What is an original movie poster?
Original movie posters, also known as film posters or cinema posters, are highly collectable and most gain in value every year. They are being used in cinemas/theaters to promote/advertise the film and to be destroyed after use! Movie posters, which are printed strictly as advertising material, are never meant to fall into the hands of the public. Film posters are usually printed in numbers needed to supply the theaters showing the particular film. The movie theaters are required to return them to the originating distributing or poster company. Most of the posters are being returned to the source, but over the years posters that were stored in theater basements, poster warehouses, or distributor buildings have found their way into the hands of individuals and dealers, leading to the film posters available to collectors today. We also consider video-posters to be original movie posters because the same rules can be applied to this kind of posters too.
