2/27/2013
New posters for 'Spring Breakers', 'Trance', 'Oblivion', and more
Holy crap there are a lot of posters out today, so let's just dig right in....
The marketing folks behind Spring Breakers have been working mondo overtime lately, with scores of trailers (nearly all of the restricted variety), photos, and posters for Harmony Korine's wild film. Yet another one-sheet has been released, which by my informal count totals number twelve. Then again you won't hear me complaining about any opportunity to see more of the nubile Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine. Oh, and James Franco is in there too as a thuggish drug dealer named Alien. Spring Breakers opens nationally on March 22nd.
"Earth is a memory worth fighting for", especially when you get to fight it alongside Morgan Freeman. Tom Cruise features in two new posters for Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, which is set in a future where humanity has been chased off by invading aliens. Cruise plays a drone repairman on Earth who discovers a mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko) in a crashed escape pod, forcing him to re-examine everything he's ever known. Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau co-star. Oblivion hits IMAX on April 12th, everywhere else a week later. [EW]
The latest poster for Baz Luhrmann's flashy adaptation of The Great Gatsby is also the cover of a new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic. Bumped from last December down to May 10th, there' still some question whether the film will be more than just a gorgeous, highly expensive spectacle. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, and Jason Clarke, how could it not be? Did I just jinx it?
Danny Boyle ventures back into the world of Brit crime thrillers with Trance, the long-awaited film starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel. Opening on April 5th, it follows an auction house employee roped into an art heist, only to get a knock on the head and forget where the loot was stashed. The gang he's working with doesn't believe him, and hires a hypnotist to ascertain if he's lying. From what we've seen in the trailer and earlier poster, this one's going to dig into some psychedelic depths. Could be fun.
Collider has the first poster for At Any Price, the latest film from Chop Shop director Ramin Bahrani. A family drama starring Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, and Heather Graham, it centers on the relationship between a father and son on two very different life paths. The father is a farmer whose livelihood is threatened by a government investigation, while his race car driver son is roped back into the life he wanted to leave behind. Look for it to hit theaters on April 24th.