As I understand it, the story of Tropic Thunder goes like this: several actors get together to film a war movie. Director gets mad at the actors and decides to drop them in an actual war. Actors have to sort of become the characters they are portraying in order to survive.
And so we have the […]

Why sell one thing when you can sell two? I mean, if you are going to do a poster about a film staring a big piece of metal it’s only common sense to take the opportunity to sell a big piece of metal that you can own yourself!
More seriously, although I guess this type of […]

It has become something of a common practice to fill blockbuster movies with foreign stars in bit roles in order to make selling these movies in international markets easier. I guess it’s the inevitable effect of the rising importance of the foreign box office.
These Korean posters are a good example of how that strategy works. […]

Artist Chuck Anderson has posted to his site several images for possible Jumper posters that he made on commission from Concept Arts. In the end Concept went with something different, but it’s still enlightening to look at these other possibilities.
I’m stricken by how much these diverge from the concept they ultimately used. All these images […]

You may like it or you may hate it, but there is no denying that Speed Racer has a a clear aesthetic. It’s bright, it’s colorful, it’s purposefully cartoonish and it’s busy. And these posters do a great job of maintaining and using well that aesthetic.
I mean, look at the colors of the character posters. […]

Starwars.com has an interesting interview with the great Drew Struzan in which he talks about the many works he has done for the Indiana Jones franchise over the years, including multiple posters, book illustrations, game boxes and more. Even more interesting, the nice Starwars.com fellows sprinkle images of the artwork being talked about throughout the […]

I was going to put this poster in the weekly round-up, but I decided it deserved a post of it’s own, even if I don’t have anything particularly insightful to say about it.
I think it will come as a non-surprise to all that small movies have a hard time getting noticed. There are hundreds of […]

Here is a bunch of posters worth mentioning that I’m obviously never going to get around to writing a full post about.
The Foot Fist Way

Ridiculously funny or just plain ridiculous? It’s hard to say. But it is a hard to ignore poster, and the tagline made me laugh.
Meet Bill

Not sure I want to. I mean, […]

So, I read the movie’s announcement, and I didn’t get it. Then I watched the trailer, and I did get it! But now I have been starring at this poster for the past few days, and I don’t get it anymore.
Ok, that is not really true. I still get it. But not because of the […]

Ok, so when the first teaser for Forbidden Kingdom came out I was a little upset because it didn’t explore what is probably the main attraction of the movie: the meeting of Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Then came the character posters, which I liked a lot more, but since they were character posters the […]