in making the one sheet for 'an exercise in vigilance,' i found an excellent and free font for doing the credits on one sheets. it's
steeltongs.
it allows you to do the fancy type setting of putting the credit next to the name, like this:

since credit names are all uppercase, you get the credits by using lowercase. so if you want "directed by," you just type a lowercase j. other credits can be accessed by various key combinations. it's a simple and effective way to get that great movie poster credit look.
i found this font via a discussion on
posterwire.com, a good source of general information about movie posters. here's the full selection of type:
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Thanks you som much i have spent a couple hours scouring the web for a free font like this. Excellent thanks for sharing
THANKS FOR THE FONT!
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This IS good, but it's missing:
"Starring"
"Featuring"
"Produced and Directed by"
How'd that happen?
Thanks. I was just looking around online for an example to show our graphic designer. This just saved us a whole lot of formatting time trying to get our poster done by tomorrow morning.
What a lengend!!! you saved me hours of my life. Thanks buddy
hanx's mate!
You are the MAN!!!
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Excellent find, that font will save me a lot of time in typesetting.
Thanks,
Rain
Cool... thanks...
So helpful. Thank you!
How do i get this font? I really need it but i cant find how to download it... Somebody please help!
RAD!
thanks.
I was dreading doing this one damn loose end in the whole endless concept package marathon...
Thank you, I needed this for a school project, what a time saver!
Thanks for this brilliant font. The world needs people like you!
Can't thank you enough! I do a lot of "movie poster" style design and have been looking for this style font for forever!
Good on ya, mate!
Thanks for this!!
THANKS SO MUCH!
Hey great post! Thanks for the info and the font! Using it on a poster RIGHT NOW (jarethdakk.blogspot.com)
THANK YOU SOOO much! :) great link, great font!
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THANK YOU!!..thank you!...thank you!... thank you!...(x100)!!!!! I really needed one of these fonts -you have saved my project!!!
Thanks a lot.
Thank you! You made my day.
Great font, many thanks from Switzerland!
Steel Tongs is good but not quite the same as most movie posters (especially noticeable in the R, J & K). There's another called "Movie Poster" that's also close, particularly the condensed version. But it doesn't have the pre-made stacked text like "DIRECTED BY," you have to do that yourself.
Movie Poster font here: http://www.dafont.com/sf-movie-poster.font
A font called "Bee" is the closest I've seen to most movie posters these days: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/bee/
To compare, type in sample text found on the poster for The Dark Knight, which is a common one: http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/the_dark_knight_movie_poster.jpg
Nearly identical.
THANK YOU SO MUCH !
the font looks awesome and its exactly what i want ... how am i suposed to get the font i went on the website but it dont really do the "directed by" etc.. im tring to make a poster currently using photoshop and i just need the that text to finish it off
AWESOME! just what i needed. thanks.
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