British director, Peter Yates, has died at 81. Although not a household name, Yates built a solid career for himself, helming more than a few classics…
Category Archives: Action movie posters
Big Bad Fish!
In honor of this weekend’s wide-mouth release of Piranha 3D, here’s a boat-load of some of the nastiest sea creatures to ever glisten the silver screen…
McCarthyism Is Good
No, no, not Joseph McCarthy and the Hollywood blacklist! I’m talkin’ Frank McCarthy (1924-2002), the longtime illustrator whose career spanned over 50 years, doing magazine covers and paperbacks (Avon, Bantam, Dell) and brought us the high-octane one-sheets for The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape (Paul Crifo did the International version), and many more, including split-duties with Robert McGinnis on the James Bond posters for Thunderball and You Only Live Twice.
Mr. McCarthy quit commercial work in 1974 and, like many of the other greatest poster artists of his generation, such as John Solie, Howard Terpning, and Robert Tanenbaum, moved to Arizona to focus his talents on Western art.
Who’s Got Next?
Now that The Expendables have blasted their way into our consciousness, it will only be a matter of time before these slew of action films get remade into something bigger and badder.
By the way, The Black Six featured a gang of ex-NFL players from the 70’s, so it would be interesting to see which current athletes/actors they would cast for that today…Hmm, how ’bout an NBA version with Shaq, LeBron, Kobe, Ray Allen, and Dennis Rodman to get the ball rolling?
Feel The Expendability!
This weekend’s big new release is like an action fan’s wet dream. Whether or not it muscles out a billion bucks at the box office, you’ve gotta admire Stallone & Co. for trying!
Sucker Punch’d!
Here’s the new character posters for Suckerpunch. Is it just me or did Zack Snyder pitch this thing as Manga meets 300? It’s like Takashi Murakami on steroids!
Machetes!
ImpAwards has all of your Machete needs with a complete line of its new character posters…
More Machetes
And here’s some old school lobby cards (via MoPo)…
Goin’ For Gold
Here’s the nominees for Best Poster Picture for this year’s 82nd Annual Academy Awards…
Movie Poster Museum 