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By: Movie Poster Thunderdome « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Movie Poster Thunderdome « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:52:35 +0000

[...] won’t rehash our feelings about movie poster contests, but we do believe you’ll be seeing more of this “online focus group for film [...]

By: Factory Workers « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Factory Workers « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:23:09 +0000

[...] The Weinstein Company is running a movie poster design contest to create a Factory Girl movie poster. This poster is for the contest only, not to design the actual Factory Girl movie poster one-sheet used in theaters. Our opinion of “Design a Movie Poster” contests is well known, so we won’t rehash that again. Well, just one rehashed point: No major film studio has ever run a contest to design a movie poster where the winning entry was used as the domestic theatrical one-sheet for a film key art ad campaign. This contest is no different. However, since the film studios seem to be inching closer and closer to this idea, we predict it will happen eventually. [...]

By: sst

sst — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:29:10 +0000

These contests are shams. Have you seen the finalists for this contest? Bo-ring. You can bet that at least one of these is a fake that Sony put up themselves to swing the vote in their favor. But none of them are any good.

The first Resident Evil conest was also rigged, the winner was the son of some famous person. It was surround by crappy posters, so of course it was a shoe-in to win.

Did anyone try designed posters for any of these contests? I did for the second movie’s contest. Maybe I’m just bitter. :)

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:00:20 +0000

“I donâ€™t think youâ€™ll find mention of any specific MPAA guidelines with regards to print advertising â€” itâ€™s not a widely publicized thing, but is something everyone working in the industry is familiar with, hence the list of rules at the Sony website.”

Actually, those are paraphrased guidelines from the MPAA pamphlet regarding key art and advertisng materials for films rated by the MPAA. As the former Director of Marketing at a DVD Distributor, I recall them vividly as I used to receive “FAILED” or “DENIED” on a lot of the art we used to concoct for our horror and urban titles.

By: Hargon

Hargon — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:05:10 +0000

I worked at a theater when Resident Evil was released (southern usa) and the day the movie was released we received the fan designed one-sheet. I still have two copies of it. So it was used as a domestic one-sheet, just very limited.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:40:29 +0000

Sony used the winning poster for RE: Apocalypse in mainly European markets… I never saw it used in any North American theatre.

It’s unfortunate that the winning poster for the first RE wasn’t used more widely, because that was truly an awesome poster! Better than the generic one-sheet Sony pushed (Milla + machine gun + red background…YAWN).

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:04:14 +0000

Brent: Unfortunatly, Sony scuttled their original Resident Evil site, along with the first contest pages and info. Hence we couldn’t find much information about any official release of the contest winner’s design to theatres, even as a limited promotion.

I do know it wasn’t used as the domestic one-sheet, which is the point we were trying to make about how these contests, at the very least, imply that could be the end result.

But, since this is Hollywood, anything is possible, and the Silent Hill contest winner could go the distance — stranger things have happened. ;)

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:21:02 +0000

The first RESIDENT EVIL design a poster contest winner poster was sent to theatres in a very limited quantity on opening week.

RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE was changed to that it MAY BE used and was never outright promised to be so.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:56:41 +0000

I don’t think you’ll find mention of any specific MPAA guidelines with regards to print advertising — it’s not a widely publicized thing, but is something everyone working in the industry is familiar with, hence the list of rules at the Sony website.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:03:03 +0000

Are those guidelines mentioned above the acutal MPAA guidelines or have the been modified by the studio?

I couldn’t find any info on the MPAA site on movie poster guidelines.