A sample of 200 spectacularly reimagined movie posters by more than 100 artists from 20 countries – all featured in a new book, Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground (available at the end of this month) compiled by Michael Chojnacki, who sez of it:
The only criteria was that the poster couldn’t have been used in an official theatrical run of the film, And it had to kick ass.
This is how Tinseltown photographer Joshua Watson and his girlfriend Rachel Van Der Merwe announced their wedding last month.
Parody film posters imagined by the groom and deftly mocked-up by their friend Jordan Nakamura.
Outside former round-the-corner-from-Windmill-Lane U2 bolthole the (long since departed) Dockers pub on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.
Viral marketing or not, we like these.
Earlier: Polly Filler
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
(Thanks Seán Doyle)
Stephen Perice writes:
I spotted a couple of these posters on Emorville St. Dublin 8 over the weekend. I especially like the red ribbon used to tie them up, it ALMOST makes you forget the spelling and Nazi iconography!
…or 1960s paperbacks.
