Here's the poster for this summer's hit "Fast Five". This is the banner form of it, but the actual theatrical poster was the exact same image, just with a lot of empty sky above it to conform to the vertical poster dimensions.




Look at how haphazardly these characters and cars have been combined. This was the *final, approved design* put in thousands of theaters to promote a film over $100m in budget and with a monstrous marketing budget.






For instance, compare and contrast the individual character posters sent to theaters to advertise "SuckerPunch", which flopped earlier this year:




With those of Marvel's Captain America film, yet to be released:




Could they have put less effort into those Cap shots? They're all crudely cut out and pasted onto the exact same cloudy background, regardless of the lighting color. If those posters took more than 20 minutes each, I'd be shocked.


Oh, and lest I leave everyone depressed over the state of the Captain America film, here is at least one fun poster for the flick:



As you can read at the source article (http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/vintage-captain-america-avenger-poster) this was created originally to be the cover to a tie-in comic but ended up being produced as a limited number of prints especially for the cast and crew of the film. It won't be hanging in any theaters, though.