After releasing a couple separate posters last week, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland marketing team has now combined them all into one glorious triptych — click the picture above a couple times and it’ll get bigger, like your sister’s clit (too far?). It opens March 5th, and as far as Tim Burton joints go, I’m hoping it’ll be more Sleepy Hollow than Planet of the Apes. My favorite part of the poster is the rabbit in the suit holding up the clock. It’s like the Disney version of a Public Enemy record, and I like that. All rap should be more like this. Bunnies are less threatening.
[via /Film]
People haven’t been too hot on the Benicio Del Toro/Anthony Hopkins Wolfman movie, probably because it began by changing directors, later dropped Danny Elfman as composer and hired someone else, and most recently brought in two new editors to recut it. That much studio meddling is usually a bad sign. According to Benicio’s Playboy interview, the main difference between Mark Romanek’s vision and new director Joe Johnston’s was that in Romanek’s, the Wolfman was a conflicted character, whereas in Johnston’s he’s more of a good guy with a terrible curse like in the old Lon Chaney Jr. version.
Anyway, it opens in February and this is the latest international trailer and poster. It still looks good to me. I mean, not shirtless-ethnic-temptation-wolves-battle-the-sparkling-vampires-of-white-virtue good, but still, pretty decent.
Here you can see the two versions of the Couples Retreat poster (click to enlarge), the UK version on the left, the US version on the right. Notice anything different? Oops, where’s my black people! Naturally, some folks are calling racism. The studio, meanwhile, has a perfectly logical explanation:
The studio said it regretted causing offence and has abandoned plans to use the revised poster in other countries… A Universal spokesman said the revised advert aimed ‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets’. [via DailyMail]
What, Faizon Love isn’t a bankable star? …Okay, yeah, I guess that sounds sorta plausible. Still, no word on why they felt the need to add in all those clouds and palm trees in the background. Oh I’m sorry, was the mountain too uppity for you? Either way, you have to admit both posters are an improvement over the original tagline, “It may be paradise… But it’s no vacation… Because there are black people here.”
When I posted the first poster for Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book about how awesome it is to give drugs to young girls, I wondered aloud why the lead and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter weren’t in it. Guess they were just saving them for this one. Here’s Mia Wasikowska in trademark Burton pale tiptoeing through a magical garden or magic mushrooms and old people flowers. Cor bloimey, guv, moy rabbit ‘as got pink eye, ‘e does! Bot dat’s wot ‘e gets for sniffin’ me knickas, Oy s’pose.
[via Wired]
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Via MySpace, here’s the new poster for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. That’s Aaron Johnson, the movie also stars Nic Cage and McLovin Mintz-Plasse. One of the subplots of the comic book is that Kick-Ass shows up to school covered in bruises, it spawns rumors that he’s a gay prostitute. I don’t know how much you can say about a poster, but this one’s pretty good as far as not having sunglasses badly Photoshopped onto anyone’s face or a punny tagline that’d make a greeting card writer puke. Also, I’m not sure what’s up with those boots. Between those, that haircut, and the two giant dildos he’s carrying, I think he might be a lesbian.
