Movie Poster Monday: YEAR OF THE FISH

While WALL-E continues being hailed the new standard for animation excellence, today’s movie poster is for an alternative animated style: rotoscoping, in which live action footage is “traced” over. The film is Year of the Fish, a Sundance 2007 selection and festival favorite from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco.

Rotoscoping results in a type of “animated […]

SIXTY SIX Preview, Trailer, Movie Poster

What’s more uncomfortable than being a 12-year-old? How about being a 12-year-old preparing for a Bar Mitzvah? Wait, it gets worse. Your Bar Mitzvah is the same day as a major event that has the country in its grip. This is Sixty Six, a 2006 production finally getting a U.S. theatrical release August 1 from First Independent. (click […]

Movie Poster Monday: New BURN AFTER READING One-Sheet

We continue to get intriguing goodies from Focus Features for the Coen Brothers’ next movie, Burn After Reading. Today is the film’s first poster, a fun, playful throwback to a bygone era…

In case you wondering, the style is an homage to the great Saul Bass, specifically his poster for Vertigo, as Ryan brilliantly opines on awardsdaily.com.
And to remind you this […]

Movie Poster Monday: RIGHTEOUS KILL

How should you market your film when your stars are Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, arguably the two most legendary actors of the last half-century? Are you kidding?! You put their big famous mugs front and center, like this latest movie poster for the cop drama Righteous Kill. (see our Righteous Kill preview, with trailer)

(click on the poster […]

Latest Poster Art for Frank Miller’s THE SPIRIT

Here’s the latest in our coverage of Frank Miller’s adapation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit: The two newest character posters.
Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss

Eva Mendes as Sand Saref

As Allison mentioned when she covered The Spirit trailer, Lionsgate continues to release a whole lot of high-quality The Spirit assets to we writer folks. Combine that with their recent change to a Christmas Day […]

Movie Poster Monday: DISASTER MOVIE, Simpsons Style

Look, we don’t hold out too much hope for the future of spoof cinema. Since the Wayans Brothers gave up the Scary Movie franchise, it’s been a miserable graveyard of crappy visual gags. But this Disaster Movie poster, just in from Lionsgate, is really too good. (Click on it for the biggie.)

So will they be spoofing […]