I guess the advantage of the US getting Maps to the Stars now is that we get to relive the trailer and hopefully some new stills *fingers crossed*. Focus Features unleashed their trailer today so I thought I’d share plus I know people love to see Jerome any chance they get.
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Here’s a HQ version of the poster I stumbled across a few weeks ago thanks to Collider
Also this variation of the above as the banner on Focus Features official Maps to the Stars website:
And some of the comments from sites/blogs about the US release:
The Playlist – Watch Stars Burnout in New US Trailer Poster for Maps to the Stars
“While there was some concern that Cannes’ Best-Actress winning “Maps To The Stars” deserved to be released last fall, there is something particularly fitting about the movie hitting theaters the weekend after the Oscars. Just after Hollywood spends an entire night congratulating themselves, David Cronenberg will be delivering his gleefully caustic take on the industry and everyone in it — there’s a reason it made our 25 Best Films Of 2015 We’ve Already Seen feature (see below). So to get ready, a brand new U.S. trailer and poster for the movie has arrived.”
The Playlist – 25 Best Movies of 2015 We’ve Already Seen (I’ll add this to the “Best of Lists” roundup too)
Director: David Cronenberg (“Eastern Promises,” “Cosmopolis“)
Cast: Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska, Evan Bird, Olivia Williams, Robert Pattinson
Synopsis: Mega-dysfunctional Hollywood power family the Weisses find their ambitions endangered when potentially criminally insane daughter Agatha comes back to town to work for a middle-aged movie star who is desperate for a comeback and who happens to be a client of Agatha’s analyst father.
Verdict: Soapy to the point of lunacy, overwrought to a near-camp extreme, and atypically messy from the usually hospital-corners Cronenberg, “Maps to the Stars†is also a huge, almost sinful truckload of fun. Assembling a wonderful cast who take delight in ripping to shreds the folly and hubris of the vacant Hollywood lifestyle, the film is a riot of inside-baseball winks about the film industry, and the deeply narcissist, rotten-to-the-core sellouts who populate it. Julianne Moore’s titanic performance as the fading star facing encroaching middle age (and therefore irrelevance) is so good that it won her Cannes’ Best Actress award, and in one go ensures that she herself will never suffer her character’s fate. But all of the cast do sterling work: it’s a, “Hey, where you been?” to John Cusack, and a, “Hello, we’ll be seeing a lot more of you,” to Evan Bird, especially. It’s may simply be a gonzo gothic telenovela (so much soap can only ever generate so much froth), but it’s a giddy good time at the pictures.
Our Review: Here’s Oli’s B+ take from Cannes
Release Date: February 27th”
Awards Daily “Maps to the Stars Gets A Bad Ass Poster & A Trailer”
“One of the casualties of awards season is the great David Cronenberg film, Maps to the Stars – totally buried and forgotten because it was deemed “too rough†for the delicate sensibilities of industry voters. I’m glad I came of age in the era of the David Lynch, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Cronenberg because I remember what films were like before PG-13 overtook them. Maps to the Stars is a magnificent fever dream cooked up by the fine brain of a one Bruce Wagner who has find a partner in crime with Cronenberg. The film industry killed David Lynch’s career, maybe it can kill Cronenberg’s and maybe Fincher’s – ridding the world at last of the provocative Davids. Don’t miss it.”
David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars is a wonderfully unusual, genre-bending experience. There are quite a few key characters, but it begins with Mia Wasikowska’s Agatha, a young woman fresh out of the psych ward who heads off to LA for redemption. She scores a job as actress Havana Segrand’s (Julianne Moore) personal assistant, but the more Agatha wedges her way into the Tinseltown environment, the more twisted her journey becomes.
“David Cronenberg‘s Cosmopolis really rubbed me the wrong way, so much so that I do not really care what he has to offer next. That is a shame because I generally really like his filmography. But… I just cannot get interested in Maps to the Stars. It has been even more polarizing than Cosmopolis, and Brad’s review certainly does not help its case.Well, for those of you eagerly awaiting it, still undecided about it, or that just like trailers, a new domestic trailer is below for you to watch, along with a new poster for the film. I will admit, the new poster is pretty awesome.
I am fully prepared to call this a good film if it ends up being one. I know Cronenberg is capable of that, and with a cast that includes Julianne Moore (who won Best Actress at Cannes for this film), Mia Wasikowska, and Olivia Williams, he is at least doing something right. John Cusack and Robert Pattinson… a little less great there, but you never know.”
You may have heard a few things about David Cronenberg‘s (EASTERN PROMISES, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE) latest picture when it was making some waves at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. In case you’ve been unacquainted, MAPS TO THE STARS follows those who make their way in Hollywood with money, fame and envy. It is a scathing look at celebrities with an all-star cast. With a US release coming in February, a brand new trailer and poster are here to create some sparks.
“First, this is one of the cooler trailers you’re going to run into, and it shows off the entire cast. Especially strong in the film is Mia Wasikowska, who doesn’t get nearly enough credit in general, and you get a good feel for her in the trailer.It’s the sort of thing that could probably only come from Cronenberg, and even just in the trailer delivers his unique brand of tonal eeriness.”
And that poster. How good is the poster!
LOVE that poster!