POSTERS
Exclusive: First Promo Posters from the Croisette at Cannes!
by Alex Billington
May 11, 2009
My decision to fly out to France a few days early has paid off. Earlier today, I went down to explore the Croisette, the famous street where everything takes place during the Cannes Film Festival. It is traditional that all major and minor studios and distributors line the street with new posters and marketing material, not only to capture the interest of the thousands of cinephiles who have come to this city for the fest, but it's also (for the indie studios) an attempt to gain the attention of international distributors. Below we have the first exclusive photos of a few of these promo posters from both big and small releases!
Joel Schumacher's Twelve
Daniel Stamm's Cotton produced by Eli Roth & Atom Egoyan's Chloe
Marcos Efron's And Soon the Darkness & Robert Guédiguian's The Army of Crime
Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones
Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
Also in front of the Hôtel Carlton were huge promo banners for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe, and Pixar's Up. That's also where The Lovely Bones banner and A Christmas Carol posters came from. We are waiting to head back to the hotel later at night, as the Transformers and G.I. Joe setups have fluorescent lights and will be lit up at night (so check back later for those). Thanks to my good friend Eric Lavallee at IONCinema.com (who is also my roommate during the fest) for a few of these photos above. If we find more great posters over the next week, we'll be sure to add them. The fest kicks off this Wednesday!
18 Comments
1
Shutter Island looks totally epic!! Same with Christmas Carol, and Army of Crime. Alex, will these movies premiere at the festival?? or are they just promos?
Zachy on May 11, 2009
2
Awesome man, keep the news coming. I'm already going crazy over a couple of posters
Angelo on May 11, 2009
3
Shutter Island looks great, and Army of Crime (which I had not heard of until now) looks intriguing.
Elessar on May 11, 2009
4
I am heading down there from Amsterdam tomorrow morning and man these billboard photos definitely get me excited and in the mood! Thanks for posting them!
Jules on May 11, 2009
5
Kon ik maar mee! Werk hé 🙁
Angelo on May 11, 2009
6
Oops, I saw Amsterdam and my mind just switch to Dutch. Nevermind that post.
Angelo on May 11, 2009
7
@ #1....how can a movie look epic just from looking at a poster?
Bucker on May 11, 2009
9
Did u see The Immaginarium of Doctor Parnassus!? No one thing come untill now!!
andrea on May 11, 2009
10
That's a seriously shit poster for Shutter Island. Looks like the cover of a cheap paperback.
Harold on May 11, 2009
11
wow great work Alex.. nice to see a bunch of films I havent even heard of till now.
dom on May 11, 2009
12
Leo kinda looks like Val Kilmer in that poster.
Chuck Norris on May 11, 2009
14
Cute Girl - thats an animated 3D version of Jim I believe.
dom on May 12, 2009
15
Wow. Worth going just to check out the posters. And the yachts. And the girls. Any tips on how to crash one of those celebrity parties? I met a girl who "did" Cannes two years in a row. Called herself a "Movie Producer" - had a French S.A.R.L. company set up to do that but didn't have a clue. BUT she did get invited to parties and events. Was introduced to Speilberg and didn't know who he was. She just said "Hello Steven". Then got so drunk when she was introduced to Harvey Weinstein said "Hi Warvey". True story. 🙂
Bob Done on May 12, 2009
17
@15 (Bob Done) Good story, but I would have lol'd extra hard if you had signed off with a name like 'Tarantino' or 'Del Toro'. Haha
Marcus on May 12, 2009
18
Shutter Island looks good Christmas Carol.....Been waiting for this Army of Crime.........Never heard of this movie. What is it about *guess I can google it NVM*
SHANEDAV on May 12, 2009
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