If it helps this is the blurb I wrote up to help explain the rarity of posters for this film... the blurb is for a super rare Japanese B1 advance I'm going to be selling in the near future.Moral of the story... tiny theatrical distribution + huge cult following.
Was it Paul in another thread looking for good flicks... Jeff after Halloween you need to watch Boondock Saints its definitely a great movie. Very under the radar at the time and never got the attention it deserved including some great roles/performances. It wont change your life, but its very entertaining.
QuoteQuoteA cult movie if ever there was one, this movie grossed only $30,000 at the domestic box office (yes you read that correctly), but as of 2009 had $50 million in US video sales almost solely from word of mouth. Boondock Saints had an extremely troubled multi-year trip to the big screen -- there were three aborted production attempts by Miramax, New Line and Paramount before finally being financed independently for only $7 million. It was shopped around at Cannes but no studios were interested in distributing it. After finally getting an independent distribution, it only screened in 5 theaters (yes, 5) for a single week! And despite being released theatrically in another dozen or so countries, the worldwide box office was a laughable $400k. It's pretty safe to say that almost nobody saw this film in the theaters -- which makes this advance Japanese B1 all the more rare! Easily the best art from any country and with only a tiny title in Kanji, it could almost pass for an english language poster. Moral of the story... tiny theatrical distribution + huge cult following.
QuoteA cult movie if ever there was one, this movie grossed only $30,000 at the domestic box office (yes you read that correctly), but as of 2009 had $50 million in US video sales almost solely from word of mouth. Boondock Saints had an extremely troubled multi-year trip to the big screen -- there were three aborted production attempts by Miramax, New Line and Paramount before finally being financed independently for only $7 million. It was shopped around at Cannes but no studios were interested in distributing it. After finally getting an independent distribution, it only screened in 5 theaters (yes, 5) for a single week! And despite being released theatrically in another dozen or so countries, the worldwide box office was a laughable $400k. It's pretty safe to say that almost nobody saw this film in the theaters -- which makes this advance Japanese B1 all the more rare! Easily the best art from any country and with only a tiny title in Kanji, it could almost pass for an english language poster.
It would be cool to know who does the restorations for stuff that appears at auction, especially those that are gel backed. I've had one poster gel backed by Poster Mountain, and one by Lumiere, and there is a stark contrast between the two.Anyway, that one is rad.
Have you written any about the differences? Pros Cons....and so on? Please tell me more....
Great info, there, Brandon.Did you prefer one studio's efforts and/or technique over the other? Do both feel similar? Or is there a marked difference?( The full, gelatinous discussion is here: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,9805.0.html )
Well, it's got the Stafford and Co line, but it has been massively trimmed.Also, the fact it is rolled..? Not sure rolled posters existed in '65? Did they.
