Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Open Grave (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 3, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead bodies, with no memory and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.” Poster: B+ Review: Sometimes even a…
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Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 8-10, 2013
No other wide releases this weekend and no hold overs will be able to trump Thor: The Dark World, which will have two weeks to rule the #1 position at the box office before The Hunger Games (spoofed this week in The Starving Games sequel Catching Fire stomps the competition for three weekends until The…
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2013 Summer Season Preview Wrap-Up: June
June 7, 2013 The Internship Box Office Prediction: $45 M Box Office Expectations: What I Said: “Weak. Two actors who haven’t collectively or independently sold a movie to audiences with much success band together for a movie that almost feels 5 years out of date. And facing stiff competition from Memorial Day holdovers After Earth…
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Film Preview: The Institute (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A documentary on the Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became “inducted” without ever quite realizing what they’d signed up for.” Poster: A- Review: Employing a advertisement with an advertisement isn’t a fresh concept, but the use of colors and…
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Film Preview: The Great Beauty (2013)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: November 15, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of an aging writer who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth. A portrait of today’s Rome.” Poster: C- / C / C- Review: There are three designs, the first two in Italian, the last in English.…
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Weekend Preview: Nov. 8-10, 2013
Below are eight previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Paris Countdown (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 8, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Milan and Jonas once were the best friends in the world. Until the day when they had to denounce Serki, a criminal psychopath, to the Mexican police. Six years later Jonas meets up with a devastated Milan: Serki has just been released and he…
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Film Preview: Best Man Down (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 8, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.” Poster: C- Review: A generic, loosely-linked poster design that has a multiple reasons to use the blank…
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Film Preview: Endless Love (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.” Poster: D+ Review: It’s amazing how studio designers attempt to make a poster design look sexy…
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Film Preview: Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 7, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Using his most ingenious invention, the WABAC machine, Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy Sherman hurtle back in time to experience world-changing events first-hand and interact with some of the greatest characters of all time. They find themselves…
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Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 1-3, 2013
Three very distinct genres with differing viewerbases. Last Vegas has the best potential to climb to the top of the chart. Well known actors in a Las Vegas comedy should attract the broadest support while many geeks will choose Ender’s Game and families will go for Free Birds. Adult audiences have dominated this year’s box…
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Film Preview: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 3, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After being “marked,” Jesse begins to be pursued by mysterious forces while his family and friends try to save him.” Poster: C / C Review: The first poster design went off the beaten path for the Paranormal Activity franchise. It highlights the religious/possession overtones,…
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Film Preview: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: April 4, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.” Poster: C / B- / C+ (5) / C+ / C…
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Weekend Preview: Nov. 1-3, 2013
Below are nine previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Broken Circle Breakdown (2013)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: November 1, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.”…
