Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got a whopping eleven trailers for you this week, offering everything from animation to big-budget studio comedy to Sundance hopefuls; check ‘em out after the jump.

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1. Deadline is reporting that Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper are negotiating to play the leads in HBO’s forthcoming Noah Baumbach-helmed adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s award-winning novel, The Corrections. We approve heartily!

2. Dark Blood, the movie that River Phoenix was filming at the time of his death, might be getting released almost 20 years later, thanks reedits from the director and some possible voice-over work from River’s brother Joaquin Phoenix. [via Vulture]

3. The Jeff Mangum-curated winter installment of All Tomorrow’s Parties has been pushed back to March due to “a set of extremely unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances.” Refunds will be available for ticket holders who can’t make the new dates. [via NME]

4. Multiple Tony award-winning writer Robert Lopez, who collaborated with Trey Parker and Matt Stone on The Book of Mormon, will also be teaming up with them for upcoming episode of South Park that will air on October 26. We expect big things! [via ArtsBeat]

5. Criterion will finally release a digitally-restored version Godzilla Blu-ray/DVD this January; along with a load of special features, you’ll be getting both the 1954 Japanese original as well as the 1956 American remake of the film, which starred Raymond Burr. [via Slashfilm]

Bonus Buzz: 10 Halloween Costumes to Avoid

Exciting news for fans of TV shows about dysfunctional families — which as far as we’re concerned, should be just about everyone: According to The Daily Mail, there’s a rumor floating around the Venice Film Festival that Noah Baumbach is interested in adapting Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 National Book Award winner, The Corrections, into a drama series for HBO. As Amanda Dobbins over at Vulture notes, the material would be a far cry from “his traditional broken home bread and butter,” but given his recent less than stellar track record (we liked Greenberg, but Margot at the Wedding?), maybe shaking things up would signal a return to Squid and the Whale-level output for the filmmaker. Plus, he’ll still get to create something that’s super depressing — it doesn’t get much darker than the Lambert family. We see this as a chance for HBO to add something along the lines of Six Feet Under or Big Love back into the rotation. What do you think?

Hey there, bookworms, it’s National Book Lovers Day! How’s about celebrating by, um, watching a movie? (Our logic is less than ironclad, we’ll admit.) Sure, the moving picture doesn’t always do right by the written word, but a few fine films have celebrated literature and writers in ways memorable, thought-provoking, and entertaining; we’ve assembled ten of our favorites after the jump, with plenty of room in the comments for you to throw in your own.

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1. We were happy to see that Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s hilarious musical The Book of Mormon killed it at the Tonys last night, taking home nine awards, but our favorite part of the night had to be host Neil Patrick Harris’ opening number. Watch it here.

2. JJ Abrams’ mysterious monster movie Super 8 dominated the box office in its opening weekend, making $37 million — which, while not exactly chump change, has to be a lot less than what they were hoping for. X-Men: First Class came in second, earning $25 million, while The Hangover Part II rounded out the top three with $18.5 million (bringing its cumulative earnings to a whopping $216.5 million). [via Vulture]

3. Famed E Street Band saxophonist Clarence “The Big Man” Clemons — who most recently performed on two songs on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way album — suffered a stroke on Sunday. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on how severe it was. [via Rolling Stone]

4. This could be interesting: The Coen Brothers told a crowd at the opening of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s new facility, the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, that they’re working on a project that will have quite a bit of live music in it, comparing it to Noah Baumbach’s 2007 film Margot At The Wedding. [via indieWIRE]

5. If you didn’t watch Lil Wayne’s highly anticipated MTV Unplugged performance then you missed many magical moments, most notably seeing him cover Tupac’s “Hail Mary” and the premiere of Tha Carter IV track “Nightmares of the Bottom.” Check out the full episode here.

Bonus interactive infographic: A History of Modern Music

1. Today in Sarah Palin news: The state of Alaska will release 24,000 pages of its former governor’s emails to members of the press who have requested them (note: they’ll have to pay the shipping fees for the five boxes, which weigh 55 pounds apiece). Last night in Sarah Palin news: She took a break from her patriotic bus tour to sit down for a slice of pizza with Donald Trump.

2. Thurston Moore told NME last night that Sonic Youth will be getting together later this year to record new material. As for their recent time off? “We made the decision to have a good solid year of not doing too much as a band,” he explains. “We just wanted to regenerate.”

3. Former sitcom writer Ken Levine (Cheers, M.A.S.H., Frasier) has come out against Roseanne Barr’s recent piece in New York magazine, saying that she “treated people like shit” and was “endlessly combative.” Barr says that he just loathes women. Meanwhile, Laurie Gelman, the first female writer-producer to work on Roseanne, is on Team Levine, and claims that Barr’s actually the sexist one. Barr says Gelman is just mad because she isn’t funny. Who to believe? [via Vulture]

4. Jesse Eisenberg may be reuniting with his The Squid and The Whale director Noah Baumbach; the film, which will also star Naomi Watts, tells the story of “a 40-ish childless couple that begins feeling alienated from their friends as those friends start to procreate, and strike up an unlikely friendship with a younger couple.” [via LAT]

5. This first look at the puppet from Guillermo Del Toro and The Jim Henson Company’s upcoming Pinocchio movie is definitely the creepiest thing you’ll see all day — especially when you remember that Nick Cave is doing the film’s soundtrack.

Bonus link: A Chanel bag made out of hand-stitched sheets of beef jerky

Reagan is president. Folks are wearing day-glo. There’s a cah-ray-zay party going on. Young people are feeling angsty about their impending adulthood. This is the premise of Take Me Home Tonight, the backward-looking Topher Grace/ Anna Faris movie that opens tonight, but it could just as easily describe any number of movies that have popped up since the late ’90s, when nostalgia for the ’80s first came into vogue. And considering that critics are calling Take Me Home “aggressively unfunny” and saying “it grinds the ungodly awfulness of so many ’80s comedy conventions into an even deeper rut,” you may well be better off watching one of them. After the jump, we rank some of the most memorable movies set in the ’80s, 1998-present, from worst to best.

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1. The Real World: D.C. was the least-watched season in the series’ history. Gawker says that it’s time to put to put the old poodle down. Do you agree? [via Pop Candy]
2. Previously unreleased Bob Dylan material will be featured on the soundtrack of My Own Love Song, a new film starring Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker. [via TwentyFourBit]
3. Marisa Meltzer‘s guide to girl-band-movie clichés. [via Slate]
4. Meet Greg Packer, the first geek in line for an iPad outside of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. [via HuffPo]
5. Greenberg director Noah Baumbach may re-team with his film’s star, Ben Stiller, on an adaptation of the children’s book Mr. Popper’s Penguins. [via Variety]

Bonus link: Andy Rooney ranting about the funny papers

Today at Flavorpill, we were bowled over by our discovery of That’s What Bea Said — a collection of her standalone quotes from The Golden Girls. We wished that someone would buy us this origami lessons tee. We liked the idea of Conan O’Brien’s new TV show coming on as early as 7 p.m. — we fall asleep pretty early. We were shocked by reports that Macy’s sold 72,000 bottles of Beyonce’s fragrance, Heat, in one hour. We loved the looks of this Joey Potter vs. Sookie Stackhouse face off in The Romantics — but does it really have to be over boring old Josh Duhamel? We booked our flights to Chicago for what’s being deemed as the Eames sale of the century. We read New York Press film critic Armond White’s highly-anticipated review of Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg. Spoiler alert: He hated it. And finally, we ended our day by staring at alpacas. Now it’s time to go drink some green beer.

In the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, Ben Stiller (who plays the title character) complains that no one calls him on his birthday anymore, writes an angry letter to Starbucks, and worries that he’ll catch the illness that’s afflicting his dog. “I’m freaked out by you kids because your parents were too perfect at parenting, all that Baby Mozart and Dan Zanes songs. You’re all ADD and carpal tunnel,” he says to a room full of 20-somethings. “I hope I die before I end up meeting one of you in a job interview.”

Yes, it looks like Greenberg, which comes out next March, is Baumbach’s take on aging. After the jump, check out the first trailer and follow along as we pass premature judgment.

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