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. This week, we’ve got ten to show you
— everything from new Soderbergh and Clooney movies to, yes, a film adaptation of a board game. Check ‘em all out after the jump.

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Today at Flavorpill, we met the world’s most typical person. We examined our overuse of the word “random.” We wondered how much money the celebrities in this new Annie Leibovitz-shot ad campaign for Disney Parks were paid to dress up like classic characters (particularly poor unfortunate Queen Latifah as Ursula). We enjoyed this collection of things that well-known and respected people and publications were wrong about. We were excited by the idea of David Fincher and Kevin Spacey working together again — this time on a TV show. We came across a new line of beer that “infuses the beer with a citrus flavor that appeals to the taste of the LGBT community.” We were horrified by this nice and naughty dude’s Black Swan-inspired tattoo. We got lost in Smithsonian Wild’s gallery of 201,000 camera trap images of animals from around the world. We wanted to turn our life into a comic book. And finally, we were happy to read about how Edward Gorey, the “master of high-camp macabre,” is still influencing pop culture over a decade after his death.

For the past six years, Franklin Leonard, a mid-level studio executive, has put together the annual Black List — a compilation of the year’s best unproduced screenplays according to him and 300 or so of his industry pals. But these aren’t just projects that will never see the light of day. A few of the films are in production now, and six of the top 10 screenplays — which we’ve posted after the jump — have already been scooped up by studios. Let us know in the comments what you think sounds the most promising; our money’s on Jackie, a film about Jacqueline Kennedy’s life in the days following her husband’s death, which is set to be directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats, a new film which stars Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Robert Patrick, and Jeff Bridges, opens in theaters this Friday. It was inspired by reporter Jon Ronson’s eponymous non-fiction bestseller, which explored the U.S. government’s “attempts to harness paranormal abilities to combat its enemies.” Yep. After the jump, a clever new ad for the film which spoofs the little horror movie that could, Paranormal Activity.

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The trailer for George Clooney and Ewan McGregor’s inscrutably-named November dark comedy is now live. The movie — which is based on a 2004 non-fiction book by Jon Ronson — follows reporter McGregor as he investigates a story on a top-secret experimental U.S. military unit that Clooney’s character was once a part of. They use psychic powers in their missions to do things like walk through walls and kill goats. Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges also star, rounding a cast that gives this movie more star power than previous films set in Iraq, which might help it out at the box office. Check out the trailer after the jump and let us know: Will this movie mark the return of the madcap Clooney of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Read More »

Broadway World reports that the producer’s of Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty (which was his Broadway debut nominated for three Tonys) will be closing down the production come June 14th; they were obviously holding out to see if the show could nab any statues before they went public with the news. In case you missed it before, we interviewed Neil about the play here back in February. Read More »

Last year Hamlet 2, sold to Focus Features for a cool $10 million making it one of the biggest deals ever to go down at Sundance. The year before Little Miss Sunshine went to Fox Searchlight for the same hefty price. The first film, most of you probably didn’t see, but it was kind of funny — just not $10 million funny. (This was our favorite part.) The latter won two Academy Awards and that year’s Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. Go figure.

So what films are poised to land this year’s double-digit deal given the current economy? Variety has a few starry-eyed ideas about it here; we provide a cheat sheet for the buzziest flicks after the jump.

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Madonna no longer “hung up” on Richie: Madonna finally settled her divorce with Guy Ritchie yesterday, paying him a dainty little sum of $76 million, which included their country home in England and a pub in London. Was their entire marriage just a way for him to get funding for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels:2? [AP]

SAG saga continues, famous people jump on board: A slew of well-known actors got together Monday after signing a petition against strike authorization in the ever-evolving SAG situation. George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey and Charlize Theron joined 150 actors who don’t buy the top brass’s claims that the authorization would get the guild leverage for wanted contracts. Initiate Golden Globes Deathwatch. [THR]

School, interrupted: Remember that movie where Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder play crazies? In New York, Girl, Interrupted, the book, was being used as a text for a high school psych class, but staff members reportedly pulled out pages mentioning oral sex. Censorship’s cute and all, but we think high-schoolers can handle some head. [Newsday]

Househusbands are the new black: Forget The Real Housewives of [Insert City Here]. FOX has ordered nine hours of a new series that will follow the lives of a group of stay-at-home dads of “successful L.A. women,” including Vanessa from The Cosby Show. Kudos for trying something new, but as far as we’re concerned, the network will never be able to trump this reality TV moment. [THR]

Zach Galifianakis/Jon Hamm sandwich: In this hard-hitting interview with our favorite comedian, the Mad Men actor confirms that he likes Web sites, his middle name isn’t “honeybaked” and his TV show isn’t about people who are in their ’60s. Watch out Barbara Walters. [Goldenfiddle]