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31Jan2018

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Wall Street | 1987 | UK Lobby Card

Wall Street is a 1987 film directed by Oliver Stone. It was produced by Edward R. Pressman. The screenplay was co-written by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser. Wall Street stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook and Terence Stamp. The storyline follows Bud Fox, a young and impatient stockbroker who is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trades on illegal insider information. After becoming involved with Gordon Gekko, a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider who takes the him under his wing. When Stanley Weiser wrote the first draft, it was initially called Greed. In the first draft, the lead character was a young Jewish broker named Freddie Goldsmith, but Oliver Stone changed it to Bud Fox to avoid any stereotype that Wall Street w...

The Majestic | 2001 | Final | US One Sheet

23Apr2017

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US Movie Posters, US One Sheet

The Majestic | 2001 | Final | US One Sheet

The Majestic is a 2001 film directed and produced by Frank Darabont. The screenplay was written by Michael Sloane. It stars Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, Jeffrey DeMunn, Amanda Detmer, Allen Garfield, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Ron Rifkin, David Ogden Stiers and James Whitmore. The story follows Peter Appleton, an ambitious egoistic young screenwriter in Hollywood's Golden Age, 1951. Appleton's career is just getting off the ground when his name comes to the attention of a Congressional Committee who is investigating Communist affiliations of prominent Americans. It was discovered he had unwittingly attended a Communist meeting during college. Following the investigation he finds himself blacklisted by his studio and begins to wallow in self-pity, drinking ...

12Jan2017

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International Movie Posters, Japanese Movie Posters

The Fog | 1980 | Final | Japan B2

The Fog (also known as John Carpenter's The Fog) is a 1980 film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps in over a small coastal town in California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there exactly 100 years before. The Fog was Carpenter's first theatrical film after the success of his 1978 horror film Halloween, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis. Although initially given mixed reviews, the film has gained a positive reception in later years and has achieved a cult following years since its release. A remake of the film was made in 2005. As ...