Poster Board: The New The Sessions Poster– Wins the 30 Second Cinema Most Creative Blurb Use Award

The Sessions- about a paraplegic who hires a sex surrogate for his first sexual encounter- wittily uses blurbs ejaculating from a clenched pencil.  Definitely this blogs winner for the most creative use of blurbs in 2012.

Poster Board: New Hobbit Dwarf Banner Lets You Know The Dwarves Plus Two

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Poster Board Blitz: The Collection– Collector Admiration; American Scream Is a Great Where’s Waldo Kind of Thing; The Details Margrite Moment; Promised Land– Damon’s non-fracking Moment; Stand Up Guys Shadow Themselves; Wreck It Ralph brings his A-game

A slight update from the previous poster has the collector admiring The Collection.

The American Scream poster let’s you play where’s Waldo with all the horror icons on display.

Love the Margrite absurdest moment in this rather blah poster for The Details.

Matt Damon gets a quiet life changing non-fracking moment  in the Promised Land poster.

Love the symbolism here: these Stand Up Guys are mere shadows of their former selves.

Wreck It Ralph and friends bring their A game in the new poster.

Trailer Park: Identity Thief– Bateman and McCarthy fight each for their identity; Stoker– Has that Chan-Wook Hitchcock vibe

Identity Thief directed by Seth Gordon stars Jason Bateman as an accounts rep who has a week to travel across the country and track down the con artist (Melissa McCarthy) who stole his identity. McCarthy embraces the full feminine side  this time overdoing the fou-fou hair and clown fashion choices to create a very funny version of Florida retiree style.  Her movie choices hopefully wont be reflected in her McCarthy fashion line coming out later this year.   The trailer is a little too full with some uncomfortable battle of the sexes slapstick and not enough character funny or wit.

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook‘s English-language debut Stoker centers on a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) who encounters her mysterious uncle (Matthew Goode) while mourning the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney). Chan-Wook gives the whole thing a twisted, creepy vibe that matches the lush visuals.  The Alfred Hitchcock echo is also intentional.  Writer Wentworth Miller has acknowledged that The Master’s Shadow Of A Doubt was the jumping off point for Stoker.

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Poster Board: Identity Thief– Jason Bateman has his identity stolen by Melissa McCarthy

Identity Thief  follows Diana (MelissaMcCarthy), a shopaholic who has been funding her expenses with the stolen credit card of one Sandy Bigelow Patterson (Jason Bateman). Of course, Bateman’s Patterson eventually finds his way down to Florida to confront McCarthy’s Diana over the purchases. This heavy weight comedy opens February 8th.

Trailer Park: Price Check– Maybe paying too high a price for love

 

Parker Posey doesn’t have a soft moment in the first trailer for Price Check.  Her character is like a too loud TV commercial that can’t be turned down.  And Eric Mabius (from Ugly Betty) is the man left looking for the remote.  Posey is a pricing/marketing executive for a grocery chain,  and Price Check follows her relationship with Mabius as he slowly gives into her temptation at the cost of his family life.

Trailer Park: Pusher The English Remake; The Details– A On the Shelf Dramedy From the Weinstein Company; Promised Land– Matt Damon and Jon Krasinski are fracking mad; Vamps– Krysten Ritter and Alicia Silverstone know how to party till “Twilight”

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What do you do if you owe  $55K to mob bosses with bad foreign accents?   You bang the steering wheel a few times, smoke some cigarettes, screw  a pole dancer, buy some guns and commence to choking and shooting some bad people. This Pusher is the English remake of the trilogy from the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.

Tobey Maguire has problems with three different women and some raccoons in The Details trailer.  The film was a Sundance 2011 critical hit and was bought by The Weinstein Commpany where they spent a year figuring out to how to market this quirky dramedy.  The film also stars Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, and Ray Liotta.

Matt Damon and Jon Krasinski get fracking upset in the anti-fracking drama Promised Land written by the duo and directed by Gus Van Sant.  Apparently Krasinki is Damon’s new screenwriting buddy now that Ben Affleck is getting serious directing legs and creds.   Good Will Hunting garnered Ben and Matt a screenplay Oscar, will Jon and Matt do the same?

Vamps is all the funny the Twilight should have been but wasn’t.  Amy Heckerling leads Krysten Ritter  and Alicia Silverstone through the comic paces of this vampire comedy.

Posterboard: 7 Cloud Atlas Charcter Banners and 3 Retro 1940’s Style Posters Used in Captain America

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, James D’Arcy, Jim Sturges and Doona Bae get character banners that delineate more plot lines in the latest Cloud Atlas poster offerings.  The film will October 26th in 2D, 3D and IMAX.

Director Joss Whedon’s The Avengers finally hits home video today, and to mark the occasion eFX Collectibles is releasing three designs of replica posters seen in Captain America: The First Avenger

 

Poster Blitz: New Les Misrerables Young Cossette; New Hobbit LOTR Echo Poster; New Argo Character Character Posters; New Rise of the Guardians; and Smurfs 2

The new one-sheet for director Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) large-scale musical adaptation Les Miserables features the young Cosette graced by the words “Fight. Dream. Hope. Love.” Isabelle Alan is the face of the poster that echoes the original Broadway one.

The new Bilbo poster for The Hobbit echoes the original one for Frodo from the first LOTR series.

Ben Affleck emphasizes the drama of Argo

John Goodman is the funny side of Argo

Alan Arkin is the Hollywood fantasy side of Argo

Say “Legends Unite” and they will surely do it on the poster.

The Smurfs 2 poster stays to its true blue roots.