Animated Terminator Salvation Poster
Terminator Salvation animated movie poster
Terminating Print Media
Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. have released an online animated Terminator Salvation movie poster, which the studio is calling a motion poster. From the official synopsis … Read More...
Movie Poster Floating Heads
Movie Poster Floating Heads video
Movie Poster Designer Gavin Berliner interview video
The above video features an interview with the graphic designer behind Hollywood’s most famous floating head movie posters. The Movie Poster Floating Heads … Read More...
Reading Between the Lines
The Brave One movie poster
Visual Demographics
With so much talk of sex scandals and secret “gay signals” in the news lately, it is interesting to see how Hollywood (via the movie poster) has been … Read More...
Held in Captivity
Captivity movie poster
Captivity billboard controversy
By now most of you have probably heard about the controversy surrounding Captivity billboards as part of the film’s outdoor ad campaign in Los Angeles and New York. Captivity … Read More...
Hazardous Logo
28 Weeks Later movie poster
28 Weeks Later movie poster
Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the movie poster for 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to the horror film 28 Days Later. The article … Read More...
Factory Workers
Factory Girl movie poster contest
Design a Factory Girl movie poster
The Weinstein Company is running a movie poster design contest to create a Factory Girl movie poster. This poster is for the contest only, … Read More...
Poster Box Office
Movie Poster Sells Tickets via Cellphone
Korean cellphone provider SK Telecom has introduced a new service that allows people to walk up to a movie poster and use their cell phone to purchase movie theater … Read More...
Poster Branding
In the new documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, filmmaker Kirby Dick takes a look at the MPAA and controversies surrounding the film ratings system. The documentary investigates why the mysterious MPAA film ratings … Read More...
Keira’s Breasts
Keira Knightley breasts enlarged on King Arthur movie poster
Enlarging Keira Knightley’s Breasts
Actress Keira Knightley, in a recent interview, reminded everyone how her breasts were “digitally enhanced” back in 2004 for the King Arthur … Read More...
Hyphen-ventaliting
The 40-Year-Old Virgin movie poster
To Hyphen or Not to Hyphen the Virgin
There’s an old adage among film advertising art directors when dealing with unnecessary pain and suffering at the hands of a studio … Read More...
You Can Do It!
Silent Hill movie poster contest
Design the Silent Hill movie poster
Sony Tri-Star is running a “Create a Silent Hill movie poster” contest:
Think you’re a fan of Silent Hill? Prove it. Design your own … Read More...
Billboard Gigolo
Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo movie poster
Rating Outdoor Billboards
As we mentioned previously, posters for the just released comedy Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo embrace the time-honored tradition of the phallic symbol as a means of … Read More...
No Man is an Island
The Island movie poster
When in doubt, blame marketing
Let the finger pointing begin. In an interview with the LA Times about the release of his film The Island, director Michael Bay laid some blame … Read More...
The Copywriter
Alien movie poster
“In Hollywood, No One Can Hear the Copywriter Scream.”
A sometimes thankless job in a niche industry, the film advertising copywriter is employed to hone a film’s creative direction into a phrase … Read More...
Stop the Presses!
The Goonies movie poster
Movie Poster art in newspaper ads
If you want to see where a good chunk of a film’s print marketing budget goes, open up a major newspaper like the Calendar section … Read More...
Wild Posting
Wild Posting is “the practice of displaying multiple eye level impressions in highly visible outdoor locations in major urban centres.” Or more accurately, a group of under-paid workers driving around in the middle of night … Read More...
Equal Likeness
A Few Good Men teaser movie poster
Movie poster actor clauses
The phrase equal likeness is common term and often an overriding factor in the design and creation of movie poster art. Basically equal likeness… Read More...
Big Heads Floating in the Sky
The Top Movie Poster Cliché
Stop us if you have seen this poster composition before: Large images of movie star faces (often of a couple), with a small scene (usually at the bottom of the … Read More...
