Some fun facts about the posters above you…

• C.W. Stone started collecting posters at age 16 and hasn’t stopped since. He was able to start his collection during work at Winchester Century Theaters as you might have guessed… remember from The Projection Booth?

• They are all original mint-condition film posters from theatrical films released in or by the studio system. Printed by a studio in limited quality for film display purposes only. So sorry but the posters are not for sale.

• This is only a small amount of the posters from his collection. Above maybe accounts for less than a third of the whole. C.W. has 50-100 posters, somewhere, in The Vault including him and his cousin’s signed Spike Lee posters from when they became Associate Producers on Spike’s 2014 film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus.

• Some posters above were displayed at the theater C.W. worked in during their release, i.e. The Dark Knight, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Great Gatsby and many more!

• The Pianist poster is signed by Adrien Brody, who won the Best Actor Oscar for the film in 2003.

• The poster of Requiem for a Dream from the highly uncomfortable 2000 film, is signed by writer/director Darren Arronofsky: one of C.W. favorite filmmakers of all time and the man responsible for C.W.’s 3rd favorite movie, The Fountain.

• The American Psycho poster is one of C.W.’s most beloved. It was signed by his favorite author Bret Easton Ellis, to which he also has Less than Zero and The Informers. All three of the movies were adapted from Bret’s books and found great success. C.W. owns most movies and books of the author’s work and also listens to his Podcast regularly.

• The James Dean documentary poster Forever Young, narrated by Martin Sheen is signed by writer and producer Michael J. Sheridan. C.W. watches this one regularly as well.

• The poster of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent feature-film Metropolis is from the 1984 re-release theatrical run and is the most expensive of the group. It is C.W.’s favorite of the silent era and an incredible feat in filmmaking (back then and even today…it still holds up). It is ironic that the film is about a totalitarian society and was re-released the same year as Orson Welle’s novel 1984… Must have been planned... Big Brother is always watching.

• The Citizen Kane poster is from the 1991 re-issue of the film’s 50th Anniversary theatrical run and just so happens to be the birth year of C.W. himself. The film from 1941 still remains one of C.W. favorite classic films from Hollywood’s Golden Age and once he saw that it was an original from the 1991 release, he was out the door with it… The excerpt below is a little more information about the theatrical run from Variety:

- The 50th anniversary of Orson Welles’ classic RKO film “Citizen Kane” will be marked May 1 with the first national reissue of the picture in more than 30 years. Paramount Pictures, the distributor, and Turner Entertainment, holder of domestic rights, are co-sponsoring the ceremonial release May 1 with a repertory opening in six key cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco and Seattle. With prints supplied by Turner Entertainment, Paramount will recycle the film in its original black & white under its agreement to handle domestic distribution of selected features from the library of 650 RKO films owned by Turner Entertainment. Paramount and Turner are 50-50 partners in the longterm distribution deal and are sharing equally in a special “Citizen Kane” revival marketing program that Turner Entertainment president Roger Mayer says is well under $1 million. RKO/Pavilion owns exclusive remake rights to the RKO library, and is partnered with Turner Entertainment in stage rights. The TE-Paramount domestic distribution pact has been in effect since October 1989. “Citizen Kane” represents Paramount’s first major repertory release from the collection. Already shown in limited one- or two-market spot releases have been such RKO pictures as Welles’ second film, “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame” and four Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, “Top Hat,” “The Gay Divorcee,” “Swing Time” and “Flying Down To Rio.” All had limited runs in revival houses. “Citizen Kane” is the first so-called major release under the Turner agreement. Mayer said “Kane” will break wide if the platform opening sprouts legs.

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