Now showing · 72 styles
Your name.Top ofthe bill.
Your poster in two minutes, not two days
Cast your photo
Your face stays. The era, the light, the paper and the billing block are ours. Then the words are yours: the title, who stars, what the critics said. Looking is free: four paintings on the house, ten more for $10, and we print only the one you chose.
Deco Musical 1933
You are the headliner at the top of the stairs
Your photograph is sent to the engine once and not kept. The painting comes back with no lettering on it: the title, your name and the rest are set next, in the era's own type, and you can change them as often as you like.
Four passes on the house. One pass paints one poster.
Deco Musical 1933
Imani is a test sitter. Your photograph replaces them.
Not for faces under eighteen. Not for photographs you do not have the right to use.
Nobody is the joke
The usual version is a photograph pasted under a stock title, proofed in two days. Ours is built the way the era built its sheets: the critics’ line up top, the tagline under the title, the billing block in the condensed face, the release line last. It reads as real from across the room, and that is the whole joke.
The dog is the lead, lit like a star. The grandmother is the lead. The couple are the leads. No real film is named anywhere on this site: the eras are ours to paint, the title is yours to type. Some paintings miss. That is why looking is free and the one you did not choose costs nothing.
The 72 styles
Five sitters share the wall, two to a style. Hover a card for the second.
The Golden Age
Stone lithographs, deep focus and studio glamour. The posters that taught the century what a star looks like.
Deco Musical 1933You are the headliner at the top of the stairsStudio Noir 1944You are the face under the hat brimScrewball 1938You are the one who gets the last lineThe Press Baron 1941You are the tycoon on the balconySnowbound Christmas 1946You are the one the whole town turns out forSwashbuckler 1938You are the hero on the riggingThe Talkies 1929You are the voice they came to hearPre-Code Gangster 1931You are the one who runs this streetGothic Chiller 1932You are the one who opened the doorDrawing-Room Comedy 1934You are the one with the last wordRadio Hour 1940You are the one the whole family gathers roundMain Street Homecoming 1947You are the one who came backWidescreen
Painted epics, three-strip colour, flat graphic suspense and the road out of town.
The Epic 1956You are the one the sea parts forTechnicolor Musical 1952You are the one dancing in the rainThe Western 1959You are the one riding into townGraphic Suspense 1958You are the face in the spiralBeach Party 1963You are the one with the surfboardThe Spy 1965You are the one they sentAtomic Saucer 1955You are the one who saw it landNew Hollywood
Grain, sodium light, one hard face against a dark ground. The decade the poster went quiet.
The Family Business 1972You are the one they come to on the day of the weddingTwo-Lane Road 1971You are the one who kept drivingDisco Night 1977You are the one under the mirror ballSaga Montage 1977You are the hero with the blade of lightThe Conspiracy 1974You are the one who knows too muchThe Underdog 1976You are the one who went the distanceThe Video Era
Airbrushed montages, neon, chrome and the cover that made you rent it.
Detention 1985You are the one who wrote the essayAction Montage 1988You are the one walking away from the explosionBuddy Cops 1987You are the partner who never does it by the bookPulp Adventure 1981You are the one with the map and the hatDark Fantasy 1982You are the one the prophecy namedChrome Thriller 1984You are the one who came back from the futureBright Cape Hero 1978You are the one who can flySpace Spoof 1987You are the one with the plastic ray gunIndie & Prestige
Pulp yellow, festival white, the heist in a sharp suit and the small town in autumn.
Pulp Crime 1994You are the one on the dime-novel coverThe Rom-Com 1998You are the one who ran through the airportSmall-Town Indie 1996You are the one in the yellow tracksuitThe Heist 2001You are the one with the planThe Verdict 1993You are the one who stood up in courtSuburban Autumn 1999You are the one who finally said itFour Seasons Rom-Com 1994You are the one who was late to the weddingNow Playing
Teal and orange, IMAX black, the quiet arthouse sheet and the wedding nobody filmed.
Desert Neo-Western 2007You are the one who stopped at the borderPrestige Drama 2014You are the performance of the yearThe Caped Hero 2012You are the one the city calls forStorybook Feature 2010You are the hero of the bedtime storyArthouse Quiet 2018You are the face on the festival posterDeep Space 2014You are the one who went furtherThe Modern Spy 2015You are the one who walked out of the fireThe Wedding Epic 2022You are the couple the whole reception is aboutNeon Megacity 2019You are the one who walked out of the rainFirst Contact 2016You are the one they sent to speakMasked Vigilante 2008You are the one the city does not thankAssembled 2019You are the one the team waits forAccidental Hero 2004You are the one whose cape is caught in the doorThe Standard Sheet
Photographic, not painted. The plain templates every poster site sells, done with the face kept clear and the type set properly: a sunset, a rainstorm, a white wedding, a space suit.
Soft RomanceYou are the two in the golden lightFamily ComedyYou are the one in the middle of the chaosSunset WesternYou are the one on the ridge at duskRainy City CrimeYou are the one under the streetlightSpace SuitYou are the one in the helmetWhite WeddingYou are the two who said yesHorror ForestYou are the one holding the torchHoliday Pictures
Tinsel, a turkey, eight candles, one very tense office party and the clock at midnight. The pictures that come round every year.
Christmas Chaos 1989You are the one holding the lightsSmall-Town Holiday 2019You are the one who came home for ChristmasHoliday Musical 1954You are the one under the falling snow, on cueNew Year's Eve 1959You are the one at midnightChristmas Action 1988You are the one crawling through the vent on Christmas EveEight Nights 2021You are the one who lights the last candleThanksgiving Table 1995You are the one carvingValentine Pictures
A balcony in Paris, a platform in the steam, a school gym, a dock in the rain and a kitchen at seven in the morning. The love story, five ways.
Cast. Name. Hang.
- 01Cast. One photograph, faces roughly toward the camera. Phone photos are fine. Pick an era from the wall; the same recipe that painted its exemplars is run on your photograph, and the painting comes back with no lettering on it.
- 02Name. The title, up to four stars, a tagline, three critics and how many stars each gave it, the release line, the studio card. Five layouts, fourteen faces, the era’s inks or your own. The sheet redraws as you type.
- 03Hang. Keep the file, or print it to 40 × 60″: the type is rebuilt as vector at print resolution the moment you pay, so the billing block is as sharp on paper as it is on screen.
Hang it large
Enhanced matte, Hahnemühle Photo Rag, or canvas on a deep stretcher bar. We ship from the nearest print house, at cost and never absorbed.
Then it comes home
Paper, canvas, or edge to edge across a hoodie. It’s the same poster at print resolution, and we only print the one you chose. Every order and every painting you kept waits on your wall, so ordering one again is a single click: no second upload, no second render.
Before you cast
Is any of this a real film?
No. Every era on the wall is an original painting in the manner of its decade, and no title, studio, actor or line from an existing picture appears anywhere we write. The title field is yours; type what you like.
Who can be on the poster?
You, a couple, a family, a dog or cat, or you and your animal together. Every face must be over eighteen and the photograph must be yours to use.
What do I actually get?
A finished poster: the painting plus the title, billing, tagline, critics and release line you set, in the type the era used, in any of 72 styles. Buy it as a file, a paper print, canvas, or printed edge to edge on a shirt or hoodie.
How much is a print?
A 12 × 18″ print starts at $49, 24 × 36″ from $169, and 40 × 60″ from $399. Shipping is added at checkout by destination, at what the printer charges us.
How long does it take?
The painting lands in about two minutes and the words change as you type. Prints ship from the nearest print house; the file is yours the moment you pay.
Where do you ship?
To 121 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania and Africa. Paper and canvas are printed by Prodigi, garments by Printful, each from the print house nearest the address.
Can the poster move?
Yes. Once a poster is set, it can be bought as a trailer, vertical for a phone: the painting comes to life, then lands on your poster while a voice reads a line you wrote. About sixteen seconds in all for $29, or about thirty for $39. After you pay, the script is on your order page to read and change; nothing is made until you approve it. Pick one of three announcers, or read the line yourself: $15 more when your own voice can be built from the take, and nothing more when it cannot.
What if the painting misses?
Then it costs nothing. The first 4 paintings are on the house, 10 more are $10, every one is yours to refuse, and we only print the one you chose.
Who runs Painted Premiere?
PaintedApp, LLC, which runs the Painted.App family of studios. Write to support@painted.app and a person answers.