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Artist Sam Spratt (who has lent his considerable talents to our sister sites Gawker and Gizmodo) has now created a rather ripping cinematic take on Inspector Spacetime — Community's ersatz Doctor Who — which tends to inspire plenty of homages. More »
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If you've been looking for all 100 pieces of the new Hunger Games puzzle, then look no further — the keen fans of Suzanne Collins book series have compiled all the pieces together and low and behold it's a giant arena! Check out Katniss and her District 12 comrade Peeta, as they ready to fight for their lives. More »
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Here's the official poster for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Look, a light! Look, an ominous statue! Boo, no hilariously veiny H.R. Giger dildos (yet). But while we're waiting around for the official trailer to hit, we'll always have Aliens on Ice. More »
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In the world of superhero posters, when it rains, it pours. The poster for The Amazing Spider-Man recently showed up on Superhero Hype. More »
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A new teaser image for The Dark Knight Rises was just released this afternoon. Did Bane break the Bat? Or was his melon just too damn big for his Wayne Industries Official Reproduction Bat-Hat™? More »
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Or more to the point, what is Michael Caine about to say to his agent once he gets home from doing this fiasco? Some new character posters for Journey 2, the sequel that absolutely nobody demanded, have come out. And they're like the posters from the waiting room to Photoshop Hell. I especially like the look on The Rock's face as he contemplates what has become of his non-Fast and Furious career. More »
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What if Hellboy was a silent film star, Iron Man was a World's Fair exhibit, and Galactus was in cahoots with the famed eccentric Rotwang? If any of these unlikely scenarios came to pass, they would certainly look a lot like Grégoire Guillemin's Art Deco crimefighters. Here's a sampling of his many stylish supes.

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The American Film Market has ended, leaving behind images of ridiculous movie pitches and posters of hopeful films looking to be picked up. More »
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The Hunger Games, are fast approaching and this is our first chance to see images of our favorite tributes and characters. Take a look at white-haired Effie, the gold eye-linered Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, and little Rue! More »
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DrFaustusAU — who you may remember from the Cthulhu children's book — has now drafted vintage travel placards for destinations in Frank Herbert's Dune series. Tan with the Shai Hulud on Arrakis, shop for the finest whale fur on Caladan, and have a pugnacious day on Giedi Prime.

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Painted movie posters rules, particularly when they take gonzo creative liberties with the films' plots, as Ghanaian and Thai posters sometimes do. More »
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We've already had zombie Stormtroopers, but a true blend of Star Wars and horror has been too long in arriving. Which is why it's great that one brave gallery is hosting a Death Star Art Show, a blend of Star Wars and horror themes just in time for Halloween. Behold Princess Leia, the Bride of Frankenstein. More »
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We've featured some wonderfully befuddling Polish movie posters before, but Andrzej Pagowski's design for Close Encounters of the Third Kind transforms the movie into a dreadful family comedy with McDonald's dance-offs. It's on eBay if you're in need of a conversation piece. And for more movies lost in translation, see the painted posters of Ghana. More »
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In his "Alternate Histories" series of prints, Matthew Bucholz takes the bygone years of American history and peppers them with marauding kaiju, alien conquerors, and frontier dinosaurs. Here are some of his more amusingly rejiggered ephemera, and you can see more examples over at his Etsy page. More »
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This might be the greatest time to be a fan of superhero movies. There were four major superhero films this summer, and three of them more or less ruled. Too bad our superpowered protectors have such boring — or even ugly — movie posters. More »
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Summer is coming to a close, and for many of us that means new beginnings. With school right around the corner, hordes of us will be moving into new apartments and houses for the year, and with new digs comes the opportunity to update (or start) your collection of science fiction and fantasy artwork! More »
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Superhero movies may be filled with flashy visuals and CGI, but Marko Manev offers an antidote with his stripped down, distressed posters, which focus in on the core visuals of Marvel superheroes and villains. More »
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These clever Doctor Who travel posters by Andrew Le have a distinctly out-of-place police box lurking in the environs. You can click on the above image to embiggen. More »
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Paul Owen of the Guardian recently attempted a thorough critique of director Christopher Nolan's most recent films, by way of nothing more than the new poster for The Dark Knight Rises, due out in summer 2012. More »
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Cartoonist Lucy Knisley has finished her Harry Potter poster project, summarizing the series in eight comic posters poking loving fun at the books. She's also amassed one mega-poster with the entire synopsis. Behold the "Sumharry!" More »
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These Hogwarts travel posters by Caroline Hadilaksono have a retro charm, but I would've loved to have seen some Dementors advertising seaside views. Prints are available at her website — click on the lower-right corner to expand the above photo. More »
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See what the vampire-hunting David Tennant looks like, sans ridiculous wig and silly Las Vegas magician get up. It's not looking good for Collin Farrell's evil vampire. Check out the new Fright Night character posters now! More »
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The trend of fancy minimalist movie posters is still helping us see our favorite films in a new light — and one of our favorites is this poster for Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Experience the dystopian weirdness all over again! More »
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There's a lot of questions surrounding Tarsem Singh's epic mythological undertaking. We know it will be colorful, and visually astounding... but can this director rein in actor Mickey Rourke? The trailer says yes, but this helmet says no. More »
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Tonight, the Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a special screening of John Carpenter's They Live. Which means one thing: a new limited edition poster from Mondo! So here it is, the limited edition They Live poster created by the Shepard Fairey. More »
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Here's an awesome (if extremely rare) poster Tyler Stout recently created for the Alamo Drafthouse's Mystery Movie. Basically, it's every event from Akira merged into one crazy whole. You can see a much larger version here. More »
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Hobbiton is an idyllic scene... except for the untimely arrival of the wizard Gandalf, in this gorgeous art print called "Disturber of the Peace," by Weta Workshop concept artist Ben Wootten, who worked on the Lord of the Rings films. More »
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Ever wonder what it would look like if movie posters told the truth? Well here you have it, a BS-free crop of summer movie posters. Like Transformers 3: "Trust Us This Time." More »
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We've featured Miles Donovan's science fiction schematics before, and now he's mapped out the interior of an Aperture Science's patented Handheld Portal Device. Donovan is selling prints of this blueprint over at Etsy. More »
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Need to know which superhumans excel in shapeshifting? What superpower does Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man possess? Pop Chart Lab's Illustrated Omnibus of Superpowers answers all your superpower queries rather concisely, and they're selling copies you can mount on your wall. More »
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Marvel at the incredible images from this kiddie Mad Max photo shoot. Swapping out the main stars from Mad Max for kids was pure genius. Check out the littlest Road Warriors! More »
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Want to see Mickey Rourke slit someone's throat while wearing a metal bunny helmet? Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) showed some stunning, crazy, violence-packed footage from his Greek god melodrama The Immortals at WonderCon. More »
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When Hitler's dino-hordes storm Normandy, will you have the wherewithal to beat them back? Allied propaganda posters from a lizard-filled WWII urge you to take arms against these Jurassic Nazis, while Axis posters tout raptors as the strength of Germany. More »
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The internet is united in hatred over the new X-Men: First Class posters. But are they really so bad? Check out the wave of online vituperation. More »
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Old Eastern European movie posters often took massive creative liberties with familiar plots and characters by remixing them into some wacky cinematic chimeras. More »
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