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...and they fight for her!

Sheet-y Saturday.

Where we take a look at posters for upcoming features.

I love that for this remake, they're pretty much copying the original poster (still one of the most iconic one-sheets of all time). However I resent that they're trying to fill it with unnecessary details, like the too-Photoshopped reflection of Alexander Skarsgård in James Marsden's broken glass or the red, crazy tagline, but meh, as far as we go, this will end up being one of the best posters of the year.

I'm sorry but I still don't get what's so special about Mia Wasikowska. I'm curious as to see what the hell did the great Gus Van Sant see in her to give her the lead in his latest movie. Coldly received in Cannes, the film is set to open soon in our part of the world and with the poster's little information, perhaps it's going to be one of those cute surprises we get sometimes, or more Wasikowska doing nothing and getting praise for it. Who knows. Gotta love the simple design for the poster though and how with one tiny detail, the film's title is represented.

Dying to see either of these? Are you infatuated with Wasikowska?

Sheet-y Saturday.

Where we take a look at posters for upcoming features.

The "you're invited" feel for Lars von Trier's Melancholia is a stroke of pure genius. How can you refuse watching Kiki Dunst, la Gainsbourg and others suffer as the end of the world approaches? How?

The Disaster Movie to End All Disaster Movies!

Melancholia from Zentropa on Vimeo.

As much as I love Pe, Kiki looks astonishing in this! Someone please give me this movie NOW!

Oh I Missed it So...

"Hell hath no fury like a vampire queen broke."

Another Reason to Hate Piracy.

Kirsten Dunst better start practicing her damsel in distress screams from the Spider-Man franchise. She's just been cast as the lead in Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
You know I'm a sucker for anything that springs out of the mad Dane's imagination but this news also means something bad for me.
Kiki is set to replace none other than Penélope Cruz! (I'd written about this before)
The most awful thing about it all is that Pe passed on Lars to star in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie!
The paycheck must be amazing and a movie star needs her couture and all, but how does someone in their right mind say no to Lars for Pirates?
Cruz reportedly said that she was just so excited to work with Rob Marshall again after Nine but has she seen the Pirates movies? The last two were silly excuses for making a buck and robbing audiences everywhere of the chance to reason as they were full of plot holes, inconsistencies and some of the worst written dialogue this side of James Cameron.
Not cool Pe...not cool.
But just how awesome is this for Kiki on the other side? She's been away from the screens for quite a while and truth be told her acting chops haven't really been developed in the way we expected after her work with Sofia Coppola.
When I first heard rumors that she had been cast in a von Trier movie I was ecstatic thinking that she had been cast as the third lucky actress to play Grace in The U.S. of A trilogy and that Lars had finally gotten started on Wasington.
I mean aesthetically it would make total sense that Kiki be the successor to the vastly superior Nicole Kidman and the surprisingly good Bryce Dallas Howard right? (The red hair and virginal all American looks...)
Either way this project is still very much in my "must watch" list, while Pe just made the first post-Volver choice I'll probably be passing on.
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TV Crush of the Week.