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Over the past few days, Disney has been releasing new character posters for The Lone Ranger via the film’s Facebook page. The posters showcase both already-established characters, such as the eponymous protagonist, played by Armie Hammer, and the Halloween costume played by Johnny Depp, and newer ones, like the presumed love interests, played by Ruth Wilson and Helena Bonham Carter, and the presumed villains, played by William Fichtner and Tom Wilkinson. | Full Story
The promo materials keep rolling in for Guillermo del Toro’s giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters blockbuster, and each one only stokes my expectations. Stokes me like a bro. The latest release is a batch of new posters for the film, courtesy of THR.
One of the posters is a classic-style recruitment throwback. Another shows the film’s central giant robot (a “Jaeger”) kneeling over a human. And the other two introduce two other Jaegers, one from Japan and another from Russia. | Full Story
Last Saturday in Burbank, while most people were buzzing about the Super Bowl, a small, select group got to experience something way cooler. They were the audience for the first test screening of Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming movie of giant robots, giant monsters, and giant robots fighting giant monsters. Reactions to the screening have been collected on a fan website for the film. There’s a whole lot of love in those tweets and forum posts, which stokes my anticipation for the film even more. | Full Story
A bevy of new photos from Iron Man 3 have been released, presumably in anticipation of the release of the official trailer on Tuesday (which, you may recall, had its own teaser come out yesterday (guuuuhhhhh teasers for trailers)). These images come courtesy of an official Marvel Facebook page, USA Today, and EW. The movie also now has a teaser poster, released by Slashfilm. Take a gander at them below. | Full Story
Collider has posted some great new character posters for Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths.
The film concerns the misadventures of Marty (Colin Farrel), a screenwriter with serious writer’s block, whose weirdo dog-snatching friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) get them all in big trouble when they steal the beloved pet Shih Tzu of an insane gangster (Woody Harrelson).
Each unique poster was created by a different artist and each represents the, uh, special qualities of the titular psychopathic septet. | Full Story
Killing Them Softly, which stars Brad Pitt as a slick professional enforcer (and made our list of Most Anticipated Movies Coming to Theaters This Fall), just debuted six new posters. Oh, did I just say six posters? I meant six extremely awesome, stylish, custom designed pieces of art I’d like hanging on my wall.
Designed by Gravillis Inc., whose work you might recognize from their striking campaign for Oliver Stone’s Savages and the Inglourious Basterds character posters, these posters emphasize the film’s political commentary on the greed and violence endemic in American society. | Full Story
All the stars were out to grace the red carpet for the annual SAG Awards. Each year actors, producers, and directors gather at this event where industry peers get to judge their fellow hollywood peers on their achievements in Film and Television. The women were gorgeous in their designer gowns and the men were sharp and dapper in their tuxs.
Flip through the photos of this year’s red carpet arrivals before the awards ceremony. | Full Story
Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ is featured on the cover of Empire magazine’s new issue, designed only for new subscribers. It also includes three new photos from the highly anticipated May 4 release. You can check them out below!
Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the action adventure stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson.
The epic big-screen adventures started with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. | Full Story
A new batch of photos from ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ movie depicts the high school life of young Peter Parker and Emma Stone, a closer look at the new web-shooters and Denis Leary as Captain Stacy.
The uber popular video game, Halo, will be brought to life early next year by aspiring movie makers Dan Wang and Helena Hilario. Halo Helljumper, is a short series of films that take place in the year 2552 and follows the life of one battle hardened ODST soldier from enlistment in the UNSC before the Human-Covenant War to around the Fall of Reach. The soldier’s name is Gage Yevgenny and the film begins with him being rescued by the Rookie on the colony of New Jerusalem. Instead of letting the Rookie take him back, Cage forces him to listen to his story of the war. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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