Posted Aug 19th 2008 4:02PM by Eric D. Snider
Filed under: Fandom, Posters
If you were looking for a good way to kill some time at work today, I have just the thing: a fiendish, frustrating puzzle!
The folks at
Empire Online have devised a quiz wherein you are asked to identify a movie based only on one letter taken from its poster. The quiz looks like a ransom note -- "CAN YOU GUESS ALL THESE MOVIES FROM JUST THESE LETTERS?" -- and you basically have to recognize the fonts, though in some cases there are other clues, too. That "S" has a period after it ... or is it a bullet hole? The "O" seems to be spotted. Why is there a hand in that "A"?
I didn't think I'd do very well, but I wound up getting a lot of them. (I'd know that "J" anywhere!) It helps that a lot of the films are fairly recent and that none of them are obscure. Many are Oscar-winners and/or box-office champs. Use your powers of recall, your powers of deduction (why is there a quotation mark with the "G"?), and your powers of wasting time on the Internet.
Posted Aug 14th 2008 3:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Posters
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Here's a piece of coolness that's been making its way around the internets today. From our friends at
First Showing (via
Superhero Hype) comes what appears to be a fan made poster for
The Dark Knight Returns (click to enlarge
), a sequel to this summer's
The Dark Knight. No, a third Batman film has not been announced yet, so don't go gettin' your knickers in a twist thinking they've already started promoting the next film. (God, please don't tell me they've already started promoting it -- I think I speak for all us online movie dudes when I say we need a few months off to recover from this puppy.)
That said, can you spot the two new characters this poster introduces? Yes, one of them is Riddler, but the other is a bit harder to locate. (Hint: Look at the newspaper articles.) No one knows exactly what direction the next Batman movie will head in, except for the Nolan boys should they decide to pen the script. Riddler is a cool character, but is he too close to Joker? Should they take a chance on Catwoman? Should they dip into a lesser known villain, or create a brand new one? One thing's for sure: You folks will not get tired of
this debate anytime soon ...
Posted Aug 13th 2008 3:02PM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: Lionsgate Films, Celebrities and Controversy, Movie Marketing, Images, Posters
Yesterday, Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere put up the poster for the new comedy My Best Friend's Girl, starring Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Jason Biggs and Alec Baldwin. The poster (which premiered online earlier this summer) is boring in the extreme, making the film look like your typical snoozerific rom-com, and the digital altering on the photo makes everyone involved look rather ... freakish.
My first reaction on seeing the poster was, "Boy, somebody's screwing up the marketing on this film," quickly followed by "Hey, I don't remember Dane Cook's complexion looking quite so dewy-fresh ... "
I've seen the red-band trailer, which is actually pretty funny, if you can overlook the more misogynistic elements (or at least, in my own case, overcome the feminist tendency to be immediately annoyed by blow-job jokes) , and the film being marketed in that trailer and the film being promoted on this poster are not the same film. Not that it looks like something I'd choose to see over a good indie flick, but if I wanted a lightweight comedy film, and I'd already seen Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express, and couldn't find anything else to do here in Seattle on a nice day, I'd maybe see this.
Continue reading Dane Cook Rants About the Lame Poster for 'My Best Friend's Girl'
Posted Aug 12th 2008 3:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, IFC, Fandom, Family Films, Movie Marketing, Posters
Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for the film
Ping Pong Playa (click image above to enlarge), directed by Jessica Yu (
Protagonist). Starring Jimmy Tsai (who also co-wrote the script with Yu),
Ping Pong Playa follows one kid who dreams about escaping his dead-end job and playing professional basketball in the NBA ... except his entire family is obsessed with the world of ping pong. His dad runs a ping pong-related store, his mom teaches the sport and his brother is a ping pong champion. Will our hero break away from the pong pressure and live out his b-ballin' dreams, or will he discover that the game he dissed was the game he missed?
In her
positive review from last year's Toronto International Film Festival,
Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel called
Ping Pong Playa "a refreshing reversal from the usual comedic fare -- a lone Asian American beacon of laughs in a sea that usually has only spots of color." Check out the trailer after the jump.
Ping Pong Playa arrives in theaters on September 5.
Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: 'Ping Pong Playa' Poster Premiere!
Posted Aug 10th 2008 12:32PM by Eugene Novikov
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Fandom, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Posters
Those attending VegasCon '08 saw four new character posters for J.J. Abrams'
Star Trek, which give us our first look at the reborn versions of Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and McCoy. The image above shows Karl Urban as Leonard McCoy and Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov; you'll have to go to
TrekMovie.com, which had the first photo of the posters, to see Simon Pegg as Scotty and John Cho as Sulu. It should surprise no one that these Starfleet officers are much more photogenic than their original counterparts, and not, I think, merely because they're younger. (I mean,
look at this guy.)
This comes on the heels of the first screening of the complete film for Paramount execs, which apparently
went very well, though since the source for that could really only be from inside Paramount, I'd take that with a huge grain of salt.
I came to
Star Trek late, which led to oddball results like my liking
Star Trek: Voyager. (I think that asking "What would Janeway do?" is a good way to lead your life.) So I'm likely to be less offended by canon alterations than die-hard fans of the original series. Thoughts on the new versions of these characters?
Posted Aug 5th 2008 9:02AM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Cinematical Indie, Posters
Cinematical has just received the above exclusive poster for Claude Chabrol's
A Girl Cut in Two (click on the image to enlarge). The French film, which opens on Friday in New York (and On Demand), focuses on a French TV weather girl who is caught between two men. One is a famous author she loves who refuses to leave his wife, while the other is a younger industrial heir. Looking at the poster, I think of the swinging decade of a time long past, but I doubt there's any '60s flavor in the foreign film. However, you can divulge in a feature that our
Jeffrey M. Anderson called "
another superbly-made, highly enjoyable Chabrol film."
Posted Aug 4th 2008 7:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Images, Posters
Cinematical has just received this exclusive final poster for
Igor (click image to enlarge), who just looks like the most adorable little awkward hunchback I've ever seen. With a voice cast that includes folks like John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Izzard, Christian Slater ... and, well, look at the poster for a complete rundown ...
Igor centers on that dude in purple right there -- the hunch-backed assistant to an evil scientist who has dreams of winning the Evil Science Fair and becoming a Mad Scientist too. (And some kids wanna be doctors and lawyers -- screw that!)
Igor arrives in theaters on September 19, and it really does look like a lot of fun. Go check out the trailer after the jump; it's kinda like
Young Frankenstein meets Tim Burton meets a CGI flick you won't mind spending a few bucks on. Pull the switch!
Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: 'Igor' Final Poster Premiere!
Posted Aug 1st 2008 3:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Exhibition, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Posters
... Because when you woke up this morning, the first thought to hit your brain was, "Wouldn't it be great to get a good look at some naked blue ass at some point today." That's what we're here for!
All kidding aside, Warner Bros. has released some really cool
Watchmen character posters, all of which you can check out (in giant form) by clicking through the gallery below.
Watchmen was among a small group of films that had a major presence at this year's San Diego Comic Con. Director Zack Snyder had his entire cast in attendance, and he also brought with him an extended trailer for the flick that had fans (including
our own Elisabeth Rappe) all giddy and whatnot. I plan to start reading the graphic novel for the first time next week (so I can actually know what the hell I'm writing about as the film's release date grows closer), but in the meantime feel free to tell us what you're most excited about seeing.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Posted Aug 1st 2008 1:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Drama, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Movie Marketing, Images, Posters
Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for the film
Doubt (click image above to enlarge), starring
Meryl Streep,
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Amy Adams. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name,
Doubt was written, adapted for the screen and directed by
John Patrick Shanley (whose last directorial effort came in the form of the very awesome
Joe Versus the Volcano). Set at a Catholic School in the Bronx in 1964,
Doubt tells of a stern principal and nun (Streep) who accuses a priest (Hoffman) of "acting inappropriately" with a young black student, and the younger, inexperienced nun (Adams) who comes between the two.
While on Broadway,
Doubt was the talk of the town, and we expect this big-screen version to give us more than one buzz-worthy performance, especially with a cast like this. I can't be the only one looking forward to a little
Doubt this December. Have you seen the play? Whaddya think?
Posted Jul 31st 2008 2:32PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Fandom, Exhibition, Posters
I don't know how I never saw these, but some old
Canadian Filmmakers Festival posters are sailing through the web, and they show what spoofing should be like. Think Jaws -vs- a fisherman, the little Poltergeist girl swayed by hockey, Superman ready for winter, and Dorothy in a pair of sensible boots rather than slippers. But my favorite is above, because it would make one hell of an awesome comedic remake of
The Birds. Canadian geese -- they're the real birdly foe. They take over outdoor spaces, attack you to mark their territory, and they're scarier than Hitchcock's mean feathered fiends. If only these were the sort of spoofs hitting the big screen these days.
Check them out in the gallery below, and read more about the festival
over here.
[via
Slashfilm]
Posted Jul 31st 2008 2:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Drama, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Posters
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Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for
The Secret Life of Bees (click above image to enlarge), based on Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling coming-of-age novel. And talk about an all-star cast of top-notch female talent,
Bees stars
Queen Latifah,
Jennifer Hudson,
Dakota Fanning,
Alicia Keys and
Sophee Okonedo. The film, which is set in South Carolina in 1964, follows two friends (Fanning and Latifah) who run away from home in order to solve the mystery surrounding one of their mothers. Eventually, the three Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Keys and Okonedo) take the two girls in and teach them how to care for and raise bees. The book itself has a ton of fans, and I expect the film -- especially with this cast -- to win over a slew of new ones as well.
The Secret Life of Bees buzzes into theaters on October 17.
Posted Jul 30th 2008 3:30PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Movie Marketing, Remakes and Sequels, Images, Posters
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Back during Comic Con, this poster (click to enlarge) was hanging up at the press conference and we snapped some iffy images of it. Now, however, the good folks over at Warner Bros. have sent us a shiny new version which looks a whole heckuva lot better. In case you didn't read it yet (slacker!),
Terminator: Salvation won our
Comic Con award for best all-around presentation at the convention. Not only did McG "bring it," but his cast was just as excited. Granted, they're still in the middle of filming -- which means they're currently eating, sleeping and sh*tting Terminator -- but it was nice to see some great footage and a jazzed-up crew. Trust me when I say the two-or-so-minutes of footage was pretty dynamite and I'm now convinced McG will deliver a highly-entertaining flick at the very least.
Terminator: Salvation will arrive in theaters on May 22, 2009.
Posted Jul 29th 2008 6:32PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Images, ComicCon, Posters
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Above:
Cinematical's Erik Davis poses with the three female stars of Bitch Slap. (And yes, that is a Flux Capacitor on my t-shirt ...)
They didn't have a panel or a party, but the folks behind the upcoming
Bitch Slap were everywhere, literally. I, personally, ran into these girls on several different occasions, and in a building packed with thousands of people, it's pretty damn rare to stumble across the same person twice. Heck, because of their sly guerilla-marketing techniques, we'll also be giving them a special Comic Con award later on, but in the meantime make sure you check out the hi-res versions of the
Bitch Slap Comic Con character posters in the gallery below.
You've probably seen these bad boys hanging around on other sites, but
Cinematical is the first to have them in sparkling hi-res. In case you forgot
about our previous post on the film (where we debuted the poster and several images),
Bitch Slap is described as a "post-modern, thinking man's throwback to the "B" Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950's - 70's as well as a loving, sly parody of the same," and it stars Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor, as well as Julia Voth, America Olivo and Erin Cummings.
Check out the gallery below, and for more on
Bitch Slap feel free to head to the
film's official website.
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 10:28PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images, ComicCon, Posters
Walking around Preview Night here at San Diego Comic Con and, well, we kinda stumbled upon this poster (click image to enlarge) for
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The film wasn't supposed to have a major presence here at Con, so it's nice to at least see a poster for the flick, which hits theaters on May 1, 2009. We'll have a whole bunch of photos for you from Preview Night here at Con in just a little bit -- in the meantime, what do you think about this poster? Does it get you excited for the film? Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber and Danny Huston,
X-Men Origins: Wolverine will claw its way into theaters next summer.
For complete coverage of the 2008 San Diego International Comic Con, check out the
official Cinematical Comic Con Hub.
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 10:02AM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Thrillers, Movie Marketing, Posters
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Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for
Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, and Patrick Wilson. Oh, the watchful eye of Jackson. This time around, he plays one of the creepiest types of bad guys -- a cop who can't be stopped. While a neighborhood like Lakeview Terrace sounds great and all, it becomes anything but when an interracial couple (Washington and Wilson) move next door to Jackson's racist cop. The man in blue starts off subtly -- an annoying light here, an awkward scare there, and then goes into full-on creepy neighbor to get the couple to hit the road. But Wilson will have none of that and crazily decides to take on the imbalanced cop.
Lakeview Terrace will hit theaters on September 19.
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