Courage. It’s found in the stories of our lives and is at the heart of meaningful filmmaking. Courage needs the hero to bring focus, action and personal stakes to a cause. The hero is the change agent, a messenger of courage and hope, inspiring, motivating and transforming his world. Looking at a few of film’s most celebrated heroes Harry Potter, Anakin Skywalker and Katniss Everdeen, we realize these properties connected with audiences and earned their riches because their foundation is …

Do you know what is the single most powerful gift in filmmaking? It’s the ability to forge memory of character and story from performance and spectacle. What memories have been indelibly burnt into the virtual theater of your mind? What image, snapshot of dialogue, epic event marked your last visit to the movie theater? You know, that movie that moved you, the film you’ve already cleared off a spot for on your Blu-ray shelf? We know you’re a HUGE movie …

One of the first steps to developing original, memorable and marketable key art is to conduct thorough competitive research. The internet has certainly made this process much simpler than trips to movie memorabilia shops on Hollywood Blvd and shuffling through file cabinets stuffed with 8 x 10 glossys and folded one-sheets. Today, with websites like www.IMPAwards.com and www.ArtOfTheTitle.com and Google Images most robust search engine ever built, everything we want is but a click away if you know what to look …

Okay we know this is a leap, but when we think “Leap Day” the first thing that comes to mind is YES an extra day to catch up! An extra day to see a few of our favorite movies. An extra day to make a difference. Words pop into our heads like jump…frogs…Kermit…green! That’s it…GREEN! So we decided take some time on this “extra day” of 2012 and share with you a collection of some of our favorite key arts …

A short time ago a filmmaker friend of mine came to me with a vision – to share with movie lovers everywhere the exceptional life of legendary actress Geraldine Page. Now, for the first time the extraordinary story of the actress, role model and daring trailblazer of theater and film is coming to life in Geraldine Page – Stages of a Dream. It was a privilege to partner one-on-one with filmmakers not only to create the film’s one sheet and …

Story. It fills our lives with message, meaning and magic. Brilliant writers invent story with simple pen and ink then weave it through their imagination onto paper. Engaging speakers invite us into story with passionate voice and presence. And innovative filmmakers draw in audiences to fantastic journeys of story through sights, sounds and emotional performances. Words creating worlds. Pictures igniting emotion. Heroes and villains. Resistance and persistence. Truth and conflict. This is story. Many have come before me, writing of …

Fall – a season abound in beautiful hues of Tuscan orange and fiery red. Fall signifies inevitable change, a metamorphosis of what was once vibrant, filled with love and life now slows down and prepares for the deep cocoon of winter. Fall, like the Phoenix, burns itself to embers, dark ashes that will once again become reborn with a vitality and spirit stronger and wiser than before. Through our ever-loving research and adoration for the theatrical poster we share with …

Primal. Instinctual. Instantaneous and progressive. Fear is the oldest and strongest of all human emotions. It catapults our minds and bodies into realms where predictability is turned upside down and the unknown assaults the senses. Fear occurs when anxiety takes the seat where comfort once sat. It’s also the catalyst which drives us forward in blinding rainstorms in spite of what may lie on the road ahead. Fear tells us when it’s safe to cross the street and how to …

Decades ago, long before technology blessed artists with the Photoshop and digital photography, the art of the poster was just that, art! Key art embodied simplified graphic expressions, alternative perspectives, and impressions of reality. Flash forward to today and audiences are blasted with the sumptuousness and the bitterness of reality – often hyper-reality. So why in this day of high-definition, computer generated effects, and 3D technology would the world’s most beloved film franchise walk away from the aesthetics that define …

I’ve always had a love affair with the movies. The promise of completely escaping into another world, albeit for only a couple hours, has always thrilled me. Like my favorite filmmaker Tim Burton, I grew up immersed in the films of Vincent Price and monster horror classics. In high school, I was bitten by the sci-fi bug and rode the first wave of the Star Wars Galactic Empire. Today, I take my kids to the theater nearly every week and …