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Good-bye Gary Allen

From Variety:

 Marketing maven Gary Allen died of injuries from a motorcycle accident March 15 in Los Angeles. He was 68.

Allen was responsible for creating trailers, posters/one-sheets and radio spots for films from "Midnight Cowboy," to "The Graduate," "Animal House" and the original "Star Wars."

He began promoting films in 1965 with a campaign for "How to Murder Your Wife". Along with partner Joe Menza and his wife, Barbara Toennies, Allen founded Entertainment Marketing Concepts in 1982.

Donations may be made to Heal the Bay.

Gary's Motion Picture Marketing 101 

Danger! Min At Work

 If you’re like Us Weekly, you’re gonna love The Hollywood Reporter after its new editorial director gets done transforming the old broad in a eyecatching, young streetwalker.

It remains to be seen what Janice Min, the former celebrity mucker for Us Weekly, will do to with our beloved Key Art Awards, but she had this to say about elevating the discussion of sausages:

"The Hollywood Reporter is never going to tell you about Paris Hilton making a left turn on La Cienega. It will cater to the influencers of Los Angeles and the small consumer group that has a fascination with how the sausage is made in Hollywood. The opportunity is to put all of that in a larger context and elevate the discussion of the entertainment industry."

You can read more about in the LA Times, The Hot Blog and Deadline Hollywood

I'm A Pepa, She's A Pepa, Wouldn't Like To Be A Pepa, Too?

We have received a request that we re-run these tandem teasers that a certain Senior Designer at a certain major motion picture studio sent us last November...  Click on image to enlarge. 

Moreover, any of you wishing to join the Salt & Pepper Club may do so here.

We Have Glimpsed The Future, And We Ain’t In It

“Copywriters? Who needs ‘em?!”  That’s what art directors have been saying for years. And now, thanks to PaperG clients don’t need those high maintainence designers, either.

Let He Who Has Never Worked With Unit Photography Cast The First Stone

If you’re like us, you live your life in breathless anticipation of the next Photoshop flapdoodle to come along and shake up our cozy little world. The latest one to emerge is over the new Salt one-sheet, with some kibbitzers calling Angelina Jolie's face unrecognizable.

You can read the remarks from the professional poo flingers here… and then some semi-professional ones here.

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Can’t Four Heavily Retouched Gals Get A Break?

When HuffPo recently asked the American people to weigh in on whether this EW cover a bigger Photoshop disaster than the one-sheet, the poster won by a solid margin.  

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Meanwhile, over on E! Online, SJP says this about the flap: "It's curious to me because everything's Photoshopped now. I'm curious, because do they ask it about a Eill Smith or a Tom Cruise poster?"  

Fumer nuit gravement à votre santé et à celle de votre entourage

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A Very Brief History Of The Potted Plant In Key Arts And Crafts

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Last Century Fox

Fox is celebrating it's 75th anniversary with these eight commemorative posters. You can view them up close and embiggified on the Fox 75th official site

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Before There Was Photoshop, There Was Frazetta

 

Frank Frazetta 1928 -2010

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"It's The Largest Scandal To Ever Hit Movie Posters"

That's what one movie poster collector is calling the arrest of Kelly Haggard. Apparently the alleged perpetrator was making inkjet copies of vintage horror movie posters and then selling them as originals for upwards to $5,000 a pop.

You can read more about it here. 

And you can check out Epson's complete line of quality inkjet printers here. 

 

The Future Of Advertising

A Brief History Of Merry Men

One of our readers sent us the latest Russel Crowe as Robin Hood key art adding, "Well what else could they do? Stick him in tights with a jaunty hat?"

Perhaps not, but can't he do something, anything, other than aim a bow and arrow?   Click on image to enlarge. 

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Want to see what happens when Warners sends out a hi-res jpeg of a one-sheet to those barracudas in the press pool? Click here. 

 

Russian Hand Jobs

If you're like us, you spend many a sleepless night wondering if maybe you've sold your high-strung creative soul to Adobe Systems Inc. But before you put down that Wacom pen and pick up a paintbrush, check out this collection of hand-painted Russian posters.