A mega-memorable summer comes
to an end and studios are now in the finalizing stage of their fall release schedule. But you know what
that means for us right now: new pictures. Lots of ’em! Think autumn movies are just stuffy
Oscar bait? We’ve got the vampires, comedies, torture porn, and British
Invasion tunes to prove you otherwise.
Author Richard Matheson is no
stranger to the movies, but it’s been a while since a story of his got the big
screen treatment. That’s set to change this holiday with
I Am Legend,
starring Will Smith as a lone post-apocalyptic survivor fighting hungry, hungry
vampires. Sound familiar? It was previously adapted as
The Omega Man starring
Charleston Heston, and then memorably spoofed by
The Simpsons. One of the new
pictures has a worried (and bald) Smith peering through a hole from inside a
fortress. Vampires? Survivors? A wig master? We’ll find out December
14.
We know you hear a lot about
how Judd Apatow can do no wrong. But, seriously, the dude can do no wrong. He
co-wrote and produced
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (a biopic spoof starring
John C. Reilly) and presented its first five minutes at Comic-Con. What the audience saw was like a hilariously surreal cartoon come to life. These photos, while amusing in
their own right, don’t quite pinpoint how weird the movie might be (assuming it
retains the same outrageous tone of its opening). I’m looking forward to some
hot Cox action when it comes out December 14.
Since Sir Paul’s recent Starbucks-sanctioned album didn’t set the world ablaze, it
now falls upon
Across the Universe to kick start the new wave of Beatlemania.
The film zeroes in on two star struck lovers as their paths cross and diverge
against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s and a helluva lot of Fab Four
covers. Director
Julie Taymor reportedly had final cut taken away from her by
Columbia so it’s unknown whose version we’ll see on September 14, but the
trailers and these new pictures reveal the weird gritty whimsy Taymor’s known
for.
We know we have a lot of
Saw
fans (or, at least, a lot of people who like to argue about Saw) ’round these
parts. Production stills remain scarce, but Lionsgate has seen it fit to release the newest
poster for Saw IV. This is exactly like the previous IV poster, except
the image has been cropped to now only imply a wrinkly, decapitated head. Stay
classy, Lionsgate, and we’ll show up every Halloween.
