Re: [MOPO] OT: How many of you remember this ad?
I sure do, shame I am still skinny as a rake. I got X RAY SPECS, still have them somewhere, little holes with feathers in them. Also got Sea Monkeys, which are microscopic something or others. The ads are great. From Rich on MPB I got a stack of old magazine adds (for movies), and some of the reverse there is adverts like these. One has a book about the TRUTH OF THE KKK.. All sorts of crazy stuff. I often try to relate things nowadays with the EXPLOITATION of the past. It still happens, but it takes time to appreciate the true crap (fun) it is. Ari From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, 31 May, 2011 10:19:36 AM Subject: [MOPO] OT: How many of you remember this ad? Speaking of getting old, how many of you remember this comic book ad? This was always my favorite one, followed closely by X-Ray Specs, and 100 Civil War Soldiers for 99 cents. http://www.comicbook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/atlas.jpg Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions 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.
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Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” due from Paramount on July 1, and Part 2 of Part 7 of the “Harry Potter” series, arriving two weeks later from Warner Brothers. The need is urgent. The box-office performance in the first six months of 2011 was soft — revenue fell about 9 percent compared with last year, while attendance was down 10 percent — and that comes amid decay in home-entertainment sales. In all formats, including paid streaming and DVDs, home entertainment revenue fell almost 10 percent, according to the Digital Entertainment Group. The first part of the year held a near collapse in video store rentals, which fell 36 percent to about $440 million, offsetting gains from cut-price rental kiosks and subscriptions. In addition, the sale of packaged discs fell about 20 percent, to about $2.2 billion, while video-on-demand, though growing, delivered total sales of less than a quarter of that amount. At the box office, animated films, which have recently been Hollywood’s most reliable genre, have fallen into a deep trough, as the category’s top three performers combined — “Rio,” from Fox; “Rango,” from Paramount; and “Hop,” from Universal — have had fewer ticket buyers than did “Shrek the Third,” from DreamWorks Animation, after its release in mid-May four years ago. “Kung Fu Panda 2” appears poised to become the biggest animated hit of the year so far; but it would have to stretch well past its own predecessor to beat “Shrek Forever After,” another May release, which took in $238.7 million last year. For the weekend, “The Hangover: Part II” sold $118 million from Thursday to Sunday, easily enough for No. 1. “Kung Fu Panda 2” was second. Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” was third with $39.3 million for a new total of $152.9
Re: [MOPO] Join the Bruce Hershenson Fan Club!
Only $500! Sign me up! I keep getting emails in my Spam folder telling me I have won millions of dollars. I get so many of them, I must be a billionaire by now! So, $500 in nothing to me. From: Dave Rosen hah...@sympatico.ca To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Join the Bruce Hershenson Fan Club! Online irony, alive and well. Thank goodness. Or maybe goodness had nothing to do with it. ;-) Dave - Original Message - From: Helmut Hamm texasmu...@web.de To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:43 AM Subject: [MOPO] Join the Bruce Hershenson Fan Club! Yes, dangerous thing, online irony. Anyway, can anyone tell me where I can join The Bruce Hershenson Fan Club? Hi Richard, AWFUL thing, online irony. Anyway, you may not have heard of it, since we're such an extraordinary elite circle, but I'm the President of the International Bruce Hershenson Fan Club. Access to club is VERY limited, however, for the small annual fee of $500 (payable by Paypal) you will not only get a PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP, you will also receive a hand signed membership card (signed by ME, of course!) in addition I will PERSONALLY forward you the official Bruce Hershenson newsletter for a full year, PLUS you'll get a hand signed Christmas card (also signed by ME, of course! Best wishes, Helmut Hamm President International Bruce Hershenson Fan Club 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.
Re: [MOPO] OT: How many of you remember this ad?
Oh yeah I remember it. I also remember giving away my large collection of comic books when I was cleaning out my room about 45 years ago. Little did I know they were worth money. From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:19 PM Subject: [MOPO] OT: How many of you remember this ad? Speaking of getting old, how many of you remember this comic book ad? This was always my favorite one, followed closely by X-Ray Specs, and 100 Civil War Soldiers for 99 cents. http://www.comicbook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/atlas.jpg Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions 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.
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? -- *From:* Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU *Sent:* Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM *Subject:* [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” due from Paramount on July 1, and Part 2 of Part 7 of the “Harry Potter” series, arriving two weeks later from Warner Brothers. The need is urgent. The box-office performance in the first six months of 2011 was soft — revenue fell about 9 percent compared with last year, while attendance was down 10 percent — and that comes amid decay in home-entertainment sales. In all formats, including paid streaming and DVDs, home entertainment revenue fell almost 10 percent, according to the Digital Entertainment Group. The first part of the year held a near collapse in video store rentals, which fell 36 percent to about $440 million, offsetting gains from cut-price rental kiosks and subscriptions. In addition, the sale of packaged discs fell about 20 percent, to about $2.2 billion, while video-on-demand, though growing, delivered total sales of less than a quarter of that amount. At the box office, animated films, which have recently been Hollywood’s most reliable genre, have fallen into a deep trough, as the category’s top three performers combined — “Rio,” from Fox; “Rango,” from Paramount; and “Hop,” from Universal — have had fewer
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
James Cameron showed up unannounced at a recent exhibitor's conference to demonstrate a new 3D system he is working on that ups the visual standards for 3D enormously. Of course, he's planning on making a film using this standard. But it requires exhibitors to do an upgrade, something they generally hate. He has licensed, as I understand it, Peter Jackson to film THE HOBBIT in an somewhat modified version of this new system. The improvements involve the frame rate. I think that Cameron's system involved a frame rate at 100 fps. The problem is that it is more expensive to make pictures in 3D. Audiences are showing that they don't want to pay the extra $$ to see just any film in 3D. It has to be special. TV may end up being the 3D medium as programing such as is found on DISCOVERY and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC channel is appropriate for the medium. One hour programming is not so long to be wearing the glasses also. However, the broadcast system does not adjust to things like a frame-rate change readily, so any upgrade to 3D won't come automatically. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On May 31, 2011, at 8:18 AM, James Gresham wrote: Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are “Transformers:
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging That's because Samsung among others uses Active 3D and a few other brands use Passive 3D. At the moment active-shutter glasses are more expensive, and often hard to use for prolonged periods of time, but give a better 3D image. You can read more here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/225218/active_3d_vs_passive_3d.html http://www.3dtvtechnology.org.uk/passive-versus-active Ron - Original Message - From: James Gresham To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” due from Paramount on July 1, and Part 2 of Part 7 of the “Harry Potter” series, arriving two weeks later from Warner Brothers. The need is urgent. The box-office performance in the first six months of 2011 was soft — revenue fell about 9 percent compared with last year, while attendance was down 10 percent — and that comes amid decay in home-entertainment sales. In all formats, including paid streaming and DVDs,
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
Yes, the TV's that are 3D ready are usually the TV's with the best picture and features. We don't sell them to push 3D. We think they have the best picture. 3D is just another added feature. I bought a Sony 55 inch 3D ready model KDL55NX810 months ago. It has the best picture I have ever seen on a TV. I did not buy the 3-D glasses. Its a good thing I didn't as they were over $100 at that time and now I could get the new 2011 rechargeable for $29. From: James Gresham jamesalangres...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” due from Paramount on July 1, and Part 2 of Part 7 of the “Harry Potter” series, arriving two weeks later from Warner Brothers. The need is urgent. The box-office performance in the first six months of 2011 was soft — revenue fell about 9 percent compared with last year, while attendance was down 10 percent — and that comes amid decay in home-entertainment sales. In all formats, including paid streaming and DVDs, home entertainment revenue fell almost 10 percent, according to the Digital
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
With the active glasses you are getting 1080 per eye, with passive 540. Families with a large number of young children tend to buy the passive 3D TV's. All customers like the 3D image on the active 3D TV's better than the passive in my experience showing the TV's to them. If you get closer than six feet to the passive 3D TV, there is a lot of crosstalk (double images) - not a problem on the active 3D TV. From: MotionPictureArt.com i...@motionpictureart.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging That's because Samsung among others uses Active 3D and a few other brands use Passive 3D. At the moment active-shutter glasses are more expensive, and often hard to use for prolonged periods of time, but give a better 3D image. You can read more here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/225218/active_3d_vs_passive_3d.html http://www.3dtvtechnology.org.uk/passive-versus-active Ron - Original Message - From: James Gresham To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all time. With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter? After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a parade of 3-D films to dig
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Not a fan of 3D...just don't care. Perhaps an occasional special production of some sort would interest me, but other than that I just don't find value in it, personally. Regards DBT Sent via mobile device -Original Message- From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Sender: MoPo List mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:55:30 To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Reply-To: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? James Cameron showed up unannounced at a recent exhibitor's conference to demonstrate a new 3D system he is working on that ups the visual standards for 3D enormously. Of course, he's planning on making a film using this standard. But it requires exhibitors to do an upgrade, something they generally hate. He has licensed, as I understand it, Peter Jackson to film THE HOBBIT in an somewhat modified version of this new system. The improvements involve the frame rate. I think that Cameron's system involved a frame rate at 100 fps. The problem is that it is more expensive to make pictures in 3D. Audiences are showing that they don't want to pay the extra $$ to see just any film in 3D. It has to be special. TV may end up being the 3D medium as programing such as is found on DISCOVERY and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC channel is appropriate for the medium. One hour programming is not so long to be wearing the glasses also. However, the broadcast system does not adjust to things like a frame-rate change readily, so any upgrade to 3D won't come automatically. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On May 31, 2011, at 8:18 AM, James Gresham wrote: Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful surprise how good it is. JIm On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If this continues, maybe they will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D. I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D? From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net May 29, 2011 3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release a glut of the gimmicky pictures. Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results. One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the business, according to Paramount. Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. “Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they catch on very quickly.” Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are the exact opposite internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest
[MOPO] Cinevent
I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds half Sheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see, in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the best showing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is the event to be visited for dealers and vintage paper...but it is still the fact that the paper is tough to find. I missed meeting up with Ron Borst...it's been a long time. There were much missed people from the past, people who are great company and raconteur's as well as dealers. Believe me we talked about you. The rest of you guys made for a great weekend and some bargains were found, some expensive items were drooled over. As ever the company was great. The gatherings for Todd's chat about grading were attended, some of us are still cynical some are looking forward to the opportunity for an industry standard. I am somewhat cynical myself...if nothing else it can only help the hobby. But in it's present form it is not hugely welcomed. Movie Poster Exchange is another matter, this will be something of a revolution and revelation for the hobby. Watch this Space! Sean and Peter are in the driving seats with something that all of us will be grateful for, this will eliminate the use of Ebay for all who feel disgruntled with the great cyber auction house. And it will be run by people who love the hobby as well. A true bonus. I cannot comment on the auction except to say that Morrie cut the lots down by half from 1400 to 700 and took about 50% more turnover from this auction. Excellent news. Also there were a few highlights as well as some complaints. The Wi Fi did not help. I am sure Morrie will receive the input from those concerned. The Sunday, Morrie gathered some of us dealers with the idea of discussing where this hobby/business can go. Watch this space again. It was a very informative meeting and most of us are batting from the same plate. Adrian This never happened to the
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
Dear Mopes - When you talk 3D - I gotta chime in. I always loved 3D - it was a bit of an obsession with me. I collected all the 3D stuff there was - comics, cards, movie posters - then I fell in with the wrong crowd and got to write and produce a couple 3D movies - Parasite (bad, but not so bad) and Metalstorm (bad to the bone!). Charlie Band walked into the production office a couple weeks before we were scheduled to begin shooting Parasite and said the film had been picked up by Irwin Yablans and that we were going to make it in 3D - I took the script home and wrote INTO CAMERA on ever shot - that was my 3D script revision! You wouldn't believe how much fun it was and how blurry-eyed I got watching a couple hours of 3D rushes every night after the day's filming. Those were the good old days. (Even had Concrete Jungle - my homage to women's prison films that I always loved - being shot at the same time back in LA while I was in Piru with a truly stunning 18-year-old Demi Moore and a sweet, but very chewed-up Cherie Curry). I was also very proud of myself when the first Parasite 3D posters rolled off the presses with my name on it. I suppose my love of 3D came full circle to me when I could collect my own 3D posters. It was the ultimate rush for an eye-candy paperholic like myself. A side note of something I learned watching so much 3D footage at one time was that the eye adjusts to the process - at least it adjusted to the old crappy 3D process I worked with - and after about 15 minutes you had to make the stuff jump out at you more and more for the effects to work. Ever wonder why the beginning of a 3D movie is always so much more visually exciting than the rest of the film? That's why. It was always the gimmick and exploitation of 3D that I loved - the faux approximation of reality. And total immersion - the loss of self - into the reality of a fantasy world - is what the movies have always been about. Audiences grow weary of gimmicks - and 3D will always be a gimmick until it works without glasses - Cameron (worked with him and Jon Landau on Titanic) knows that upping frame speed is a key to glasses-less 3D. It creates a sharper and more defined image. Douglas Trumbull was ahead of the curve in this respect with his Showscan process with very wide film shot and projected at very fast speeds - it burned an enormous amount of film but it looked very real. In the end, we will probably have implants and download from satellite whatever programs we want to watch and they will put us inside the action - the viewer will then become the ultimate 3D participant. DON'T SEE A MOVIE - BE A MOVIE! (Used to write poster copy lines too.) - Until then, we will still be selling tickets the old way with 3D - you can't see this at home - ballyhoo - but now the TV guys got smart and are doing the same thing. More eventual gimmickry burnout - but still great until the next gimmick comes along. At any rate 3D is fun - always loved it - always will - I just hope I live to see the day when we can plug the input in the side of our head and be in the movie together! Now that might make a remake of Concrete Jungle worth attending. Alan Adler Museum of Mom and Pop Culture On May 31, 2011, at 10:08 AM, douglasbtay...@hotmail.com wrote: Not a fan of 3D...just don't care. Perhaps an occasional special production of some sort would interest me, but other than that I just don't find value in it, personally. Regards DBT Sent via mobile device From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Sender: MoPo List mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:55:30 -0500 To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU ReplyTo: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? James Cameron showed up unannounced at a recent exhibitor's conference to demonstrate a new 3D system he is working on that ups the visual standards for 3D enormously. Of course, he's planning on making a film using this standard. But it requires exhibitors to do an upgrade, something they generally hate. He has licensed, as I understand it, Peter Jackson to film THE HOBBIT in an somewhat modified version of this new system. The improvements involve the frame rate. I think that Cameron's system involved a frame rate at 100 fps. The problem is that it is more expensive to make pictures in 3D. Audiences are showing that they don't want to pay the extra $$ to see just any film in 3D. It has to be special. TV may end up being the 3D medium as programing such as is found on DISCOVERY and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC channel is appropriate for the medium. One hour programming is not so long to be wearing the glasses also. However, the broadcast system does not adjust to things like a frame-rate change readily, so any upgrade to 3D won't come automatically. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On May 31, 2011, at 8:18
[MOPO] Bill Gold’s Memorable Movie Posters Gallery - The Hollywood Reporter
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Hi Adrian -- Two years ago, I complained about this dump of a hotel and was practically bouted off the MOPO board by members who apparently like their hotels rundown and seedy. I now stay elsewhere so that I may enjoy the show and my trip to Columbus. Good luck to you on your observations. FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:31 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Cinevent I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds half Sheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see, in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the best showing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is the event to be visited for dealers and vintage paper...but it is still the fact that the paper is tough to find. I missed meeting up with Ron Borst...it's been a long time. There were much missed people from the past, people who are great company and raconteur's as well as dealers. Believe me we talked about you. The rest of you guys made for a great weekend and some bargains were found, some expensive items were drooled over. As ever the company was great. The gatherings for Todd's chat about grading were attended, some of us are still cynical some are looking forward to the opportunity for an industry standard. I am somewhat cynical myself...if nothing else it can only help the hobby. But in it's present form it is not hugely welcomed. Movie Poster Exchange is another matter, this will be something of a revolution and revelation for the hobby. Watch this Space! Sean and Peter are in the driving seats with something that all of us will be grateful for, this will eliminate the use of Ebay for all who feel disgruntled with the great cyber auction house. And it will be run by people who love the hobby as well. A true bonus. I cannot comment on the auction except to say that Morrie cut the lots down by half from 1400 to 700 and took about 50% more
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
I forgot to add the excitement Mopolandsorry Rich. There was a little fracas between a distinguished poster dealer and a very un-distinguished collector. It certainly provided good entertainment Friday night. The Bitch Slapper has become legend. This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent not even a mention of a bitch being bitched :-( ;-) At 10:30 AM 5/31/2011, you wrote: I will not bore you all with areport detail by detail, but some interesting events happened atCinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, howeverfrom all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally'sleft after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore lossthat they didn't attend not just because of their material but theirgreat company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad tohear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing thosea**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoononly to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears werefalling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotelthe socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of theBBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel isgoing through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licencedidn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to thelocal 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but thesocial gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know whatI am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the maindealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in theauction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines werenot topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to theircredit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted acool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there wasnothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communicationwas not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member ofstaff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it isloved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price beingpaid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. Itis a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak timethen prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up forthe weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discountto fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few antswandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, orplumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevatorsin history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event adisappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquiredand on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least anAdventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours wereexcellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap fromNY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds halfSheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see,in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the bestshowing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is the event to be visited for dealers and vintage paper...butit is still the fact that the paper is tough to find. I missed meeting up with Ron Borst...it's been a long time. There weremuch missed people from the past, people who are great company andraconteur's as well as dealers. Believe me we talked about you. The rest of you guys made for a great weekend and some bargains werefound, some expensive items were drooled over. As ever the company wasgreat. The gatherings for Todd's chat about grading were attended, some of usare still cynical some are looking forward to the opportunity for anindustry standard. I am somewhat cynical myself...if nothing else it canonly help the hobby. But in it's present form it is not hugelywelcomed. Movie Poster Exchange is another matter, this will be something of arevolution and revelation for the hobby. Watch this Space! Sean and Peterare in the driving seats with something that all of us will be gratefulfor, this will eliminate the use of Ebay for all who feel disgruntledwith the great cyber auction house. And it will be run by people who lovethe hobby as well. A true bonus. I cannot comment on the auction except to say that Morrie cut the
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
realistically Franc, the hotel has gone down considerably this year and there is no doubt that the degradation of the hotel this year was unacceptable. The one thing that surprises me is that I had no trouble at all getting wifi in the dealer's room, though I suspect they may need a few more nodes to cover what may be dead spots. I was 2 tables over from where I was last year I had no trouble last year either and I only had minor troubles getting the signal in my room I suspect some o fthe other issues, like the vending machines being empty and no laundry bags in the rooms are a symptom of the receivership issue and the bank not putting a single dollar into anything except the functioning of the hotel itself. I'm sure we'll be there next year, but I had long talks with Steve Haynes and it's probable that the show will be moving in the future. It's also likely the show will be metamorphosing to bring in younger attendees and that the show will be starting all-year promotion potentially getting involved with some theatres in town to sponsor vintage movie showings/festivals at my suggestion. Steve definitely knows the show needs some tweaking, but he wants to make sure we don't lose the old-time feel this show has, which is very much like attending a convention of the 1970s (which I very much like myself). Some of these changes should happen before the 2012 show At 11:19 AM 5/31/2011, Franc wrote: Hi Adrian -- Two years ago, I complained about this dump of a hotel and was practically bouted off the MOPO board by members who apparently like their hotels rundown and seedy. I now stay elsewhere so that I may enjoy the show and my trip to Columbus. Good luck to you on your observations. FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:31 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Cinevent I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
Fess up what happened? Check out our shop page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unshredded-Nostalgia/128881892341 Check out our shop video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=related jim episale Unshredded Nostalgia 323 South main St. Route 9 Barnegat, N.J. 08005 800-872-9990 609-660-2626 http://www.unshreddednostalgia.com http://www.unshreddednostalgia.com Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:25 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent I forgot to add the excitement Mopolandsorry Rich. There was a little fracas between a distinguished poster dealer and a very un-distinguished collector. It certainly provided good entertainment Friday night. The Bitch Slapper has become legend. javascript:void(0) This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent not even a mention of a bitch being bitched :-( ;-) At 10:30 AM 5/31/2011, you wrote: I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds half Sheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see, in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the best showing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is the event to be visited for dealers and vintage paper...but it is still the fact that the paper is tough to find. I missed meeting up with Ron Borst...it's been a long time. There were much missed people from the past, people who are great company and raconteur's as well as dealers. Believe me we
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ask Grey Smith, or Sean, or Schacter, or Contarino.. or Adrian.. then I'll add to it I will note they all got a huge laugh, right in front of them and a little baby left being very unhappy as he was thrown out of the hotel Little Baby, who is a MoPo member found out he bit off way more than he could chew At 11:40 AM 5/31/2011, jimepisale3 wrote: Fess up what happened? Check out our shop page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unshredded-Nostalgia/128881892341 Check out our shop video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=related jim episale Unshredded Nostalgia 323 South main St. Route 9 Barnegat, N.J. 08005 800-872-9990 609-660-2626 http://www.unshreddednostalgia.comhttp://www.unshreddednostalgia.com Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:25 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent I forgot to add the excitement Mopolandsorry Rich. There was a little fracas between a distinguished poster dealer and a very un-distinguished collector. It certainly provided good entertainment Friday night. The Bitch Slapper has become legend. [] This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent not even a mention of a bitch being bitched :-( ;-) At 10:30 AM 5/31/2011, you wrote: I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds half Sheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see, in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the best showing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is
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Hee hee...I know you are all curious about the Friday night fracas. I won't go into it, it's not really for me to give all the details. I will say there is one collector who has attended the past three years (including this one), who, shall we say is a little lax in the manners and tactfulness department. He crossed swords metaphorically with a respected yet possibly volatile (when pushed) dealer. It provided several of us some excellent entertainment. I do believe the collector is in line for a warning or expulsion from Cinevent. Fortunately or unfortunately...depending on how you view it...there were no fisticuffs just a few insults and gesticulating (spectacular form) and afterward much mirth. I am sure the dealer involved will add to this. It was indeed funny to say the least at the end of a long day. This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: jimepisale3 jimepisa...@comcast.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:40 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent Fess up what happened? Check out our shop page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unshredded-Nostalgia/128881892341 Check out our shop video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=related jim episale Unshredded Nostalgia 323 South main St. Route 9 Barnegat, N.J. 08005 800-872-9990 609-660-2626 http://www.unshreddednostalgia.com Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:25 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent I forgot to add the excitement Mopolandsorry Rich. There was a little fracas between a distinguished poster dealer and a very un-distinguished collector. It certainly provided good entertainment Friday night. The Bitch Slapper has become legend. This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent not even a mention of a bitch being bitched :-( ;-) At 10:30 AM 5/31/2011, you wrote: I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment.
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
Aw, c'mon, details fellas for those of us who couldn't make it. Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com 5/31/2011 2:47 PM Hee hee...I know you are all curious about the Friday night fracas. I won't go into it, it's not really for me to give all the details. I will say there is one collector who has attended the past three years (including this one), who, shall we say is a little lax in the manners and tactfulness department. He crossed swords metaphorically with a respected yet possibly volatile (when pushed) dealer. It provided several of us some excellent entertainment. I do believe the collector is in line for a warning or expulsion from Cinevent. Fortunately or unfortunately...depending on how you view it...there were no fisticuffs just a few insults and gesticulating (spectacular form) and afterward much mirth. I am sure the dealer involved will add to this. It was indeed funny to say the least at the end of a long day. This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: jimepisale3 jimepisa...@comcast.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:40 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent Fess up what happened? Check out our shop page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unshredded-Nostalgia/128881892341 Check out our shop video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7Efeature=related jim episale Unshredded Nostalgia 323 South main St. Route 9 Barnegat, N.J. 08005 800-872-9990 609-660-2626 http://www.unshreddednostalgia.com Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Cowdry Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:25 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent I forgot to add the excitement Mopolandsorry Rich. There was a little fracas between a distinguished poster dealer and a very un-distinguished collector. It certainly provided good entertainment Friday night. The Bitch Slapper has become legend. This never happened to the other fella. -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com Sent: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Cinevent not even a mention of a bitch being bitched :-( ;-) At 10:30 AM 5/31/2011, you wrote: I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those
Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
So you want to be in Huxley's world* where The Feelies ruled! K. * BRAVE NEW WORLD On May 31, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Alan Adler wrote: Dear Mopes - When you talk 3D - I gotta chime in. I always loved 3D - it was a bit of an obsession with me. I collected all the 3D stuff there was - comics, cards, movie posters - then I fell in with the wrong crowd and got to write and produce a couple 3D movies - Parasite (bad, but not so bad) and Metalstorm (bad to the bone!). Charlie Band walked into the production office a couple weeks before we were scheduled to begin shooting Parasite and said the film had been picked up by Irwin Yablans and that we were going to make it in 3D - I took the script home and wrote INTO CAMERA on ever shot - that was my 3D script revision! You wouldn't believe how much fun it was and how blurry-eyed I got watching a couple hours of 3D rushes every night after the day's filming. Those were the good old days. (Even had Concrete Jungle - my homage to women's prison films that I always loved - being shot at the same time back in LA while I was in Piru with a truly stunning 18-year-old Demi Moore and a sweet, but very chewed-up Cherie Curry). I was also very proud of myself when the first Parasite 3D posters rolled off the presses with my name on it. I suppose my love of 3D came full circle to me when I could collect my own 3D posters. It was the ultimate rush for an eye-candy paperholic like myself. A side note of something I learned watching so much 3D footage at one time was that the eye adjusts to the process - at least it adjusted to the old crappy 3D process I worked with - and after about 15 minutes you had to make the stuff jump out at you more and more for the effects to work. Ever wonder why the beginning of a 3D movie is always so much more visually exciting than the rest of the film? That's why. It was always the gimmick and exploitation of 3D that I loved - the faux approximation of reality. And total immersion - the loss of self - into the reality of a fantasy world - is what the movies have always been about. Audiences grow weary of gimmicks - and 3D will always be a gimmick until it works without glasses - Cameron (worked with him and Jon Landau on Titanic) knows that upping frame speed is a key to glasses-less 3D. It creates a sharper and more defined image. Douglas Trumbull was ahead of the curve in this respect with his Showscan process with very wide film shot and projected at very fast speeds - it burned an enormous amount of film but it looked very real. In the end, we will probably have implants and download from satellite whatever programs we want to watch and they will put us inside the action - the viewer will then become the ultimate 3D participant. DON'T SEE A MOVIE - BE A MOVIE! (Used to write poster copy lines too.) - Until then, we will still be selling tickets the old way with 3D - you can't see this at home - ballyhoo - but now the TV guys got smart and are doing the same thing. More eventual gimmickry burnout - but still great until the next gimmick comes along. At any rate 3D is fun - always loved it - always will - I just hope I live to see the day when we can plug the input in the side of our head and be in the movie together! Now that might make a remake of Concrete Jungle worth attending. Alan Adler Museum of Mom and Pop Culture On May 31, 2011, at 10:08 AM, douglasbtay...@hotmail.com wrote: Not a fan of 3D...just don't care. Perhaps an occasional special production of some sort would interest me, but other than that I just don't find value in it, personally. Regards DBT Sent via mobile device From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Sender: MoPo List mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:55:30 -0500 To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU ReplyTo: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE? James Cameron showed up unannounced at a recent exhibitor's conference to demonstrate a new 3D system he is working on that ups the visual standards for 3D enormously. Of course, he's planning on making a film using this standard. But it requires exhibitors to do an upgrade, something they generally hate. He has licensed, as I understand it, Peter Jackson to film THE HOBBIT in an somewhat modified version of this new system. The improvements involve the frame rate. I think that Cameron's system involved a frame rate at 100 fps. The problem is that it is more expensive to make pictures in 3D. Audiences are showing that they don't want to pay the extra $$ to see just any film in 3D. It has to be special. TV may end up being the 3D medium as programing such as is found on DISCOVERY and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC channel is appropriate for the medium. One hour programming is not so long to be wearing the glasses also. However,
[MOPO] FS: Godfather insert, GirlMostLikely, TheBirds half, Julie
just a few nicer items: JULIE, doris day, OS Godfather, insert Girl Most Likely, SEXY Jane Powell The Birds, half Song of Bernadette, half 2 bonhams catalogues link: _http://shop.ebay.com/witnessfor/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562_ (http://shop.ebay.com/witnessfor/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562) thanks, michael 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.
Re: [MOPO] OT videos
Howdy y'all, Maybe I'm a 'lil too country, or dense, or just plain shtoopid ... but in the Demaio vid ... can someone explain to me how can one make a video that attacks another AND includes a family member or loved one. Attack in any manner available, but if family or loved ones are included ... make sure who is doing 'the do' ... then, the bad leg is coming off. Cool heads prevail. ad 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.
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
It figures that all this action happens the year I don't attend the show. Thanks for the interesting update. JW From: Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, May 31, 2011 1:30:38 PM Subject: [MOPO] Cinevent I will not bore you all with a report detail by detail, but some interesting events happened at Cinevent. Firstly Steve Sally Sr. took a funny turn, which worried us all, however from all that I could gather it was a matter of dehydration. The Sally's left after Sr. had a stay overnight in the hospital. It was a sore loss that they didn't attend not just because of their material but their great company. We were all thinking about you Steve and glad to hear that you are on the up and up...carry on cursing those a**holes!!! Firstly part two, us core dealers - attendees arrived Wednesday afternoon only to find that the bar had lost it's liquor licence! Tears were falling...the BAR! I mean come on!!! The main meeting place of the hotel the socialising centre of the conference and of course the centre of the BBW universe in Columbus...was NO MORE! It transpires that the hotel is going through receivership and new owners so the owner of the licence didn't want any legal difficulties. So those that wanted went to the local 7/11 and collected a few six packs. The hotel lost money but the social gathering was as ever wonderful. Those that know me will know what I am talking about. Also the Wi Fi now is completely unacceptable, no signal in the main dealers room, poor signal in most areas of the hotel, bad signal in the auction room...not conducive to easy bidding on line. Hotel troublesYes there are many niggles. The vending machines were not topped up regularly if at all! Probably this comes down to their credit line being a little thin on the ground. So many of us wanted a cool drink. One of our group required a Diet Coke...it seems there was nothing available not even in the restaurant...but it seems communication was not paramount...a can of Diet Coke was found by another member of staff. These are maybe niggles but it seems the event overall as much as it is loved by all is perhaps now in the wrong location for the price being paid. Memorial weekend is also a questionable time to hold the event. It is a peak time of the year if the event were to be held out of peak time then prices in general on hotels would be less. 750 people turned up for the weekend, not 750 people in the hotel. If the event could guarantee 750 attendance and hotel space...most hotel chains would offer discount to fill the rooms out of peak times. Many of us had an issue, I was on the 5th floor and had a few ants wandering about my room and in the bed! Others had a few insects, or plumbing issues and those elevators? They must be the slowest elevators in history. These are niggles I know, but it all makes the event a disappointment. Several dealers turned up with some spectacular collections just acquired and on sale. There were some truly beautiful pieces not least an Adventures of Robin Hood window card. It was beautiful...the colours were excellent but it had a little restoration. Also in the room one chap from NY turned up with a superb collection including a War of the Worlds half Sheet and creature of the Black Lagoon Insert...truly wonderful to see, in fact as has been said earlier on this forum...possibly the best showing of material in maybe six years. Cinevent is the event to be visited for dealers and vintage paper...but it is still the fact that the paper is tough to find. I missed meeting up with Ron Borst...it's been a long time. There were much missed people from the past, people who are great company and raconteur's as well as dealers. Believe me we talked about you. The rest of you guys made for a great weekend and some bargains were found, some expensive items were drooled over. As ever the company was great. The gatherings for Todd's chat about grading were attended, some of us are still cynical some are looking forward to the opportunity for an industry standard. I am somewhat cynical myself...if nothing else it can only help the hobby. But in it's present form it is not hugely welcomed. Movie Poster Exchange is another matter, this will be something of a revolution and revelation for the hobby. Watch this Space! Sean and Peter are in the driving seats with something that all of us will be grateful for, this will eliminate the use of Ebay for all who feel disgruntled with the great cyber auction house. And it will be run by people who love the hobby as well. A true bonus. I cannot comment on the auction except to say that Morrie cut the lots down by half from 1400 to 700 and took about 50% more turnover from this auction. Excellent news. Also there were a few highlights as well as some complaints. The Wi Fi did not help. I am sure Morrie will receive the input
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
Just a few word from Cinevent Central. Yes, there were problems with the hotel, and most of what has been written about the hotel's condition and status is reasonably accurate. It was sold about four weeks ago and a lot of the problems experienced by our attendees can be directly linked to the sudden sale and the ensuing attempts to stablize back to reasonable service. I will be sending out an email to those who attended asking for their comments on problems with the hotel and things they feel could be improved about the show. When I have that collated I will look at the Cinevent related complaints/suggestions and see what can be implemented; I will take the hotel issues up with the person I work with at the Ramada. We're also working on redoing our web site. (Someone made a comment about our lack of use of technology. I'd like specific suggestions along that line, direct to my email if possible: mailto:st...@cinevent.com st...@cinevent.com.) I will also be looking at hotel options, should next year's show (which we are contracted to be at the Ramada) not bring correction to the most significant problems we experienced this year. As to why we have not left the Ramada - the last time I looked, there were two places in th Columbus area that could accommodate the show, and both of them would have caused unacceptable price increases in order to continue. There is a wide range of ability to pay represented by those attending Cinevent and while many would be OK with paying more for registration, tables and/or accomodations, many would not. We want to keep the show affordable to as many people as possible. A secondary element in our continued relationship is the stablily of the on-site staff running the hotel. In 43 years I have dealt with hotels where the staff turned over virtually every year, which means reinventing the whell, over and over again. Not only has the staff at the Ramada (whatever name it had at the time) been very stable, they know us and even this year, we would have fared much worse, as would our guests without the folk we have worked with for years. When they were unable to satisfy us amd our guests this year, it could generally be traced to the present chaotic conditions that there were doing their best to overcome. This is one reason I think we can hope that this year's issues will be corrected and not recur in 2012. That said there may be new hotels in the area that could accomodate us of which I am not aware. I will be contacting the convention bureau to see if there are new affordable alternatives, so we can have a viable backup plan. Just a few of my thoughts, to let those of you who may think I don't have any know, it ain't so! Steve 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.
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent
well stated Steve I'm sure you know very well you can count on my continued support for your wonderful convention Rich At 02:19 PM 5/31/2011, Steve Haynes wrote: Just a few word from Cinevent Central. Yes, there were problems with the hotel, and most of what has been written about the hotel's condition and status is reasonably accurate. It was sold about four weeks ago and a lot of the problems experienced by our attendees can be directly linked to the sudden sale and the ensuing attempts to stablize back to reasonable service. I will be sending out an email to those who attended asking for their comments on problems with the hotel and things they feel could be improved about the show. When I have that collated I will look at the Cinevent related complaints/suggestions and see what can be implemented; I will take the hotel issues up with the person I work with at the Ramada. We're also working on redoing our web site. (Someone made a comment about our lack of use of technology. I'd like specific suggestions along that line, direct to my email if possible: mailto:st...@cinevent.comst...@cinevent.com.) I will also be looking at hotel options, should next year's show (which we are contracted to be at the Ramada) not bring correction to the most significant problems we experienced this year. As to why we have not left the Ramada - the last time I looked, there were two places in th Columbus area that could accommodate the show, and both of them would have caused unacceptable price increases in order to continue. There is a wide range of ability to pay represented by those attending Cinevent and while many would be OK with paying more for registration, tables and/or accomodations, many would not. We want to keep the show affordable to as many people as possible. A secondary element in our continued relationship is the stablily of the on-site staff running the hotel. In 43 years I have dealt with hotels where the staff turned over virtually every year, which means reinventing the whell, over and over again. Not only has the staff at the Ramada (whatever name it had at the time) been very stable, they know us and even this year, we would have fared much worse, as would our guests without the folk we have worked with for years. When they were unable to satisfy us amd our guests this year, it could generally be traced to the present chaotic conditions that there were doing their best to overcome. This is one reason I think we can hope that this year's issues will be corrected and not recur in 2012. That said there may be new hotels in the area that could accomodate us of which I am not aware. I will be contacting the convention bureau to see if there are new affordable alternatives, so we can have a viable backup plan. Just a few of my thoughts, to let those of you who may think I don't have any know, it ain't so! Steve 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.
[MOPO] EVERYTHING YOU SEE I OWE TO SPAGHETTI
Original Sophia Loren Lobby Cards The first number following each title represents the number of posters available. Email me with your selections, and I will respond with prices. https://picasaweb.google.com/posterazzi/USTitles2#5185540935151860610 https://picasaweb.google.com/posterazzi/USTitles2#5185539440503238562 https://picasaweb.google.com/posterazzi/AgeOfInnocence#5185386526782584210 https://picasaweb.google.com/posterazzi/ArtGalleryExhibition#5487234091732057346 aida---11---1530---g1/us773.JPG Angela---1---1sh angela---35---100k5 angela---4---100k13 arabesque---9---100k21 attila---23---gla1 boccaccio 70---13---50100---g2? breath of scandal---10---com7/for280.JPG brief encounter(SLoren)---19---100k21 countess from hong kong---12---2035---mb/mb9.JPG Dia especial---SLoren/MMastr---14---it3 Donna del fiume---SLoren---11---it1 el cid--100k1/us166.JPG fall of the roman empire---5---gla3 firepower ’79 UK---62---100k25 ghosts italian style---14---com4 Giorno in pretura---SPampanini/SLoren---7---it1 gold of naples---15------dir heller in pink tights---15---com9/us512.JPG houseboat---5---com11 it started in naples---4---2545---cg/cg7.JPG judith---17---100k11 jury of one(Loren/Gabin)---18---100k22 jury of one(verdict)(Loren/Gabin)---1---100k23 key---17---100k18 legend of the lost---75125---jw man of la mancha---14---com1/us583.JPG marriage italian style---11---3050---g7/for93.JPG millionairess---3---com9/com11.JPG more than a miracle---16---com12/us901.JPG operation crossbow---8---com12 Pane amore e---SLoren/deSica---15---it1 peccato che sia una canaglia (’55 IT)---10---g16 Pride and the Passion---16---2040---fs priests wife---22---100k23 quo vadis---62---75150---g3/us186.JPG Segno di venere---SLoren/VdeSica---19---it5 sunflower---1------dir sunflower---16---100k2 that kind of woman---7---2035---g3/us114.JPG voyage---desica---15---dir2 yesterday today and tomorrow---10---com11 # The Posters are original, and come from a Regional Film Archive in Mexico City. They were designed in Hollywood and printed in Mexico. Each Poster contains the same design elements found on Posters from the US. They contain both stills from the Film and also design elements from the One Sheet Poster. The typography, photos, artwork, stars names, credits, drawings, scenes, emotional impact, appeal, and intrinsic value are virtually the same as Posters from Hollywood or any other international Metropolis where the film had been shown. However, the layout will be much flashier, more graphically intensive, or even more lurid. The size is appx. 13 x 17---over 40% larger than a standard Lobby Card. As such, each Poster is a cross between a Jumbo Lobby Card, Title Card, and a One Sheet Poster. The Posters were printed on either heavy Cardboard Stock, thick fine Linen Paper, or sturdy Poster Stock. Overall very good condition, altho there will be occasional tears, pinholes, stains, etc. There are eight different variations for each poster---containing different stills from the film. Some dupes. # 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.
[MOPO] jumbo window cards
hey guys- first off, to everyone i got to see/meet at columbus - it was a pleasure. now a question: can anyone date the last jumbo window card? i just got one for GUYS AND DOLLS (1955) and can't find another that was printed that late or later. just curious... Matthew McCarthy FILM/ART Original Film Posters www.filmartgallery.com http://www.facebook.com/filmartgallery https://twitter.com/filmartgallery i...@filmartgallery.com filmartgall...@aol.com 323.363.2969 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.
