January 9th, 2015 / 2 Comments


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.

 

Here’s a HQ version of the poster I stumbled across a few weeks ago thanks to Collider

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Also this variation of the above as the banner on Focus Features official Maps to the Stars website:

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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)

“Maps to the Stars”

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.”

Collider:

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.

I caught the film at the 2014 New York Film Festival and it was easily one of the best on the line-up.  Moore is downright mesmerizing as this insanely determined and unhinged floundering actress, and the film as a whole rocks an especially unique blend of unsettling tragedy and satire.  It’s not easy to convey something like that clearly in a two-minute promo, but this latest Maps to the Stars trailer pulls it off well.  Hit the jump to give it a watch and be sure to keep an eye out for the full film which hits theaters, On Demand and iTunes on February 27th.”

Rope of Silicon:

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.”

 “Hollywood is weird. It’s a mythical, nightmarish, absurd place, and has long been portrayed as such onscreen in the likes of Sunset Boulevard, The Player and Mulholland Drive. Might we be entering a new phase of specifically pointed Hollywood and Los Angeles-based horror and satire?  As Starry Eyes finds itself on many Best of 2014 lists, we look ahead to the development of Nicolas Refn’s The Neon Demon, andwe’re just around the corner from another biting depiction in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars. Cronenberg’s latest looks a cutting portrait, here played for its thriller elements and dread, but is also apparently very darkly humorous and absurd.”

First Showing:

“”Now that you’re in Tinseltown, what are you gonna do?” Everyone has their own idea of the glamor in Hollywood, but David Cronenberg‘s version of the home of movies in Maps to the Stars is anything but wonderful. Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson star in this ensemble of four people who seem to just be wandering through life in Hollywood. This trailer paints a pretty intense picture, almost like a thriller, which is exactly what we would expect from Cronenberg. The performances seem to be the driving force behind the odd drama, but here’s hoping the story is just as good.”

JoBlo:

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.

With BIRDMAN raking in some great praise regarding its actors and somewhat bleak look at what the Hollywood machine can do to a man, I imagine those who want a different look at the same idea will be eager to check out MAPS TO THE STARS. Cronenberg is a director of which I’ll give any of his films an obligatory look and if our review from TIFF is any indication (check it out here), this cinematic entry fares much better than COSMOPOLIS.”

Geek Tyrant:

“Say what you will about the films of David Cronenberg, but the man has a unique vision and the talent necessary to translate that vision to the big screen. The man behind The Fly, Videodrome, Eastern Promises, and more has a new film slated for release this year called Maps to the Stars, and it looks like a searing critique of Hollywood. Cronenberg isn’t afraid to pull any punches, and it looks like this may be one of his most aggressive, interesting features in years. I’m getting a strong All About Eve vibe from this trailer, and that final scream from Julianne Moore is chilling.”

Indiewire:

“Being a Cronenberg film, “Maps to the Stars” is, of course, steeped in decadence. At its center: the Weiss family. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a self-help therapist with a long list of celebrity clients, including Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), a fading starlet haunted by the ghost of her late mother, who was also a famous actress. As if one member of the family working with Hollywood wasn’t enough, Stafford’s wife, Cristina (Olivia Williams), manages the acting career of their troubled 13-year-old son, Benje (Evan Bird). When Stafford and Cristina’s psychologically unstable estranged daughter reappears in Los Angeles at the start of the film — having been released from a psychiatric hospital — chaos ensues.”

Thompson on Hollywood:

“Focus World has its eyes firmly on the real prize: a well-supported day-and-date multiplatform February 27 2015 release for “Maps to the Stars” on about 50 screens, with premium placement from cable companies. No question that this gloriously entertaining, shocking evisceration of Hollywood starring Moore, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska, is a strong VOD play.”

We Are Movie Geeks:

““It’s a story that is really of the moment and it also ferociously examines the moment we are living in, culturally, pop-culturally, technologically and in every way,” says the director. Cronenberg’s map of modern Los Angeles – and perhaps of contemporary culture itself — is lined with psychic pitfalls and shadows but also lit up by human vibrancy. “The city in the film is a deadly beauty,” he concludes. “It’s like a Venus fly trap, where each of these characters is swallowed up by their obsessions with success, celebrity and money.””

“Since April last year, four different trailers for David Cronenberg’s skewed Hollywood riff, Maps To The Stars, have hit the web. It’s safe to say the deranged awe which has surrounded most of its advance critical spin has been heavily hinted at across those teasers, as well as various clips. Still, its official theatrical release will be upon us soon, and in the run up to its widespread debut a final full-length trailer and new one-sheet poster have arrived online (via Collider).”

“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.”

Maps to the Stars got mixed reviews during its festival run last year. Even some of the people who liked it seemed conflicted. One positive review described it as “repugnant in the best sense.” But if nothing else it looks unique. It seems to be part thriller, part melodrama, and part pitch-black comedy, and the trailer does a good job of showcasing all of those facets.”

Jerome Cropped
  • Carmel
    Posted on January 11, 2015

    And that poster. How good is the poster!

  • Sue
    Posted on January 11, 2015

    LOVE that poster!

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