Kilian Enterprises was an independent
printing company founded by Jeff Kilian. Over the years, Kilian had
released a number of very beautiful and sought-after anniversary
and limited edition movie art posters.
In 1985, with the permission of Lucasfilm,
Ltd., Kilian released the Star Wars Saga American One-Sheet Poster Checklist
which has become known as the Star War Poster of Posters. This poster
features pictures and information about every American version one
sheet issued for the original releases of the Star Wars and its
sequels up to the date of publication. On the back side is more information
about each. Reprints have been issued on this poster, but the only ones
I've seen are one sided and don't have the back side of information.
Kilian followed up these posters with anniversary
issues for the Star Wars series, Indiana 
Jones,
Alien and The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Kilian created their own artwork or used
well-known established poster artists to create new artwork, with the approval
of the studio. The posters issued by Kilian were normally individually numbered.
They also issued limited edition posters
for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, including two gold mylar "Jessica
Rabbit" posters (the style D and style E) and a set of commemoratives.
The style E (shown below) is one of my favorite
posters and is on my office wall. The poster is a sheet of mylar plastic
with a coat of gold paint. The other colors are added on top of the gold
with paint left off where the gold will show 
through.
The poster has a mark that is a square with a 2263 inside. That's the mark
of the artist which was Jeff's wife at the time, Dayna Stedny. The mark
was her birthday (Feb 2, 1963)
By definition, the posters issued by
Kilian are NOT considered "legitimate movie art" because they
are not released by movie studios in conjunction with the release of a film
and they are released for sale to the public.
However, because their posters present
new artwork, even many hard line collectors accept these posters as "collectible"
because they contain artwork not available on any other poster.
