Hey Rich:
I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about 1960's posters...
;o)
Cheers,
Bob
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From: Richard Halegua Comic Art
To: mop...@sol03.american.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How many copies of movie posters made?
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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