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08Aug2009

Poster Madness: 'Whiteout;' 'A Serious Man;' 'Extract'

Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 1:50PM | By

Another week is coming to an end, and it's time to go back and check up on recent movie poster releases on the Web. Check out one-sheets for "Whiteout" and "A Serious Man," among others, below.

The first poster below is for Dominic Sena's upcoming action thriller "Whiteout," in which Kate Beckinsale plays a deputy marshal heading to Antarctica to investigate a ruthless murder before the threatening arctic winter begins. It's a simple sheet, but it looks decent nonetheless.

Next up is the new one-sheet for Ethan and Joel Coen's new film "A Serious Man," about a physics professor whose life starts to fall apart when his wife decides to leave him, his lazy brother refuses to move out, his son has problems at school, and his daughter is trying to get a nose job.

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Poster Madness: 'Jonah Hex,' 'Ninja Assassin,' '2012'

Friday, July 24, 2009 at 12:24AM | By

Franck Tabouring

It's been a good week for new posters surfacing on the Web, and the following are new one-sheets for Roland Emmerich's "2012," "Jonah Hex," "Ninja Assassin," "Saw VI," "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself" and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time."

I definitely enjoy the ones for "Hex," "Assassin" and "Prince of Persia," but the rest of them are not necessarily that spectacular or memorable, really. The poster for Emmerich's apocalyptic "2012," for instance, looks rather cheap.

Josh Brolin looks pretty cool as the scarred bounty hunter and gunslinger Jonah Hex, and Megan Fox doesn't look that bad either. From a creative perspective, "Ninja Assassin" pretty much rules them all.

Anyway, look for these flicks in theaters later this year and in 2010. If I had to pick the flick I'm most excited about, I'd go with "Hex." As for the one I couldn't care less about... that'll be "Saw VI."

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Daily news dose: Mary J. Blige joins Perry film; 'Demonkeeper' lands director

Friday, March 20, 2009 at 10:01PM | By

Franck Tabouring

Here's your dose of film news for March 21, 2009:

• Mary J. Blige has joined Taraji P. Henson in Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All by Myself," which is set to open Sept. 11, 2009. Not much is known about the plot at this stage, but Madea will make an appearance in the film as well. Variety says Blige will star as a nightclub manager and singer.

• Sam Fell, director of "Flushed Away" and "The Tale of Despereaux," is in talks to helm Fox 2000's "Demonkeeper," based on Royce Buckingham's novel. The story follows a teenager who must battle a bunch of demons in a house he inherits responsibility for. Laeta Kalogridis is writing the screenplay. (Variety)

• Peter Horton is set to write and direct "Coal River," the big-screen version of Michael Shnayerson's book. The story follows on the legal war between environmentalists and the coal industry in Appalachian communities in West Virginia. Horton's directing credits also include several episodes of "The Shield" and "Grey's Anatomy." (Variety)

• Mark Bomback, whose writing credits include "Race to Witch Mountain" and "Deception," is set to write "Agent Zigzag," based on the book by Ben Macintyre. The story focuses on a criminal trained by the Nazis to be a spy during WWII. He later became a double agent working for the British. (Variety)