Tag: Takers

Blu Monday: January 18, 2011

Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray

Perhaps the most anticipated release this week is Rodrigo Cortes’ BURIED, a groundbreaking indie thriller starring Ryan Reynolds who wakes up to find himself buried alive, but much more is at play in this ingenious film. David Michod’s ANIMAL KINGDOM — about a 17-year old coping with life in a criminal family —  was also a festival favorite on the indie scene; FREAKONOMICS is an anthology from six innovative documentary filmmakers that explores the hidden side of everything; and two classics from director Samuel Fuller — NAKED KISS, a film noir about a prostitute who finds redemption; and SHOCK CORRIDOR, about a journalist who commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange murder — get the Blu-Ray treatment from Criterion Collection.

Blu-Ray for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011

  1. ANIMAL KINGDOM (2010)
  2. ARMY OF CRIME (2010)
  3. BURIED (2010)
  4. DEATH RACE 2: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack (2011)
  5. DOWN TERRACE (2010)
  6. FREAKONOMICS (2010)
  7. LEBANON (2010)
  8. THE NAKED KISS: Criterion Collection (1964)
  9. NOMAD: THE WARRIOR (2005)
  10. SHOCK CORRIDOR: Criterion Collection (1963)
  11. TAKERS (2010)

John Curran’s STONE — starring Edward Norton and Robert DeNiro — and John Luessenhop’s TAKERS — an urban crime drama — both hope for better DVD sales than they received at the box office. Writer-director Ben Wheatley’s British crime-dramedy wants to catch your private home-viewing eye; Samuel Moaz’s critically-acclaimed LEBANON — about a single tank and parachute platoon in the first Lebanese War — releases on both Blu-Ray and DVD; while Roger Corman sees five more of his sci-fi/cult classics dug up and dusted off for a whole new generation to enjoy on DVD.

DVD for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011

  1. ANIMAL KINGDOM (2010)
  2. ARMY OF CRIME (2010)
  3. DEATH RACE 2 (2011)
  4. DOWN TERRACE (2010)
  5. FREAKONOMICS (2010)
  6. LEBANON (2010)
  7. THE NAKED KISS: Criterion Collection (1964)
  8. Roger Corman’s Sci-Fi Classics — ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS/WAR OF THE SATELLITES/NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957/1958/1957)
  9. SHOCK CORRIDOR: Criterion Collection (1963)
  10. STONE (2010)
  11. TAKERS (2010)
  12. UP FROM THE DEPTHS / DEMON OF PARADISE: Roger Corman’s Cult Classics Two-Pack (1979/1987)

‘Takers’ Poster Released?

takers poster

Yes, that’s a question mark at the end of that headline, becaue it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out this was some kind of elaborate ruse by Screen Gems to see…well, I don’t know what they would be accomplishing by putting out this poster.  I should say putting out this poster knowing full well it wasn’t finished.

The poster comes to us today courtesy of Coming Soon, and it features some of the worst, possibly the very worst, Photoshop job you can ever imagine a professional studio putting on a released poster.  Just look at Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker’s heads.  There’s no way those are regulation size.

Not only that, does it really pay to have the guy at the very top of the cast list, Matt Dillon, appear absolutely nowhere on your poster?  I know, in the film, he’s not part of the group, but, at least, have the guy hanging outside by a repel chord or something.

It won’t surprise me to find Screen Gems contacting most websites who post this telling them to pull it.  And, it won’t surprise me to find Screen Gems going with a different company to put together their posters from now on.  For now, anyway, here’s your poster for ‘Takers,’ the worst movie poster ever put together.

The film is set for release on February 19th, 2010.