Bruce Willis - 100 Years of Movie Posters - 30

A Chronology of Bruce Willis Movie Posters 1987-2013.

With facts and ratings.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany on March 19th, 1955. Starring in the popular TV show "Moonlighting" (1985-1989) before becoming one of Hollywoods biggest box office stars,

Bruce has appeared in 70 movies, this hub showcases poster art from 42 of them.

Blind Date (1987) Directed by Blade Edwards. 95mins.

Kim Basinger - Nadia Gates
Bruce Willis - Walter Davis
John Larroquette - David Bedford
William Daniels - Judge Harold Bedford
George Coe - Harry Gruen
Mark Blum - Denny Gordon
Phil Hartman - Ted Davis

Romantic comedy.

After a couple of uncredited bit parts, Blind Date was Bruce Willis first movie.

Cost $18m - Box Office $39.3m

IMDB rating 5.6

Sunset (1988) Directed by Blade Edwards. 102mins.

Bruce Willis - Tom Mix
James Garner - Wyatt Earp
Malcolm McDowell - Alfie Alperin
Mariel Hemingway - Cheryl King
Kathleen Quinlan - Nancy Shoemaker
M. Emmet Walsh - Chief Marvin Dibner
Joe Dallesandro - Dutch Kieffer
Andreas Katsulas - Arthur

Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design

Cost $19m - Box Office $4.5m

IMDB rating 5.6

Die Hard (1988) Directed by John McTiernan. 131mins.

Bruce Willis - John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly Gennaro McClane
Alan Rickman - Hans Gruber
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason - Police Chief Dwayne Robinson
William Atherton - Richard Thornburg

One of the most highly regarded action movies in film history, Die Hard turned Willis into a Hollywood superstar.

Nominated for 4 Oscars - Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.

Cost $28m - Box Office $140.7m

IMDB rating 8.3

Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?
John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfu**er.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Directed by Brian De Palma. 125mins.

Tom Hanks ... Sherman McCoy
Bruce Willis ... Peter Fallow
Melanie Griffith ... Maria Ruskin
Kim Cattrall ... Judy McCoy
F. Murray Abraham ... D.A. Abe Weiss
Morgan Freeman ... Judge Leonard White

Based on the novel by Tom Wolfe, published in 1987.

Nominated for 5 Razzies - Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actress (Melanie Griffith) and Worst Supporting Actress (Kim Cattrall)

Cost $47m - Box Office $15.6m

IMDB rating 5.3

Die Hard 2 (1990) Directed by Renny Harlin. 124mins.

Bruce Willis - John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane
William Atherton - Richard Thornburg
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Franco Nero - Gen. Ramon Esperanza
William Sadler - Col. Stuart

McClane is back fighting terrorists this time at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Cost $70m - Box Office $240m

IMDB rating 7.1

McClane: Oh man, I can't believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same sh!t happen to the same guy twice?

Mortal Thoughts (1991) Directed by Alan Rudolph. 102mins.

Demi Moore - Cynthia Kellogg
Bruce Willis - James Urbanski
Glenne Headly - Joyce Urbanski
John Pankow - Arthur Kellogg
Harvey Keitel - Det. John Woods
Billie Neal - Det. Linda Nealon

Mystery Thriller.

Cost $8 - Box Office $19m

IMDB rating 5.6

Hudson Hawk (1991) Directed by Michael Lehmann. 100mins.

Bruce Willis - Hudson Hawk
Danny Aiello - Tommy Five-Tone
Andie MacDowell - Anna Baragli
James Coburn - George Kaplan
Richard E. Grant - Darwin Mayflower
Sandra Bernhard - Minerva Mayflower

Nominated for 6 Razzies winning 3 - Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay.

Cost $65m - Box Office $17m

IMDB rating 5.5

The Last Boy Scout (1991) Directed by Tony Scott. 105mins.

Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck
Damon Wayans - Jimmy Dix
Chelsea Field - Sarah Hallenbeck
Noble Willingham - Sheldon Marcone
Taylor Negron - Milo
Danielle Harris - Darian Hallenbeck
Halle Berry - Cory

Cost $29m - Box Office $59.5m

IMDB rating 6.8

Death Becomes Her (1992) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. 104mins.

Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton
Bruce Willis - Ernest Menville
Goldie Hawn - Helen Sharp
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman
Ian Ogilvy - Chagall

Oscar winner for Best Special Effects.

Cost $55m - Box Office $149m

IMDB rating 6.2

Striking Distance (1993) Directed by Rowdy Herrington. 102mins.

Bruce Willis - Det. Tom Hardy
Sarah Jessica Parker - Jo Christman
Dennis Farina - Capt. Nick Detillo
Tom Sizemore - Det. Danny Detillo
Brion James - Det. Eddie Eiler
Robert Pastorelli - Det. Jimmy Detillo

Cost $30m - Box Office $24.1m (US)

IMDB rating 5.6

Pulp Fiction (1994) Directed by Quentin Tarantino. 154mins.

John Travolta - Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson - Jules Winnfield
Bruce Willis - Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames - Marsellus Wallace
Uma Thurman - Mia Wallace
Tim Roth - Ringo
Amanda Plummer - Yolanda

Tarantino's magnum opus and it was only his second film, hugely influential.

Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, winning 1 - Best Screenplay.

Cost $8.5m - Box Office $214m

IMDB rating 9.0

Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: It's Zed's.
Fabienne: Who's Zed?
Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) Directed by John McTiernan. 131mins.

Bruce Willis - John McClane
Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Graham Greene - Joe Lambert
Colleen Camp - Connie Kowalski

The original screenplay was once considered as a sequel to Lethal Weapon.

Cost $90m - Box Office $366.1m

IMDB rating 7.5

Twelve Monkeys (1995) Directed by Terry Gilliam. 129mins.

Bruce Willis - James Cole
Madeleine Stowe - Kathryn Railly
Brad Pitt - Jeffrey Goines
Christopher Plummer - Dr. Goines
David Morse - Dr. Peters
Frank Gorshin - Dr. Fletcher

Based on a short SF film from France, La Jetee, released in 1962.

Nominated for 2 Oscars - Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt) and Best Costume Design.

Cost $29.5m - Box Office $168.8m

IMDB rating 8.1

Last Man Standing (1996) Directed by Walter Hill. 101mins.

Bruce Willis - John Smith
Bruce Dern - Sheriff Ed Galt
William Sanderson - Joe Monday
Christopher Walken - Hickey
David Patrick Kelly - Doyle

A remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), which was previously remade as A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

The setting is Jericho, Texas, 1930.

Cost $67m - Box Office $47.2m

IMDB rating 6.2

The Fifth Element (1997) Directed by Luc Besson. 126mins.

Bruce Willis - Korben Dallas
Gary Oldman - Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Ian Holm - Father Vito Cornelius
Milla Jovovich - Leeloo
Chris Tucker - Ruby Rhod
Tiny Lister - President Lindberg

Sci-fi adventure set in the 23rd century.

Oscar nomination for Best Sound Effects.

BAFTA winner for Best Visual Effects.

Cost $90m - Box Office $264m

IMDB rating 7.6

Leeloo: Leeloo Dallas mool-tee-pass.
Korben: Yeah.
Leeloo: Mool-tee-pass.
Korben: Yeah, Multi-pass, she knows it's a Multi-pass.This is my wife. Leeloo.
Leeloo: Mool-tee-pass.

The Jackal (1997) Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. 124mins.

Bruce Willis - The Jackal
Richard Gere - Declan Mulqueen
Sidney Poitier - Carter Preston
Diane Venora - Valentina Koslova
Mathilda May - Isabella Zanconia

Loosely based on the novel "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsythe, published in 1971.

Cost $60m - Box Office $159.3m

IMDB rating 6.1

Mercury Rising (1998) Directed by Harold Becker. 111mins.

Bruce Willis - Art Jeffries
Alec Baldwin - Nick Kudrow
Miko Hughes - Simon Lynch
Chi McBride - Tommy B. Jordan
Kim Dickens - Stacey

Thriller based on the novel "Simple Simon" by Ryne Douglas Pearson.

Cost $60m - Box Office $93.1m

IMDB rating 5.9

Armageddon (1998) Directed by Michael Bay. 151mins.

Bruce Willis - Harry Stamper
Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman
Ben Affleck - A.J. Frost
Liv Tyler - Grace Stamper
Will Patton - Chick
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound
William Fichtner - Colonel Willie Sharp
Owen Wilson - Oscar Choi
Michael Clarke Duncan - Bear
Peter Stormare - Lev Andropov

Sci-fi blockbuster and the second of two asteroid disaster movies released in 1998, the first being Deep Impact. Though it is actually a comet on a collision course with Earth in Armageddon.

Nominated for 4 Oscars - Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Song.

Cost $140m - Box Office $553.7m

IMDB rating 6.4

Harry Stamper: The United States government just asked us to save the world. Anybody wanna say no?

The Siege (1998) Directed by Edward Zwick. 116mins.

Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Annette Bening - Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
Bruce Willis - Major General William Devereaux
Tony Shalhoub - Agent Frank Haddad

Cost $70m - Box Office $116.6m

IMDB rating 6.2

The Sixth Sense (1999) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 107mins.

Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear
Toni Collette - Lynn Sear
Olivia Williams - Anna Crowe
Donnie Wahlberg - Vincent Grey

"I see dead people..." M. Night's first movie and still his most popular, it was all downhill from here.

Nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

Cost $40m - Box Office $672.8m

IMDB rating 8.2

The Whole Nine Yards (2000) Directed by Jonathan Lynn. 98mins.

Bruce Willis - Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski
Matthew Perry - Nicholas 'Oz' Oseransky
Rosanna Arquette - Sophie Oseransky
Michael Clarke Duncan - Franklin Figueroa
Natasha Henstridge - Cynthia Tudeski
Amanda Peet - Jill St. Claire
Kevin Pollak - Janni Gogolak

Crime Comedy

Sequel - The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

Cost $41.3m - Box Office $106.3m

IMDB rating 6.7

Unbreakable (2000) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 106mins.

Bruce Willis - David Dunn
Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price
Robin Wright - Audrey Dunn
Spencer Treat Clark - Joseph Dunn
Charlayne Woodard - Elijah's Mother

Saturn Award nomination for Best Action Film.

Cost $75m - Box Office $248.1m

IMDB rating 7.3

Bandits (2001) Directed by Barry Levinson. 123mins.

Bruce Willis - Joe Blake
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler

Crime Comedy

Cost $75m - Box Office $67.6m

IMDB rating 6.5

Hart's War (2002) Directed by Gregory Hoblit. 125mins.

Bruce Willis - Col. William A. McNamara
Colin Farrell - Lt. Thomas W. Hart
Terrence Howard - Lt. Lincoln A. Scott
Cole Hauser - Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford
Sam Worthington - Cpl. B.J. 'Depot' Guidry

WWII Belgium 1944.

Cost $70m - Box Office $33m

IMDB rating 6.2

Tears of the Sun (2003) Directed by Antoine Fuqua. 121mins (142mins)

Bruce Willis - Lt. A.K. Waters
Monica Bellucci - Dr. Lena Kendricks
Cole Hauser - James Atkins
Eamonn Walker - Ellis Pettigrew
Johnny Messner - Kelly Lake
Tom Skerritt - Capt. Bill Rhodes

Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970.

Cost $75m - Box Office $85.6m

IMDB rating 6.5

Hostage (2005) Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri. 113mins.

Bruce Willis - Jeff Talley
Kevin Pollak - Walter Smith
Jimmy Bennett - Tommy Smith
Michelle Horn - Jennifer Smith
Ben Foster - Mars Krupcheck

Thriller

Cost $75m - Box Office $78m

IMDB rating 6.6

Sin City (2005) Directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller. 124mins (147mins)

Jessica Alba - Nancy Callahan
Powers Boothe - Senator Roark
Rosario Dawson - Gail
Benicio Del Toro - Jackie Boy
Michael Clarke Duncan - Manute
Josh Hartnett - The Man
Rutger Hauer - Cardinal Roark
Brittany Murphy - Shellie
Clive Owen - Dwight
Mickey Rourke - Marv
Nick Stahl - Roark Jr. / Yellow Bastard
Bruce Willis - Hartigan
Elijah Wood - Kevin

Based on the acclaimed comic book series by Frank Miller. first published in 1991.

A sequel is due in 2014.

Empire Awards nominations for Best Film and Best Thriller.

Winner of two Saturn Awards - Best Action /Thriller Film and Best Supporting Actor (Mickey Rourke)

Cost $40m - Box Office $158.7m

IMDB rating 8.2

Marv: Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything.

Alpha Dog (2006) Directed by Nick Cassavetes. 122mins.

Bruce Willis - Sonny Truelove
Emile Hirsch - Johnny Truelove
Justin Timberlake - Frankie Ballenbacher
Shawn Hatosy - Elvis Schmidt
Ben Foster - Jake Mazursky
Anton Yelchin - Zack Mazursky
Sharon Stone - Olivia Mazursky
Olivia Wilde - Angela Holden
Amanda Seyfried - Julie Beckley
Amber Heard - Alma

Crime Drama based on real events.

Box Office $32.1m

IMDB rating 6.9

Lucky Number Slevin (2006) Directed by Paul McGuigan. 110mins.

Josh Hartnett - Slevin Kelevra
Bruce Willis - Mr. Goodkat
Lucy Liu - Lindsey
Morgan Freeman - The Boss
Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi
Stanley Tucci - Brikowski
Mykelti Williamson - Sloe

Crime Thriller

Cost $27m - Box Office $56.3m

IMDB rating 7.8

16 Blocks (2006) Directed by Richard Donner. 105mins.

Bruce Willis - Det. Jack Mosley
Mos Def - Eddie Bunker
David Morse - Det. Frank Nugent
Jenna Stern - Diane Mosley
Casey Sander - Capt. Dan Gruber

Cop thriller

Cost $55m - Box Office $65.6m

IMDB rating 6.6

Live Free or Die Hard (2007) UK title Die Hard 4.0. Directed by Len Wiseman. 128mins.

Bruce Willis - John McClane
Timothy Olyphant - Thomas Gabriel
Justin Long - Matthew Farrell
Maggie Q - Mai Linh
Cliff Curtis - Miguel Bowman
Kevin Smith - Frederick 'Warlock' Kaludis
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Lucy McClane

The 4th in the Die Hard series.

Based on an article "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin.

Cost $110m - Box Office $383.5m

IMDB rating 7.4

Planet Terror (2007) Directed by Robert Rodriguez. 91mins (105mins)

Rose McGowan - Cherry Darling
Freddy Rodríguez - Wray
Josh Brolin - Dr. William Block
Jeff Fahey - J.T.
Michael Biehn - Sheriff Hague
Bruce Willis - Lt. Muldoon
Tom Savini - Deputy Tolo

Originally released with Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof as part of a movie double bill titled Grindhouse.

Extended versions of both movies were later released seperately.

Cost $53m - Box Office $25.4m (Groundhouse double bill)

IMDB rating 7.4

Surrogates (2009) Directed by Jonathan Mostow. 89mins.

Bruce Willis - Greer
Radha Mitchell - Peters
Rosamund Pike - Maggie
Boris Kodjoe - Stone
James Francis Ginty - Canter
James Cromwell - Older Canter
Ving Rhames - The Prophet
Jack Noseworthy - Strickland

Sci-fi Action.

Set in the year 2054.

Based on a comic book series by Robert Venditti, published by Top Shelf in 2005.

Cost $80m - Box Office $122.4m

IMDB rating 6.2

Cop Out (2010) Directed by Kevin Smith. 107mins.

Bruce Willis - Jimmy Monroe
Tracy Morgan - Paul Hodges
Cory Fernandez - Juan Diaz
Kevin Pollak - Hunsaker
Adam Brody - Barry Mangold
Jason Lee - Roy
Seann William Scott - Dave

Action comedy

Cost $37m - Box Office $55.5m

IMDB rating 5.6

Red (2010) Directed by Robert Schwentke. 111mins.

Bruce Willis - Frank Moses
Mary-Louise Parker - Sarah Ross
Morgan Freeman - Joe Matheson
Helen Mirren - Victoria
John Malkovich - Marvin Boggs
Karl Urban - William Cooper
Richard Dreyfuss - Alexander Dunning
Brian Cox - Ivan Simanov
Ernest Borgnine - Henry

Based on the comic book series by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner, published in 2003 by Wildstorm.

Cost $58m - Box Office $199m

IMDB rating 7.0

The Cold Light of Day (2012) Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. 93mins.

Henry Cavill - Will Shaw
Verónica Echegui - Lucia
Bruce Willis - Martin Shaw
Sigourney Weaver - Jean Carrack
Caroline Goodall - Laurie Shaw
Colm Meaney - Bandler

Action thriller.

Henry Cavill went on to play Superman in Man of Steel (2013).

Cost $20m - Box Office $16.8m

Tagline - Instinct is his greatest weapon.

IMDB rating 4.9

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Directed by Wes Anderson. 94mins.

Bruce Willis - Captain Sharp
Edward Norton - Scout Master Ward
Bill Murray - Walt Bishop
Tilda Swinton - Social Services
Frances McDormand - Laura Bishop
Harvey Keitel - Commander Pierce
Jason Schwartzman - Cousin Ben

Comedy Drama

Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

Golden Globe Nomination for Best Film Musical / Comedy

Cost $16m - Box Office $68.2m

IMDB rating 8.3

The Expendables 2 (2012) Directed by Simon West. 102mins.

Sylvester Stallone - Barney Ross
Jason Statham - Lee Christmas
Jet Li - Yin Yang
Dolph Lundgren - Gunner Jensen
Chuck Norris - Booker
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Vilain
Bruce Willis - Church
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Trench

Star-studded action movie

Willis along with Schwarzenegger had cameo roles in the first 'Expendables' movie.

Cost $100m - Box Office $312.5m

IMDB rating 8.1

Trench: I'll be back.
Church: You've been back enough. I'll be back.
Trench: Yippee-ki-yay.

Looper (2012) Directed by Rian Johnson. 118mins.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Joe
Bruce Willis - Older Joe
Emily Blunt - Sara
Jeff Daniels - Abe
Piper Perabo - Suzie
Paul Dano - Seth

A first-rate sci-fi thriller set in the year 2044.

Saturn Award nomination for Best Sci-Fi Film.

Cost $30m - Box Office $176.5m

IMDB rating 7.6

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) Directed by John Moore. 98mins.

Bruce Willis - John McClane
Jai Courtney - Jack McClane
Sebastian Koch - Komarov
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Lucy
Yuliya Snigir - Irina
Cole Hauser - Collins

The 5th in the Die Hard series.

Set in Moscow, Russia.

Filmed in Budapest, Hungary.

Cost $125m - Box Office $304.6m

IMDB rating 5.7

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) Directed by Jon M. Chu. 110mins.

Bruce Willis - Joe Colton
Channing Tatum - Duke Hauser
Dwayne Johnson - Roadblock
Adrianne Palicki - Lady Jaye
Ray Stevenson - Firefly
Ray Park - Snake Eyes
Arnold Vosloo - Zartan
Jonathan Pryce - U.S. President

Sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

Originally titled - G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes.

Released in 3D.

Cost $130m - Box Office $375.7m

IMDB rating 6.2

RED 2 (2013) Directed by Dean Parisot.

Bruce Willis - Frank Moses
John Malkovich - Marvin Boggs
Mary-Louise Parker - Sarah Ross
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Miranda Wood
Lee Byung-hun - Han
Anthony Hopkins - Edward Bradley
Helen Mirren - Victoria

The team, headed by Frank Moses, reunite to track down and deactivate a missing nuclear device.

Cost $84m - Box Office $129.4m

Tagline - The Best Never Rest.

IMDB rating 7.0