What do you get when you team up Blake Lively and Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of Drive? Gucci, of course!
DYN-O-MITE!
Is it a popular 1970s TV catch-phrase or an explosive movie poster?
The Stalker of Suspense?
There’s a new Hitchcock biopic (not to be confused with the other Anthony Hopkins-Hitchcock flick) coming out in October by HBO called The Girl, starring Toby Jones as Sir Alfred — and it covers The Master of Suspense’s scary obsession with female lead, Tippi Hedren (played by Sienna Miller), during filming of The Birds and Marnie.
Metropolis Ripoff?
Although not on the scale of the recent Metropolis poster scandal, even a mid-century master like French poster artist, Roger Soubie (left), can be inspired by the classics…
Star Wars Strikes Again!
Profiles in History had a big auction this past weekend — and the original concept art for the Star Wars movie poster (by Tom Jung) went for $73,800…But even that steep price was no match for a Chewbacca headpiece that sold for $172k!
Juicy Fruit?
Looks like The Oranges is getting unzipped…(IMP)
Gaga Kills?
Robert Rodriguez has hired Lady Gaga to be his latest hit-woman in Machete Kills…
Cleopatra’s Beautiful Ruins…
Since there’s only a few more weeks left until Labor Day, you might want to grab Jess Walter’s well-reviewed novel, Beautiful Ruins, for your summer beach read. It has special appeal to vintage movie fans, as the storyline involves a beautiful, mysterious actress visiting the southern Italian coast, fresh off the set of 1962’s epic filming of Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
As an added bonus, check out these equally stunning one-sheets by Mac Gomez (top left) and Howard Terpning.
New Flight of the Conchords
Jason Munn of Alamo Drafthouse, etc. — has a new poster out for the Flight of the Conchords Australian Tour…
Movie Poster Museum 