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First US Poster for 'Foxcatcher' with Channing Tatum is Unimaginative
by Alex Billington
June 30, 2014
Source: People
An American flag in the background, a hot actor front and center in a pose that evokes no emotions. This poster sucks. First things first, let me say that I absolutely love this movie. I caught the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and flipped for it, ranking it as one of my Top 5 films of Cannes 2014 and praising it in a glowing review. During Cannes, the first teaser and much-more-impressive French poster for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher debuted, and now we finally get a glimpse at Sony Classics' US marketing material and it's boring. Channing Tatum is just standing there, acting unlike his character. This film deserves better.
New official poster for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, debuted by People magazine. Seen full-size right here:
Watch the first teaser trailer. And here's the French teaser poster for Foxcatcher that is much better.
Foxcatcher is directed by Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) and written by Dan Futterman (Capote, "In Treatment") and E. Max Frye ("Band of Brothers"). The film tells the gripping, true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz & Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with eccentric John du Pont (Steve Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune, that led to a gruesome murder. Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall also star in the film which Sony Pictures Classics releases in the heart of awards season on November 14th this fall. Read our review.
7 Comments
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Come on, the French poster looks like a dying man's memoir. Someone gonna sell the movie to a wider audience. Don't be such a whiner!
Fei on Jun 30, 2014
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Am really just wondering if you say this kind of stuff just to get people to click on it. No offence but the French poster and this poster is entirely different to compare with. With the French poster all you had was the names and an image that looked like Steve Carell's character from Despicable Me crossed over into the live action world. There was nothing really eye grabbing about that poster on first glance unless you stared really hard to see the White House further in the background, but still more less I would just count it as a simple teaser. This poster we now actually have a familiar face and that's Channing Tatum who the majority of film audiences know. He is simply standing (because people in posters can't obviously move) against an American Flag. What does it symbolize? And that is the mystery for people who don't about the film. It's simply a hint and teaser of events to come. I guess anyway we are going to have another "Black and White Lincoln Poster" debate on here.
Stephen Ritchie on Jun 30, 2014
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I also think the wrestling community will prefer this poster to the Cannes one.
Fei on Jun 30, 2014
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So, just to be clear.... you're calling Channing Tatum hot?
rolyjimenez on Jun 30, 2014
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What do you expect the poster to look like for a movie like this.. The poster fits the tone of the movie, like posters are supposed to do. It did it's job and looks good for the type of movie it is. It doesn't suck.
steve on Jun 30, 2014
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I would have liked some artistic thing with a fox and a large net.
DAVIDPD on Jun 30, 2014
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