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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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 six new trailers this week, with an emphasis on family-friendly fare. Check ‘em out after the jump.

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Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon have been known to a lot of people for a lot of things. To some, they’re cherished as members of cult-classic MTV sketch-comedy series The State. To others, they’re the faces behind Deputy Junior and Lt. Dangle from Comedy Central’s reality-cop show spoof Reno 911. What you may not realize is that they’re also extremely successful Hollywood screenwriters, having penned the scripts for commercial hits including Night at the Museum, and Herbie: Fully Loaded. And while they have no illusions about the artistic merit of those films, they also know they’re responsible for over $1 billion in box-office receipts. The two have just released a book, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!, which details their experiences and serves as a guide to budding mainstream screenwriters. In our latest interactive video interview, they give us a pitch for the worst movie of all time, reveal what Zac Efron is like in real life, and cover Joy Division, a cappella.

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1. The 2011 Oscar nominations are in, with The King’s Speech dominating the pack with 12 nods. The Academy Awards will air live on ABC on February 27th. [via THR]

2. According to Diplo, Beyonce and Sleigh Bells guitarist Derek Miller have been in the studio together working on new material, but it’s unclear whether it will ever be released. [via NME]

3. Steve Morrison, the CEO of All3Media, the British-based company behind Skins, is shocked that so many companies have pulled their advertising from the show; yesterday afternoon, Schick became the sixth advertiser to drop the series. [via THR]

4. Last night on The Daily Show, Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly — who denied on-air that her network uses Nazi rhetoric— got served by Jon Stewart. Big time. Check out the cliphere.

5. Joe Magnaniello, who plays the hunky werewolf Alcide on True Bood is reportedly one of the frontrunners for the role of Superman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming reboot. [via io9]

Bonus link: This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell’s “Beef”

Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that week. Enjoy!

This week at BuzzFeed, we hung out with the commenters of YouTube, some of whom were cooler than others. The Scariest Dude of the Week Award went to Mickey Rourke, while the Most Likely to Be Naked Award went to Zac Efron. (Let’s hope he doesn’t need a shirt to play catch with his dead brother.) The War of the Baby Tapirs and Baby Wombats briefly tore our office apart. We felt for Geoffrey, who just wanted to see some otters, and for these babies, who probably didn’t want to be at Comic-Con. Thank goodness that Pacey Witter and Ryan Reynolds did. We welcomed back Sad Keanu (now with helmet!) and stood in solidarity with Bill Murray. (Yes, it’s a joke. Still funny.) Finally, we really enjoyed the fat jokes in this week’s Between Two Ferns. Ice cream soup for all!

To be frank, the trailer for Zac Efron’s next movie, which plops Efron into the theater scene of  Depression-era New York, has a lot going against it. One rather unavoidable problem is that it’s a Zac Efron movie. We’re convinced he chooses movies based on whether or not they will require a haircut (period drama=’30s hair=good to go). Another strike against the film is that the female lead is Claire Danes, who, our eternal love for Angela Chase notwithstanding (BTW, My So-Called Life is now on Hulu!), has been in a string of duds lately. Read More »

1. Anime master Hayao Miyazaki has agreed to make a rare US appearance at San Diego’s Comic Con on July 24. [via NYT]
2. James Franco’s rejected UCLA graduation speech, courtesy of the Harvard Lampoon (video) [via Gawker]
3. Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo and Jeremih have announced that they will team up for an extensive North American tour that will kick off July 27 in Scranton, PA. [via NME]
4. Beck has launched a new interview series on his website called Irrelevant Topics; his first victim is Tom Waits. [via Pitchfork]
5. As Hollywood’s leading actors start looking eerily similar (Chace Crawford, Zac Efron, Robert Pattison), where are all the real men? [via Daily Mail]

Today, Nerve published a list of the 20 Sexiest Ugly People, a group whose homeliness in no way precludes their hotness.  Huh? You know, like Woody Allen. Ooooh. They promised to follow up with the other side of the contrarian coin, but we thought we’d get a jump on things with the following list of people that are technically good-looking, but for various reasons, completely repulsive. Read More »

1. Leonard Dicaprio — rumored to be at the top of Martin Scorsese’s list for that Frank Sinatra biopic — is taking singing lessons to improve his odds. [via The Sun]

2. By scooping up Zac Efron’s sloppy seconds, Chace Crawford has made it 100 percent easier for tweens to enjoy six degrees of Kevin Bacon. [via NYDN]

3. The critics’ tweets about the debut of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds at Cannes are decidedly mixed. [via /film]

4. Christie’s will auction off “Little Buddy,” a handwritten poem about a dying dog by a 16-year-old Bob Dylan. He wrote it at summer camp. [via Guardian]

5. Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall forgives Maureen Dowd for her “accidental plagiarism” of his work. [via NYT]

“He said, ‘There’s one way that you can really fuck this all up. Just do heroin. If you steer clear of that — the other obstacles you’ll be able to navigate.’”

-Zac Efron reveals the career advice he got from Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming issue of GQ. We were going to come up with a snarky punchline, but we must resist for fear of resembling Angie Tempura from bitchpleeze.com in any way.