The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

One is a darkly comic film noir. The other is an evergreen Technicolor musical.

Yet taken together, Sunset Boulevard and Singin’ in the Rain form a consistent narrative about one of the greatest innovations to hit the movie industry: recorded sound…

The 1990s was a hugely successful time for American independent cinema and in 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez took guerrilla film-making to its logical extreme. The result was The Blair Witch Project, a shoestring horror that became one of the most influential and talked about movies of the decade.

Let’s take a look back as the movie celebrates its 25th anniversary…

In the week that Inside Out 2 took over $1B, becoming the twenty-fifth highest grossing film of all time, Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures released two epic movie trailers. 

Turn your computer / phone / tablet speakers up and enjoy!

The Godfather is a rare thing: An artfully made crowd-pleaser that smashed it at the box office and delighted both critics and a mainstream audience.

Over half a century since it premiered, Lee Adams takes a look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus.

When we look at a movie poster we may admire the art, but few of us are likely to consider the genesis of the idea. Where did the initial vision of the poster come from?

In many cases, it is likely to have come from an Art Director.

This week we celebrate a new exhibition at New York's Poster House highlighting the work of Art Director extraordinaire, Dawn Baillie.

We are approaching the half way point of 2024 and the big cinema story so far has been Dune Part 2, taking over $700M at the global box office.

There is so much to look forward to in 2024! Here are all the trailers for the films we are excited to see in the second half of the year!

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel!

After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now plunge back into an era before the term “cult movie” even existed.

This week we complete our list with N to Z.

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel!

After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now plunge back into an era before the term “cult movie” even existed. This week, A to M.

The world of super-hero franchises moves quickly and nothing stays the latest version of anything for very long. Sometimes it blows my mind that we’re already two Batmans (three if you count Will Arnett’s Lego version) down the line from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy!

With the middle instalment sitting third in the IMDb Top 250, is it the definitive screen version of the Caped Crusader?

Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns were made roughly equidistant between the origins of the genre and the present day. It is hard to think of another series of films that so definitively drew a line under what came before and set the tone for everything that came after.

This week, Lee Adams explores why the Dollars Trilogy remains so popular today.