Pic of the Day – The Mummy [1959]
(Above) Italian artist Mario Piovano takes on Hammer’s 1959 version of The Mummy. Pic via Heritage Auctions.
Posters and Cover Art
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Posters and Cover Art
Pic of the Day – Ghana movie poster for Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983)
(Above) Ghana artist Heavy J takes on David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983). This pic comes from the Instagram feed of Deadly Prey Gallery, a Chicago-based gallery that collects, sells, and commissions Ghanaian movie art. Check out their official website.
Posters and Cover Art
Pic of the Day – Enzo Sciotti’s take on The Evil Dead
Came across this Italian poster from the great Enzo Sciotti for “Samuel” Raimi’s original Evil Dead over at Westgate Gallery. As of this posting, it can be yours for the reasonable price tag of $75.
Posters and Cover Art
Pic of the Day – Italian poster for Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973)
(Above) Averardo Ciriello’s Italian poster art for Martin Scorsese’s breakout third feature film Mean Streets (1973). Though set around the New York neighborhoods where Scorsese grew up, 20 of the film’s 26 shooting days took place in Los Angeles.
Posters and Cover Art
Pic of the Day – The Posters of Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg made his feature film debut at the age of 24 with Duel, an ABC television Movie of the Week about a mild-mannered motorist’s desert highway battle with a menacing truck. Richard Matheson penned the teleplay from his own short story, which was first published in Playboy. It was Spielberg’s secretary at the time, Nona Tyson, who passed the story along to the nascent filmmaker and suggested it might be a good fit.
Spielberg had just 12 days to shoot the film. A scant 3 1/2 weeks after wrapping principal photography, Duel debuted on ABC in November of 1971. The ratings were so impressive that within a month of Duel’s television premier Spielberg was sent back out to capture additional footage so that the 74-minute running time could be padded in order to release the movie theatrically overseas.
For more Duel info, check out Edgar Wright’s recent interview with Spielberg or Steven Awalt’s book Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career. You can also find a three-part “Making Of” doc about the film on YouTube. The first part is posted below.
