Movie Image Roundup: ‘Green Lantern’, ‘Three Musketeers’, ‘Cars 2′ and More [Updated]

[UPDATE: Check out some new hi-res Pirates of the Caribbean 4 images!]

There are over 150 movies releasing in theaters this year and you can get a detailed look at each month’s releases in our Massive 2011 Movie Preview. As the year progresses, we can expect PR departments from various studios to begin ramping up the marketing pushes on all of these films.

One way they build excitement for a film is by releasing still images, which usually consist of behind-the-scenes material, freeze frames from the movie (out of context of course) or occasionally a “cell phone reporter” will snap a picture or two while a film is shooting. Sometimes a studio will just take a Hi-Res still from the latest trailer and call it “new.”

Today we have 26 different images from 11 different films of various styles – some good, some bad, but all interesting. Let’s kick things off with a trio of Green Lantern images.

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WB has been catching a lot of heat for their decision to use an entirely CG Green Lantern suit. What’s odd is that these pictures of Tomar-Re and Sinestro (Mark Strong) in full CG Green Lantern Corp outfits look amazing. Hopefully they will be able to match that quality with Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern outfit when the film releases. The makeup used to increase the size of Peter Sarsgaard’s head to the proportions of evil genius Hector Hammond is quite impressive, though.

Green Lantern hits theaters on June 17th, 2011.

Source:  Cine Heroes (via Coming Soon)

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Johnny Depp hits the high seas again this summer in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, and this time his characters, Captain Jack Sparrow, is on the hunt for the legendary fountain of youth. But of course, things can’t ever go easy for Captain Jack: this time around he has the most feared pirate of the all on his tail: Blackbeard (Ian McShane). If that weren’t enough, Jack has unfinished drama with Blackbeard’s spunky daughter, Angelica (Penelope Cruz), as well as his traitorous first mate, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). In these new hi-res images we see Blackbeard’s wrath, and Captain Jack’s attempts to tip-toe his way to treasure.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits theaters on May 20, 2011.

Source: Disney

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Even though The Three Musketeers have been seen onscreen more than two dozen times, director Paul W.S. Anderson has decided to once again update the classic Alexander Dumas tale – in 3D no less. Today we have our first good look at the Musketeers – Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Aramis (Luke Evans) – as well as, the intrepid, young and fearless D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman).  Even though they are “updating” the story, Three Musketeers so far appears to have an authentic  17th century look to it.

Three Musketeers will be in theaters on October 14th, 2011.

Source: Summit Entertainment

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Last month we discussed the Worst Belated Sequels in movie history – that is to say a franchise that had too had too much delay between films. Scream 4 could possibly join this list as it’s been 11 years since Scream 3 sliced through theaters – though early screen tests suggest Scream 4 might be good. Most of the original actors and actresses have returned for Scream 4 and below we see Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) and reporter Gale Weathers-Riley (Courtney Cox) together, as well as, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in the familiar position of being attacked by the Ghostface killer.

Scream 4 will be in theaters on April 15th.

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Movie Poster Roundup: Paul, Thor, Hobo with a Shotgun, and More

Everybody loves to look at movie posters (or one-sheets as they are sometimes called in the movie industry) and a well-crafted poster can make or break the buzz for an upcoming film.

Sometimes the poster predominantly features one character from the film or perhaps it depicts the story or plot in an artsy and unique way. Regardless of which direction the marketing department for a film chooses, a poster should either be intriguing, sexy, funny or cool – and it can’t hurt to combine all four.

Today we have wide selection of movie posters from a very diverse selection of films – excellent fan-made art for movies yet to begin filming, horror films with a sexy twist, summer blockbusters, and even a campy SyFy Channel film. No matter what your taste in movie posters may be, we are sure to have something for every movie buff to enjoy. Let’s start off with some fantastic fan-made art.

Undoubtedly director Christopher Nolan’s third installment of his hugely successful Batman trilogy will be one of the most anticipated films of 2012. Casting for The Dark Knight Rises is still underway so there hasn’t been an official poster released yet – but that hasn’t deterred some very talented and creative fans from making their own. Graphic designer Josh Gilbert put together the teaser poster below. Be sure to check out the rest of his work at Shokxone Studios.

Click HERE for a Hi-Res version

Source: Shokxone Studios via Film School Rejects

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Even though TRON:Legacy made it onto our Most Disappointing Films of 2010 the film still had some redeeming qualities. While the story won’t win any awards, the SFX were amazing – as was Daft Punk’s blazing electronic score. Graphic designer Josh Gilbert (yes, the same guy from above) seems to agree with us – since he made the fake Oscar-bid poster below, nominating Daft Punk for Best Original Score. Somebody needs to hire this guy because his work is creative and fun to look at.

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Source: Shokxone Studios via Film School Rejects

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There isn’t a whole lot to say about Jason Eisner’s upcoming Grindhouse spin-off Hobo with a Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer. It’s a movie about a hobo – with shotgun – shooting people – and some guy dressed as a knight riding a motorcycle makes an appearance. The red band trailer and all of the images we’ve seen make the film look like off-the-wall campy fun – and hopefully it will deliver.

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Source: IGN

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It’s too bad this special limited edition poster was only given to the cast and crew of the movie Thor because its minimalist art deco style is very cool – and would look good hanging on the wall of any film buff. At first director Kenneth Branagh seemed to be an odd choice to helm the project but after watching the first trailer a lot of those fanboy “fears” seemed to have been quelled. Thor stars Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman and Ray Stevenson.

Source: Sci Fi Wire

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Movie Poster Roundup: ‘Green Hornet’, ‘Sucker Punch’, ‘Thor’

A sleek black automobile that’s been enhanced with machine guns, rocket launchers, and beanie bag throwers (you read that correctly); gorgeous young women armed to the teeth for combat; and a big, blonde, bearded superhuman carrying his deadly hammer are on display in today’s movie poster roundup.

There’s a new one-sheet for this week’s release, The Green Hornet; an elaborate banner for Zack Snyder’s upcoming Sucker Punch; and a French poster for the comic book flick that will kick off the Summer 2011 movie season, Thor, to check out as well.

Director Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet gets the honor of being the first anticipated tentpole pic to be released in 2011 (sorry, Season of the Witch). Evan Goldberg co-wrote the radio serial/TV show/comic book movie adaptation with his Superbad pal Seth Rogen, who also stars as the Green Hornet (a.k.a., playboy Britt Reid). Asian pop star Jay Chou takes over Bruce Lee’s iconic role as Kato, the brains and brawn behind the Hornet and his operation to fight crime in the streets of Los Angeles.

Recent clips and TV spots have done a good job highlighting the stylish action scenes from Green Hornet (specifically, the “Kato Vision” combat sequences), promoting the movie as mostly just a fast and fun popcorn flick. The film attracted a fair amount of negative buzz back in mid-2010, but recent word of mouth has been much more positive (check back here on Friday to read our verdict).

The Green Hornet and Kato get to wreak havoc on the streets of L.A., thanks to their virtually indestructible and technologically-advanced ride, the Black Beauty. Have a look at the damage left in the vehicle’s wake in the Green Hornet poster (via IMP Awards) below:

There’s a good chance you were more interested in admiring the snazzy visual design of the images or footage released for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch than actually bothering to find out what exactly the film’s plot is. For those who want to know, here’s the basic gist of said plot:

She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll (Emily Browning) has not lost her will to survive.  Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls—the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung) and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish)—to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac), Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino) and the High Roller (Jon Hamm).

These girls’ attempts to escape their cruel captors is brought to life via vivid fantasy sequences that pit the leather-and-fishnet-clad ladies against samurai, deadly soldiers, fire-breathing dragons, and giant mechanical monsters. Sucker Punch may not have the most well-developed or layered of storylines, but Snyder knows how to create beautiful visuals and stunning action – so that definitely works in the film’s favor.

Check out the new Sucker Punch banner below:

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Son of Odin and owner of the all-too-cool silver hammer Mjolnir (not Maxwell – kudos for getting this joke), Thor makes the jump to the big screen this summer, under the direction of Shakespeare lover Kenneth Branagh. The film adaptation of the mythological tale-turned-Stan Lee comic book stars Chris Hemsworth as the titular blonde bruiser, who is cast down to live amongst the mortals on Earth after his dad (Anthony Hopkins) tires of his arrogance and thoughtless action.

An official trailer for Thor was released just over a month ago and fans were overall quite receptive to the footage on display – more so than they were after watching the preview for another comic book flick, Green Lantern (for more on that subject, see our Thor vs. Green Lantern trailer showdown).

This new French poster for the film only features the all-mighty Thor in the flesh, but there’s still something cool about the image of Hemsoworth, dressed up in futuristic armor and gazing out dramatically into the distance as his red cape flaps in the wind – we all know it’s true.

Check out the French one-sheet (via CloneWeb and Fantasy.fr) below:

The Green Hornet roars into regular, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters around the U.S. this Friday, January 14th.

Sucker Punch blasts its way into theaters on March 25th, 2011.

Thor arrives in 2D and 3D theaters on May 6th, 2011.

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My biases (why I was a jerk to AllMyApps); my Leweb roundup

When I asked Quora which tech startups should I interview that I hadn’t interviewed yet, AllMyApps was at the top of the list.

I was pretty rude to them at LeWeb and couldn’t get excited about their new company and new product (usually I get excited about anything new, but thought I owed them an explanation of why I wasn’t excited about this one). First my excuses: Why? Well, I was tired/jetlagged. I had just sat through something like 15 pitches at LeWeb. More about those later. No excuses though, what really happened is my biases showed through.

What are those biases? That I look at, and care about, early adopter behavior. I like shiny new objects. I told the team that I look for things on the list of tech battlefronts (like Android vs. iPhone vs everyone else, or which slates can beat iPad, or which mobile apps are doing best, etc).

So, a new mobile app wins out over one that runs on Windows, I told them. Why? Microsoft Windows just isn’t on a tech battlefront anymore, according to my biases.

Why? And where did those biases come from?

Well, I sit next to people on planes or cafes and I watch their behavior and often I even get brave enough to ask what they have loaded on their machines. I’ve sat next to dozens of people running Windows. In the past year I have yet to find one that’s loaded anything new in the past six months. Compare that to someone who has a new Android or iPhone or a new iPad. Those folks load dozens of apps and are proud of them.

That behavior leads me to some biases. I note that the same biases exist in the tech press overall and I explained to them why their company won’t be as loved as say, Flipboard or Instagram.

Heck, the little PR they got, in Lifehacker, shows how little reaction they got from the marketplace. The first comment in that article? Meh.

Read CrunchBase about AllMyApps and you can see they got a million euros in funding, which is pretty awesome. Investors are still going after the Windows market because it’s so big.

But I just couldn’t pull myself to really care about it. Neither can the rest of the tech press. Compare, for instance, to the press that got written about the Google Chrome App Store.

It seems that not only I have a bias against Windows apps, so does the rest of the tech press. I’m sorry about being direct with the team at LeWeb about this, but thought I owed them a longer explanation of why I wasn’t excited about their company and product the way I usually am about new stuff.

Anyway, onto what else happened at LeWeb last week. First, there’s a great PearlTrees curated widget that points to the good stuff. I recorded a video with that team in their Paris headquarters last week where I get a demo of what they are doing for LeWeb.

Over on my CinchCast page I’ve put up 16 interviews I did at LeWeb. Including some exclusive news, like about Appsfire’s new Android and iPhone/iPad app that helps you discover new apps, and Evernote’s CEO telling me that Android is growing about 10x faster than iPhone usage is.

By the way, all the sessions from LeWeb are now up on YouTube. It’s really great production quality stuff and greatly appreciated when conferences do this (it helps me get more value out of the event because I don’t feel like I have to listen to every talk, which lets me network out in the hall and do things like my CinchCasts).

My two on-stage interviews are now up too. First, the one where I grill MySpace’s CEO. Second, where I ask Mozilla’s chairperson if she can save the web again.

It’s just one of the reasons why I say that LeWeb is the best web conference in the world.

Regarding my roundup, I still have some videos to process, and I’m watching the sessions I missed. Plus, the coolest startups I saw there embargoed me, so you’ll see those companies early next year. LeWeb really is a great conference with 3,000 attendees and one that’ll be even better next year (Loic told me he turned down three offers to sell, and instead will add an extra day in an attempt to make it even more influential).

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Movie Media Roundup: ‘Faster’, ‘The Fighter’, ‘The Tourist’

This week’s movie media roundup features a vengeance-fueled Dwayne Johnson in Faster; a beefed up but emotionally-torn Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter; and a flirtatious exchange between Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.

All of these films arrive in U.S. theaters over the next three weeks (Holiday season) and look to appeal to a wide range of moviegoers whose interests include graphic violence, raw personal drama, and pretty people up to espionage-related hijinks overseas. Let’s get to it, shall we?

Johnson has his badass face back on in this week’s Faster, which stars “The Rock” as a man who, fresh out of prison, decides there’s no better way to celebrate his newfound freedom than by going on a killing spree and taking out every person he deems responsible for the death of his brother. Billy Bob Thorton costars as a cop who’s determined to stop Johnson -- even though he only has two days left until retirement (okay, not really, but you get the gist…).

The Faster red band trailer promised lots of bloody, hyper-kinetic action and violence in the form of a lean, mean, revenge flick that’s more about racking up a body count than character development or plot. That’s exactly what these three clips from the movie deliver as well, so chances are you already have an inkling as to whether or not Faster is your thing.

Watch the Faster clips below and get a taste of what the film has to offer:

Faster arrives in theaters in the U.S. on November 24th, 2010

Source: CBS Films

Wahlberg plays “Irish” Micky Ward, a man who has to do battle both inside and outside the ring in next month’s The Fighter. The flick is already generating a healthy amount of Oscar buzz for a sickly-looking Christian Bale’s turn as Dickie, Micky’s half-brother/trainer and former boxing powerhouse-turned-drug addict.

While the first Fighter trailer painted the movie as a very much by-the-numbers underdog story in the vein of Rocky, a tense TV spot indicated that David O. Russell’s film will be an intense, realistic depiction of a true-life story about a man who overcame the odds in both his personal and professional life.

Three clips have been released from The Fighter and they focus on the personal drama between Micky, Dickie, his girlfriend (Amy Adams), and his mom (Melissa Leo, who truly deserves the title “chameleon actress”), rather than the (reportedly, highly visceral and gritty) action inside the boxing ring.

Check out The Fighter footage below:

The Fighter arrives in theaters in the U.S. on December 10th, 2010.

Source: Paramount Pictures (via Cinema Blend)

A-list stars Depp and Jolie will find themselves entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue, and romance in this winter’s The Tourist, which was directed by The Lives of Others helmer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and co-written by Christopher McQuarrie (The Wolverine).

Depp plays Frank, the every-man who gets in over his head (a la Cary Grant in North By Northwest), while Jolie plays Elise, a (what else?) sensuous femme fatale who -- judging by the official trailer -- makes Frank’s trip through Paris and Venice an exciting (if life-threatening) trip to remember.

This first clip released from The Tourist is a surprisingly clever scene on a train where Depp and Jolie’s characters meet, flirt, and all but acknowledge that their first encounter is something right out of a mystery genre thriller.

Check it out below:

The Tourist will be in theaters on December 10th.

Source: Sony Pictures (via MySpace)

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Movie Media Roundup: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4′, ‘Scream 4′ & ‘Tangled’

Pirates are a sailin’, Ghostface is a killin’, and the latest Disney princess is causing comic mischief with her four-legged costars in our latest roundup of movie posters, images, and footage.

We have the first official one-sheet for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to check out, as well as new photos from Scream 4 and a handful of clips from Disney’s Tangled for you to peruse through and inspect at your leisure, naturally.

Walt Disney Pictures knows there is still life left in its ride-turned-moneymaking movie franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, and will find out just how much when Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides arrives next summer. The company has released an official one-sheet for the pic that feature the familiar image of a (now, metallic) skull decked out in beads and a red bandanna, with two swords crossed behind it in the background. It’s only a poster, but we can’t help but wonder: Will Pirates of the Caribbean 4 offer moviegoers anything they’ve not previously seen from the franchise?

Johnny Depp will be back as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fourth POTC flick, along with Geoffrey Rush as his former mutinous first mate Captain (Hector) Barbossa and Kevin R. McNally as Jack’s oft-drunken comrade, Joshamee Gibbs. Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane are newcomers to the franchise, as is Rob Marshall, who will take over directorial duties from Gore Verbinski for On Stranger Tides. Can the Chicago helmer instill new life into this bloated blockbuster action-adventure series?

Check out the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides teaser poster below:

Wes Craven is in a similar position to that of Marshall, as his new film, Scream 4, hopes to be the first in several new installments in a franchise that, while successful in its time, most moviegoers have now had their fill of.

Dimension Films has released a handful of new images from the horror flick, which finds Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott once again having to defend herself against a homicidal maniac who’s always dressed for Halloween. David Arquette and Courtney Cox are back as well, along with numerous young stars like Emma Roberts, Heroes‘ Hayden Panettiere, and Rory Culkin, who have to obey the rules of the horror genre in the age of reboots and Saw movies if they hope to survive.

Check out the newest photos from the fourth Scream pic below:

Disney’s spin on the classic fairy tale Rapunzel, now redubbed Tangled, arrives next week over the Thanksgiving holiday and hopes to attract those looking for a family-friendly adventure with a new princess and humorous animal sidekicks to boot.

Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi lent their voices to Tangled, which also boasts some luminous French Rococo painting-inspired animation that gives the flick a distinctive look, different that the organic style of Pixar or the cartoonish visual design of Dreamworks’ animated fare. The humor, characters, and story all feel pretty familiar, but younger moviegoers should get a kick out of Tangled, while their parents can breath a sigh of relief that they aren’t watching Yogi Bear instead.

Check out four clips from Tangled below:

Tangled hits 2D and 3D screens in the U.S. on November 24th, 2010.

Scream 4 attacks theaters around the U.S. on April 15th, 2011.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will sail into 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters on May 20th, 2011.

Source: Walt Disney Pictures (via IMP Awards), Dimension Films (via Scream Panico)

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