The Ron Howard film EDtv stars Matthew McConaughey as the subject of a 24 hour a day reality show. When the film was released in the late 1990s, reality TV shows like Survivor and Big Brother had not even yet debuted. The only comparable reality series on air at the time was Cops. The client did not want the poster to look like an ad for...

THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKES is a comedy about the waning days of the ABA (American Basketball Association) league in 1975. The manager of the team was played by Kelsey Grammer, who also narrated the film. The comedy, which I labeled a Jockumentary, was positioned as 1970s kitsch, especially thanks to lead character Kool Williams (played by Orlando Jones). In the film, Jones grabs a lot...

Toy action figures come to life and do battle in SMALL SOLDIERS, with a suburban neighborhood caught in the middle. When newspapers were the most popular way to find movies at local theaters, movie studios generated a large amount of new artwork for newspaper ads. These ads would change weekly to maintain interest weeks after a film's release. The highest number of people to see a...