Super Bowl XLVI will air next Sunday, February 5, on NBC. One of the commercials airing during the big game will be for Battleship, Alex new film. A 15 second teaser has arrived online, and you can take a look below. A big thanks to Brooklyn Decker Online for the heads up!

The end of the spot will feature a tag directing viewers to Fandango’s mobile apps and www.Fandango.com/Battleship. There, fans can sign up to receive a special Fandango FanAlert, notifying them when Battleship showtimes and tickets are available in their area and entering them for a rare chance to win five years’ worth of free movie tickets.

Straw Dogs is available via Movies on Demand next Tuesday, December 20, 2011! For more information, check rentmoviesondemand.com. Thanks to Rossana Woo for the heads up!

I was ready to add screen captures of Alex part on “Straw Dogs” when my friend Holly presented us with huge Blu-Ray caps. So enjoy it, and remember to be careful if you didn’t see the movie yet.

Fans who love Alexander Skarsgard for his role as Eric Northman in HBO’s hit series “True Blood” won’t see too much of their favorite fanged Viking in his recent roles. In “Straw Dogs” he plays a villain who ends up brutally raping his ex-girlfriend, in “Battleship” he’s a naval officer, and in the upcoming indie “The East” he’s the head of an anarchist activism organization.

“The East” star and co-writer Brit Marling recently caught up with IFC to promote the DVD release of her film “Another Earth,” and said that she thinks fans should be really excited to see Skarsgard in their movie. The entire cast, from Skarsgard to Ellen Page and Patricia Clarkson, have put their everything into the movie and will be “unrecognizable” when compared to the characters they typically play, Marling said.

“I think everybody’s going to be surprised to see everyone in this. The characters and the world are very extreme. I don’t think anyone is recognizable, if that makes sense,” she explained.

Marling and her “Sound of my Voice” co-writer and director Zal Batmanglij have reteamed in their respective roles for the upcoming thriller. The flick tells the story of a contract worker named Sarah (Marling) who is given the job of infiltrating an anarchist group, but ends up finding herself aligning with its beliefs and falling for its leader (Skarsgard). In the interview, Marling said she won’t be sure what the focus of the movie will be until after a first cut is edited, but that her onscreen love story with Skarsgard will definitely take a significant part.

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Alexander did a great interview for ComingSoon, in which he talks about Melancholia, Lars Von Trier, his upcoming projects… Check it:

(Thanks to my friend Becca for the video, since now MTV has restrained the videos for US residents only.)

“Melancholia” certainly isn’t the first film to contemplate the end of the world as we know it, but the dreamy drama from writer/director Lars von Trier does boast its own noteworthy debut: the teaming of father/son duo Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård.

In the movie, out Friday (November 11) in New York and L.A., Alexander plays mild-mannered Michael, the man who marries Kirsten Dunst’s slightly unhinged Justine. Father Stellan plays Justine’s boss and Michael’s best man, Jack — a role that required the elder Skarsgård to act out some less than savory behavior.

“He’s such a douche bag in the movie,” Alexander said with a grin.

“Your dad’s a douche bag?” Dunst answered, laughing.

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Director Lars von Trier doesn’t have the best reputation as an actor’s director (he also doesn’t have the best reputation as a public speaker, but that’s a conversation for another time). He supposedly fought with Nicole Kidman on the set of “Dogville” and the star definitely didn’t return for the film’s sequel, “Manderlay” (she was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard). For years, rumors swirled that Bjork vowed never to act in a film again after the grueling experience making von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark.” She later claimed she never wanted to act at all but made an exception for von Trier. Then again; she has acted a couple more times, including in the film “Drawing Restraint 9,” so who knows.

What I do know is talking to the cast of von Trier’s “Melancholia,” which opens this Friday, gives you a different portrait of von Trier. Maybe his style has changed, maybe his mindset has changed, but to a man (and woman) they all relished the experience of working with him. “True Blood” star Alexander Skarsgard wanted to act for von Trier so badly, he did something he’s never done before: he took a role without reading the script first.

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When that giant asteroid did a fly-by of planet earth the other day, it might have been a cosmic PR stunt for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. Even the infinite, accelerating universe, it appears, has a thing for movies. And with this film, Earthly cinephiles are in for a mind-blowing trip.

Probably von Trier’s most accessible work, the classically crafted Melancholia imagines the end of the world, drawing on both grand-scale sci-fi tropes and intimate family drama. Von Trier has the chutzpah to draw a parallel, in his mad, self-aggrandizing way, between the demise of the planet and the crushing depression of his heroine (Kirsten Dunst, who won best actress in Cannes, despite the director’s dreadful remarks about Nazis in the press conference). The opening scenes of Melancholia, a sort of prelude that telegraphs the entire story, are set to the prelude of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” and include some of the most gorgeous images ever committed to film. Diving deep into “the abyss of German romanticism,” in von Trier’s phrase, they include haunting dream-scapes of a moon-lit estate marked for doom, Dunst floating Ophelia-like among the lilies á la John Millais, standing among falling birds or with live current streaming from her fingers, and dragging a bridal train weighted down with nets and debris — an inspired metaphor for depression.

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Alexander Skarsgard must have a dark side. He’s drawn to characters who emanate a silky menace: not only his most famous role, the 1,000-year-old vampire Eric Northman on the HBO series True Blood; but also a violent hayseed in this year’s remake of Straw Dogs; and a steely U.S. Marine sergeant in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill. His gorgeous new film, Melancholia, written and directed by Lars von Trier, digs deep into two of the toughest subjects around, severe depression and the end of the world. (It opened in select cities yesterday.)

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The official Battleship youtube account has posted a featurette with interviews of some soldiers they had on board for the movie. Check it: