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Ego of an Ad Man
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Ego of an Ad Man In a Film in Focus piece called " Genesis of a Poster ," Andrew Percival from Mojo House, an advertising company, discusses the poster for Burn After Reading . The inspiration, he says, was the stylish design of cutting-edge movie posters of the '60s. The first example he mentions is the one-sheet for The Comedians . And yet he doesn't mention the name of the godfather of edgy movie poster design in the '50s and '60s -- i.e., Saul Bass . Why, I wonder? What's Percival's obstruction? I ...
Picking Up the Spare: Eagle Eye, Burn After Reading and more
Movie Marketing Madness —
... Focus Features’ website FilmInFocus has a great slideshow up on how the designers arrived at the final version of the movie’s one-sheet, including the early variations the design went through, an evolutionary process that included a number of homages to different ’60s posters. ...
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