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The Wire's Movie Trailer Power Rankings Wish to Have the Curse Reversed

This week in the power rankings: We can't stop talking about 'Into the Woods,' and 'Fifty Shades' remerges on our list.

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Every week here at The Wire, we're bringing you an up-to-date ranking of the trailers that are already making us laugh, cry, and wonder if  this is Anna Kendrick's Anne Hathaway year. Our methodology involves staff-wide rankings and YouTube views, and we may or may not take into account how much certain Wire staffers like musicals.

This Week's Trailer Debuts

This was a fairly weak week for trailers considering we still haven't gotten any for a couple big fall releases. (Whither thetrailer? Whither ?) The flashiest trailer released this week was the one for , the latest entry in the ever expanding . 

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