MPA Auction Story – and it’s a good one!
For those who know who we are and know about our auctions, the next auction is scheduled for January 26 – February 2, 2022. It will go online on the night of January 25 at Movie Poster Archives Auction (you can bookmark it). We will be sending out emails to all those on the mailing […]
Fifty Shades of Louisiana Exhibit
“Fifty Shades of Louisiana: A Filmmaker’s Paradise” Movie Poster Archives features films made all over the state. It opened January 8, 2022, during “The Art of the Film: Louisiana Film Industry Expo” presented by the Northshore Cultural Economy Coalition and the City of Slidell, and runs through March 11. Did you know more than 3,000 films […]
Movie Poster Archives Fifth Anniversary
We survived! Every year since 2016, the Secretary of State’s Office sends a reminder that Movie Poster Archives is a year older. The notice to file an annual report has special meaning this year. Forbes, the business magazine, says that 80% of startups fail in the first five years, and 30% of nonprofits fail. Many […]
Movie Poster Archives Newsletter September 2021
Movie Poster Archives Newsletter June 2021
The June Newsletter is here.
May Lagniappe Auction Expands With Major Donation
Hurricanes Can’t Stop Donation of177,000 Production Stills and Celebrity Portraits! May 12 – 19, 2021 Go to Auction Now It started with an unexpected message in August 2020. Ron Harvey wanted to know if he could donate a larger than usual collection of photos. The final count in 2020 would reach 177,200 production stills and […]
April 2021 Newsletter
March Lagniappe Auction
IT’S COMING!!! MARCH 10-24 March Lagniappe Auction March 10-24 Movie Poster Archives, the industry’s only non-profit archival organization will hold its first Lagniappe auction! Over the last 4 years, MPA has received over 750,000 items as tax deductible donations from collectors, dealers, individual donors, estates and businesses. Once MPA has the items needed for documentation […]
Ralph Costantino Legacy Gift
The family of Ralph Costantino has donated a portion of his personal collection of movie memorabilia to Movie Poster Archives, formerly known as the Institute for Cinema Ephemera. Ralph’s death on December 5, 2016 came only weeks after the nonprofit was founded on October 30, 2016—in part to give collectors and dealers a nonprofit destination […]
Ya-Ya Sisterhood Surprise for Award-Winning Author
When Bette Midler called, author Rebecca Wells was still stunned from the success of her novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Midler’s All Girl Productions wanted to make the #1 New York Times Best-Seller into a movie starring Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, and a host of box office stars. Louisiana native Wells was soon […]