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A face of the 80’s
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Most of the Times Square posters have some identifying information on them — a copyright notice, the film’s local distributor, a code number — but not this one, so we have to go on what’s on it. The logo and the artwork are from the UK movie poster, which was also (the artwork at…
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Star of Pacific, Thailand, September 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in Thailand in August 1981, but here’s a Thai magazine celebrating Robin in September. This was followed by Filmstar Vol. 1 No. 6 that featured a Thai translation of an interview with Robin that had appeared in Seventeen Magazine in October 1980. Did Times Square play in Thailand for three months?…
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 3 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The last of the Yugoslavian lobby card posters features four images we’ve seen before: Johnny at the mic, Roberto watching Nicky watching Pammy dance, Pammy watching Nicky sing, and Aggie Doone’s debut, which hasn’t appeared on this site, but if you follow the links you’ve seen it at Karen Dean’s (DefeatedandGifted’s) page. …
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 2 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Another four “lobby cards”, printed together on one poster, having been cut together and reprinted from an earlier series of lobby cards that I didn’t have when I found these. Unlike the first one, I think we’ve seen all these images previously, but, I’ll have more to say about them later.…
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 1 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I originally thought that these were uncut sheets of lobby cards intended to be separated into individual items, but after digitally doing exactly that I’ve come to the conclusion that, no, they were intended to be displayed just as they are. First, there’s not enough interior border area to cut them apart evenly, unless…
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Tajms Skver – lobby poster, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The main Yugoslavian poster used the art from the U.K. poster which was used throughout Europe. But Zeta Film also produced at least four more promotional pieces, which I believe to have been made for display in theater lobbies, based on their size and artwork. This poster is smaller than a standard one-sheet,…
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Times Square movie poster, Germany, 1982
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in West Germany on May 21, 1982. The poster reproduced the painting by Cummins that had graced the other European posters, although with a different pair of photos than the British, Spanish, and Yugoslavian posters, and the addition of a paragraph of ad copy that seems to take its cue from…
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Times Square movie poster, Australia, February 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The Australian movie poster featured the glorious Mick Rock photo of Robin that graced the earliest piece of Times Square advertising, which is possibly my favorite image used to promote the movie. Once I’d found this I was looking forward to having it framed, but unfortunately not only are the Australian…
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Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of the pages I looked…
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Guerreras de Nueva York (Times Square movie poster, Mexico, 1981)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Warriors of New York came out in Mexico in 1981, and its poster was a collage of publicity stills and the European poster painting. To my mind, though, the most interesting thing about it, even more than the new title, is that Robin Johnson has top billing, and Tim Curry is reduced to third.…