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Tyler Stout’s Poster For ‘The Monster Squad’

chad — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:07:22 +0000

Below is a heckuva fun poster created for a 2009 screening of The Monster Squad at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema by artist Tyler Stout.

This a great design, capturing all the characters and moments of a cult-favorite monster movie that kicked creature butt all over Van Helsing!

Unfortuantely, the blue variant version of the poster is sold out, but you can still order the red version over at MondoTees.

The Monster Squad trailer:

(via JoBlo.com)
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Fake Movie Titles By Matthew Lyons

chad — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:17:16 +0000

(Illustrations: Matthew Lyons)

Check out more of Matthew Lyon’s beautiful fake movie titles over on his Flickr set. Makes me wonder what the direction the actual films would take, animated or live-action?

Be sure to look at his other wonderful illustrations while you’re there.

(Illustration: Matthew Lyons)

I really admire this kind of stylized, textured illustration and can only hope to achieve this level of talent. Well done, Matthew!

(via the always-awesome Drawn)

A Perfect Double Feature: October Sky and The Iron Giant

chad — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:14:48 +0000

October Sky Trailer:

The Iron Giant Trailer:

You could also also pair up October Sky with Apollo 13 or even Field of Dreams, both very inspiring films, but somehow The Iron Giant, with it’s space-related themes (including homage to Sputnik 1), small-town stories, and hope for something bigger and better seems to make it the perfect compliment to October Sky.

Another reason these two films fit so well together is their incredible musical scores. Mark Isham’s score for October Sky is heartfelt and inspiring, while Michael Kamen’s soundtrack for The Iron Giant echoes the fears and hopes of the U.S./Soviet Space Race and the imagination and simplicity of being a kid in much simpler times.

G.I. Joe Feature Film Snake-Eyes Revealed

chad — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:12:21 +0000

Here’s a photo of one of my favorite fictional comic book/toy characters, Snake-Eyes, the ninja commando for the G.I. Joe team as he will appear in the 2009 movie by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy/The Mummy Returns, Deep Rising):

Looks like his costume design was inspired by the 1985 version of the character and David Michael Beck’s 2001 painting:

Can’t wait to see Storm Shadow and the rest of film’s G.I. Joe characters!

As a treat, here’s a few Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow videos:

via: SuperHeroHype

A Piece of Photoshop History

chad — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:53:03 +0000

Here’s one of the earliest color icons for the graphics application Photoshop:

This image was pulled from The Abyss: Special Edition, which was one of the first major uses of the application developed by Thomas Knoll, and his brother John Knoll, a visual wizard at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Apple Macintosh exclusively.

More on the history of Photoshop at Wikipedia.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Release Poster

chad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:39 +0000

The new “payoff poster” by Drew Struzan for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was dug up today:

May 22, 2008 can’t arrive soon enough!

Make tracks to the official Indiana Jones website to check out the virtual museum of Indiana Jones movie posters.

Star Wars according to a 3 year old.

chad — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:35:39 +0000

Hahaha…funny stuff!

George Lucas couldn’t have summed it up better!

This Verizon FiOS commercial is “awesome!”

chad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:35:27 +0000

Michael Bay is “awesome!”

Awesome!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer!

chad — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:20:09 +0000

I’ve already watched the new Indiana Jones trailer about 50 times this morning, and will probably watch it at least 50 more before the day is through. This is easily my favorite film series and Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably my favorite film of all time. I look forward to Indy’s new adventure and any others that may follow.

If you haven’t seen the new trailer yet, head over to the official Indiana Jones website and download your visual ticket to adventure!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Teaser Poster

chad — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:14:52 +0000

Check out the new teaser poster by Drew Struzan for the upcoming film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

I’m sure many of you are just as excited as I am about this new adventure starring the world’s most famous archaeologist!