As written and posted by Morrie, on MOPO, last night, re: his Cleveland auction and general results, from this past weekend:
"Another successful auction #23 grossed $211,000 before after sales.
Movie stills sales especially strong with a very low pass rate. Convention was only moderately successful and some dealers did quite poorly. Future events will probably rejoin Cinevent.
Great idea with lots of planning and heavy advertising but very poor local attendance. Socially great as old friends saw each other after several years but financially only a few benefited.
We will keep trying.
The Internet and getting older does not help conventions."