Posterwire.com is a movie poster weblog. From images of the latest Hollywood one-sheets to vintage movie posters, this film poster weblog hopes to offer a bit of insight into film key art.
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One of our favorite poster galleries, Posteritati, has announced an upcoming exhibition of James Bond movie posters. The vintage poster exhibition, called Bond, James Bond, will be showcasing vintage movie posters from James Bond films, including domestic and international 007 movie one-sheets:
The exhibition will run from Tuesday, May 23 through Wednesday, July 12 at the Posteritati Gallery in New York City and will feature rare international posters from Bond classics including Dr. No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), Casino Royale (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Octopussy (1983) and many more.
This Bond poster retrospective has good timing, as the “internets” have been abuzz this week about a leaked film trailer and image of the new Casino Royale teaser poster featuring the newest James Bond, actor Daniel Craig. It isn’t clear if this new 007 poster is an international or domestic teaser poster. What is clear is that Sony Pictures really wants you to know this Bond will be “dark”. The studio has been battling quite a bit of negative press about Daniel Craig being cast in the Bond role, so it remains to be seen if any piece of key art (good or bad) or advertising will be able to turn the tide of negative buzz surrounding the film.
It’s a Wonderful Life may be a cherished Christmas holiday classic, but Jimmy Stewart seems to have had one-too-many drinks of egg nog in one of the film’s promotional lobby cards. “America’s Favorite Feller” is looking a bit out of it in the It’s a Wonderful Life movie lobby card. (Character George Bailey also seems to be getting his flower pinned on by a pair of awkwardly placed arms.)
This lobby card is the first in a series, known as a title card. A lobby card set is a collection of 8 promotional images (usually measuring 11″x17″) printed on card stock. First seen in the early 1900s, lobby cards, like many other forms of printed film advertising, were no longer produced by the film studios by the 1980s.
An original movie poster for Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 science fiction film Metropolis has sold for a world record price of $690,000. A US collector bought the art deco sepia colored poster by graphic artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm — one of only four known copies — from London’s Reel Poster Gallery.
Written by Rudy Franchi and Barbara Franchi of The Nostalgia Factory, the book Miller’s Movie Collectibles is a guide to collecting movie memorabilia, with an emphasis on vintage film poster one-sheets. The book is nicely illustrated (over 300 full-color photographs) and categorized, offering information on movie poster sizing, collecting terminology, specific illustrators working in the field, genre films including the Star Wars saga, and other background on movie poster collecting.
A passage from the Miller’s Movie Collectibles guide:
“This book outlines some of the major areas of movie memorabilia, highlighting trends and warning of any potential land mines buried deep in the field of cinema collectibles. With over 65 year’s combined experience dealing with the topics discussed, the authors would advise collectors to regard acquiring this material as a hobby, and to temper their passion with common sense and caution.”
If you’re interested in the collecting side of movie posters, this book would be a great place to start.
