New La La Land Poster Finally Fixes Issue That Bothered Ryan Gosling for Years

An updated mentation of the La La Land movie poster has yet fixed an contented that’s haunted Ryan Gosling for astir a decade.

La La Land is turning 10 years old, and to celebrate, Lionsgate has created a caller mentation of the film’s iconic movie poster that shows Gosling and co-star Emma Stone dancing portion the lights of Los Angeles ticker successful the background.

This update comes arsenic a invited reprieve for Gosling, who has agelong complained of an contented successful the archetypal poster: his near hand. Or, arsenic helium calls it, “La La Hand.”

As told by the prima himself successful a 2024 interrogation with WSJ, helium wasn’t alert the photograph would go the flick’s authoritative poster. "We were expected to person our hands up, and I thought it would beryllium chill to enactment my manus [more flat], adjacent though everyone told maine it wasn’t cool,” helium explained. “I was definite it was cooler. Now erstwhile I look astatine it, and I person to spot it each the time, you know, what would’ve been cooler… [the intended pose]. It conscionable killed the vigor that way.”

La La Land is coming backmost to theaters starting Sunday, August 16 successful grant of its 10th anniversary. Movie-goers tin spot it successful Dolby Cinema astatine AMC Theaters and relive the philharmonic romanticist comedy-drama that won six Oscars and 7 Golden Globes, pursuing aspiring histrion Mia and jazz instrumentalist Seb arsenic they effort to carve retired their lives successful Los Angeles. IGN gave the movie a 9.5 retired of 10, with Terri Schwartz calling it a “joyous filmgoing experience” and a “musical brimming with optimism that ne'er becomes treacly.”

This isn’t the lone large quality for La La Land; it’s besides getting a Broadway adaptation, which volition diagnostic euphony from Justin Hurwitz and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, each 3 of whom worked connected the soundtrack for the film.

Marc Platt, shaper for La la Land, said helium was “thrilled” to bring the flick to Broadway, calling it the “next breathtaking section successful its evolution.”

“We’ve assembled a world-class squad to make a philharmonic that volition delight ‘La La Land’s’ millions of existent fans and present the spot to a full caller audience.”

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