Next to spending time with family and opening presents around the Christmas tree my favorite Christmas tradition is seeing a new theatrical release on Christmas Day. I’m barely used to typing 2010 and I already know what movie I’ll be seeing next Christmas Day- The Coen Brothers True Grit remake. A December 25, 2010 release date was just… released. Admittedly I’m a big fan of the brothers but I have to ask you, has anyone ever been so good with someone else’s work? The Coens have penned plenty of original masterpieces but they’ve enjoyed their greatest critical successes when working with somebody else’s story. Howard Hawks The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski, Homer’s Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, most recently, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men and now Charles Portis’ True Grit. A Coen Brothers/Jeff Bridges reunion makes this True Grit a must-see, sorry Duke.

Well with the below trailer supposedly attached to The Dark Knight, which it wasn’t on my screening, it was sure to hit the net as soon as it was completed. Terminator Salvation expands on the storyline we have all come to love, minus that last crap known as 3.

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor (Bale) is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind

Terminator Salvation arrives in theaters next summer on May 22nd, 2009.