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In this post I will present you a showcase of 60 creative movie posters. I came across many sites and found very useful information and gathered all here. So, almost everything has a different colors, style, genre and graphical approach. Basically a film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. There may be several versions for one film, with variations in regards to size, content and country of production of the poster. It usually contains an image with text, though this has evolved over time from image-free bill posters through to the highly visual digital productions of today.
Nowadays there are many posters, but most of them do not attract people. So clearly, the poster design is one of the most important things in advertising films, but nothing outweighs their ingenuity and creativity that attracts many people.
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Friday, February 26th, 2010 05:48
Hmmm, most are not creative (as others have noted)… but there are plenty of movies I hadn’t heard of. So, while it is somewhat misleading, I found the information useful.
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 13:32
This is not a list of extremely creative movie posters.
This is a list of movie posters from the last two years.
Believe it or not, there were creative posters in the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, etc. and even before.
(N)
Monday, February 8th, 2010 13:10
Beautiful! For an hour i am admiring these posters …a very good source of inspiration!
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 16:30
“Nice looking” and “creative” are completely different things. Most of the posters here do fall under the first category, but very few under the latter. Changing the name of the article would be very appropriate, so it won’t be as misleading as it is right now.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 20:04
I was unimpressed by most of these. I thought Avatar’s poster was bland, boring, and cliche. Much like the movie itself. And several of the others were not even close to inspiring or even good. Only a handful were worth looking at. Disappointing.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 20:03
Who qualified these as “extremely creative”?
Many of them are simple main-character-meets-setting-plus-title-art. Can someone tell me what’s “extreme” or “creative” about that?
An inherently creative concept for a movie does not an “extremely creative” movie-poster make. The creativity is in how the movie concept is applied to a poster. Here, I see mostly mediocre branding and blockbuster pablum.
I’ll narrow this down to a truly “creative” list:
1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 27, 28, 32, 34, 40, 42 and 46.
Whittling down the list from 60 to 13? Yes, especially when you consider that items 2, 4, 8, 9, 43, 47 and 48 (to name just a few) required nothing more than the movie itself to come up with the poster. Extremely creative? Rubbish.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 18:35
The fact that you included the Twilight poster discredits any chance this list had of being a good list.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 14:09
Ouaw, excellent selection
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 03:40
A lot of good posters there. Sadly, with some of the movie, the work put into a good poster didn’t work so well with making the movie itself good. And some good movies have only middlin’ posters.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 17:10
My favorite is Watchem. Thanks for this collection
Monday, January 25th, 2010 23:19
c’mon, this is a terrible list, only few of these posters are actually creative
whoever made this needs to see more
Monday, January 25th, 2010 07:52
Im not really impress…
look at the “Disaster movier” poster, and the “girl friend experience”, “Humboldt County” …
that’s not “extremely creative” …
you should look at it critically…
Monday, January 25th, 2010 00:40
Sorry, but the post should of been titled ’60 movie posters for new and recent films’, was hoping to see something new here – rather than what’s been hanging on my local cinema’s walls these last 12 months or so.
Must try harder!
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 20:06
Excellent point. We can go back 50 years and still find “extremely creative” movie posters. It’s not a new thing.
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 21:08
My thoughts exactly. Even though some are really creative, most are good looking at most.
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 12:27
Great Collection!
Love the “From Paris with Love” Poster!
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 11:13
Totally fantastic compilation of posters. Thanks for inspiration
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 15:55
Great collection!! These works are amazing!! Thank you!!
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 00:09
Absolutely brilliant list! Lots of really dynamic things going on with today’s movie poster art. Thank you so much for posting this. :)
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 18:57
am really empress with this post because the are all awesome. Thank you for this wonderful post. Keep it up
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 08:18
thanks for this list. There is some great inspiration here, keep it up.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 21:48
I usually love Smashing Mag, but this post not so much. Maybe it should “60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters of the last 2-3 years.” Please tell me this wasn’t an attempt to be the best “Creative Movie Posters Ever” because that I feel would be a poor showing. Plus I get suspicious when each poster is linked to their IMDB website, especially the ones for movies that aren’t even out yet…
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 15:24
It’s really interesting to see different poster style here… Collections of great movie posters… Thanks for Sharing….
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 01:22
I agree with a few people that not all of these are that creative. A few of them are very by the numbers. It’s important not to confuse budget with creativity. For example, the Transformers poster is most likely a cut and paste job, take some artwork from the CG department, throw in the pyramids and some sun light, it’s very by-the-numbers.
As I scrolled through it started to feel like just a collection of what’s new in theaters, but there were a few that really stood out as great design.
Overall, what I take from this most is how much I take movie posters for granted. I feel so bombarded by movie images that I stop even looking at the posters. There’s some really great work there.
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Gregory
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 21:48
I usually love Smashing Mag, but this post not so much. Maybe it should “60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters of the last 2-3 years.” Please tell me this wasn’t an attempt to be the best “Creative Movie Posters Ever” because that I feel would be a poor showing. Plus I get suspicious when each poster is linked to their IMDB website, especially the ones for movies that aren’t even out yet…
Steve Martin
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 15:24
It’s really interesting to see different poster style here… Collections of great movie posters… Thanks for Sharing….
Tom Ross
Monday, January 18th, 2010 18:46
These designs are great! I love the fire effect on the Christmas Carol poster.
Francis Baptiste
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 01:22
I agree with a few people that not all of these are that creative. A few of them are very by the numbers. It’s important not to confuse budget with creativity. For example, the Transformers poster is most likely a cut and paste job, take some artwork from the CG department, throw in the pyramids and some sun light, it’s very by-the-numbers.
As I scrolled through it started to feel like just a collection of what’s new in theaters, but there were a few that really stood out as great design.
Overall, what I take from this most is how much I take movie posters for granted. I feel so bombarded by movie images that I stop even looking at the posters. There’s some really great work there.
aledesign.it
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 23:48
WOW. I love this post! Really! More film I wait from a long time! Some poster are fantastic, so creative like terminartor or Iron Man 2. Thanks a lot!
Cassaw Creative
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 21:11
Awesome post – thanks for sharing!
Cloverfield still has to be my favorite of the bunch. It did such a great job up building up the suspense for the movie. Just wish the movie could have lived up to the poster!
brady
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 02:18
Avatar? really? the same use of a head shot as Bride of Chucky, Ironman, plus who knows how man others and…..is that papyrus? half of these arnt the least bit creative but Avatar might be the least creative ive ever seen
Cheap Minisites Design
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 05:25
I like the transformers poster! also has great movies!
BigM75
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 23:32
absolut cool collection of movieposter very creativity
Murlu
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 23:26
So many awesome movies.
I worked in a theater or a year and got all kinds of cool benefits like promo posters and the stand ins, some of them were incredibly designed.
Marcos
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 22:47
The 2012´s posters are amazing, and the trailer´s music!!!!!!!!
Sean Farrell
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 23:23
AVATAR! Woot! Sweet posters
Kim Bomone
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 05:25
Wow! Awesome! I am really blown away by the artists that worked on these!
M.R.
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 05:47
Very nice collection. Thanks for posting.
Richie
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 08:03
Marvellous collection. I really admire and appreciate the hard work you put in to collect and share these stuff. Getting motivated to recreate some of the posters. Bookmarked!!!
SmashingWebs.com
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 10:47
These are really awesome.. I personally love that ICE AGE one :)
sriganesh
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 07:08
very nice and the Kick ass punch line is so cool :D . there is so much list i didnt seen, have to watch some and waiting for ironman2 to release
Martin Gruschka
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 14:58
I am amazed about the creativity.
Especially less is more. Genius post.
Aidan
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 11:20
I think it’s good to bring back these movie posters for us to take a look again mainly because most of their lifespan are only few weeks equal to the showing period.
Thanks.
noname
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 03:56
they’re just nice movies, there’s nothing special about any of these posters
Christy Latz
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 00:09
Absolutely brilliant list! Lots of really dynamic things going on with today’s movie poster art. Thank you so much for posting this. :)
alone
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 15:55
Great collection!! These works are amazing!! Thank you!!
Technology Design
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 18:17
looks creative enough
Design Earth
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 23:38
Designing a movie poster in today’s age is a new challenge. As designer is to maintain both creativity and main theme of that movie for which he’s designing. Above collection is totally great example of this.
A Real Designer
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 08:09
You should really just call this a collection of movie posters from recent movies… because that’s all it is…
You have Avatar on there… Yes it was a popular movie that looked stunning but let me tell you that poster is just DUMB. They used blue, glowey papyrus centered on the bottom of a poster of half of a face… It’s pretty awful.
Zerot
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 11:53
Agree. There’s nothing brilliant with Avatar poster.