Movie Poster Round-Up: The Next Three Days, The Town, Black Swan

Posted by on September 3rd, 2010   Filed under: Posters and Marketing

Exciting news! We’re kicking off the weekend with another solid round-up of newly released movie posters to look at with your eyes. This time around we’ve got the first one-sheets for such movies as Ben Affleck’s The Town, Tony Scott’s Unstoppable, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. We’ve also got a poster for Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, yet another cool one sheet for Buried, and an interesting design for The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe.

Some of the more ridiculous posters this time around include Life as We Know It starring Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl, and a pretty dull promo poster for Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers. Don’t miss the cool Mexican poster for The Expendables, and a limited edition Mondo piece for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Which ones are your favourites? Check out the full gallery after the jump.




  • Yie. The NExt Three Days Poster is as ugly and unnecessarily busy as the film looks!

    Gotta love the MONSTERS poster, one of the best of the year in overall design.

    And I don’t know if buried will be any good, but their marketing and posters have been astoundingly great!

  • Kyriacos

    I say we are heading to a good winter mate..

  • The LIFE AS WE KNOW IT poster is sublime! High Art.

    I also really like the MONSTERS and BLACK SWAN ones. Appealing twists on the classic central head shot. The latter looks a bit weird upon closer inspection though, especially in the neck/shoulders area. Abusive use of Photoshop, maybe?

  • swarez

    I like how Unstoppable shows no indication of what the movie is about. How hard is it to make a poster with a giant fucking train smashing through stuff?
    The second The Town poster looks like a sequel to Trash Humpers.

  • swarez

    The Monster poster pisses me off because I was going to do a similar design for my short film, masked character with the sun behind him. Damn it.

  • >”The LIFE AS WE KNOW IT poster is sublime! High Art.”

    Can’t tell if this is a joke or not… I’ll go with joke.

    Black Swan is the most straight-forward yet most striking of the lot.

    Buried is quite eye-catching, but I hate the fact that it’s made up of pull quotes.

    The Virginity Hit I’m liking for some reason. Reminds me of something.

    So many action movies have the same, tired generic posters. The third poster for The Town and Unstoppable being cases in point. Skyline is just an ugly mess.

    Also like Monster and Never Let Me Go. Interesting move to *not* have your Big Heads pop out of the poster, to half bury them in light/dark.

    And stuff.

  • @DavidM

    “Can’t tell if this is a joke or not…I’ll go with joke.”

    You guessed right. Since the poster is so objectively atrocious I figured that I didn’t need to use a smiley.

  • rob

    50:50 here i think, but the ones that look good, look great

  • Maxime: Well, I did think so. Though irony doesn’t *always* come over well from strangers on message boards, and, well, in the crazy town that is the internet, you never can tell…

  • @DavidM

    Your puzzled reaction is perfectly understandable. I was trying to seem sincere so that the sight of the poster – after reading its praise – would be the joke. Irony is indeed hard to pull off among strangers, especially in written format.

  • Needless to say, Tyler Stout kills it as usual.

    Agree with swarez on the Unstoppable poster.

    The Fubar II poster is perfect. Wouldn’t expect anything more, or less, for that film. Can’t wait to see it too.

    Black Swan is just weird. The design seems fine, it’s just bad photoshoppery.

    Meh to the Virginity Hit.

    I like the Monsters poster. Lends itself to a series nicely.

  • Justice

    The Buried posters have been consistently good, I really like this one.

  • The Man

    Love the pilgram poster

  • Aaron F.

    I HATE the Life as We Know It poster. Is she grabbing for Josh Duhamel’s leg?!!

    That Stone poster is pretty damned boring too.

    I’m digging The Town #1 and 2, and Tempest looks pretty wicked.