Harry Potter and the woman in black...

This Movie Poster Monday we'll be reviewing "The Woman in Black". This week's five points of the poster are:

(Image credit: Aceshowbiz.com)

1) We didn't recognize his name at first without the wizard hat, but what a fantastic way to grab the attention of the billions of Harry Potter movie poster fans! Those Harry Potter fans have been trained for a decade now to just go see any movie starring Daniel Radcliffe, so it almost doesn't matter what this movie is about.

2) Not completely abandoning the Harry Potter franchise, it appears that they asked Voldemort to appear in this movie poster. Nice move! It helps with the transition for those "Potter Heads". If they don't ease them into life without Harry and his pals, it might mess them up so much they'll never take off their wizard costumes.

3) We're just gonna say it! Kids are creepy! Kids without eyes are extra creepy. We can relate to these kids though... When Movie Poster Monday watched Harry in the play "Equus" in London, we wanted to gouge out our eyes too. More specifically, it's not that it was a bad play, or that Daniel was bad, we just weren't really prepared to see "Harry's wand".

4) On second thought, maybe they did catch a performance of "Equus"...  

5) So, I see they called this "The Woman in Black", but decided not only to not put any women in the movie poster, there's no one wearing black either. This reminds us of a retro movie poster that was sent to us called "Big Shots" which had no big shots in the poster. That strategy didn't work at all for "Big Shots" so we hope this turns out better for "The Woman in Black". The "Big Shots" movie poster designer never worked on another poster. After working as a visual merchandiser for Kmart and a greeter at The Gap, we hear he finally found his calling working the grill at an In-N-Out Burger. Mmm... what a delicious ending.

In conclusion, based on this thorough analysis (and the fact that a billion Harry Potter fans will storm the theaters) we predict that "The Woman in Black" will gross $35.9 million in its opening weekend.