NEVER LET ME GO posters are ambiguous and a little silly
Aug 26
Mark Romanek‘s upcoming sort-of sci-fi Never Let Me Go has a pretty good trailer. It’s based on one of Time magazine’s favourite books of the decade. And it’s got awards darling Carey Mulligan, ex-Mrs-pirate Keira Knightley, and future Spider-Man Andrew Garfield. Something for everyone, then.
These new posters are a bit less goofy-looking than the average floating-heads deal, but splitting the title up over three different posters is a risky move. How many cinemas have room enough to spare three poster boxes, adjacent no less, to advertise one film? A film that looks too good, too interesting and too unique to make any money? Not many.
Never Let Me Go goes into limited US release on 15 September 2010; it’s due in the UK on 14 January 2011; no Aussie release dates yet.
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New poster for De Niro, Norton, Jovovich drama STONE
Aug 24
Ahead of its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, JoBlo got an exclusive look at the new poster for Stone starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and a very raunchy Milla Jovovich. Re-teaming De Niro and Norton is enough to get me excited, but thankfully the trailer, released last month, was equally impressive.
It can be irritating getting excited over a movie that is only getting a limited released in the U.S. because it was an independent production, but here I am falling head over heels again for a film I’ll have to wait months to see in Australia.
Stone opens to limited screens in the U.S. from 8 October.
New EXPENDABLES poster makes body-counting a competitive sport
Aug 20
The Expendables has been out for over a week now. It dominated the US box office last weekend, taking $35 million and beating the stuffing out of Julia Roberts vehicle Eat Pray Love in the process. Perhaps in an effort to celebrate the film’s general awesomeness, or maybe to help drive sales even more, the following poster has been produced, though its officialness is dubious at best.
Also dubious is Arnie‘s absence from the body count. I’m sure he could easily double — possibly quadruple* — the gang’s cumulative total (*slight exaggeration). Nevertheless, the body count (as in, dead body count) is entertaining and informative, so cast an eye over it if you’d like.
It’s kind of embarrassing that Couture and Crews only have 2 kills to their name, each — not that I’d say that to their faces, of course. And what would the gang’s Expendables kill count do to the total, I wonder?
The Expendables is currently in cinemas. Read what Jason thought about it here.
SKYLINE poster is filled with bodies, blue things
Aug 20
Following on from the money-shot in the film’s first teaser, Skyline‘s first poster focuses on the massive-spaceships-vacuuming-up-hapless-souls aspect of its story, hoping to get some jaws dropping in the process.
In my opinion, too many alien invasion movies is never enough; the idea itself is compelling and ominous to be endlessly entertaining. Stephen Hawking’s pessimistic assertion that any life more advanced than us will inevitably destroy us one way or another is (thankfully) yet to be tested, so a little vicarious what-iffery couldn’t hurt in the meantime.
Of course, the fact that the film is directed by the Brothers Strouse bodes ill for the project, but we’ll wait and see. After all, there is some perverse pleasure to be had in watching America get alternately blown up / invaded / flooded in Roland Emmerich‘s disaster films, so maybe Skyline will be entertaining in the same way.
Skyline is due in the States on 12 November 2010.
Trailer for Wes Craven’s MY SOUL TO TAKE is predictably mediocre
Aug 18
When a trailer opens with the softly spoken poetic words of that evening prayer Metallica made famous and is quickly filled with a soft ‘metal’ soundtrack, clichéd cheap-scare editing and the promise of terrifying 3D, I quickly realise I’m watching something that completely misses me as the target audience.
Take as many teen slasher movies as you like and mash them together, this is what you get: My Soul To Take, directed by Wes Craven. A predictably mediocre mess that looks as atrocious as a remake of one of his older films, only it’s a completely original script. If this is the form he’s taking in to Scream 4, I’d say there’s a good reason to be worried. Yes, I’m judging all this on the trailer alone– that’s the point of a trailer.
Perhaps kids today buy into this shit, but someone should sit them down and show them Jaws and The Shining (hell, even the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) and explain what makes them work so well; by extension proving My Soul To Take, in comparison, looks like absolute cookie-cutter garbage.
My Soul To Take opens 8 October in the U.S.
In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer…
OPINIONS COUNT