Drew Struzan’s “Billy Jack”
Drew Struzan was the go-to guy for painted movie posters. Sadly painted posters are all too rare these days. This Billy Jack piece gives a hint of Mr. Struzan’s talents.
Category: Movies
First “Fast and Furious 7” Poster!
That’s the first official poster for Fast and Furious 7 which is being called Furious 7.
Click HERE to see it in a more worthy size.
Mike Torrance Locks Up Sly!
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Frank Leone with him!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Batman & Dracula: Mondo’s Batman 75 Show
Franchesco Francavilla created this really cool tribute poster celebrating 75 Years of Batman.
Francavilla’s poster is just one of many created for Mondo’s Batman 75 Show and /Film has ’em all on display!
Keanu Reeves’ “John Wick” Interview
Click on the video below to see JoBlo’s interview with Keanu Reeves John Wick interview!
Movie Easter Eggs: X Marks the Kill
One of the great reoccurring treats at JoBlo.com is Movie Easter Eggs. Movie Easter Eggs are hidden messages, jokes and nods to other films that are hidden within a movie.
One of the Movie Easter Eggs covered this week is that in the movie The Departed. Director Martin Scorsese…
…paid tribute to Howard Hawks’ original 1932 version of SCARFACE in which the director included a bunch of Xs in scenes to imply that a character was going to end up dead.
You can see the X’s in The Departed scenes. Click over and you can see the X’s in Scarface as well as Movie Easter Eggs for Kill Bill, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Simpson’s Movie and Back to the Future.
“Night of the Living Dead” Prequel Moving Forward with George Romero’s Blessing
Cameron Romero [George Romero’s son] has started a Indiegogo to prime the well to get his zombie movie Origins financed.
The movie has his dad’s blessing and the elder Romero will serve as an executive producer of the film which will be a prequel to Night of the Living Dead.
I like the idea that Cameron has taken up the mantle and plans to carry on the Romero zombie tradition.
Really Rare “Star Wars” Poster by Howard Chaykin!
I’m not a big Star Wars fan, but I am a huge fan of Howard Chaykin’s art. So I was happy to see the original Chaykin art created [but never issued to theaters] for the first Star Wars poster.
Actual Footage from the Great Martian War!
The photos above and below are stills from the Great Martian War.
What? You’ve never heard of the Great Martian War? The you should check out this actual footage taken nearly 100 years ago.
Directed by Christian Johnson and Steve Maher.
Mike Mahle’s James Bond Movie Posters
If you like this From Russia With Love poster by Mike Mahle, you’ll probably enjoy checking out Mahle’s other James Bond posters.
Source: Brian Michael Bendis.
Vin Diesel’s “Multi-Facial”
Even if you’re a huge Vin Diesel fan there’s a good chance that you’ve never seen Multi-Facial the short film that Diesel wrote, directed and starred in back in 1995.
Fear now more.
You can now see Multi-Facial through the embed below. Be advised that it contains some inappropriate language.
Mike Torrance Takes Us “Over the Top”
Today Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd takes us Over the Top!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
41 Things We Learned from the “Dracula” Commentary
Kevin Carr at Film School Rejects provides 41 Things We Learned from the Dracula commentary.
Here are five of my favorites…
16. Dracula’s infamous line “I never drink wine” was not in the book or the stage play. However, after it became popular from the film, it was added to the dialogue of the stage play.
20. Several scenes in the script described fangs for Dracula, however Lugosi never wears them. Even though the Count in Nosferatu had fangs, the vampires from the early Universal films did not have them.
25. Originally, Stoker planned to call the title character Count Vampyr. However, he stumbled upon the history of Vlad Tepis and his name Dracula (meaning “son of the Devil”).
32. The shot of Renfield crawling at the fainted maid is not as sexual or violent as it first appears. In fact, he is trying to catch a fly that has landed on her. This was edited out of the English-language version but left in the Spanish-language one.
34. Originally, Lugosi was not considered for the role in the film. Trade papers suggested Conrad Veidt (the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). The studio wanted Lon Chaney, and they ended up offering him a three-picture deal which included a talkie sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. However, Chaney died before this could be done. After several other considerations, Lugosi got the role with a $500 per week salary.
New “Escape from New York” Comic Series Coming Soon
If you’re a fan of Escape from New York or you’re diggin’ this cover [I qualify on both counts] then you’ll probably want to pre-order the new Escape from New York comic series coming from Boom! Studios. [I am.]
