Olly Moss has designed a new poster for  Hayao Miyazaki’s classic 1988 animated film My Neighbor Totoro. 400 limited edition prints  go on sale Friday, December 16th from Mondo.

Tonight (Thursday 8th December), Hollywood Babylon, Dublin’s Midnight Movie Film Club, is hosting an exhibition of re-imagined movie posters at 6.30pm at Block T in Smithfield, Dublin. The strictly limited screenprinted versions of the posters from the movie nights are up for show and purchase including Philip Barrett’s version of the Crank 2 Poster above. It’s free in and there will be drinks, music, popcorn and fun.

Nice little short film by IGI Member Chris Judge based in one of his book characters

Only found out recently that Chris Ware created a poster for the Thai film ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ (last year’s Palme d’Or winner). You can watch the trailer here.

‘The Story of Ireland’, a major five-part series presented by journalist and author Fergal Keane, begins on RTÉ One tonight at 10:15pm. Keep your eye out for the work of Illustrators Ireland member David Rooney who has created ninety scraperboard illustrations for the series.

DeviantART recently launched a competition inviting artists to envision the cover for  a digital motion comic “Inception – The Big Under” – a prequel to the Christopher Nolan film. The entries for the competition (now closed) can be seen here. The above entry is by by Sachin Teng.

Empire has the exclusive on the sublime international teaser art for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, not set for cinema release here until Feb 2011. You can see the other posters here.

Scott Pilgrim – an awesome comic and now an awesome film – is now the subject of even awesomer (forgive me) illustrated posters. The first was created by Martin Ansin, signed by many of the cast of the film and limited to 565 (including its variant) but, as you can imagine, it’s now sold out. Ansin also created the stunning poster for last years Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Light House cinema, Smithfield.

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By now most people will be familiar with Josh Cooley, a story artist at Pixar, who has, since 2008, been posting wonderful drawings on his blog for an “Inappropriate Golden Book for Kids” where famous movie scenes are given the children’s book treatment.  Now two years later he’s finally compiled them, along with some new ones into a book called Movies R Fun! due out later this summer.

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Jacques Tardi’s illustrated comics series Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec gets the Luc Besson treatment in a new film based on the comics. Check out the trailer for the new film here.