Tuesday, July 9, 2013

New Posters for 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones', 'Short Term 12', 'Filth', and 'Open Grave'


With YA adaptations The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Divergent figuring prominently at Comic-Con, The Mortal Instruments' panel has been largely forgotten. But Screen Gems is bringing the film to the event floor, and to celebrate they've released the final poster. Directed by Harald Zwart and starring Lily Collins, the story centers on teenager Clary Fray who learns she comes from a long line of Shadowhunters, half-angel/half-human warriors who protect the world from demons. Also starring Lena Headey, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jared Harris, and Kevin Zegers, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones opens on August 21st.


Winning a pair of awards at SXSW, followed up by taking the Audience Award at the LA Film Festival, Destin Cretton's Short Term 12 will be one of the summer art house films hoping to lure in those tired of watching things explode over and over again. ThePlaylist has the beautiful illustrated poster for the indie drama, which stars Brie Larson as a worker at a short term care facility for troubled youths, while she deals with her own issues. Short Term 12 opens on August 23rd, with John Gallagher Jr., Rami Malek, Kaitlyn Dever co-starring.


Hi-Yo Piggy Away? James McAvoy broncos some bacon in the UK quad poster for Filth, an adaptation of the novel by Trainspotting scribe, Irvine Welsh. McAvoy is maniacal, sex-obsessed and drug-addled cop Bruce Robertson, who competes with his colleagues for a promotion while allowing his baser instincts to screw up a murder investigation. We've never seen a McAvoy like the one presented in the lewd and crude trailers, and this looks like it could be one of the most enjoyable movies of the year....if it ever gets a U.S. release date. [TotalFilm]


We're going to be seeing a lot of Sharlto Copley doing some terrible things in Spike Lee's Oldboy and Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, but in the upcoming horror Open Grave he'll be playing the victim. Directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (Apollo 18), the film has Copley as a man who wakes up in a pit full of dead bodies with no memory of how he got there, and soon he begins to think maybe he was the one killed them. No word on when or if this will hit the U.S., but it has an intriguing premise and Copley is always worth following.

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