First Look: New Showest Posters Of Sherlock Holmes, 500 Days of Summer, The Hangover & Easy Virtue!
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By George 'El Guapo' Roush on
March 28, 2009
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If it's one thing I like, it's Vegas, baby. ShoWest starts on Monday, but I got here early to give you guys a first look at these hot new promo posters for four upcoming films.
These may or may not be final posters for movies like 500 Days of Summer, and by no means am I claiming that any of the promotional posters are finalized by the studios. But this is what was put up, and this is what I snapped pictures of.
The posters weren't backlit, so you'll have to excuse the poor lighting and reflections in some of them. I will get better images later on. The Sherlock Holmes poster with Robert Downey Jr. is by far my favorite.
While other blogs and websites who are also going to Showest will claim to have a first look at this artwork in the next couple of days, you'll know who actually got them first. So enjoy the posters, and be sure to check back daily next week as I bring you more reports, pictures, news, and reviews from ShoWest.
Sherlock Holmes
In a dynamic new portrayal of Conan Doyle’s famous characters, “Sherlock Holmes” sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.
 500 Days of SummerThis is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man’s no-holds-barred love affair.  The Hangover
Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor party they'll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can't remember a thing. For some reason, they find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby in the closet of their suite at Caesars Palace. The one thing they can't find is Doug. With no clue as to what transpired and little time to spare, the trio must retrace their hazy steps and all their bad decisions in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time to walk down the aisle.  Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue" stars Jessica Biel playing Larita, the avant-garde young woman who takes the Whittaker family by storm; Colin Firth as the war-weary head of the household Mr Whittaker; Kristin Scott Thomas as the stoic but neurotic wife Mrs Whittaker, and Ben Barnes as Larita's new husband John Whittaker. The twenties have roared... the thirties have yet to swing. John Whittaker, a young Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita, a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. However when the couple returns to the family home, his mother Mrs. Whittaker has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. Larita quickly realizes Mrs. Whittaker's game and sees that she must fight back if she's not going to lose John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly. Mrs. Whittaker manipulates every situation to undermine her, while Larita remains frustratingly calm and engineers sassy counter attacks. Before long, Mrs. Whittaker's manipulation starts to work on John and Larita feels their love is in danger of slipping away. In a grand finale, where the secrets from Larita's past are revealed, she finally makes a break for freedom from the suffocating house.  You won't be the first, but you'll still have fun when you  |
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NICE!
Commented By: Arnold on 2009-03-28 20:20:58
Nice fucking job George. That's what I like to see!!!
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on 2009-03-28 20:41:38
Very cool. Cant wait for 500 Days of Summer
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Sherlock Holmes
on 2009-03-28 23:08:18
Nice sunglasses on Robert Downey Jr....Too bad tinted lenses during the 19th century were mostly used to treat cases of syphillis...
But no, lets put them on him just cause it looks cooool.....
Way to do your history research again Hollywood!! great job.
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huh?
Commented By: hoguenstein on 2009-03-29 01:49:17
What happened to jessica biel's career? shes posing with a chihuahua for christ sakes. Oh wait she never had a career!
She better start doing some nude sceens!
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Commented By: avoidz on 2009-03-29 09:32:28
The Sherlock Holmes movie borrowed the sunglasses from 1993's Dracula.
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Cool
Commented By: Lorenzo on 2009-03-29 11:25:19
I like the Sherlock Holmes poster, very cool. I also wanted you guys to know that other sites are taking your watermarks down and making it like they are the ones debuting your hard work. Fucking hate those sites bunch of douchebags. I guess they do this case its a RACE thing. But keep up your work and fuck everyone else.
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on 2009-03-29 11:41:26
I can buy the sunglases on Dracula. At least there is a reason for them there. I can even buy tha Dracula might have had syphillis for cryin gout loud, but on Sherlock Holmes..come on, it's just cause it's cool..and it's not cool, it's dumb. I know I'm being picky on the historic stuff here, but we live in an age of ultra reallity stuff. Everything has got to be right on or it's considered corny. Why is that not the case 99% of the time when they make a historic film... I mean we would not do a film about September 11th and put all the people in Members only jackets, and parachute pants (at least I would hope not) It's the same thing..
Alright, I'll get off it now..
(his clothing looks retarded too..had to get in one last jab)
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Lorenzo
Commented By: El Guapo on 2009-03-29 12:36:58
What other sites?
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El Guapo
Commented By: Lorenzo on 2009-03-29 12:46:52
A friend of mine follow some site on Twitter and saw it here: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/teaser-poster-for-sherlock-holmes-debuts-at-showest
Now don't get me wrong they mention you guys but as a fucking text link. But the site had balls to say "even though the LR boys may not like it, removed their watermark."
That alone pissed me off, its not like you do that to them or anyone else for that matter. That site blows ass anyway.
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Commented By: Graeme on 2009-03-29 18:41:38
Sherlock Holmes is fiction, so im my book they are allowed to take liberties with sunglasses, fashion etc. And i reckon he wont be wearing them much in good ol' sunny, smog-ridden Victorian London!
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Syphillis
Commented By: Michael Sommermeyer on 2009-03-30 14:07:45
Conan Doyle wrote about Syphilis at least twice, once involving Sherlock Holmes. So as for Hollywood and it's research, do yours. Plus, who cares? It's a literary and visual device designed to make the character more interesting, and to encourage you to see and talk about the movie. Seems to be working.
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Non virtuous
Commented By: Kevin dobson on 2009-03-30 18:28:21
I saw Easy Virtue. Despite some solid work from Colin Firth and KST it is abysmal. It's impossible to overstate how bad Jessica Biel is in what should be an Oscar bait role. Perhaps I"m a little harsh in my judgements because I'm a fan of the play but it's amazing to me that this feels so much less toothless than the original. You would think they would make it edgier and more relevant but instead they've made it jokey and irrelevant. I wanted to like it - I really did but it is a horrible misfire.
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mmmmph!
Commented By: mochi on 2009-03-31 07:18:43
if not for downey jr's current fame, the sherlock cover looks something out of 80s, post dark shadows, tim curry sultray man-o.
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WTF?
Commented By: k. on 2009-04-01 03:50:34
SH looks like 1930s gangster. :D And as for syphilis, in case he had some really weird adventured when he was young (And ACD recorded his life quite well, he should have been REALLY young to have some orgies) there is even no way you could talk about it, connected to Holmes.
Echoing the historic film opinion... Everyone today uses their "artistic license" too much when it comes to history.
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Sherlock Holmes
Commented By: Marylinus on 2009-04-02 15:00:15
I've read Doyle's stories several times, and I can't recall a connection with syphillis. Cocaine addiction, yes. Opium smoking - on a case. Tobacco - definitely. Holmes avoided women except as clients, so, unless he bedded them in youth, he could not have aquired a sex-transmitted disease. Downey's take on him looks intresting. Not my idea of Holmes; but he might stretch the envelope without breaking it.
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Sherlock Holmes
Commented By: Lizé on 2009-04-24 00:39:03
Hahahahaha you are making too much of a fuss and you are only concernd with the sunglasses. Ok, here is the other things you can also complain about. Sherlock is a neat freak when it comes to his appearance and is always shaven and they portray him as person that doesnt look like he can afford clothes. Yes, he looks like a gangster and if you see him in the street you will want to run away. In this appearance he looks like a criminal that is going to do a crime cunningly. To tell you the truth, I dont care wot he looks like, in fact he looks awesum. Just because we are in the future he looks awesum, so I do not care. I am very happy that there is going to be a Sherlock Holmes movie. I am a huge fan and I hope they dont bugger up this one, because then I will forever hate all the acters in this movie. So hope they succeed(",)
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