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First Teaser Poster for Spike Lee’s Oldboy

16 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Remaking Park Chan-wook’s classic 2003 films of the same name, Spike Lee’s Oldboy is understandably one of the year’s most anticipated movies.

With a stellar cast led by Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen, there’s every reason to be excited that the film will live up to expectations (and then some), and will be one of the few remakes in recent memory that we’ll remember as worthy of being remade.

The first teaser poster was spotted recently out at CinemaCon, and now FilmDistrict have debuted it the hi-res version online, gearing up the film’s campaign ahead of its release towards the end of the year.

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. »

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'Oldboy' Poster Debuts At CinemaCon

16 April 2013 6:15 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

by Eddie Wright

The poster for the upcoming Spike Lee Joint/remake/manga adaptation, "Oldboy" made its debut at movie theater owner trade show CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Those of us familiar with Chan Wook-Park's masterpiece and/or Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's manga ("Old Boy") can see that the poster is a reference to the 20 years our main character is kept in both literal and existential captivity.

Along with the poster, folks at CinemaCon got hold of the official synopsis of the Josh Brolin-starring Americanization. Check out the poster and synopsis below.

Oldboy follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement without any indication of his captor’s motive. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still »

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First Oldboy remake poster arrives

15 April 2013 10:05 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Catch the new poster for Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olson, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharlto Copley in the Spike Lee film which opens October 11th, 2013 via FilmDistrict. Mark Protosevich scripts based on the manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. Fans of the 2003 original Oldboy (Oldeuboi) film directed by Park Chan-wook will be curious to see how this one turns out. The cast also includes Richard Portnow, Michael Imperioli, Lance Reddick, Max Casella, James Ransone and Hannah Ware. Brolin stars as a man kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years for reasons unknown. When released, he tries to find who held him hostage, and for what reason. Copley would play a mysterious billionaire bent on destroying the protagonist's life, while Olsen is set to play a caseworker aiding Brolin's character in investigating the past. »

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First Oldboy remake poster arrives

15 April 2013 10:05 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Catch the new poster for Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olson, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharlto Copley in the Spike Lee film which opens October 11th, 2013 via FilmDistrict. Mark Protosevich scripts based on the manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. Fans of the 2003 original Oldboy (Oldeuboi) film directed by Park Chan-wook will be curious to see how this one turns out. The cast also includes Richard Portnow, Michael Imperioli, Lance Reddick, Max Casella, James Ransone and Hannah Ware. Brolin stars as a man kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years for reasons unknown. When released, he tries to find who held him hostage, and for what reason. Copley would play a mysterious billionaire bent on destroying the protagonist's life, while Olsen is set to play a caseworker aiding Brolin's character in investigating the past. »

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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Gets a First Poster Twenty Years In the Making

15 April 2013 6:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Director Spike Lee‘s upcoming Oldboy is viewed as a remake of Park Chan-wook’s brilliant 2003 film, but in reality it’s a new adaptation of the original source material, a graphic novel by Nobuaki Minegishi. The story remains the same, though. A man (Josh Brolin) is kidnapped and imprisoned for twenty years with no clue as to his captor’s motive or identity. He’s inexplicably released one day and given a limited amount of time to discover the answers to all of his questions, but he may not like what he finds. In fact, he most definitely won’t like what he finds. Oldboy co-stars Sharlto Copley and Elizabeth Olsen and hits theaters on October 11th. [Press Release] »

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Exclusive: Spike Lee's Oldboy remake test screening reaction says its "just as sick and twisted as the original"

12 April 2013 3:29 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Spoiler Warning! Based on the Manga graphic novel by by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi, Oldboy is most notable for it's 2003 adaptation by director Park Chan-wook, winning the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and being called a "powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare," by the late film critic Roger Ebert. Last year, director Spike Lee began filming an American remake of the »

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‘Oldboy’ Star Josh Brolin Says Spike Lee was Fantastic, Film ‘Came Together’

8 January 2013 2:17 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

We will next see Josh Brolin in Gangster Squad, but when we caught up with the True Grit star at a recent interview, he revealed a few insights into Oldboy, the Spike Lee  remake of Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 thriller, based on the Japanese manga of the same name, written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Park’s Oldboy was the middle chapter of the director’s Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

Starring alongside Brolin in Lee’s version are Elizabeth Olsen (Silent House), Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained), and Sharlto Copley (District 9); the story is about a man who has only five days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for fifteen years without any explanation.

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