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MOVIE POSTERS PAY OFF; SYRACUSE ENTREPRENEURS FIND SUCCESS WITH REEL DEALS; POSTERS COME FROM DEALERS, PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.(Business)
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
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September 1, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Elizabeth Doran Staff writer
An original Star Wars movie poster from 1977 sold for $505, while a press kit for the forgotten "Big Top Pee Wee" movie sold for $550.
But it's not the rare, big-ticket posters that are the bread-and-butter for Reel Deals, a Syracuse-based Internet movie poster company. Instead, it's the $15 reprints of Hollywood's most-loved hits, the Scarfaces, the Titanics, the Greases and the Bravehearts.
"Everybody has a favorite movie, and 99 percent of the time we have a poster for that movie," said David Smith, who runs Reel Deals with partner John Mody. "Whether a college student wants to put a movie poster reprint of "The Matrix' up ...
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