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Four Ass Kickin' Character Posters for Inglourious Basterds
This just keeps getting better! When I featured that gorgeous Italian poster for Inglourious Basterds a few weeks ago, I didn't expect we'd ever see an English version of it. But lo and behold, not only is there an English version, but we have four individual character posters based off that same design! Great character choices (glad to see both Mélanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz featured in this series), great quotes for each of them, this marketing campaign is kickin' some ass. I've got to say one thing though - screw Diane Kruger, the quirky French beauty Mélanie Laurent is my favorite actress from this. She's awesome, trust me!
Check This Out: Creepy Poster for Marcus Dunstan's The Collector
There are plenty of horror movies out there that we never hear much about. Take this one, The Collector, that MTV debuted a poster for today. I'd never even heard about it until recently, but now I'm interested in checking it out. Apparently it's a "hyper-violent, giallo-esque" home invasion thriller. That "snake parts" jar above is just a still from the movie. Producer Mickey Liddell explains: "Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton have come up with a unique twist on the home invasion thriller that we think will have people gripping their seats," says Liddell. "With its stylized blend of action and horror, the movie delivers on every level."
Weird Poster for Bruce Willis' Sci-Fi Movie Surrogates
So we've seen the trailer for Surrogates and we know that it's about surrogate robots that look exactly like humans. However, this poster still seems a bit odd to me. At first glance this just seems like your standard poster with a colorized action shot of Bruce Willis. But when you take a step back and give it a good look, it all just seems weird. Those racks of miniature Bruce's at the bottom seem completely out of place. And that shot of Bruce looks like the same pose as on the Beowulf poster. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Thanks to ComingSoon for debuting this poster today. Check it out full-size below and let us know what you think!
Another Beautiful Artistic Poster for Lee Daniels' Precious
Now this is an exceptional marketing campaign. And that might be because it has people like Oprah and Tyler Perry backing it. Out friends at HitFix have debuted the second poster for Lee Daniels' Sundance (and Cannes) sensation Precious. Back in May we debuted the first great poster followed by the tremendous trailer for the film. And now we have this beautiful poster to hold us over until it hits theaters in November. Jeffrey Wells describes the poster best: "stylish and striking — a visual hint that Precious isn't up to the usual-usual. It tells you it's a film that comes to grips and flexes artistic muscle." Check this out full below.
Complete Character Poster Series for Shane Acker's 9!
Earlier in the week we featured the first character poster from Shane Acker's animated movie 9. After some searching, and help from a publicist, we were able to find all 8 of the poster in the series. These posters count up from 1 all the way to 9 featuring a new character from the movie on each one. If you've seen the trailer than you know that it's about this group of ragdoll heroes and 9, voiced by Elijah Wood, is the final key to saving the world. This is a cool little poster campaign, a lot like Coraline's A to Z posters, and I wanted to make sure we featured all of them! Thanks to everyone who helped find everyone last one.
Check This Out: Number 8 Character Poster for Shane Acker's 9
Armed with a giant kitchen cleaver and half a scissor blade, the none-too-bright muscle and enforcer of the group, 8 (voiced by Fred Tatasciore), was created to help the others physically survive the dangerous, post-apocalyptic world. io9 has debuted a new character poster for Shane Acker's animated movie 9 to compliment the official poster. I was expecting to see an entire series of these posters (from 1 to 9), but 24 hours after its debut, not a single other poster has popped up yet. Once they do put out an entire series of posters, I'll make sure to feature them again. For now, feast your eyes on this character poster for 9's 8.
Check This Out: Pierre Morel's From Paris with Love Poster
Of all the big things to talk about tonight (like Avatar or Transformers 2), I don't expect that many people to care about a little action movie from France. But then let me remind you that this is the next movie from the same guy who brought us Taken - Pierre Morel. From Paris with Love stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as "partners." Well, not exactly. Travolta plays a crazy American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in Paris, while Rhys Meyers plays a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador who meets up with him. That's the only intro you need. Check out the first teaser poster from IGN below.
New CinExpo Posters: Up in the Air, Iron Man 2, and More!
Cinema Expo International is currently being held in Amsterdam as we speak, and not only was there a presentation for James Cameron's Avatar including the first ever footage shown to public, but a few new posters have popped up online from the showfloor. CinExpo is the European equivalent of ShoWest (which we cover every year). It's an industry event which means it's not meant for the public, but photos like this always leak out anyway. Film1.nl has our first look at posters for Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2.
Check This Out: Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers Vampire Poster
More vampires? Haven't we seen enough of them with Twilight and True Blood? No, these are the dark, gritty vampires, and one of them in Willem Dafoe (and other is Ethan Hawke). Now I've got you interested! Daybreakers was first announced years ago, and we even featured some first look photos back in January of last year. Now our friends at Ain't It Cool News have finally debuted the first teaser poster. With any luck, this means we'll see a trailer this week. Lionsgate has scheduled this for release in January of next year. This looks a lot like the 30 Days of Night posters with a touch of 28 Days Later. Pretty badass, I'd say. You?
Check This Out: Michael Cera's Youth in Revolt Poster
What the heck is up with this? A hand-painted Michael Cera poster? Are we sure this isn't a fan creation? Cinematical has debuted the first official poster for Youth in Revolt, the upcoming comedy from The Weinstein Company / Lionsgate. The movie is coming-of-age story about an "ultra-angsty" teen named Nick Twisp (played by Michael Cera) who does everything he can in order to win the heart of (and lose his virginity to) his dream girl Sheeni Saunders. This poster, which arrives on the same weekend as Year One, is really just painful to look at. But maybe that's because I'm tired of Cera playing Cera and nothing more.
Two New Stylish Character Posters for Sherlock Holmes
So you've seen the trailer, now see the new posters as well! Er, that doesn't exactly work as well this time, but these are still badass! Empire has debuted two new official posters for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. These are a vastly different design than the moody, dark poster first revealed at ShoWest. In fact, I think this design is great, it's sleek, it's bright, and I love Downey Jr's hair the most - it's frickin' wild! I have a feeling that Sherlock Holmes is going to be the big hit of the holiday season (besides Avatar of course), plus, the trailer looked a lot better than I was expecting. Enjoy these!
Another Crazy New Poster for Christian Alvart's Pandorum!
Overture Films has put out yet another new poster for their upcoming sci-fi horror Pandorum directed by Christian Alvart. I don't have too much to say about this - we've seen multiple trailers and multiple posters before already. Obviously they're going all out with these posters and I generally like the gritty, grungy, crazy designs. This isn't my favorite one, but it's an improvement over their last poster with just the arm. I do think the metaphorical idea (of all the screaming in her mind) is a cool concept. But will it actually bring in an audience for this movie? I hope so, because I think this movie looks awesome. We'll see in September!
Official Poster for Bobcat Goldthwait's World's Greatest Dad
I had the choice to feature one of two indie posters today - and I went with World's Greatest Dad. (The other one was for Patton Oswalt's Big Fan over on Cinematical.) Why? Not because it's necessarily a better poster, but because World's Greatest Dad is a much better movie. I'm not going to go into all the specifics, but to put it simply, World's Greatest Dad is one of the best dark comedies and indie features you'll see all year. I'm pretty sure it still is Neil from Film School Reject's favorite film from Sundance and it's definitely one of the films that I've been anxious to see again (and show everyone). Thanks to NY Mag for debuting it.
Will These Five New Posters and a TV Spot Save G.I. Joe?
I doubt it. I'm not one for making accurate early predictions, but I fear G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is already headed down the tubes. Even if you were still looking forward to it a few weeks ago, that rumor about the internal struggles probably killed it. And I don't think putting out new posters and a new TV spot are going to make everyone forget how bad it looks or the story about how it probably shouldn't have been directed by Stephen Sommers. But maybe that's just me. Maybe I just think this looks so bad and everyone else thinks it looks good, I don't know. I just don't think these posters are going to make a difference.
Gorgeous Italian Poster for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Although all of those "is a Basterd" posters we saw during Cannes were awesome - this new one definitely kicks their ass. A new Italian poster for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has popped up online and it's gorgeous. I absolutely love this poster. It reminds me of the old hand-painted James Bond posters with the main cast posing in front and a montage of other actors in the background. To top it off, my excitement for Inglourious Basterds is growing by the minute, as I have a feeling it's going to be huge when August rolls around. I just hope we get a US version of this poster or I'll be flying to Italy to get one myself!
Brilliant Poster for Paul Giamatti's Cold Souls Indie Film
Now this might be a contender for the poster of the year. Cinematical has debuted the official poster for Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls starring Paul Giamatti as himself. The film is a Being John Malkovich-like story about how Giamatti loses his "soul" when an experimental soul extraction company misplaces it. It premiered at Sundance earlier this year to lukewarm reviews, but has been praised by others (Eric from IONCinema called it one of the best films of the year). Now we finally have an official poster to promote its early August limited release and it's absolutely brilliant. You'll definitely want to see this full-size below!
Beautiful Official Poster for Shane Acker's 9 Finally Revealed!
Focus Features has finally debuted the official poster for Shane Acker's 9, the animated movie featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, and Martin Landau. This arrives just a week or so after we featured a Russian poster for 9 that other websites also praised. This really is a beautiful poster and I'm so glad to see Focus Features end up choosing a wonderful design like this. I'm also happy to see that this got a PG-13 rating, which definitely means that it'll be very dark and edgy. Thanks to our good friends at Film School Rejects for debuting this beauty today.
More New District 9 Viral Posters and Banners Discovered
I'm back again with your weekly update on all things District 9. There's not much to report on this week, although I have it on good authority that we should be seeing something very exciting next week. However, I do want to feature this new bus shelter poster as seen below (via Trailer Addict). I've actually seen this on display around Los Angeles, in addition to some of the new banners seen beneath it, as Sony has been covering major cities with as much of this viral advertising as they can (and I like it so far). This is a cleaner version of the target found on the District 9 poster and I think it's a much more effective design by itself.
Check This Out: Coffee Stained Winged Creatures Poster
Another sleek new poster to feature today. This one is for an indie film called Winged Creatures from Australian filmmaker Rowan Woods. Peace Arch Entertainment recently retitled the film to just Fragments for its US release, even though this poster is not from the US. I wanted to feature it today because, although it's not the best film, the poster has a pretty cool design showing a spilled cup of coffee that turns into a bird. Simple, but effective, and well done in the visual context of the poster. Unfortunately, I had the chance to see this late last year, and it was terrible. But even so, this poster is worth checking out in full below.
Final Poster Debut for Nora Ephron's Julie and Julia
There's not much else worth looking at tonight, so why don't you check out this final poster for Julie & Julia, the new summer dramedy from Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. You've probably seen the trailer - but if not, it's online and ready to watch. Thanks to Sony for debuting this on their official Twitter. This is probably not something most guys out there will really care about, but it's the perfect summer alternative for your significant other. There's one name not mentioned on this poster - and that's Chris Messina, the very talent and highly underrated New York actor, who plays Amy Adam's husband.