How’s this for a would-be great bit of (re)marketing? This is a French grande poster for the 1980 movie Raise The Titanic. I’ve never seen it but it is by all accounts a bit rubbish. The movie was a box office bomb. (The quote from producer Lew Grade was “it would have been cheaper to…
Movie novelisations
The movie “novelisation” is a concept that really took off in the late 70s. Movies adapted from novels have been a thing since the birth of cinema. A few selected movies also were published in book form way back when, notably the original King King. But the popularity of novelisations based on original movie scripts…