June 12
Call of the Wild 3D
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
June 16
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Dead Snow
Whatever Works
June 24
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 26
Cheri
Fireflies in the Garden
July 1
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
July 3
The Girl from Monaco
I Hate Valentine's Day
July 10
July 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 17
July 24
All Good Things
The Answer Man
In the Loop
July 29
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The Cove
August 7
When in Rome
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A Perfect Getaway
District 9
The Goods: The Don Ready Story
Ponyo
Pool Boys
Spread
The Time Traveler's Wife
August 21
Five Minutes of Heaven
Goose on the Loose!
It Might Get Loud
World's Greatest Dad
August 28
The Boat that Rocked
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Amreeka
Carriers
Citizen Game
Shanghai
September 9
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The Red Canvas
Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself
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The Burning Plain
September 18
Brand New Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Jennifer's Body
Splice
September 25
October 2
A Serious Man
Toy Story/Toy Story 2
A coffee-table book called Translating Hollywood: The World of Movie Posters was profiled yesterday by Boston Pheonix writer Chris Wangler. The poster images came from the collection of gallery owner Sam Sarowitz.

"Most of the posters come from the late 1950s and after, " Wangler writes. "Hollywood classics are the focus, but there'ss a nice selection of French New Wave, world cinema classics, and genre pictures.
"As movies began to gain worldwide attention, Hollywood studios tailored their marketing to specific geographic locations, allowing local distributors to create their own publicity campaigns. As a result, writes New York Times DVD critic Dave Kehr in the introduction, films 'were dressed up in native costumes for the different countries they happened to be visiting.'"

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 2, 2008 at 11:15 AM
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Josh Massey says ...
I've always loved the Czech poster for The Terminator.
Posted by Josh Massey at August 2, 2008 11:57 AM
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btwnproductions says ...
The painted billboards that Hong Kong cinemas had up when I lived there 20 years ago were terrific. I wish I had more pix of them. I don't recall seeing any on my last visit early last year.
Posted by btwnproductions at August 2, 2008 12:43 PM
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TheJeff says ...
Here is the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Translating-Hollywood-Posteritati-Gallery-Collection/dp/0977282791/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217717948&sr=1-1
Posted by TheJeff at August 2, 2008 4:02 PM
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