Supermodels have always been great at selling magazines, but not so bankable at the box office — unless you count Zoolander (although, to be fair, that didn’t become a cult hit until well after it was released on DVD/cable).
Let’s take a look at some of the best and worst beauties over the years…
If you like fast cars and fast women and somewhat shaky story development (at least in the 2000 version since I haven’t seen the ’74 original), then you’ll probably get revved up for Gone In 60 Seconds.
Graphic novels have surged in popularity in the last decade — and not just comic books about superheroes. Arguably, the most inventive artwork of our time is now being done by indie cartoonists/graphic novelists. And they’ve also branched out into movie posters.
Here’s a few of my favorites from Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth), Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes (Wilson), and the creepy/touching/funny doc featuring one of the genre’s forefathers, Robert Crumb.
Is it me or do 90’s Sean Penn and 70’s Dustin Hoffman strangely resemble each other? Maybe it’s just the posters — and some of their choices of roles.
Or wait, maybe it’s Dustin Hoffman and Richard Dreyfuss that look alike? (The Big Fix is brought to you by Birney Lettick, of course!)
Sad day for the poster world. Fantastic fantasy art illustrator, Frank Frazetta, died today at the age of 82.
Let’s hope he made up with his son, Frank Frazetta Jr., who reportedly tried breaking into dad’s museum last year with a backhoe.
From now on, every Monday I’m going to feature posters from remakes — so let’s get to work and start with the movie that recharged the Mini, The Italian Job (1969) vs. The Italian Job (2003).
Master autuer, Quentin Tarantino, not only reinvented action movies with his trademark funny/violent fight scenes as well as recharged the careers of John Travolta and Pam Grier — he also re-established the artful marketing of character posters with Jackie Brown. And many more movies like Pearl Harbor and The Hangover have since jumped on the bandwagon.
Pam Grier was the queen of 70’s blaxploitation movies — and seemed stuck there in cinematic history — until Quentin Tarantino rejuvenated her career in 1997 with Jackie Brown (which had one of the coolest opening credit sequences ever right here).
And now Miss Foxy has pulled out the big guns with a new book!
Movie Poster Museum 