Sometimes you gotta know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em, but what if you don’t know there’s a game going on?
James Toback (of Fingers fame) just found out that Martin Scorsese, Leonard DiCaprio, and screenwriter William Monaghan (the same crew behind The Departed) are re-making his 1974 film, The Gambler — but apparently, the studio forgot to tell him! (via Deadline)
NyT Mag profiled screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, the rom-com momma of Hollywood — and if these one-sheets are any indication, it appears that women love the font! (posters via ImpAwards)
Leanne Shapton has an eye-opening illustration essay on black-and-white movie rentals in today’s The New York Times…
Is it a strip club or a movie poster marquee? Dave Rosen of Posteropolis discovered these trippy neon art movie posters done by UK digital artist, Mr. Whaite.
Click HERE to get the full effect! (via MOPO)
Wilson McLean is a Scottish-born illustrator who started his illustrious career in England before moving onto the United States where his rich, jazzy portraits were freely adopted by the New York City advertising world.
In 2010, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame — and though his design work was most frequently used on album and magazine covers — he did have a one-hit wonder in the movie poster biz with this dreamy, melodic one-sheet for the 1978 James Toback film, Fingers.
Pop artist, Alex Katz, did this 1990’s movie poster for Neil LaBute’s urban-angst flick, Your Friends & Neighbors — which looks nicely paired with the 1988 one-sheet for The Moderns, a film that loosely covers that same territory of Woody Allen’s recent Midnight In Paris — proving once again that some posters are indeed timeless.
If you grew up in the 1960s, 70s, or 80s and know the difference between a PSA 8 and a PSA 9, then you’re ready to tackle Bill Simmons’ laugh-out-loud funny take on his latest trip to The National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago (which looks like a first cousin to just about any movie memorabilia convention).
Along with espousing his theory of The Collector’s Beard — a bad habit that is defined as a father buying vintage stuff for his kid, but really it’s just stuff that he secretly wants (that the kid won’t give a rat’s ass about) — as well as his wife’s reactions to some of his more useless purchases, it’s a must-read for anyone possessing the collecting gene. (via ESPN Grantland)
Here’s an ESPN video clip from the 2010 show.
Are you ready to get your eyes blown out from an explosion of colors and movie poster passion? Well, you’ve come to the right place because today we are celebrating the work of 1950’s French artist, Constantin Belinsky, who dazzled the pupils of many International movie patrons for years!
Although he wasn’t assigned the best titles — mostly B-movies and genre films — it’s visually apparent that he did the best with what he got! (MoviePosterDB)
Movie Poster Museum 