Mike Kaplan’s wide-ranging experience in the creative areas of production, marketing and distribution provides a unique perspective on the motion picture industry.

He has been a close associate to many visionary filmmakers -- Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Lindsay Anderson, Mike Hodges, Alan Rudolph, Abraham Polonsky -- an innovative marketing executive at MGM and Warner Brothers, an independent distributor in the United States and the United Kingdom, a producer, documentary director, actor, and an award winning poster designer.

Kaplan spent two years overseeing the marketing of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, devising the successful 70mm re-release strategy and conceiving The Ultimate Trip-StarChild campaign before joining Kubrick in England to work on the strategy and release of A Clockwork Orange.

Kaplan's latest major poster exhibit, GOTTA DANCE: THE ART OF THE DANCE MOVIE POSTER, opens May 23 at the California Heritage Musuem, Santa Monica, CA. and runs through September 30, 2012. Over 80 rare vintage posters from throughout the world examine key dance images from both musical and non-musical films.

Blog Entries by Mike Kaplan

Communing With Kubrick

(4) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 05/15/12 06:08 PM ET

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Room 237, Rodney Ascher's documentary about the hidden puzzles and bizarre theories fomented by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, is one of only two American films selected for the Director's Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival this year (May 16-27). The prestigious berth signals keen attention will be paid...

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How Stanley Kubrick Kept His Eye on the Budget, Down to the Orange Juice

(8) Comments | Posted February 19, 2012 | 02/19/12 09:58 AM ET

Nothing revealed Stanley Kubrick's singular intelligence -- nor his endearing humor and humanity -- more than budgetary decisions. He wore his producer's hat as ingeniously as his director's one, confounding expectations.

Before he arrived in New York for the opening of 2001, stories of his obsessive genius preceded him. He...

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How Stanley Kubrick Shot His Own Newsweek Cover

(11) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 02/08/12 01:37 PM ET

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Stanley didn't travel. His work and life were intertwined and based entirely in England, so the world came to him. This was both a benefit and a complicating factor as I set about strategizing publicity for A Clockwork Orange, which was set...

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Inside the First Screening of A Clockwork Orange

(22) Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 01/30/12 08:45 AM ET

"I think it's my most... skillful film," Stanley Kubrick stated in his calm, equanimous voice, the day after screening the first assembly of A Clockwork Orange.

We were standing on either side of Stanley's desk in his functionally chaotic home office at Abbots Mead in Elstree, England, going over the...

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How Stanley Kubrick Transformed the Modern Box-Office Report (By Accident)

(25) Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 01/10/12 07:09 AM ET

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Stanley Kubrick believed that "filmmaking is an exercise in problem solving." He meant that to include the distribution and marketing of his films as well as their production, and he devoted more time and effort to managing the release of his films than any...

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