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Kevin Bachman And Christian Struzan Star In “How The Sausage Is Made”

Union + Webster is as sleek, modern, and cool as you'd expect a 21st century design studio to be, especially one that caters to the sometimes-oversized and unpredictable egos of Hollywood, and specializes in the creation of such a very carefully crafted marketing tool as vital as a film's poster (or in industry terms, "one-sheet"). Hosting the festivities today from Union + Webster are Kevin Bachman, who will serve as the shoot's creative director, and partner-in-crime Christian Struzan, a senior creative director with the firm and whose father is perhaps the most legendary movie poster illustrator of them all, Drew Struzan.

As would become clear from talking to Bachman, Struzan, and Ricardo Marenco, the photographer, the making of every poster has its own backstory — and yes sometimes those stories will include plenty of vanity, like an actress who refuses to stand upright for the shoot.

Read more here: How They Make a Movie Poster: Behind the Scenes of Clark Gregg's 'Trust Me' Shoot

Another Steaming Load Of Horseshit Passing Itself Off As A Scientific Study

This from Artnet: According to a recent study, artists may have increased neural matter in areas of the brain that are linked to fine motor skills and visual imagery. 

Rebecca Chamberlain, who helped author the report for NeuroImage, claims that “The people who are better at drawing really seem to have more developed structures in regions of the brain that control for fine motor performance and what we call procedural memory.”

[When] the brains of 21 art students were compared to 23 non-artists… the artist group had a larger mass of gray matter in the parietal lobe’s precuneus area. According to Chamberlain, “this region is involved in a range of functions but potentially in things that could be linked to creativity, like visual imagery—being able to manipulate visual images in your brain, combine them and deconstruct them.”

Not to mentionthe ability to copy and paste images and claim them as your own.

A Brief Message From The MPAA And Frank Underwood

From Deadline Hollywood: After “a reconsideration” of its earlier hard stance against the Key Art for the documentary Fed Up citing ‘offensive language’, the MPAA’s advertising administration reversed its decision late Wednesday night and will now allow the art without any alterations.

Since no mention was made of the 2009 teen “comedy” Fired Up, we assume it was the M&M candies that the MPAA found to be in poor taste.

Some weeks back we saw the teaser below for Friended To Death pop up briefly on IMPAwards and then vanish into cyberspace. The image on the right is what we believe to be the final art.

Putting The Ex In Marketing Exec

Lionsgate and Summit have merged their marketing divisions, tossing Summit marketeer Nancy Kirkpatrick into the dumpster and crowning the fierce, tattooed warrior Tim Palen as Grand Poobah of All Things Marketable.

According to Variety, Kirkpatrick, who has served as Summit’s president of worldwide marketing for the past six years, will resign at the end of this month.

That gives her about a week and a half to hide a dead raccoon somewhere in Palen’s office.

"Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal." - Pablo Picasso. "Monkey See. Monkey Do." - Edwina Trout

We Ran Out Of Ideas So We Just Put Everything In Boxes

If You Don’t Have The Time, Don’t Do The Crime

Clearly this was intended as an homage to 1989's Uncle Buck. 

Photoshoplifting

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