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Thai Movie Posters
« on: May 24, 2016, 04:43:12 AM »
    Thai movie posters have many different sizes and they were all dependent upon the demands of the right owners of the movies.
    There were many companies importing movies and using different printing sizes and this is why Thai posters will come in different sizes.
     Paper quality and size will usually depend on the following factors:

    1. Price of paper in the different time period
    2. Budget of the rights owner in marketing the movie
    3. Relationship between the rights owner of the movie and printing company
    4. Current economy in Thailand.

    Small size approximately 15X20 inches
    Standard size approximately 21 X 31 inches
    Big size approximately 28 X 41 inches
    2 Sheet approximately 42 X 62 inches

   

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2016, 06:04:05 AM »
There are many kind of movies released as painted poster by Thai Artist .

-Hollywood Movies
-Thai Movies
-Chinese Movies
-Ballywood Movies
-Cambodia Movies


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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2016, 06:11:36 AM »


Horror Painted by Noppadon

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2016, 06:15:59 AM »
Hollywood movie by Tongdee

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2016, 06:16:52 AM »
painted by Tongdee

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2016, 06:17:29 AM »
Painted by Tongdee

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2016, 06:23:10 AM »
Thai Rare Vintage 60' period

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2016, 06:23:43 AM »


Thai Vintage 60'

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2016, 06:24:28 AM »


Chinese Hong Kong Kung Fu

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2016, 06:26:09 AM »
  Thai Vintage Movie painted by Piak Poster who is the first Thai Painted Movie Posters.

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2016, 06:26:57 AM »
  Kung Fu Movie

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2016, 06:27:47 AM »
One of The most popular Horror Thai Movie Posters

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2016, 06:28:32 AM »


Shaw Brothers Movie Starring Chow Yun Fat

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2016, 12:50:04 AM »
    Thai movie posters have many different sizes and they were all dependent upon the demands of the right owners of the movies.
    There were many companies importing movies and using different printing sizes and this is why Thai posters will come in different sizes.
     Paper quality and size will usually depend on the following factors:

    1. Price of paper in the different time period
    2. Budget of the rights owner in marketing the movie
    3. Relationship between the rights owner of the movie and printing company
    4. Current economy in Thailand.

    Small size approximately 15X20 inches
    Standard size approximately 21 X 31 inches
    Big size approximately 28 X 41 inches
    2 Sheet approximately 42 X 62 inches


 

Pea, are all 4 of these sizes still produced in Thailand today with regularity?

Or are some less common Or more common than other sizes?

Is the 2 sheet size (42x62) much more rare?


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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2016, 07:02:54 PM »
Hey Jeff, from what I know the smaller posters were made in the 60's.  I've also noticed the smaller posters were used for more Japanese movies released in Thailand than any other country.  There were other countries that used the size but Japan seems to be predominant.  The smaller posters were also mainly picture collages though I have also seen several hand painted ones.

There were very irregular larger sizes for Thai movies in the 60's, but I have also noticed the larger 28 x 41 sizes were more from the 1980's.  There are a few other sizes as well that are larger than the standard 21 x 31.  The 2 sheet posters I believe started coming out in the mid to late 1970's.  I believe the standard size produced today is still approx 21 x 31.

Some of the best quality posters were from the 60's when a lot of the printing was sent to be done in Hong Kong.  They used an excellent printing process and great paper that has kept some of the older posters in super great shape up to this day with very slight browning around the edges.  The really thin paper for the Thai posters I believe started surfacing around the mid 70's.  I was also told one time that it was common practice to print a handful of posters on nice shiny paper that would be used in the windows of the theaters and lesser quality thin paper that was used to plaster the posters up around town.  Sometimes none would be printed on the shiny due to financial reasons.  That why a lot of times you will see a ton of posters on the thin paper and only a few surfacing on the shiny.  TOTAL RECAL is a good example.  An example of posters only being printed on the thin matte paper would be EVIL DEAD 2.  There were no shiny posters printed for that film due to budget.

I wish I knew more.

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2016, 10:11:09 PM »
Wow, Mike. What a great boatload of information!  thumbup

Thanks for posting all of this, especially about the smaller format, too. That was a size I wasn't familiar with.


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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2016, 11:45:48 AM »
Most of the Nikkatsu movies released in Thailand starring Joe Shishido were the smaller size.

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2016, 10:26:52 PM »
I believe the standard size produced today is still approx 21 x 31.

As far as I know, this is true. All the modern Thai posters I've seen listed on eBay (from movies released in 2000 onward) are 21 x 31, give or take a few quarter inches.

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2016, 10:30:22 PM »
@thaimovieposter @mwright Thanks for the great information! :)

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2016, 10:57:33 PM »
Hi Jeff

Thank you for your interested in Thai Movie Posters.   Nowadays Thai Movie posters has only 1 size which are 21 X 31 inches and all are photograph.

The Painting poster is stop in the late 90'

There are all 4 regular size but in some case there are some less common in size  as 5 X 10 inches but rearely have seen.


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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2016, 12:50:09 AM »
Hi Jeff

Thank you for your interested in Thai Movie Posters.   Nowadays Thai Movie posters has only 1 size which are 21 X 31 inches and all are photograph.

The Painting poster is stop in the late 90'


There are all 4 regular size but in some case there are some less common in size  as 5 X 10 inches but rearely have seen.

Pea..why did the painted posters stop being made? Was it too expensive? I'm thinking it is also easier and cheaper (world-wide and not just Thailand), to create digitally, photo-shopped poster imagery?



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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2016, 02:23:07 PM »
Pea..why did the painted posters stop being made? Was it too expensive? I'm thinking it is also easier and cheaper (world-wide and not just Thailand), to create digitally, photo-shopped poster imagery?

All boils down to cost.  Look at these examples of posters for two John Woo films made three years apart.  The beautiful hand painted poster by Tongdee for THE KILLER ('89) and then the very shitty Photoshop poster for HARD BOILED.  THE KILLER obviously took a good amount of time (costly) and HARD BOILED probably took two hours at best (cheap cheap cheap).  I'm sure if Tongdee had painted a poster for HARD BOILED it would have been one of his best works.


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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #22 on: June 06, 2016, 03:12:27 PM »
Thanks, Mike. Truly not even a comparison, aesthetic-wise in those 2 examples. And why globally, the photoshopped/digitized creations are what we have today, for the most part.  :-\
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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2017, 12:58:17 AM »
Dead & Buried (1981) - Art by Tongdee





Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) - Art by Noriyoshi Ohrai

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Re: Thai Movie Posters
« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2017, 06:13:56 AM »
Now posted in the right section (Authentication) so ignore it here, thanks!

Hey! guys,

I was going to make a thread to ask about this, but, thought this would be a good place to post my question.

Basically, I've just started to come across these Thailand posters and I'm truly amazed at how good some of the artwork is on them, IMO some of them have some of the best artwork I've ever seen on movie posters.

What I'd really like to know is how safe it is to go after these Thailand posters, in other words have any of you got any good tips at all in making sure your buying the real deal and not re-prints/fakes? so are there any good things to look out for so you can be sure of what your buying?

For example I really like some of the horror Thailand posters for classic films like Evil Dead & A Nightmare On Elm Street, are these safe to buy or often faked?

I really like the look of these posters but just don't know enough about them, any helpful tips at all would be "GREATLY" appreciated.

Thank You!
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