solution: building a new mobile home community for hundreds of the park's impoverished residents. But the plan abruptly stalled this spring when cash-hungry state officials yanked back $12.1 million in funds that local officials needed to complete the project. The action "puts in limbo the health and safety of men, women and children who had planned to leave the squalor of Duroville for a safe, clean home," complained Riverside County Supervisor John Benoit, who called the state move a "travesty.