Mike Kaplan has a blog on Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-kaplan
Brandon ----- Original Message ----- From: Geraldine Kudaka To: [email protected] Sent: June 24, 2012 11:18 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Rich - Pelham poster Our Pelham copy wasn't rolled. Interesting that you are having hard time finding info on it. We really didn't know what we had in our collection because we weren't into buying and selling. When we started thinking about selling and realized the first step was going to be identifying what we had, it seemed like an insurmountable task. So I'm surprised at how hard it is for you -- a collector -- to find the information. And to what lengths you have to go to find the information. Here, I'm assuming you have movie poster guides and reference materials on your desk, but not finding what you need in your resources -- well that's interesting. And contacting Kubrick's archive -- that's impressive. Kinda reminds me of Abel Gance's Napolean. The amount of research necessary to get the info you need -- in Gance's case, it was Kevin Brownlow's life long obsession with the film that resulted in its reconstruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_%281927_film%29 I don't know if Mike Kaplan is still alive -- he was older than Charley -- but he certainly would know. In fact -- if one could find him -- you'd have the info you needed to know and probably from the best source. Filmmakers don't think of the posters -- they think of their films -- and the poster artist generally is thinking of their whole artistic career, so Kaplan would really know why the Pelham was made and what happened to that campaign. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Richard C Evans <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Rich - Pelham poster Thanks Geraldine. Very difficult to find info on this, have already made extensive efforts. Though I'm reasonably sure the printing (though not the design it's based on) originates in the US. Next step for me is the Kubrick archive, who have told me on the telephone they have nothing relating to this poster, (but they do have Bill Gold's cruxifiction design which Kubrick rejected). They may though have something relating to it in Kubrick's communications with WB. Whether it did actually ran or is a print run of a proposed poster, still no clue. Does seem that these only come to market rolled and via execs, though I may be wrong on that. Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Sent from my iPhone On 24 Jun 2012, at 18:18, Geraldine Kudaka <[email protected]> wrote: When Charley first worked at MGM, Mike Kaplan was his boss. 2001 had opened initially a "Hardware" campagn, it had a good box office but shortly after opening fell off at the box office. Mike convinced Kubrick that they should replace the Hardware campaign with the Star Child campaign. The Star Child campaign was a massive hit, bringing is a huge resurgence at the box office. It was the BO success of 2001 that convinced 20th Century/Fox to fund Star Wars. 2001 huge success is evidenced by these figures -- in Dec. 75, the film broke even. In March, 1976, Kubrick received his first profit sharing residual check. March 1976 was the same month Star Wars started filming After conceiving the Star Child campaign for 2001, Mike Kaplan left MGM and went to work for Kubrick on Clockwork Orange. When Charley was in London working on Star Wars, Mike gave him posters. Any other history on the Pelham poster or its availability would be best to find by googling UK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Evans <[email protected]> To: Geraldine Kudaka <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Rich - Pelham poster Thanks Geraldine, no rush. Sent from my iPad On 24 Jun 2012, at 14:15, Geraldine Kudaka <[email protected]> wrote: It's Sunday morning and Charley's still asleep so i can't ask him about the Pelham Clockwork Orange. I'll find out later today and let you know. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] 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: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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