Hey Rich: I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about 1960's posters... ;o)
Cheers, Bob ----- Original Message ----- 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 / Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.