I forget where, but years ago I saw some old order forms. I didn't pay much
attention to them, but I seem to remember there being something like 5,000 one
sheets ordered for an average title (60's, I think). Which sounds about
right...
It's probably not too much more nowadays either. If you remember The Matrix,
they actually ran out of one sheets before the movie was finished its first
run. I actually saw some second-run theatres that had to go out and buy
reprints so they'd have something to display...
Cheers,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Kim
To: mop...@sol03.american.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How many copies of movie posters made?
On a sort of related note, I remember when someone offered Fantasia 2000 Imax
posters for around $50. This was before the movie opened in my city, and I
thought that these would become hard to find, so I bought one. I incorrectly
reasoned that few posters were made, since there are not many Imax theaters. It
turns out that these posters are everywhere. Perhaps, they printed tons of them
with the intent of selling to collectors. To make matters worse, I saw the film
when it came to Seattle, and I thought it was horrible.
-rk
On Jan 1, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Roland Lataille wrote:
I'm just wondering if any of you know this. If there were say 2,000
movie theatres in the world at the time of the printing a movie poster, how
many copies would they make? I know each theatre would display multiple copies
of each title. Also, since there were only a few hundred Cinerama movie
theatres in the world at one time operating, would they produce a smaller
amount of posters for the roadshow Cinerama theatres or was there a minimum
that had to be printed?
Thanks
Roland
Cinerama web site:
http://cineramahistory.com/
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