Movie Poster Authentication Book

[Ari]

Prof Powers naked centerfold.

[CSM]

Thunder thighs!

[brude]

ERNEST SCARED STUPID?

[Dan]

ok....ok...all great choices!!

The only movie poster I have on my walls is for a tiny little film from 1979 from the newly formed Orion pictures....the standard one sheet had quotes and was very ugly...same goes for the insert..never seen a half sheet for it....

Then there was another style..less common...announcing "America is having a love affair" with this new movie...


there's your hint!

[Ari]

Ahh, oui, oui. Pas le film je l'aurais soupçonné.

[Dan]

J'aime l'art. Il me donne la tranquillité d'esprit lorsque je regarde.   ;0)

[110x75]

Just for a second I thought I was looking at Isabel Sarli in "The virgin goddess" 

[Ari]

très bonne. Je suis d'accord.

[brude]

Pourquoi vous tapez en français ?

[Ed_209uk]

Zut alors!

Thanks for digging out the name Dan, very much appreciated. Could you possibly post the Mad Max art in colour too?

[Ari]

Je répondais à la question Dañs dans le code.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Dan, any info on the Goodfella repros?

OneSheetIndex.com says that the original (first directly below) is 40.25 and the repro (second directly below) is cropped on the right:




Emovie is selling a 27x41 international one sheet, which clearly has more of the image on the right than the original shown on OSI:



Heritage has sold a 27x41 (apparently single-sided) and a 27x40.5 DS (likely mis-measured).

[Zorba]

Absolutely love that Frazetta piece.
It's a shame that it was never produced as a one sheet.
Thanks for sharing that pic, Dan!
 

It is pretty awesome.

[Dan]

I think you did an awesome job explaining Goodfellas by yourself!

Give yourself a pat-on-the-back.

as for...

Heritage has sold a 27x41 (apparently single-sided) and a 27x40.5 DS (likely mis-measured)...

I mean no disrespect to them however I don't think they are as...umm...detailed....as some of us collectors.

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[Dan]

As promised...I am proud to finally announce the artist for the Mad Max 1sheet and after all these years wondering....wonder no more.

It was a conversation I had with Steve Chorney who was able to tell me it was Bill Garland.

He also did another one of my fav's Life Of Brian.

My conversations with Bob Commander led me to Steve.

I had also asked Bob about the Road Warrior one sheet...it was his first year in L.A. with a company called New York West...he never continued on with movie posters after that and now lives in Salt Lake City.

sorry I'm probably boring you...

So there you have it mystery solved...

ps-it's fun to read my binder every once in awhile...lots of great detective work in there with some really cool people!

[Dan]

Superman re-release 2001

Red and Black one sheets were distributed to a reported 7 theatres only.

I have a reported print run of 500 black and red's

There was also a MYLAR POSTER with a "39" litho print run on 12pt silver stock 3 color.

Notes I have from the time from sources in L.A.

The Red & Blacks were done on photo-style paper and the printing was not as sharp as would expect.

The MYLAR run was sharp and well made.

[brude]

As promised...I am proud to finally announce the artist for the Mad Max 1sheet and after all these years wondering....wonder no more.

It was a conversation I had with Steve Chorney who was able to tell me it was Bill Garland.

He also did another one of my fav's Life Of Brian.

My conversations with Bob Commander led me to Steve.

I had also asked Bob about the Road Warrior one sheet...it was his first year in L.A. with a company called New York West...he never continued on with movie posters after that and now lives in Salt Lake City.

sorry I'm probably boring you...

So there you have it mystery solved...

ps-it's fun to read my binder every once in awhile...lots of great detective work in there with some really cool people!

Thanks for that info, Dan.
 

[Ed_209uk]

Thanks Dan! Much appreciated. There's a site with examples of Garland's work here. He appears to have done the art for one of the German Escape From New York posters, as well as the US one sheet for Brazil. Is the Life of Brian you mentioned this one or did you mean the Meaning of Life art that's on that page of his work?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Superman re-release 2001

Red and Black one sheets were distributed to a reported 7 theatres only.

I have a reported print run of 500 black and red's

There was also a MYLAR POSTER with a "39" litho print run on 12pt silver stock 3 color.

Notes I have from the time from sources in L.A.

The Red & Blacks were done on photo-style paper and the printing was not as sharp as would expect.

The MYLAR run was sharp and well made.

The guy who runs CapedWonder.com and who seems to be "in the know" is selling a regular Red & Black for $1,000 and claims that only 15 were actually distributed to theaters, which accounts for their extreme rarity.

[Dan]

Life Of Brian-I had in my notes he did the Style A-however I have sent him an email to confirm this and also asked a few questions I have always had for him.

Life of Brian style B was illustrated by William Stout-ala Wizards

Superman-the number of posters printed were told to me by a printer in L.A. at the time-however we seldom know the EXACT number printed and EXACT number shipped in our hobby since the posters were never made to be collected no one records this info and passes it along to us...grrr.

Irregardless the numbers were low...very low compared to a normal studio release these days.

I wonder with movie theatres decreasing in numbers these days is it still necessary to print 25+ thou per style plus these days?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Superman-the number of posters printed were told to me by a printer in L.A. at the time-however we seldom know the EXACT number printed and EXACT number shipped in our hobby since the posters were never made to be collected no one records this info and passes it along to us...grrr.

Isn't it possible - or even likely - that they printed 500 expecting a wide re-release of Superman but only sent out 15 posters to the 7 test theaters?  When the re-release plans were canceled, didn't they likely destroy the remaining stock?

[jayn_j]

Isn't it possible - or even likely - that they printed 500 expecting a wide re-release of Superman but only sent out 15 posters to the 7 test theaters?  When the re-release plans were canceled, didn't they likely destroy the remaining stock?

Or not...

The point is that we really don't know about any of these things until something pops up.  I do know that for these sorts of presses, a run of 15 is impractical.

[erik1925]

Or not...

The point is that we really don't know about any of these things until something pops up.  I do know that for these sorts of presses, a run of 15 is impractical.

 

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Superman-the number of posters printed were told to me by a printer in L.A. at the time-however we seldom know the EXACT number printed and EXACT number shipped in our hobby since the posters were never made to be collected no one records this info and passes it along to us...grrr. Irregardless the numbers were low...very low compared to a normal studio release these days.

Or not...

The point is that we really don't know about any of these things until something pops up.  I do know that for these sorts of presses, a run of 15 is impractical.

True generally but there is a good bit of info about this re-release on old websites like these:

http://supermanthrutheages.com/hiphats/rerelease.html

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news/2001-news/2001-news-movie.php?topic=2001-news-movie/0329

These websites state that the re-release played in a small number of theaters in 2001:

March 23-25: Played in Regal and AMC theaters throughout San Antonio.  This seller claims that 40 special red and black (non-mylar) posters were released to San Antonio theaters (2 posters each) and that these posters were only used in San Antonio.



May 1: Special Edition DVD released

August 3: Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles

August 17-23: Plaza Maplewood Theater in Maplewood, MN

September: Played in New Jersey (exact location not specified)

October 26: Paramount Theater, Austin TX

October 26-27: University Village in Los Angeles

December 28-30: Walter Reade Theater, NYC

[jayn_j]

Ah Mel, there is the still the question of number released into the wild vs number printed.

I can believe this on the mylars, as they were likely printed on a custom flat press, but the others were very likely done on a standard roller full color offset.  The setup is so involved that a minimum run of 500 is almost required.  It takes the first 20 to get up to speed, and the last 50 to wind down.  Sorry, in a past life I spent a year as an apprentice pressman.  That was back before the military where I decided it was better to think for a living than to actually work