Understand, The Movie Orgy isn’t a proper movie but an exercise in extreme film geekdom, as Dante and Davison spliced 16mm trailers, clips, newsreel footage, bloopers and old TV shows together to form a semi-linear commentary on/reaction against the time. Over the years, the project has earned a borderline apocryphal reputation, called by some the “Rosetta Stone” of Dante’s career — a glimpse deep into the filmmaker’s id — and it’s a testament to the city’s cult film scene that so many stayed for the entire show. (Full report after the jump.)

"No motion picture has ever offered more entertainment!" In the early days of movie advertising, trailers announced virtually every upcoming feature with shameless hyperbole. Now (to co-opt the most overused word in trailer-speak), one docu exposes the artistry behind the advertising: Michael J. Shapiro's "Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer" packages a talking-heads overview with dozens of the most original and exciting trailers ever made. Unresolved legal clearances may limit pic to educational uses (pic preemed last week at UCLA), but popular demand could warrant further exposure.

Trailers like this never work on the internet. They start by prentending to be teasers for other hotly anticipated summer blockbusters, but because you already know what you're getting when you click, the joke's over before it begins. But since I'm personally more excited about The Simpsons Movie than Superman Returns, let's just imagine we're sitting in the dark before Ice Age: The Meltdown (for $70 million worth of ticket buyers out there, you won't have to pretend)...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A bunch of Central Park Zoo animals (a lion, a giraffe and so on) break out of captivity and wreak havoc in the big city. No, it's not a Madagascar sequel. It's the latest offering from Disney's animation department, The Wild, and if it sounds suspiciously familiar, this isn't the first time that's happened between the folks at Disney and DreamWorks: Think A Bug's Life vs. Antz or Finding Nemo vs. Shark Tale.

I've had more than a year to get used to it (since the first glimpses of Pixar's next feature started popping up on the web), and I'm still skeptical. Could Cars be Pixar's first misstep? Toys, bugs, monsters -- kids love 'em. But anthropomorphic hot wheels? I dunno. Boys, maybe. But even then, these wheels don't even look that hot. Then again, I remember having similar apprehensions about fish, and Pixar proved me wrong with their most endearing film yet.

Uh oh. Looks like the Son of Krypton's gonna have some competition this summer. First, director Bryan Singer abandons the X-Men franchise to helm Superman Returns. Then, X3 loses its replacement director (Layer Cake's Matthew Vaughn), only to pick up Rush Hour bad boy Brett Ratner in the eleventh hour. But if you disregard the troubled backstory and compare the two superhero sequels on the strength of their teasers alone, X3 is the clear victor — and that's because the production has something to prove.

Set your clocks. On December 12, 2012, the world will end. And Mel Gibson will be there laughing and saying, “I told you so.” As all good teasers go, this fleeting first glimpse tells us precious little about Gibson’s next pet project, instead setting the tone (ominous and superstitious), setting (the ancient Mayan empire) and doomsday mentality of Apocalypto.

With some 40 million copies in print, the latest teaser for The Da Vinci Code need not concern itself with spoilers. After all, by now everyone has read Dan Brown's book. Instead, the trailer (which features some much-needed footage after last spring's worthless Mona Lisa teaser) focuses on the revelations the audience most wants to see — namely, how the actors look in roles that avid readers have long since cast in their imaginations. After more than a minute of "spooky Louvre" build-up, the teaser offers the big reveal: Tom Hanks, looking less like another Indiana Jones than an older wiser Neo, as Harvard cryptographer extraordinaire Robert Langdon.

Dr. Langdon, I presume.

It's a teaser, folks, and as teasers go, WB ain't givin' us much with this first taste of Superman Returns (especially not after whetting our appetites with so much more in that preview Dan Harris cut for Comic-Con this summer). Still, we'll take what we can get, and this first teaser announces two things loud and clear: