Sep 3 2009 'Where the Wild Things Are': On the Cover of Filter
The new issue of Filter has this great Where the Wild Things Are cover illustrated by Geoff McFetridge, whose work you may have also seen in the Wild Things trailer titles and "I'm Rocking on Your Dime t-shirts. Pick it up on September 11 so you can hold it up while riding mass transportation to identify yourself as someone with hip tastes in music, film, and marker drawings.
(via We Love You So)
Jun 29 2009 Remember How Good 'Drag Me to Hell' Was with Fan Art
Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell: that was a fun one, yeah? So, seeing that nothing is really going on today, let's remember what a fun one that was with this really good would-be poster from Fiona Staples. Coincidentally, she also did the art for The Secret History of The Authority: Jack Hawksmoor, written by my friend Mike Costa (nepotism!), which you should also probably read. What else are you doing with yourself?
May 13 2009 Where the Wild Things Art
I don't want to turn this into a fan art blog--I already have too many fan art blogs--but I thought this Where the Wild Things Are illustration by Emily Eibel needed to be shared, because it's really good, and I think there's a related movie or something coming out. Yeah?
More of her work notable for its film/television subject matter:
King of Kong.
Freaks & Geeks.
Feb 9 2009 Paying Fugitive Directors to Make Commercials for Fake Products is Art
Questionable artist Francesco Vezzoli commissioned famed rapist director Roman Polanski to make this 60-second ad for the perfume Greed, which is not a real perfume. Why? Because it's a statement, man. Art. It's like when I ordered all those pizzas for a party that no one was ever going to attend. The statement I was making was "I don't have any friends, so I'm going to eat a shit-ton of pizza."
I'll tell you up front, this non-existent perfume is so hot that Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman have a catfight over it. The lesson is that truly great scents have the power to destroy even the strongest hair-brushing buddy relationship.
Feb 3 2009 If Movies Were Made into Books and It's the '60s
I'm kind of loving this "I Can Read Movies" series by Mitch Ansara (aka Spacesick). The Toledo-based artist has taken 20 films and imagined what their '60s novelization covers may have looked like, right down to the scratched surfaces and bent corners (because it would be impossible to find a mint condition copy of Space Jam on eBay).
See the whole collection on his blog. The mostly photo-filled novelization (summary) of Batman Returns I once bought from a Scholastic catalog looked nowhere near as good his version.
[via Cinematical]
Nov 7 2008 'Step Up 3D' Poster Thing Goes International, Three-Dimensional
When you've already stepped up 2 (to) the street--which many consider the definitive endpoint for stepping up--how do you take it to that next level, really blow some minds? How about having these two (their faces have been obscured to protect the identities of all those involved in Step Up 3D) step it up to the EIFFEL EFFING TOWER! The Step Up series crosses so many international boundaries. We can drop the UN and just keep making these dancing movies.
Next stop: Step Up 4 the Moon. Dancing in low gravity is the freshest.
Step Up 3D Art [Coming Soon]
Jul 22 2008 'Watchmen' Sally Jupiter Pin-Up (NSFW, if You're in the '40s)
Illustrator James Jean created this pin-up of Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter for the Watchmen movie. Apparently, if you look closely enough, you can see it for a second in the new trailer--but that's not all you can see, if you know what I mean!*
*Nipples.
Sally Jupiter Pinup [Process Recess]
May 1 2007 Nightwatching Trailer
To the delight of pretentious film snobs everywhere, Peter Greenaway has strung together another series of intricately composed shots of sex and decadence set to a minimalist score, this time covering the life of Rembrandt. Doughy-faced Martin Freeman certainly matches the plump look of the painter, and Greenaway's style has often been compared to Renaissance painting, but I can't help but think that maybe Rembrant would have wanted it differently.
Yes, by simply looking at such a work as Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee, it's obvious Rembrant would have cast himself as a Lethal Weapon-era Mel Gibson. And besides being a painter, he'd also be leader of an F-14 squadron, whose brash, never-by-the-book piloting would surely get him killed if he weren't just so damn good.
"Chiroscur-you later, asshole," quips the Dutch master, ripping a hole through the side of an enemy plane. "Daaaaaamn," shouts Martin Lawrence, his co-pilot.
Mar 22 2007 Gatchaman Concept Art
While the Wachoswkis work to get Speed Racer across the checkered flag (by that I mean get completed, using a clever racing reference), the folks at Imagi at dutifully working on another old anime adaptation, Gatchaman. For those who have forgotten, this is the one where they're dressed like birds.
The production company has revealed some concept art from the film, and though it does not include teenagers dressed as birds, it does highlight scenes of giant robots attacking a city (Neo-Tokyo? I think it always is) and more.
Between spoonfuls of an unidentified substance, Mr. Harry Knowles was kind enough to rip all the images from the Flash page and post them here with some more information. Cheers to you, sir.
Mar 7 2007 More Spider-Man 3 Venom Crap
Venom is now available as the above sex doll.
Ain't It Cool News has a collection of new Spider-Man 3 images, mostly of different stages of Venom's transformation, from the Art of Spider-Man 3 book. Some of the art includes models of makeup effects and sketches of character designs. Others define art with a much looser definition, such as a photograph of Topher Grace with fishing line tugging on parts of his face. Still, most dads will agree, it's more art than that "melting clock bullshit" or "whatever-the-f*** with the soup cans."
Mar 2 2007 New Spider-Man 3 Art
With just a couple months left until the big release, Sony has released some new Spider-Man 3 artwork. They're worried that with all the other posters and trailers and crap out there, we might somehow not understand that this black shit covers him and gives him a new suit. So take a look at this airbrushed creation of Spider-Man having black shit cover him and give him a new suit.
Additionally, there will be a few minutes of footage shown during and immediately after this Monday's Heroes that will hopefully give us a clue as to if Spider-Man gets covered in any black shit and/or gets some sort of new suit.
