Looks like folks headed to Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters will be getting a little more slam-bang for their buck.  A 4 minute advance preview of GI Joe: Retaliation will be playing before each showing, and will “run throughout “HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTER’S” theatrical engagement.”

If the GI Joe: Retaliation preview is anywhere near as good as the 9 minute preview of Star Trek Into Darkness that’s showing before IMAX showings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, this new preview should be pretty cool indeed.  But then with all the ac-TOR films I’ve seen (and enjoyed) lately, I’m really ready for a bit of the ol’ biff-boom-pow.

From the press release:

HOLLYWOOD, CA (January 23, 2013) – Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with Hasbro, will release a 4-minute preview of the highly anticipated “G.I. JOE: RETALIATION” in IMAX 3D, RealD 3D and digital 3D theaters in advance of Paramount and MGM’s “HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS.”

In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra, they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.  The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Elodie Yung, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson.  Directed by Jon M. Chu, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Brian Goldner of Hasbro, from a screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, based on Hasbro’s G.I. Joe® characters.

“G.I. JOE: RETALIATION” is in theaters everywhere March 29^th, 2013