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Unless you actively scrounge the Internet for spoiler morsels and script leaks, chances are you have no idea what Inception, Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film due out this summer, is about. The trailer hints at a plot revolving around entering the dreams of other people, but the relative lack of dialogue combined with stunning imagery of Parisian streets folding in on themselves makes it rather hard to get a firm grip on it all. That's just clever marketing, right? Surely the people involved with the production entirely understand what's going on, right?

Maybe not. While doing press for the coming release of the Martin Scorsese directed Shutter Island, Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio revealed that he doesn't get what it was all about. From his interview with the UK's Daily Telegraph, "It didn't make much sense to us when we were doing it, and we had to do a ton of detective work to try to figure out what the movie was and what we were doing from day to day, but, thank God, we had somebody who knew what he was doing."

That somebody would of course be writer/director Nolan, so given his track record I'm willing to assume that it all indeed makes perfect sense and this is just one of those times when keeping the plot under wraps meant keeping some of the talent in the dark. At least I hope that's the case. If Inception does only make sense to Nolan and no one else, I don't think my hard sci-fi craving heart can take a disappointment like that.

IMAX has announced the Hubble 3D website has officially launched. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the 3D film is the seventh film from the IMAX Space Team. Yes, IMAX has a space team, thanks to IMAX and Warner Brothers, with the obvious cooperation of NASA. The film covers six separate missions and is sure to be a mix of awe inspiring celestial images as well as an educational look at the telescope allowing us to see further than ever into the rest of the universe.

The flash heavy site includes details on six separate Hubble missions, the requisite gallery of photos, videos and downloads. While there is a Games section, it is not yet populated. In fact, several sections are still "coming soon," so you may want to bookmark the site and check back in the coming weeks. It's a bit spartan, and frankly the images aren't that impressive, but then again, I'm looking at them on an older laptop, and not in gargantuan IMAX glory.

Hubble 3D plays SXSW film festival before opening in IMAX nationwide on March 19th, 2010.

A new trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception has hit Apple trailers. We get trippy shots of an entire city bending in on itself. We get a lot of gravity defying escapades. We get a great deal of star Leonardo DiCaprio looking very, very concerned. And it all looks gorgeous, surreal and completely unlike something you'd see in a trailer for a tentpole summer release from a major studio.

So, um, what exactly is Inception about? Apparently it takes place in "the architecture of the mind" and "your mind is the scene of the crime." The ever-helpful IMDB lays this shocking tidbit at our feet:

"A CEO-type becomes involved in a blackmailing scandal. "

Nolan and WB are keeping their cards close to their chest on this one. Knowing Nolan's penchant for surprise and mystery, it's both expected and entirely welcome, not to mention a refreshing change of pace from marketing that encapsulates the entire plot of a movie into two and a half minutes. Nolan tackling an original science fiction film (undoubtedly his post-Dark Knight thank you gift from WB) is more than enough reason to be excited. Let's not forget that when he's not making his Batman adventures, Nolan is making great films like The Prestige, Insomnia and Memento. The guy has chops beyond the superhero scene and anytime he takes anything on, people of good taste have reason to celebrate.

Yeah...but what's it about?

Frivolous question. I'm going to see it and you're going to see it and if they keep pushing this as being from the director of The Dark Knight, your mother, father and cousin will probably see it too. DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and presumably just about every other awesome actor out there will be solving architectural mind mysteries on July 16th, 2010.

Votre esprit est la scène du crime.

Translation: Your mind is the scene of the crime, or less literally, there's a low-res Inception trailer online and it's in French (courtesy of Making Of). If that's all you need to hear, then just go below the jump and we've got the trailer embedded for you.

If you're curious as to what exactly is being said in the trailer, Daemon's Movies went to the trouble of translating things for us. After checking out the translation, I'd say the voice-over is intriguing but definitely not the least bit revealing. Christopher Nolan and the Warner Bros. promotional team seem to be playing things close to the chest, and after catching this extended look at what they've got on hand, it looks like the mystery could really play to their advantage.

We watch a city block literally fold in on itself (correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like Paris), scenes of city destruction and some very, chilly blue shots of Leonardo DiCaprio in what could easily have been an outtake from The Dark Knight. In short, this thing looks absolutely wild (side note: DiCaprio and Ellen Page make for an interesting visual pair on the screen, eager to see how that works out in full).

The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception has arrived online, courtesy of Yahoo (watch it after the jump), and while it looks very cool, we still have no idea what this sucker is really about. This, I think, is a good thing -- too many movies are ruined too far in advance these days, and so for this to hit the teaser trailer stage without a somewhat meaty synopsis having already been revealed, that, well, is a pretty cool thing.

Here's what we do know: It's a film that will take place within the architecture of the mind (does that mean our main character can control things with his mind?), and that Leonardo DiCaprio plays a "CEO type who gets caught up in a blackmailing scandal." What the teaser does tell is that this will definitely play a little strange, as one scene features men fighting Matrix-style in a hallway ... and what's with the spinning silver top? So much is left to be revealed, and you bet this is already at the top of our most anticipated list for next summer.

Inception is due in theaters on July 16, 2010. Watch the trailer after the jump.

Does Ridley Scott have a clone I'm unaware of? I refuse to accept that one person has the time to be involved with as many projects as Scott is. Granted, few of his attachments evolve into actual films, but that's not stopping the Blade Runner director from being associated with almost every big budget, big talent science fiction project in Hollywood. This year alone has found him and his production company Scott Free in orbit of an Ellen Ripley centric Alien-less spin-off, a Ripley-less Alien prequel (which he is now set to direct), and The Forever War, an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's 1974 'future-shock' novel.

Now it's been confirmed that Scott Free is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way to shape Aldous Huxley's 1931 classic novel Brave New World for the big screen. The film will be set up for DiCaprio to star with an option for Ridley Scott to take over directorial duties. Apocalypto screenwriter Farhad Safinia is pinned as the man burdened with the tough gig of adapting Huxley's novel about a joyless, 26th century dystopia. Think of it as one part Equilbrium, one part Brazil, and one part Code 46.

Putting doubt to the side (this isn't the first time news like this has come out), I'd wager that of all of the projects on Scott's plate, Brave New World has the best chance of one day being seen. Apian Way, who own the film rights to Huxley's novel, are always on the prowl for DiCaprio centerpieces; so even if this turns into another Ridley Scott vapor-project, there's a backup outfit eager to make a depressing future a silver screen reality.