I think that the Universal Horror re-releases sell for about the same
percentage that many other re-release posters bring.
it's just their starting points for originals is so high that it makes it look
like the re-releases bring an unusual percentage.
Take the recent sale of the Werewolf Of London insert at Heritage for nearly
$48,000. What does the re-release insert bring? Maybe 5% of that price on
it's very best day and probably usually 3-4%. That seems like a pretty
reasonable percentage for a re-release.
Even what I would consider to be the King of re-release posters, the 1947
Dracula one-sheet (arguably the best poster on the film and possibly as rare as
the original release one-sheets) which would bring a price greater than most
any other film's original one-sheets could hope to sell for would only bring
12-15% of the price of a first release Dracula.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Re-Releases
no Kirby
he's referring to the fact that a 1931 Frankenstein poster is $250k, and that
the 1938 re-issue is still a 10's of 1000$ poster that only a few can afford
and why is this not true for those other titles.
re-issues on those other titles are priced at a small % of original issues
(Oz 1949 release cards being an exception)
Frankenstein fans are only increasing, Rhett Butler fans peaked more than 30
years ago
At 04:50 PM 8/28/2011, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
Rich,
I'll take all those original GONE WITH THE WIND and WIZARD OF OZ posters
that you haven't sold.
Addressing Phillips question, I think that reissue posters, if they are
good designs - for example, the NORTH BY NORTHWEST
reissue - THE HUSTLER reissue - have enjoyed some appreciation. Other
reissues, which seemed to have been indifferently designed,
like the 1962 MGM reissues (those films were reissued to get some cash flow
for MGM which was hemorrhaging funds to Brando's BOUNTY)
still have the reissue stigma that the old-hand collectors assigned to them.
Here's a kicker: some video release posters are quite good and can
generate some interest from time to time.
Kirby McDaniel
MovieArt Original Film Posters
P.O. Box 4419
Austin TX 78765-4419
512 479 6680 www.movieart.net
mobile 512 589 5112
On Aug 28, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
the Universal horror monsters are eternal horror characters and there are
always loads of fans for them
Dorothy and Rhett don't have many fans anymore
At 03:51 PM 8/28/2011, Phillip W. Ayling wrote:
I realize that the value of posters is set generally by the consumer
marketplace in large measure, and can be affected as well by speculation and
trends. It is my opinion, and I don't know how to verify it, that super high
end items like King Kong, Frankenstein, and Dracula, not only bring very high
prices for original release material, but generate high prices across the whole
range of different sizes for most of their re-release posters. Even somewhat
lesser titles like Ghost of Frankenstein or A&C meet Frankenstein sell well on
re-release.
On the other hand, and putting aside films where maybe there is one
very iconic size and image (say the one sheet for Gilda), it seems to me that
re-release material from films where any original paper commands high prices,
like Robin Hood, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Flash Gordon or It
Happened One Night, seem to drop off much more dramatically from the prices
that original release material brings. Anyone have an opinion to share? Thanks
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