It wasn’t so long ago when Hollywood was collectively freaking out, on a daily basis, about the “shrinking theatrical window” and the doomsday-like predictions of “day-and-date” movie distribution. Now that 2008 has seen the revitalizing effects of a few theatrical blockbusters – specifically in Iron Man and The Dark Knight – it looks like Hollywood [...]

I’m of conflicting opinions when I look at this nearly terrific Iron Man one-sheet. It truly is a great poster and all the bloggers who were on top of this last week (such as Screen Rant, where I grabbed this one) who pointed out that this has been designed as an old-school Star Wars-looking thing [...]

Of course it shouldn’t be considered “news” that Hollywood will ride the superhero movie trend like a rented pony until the poor beast is dirty, broken and dead. The catalog of superheroes is vast and deep and certainly represents our own brand of modern-day pop culture mythology – but does that mean that every hero, [...]

A funny thing happened after my last post in which I joked that writing another, completely annoyingly idiotic post, somehow shut down my interest in blogging.
What happened was that my interest in blogging shut down for two weeks. A guy who once trained me for a job in college said to me, “Life is a [...]

Big-time kudos to Chris at your friendly neighborhood Movie Marketing Madness who stumbled across this page on the Marvel Web site in which readers who are new to the saga of Peter Parker’s black symbiote suit and its eventual transformation into Venom can get a quick primer into just what makes the big guy hate [...]

Over at Celluloid & Vinyl they’ve got large, lovely versions of two new one-sheets for Spider-Man 3 that play up the “battle within”/duality theme of next summer’s biggest movie. They’re great posters, although I don’t really understand why the red-and-blue-Spidey-in-front version is so much darker than the other one. The version with the black-suit Spidey [...]