Film poster for Men in Black 3: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Poster with three (3) men in black suits taking up the whole of the poster. The men on either side of the central man are slightly cropped on the outside edges of the poster. In the background are stylized swirls of text in gray. At the top edge is the movie tag line [BACK IN TIME]. In the lower right corner is the move title and date [MIB/3/IN 3D/READ D3D/IMAX 3D/05.25.12]. In the lower left corner is a small billing block.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2012
• Distributed by: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., founded 1987
• Commissioned by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Commissioned by: Amblin Entertainment, American, founded 1981
• Subject of: Will Smith, American, born 1968
• Subject of: Tommy Lee Jones, American
• Subject of: Josh Brolin, American
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.25
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.