New Posters: INCEPTION & SCREAM 4

We are three months away from Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'hitting our screens and I'm delighted to say that I still know very little about it. A new poster has been released by Warner Bros (found by Nolan Fans) which just like the trailers, is awe-inspiring, suggestive but not overly informative... Feeling vulnerable before seeing a movie is of course exciting, and something that should be cherished in the days when most studio trailers reveal all the best scenes and sequences in 2 minute chunks. I'm sure you all remember how you felt on the day you saw 'Cloverfield', where your imagination for what you could be about to see was running wild and making you feel giddy. Or that first time you saw 'The Matrix', in the age before most of us really read sites like AICN and CHUD, and the movie kept giving you a knock out blow, after knock out blow, and you had to physically remove your jaw from the floor at what you were seeing. I mean I understand hitting the web everyday to try and work out the secrets behind upcoming movies, it's fun. But movies like 'Inception' don't come around very often, and the fun of any magic trick is the not knowing. We should celebrate it, and reward the movie with a 'Dark Knight' style opening in July and tell movie studio's - this is exactly what we want to see year in and year out. Top directors given big budgets on original, home-grown ideas and NOT to tell us every little bit about the movie in the marketing phase. For all I know, 'Inception' might suck and be the worst film of the year (it won't) but aren't we glad it exists? (by the way, the 3rd trailer will be attached to U.S. prints of 'Iron Man 2' from May 7th, and likely in big movies in the U.K. post that date). Meanwhile, a new poster for 'Scream 4' is released over at Entertaiment Weekly, and director Wes Craven talks about the project;

"There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or "sequelitis" as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they've been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she's even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She's kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past."

I actually have high hopes for 'Scream's' third sequel and I think the ten year break from the third movie and the fact they have the whole crew to return (director Craven, screenwriter Williamson, and the main trio of cast) bodes extremely well for the project. I also think this is the pivotal quote of the whole Craven interview....

In order to figure out what€™s happening around them, the characters have to figure out where the genre of horror is.

Previously Williamson said;

€œI€™ve manga comics, Asian ghost girl movies, there€™s some PG-13 horror movies in there, vampire movies, M. Night Shyamalan movies and torture porn movies, even though they€™ve come and gone.€

It might sound a little hokey, and a little 'Saw' esque; but is the "New Decade. New Rules" tagline about the characters trying to figure out what genre 'Scream 4' belongs to, and the key to surviving it is understanding which one it is? 'Inception is released July 17th in the U.K. and U.S.''Scream 4 is released on April 15th in the U.S.'.