Rich,
You should do special promotions with those 5000 Smoke Signals
posters. Example: Everyone who wins at least one Star Wars poster
gets a free Smoke Signals poster.
Speaking of Smoke Signals, I think that's one of the few films where
product placement slipped by me, and I didn't realize it until after
the film. It should have been obvious to me. There's a scene where
one of the characters goes on and on about Denny's grand slam breakfast.
-rk
On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
5000.. well yes, and no
for instance, when we bought the Miramax warehouse in NYC, among
the things we got were over 20,000 Jackie Brown posters. Yes there
were 7 diff styles, however that would mean that if they only did
5000 of each, that we got more than half of the print run. So I
suggest that the numbers vary from film to film. the ones they
think will be a hit they print higher numbers and the ones they are
unsure of get lower print runs.
some titles - like Smoke Signals - we got almost 5000 posters,
which would make it the entire run
Clearly some posters - Star Wars style A being the most notable -
were reprinted several times to make up for the film's popularity
and probably the 2nd, 3rd and 4th printings were printed in higher
quantities than 1st printings
I'll bet dimes to dollars that the first Star Trek film had a huge
print run well over 10,000
keep in mind, getting 10,000 printed may only cost 10-20% more than
getting 5000
Rich
At 12:20 PM 1/1/2009, Robert D. Brooks wrote:
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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