Whatever confidence distributors may have in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming RocknRolla — and the rest of Ritchie’s career for that matter – the UK promotion of his new crime entry is covering London. Literally. We’ve just received images of one-time-only graffiti posters getting tagged up throughout the city.
Each depicts a key scene in the film (really?) which hits British theaters this Friday, September […]
September 1st, 2008
Categories: Movie Posters, Action Movies, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
This isn’t really a movie poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming Frost/Nixon. It’s the intriguing poster for the stage play, which stars the same leads Howard has cast in the film: Frank Langella as fallen U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Michael Sheen (Tony Blair in The Queen) as TV talk-show host David Frost. We’re including it today since […]
August 25th, 2008
Categories: Drama, Movie Posters, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 3 Comments
Parody this good is worth celebrating. So even though these Tropic Thunder fakes have been out there a little while, we want to enjoy them all in one bite, now that so many people have seen Tropic Thunder. Don’t you wish you could see these movies too? Okay, maybe not. (click on the posters for […]
August 18th, 2008
Categories: Drama, Awards, Movie Posters, Action Movies, Comedies . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
In our leaked trailer post for Oliver Stone’s G.W. Bush biography / parody W., I mentioned the irony of a renegade like Stone using Bush’s own campaign slogan — the single letter, aimed at us morons – to title a movie that clearly, um, questions his credentials. Now, check the design of the letter W in this French movie poster for […]
August 11th, 2008
Categories: Drama, Movie Posters, Horror Movies, Comedies . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
Francis Ford Coppola directed four historic films in the 1970s, and three of them enjoy remarkable adoration and recognition: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now. In between those first two, Coppola made an “overlooked” classic, the tantalizing, paranoid drama The Conversation. Now, more than 30 years after the film’s release, AMC is developing a […]
August 7th, 2008
Categories: Drama, On TV, Movie Posters . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: No Comments
Following our “For Dummies” preview of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, here are two German posters for the animated film’s August 15 release. They certainly convey a distinct style for the series, especially for a character like Yoda, who’s been a part of the fantasy world consciousness since 1980. The characters look heroic, sure, but a […]
August 4th, 2008
Categories: Movie Posters, Action Movies, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments