Real Steel, the robot battledome caper that already gave us the funniest trailer of the past two months, is back with a serious new one-sheet. Is Hugh Jackman thrilled to compete in the Remote Control Robot Derby? The answer is an eerie yes.
So far, the marketing for The Ides of March -- current Oscar runner-up per the Gurus of Gold, for what that's worth -- has done well to emphasize one important fact: the film stars Ryan Gosling, which is good since everyone loves Ryan Gosling. The latest international poster follows suit, with The Gos making puppy-dog eyes at George Clooney, but what's really cool is that the letter "O" in the the title is actually a snake eating its own tail. Ouroboros represent! Click through for a look.
In What's Your Number?, Anna Faris stars as a woman who revisits her past sexual conquests in the hopes of finding her real soulmate. She seemingly won't have much luck with her prior lays, if only because Chris Evans plays her probable future sexual conquest/soulmate -- but, hey, it's the thought that counts. That thought is at the center of the French poster for What's Your Number?, which features the film's very-direct French title change. Click through for a look and a chuckle.
Hopefully you aren't tired of seeing Michelle Williams at the Academy Awards. The twice-nominated star stands a very good chance of becoming thrice nominated in 2012 thanks to her role as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. Whether or not the film holds water as an Oscar contender remains to be seen -- it will debut at the New York Film Festival in October -- but the first poster isn't concerned with any of that; it's all about Michelle-as-Marilyn. Click through for a look.
Cannes crowd-pleaser The Artist -- a black-and-white, silent (save the musical score) film about Hollywood in the '20s -- isn't tampering with the poster that ushered in its success: The Weinstein Company is reusing the gorgeous shot that led to the movie's best actor prize for Jean Dujardin. Michel Hazanavicius's Gallic flick hits the states on Nov. 23. Can you handle the intense Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert throwback?
Another day, another inventive bit of marketing for the indie drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. On the heels of the QR-coded trailers for the Sundance sensation that debuted online Monday, the Fox Searchlight team has released a motion poster of MMMM that is subtle, affecting and totally creepy. Awesome! If star Elizabeth Olsen is the next Jennifer Lawrence, she already has her predecessor beat; you didn't see a motion poster for Winter's Bone, did you? (Lawrence didn't get her first motion poster until The Hunger Games.) Click through for a look.
Of all the movies to come out in 2003, did you expect Underworld to produce three sequels? Not The Italian Job? Or the ever-empowering What a Girl Wants? Well, in the upcoming fourth installment of the series, Underworld: Awakening (in 3D), Kate Beckinsale reprises her role from the first two films, vampire warrioress Selene, "who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species." Sounds urgent. In the meantime, the movie's new teaser poster calls to mind 10 unmistakable images -- some of which are silly! Join us for some curated Beckinsale art.
We've already discussed how Taylor Lautner might not be a believable protagonist in an action film, especially one where Sigourney-effing-Weaver is relegated to a supporting role. Now we have to wonder if Abduction is believable as a film at all, since its new poster takes a page out of a very-effing-popular movie franchise from the past decade. Run like Tay-tay, and click through for comparison.
I'm always nervous for adaptations of less-appreciated Shakespearean works. If you're going to mount, say, Titus Andronicus, you have to find a way to make the violence meaningful. If you're heading up a Tempest reboot, you have to deal with the extraneous fourth act elegantly. And if you're reworking Coriolanus, you have to -- well -- find a way to make it interesting. Luckily, Ralph Fiennes is summoning his Amon Goeth fury in the poster for the new Weinstein adaptation, and Gerard Butler looks tough as his adversary. Excited?
I'm sworn to secrecy regarding my recent previewing of Machine Gun Preacher, director Marc Forster's forthcoming biopic about Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania junkie ex-con-turned-born-again-orphanage-building-gunslinging savior of Sudan. But there's nothing that I or anybody else can say about the film that isn't summed up in its new one-sheet featuring star and co-producer Gerard Butler, which is like whoaaa.
Ah, the floating, disembodied head; a staple of many movie posters -- apparently even ones without flesh-and-blood stars with heads to disembody. The lastest artwork for The Adventures of Tintin has arrived, ready to take on complaints about the uncanny valley head-on. (Mini-groan.) Does it work? It certainly helps that Snowy might be the cutest dog this side of Marley & Me. Click through for a look.
Another day, another hair-raising poster that terrible parents let their kids see. This one's a closeup of an astronaut presumably waiting to perish in Apollo 18, a disturbing "found-footage" mockumentary in the style of The Blair Witch Project and The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Handle it?
It's been a little more than a month since Millennium Entertainment picked up the thriller Trespass, which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a couple defending their home against a ruthless gang of home invaders. Last week, very quietly, the company appears to have distributed the first poster for Joel Schumacher's film. But when does intend to distribute the actual film?
The marketing for the Disney reboot of The Muppets that Jason Segel will bring to the big screen this November has been spot-on for months now. Between the hilarious parody trailers -- better than the movies they parodied -- and the actual trailer, Muppets ad campaign has struck just the right tone between nostalgia and modernity. The final poster for the film does much of the same -- it just looks so damn fun! -- but does raise one interesting curio. Can you guess which Oscar-winning actor gets third billing after Segel and Amy Adams -- and before the Muppets?
With a sprawling cast featuring some of Hollywood's best, a spoiler-crazy and terrifying trailer, and the fact that Steven Soderbergh is the director, it won't take much to get you to see Contagion in theaters in September. Good thing, too, since the teaser poster unveils the corniest tagline of the year -- even worse than "Smurf happens." Click through to see the offending artwork. Warning: You will groan.
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