Around the World in Posters: Les Miserables, Lone Ranger, Hitchcock, Gangster Squad and more!

The cast of Les Miserables - Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

I spot Sonic the Hedgehog among the characters for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph.  This was truly the only game I ever excelled at.  

Denzel's back in another thriller with Robert Zemeckis' Flight.

The UK Quad poster for Great Expectations with Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Levine and Holliday Grainger.

New Hitchcock poster featuring the rest of the cast, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and Jessica Biel as Vera Miles. 

Hey, I didn't know Bilbo Baggins had a lightsaber.  New banner from The Hobbit.

The teaser poster for the new project by Edgar Wright, The World's End, the epic pub crawl film which will obviously have Wright regulars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Gangster Squad poster with a dreamy Ryan Gosling.  Can't get enough of dreamy Ryan Gosling posters.  

Teaser poster for the new Jack Reacher film with Tom Cruise.  Too simple and not too exciting.

And finally, my favorite of the bunch, the poster for The Lone Ranger with Armie Hammer as the masked hero and Johnny Depp as his sidekick.  Great design on this one.

3 New Trailers: Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained and Hitchcock

The competition at next year's Oscars is going to be fierce.  Just look at the movies that will be going up against each other.  Among them is Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, a behind-the-scenes look at the top secret stealth mission to capture (at any cost) Osama Bin Laden that shocked the world.  The movie features actors Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt and Edgar Ramirez.  Will Bigelow be able to recapture the success of her last film, The Hurt Locker?  Judging by the second trailer released, it looks like extremely interesting with a solid cast of very good actors.  The curiosity factor about the mission might just get the film nominated.  The film is out December 19th in the US just in time for the nominations announcement in early January.

The second trailer of Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated Django Unchained shows more of the partnership between Django (Jamie Foxx) and the bounty hunter Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and them going up against Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has Django's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). After a long time, DiCaprio is in an anti-hero role.  Could this possibly get him the Oscar after being nominated for it thrice already? He'll face competition from his own cast which also features Samuel L Jackson, Jonah Hill and Don Johnson. Django Unchained opens on Christmas day in the USA and around the rest of the world in January.

And finally, we have Hitchcock, the film about a man "obsessed with murder.'  With a pair of Oscar winners, Anthony Hopkins (virtually unrecognizable) and Helen Mirren play the legendary director and his wife Alma during the making of one of his most famous films, Psycho. I feel this could be hit or miss at the Oscar, it might have a shot at the acting awards but I don't whether it can be nominated for Best Picture against all the other heavyweights which are also due to release in December, like The Hobbit, Lincoln, etc. But it all depends on what number of films ends being nominated for Best Picture. Hitchcock releases late November in USA. 

New Hitchcock Poster

I have to say I love this poster of Hitchcock so much so that it's getting own post.  The blood-spattered tie as knife, very clever indeed!  I can almost hear Hitchcock in his solemn voice greeting the audience with a 'Good Evening'.

This biopic of Alfred Hitchcock during the making of Psycho is directed by Sacha Gervasi features  Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville.  Scarlett Johansson is actress Janet Leigh, James D'Arcy is Anthony Perkins and Jessica Biel is Vera Miles.  The film will release this November in USA.  

First Looks: Life of Pi and Hitchcock

(Photo: Playlist)

Here it is, the first glimpse at Ang Lee's Life of Pi with newbie Suraj Sharma in the title role and more importantly debuting Richard the tiger, Pi's pal in the lifeboat adrift at sea.  According to Playlist, I doubt this is a real tiger as the film plans to use CGI animal characters for the challenging story sequences.  How long until a trailer surfaces?  I can't wait to see how this unfolds on the screen, there was awhile I thought this film would never get made.  Many directors were rumored before Ang Lee got the project.  Life of Pi hits theaters December 21, 2012 and also stars Irrfan Khan, Tobey Maguire and Tabu.

(Photo: Empire)

The other first look comes from director Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock with Anthony Hopkins playing the legendary director about the making of the film Psycho.  I can hardly recognize Hopkins.  I hope the voice will match, Hitchcock had a very distinct (and slow) way of talking.  The film also features Scarlett Johnasson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, along with Toni Collette, James D'Arcy and Helen Mirren.  The film will release next year.