There are plenty of reasons to be a little aggravated by the Oscar nominations yesterday, but one thing which really stuck in my craw was Rise of the Guardians' snubbing in the Best Animation field. That excellent film was based on a series of books by William Joyce, and so is 20th Century Fox's Epic, which has just received a new poster. Directed by Chris Wedge, the film follows a teenage girl magically transported to a magic forest world and caught in a battle between good and evil. Beyonce, Johnny Knoxville, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, and Aziz Ansari will lend their voices when it opens on May 24th.
We're going to be seeing a lot from Michael Cera and director Sebastian Silva next week at Sundance. They have two movies together that are premiering on the Park City grounds, and both have gained a substantial amount of festival buzz. One is the psycho thriller, Magic Magic, and the other is Crystal Fairy, which is more of a road trip comedy. A trippy new poster has emerged for it, which follows a group of American youngsters traveling in Chile just to experience a legendary hallucinogen called the San Diego cactus. Gaby Hoffman(200 Cigarettes) and Agustin Silva co-star. Crystal Fairy debuts on the festival's very first day, and I will be there, so expect a review soon.
Fee, Fye, Foe, Fumm...and Fallon? Five new posters for Jack the Giant Slayer have been revealed, each featuring one of the many giants Jack(Nicholas Hoult) will be facing on his adventure. Can't have a movie called Jack the Giant Slayer without giants. The most interesting to me is Fallon, the duel-headed creature voiced by Bill Nighy and John Kassir, the latter having been the voice of the Cryptkeeper on Tales from the Crypt. Opening on March 1st, the Bryan Singer-directed film has Jack unwittingly opening the kingdom to attack by the fearsome giants, and so it's up to him to venture into their land to stop it. Ian McShane, Ewan McGregor, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Stanley Tucci co-star.
