Sunday, June 9, 2013
New Posters for 'Only God Forgives', 'The To Do List', 'Despicable Me 2', and Many More
Right now in France there's a "scandal" over the rating for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives. The Culture Minister has been accused of giving in to producer pressure to give the film a less restrictive ratings so it could reach a wider audience. When it opens here on July 19th it'll have the expected R-rating, meaning kids who want to see the ultra-violence for themselves will have to sneak in, or get one of their inattentive parents to buy a ticket. The latest poster showcases Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays the druglord mother to Ryan Gosling's character. When one of her sons is murdered by a vicious cop known as the Angel of Vengeance, she tasks Gosling with getting payback.
If the red band trailers for The To Do List haven't clued you in that this will be the raunchiest film of the summer, then maybe the tag line in the new poster will: "She's Going From Straight A's, to Getting Her First F". Aubrey Plaza finally gets her own headliner as a studious high school grad who makes a list of all the things she wants to do sexually before college. As you can see from the image, she'll get a lot of help from a lot of guys including Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Donald Glover, Scott Porter, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Maybe the girls will get in on the action, as well? *fingers crossed* The To Do List hits theaters on July 26th.
They even love the Minions in Hungary! This new Hungarian poster for Despicable Me 2 features one of the yellow buggers, a banana, and one of the evil Troll-like purple Minions. But...aren't the Minions already evil? Or is this Universal's way of positioning them as cutesy good guys before their self-titled spinoff? Steve Carell is back voicing their leader, the reformed supervillain Gru, who is recruited to help down a baddie known as El Macho. Despicable Me 2 opens on July 3rd.
Studio Ghibli has released a new poster for Hayao Miyazaki's latest, The Wind Rises. The story is based on Miyazaki's mini-series about Japan's famed WWII fighter jet designer, JirÅ Horikoshi. He'll be voiced by Evangelion co-creator, Hideaki Anno. The Wind Rises opens in Japan on July 20th, and should find its way to America soon after.
Assuming The Expendables isn't enough to get your nostalgia juices flowing, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are going to give it another shot with Escape Plan. Formerly known as The Tomb, the two aging action heroes play prisoners in "the most secure prison ever built". Stallone is Ray Breslin, a security expert wrongly convicted of a crime, and imprisoned in a facility of his own design. Schwarzenegger is a complex, soulful inmate who helps him devise...well, an escape plan. Co-starring Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Amy Ryan, and Sam Neill, the film opens on October 18th.
Most of the posters we've seen for Kimberly Peirce's Carrie film have focused on star Chloe Moretz's bloody face. They've been pretty effective, but this new international design takes a look at the fiery destruction caused by her raging telekinetic powers. As her town burns, we still get a glimpse of Carrie in her blood-soaked prom dress, and it looks like all of violence of Stephen King's novel will be brought to the screen in glorious fashion. It'd be wise not to stand up Carrie on October 18th.
The posters for World War Z have been some of the laziest I've ever seen, not exactly inspiring a lot of confidence in a film that had a woeful production. The new Mexican one-sheet is a little better, leaving aside Brad Pitt for once and focusing on the swarms of zombies that have waged global war on humanity. It's a little messy, but gets the job done in showing the scale of the undead attack. World War Z opens on June 21st.
Some tragic Photoshopping is going on with the new UK poster for The Heat, with both Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy looking like they were drawn in with a Sharpie. But terrible one-sheets aside, this will probably be a mega comedy hit if the ladies' track records are anything to go by. They play mismatched cops who are investigating a crimelord or something, but it doesn't really matter because they'll fall down a lot, treat perps like crap, squabble, fight, and do whatever it takes to earn a laugh. Paul Feig is directing The Heat, and it's set to hit the streets on June 28th.
Wong Kar-Wai's Grandmasters (aka The Grandmaster) as been playing the international circuit for months as The Weinsteins bided their time in coming up with a U.S. date. We'll finally get a chance to see the anticipated martial arts epic on August 23rd, a time period that hasn't been so nice to the studio in the last couple of years (lookin' at you, Lawless!). Starring Tony Leung and Ziyi Zhang, the 1930s-set story centers on Yip Man, the legendary grandmaster who helped train Bruce Lee.
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