I don’t know if the world is ready to recognize how awesome Your Highness was yet, but in the meantime, director David Gordon Green has a new movie out called The Sitter, which just released a red-band trailer. I’m a bit torn. See, I love watching Jonah Hill cuss out little kids. Hell, I could watch little kids getting cussed out all day, Jonah Hill or not. But the entire second half of the trailer seems to be Jonah Hill and the kids trying to fit in at an urban pool hall, and watching a chubby Jewish guy try to prove how down he is with the brother man just feels a little too “hangin’ with Brett Ratner” for my tastes.

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For the past few months, we’ve all lost sleep wondering whether a comedy actor like Jonah Hill could team up with a living legend and jack of all trades like Channing Tatum to resurrect the hit TV show that launched Richard Grieco’s career. Now we can wonder a little less. According to the new red band trailer for 21 Jump Street, Hill and C-Tates play two police academy cadets respectively struggling to pass the physical and academic standards required to become police officers. In fact, I can’t help but be reminded of the 1988 Best Picture winner Feds, starring Rebecca De Mornay and Mary Gross. They sure don’t make classics like they used to.

But I cede my remaining time to the honorable B Boy From ‘Bama, the hardest twerkin’ man in shizzow bizzna$ty, C-Tates, to give us the inside scoop on what you’re about to watch.

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This Week in This Week in Posters: The Rum Diary, the most prolific of all poster clichés, and of course, some cannon-fighting pirate ships carried by zeppelins. Something for everyone, really. Click to enlarge, and enjoy!

The Rum Diary is one of my favorite books, so obviously I’m a little sensitive about the possibility of the movie not being good, because that would make me cry. That said, is it just me, or does the poster seem a tad… zany? There isn’t much going on and it just reads “JOHNNY DEPP ACTING WRY!” to me. Though to be fair, people do love Johnny Depp acting wry. Especially foreigners.

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Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter, um, reported that the web site BoxOffice.com was on the verge of releasing an exclusive new study that would blow our minds. With Brad Pitt’s latest film, Moneyball, set to release tomorrow, BoxOffice.com was going to tell us late yesterday that the film is tracking nearly twice as well as The Social Network did.

Unfortunately, the exclusive study has still not been released, but you simply can’t deny the site’s rock solid statistics.

BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino tells me that the site has been tracking Facebook and Twitter activity since May 2010, and based its conclusions — which he says are statistically significant — on stats gathered from monitoring the two sites over the weekend before the films opened. On Facebook, The Social Network received 34,645 “likes” within that period, whereas Moneyball received 64,073. On Twitter, meanwhile, the former was the subject of 4,120 Tweets, whereas the latter was mentioned in 5,264.

Look, I’m no expert in movie tracking by any means, but it seems like predicting a movie’s success based on how many people liked it on Facebook or mentioned it on Twitter is like looking out a window and guessing the temperature. People mention all sorts of crazy sh*t on Twitter, and only 10% of it is spelled right. I’d be more concerned that people were trying to buy tickets for “Mun3bal.”

But if we really want to play the prediction game, I’d say a good indicator would be that 8 of Pitt’s last 13 movies have grossed more than $100 million and Moneyball is about baseball, stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, has been promoted religiously by Sony, and stars Brad Pitt. Predicting that it will be a success is too easy. Unless they change the name to Babel 2.

In this new red-band trailer, Jonah Hill introduces his new film, The Sitter. It turns out, he’s lost so much weight that he can be like “F*ck it, I’m gonna wear a white shirt with horizontal stripes, Jonah Hill ain’t care!” Even more distressing, he cut off his Jew fro. COME ON, MAN! Between you, me, Danny McBride, Jesse Eisenberg, and Will Ferrel, we were just about to make the world safe for the be-pubeskulled. Oh, and f*ck Timberlake. Guy’s a traitor. Don’t even mention that name in front of me. (*spits on ground, crosses self*)

Anyway. Movie’s called “The Sitter,” (guess what it’s about!), it comes from director David Gordon Green (of Your Highness/Pineapple Express fame), and the trailer has lots of swearing at little kids, which is one of my favorite things. As long as none of them start giving wise-beyond-their-years love advice, I think we’re set.

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