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Three new posters have been released, all for films we’re very excited for here at c, vt. Check them out after the jump.
The first is for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. The film is still more or less shrouded in mystery, but we’re starting to hear hints and whispers that it will involve a technology that allows a person to enter someone else’s mind, dreams, etc. to poke around for various reasons. In either case, it’s got an absolutely stellar cast and c’mon, it’s Christopher Nolan. I need no other reason to see this movie. But if that’s not enough for you, we’ve got a new poster to show off, courtesy of the film’s official site. If it recalls the poster for The Dark Knight, you’re absolutely right — it does. But does it mean anything? I don’t think so, but people are speculating…
The next one is the last character banner for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, and comes courtesy of IGN. It features Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl, and she’s looking quite…purple.
The last one comes via IMPAwards and is for the Martin Campbell-Mel Gibson revenge thriller Edge of Darkness.
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Apple has debuted the new one-sheet for Iron Man 2, featuring Mickey Rourke as the villain Whiplash. This comes on the heels of the poster last week that featured Iron Man and War Machine. Those of you eager to get your first look at some footage from the film can rest easy, as Film School Rejects is also reporting today that Paramount has officially confirmed that the Iron Man 2 trailer will be attached to Sherlock Holmes, which comes out Christmas Day. You can see the poster below, after the jump.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has been busy on the poster front as well, releasing three brand new ones for Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans. The first two show off Sam Worthington as Perseus in a couple of his more well-known moments — brandishing the head of Medusa and riding the Pegasus. The third one is a somewhat lazily Photoshopped triptych showing off some key figures/moments from the film. Check out all three posters, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, after the jump as well.
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A new still and poster has debuted online for Tron Legacy over at UK site HeyUGuys. I believe this is our first official look at Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde in character, though I could be mistaken about that.
Now, you guys probably already know that we’re pretty excited about this one, especially after having seen some of the footage that has made its way online. The still and poster only reinforce what we’ve already seen; that is, Tron Legacy looks beautiful and exactly the way a Tron sequel (reboot?) should. It doesn’t hit until December 17 of 2010, but I’m already dreaming of 3D lightcycles and Jeff Bridges-related awesomeness.
Check out the still and poster after the jump, as well as the official synopsis. Read»
Yahoo has got the exclusive on the new Iron Man 2 teaser poster, showing off not only Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit, but Rhodey’s shiny new War Machine armor. The poster sure is a pretty piece of marketing; it’s simple, but effective. It does make me wonder just how much of War Machine we’ll see though. Based on the footage that’s been released, I’d guess that he doesn’t come in until close to the climactic and inevitable battle at the end, though the poster certainly wants to suggest more of a tag-team tandem than we may actually end up getting. I guess we’ll see.
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A trailer and poster has been released for writer-director Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, a film that has been drawing a lot of comparisons to last year’s The Wrestler lately and has been building some serious Oscar buzz for Jeff Bridges early in this awards season.
Bridges is really one of the most talented actors we have. This isn’t quite the same story as the 2008 Oscar race, where Mickey Rourke revived his once-promising career with the performance of a lifetime; Bridges has been consistently good throughout his career and was Oscar-nominated four times for his efforts, so it’s more him being on his A-game than a resurrection. Still, a statue would be a fitting reward for over two decades of memorable performances, and Bridges looks to have turned in a mighty powerful one here. He pulls double duty by also supplying some vocals for the soundtrack, which country crooner T Bone Burnett contributed some original music to and co-produced.
Catch the trailer after the jump, as well as some more info and the first theatrical poster. Read»
For yet another movie-in-a-trailer, check out this new one released for Amy Adams’ upcoming romantic comedy Leap Year. The movie follows a woman (Adams) who decides to take matters into her own hands after the four year anniversary with her steady boyfriend (Adam Scott) comes and goes without the marriage proposal she was expecting. Taking advantage of her boyfriend’s upcoming trip to Dublin, she decides to follow him there and make use of an Irish tradition where women are allowed to propose to men on February 29th. Trouble arises, however, when a thunderstorm diverts her plane to Wales and she must rely on a roguish native (Matthew Goode) to help get her across the country in time.
If you want to find out what happens next, and then after that, and even after that, just watch the trailer embedded after the jump. Read»
New posters have landed online for both Kick-Ass and The Wolfman. The Kick-Ass ones feature four character posters that compile into one giant awesome banner, while The Wolfman harkens back to its black & white roots with a grainy, spooky shot of Emily Blunt on the run. They’re definitely both pretty neat pieces of movie marketing, and I especially wouldn’t mind the Kick-Ass ones spanning across my apartment walls.
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Based off of the domestic and international trailers we’ve seen for Green Zone, I think it’s safe to say that audiences are already expecting this to be the next installment in the Bourne franchise. Well, the first poster has just arrived for Green Zone, and it certainly doesn’t seek to correct this assumption.
You can’t exactly call this a bad move from the marketing guys. The Bourne movies have been fantastic, especially the last two installments – which just happened to be directed by Paul Greengrass, the same guy that directed Green Zone. His pairings with Matt Damon have resulted in not only critical success but box office gold, so why would Universal shy away from the comparison? Anyway, Empire’s got the exclusive on the poster, which you can check out after the jump. Read»
MTV’s got a new trailer up for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, and it’s got quips a-plenty, action in every frame, and style to boot.
Come to think of it, the Sherlock Holmes trailers that we’ve seen have been a bit of a mess plot-wise; that is, I still don’t have a very clear idea of just what the plot is. Mark Strong’s some sort of nefarious, perhaps supernatural villain, and Holmes and Watson are on the case? Anyway, they’re definitely selling chemistry and style more than anything else, especially between Robert Downey, Jr.’s Holmes and Jude Law’s Watson. And you know what? It’s enough. It totally works, and I’m ready to get to the theater just to see the two play off of each other.
The trailer finally gives Rachel McAdams something to do, though I still feel like her presence in the movie is being undersold here. Her dry delivery towards the end is one of the best moments in the trailer, and I think she’ll be just as integral a piece to Sherlock Holmes‘ entertainment and success as all the bare-knuckle brawls and one-liners.
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We’ve got posters for two upcoming movies today!
The first one is a little old, but better late than never right? Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles stars Zac Efron, Claire Danes, and Christian McKay, and centers on a young and scrappy actor in the 30’s who manages to fanagle his way onto the cast of Welles’ stage production of “Julius Caesar.” If you haven’t already seen the very promising trailer, you can check it out here. Meanwhile, Cinematical debuted the poster a week and a half ago; you can see it below the jump.
The other is the first poster for Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela-Francois Pienaar drama, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The film, once titled The Human Factor, centers on South Africa in 1995, when Mandela allied with Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby team, to unite and heal his country after the abolishment of apartheid. That year, the underdog team went on an unlikely run to the Rugby World Cup Championship. Check out the poster below the jump as well, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
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Jackie Chan’s latest film, The Spy Next Door, just had its poster and trailer debut online. The family adventure flick finds Chan as international spy Bob Ho, living undercover in suburbia while on loan to the American government. Things turn hairy when Ho is asked to babysit his neighbor’s children and winds up having to fight off secret agents after one of the kids inadvertently downloads a secret code. Amber Valletta, Billy Ray Cyrus, and George Lopez also co-star.
If the trailer looks familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen pretty much the exact same set up multiple times before. Only this time, instead of a family of spies or Vin Diesel, we get Chan and his requisite kung fu hustling taking center stage. I guess that’s enough to get audiences to pay for a movie they’ve seen before, though. Chan is pretty entertaining, after all. Check out the poster and trailer after the jump.
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One of the films that really jumped from obscurity into the hearts and minds of movie fans after Comic Con was Scott Stewart’s Legion. And it seems to resonate with geeks and non-geeks alike, too, as I’ve heard excitement coming from all different kinds of people.
Today, we have 6 new character banners for the film. The text on each link up to quote from Matthew 13:49 — “So it will be at the end of the age the angels will come forth to take out the wicked and throw them into the furnace of fire.” Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, and Kevin Durand each feature on one of the one-sheets. Check three of them out below, then head over to JoBlo to see the rest!
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If this is how Mel Gibson is kicking off his comeback tour, count me in for the ride.
The trailer and poster for Gibson’s newest movie Edge of Darkness hit today, and boy does it look like a doozy. You have to go all the way back to 2002’s Signs to find the last time he headlined a feature film, but if the trailer is any indication, I would say Gibson’s star is far from done shining brightly. Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is steering the ship this time, with a script by The Departed writer William Monahan. We’re back in Boston for this gritty crime thriller, the hometown of Monahan, and I think the screenwriter’s already proved sufficiently he knows how to spin a yarn in that city.
The story follows Gibson as a detective whose activist daughter is killed on the doorstep of their home. Grieving over her death and the bullet he believes was intended for him, he soon uncovers darker and bigger powers at play than he ever imagined. Instead of backing down however, he unfurls the full extent of his anguish and wrath as he blazes a warpath in searching for his daughter’s killers.
Check out the trailer after the jump. Read»
