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: <mailto:[email protected]>Roger Kim
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
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
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