French poster for Al Pacino's 88 Minutes

eighty_eight_minutes_ver2.jpgIt finished filming over 12 months ago, but the Jon Avnet directed and Al Pacino lead real-time thriller 88 Minutes is still no closer to hitting our cinema's. The movie which wrapped shooting in December 2005 on an estimated budget of $30 million had been unable to find a distributor, or at least that's what I was led to believe anyway. The great poster site Impa Awards through CinEmpire have uploaded a new French poster for the movie, which obviously indicates it has found a distributor (at least for France) and may mean it will finally hit our screens here in the U.K. or U.S. sometime this year, respectively. The movie, which sounds like a rip-off of the hit show 24... see's Pacino as a Univeristy professor/forensic expert who receives a death threat telling him he has only 88 minutes to live, with the three prime candidates being a problem student, an ex-girlfriend or a serial killer on death row. The poster looks very Steven Seagal-ish... which may not be a good thing. source - impaawards, cinempire
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.