PoA poster or a fake?

[amy_marblefeet]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, illyana delorean <illyana at m...> 
wrote:

> someone recently posted a 
> picture of an alleged poster for PoA. The person who posted the 
picture 
> did not say where they found the picture, they just said "on a 
> website," and the picture was in the photo area of the group 
homepage, 
> so I have no idea where they found it. I had not heard anything 
about 
> this on TLC or any other reputable HP website, so I am going to 
assume 
> it's a fake. Plus, the picture that she posted is very small, and I 
> cannot read any of the text at the bottom.
> 
> I posted it on my website for all to see:
> 
> http://www.homepage.mac.com/illyanadmc/.Pictures/poaposter.jpg
> 
> So... is this a fake or what?
> 

I am sure this is a fake poster but not for the reason that it is way 
to early for WB to be promoting the next movie.

For the quite simple reason that you do not reveal what the bad guy 
looks like if for almost the whole movie all you are going to see of 
him is a swirling black figure cloacked in shadows.  Perhaps just his 
haunted eyes visible for a second.

You do not reveal the bad guy in a poster and give away what he looks 
like,  hell, the Basilisk and Tom Riddle didn't even feature in the 
adverts for CoS and niether will Black in the upcoming trailer for 
PoA.  I doubt that we will see Gary Oldman on any of the promotional 
material for PoA.  There will be plenty of David Thewlis as Lupin and 
Alan Rickman as Snape perhaps glaring at each other from other sides 
of a billboard with the trio in between but the only hint of Sirius 
we will get from the promotional machine at WB is probably the image 
of a large and very frightening dog.

Of course maybe I am wrong and the three men of Harry's fathers 
generation will feature quite heavily in the advertising, perhaps 
even Peter will sneek in under the guise of Scabbers but my 
assumptions are of the studio wanting to tease the audience, the 
leading man or woman is never the first to appear on stage and if 
they are they are always only reveled in part.    As an example in 
advertising the character Gollum was not revealed on any posters 
untill the movie The Two Towers had been out for some time.

Well, gosh that post kind of got out of hand and I seemed to have 
rambled on a bit but I hope I got my point across.

A post coming on the probable ways to promote PoA.

Amy