June 2019 saw the 70th anniversary of the original UK release of KIND HEARTS & CORONETS, the jewel in Ealing Studios’ crown, and arguably one of the finest British films ever made. To celebrate this anniversary STUDIOCANAL released a stunning Collector’s Edition as part of […]
Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal. The 4 Disc UHD and Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements across the […]
Prince Of Darkness UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements to use on the back. The regular issues gave us the headache of fitting the images into the […]
StudioCanal’s The Deer Hunter Collector’s Edition UHD and BD Packaging. The artwork adapted the fantastic illustration from Johnny Dombrowski (see his other work for the Agatha Christie titles). The stripped back nature of the artwork really captures the rawness of the film and the restricted use […]
The Dam Busters Collector’s Edition BD and DVD Packaging Vintage Classic for StudioCanal. To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the original World War II raid, ‘Operation Chastise’ The Dam Busters was released as a Collector’s Edition 5 disc box, including posters, art cards and booklet, as […]
The Mercy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Assets and Press Adverts fro StudioCanal. The artwork featured a straight adaptation from theatrical posters. Adjustments were made to the position of the Colin and Rachel in order to accommodate the title, cast and quotes. Academy Award winner […]
Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, and Digital assets for the StudioCanal release of The Lost City of Z. An adaptation of the theatrical artwork, the packaging features an additional centre strip and bottom image to promote the film’s action element. The original bottom section is carried […]
The Big Sick Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and digital assets for StudioCanal. The packaging for this release was based on the theatrical artwork, but with slight tweaks to make the title treatment brighter. The DVD sleeve works brilliantly in a yellow Amaray case, matching the […]
Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in […]
Gold Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Download, Print press advertisements and Social Media Promotion for StudioCanal. The packaging was an adaptation from theatrical artwork with the addition of special finishes on the O-ring packaging for the Blu-ray and DVD. These were printed on silverboard with […]
Bunuel: The Essential Collection boxset and Belle De Jour Blu-ray and DVD packaging from StudioCanal. Belle De Jour is a World Cinema release and uses the international artwork on the Blu-ray and DVD packaging. Bunuel: The Essential Collection is part of The Auteur Collection from StudioCanal (along with […]
Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of […]
DVD packaging for the Danish drama Below The Surface from StudioCanal. The cover image uses the title to split the main tube train image with a composite image of the attackers. The original poster only featured the train image with the title treatment, but to […]
The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army […]
Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) […]
Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the […]
The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that […]
A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and […]
This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their […]
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the […]
The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the […]
Enrol at the wacky College of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops in any social situation. Study with Alastair Sim and learn his valuable hints on the art of comic One-upmanship. Follow his expert advice to […]
Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful […]
I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about […]
A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets […]
Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding […]
From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an […]
The packaging for Indochine is a straightforward adaptation of the French artwork for the brand new restoration of this film. Available early in 2017 on Blu-ray and DVD in O-ring sleeves, the film is the multi award winning masterpiece by Régis Wargnier and features Catherine Deneuve and Vincent […]
A StudioCanal Vintage Classic, I’m All Right Jack stars the mighty Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas (he of the double-barrelled ‘uniname’). With a great supporting cast that features the likes of Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Margaret Rutherford and Liz Fraser. Directed by […]
Hiroshima Mon Amour is Alain Resnais’ 1959 groundbreaking first feature, a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. Featuring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada it’s the story of a brief and passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. This was a catalogue release […]
Creating the artwork for The Happiest Days Of Your Life on Blu-ray and DVD O-rings was a pleasure to work on. Featuring the wonderful actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell, it also features artwork by the brilliant Ronald Searle. The artwork is based on a old poster that […]
Darling is a Vintage Classic from 1965 starring the stunning Julie Christie and also features Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey. I was supplied with some good assets for this title, some nice posters and still photographs. The supplied posters were classic 1960s poster I’ve seen referenced in […]
Comfort and Joy wasn’t a film I was familiar with when I was sent the assets to work on. But when I saw the original artwork of a man with an ice cream on his face and I knew I couldn’t go far wrong! The […]
The wonderful Catch Me Daddy Blu-ray and DVD packaging was an incredible experience to work on. I can’t take any credit for the actual design for this, but my experience in dealing with print, hopefully meant the artwork printed as it intended! With three spot fluorescent Pantones, […]
Carol was released earlier in 2016 (and seems reflect the chill I was feeling as I was working on it!). Based on the theatrical artwork, the sleeve was a Blu-ray and DVD release with embossed O-rings. I was supplied with an incredible amount of stills, some of […]
A title from the archive, Before I Go To Sleep was a pretty straight adaptation from the theatrical artwork and was released way back in 2015 on Blu-ray and DVD with O-ring sleeves. The only issues I remember on this one, was getting the type to work on the […]
I started working on the initial packshot for ’71 back in August 2014 and the final artwork files have just been sent. It’s rare for me to spend so long on an individual title (unless the delays are due to production issues!). The Blu-ray and DVD packaging has gone down a […]
Another Vintage Classics sleeve for StudioCanal, Swallows and Amazons is the 1974 film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s novel. Set in the 1920s, the story tells the tale of four children and their adventures on board their boat, the Swallow, whilst on holiday with their mother in the Lake […]
The most recent of the Vintage Classics I’ve worked on for StudioCanal, this BD and DVD O-ring release celebrates the 60th Anniversary of An Inspector Calls. Featuring the brilliant Alastair Sim as the inspector and directed by Guy Hamilton, this is the film adaptation of […]
It’s been a while in the ‘making’, but the artwork for Inside Llewyn Davis was finally uploaded last week! I started working on this back in December last year, just as the film was on general release, but it was genuinely one of those really […]
