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Hollywood rips off the The Club box art?

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Sega's The Club and upcoming Keanu Reeves movie Street Kings share almost identical imagery.

CVG reader 'socheeky' spotted a movie poster for the flick coming out in the US this April "with Keanu Reeves, several rappers and Hugh Laurie". As you can see from a quick bit of photoshop trickery, they look pretty much the same.
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Arkham - 666 days 12 hours ago
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Black splotches aren't anything new. My site uses a similar style of 'bleeding ink' and I designed it years ago. Not going to sue anyone. :)
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Ghoul - 666 days 11 hours ago
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sorry but the "the Club" cover was a nobrainer its just some bleeding ink with the characters faces mixed with silhouettes there are tons of design like that out there
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KidMakeshift - 666 days 6 hours ago
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Yeah this is nothing new

Gnarls Barkley's music video for "crazy" used this same style in motion. It's probably what made this popular recently

I've seen about 10 other things in the last year that use the exact same style
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MK_Red - 666 days 12 hours ago
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Dammit, I knew Street Kings' poster felt familiar when I saw it last week. It indeed looks like a huge rip-off.
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Zarfoz - 666 days 11 hours ago
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And The Club rips off Gnarles Barkley..?
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Azures - 666 days 11 hours ago
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and the ps3 commercials apparently.
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Komrad - 666 days 9 hours ago
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4 - it should tell you
that the club has the same demographic as street kings. a rip off? totally, but that just shows you the graphic designer cannot achieve both the clients request and simultaneously keep it fresh. nice 'point-out' TnS.
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BWS1982 - 666 days 5 hours ago
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5 - pfft...
I went to an Art Institute and have a degree in media and graphic design, these things are in the pipeline for a long time. Nobody has any source to tell them how old each design is, who knows which actually came first, release dates of the packaging/poster do not equate to the birth date of the concept. I say coincidence most likely...
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Venomous_1 - 665 days 21 hours ago
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true it a style they liked and it worked at the time I'm sure nobody meant to copy anybody!
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