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Some empty film posters to help you kill time until the working day's over

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Date
17 April 2015

Sure this isn’t the kind of thing we usually post, but the sun’s all blazing and glorious outside our windows today, so we thought we’d be kind and give you something to stare at for the next few hours until it’s time to make your way to the closest beer garden available. You know what these images are don’t you? They’re iconic film posters with all traces of branding and characters removed – the bench without Forrest, a sunset with Simba removed and a deep blue sub-aquatic fade that’s one shark short of of a multi-million dollar blockbuster franchise. These posters are the result of hours of hard photoshopping by French art director Madani Bendjellal, and for making our afternoon pass that little bit faster we owe him our thanks. Thanks!

A black screen with a single line of white text that reads “In space no one can hear you scream.” Below the text, a faint green glow illuminates a dark, textured grid of undulating lines.
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Madani Bendjellal: Alien

A movie poster for Akira featuring Kaneda’s iconic red motorcycle angled across the top of the frame. Below the bike, a cracked white surface stretches towards the bottom of the page. Text at the top reads “Pioneer Entertainment Presents”, while a tagline at the bottom states “The end of the world was only the beginning.”
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Madani Bendjellal: Akira

A movie poster for Apocalypse Now Redux featuring a line of helicopters flying across a massive, glowing yellow sun. The sky and landscape below are bathed in deep, saturated red. Credits at the bottom list the cast and crew, including the title “Apocalypse Now Redux”.
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Madani Bendjellal: Apocalypse Now

A movie poster for Back to the Future showing a DeLorean car accelerating away, leaving two trails of fire on the road. Beams of light radiate from the car against a dark blue sky. Text on the left reads, “He was never in time for his classes... He wasn’t in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn’t in his time at all.”
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Madani Bendjellal: Back To The Future

A movie poster for Everest shows two people in heavy gear leaning their foreheads together. They are framed by the dark, towering silhouettes of mountain peaks against a glowing orange and blue sky.
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Madani Bendjellal: 127 Hours

A minimalist movie poster for A Clockwork Orange featuring a large, black stylized letter “A” with an orange outline. Text above reads, “Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.”
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Madani Bendjellal: A Clockwork Orange

A painting of a bright yellow sun setting over a dark horizon, casting orange and red light across a cloudy sky. Text at the bottom reads “Exclusively in IMAX Theatres and Large Format Cinemas December 25, 2002” and “disney.com/lionking”.
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Madani Bendjellal: The Lion King

A minimalist film poster featuring a gradient of blue, fading from a bright white sky at the top to a deep navy ocean at the bottom. Small white text at the base lists the credits for Jaws, including director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams.
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Madani Bendjellal: Jaws

A wooden park bench sits alone against a plain white background. Small text at the bottom lists the credits for the film Forrest Gump.
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Madani Bendjellal: Forrest Gump

A 3D render of Elsa’s ice palace from Frozen, perched atop a jagged, snow-covered mountain peak. The crystalline structure glows blue against a wintry landscape of snowy slopes and a shimmering aurora borealis.
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Madani Bendjellal: Frozen

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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