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‘Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade’: New posters for Korean remake

The first two posters for Kim Jee-Woon’s JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE (인랑) have been released onto the Interwebs. The South Korea sci-fi film is due for release by Warner in July 2018. You can check out the posters below.

The film, a remake of Mamoru Oshii’s manga series Kerberos Panzer Cop was previously filmed as two live action films The Red Spectacles (1987) and StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991). However, the more famous of the adaptations is the Hiroyuki Okiura anime Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade first released in 1999.

While the original was set in an alternative 1950s Japan, this remake will be set in a dystopian Korea of 2029, where plans to unite the two Koreas have been underway for years. The titular special force is put together to combat the anti-unification terrorist group known as The Sect.

Starring Gang Dong-Won, Han Hyo-Joo, Kim Moo-Yul, and Han Ye-Ri, the film has a fair amount of buzz around it. Not for nothing either: director Kim Jee-Woon’s previous films have included The Age of Shadows (2016), I Saw the Devil (2010), The Good, the Bad and the Weird (2008), A Bittersweet Life (2005), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), and The Quiet Family (1998).

This is going to be huge.

May 28, 2018
‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ trailer and poster ups the ante

Paramount Pictures Australia has dropped a new trailer for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT, the sixth film in the excellent action series. Judging from the new trailer, filled with more story points than the previous clips, we have no reason to believe that this will be anything less than thrilling.

The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.

Also starring Sean Harris, Wes Bentley, and Frederick Schmidt, it hits Australian cinemas on 2 August 2018 from Paramount.

May 16, 2018
Marvel Studios unveils new ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ poster, trailer tease

If you were wondering where Scott and Hope were during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, then we finally have the answer: on this poster! On the new one sheet from Marvel Studios and Disney, Evangeline Lilly takes the lead as the MCU unleashes its latest unconventional team. They’ve also released a short video asking the big questions.

After the shocking ending of Marvel’s latest film, punters may be wondering where the story goes next. This is not the film to tell you. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP is a prequel to Infinity War, taking place shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War, with Paul Rudd and Lilly reprising their roles as the titular characters.

The poster itself is a slick variation on the Marvel Studios Poster Template™®, creating a montage of the cast in various sizes and states of dismemberment. That extended cast includes Michael Douglas, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hannah John-Kamen, and Michael Peńa. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, this racing stripe here we feel is pretty sharp.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP is released in cinemas on 5 July 2018 in Australia, and on 6 July 2018 in the US, from Disney.

May 1, 2018
Australia’s ‘Cargo’ gets new trailer and poster from Umbrella

Umbrella Entertainment has dropped a new trailer and poster for Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s superb film CARGO. While the rest of the world gets the film via Netflix on 18 May 2018, the festival success and rave reviews have led to the film garnering a theatrical release on 17 May 2018 around Australia.

Adapting their own Tropfest short of the same name, the feature film introduces us to Andy (Martin Freeman) and Kay (Susie Porter) and their daughter Rosie, surviving on a houseboat in the wake of a pandemic. When tragedy strikes, Andy has less than 48 hours to find a suitable caretaker for Rosie before he too succumbs to the virus.

We reviewed the film in October last year at the Adelaide Film Festival, throwing a 4-star review at it: “A terrific spin on the ‘zombie’ movie, weaving traditional Aboriginal narratives into an unforgiving landscape for an experience that’s truly unique.”

Umbrella’s Head of Theatrical Dov Kornits said “CARGO is one of the best and most commercial Australian films of the year. The reaction at the film’s World Premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival last year was overwhelming, and we saw first-hand how audiences respond to the emotional journey of this film.”

CARGO is also bound for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York at the end of the month.

April 4, 2018
Korea’s ‘Glass Garden’ releases posters ahead of Busan premiere

Writer and director Shin Su-Won’s GLASS GARDEN became the subject of a micro-controversy last week when its appearance as the opening night film at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival was leaked.

The film stars The Throne‘s Moon Geun-Young as Jae-Yeon, a researcher in the field of artificial blood who ignores the world and to shut herself away in a glass house. Disgraced novelist Ji-Hoon (Kim Tae-Hoon, A Quiet Dream) discovers her and uses it as inspiration for his next novel.

Prior to the mystery fantasy, Shin’s previous films include Madonna and Passerby #3. It makes its World Premiere at Busan, before opening in South Korea in October 2017.

Two posters were released this week that indicate a magical realism element to the film. You can check them out below.

September 11, 2017
Best Film and TV Posters of August 2017

It’s the end of the month, so it is time to reflect, relax and rewind our way back through the one-sheets, banners, promotional artwork and posters released in the last calendar month. It’s a little section we like to call Best Posters.

As we approach the Fall season of television in the US, the number of TV shows in this column expands rapidly. Take Stranger Things, for example, which has two one-sheets included this month, both of which pay tribute to classic horror films. Netflix stablemate Bojack Horseman makes us work to find the hero in a Where’s Wally/Waldo? inspired piece, and American Horror Story has a permanent place here for almost all their glorious posters.

We’re also excited that the return of the illustrated poster, including Art Machine’s double-whammy of The LEGO Ninjago Movie and Wolf Warrior II. The Refinery’s Wonderstruck poster puts you in control, following a trend of adult colouring books that are a staple of all last minute birthday gifts.

Let us know in the comments below (or on Facebook and Twitter) if we’ve missed your favourite, if we got it wrong, or better yet, if we got it very right.

American Horror Story – Designer: Ignition

Bojack Horseman

Difficult People – Designers: P+A

Disjointed – Designers: Canyon Design Group

Ingrid Goes West – Designers: Brian Stauffer

Killing Gunther – Designers: Paul Shipper (Gravillis Inc)

The LEGO Ninjago Movie – Designers: Art Machine

Mother – Designer: James Jean

Stranger Things

Wet Hot American Summer – Designers: Andrew Kolb (Mondo)

Wolf Warrior II – Designers: Art Machine

Wonderstruck – The Refinery

September 1, 2017
George A. Romero: a tribute in posters

The film community and fans around the world are saddened by the loss of George A. Romero, best known for the Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its sequels. The horror master died after a battle with lung cancer at the age of 77.

Romero’s films were subversive, satirical, and sharply aware of the political climate he lived in. Night of the Living Dead sparked a cultural phenomenon, largely seen as the birth of the modern zombie film. It also cast Duane Jones as the lead, during a time when it was not typical for a black man to be the hero in an American film. It’s sequel, Dawn of the Dead (1978) was a cutting look at consumerism, and is largely the model for almost all zombie films that followed.

Romero’s other films broadened his view of the genre, including Season of the Witch (1973), sometimes marketed as Hungry Wives, which was less of a horror film than it was an exploration of the occult. Knightriders (1983) was about a travelling renaissance fair troupe, featuring knights on motorbikes! Similarly, The Crazies (1973) was a sci-fi epidemic film, while vampire Martin (1978) is said the be Romero’s favourite film that he made.

Yet he would continue to return to the zombie genre, beginning with a Land of the Dead (2005), the documentary style Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009). He was prepping the 2018 release of Road of the Dead, which he co-wrote with director Matt Birman, at the time of his death.

Here we’ve assembled a collection of posters from his films, paying tribute to one of the best cult filmmakers in the business.

July 17, 2017
Best Film and TV Posters of June 2017

It’s the end of the month, so it is time to reflect, relax and rewind our way back through the one-sheets, banners, promotional artwork and posters released in the last calendar month, highlighting some of the ones we though were noteworthy. It’s a little section we like to call Best Posters.

Let us know in the comments below if we’ve missed your favourite, we got it wrong, or better yet, if we got it very right. Now to kick things off a little differently.

BABY DRIVER (Japan)

Edgar Wright’s new film has the web swooning with glee. While we felt that that it didn’t consistently live up to its own style, this Japanese poster is minimalist style defined. Part of a series (with another featuring the iconic iPod), this poster is style defined. Speaking of high-speed vehicles…

CARS 3

…here’s more cars! We weren’t the biggest fans of the third film in the cars franchise (we do like movies, we promise!), but we have to admit that this poster is like the dark nightmare in the wastelands version of Cars. The kind where we find out that the vehicles inherited the Earth after devouring the humans in an orgy of blood as they drag down the fury road towards the lightning scattered skyline. Now that is a movie we want to see.

CASTLEVANIA (Netflix)

The highly anticipated new Netflix series, written by the legendary Warren Ellis, comes with a sweepingly illustrated poster. Now we just want to know why the guy at the top is so angry. Is it because he doesn’t have a body? Or does he want a whip of his own? We’ll find out July 7.

FOOTNOTES – Designer: Matt Frost

Paul Calori and Kostia Testut’s musical comedy was inspired by the films of Jacques Demy and Stanley Donen. Matt Frost’s one-sheet for the US release of this French film beautifully captures the spirit of those classics. Plus, we love Frost’s attitude to art: “I’ll use any means necessary to produce a key image, photography, illustration, spray paint, burn things, break things, get a goat, get a gun, or get messy in one way or another. I love to go to the hardware store.”

FERDINAND – Designers: Proof

The classic story by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson was previously adapted by Walt Disney in 1938 as the Ferdinand the Bull short. Proof’s alternative poster for the Blue Sky animation recalls the many illustrated promos for Disney shorts of the 1930s and 1940s. We just really want to see this film.

THE MONSTER (Short film)

Short films are a rarity on this list, mostly because they are harder to keep track of. Damien Kazan’s already onto a winning design that is better than most features. Except the other awesome ones in this column.

OKJA (Korea)

OKJA is currently the most expensive Korean language film ever made, and perhaps only Netflix would give Korean director Bong Joon-ho $50 million to make a primarily subtitled film about a giant pig. This poster is the antithesis of that expense, stripping the titles and the titular pig back to its barest pink bits.

SAFE PLACE

This startlingly minimalist piece might tell us that “You’re not safe here,” but simple style still has a home. The isolation of the three colours creates the seemingly contradictory state of claustrophobic isolation, which is really at the heart of all horror films.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – Designers: BPG

Star Trek is returning to our small screens for the first time since 2005, and because we’re now in the future it will be on the streaming services CBS All Access and Netflix. The simple warp trail and new ship is all this poster needs to get us excited about the future again.

SWISS ARMY MAN – Designer: Oliver Barrett

From the Mondo blog: “I loved the film’s unabashedly wild, ‘what the fuck?’ approach to tackling themes of isolation, shame, and loneliness. So, I had to strive to distill that approach into a single image that echoes the idea of being saved from that isolation, wrapped in a goofy fart joke.”

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

This ‘viral’ style poster is a little bit Banksy. If this is the graffiti that exists in the Planet of the Apes reality, that would explain why the apes on our Earth are spray-painting hippies on the wall.

WONDER – Designers: LA

If you know nothing else about the new film from Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) then know this: Daisy IS The Dog.

June 30, 2017
‘Black Panther’ unveils first poster

Marvel Studios has dropped the first teaser poster for BLACK PANTHER, with the promise of a teaser trailer later today during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Synergy?

Depicting T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who was first introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War, the newly minted Wakandan king takes to the throne. It’s a particularly powerful image for long-time Marvel readers, as Black Panther is a central figure in the most powerful corners of the Marvel Comics Universe.

Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” follows T’Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king—and Black Panther—is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.

It hits Australian cinemas on 15 February 2018, and the US on 16 February, from Disney.

June 10, 2017
Disney•Pixar’s ‘Coco’ reveals poster and talent line-up
Disney·Pixar’s COCO has revealed a new poster and confirmed a host of voice actors behind the animation. Joining aspiring musician Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez; charming trickster Hector, voiced by Gael García Bernal; and musical icon Ernesto de la Cruz, voiced by Benjamin Bratt; are a host of colourful characters and the voice talent behind them that bring both worlds to life.

“These parallel worlds couldn’t be more different,” said Unkrich. “One is the Rivera family’s charming and hardworking hometown of Santa Cecilia, and the other is the vibrant, rich land where loved ones go when they’ve passed. ‘Coco’ introduces characters from both worlds on the eve of Día de los Muertos—one extraordinary night when a living boy named Miguel gets a glimpse of the other side.”

Added Molina, “Our voice cast is incredibly talented, helping to shape our eclectic group of characters. Each actor has told us they find something relatable in this film, so they’re finding it easy to capture the heart of this story—it’s all about family, so we hope that these characters will resonate with everyone.”

Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist Monsters University) and produced by Darla K. Anderson (Toy Story 3), COCO opens in Australian cinemas on Boxing Day 2017.

FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING
- ANTHONY GONZALEZ (“Ice Box,” TNT’s “The Last Ship”) lends his voice to MIGUEL, a 12-year-old aspiring musician who struggles against his family’s generations-old ban on music. When a magical mishap lands him in the Land of the Dead, Miguel seeks out his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, to help him return to the Land of the Living before it’s too late.
- ANA OFELIA MURGUÍA (Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Bandidas”) voices Miguel’s cherished great-grandmother MAMÁ COCO. She is very old and fragile, but that doesn’t stop Miguel from sharing his daily adventures with her.
- RENÉE VICTOR (“Weeds,” “The Apostle”) provides the authoritative voice of ABUELITA, Miguel’s grandmother and the ultimate enforcer of the Rivera family’s ban on music. She loves her family very much and will do anything to protect them. But when she gets angry, she wields a mean slipper.
- JAIME CAMIL (CW’s “Jane the Virgin,” Disney Junior’s “Elena of Avalor,” “Secret Lives of Pets”) is the voice of PAPÁ, Miguel’s supportive father who hopes that someday Miguel will join him in the family shoemaking business.
- SOFÍA ESPINOSA (“Gloria”) provides the voice of Miguel’s loving MAMÁ who gently encourages her son to embrace their family’s traditions.
- LUIS VALDEZ (“Which Way Is Up,” director “La Bamba” & “Cisco Kid”) is the voice of TÍO BERTO, Miguel’s uncle, a hard worker in the Rivera family shoemaking business.
- LOMBARDO BOYAR (“Happy Feet,” TNT’s “Murder in the First”) lends his voice to a friendly MARIACHI who Miguel encounters in Santa Cecilia Plaza.
FROM THE LAND OF THE DEAD
- GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL (Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle”) helps bring to life HECTOR, a charming trickster in the Land of the Dead who is forced to enlist help from Miguel to visit the Land of the Living.
- BENJAMIN BRATT (FOX’s “Star,” “Doctor Strange”) is the voice of Miguel’s idol ERNESTO DE LA CRUZ, the most famous musician in the history of Mexico. Revered by fans worldwide until his untimely death, the charming and charismatic musician is even more beloved in the Land of the Dead.
- EDWARD JAMES OLMOS (“Blade Runner,” “Stand and Deliver”) lends his voice to CHICHARRÓN, a curmudgeonly friend of Hector’s who is sadly being forgotten—an unfortunate condition in the Land of the Dead.
- ALANNA UBACH (“Meet the Fockers,” Bravo’s “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”) provides the voice of MAMÁ IMELDA, Miguel’s great-great-grandmother, the matriarch of the Rivera family and the founder of their successful shoemaking business. Miguel meets Mamá Imelda in the Land of the Dead and discovers she does not share his passion for music.
- SELENE LUNA (“My Bloody Valentine,” “Celebrity Wife Swap”) voices TÍA ROSITA, Miguel’s late aunt who resides in the Land of the Dead.
- ALFONSO ARAU (“Three Amigos,” director/producer “Like Water for Chocolate,” director “A Walk in the Clouds”) is the voice of PAPÁ JULIO, Miguel’s late great-grandfather who he meets in Land of the Dead.
- HERBERT SIGUENZA (“Larry Crowne,” “Ben 10: Alien Swarm”) lends his voice to both TÍO OSCAR and TÍO FELIPE, Miguel’s late identical twin uncles who he meets in the Land of the Dead.
- OCTAVIO SOLIS playwright “Lydia, Santos & Santos”) is the voice of an ARRIVAL AGENT in the Land of the Dead’s Grand Central Station.
- GABRIEL IGLESIAS (“Planes,” “The Nut Job,” “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature”) provides the voice of the HEAD CLERK in the Land of the Dead’s “Department of Family Reunions.”
- CHEECH MARIN (“Cars 3,” “Tin Cup,” CBS’ “Nash Bridges”) is the voice of a CORRECTIONS OFFICER in the Land of the Dead.
- BLANCA ARACELI (“The Bridge”) voices the EMCEE for a colourful talent show in the Land of the Dead.
June 7, 2017