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A Reader Submits: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Make That 1 Ruthless Crime Lord. 20 Elite Cops. 20 Floors Of Chaos

Out Standing In Their Field

Designed And Discarded: The Heartbreaking Story Of Poster Rejects

From The Gate’s review of James Bond: Fifty Years of Movie Posters

“What really interested me was the inclusion of unused posters that were designed and discarded (including the poster campaign for License to Kill which was originally called License Revoked –that whole poster campaign obviously had to be chucked after being designed and produced) and prototype posters that designers tested their ideas out on.”

A Reader Posits: Movies That People Would Rather See

Dear Edwina, Please don't give me credit for this, it makes me look like I'm not busy…

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Lawyer Up, People - Key Art Judging Starts Today At Culver Studios

Kristen Stewart Poster Even More Boring Than Kristen Stewart

One of our readers sent a link to this article: What's Wrong With Modern Movie Posters? in which writer Jeff York laments “Too many [posters] are done by rote today, with Photoshopped headshots of the stars taking up as much real estate as possible. Too often the posters tell us who’s in it, but precious little else. No sense of story or tone. It’s sad.”

Despite his melancholy, Mr. York goes on to do side-by-side comparisons of some of today’s posters with those done in ancient times; juxtaposing a Breaking Dawn 2 teaser with Rosemary's Baby, among others. Interseting? Meh. Arbitrary? Like, totally!

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The Men Who Photoshopped America

Dear Edwina,

The History Channel’s new show, The Men Who Built America features one of London’s greatest landmarks sitting on the banks of the Mississippi. Would you believe the famous Battersea Power Station (Help!, Pink Floyd’s Animals, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, etc.) was dropped right into the middle of the art? And, no one caught it!

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A Triumph Of The Embalmers' Art

Click here to see the Hope Springs poster on IMP Awards

Be Sure To Bill Your Client For The Time You Spend Reading This

We recently received this Scott Timberg article from Salon:  No Sympathy for the Creative Class

“They’re pampered, privileged, indulged – part of the ‘cultural elite.’ They spend all their time smoking pot and sipping absinthe. To use a term that’s acquired currency lately, they’re entitled. And they’re not – after all – real Americans.”

Unfinished Furniture