Ok, so I'm officially never leaving OWF Towers again! My jolly saunter down to London for a few days to catch the World Premiere of
Chris Nolan's Inception was lovely, and a much needed re-charge of the old batteries but
never again! At least never again without a laptop. I actually had to post a couple of OWF stories over the weekend in the Apple Store, which brought with it some funny looks from staff members but I assured them that I'm a regular Apple customer and have spent enough money with the company over the years to justify the wi-fi usage for 15 mins! Anyway, even with an absence of just 72 hours, my inbox has bulged to the seams with mail and it's taken me a further 72 hours to just catch-up on those, let alone the mail that has arrived since. Most have been Inception poster/billboard contest entries and here's a huge and
sincere thank you to all OWF readers who took the time to join in with this campaign. You guys have paid back my faith in you when I originally pitched the contest to Warner Bros. Full list of winners will be unveiled on Monday next week. I've just about managed to get them all, and the majority of them are in this post and also in our archives. I've also got my own entry (don't worry, I'm not winning anything) of a few snaps (including the one at the top of this post) and a vid I took with my digital camera of the autograph hounds waiting to catch a glimpse of
Leonardo DiCaprio on Thursday at Leicester Square Odeon, still 2-3 hours before anything was set to go down; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOV_UVATOVE Once DiCaprio arrived, the screaming of young girls (and a few older one's who should know better) could be heard for miles. It's a credit I suppose to the seduction and the power of DiCaprio's earlier works (Titantic, Romeo & Juliet, Man in the Iron Mask I guess) still have on a certain age group, and also his more refined acting abilities shown in recent complex movies
Shutter Island, Revolutionary Road and
Blood Diamond that he has managed to hold this audience despite making movies that with anyone else would alienate them from this kind of crowd. LOTS more pics after the jump... A few more taken by me;
And here's one of the crew putting up billboards in readiness for the premiere...
The rest are all reader sent entries... From Chiraag...
Hey! I saw this INCEPTION billboard on East St, Epsom, England, United Kingdom. Sorry but i forgot to take a photo of me next to the poster...i hope that's okay. Thanks mate (:
Chris Wright...
Please see attached a few photos of various billboards and bus stop posters in and around Hove (2-3 pictures of each one) to add to your Inception archive. Hope they are okay.
Selena Zafar...
Inception billboard on Deansgate, Manchester UK. Under a bridge near the Hilton Manchester city centre.
Ross Cornish...
Please find attached my entry, this billboard in a small town in kent called welling, its in upper wickham lane next to a lidls supermarket.
JChanley...
Saw this on 19th street in San Francisco. Love your site. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
Rachel Devenport...
Old Street Roundabout, London, UK
Zahid Chohan... This was taken on Wigan Road, in Bolton (England). Picture was taken by me, it is directly opposite my house!
Saw this poster while I was around town :) The poster was on Bishops Road, Peterborough, UK Hopefully, i'll see a big billboard in London!!! Cheers, Sachin Patel
Got another one for ya. Halsted/Barry/Clark St. intersection in Lakeview (just north of Chicago) Entry by Mike Eisenberg
We will still be asking for Inception billboards over the next week or so and I encourage you to keep sending them in. Also, if I have forgotten to post your entry into this post or
in our archives, then please shoot me a mail so I can sort myself out! If you spot an INCEPTION poster on a billboard, on a bus, at the train station anywhere take a snap on your camera/phone and send it in to Obsessed With Film. Tweet the pic to @owfilm E-mail the pic to editor@obsessedwithfilm.com Upload the image and comment on this post