Marché du Film: Gregory C. Parker & Christian Pindar's LYCAN

how original to use the same nine inch nails song that was used in the 300 trailer

So what? Approximately 381 trailers have used the REQUIEM FOR A DREAM soundtrack. And let's not forget that every cheap action flick seems to use "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" for its trailer. So long as they pay the artist what they are due I don't see what the problem is. Lack of originality? Shocking...

Never mind Requiem, what about Aliens? The music for the countdown-to-explosion was in every single trailer for a while. Trailers often aren't made for us but for sporadic cinema-visitors, and if it worked once it may work again!

What I do hope they will drop soon are those endless quickie-fade-to-black cuts. They induce headaches!

So these guys ripped off the artwork for Van Helsing and the name from Underworld. Sounds great.

VAN HELSING ripped off the artwork from VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST.

True but it's not as blatantly stolen as this. This Lycan Artwork could be used as an excuse to sue them since it's the same picture drawn by someone less talented and then stretched in photoshop.
http://www.wsu.edu/~mgorg/werewolves/img/movies_vh-wolf.jpg

It's pretty sad to go through the trouble of producing a movie and then ripp off very well known artwork and claim it as your own.

Oof Swarez,
That's brutal. But true.

I went to their myspace site and saw that they are not using this as the poster, fortunately for them. Sad thing is that the stolen poster is better than the one they made.

True the poster rips off Van Helsing, but they (Spotlight pictures) actually did obtain the rights. They also got the rights for the 300 music. Not very original, but neither is how they cut the trailer. This artwork is also just for forein release and the domestic company will do their own artwork and trailer. Unfortunatly none of these artistic decisions are in the hands of the Directors of the film. You would have to be Kubrick for that.
How do I know all this? Because I am one of the Directors of the film. You can check out our original trailer (on our myspace page below) with "Paint It Black" as the song and blame us for that if you want. Although take into consideration that we had to cut it in one sitting and we're only half way done with principal photography at the time...........................................

Gregory C. Parker: http://www.myspace.com/moviemannyc .......................................... Christian Pindar: http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecompindar

I just saw the new trailer for Lycan and it outshines the old, but I'm pissed that I still didn't get my name in the credits. Oh well such is life.