Up until about a year ago, I was running a film-related blog called The Jump Cut. As a graphic designer, a lot of what appeals to me about Hollywood is visual. Sure, I love the way a film is [...]
2015 was a good year for movie posters. Sure, there were the usual suspects with lazy san-serif type treatments, bland, Photoshopped images, and unoriginal character posters. But there were also [...]
Last week I gathered up all of the posters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this week, I’m very excited because one of my favorite podcasts, The Poster Boys, takes it waaaaay further, [...]
With today's release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens IMAX poster, I'm guessing we're near the end of the printed marketing materials. So I thought I'd look back at what we've seen so [...]
There’s a great article on one of my new favorite sites, Grantland, today. It’s called “Are Spoilers Flipping the Script?” and it’s by pop culture analyst, Chuck [...]
Has anyone else noticed a trend in type-over-the-face movie posters recently? Seeing the new one-sheet for Thor over the weekend got me to thinking about it a bit. I can remember seeing a [...]
There have been a lot of really compelling documentaries about environmental and social concerns over the past few years-some of them even getting Oscar nominations and wins (The Cove, [...]
I’m not much of a sports fan. I liked the NBA until the Sonics left Seattle and then I vowed to never watch a game again. Plus, it just seems like a selfish, egotistical league now. I do [...]
For no reason at all, other than because I’m curious to see what I’ll write, I’d like to tell you the top ten films I saw in 2010. It’s tough because I saw a zillion [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m obsessed with cinema. I’ve spent just about all of my life-I can remember seeing Star Wars in the theater with my dad and brother when I was [...]
It’s not too often that I have my Sundays free-I’m usually either working on something for my job, trying to drum up some freelance income, or doing something around the new [...]
It’s early in the sales cycle, but I just read that Iron Man 2 has already sold five times the amount of tickets that the first film did at this point. That movie earned $98 million in its [...]