The birds of “Rio” are flocking together once again — and this time, they’re shaking their tail feathers.

A new teaser trailer for “Rio 2,” the follow-up to the hit animated movie, features the colorful macaws, toucans, and cockatoos busting a move to joyful, drum-heavy music.

The brief teaser doesn’t show any footage from the sequel, in which Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) take their three kids away from the titular city and to the Amazon to learn how to live like real birds. But can these city avians fly with their new wild neighbors?

Jamie Foxx, Tracy Morgan, will.i.am, and George Lopez will all reprise their characters from the original movie, with Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars, and Kristin Chenoweth joining as new Amazonian birds.

“Rio 2” is set to fly into theaters April 11, 2014.

It might have been an all-but foregone conclusion, but it’s still good to bring word that Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (or, as we’ll all be referring to it to save time, S.H.I.E.L.D.) has handily scored a place on the ABC network’s schedule across the pond. Now the first teaser footage of the show is online. Featuring Clark Gregg as the myseriously re-incarnated Agent Phil Coulson, the show will follow small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson’s team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius biochemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).
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From the looks of the footage, we’re promised plenty of action and the usual level of Joss Whedon quippery, even if the budget doesn’t quite stretch to Avengers-level super heroism. And though Whedon himself won’t be writing and directing every episode (he is, as we know, a tad busy consulting on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and preparing Avengers 2), there’s a more than capable team of Whedon veterans on the ground including brother Jed and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, plus Jeffrey Bell and Jeph Loeb.The series order might have been more of a “well, obviously” than a “could it happen?” but now we have to see if the Whedon/Marvel love can sustain it. After all, even Joss himself has had trouble keeping shows on the air before… Yet we remain confident. As to when it’ll make it over to our shores? There’s no UK broadcaster yet, but we doubt if that will take long. And remember, kids: don’t touch Lola.

Clearly looking to boost itself as a prestige, Oscar-possible cinematic experience, the first trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler has arrived online with pomp, ceremony and a roll call of the impressive cast roster. Based on the life of Eugene Allen, who waited on nearly dozen US presidents from Garry Truman in 1952 to Ronald Reagan in 1986, The Butler follows Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, who rises from tough beginnings to become an integral part of the White House staff.As the years pass, we get to see the effect it has on his life, as well as that of his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) and his activist son Louis (David Oyelowo).And that’s just a tiny fragment of a cast that also includes Alan Rickman, John Cusack, Robin Williams, James Marsden, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard, Minka Kelly, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr, Vanessa Redgrave, Mariah Carey, Nelsan Ellis, Aml Ameen and approximately 54,000 others.The film hits US cinemas on October 18, but there’s no set date for the UK just yet.

I’ve learned that the informal writers room for Incursion, Starz‘s alien drama project from Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight, has started to ramp down. I hear the decision was made based on the fact that enough scripts had been written for a full series order. The project, which follows a squad of soldiers caught in a war against a hostile alien race, remains in consideration for a pickup as Starz is evaluating it. Incursion follows Starz’s development model where projects go straight to series, so the network regularly sets up writers rooms to develop a season’s worth of scripts before greenlighting a show. The pay cable network just authorized the launch of a writers room for Ron Moore’s Outlander. “Incursion remains in development at Starz, and we are very much in the Steven DeKnight business,” a rep for Starz said. Incursion, which also has scouted potential locations and done creature creation work, is part of an overall deal DeKnight has with the network.

International Cinematographers Guild incumbent president Steven Poster won another term today in the union’s elections. Poster ran unopposed and won another term by “a significant majority” said the union Saturday afternoon. This confirms the tentative election results that the ICG IATSE Local 600 released yesterday. The entire Poster backed slate was also elected to the ICG’s National Executive Board. Not that it was that much of a race as Guild VP Lewis Rothenberg, 1st Vice President Paul Varrieur, and Sergeant-At-Arms Michael St. Hilaire had also ran unopposed. Two-time Oscar-winner John Toll, ASC was also re-elected as second Vice President along with National Secretary-Treasurer Alan Gitlin. Bruce MacCallum won in the race for Assistant National Secretary-Treasurer. “I am looking forward to working with every one of our elected Board members to create a strategy that will train our members for the jobs of the digital future and establish new levels of membership service”, said Poster in a statement Saturday.

K5 International has boarded director Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie And The Boxer which is screening this week in Tribeca. Heinzerling won the U.S. Documentary directing prize in Sundance for the film which is his feature debut. The movie is a New York love story about life and art that explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife and artist Noriko. It will be released Stateside by The Weinstein Company in August. King Records will distribute in Japan with Parco and Madman in Australia.
Steve Buscemi, Anika Noni Rose Join ‘Khumba’
South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios has added the voice talent of Steve Buscemi and The Good Wife’s Anika Noni Rose to its 3D animated feature, Khumba. They join Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne, AnnaSophia Robb, Jake T. Austin, Loretta Devine and Richard E. Grant. Khumba tells the story of a half-striped Zebra who is blamed for a severe drought by his herd. He teams up with a sassy wildebeest and a self-obsessed ostrich to go in search of the magic waterhole where legend has it the first zebras got their stripes and meets an array of wacky characters on the adventure. Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has international sales. Millennium Entertainment will release in the U.S. later this year. Buscemi and Rose’s deals were brokered by WME and Ned Lott on behalf of Triggerfish Animation. Buscemi is also repped by The Gotham Group.
Monte Carlo Television Festival Nominees Announced
The 53rd edition of the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo has revealed the nominees for the Golden Nymph Award. Noms in the Television Films category include Le Métis de Dieu and its leading man Laurent Lucas for his role as Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lambert Wilson is also nominated for his performance in Manipulations. Productions from Canada, Japan, Germany and other European countries are all in contention in this category. TV series nominees include Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Bomb Girls, Capadocia and Homeland as well as 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Fais Pas Ci Fais Pas Ça, which won at Monte-Carlo in 2009. You can read the complete list here.

Patience is a virtue — but one that “Star Wars” fans won’t have to exercise.

Disney and LucasFilm announced today at CinemaCon in Las Vegas that they will release a new “Star Wars” movie every year starting in 2015.

That summer, the J.J. Abrams-directed “Star Wars: Episode VII” will kick off a new trilogy, featuring original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and (most likely) Harrison Ford. From then on, the trilogy episodes will alternate with standalone movies, rumored to focus on characters like Yoda, Boba Fett, and a young Han Solo.

It’s certainly a tremendous change from the 16 years fans had to wait between “Return of the Jedi” and “Phantom Menace,” or even the 10-year difference between 2005’s “Revenge of the Sith” and “Episode VII.” Disney has turned up the dial on the “Star Wars” universe since it bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas last fall.

Details about either the new trilogy or the standalones are few and precious. With the original stars probably returning, it seems likely that the new episodes will revolve around the children of Luke, Leia, and Han.

Jeff Zucker continues to staff up at his new CNN post, this time with some familiar faces. A network insider confirms to Deadline that Zucker has hired his former Today #2 Michael Bass away from Katie Couric’s show Katie, where he was co-executive producer. Bass will serve as senior VP at CNN reporting to Zucker. The NYT first reported the move. Other recent on-air hires by Zucker at the struggling network include George Stroumboulopoulos, Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan, and Jake Tapper, while Zucker is also bringing back CNN’s Crossfire.

Ron Howard’s time across the pond looks like it has been good for him.  With the exception of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, I’ve never been a fan of racing movies.  I realize that death lurks around every curve, but, from a spectator’s perspective, auto races are about as thrilling as Major League baseball games. There’s a lot of monotony in those laps (and innings). 
I feel the same about Howard’s stolid filmmaking style — have you seen The Da Vinci Code lately? — so when I learned he was the director of Rush, the story of the 1970s rivalry between Formula One race-car drivers Austrian Niki Lauda and Brit James Hunt, I didn’t exactly put it on my must-see list of 2013.
But after watching this revved-up UK trailer for the movie, I’ve changed my mind.  I’m now eager to see Rush, if only to determine whether Howard has shaken up his filmmaking style as much as this clip indicates. To use a punny driving term: he looks like he’s really released the clutch on his safe style.  There’s real tension and unpredictable energy in this footage, which was shot in the UK and Germany, as well as a kind of feckless romance that is so Seventies. (As Hunt, the rakish Chris Hemsworth, says in voiceover: "The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel." Oh yes, and Olivia Wilde plays 70s model Suzy Miller.)
And pay special attention to Daniel Brühl, who may not be as handsome as Hemsworth, but is much more compelling as Lauder, the Austrian driver who was horribly burned in a crash at the 1976 German Grand  Prix. Remarkably, he returned to the track six weeks later to keep Hunt from knocking him  from his standing as the number-one ranked drive in the world.
The actual outcome of that race is rather anticlimactic in movie terms — Lauda retired from the race — so it will be interesting to see whether Howard can make it pay off dramatically. That said, the film’s September release date — when the film industry is getting into the awards-season mindset in earnest, suggests that he’s found a solution. I’ll be watching.

If you can’t wait until April 19 to see "Oblivion," then the four new clips that have been released by Universal should be a good tease for you. They feature everything we’ve been dying to see in the movie: the Bubbleship, the Scavs and, of course, Tom Cruise.
The most interesting of the four clips is the second, which is when Cruise’s Jack Harper sees Olga Kurylenko’s character for the first time. As the third clip informs us, Jack has no memories from before his "mission" began, but he also for some reason recognizes the girl in the pod. Clearly there’s a lot going on that he isn’t clued in on.
Check out the four clips after the jump!

The final clip shows Jack finally coming face-to-face with Morgan Freeman’s character, who is interrogating him. It’s clear that Freeman’s character knows a bit more about the world they inhabit than Jack does with his squeaky-clean memory.
If that’s not enough "Oblivion" for you, then you should know that the film’s entire M83-created soundtrack is available for streaming. You can check it out below.