What is the rarest movie poster?

Mummy poster
In 1997, the rare Mummy poster was sold at auction for $453,500, which at the time made it the world’s most expensive movie poster. It was subsequently dethroned by a 1931 poster for Dracula, which sold for $525,800 last year.

What are the 7 elements of a great movie poster?

7 Elements of a Great Movie Poster Design

• Attention – jump out from the wall.
• Iconography – showing without telling.
• Interest – create an incentive to see the film.
• Appeal – create desire with fans and non-fans alike.
• Style – a look that’s consistent with the film.
• Lasting Appeal – a look that suits other formats.

What are the most expensive posters?

• The Mummy (American poster, 1932): $453,500 (£272k)
• London After Midnight (American poster, 1927): $478,000 (£388k)
• Casablanca (Italian poster, 1942): $478,000 (£388k)
• Dracula (American poster, 1931): $525,800 (£426k)
• Metropolis (German/international poster, 1927): $690,000 (£365.7k)

What is a lobby card poster?

As the name suggests, Lobby Cards (as they are called in the U.S.) or Front of House Cards (as they are known in the U.K.), were designed for display in the customer-facing areas of a cinema / movie theatre. Printed on a thicker ‘card stock’ than larger movie posters, they were originally produced in black and white.

What a movie poster should have?

Apart from the movie title, your film poster must also contain a tag line (a striking sentence or branding slogan the conveys the movie’s message), the name of the director, names of main actors or characters, the release date and a billing block (credits at the bottom).

Are movies photoshopped?

“Nobody looks like what you see on TV and in the movies — everybody is altered,” Claus Hansen, a beauty-work pioneer at the video-retouching company Method Studios, told Mashable. Many actors require the use of digital retouching (or “beauty work”), though it’s done very secretly.

What makes a bad poster design?

Too much text (I’ve been on mission to push for 800 words). Background image is distracting (distracts from illustrations). Text box backgrounds are dark, which makes text really hard to read. Text boxes are different widths (distracting, hard to follow flow of poster).