2004 December : Movie Marketing Madness

Quick Takes: 12/23/04

Bewitched
Just to make sure no marketing opportunity is left unexplored, Sony appears ready to release the first two seasons of Bewitched just in time to tie in to the movie.
Cinderella Man
The official site now has a trailer (or at least the link to a trailer). I’m sure there is some sort of financial arrangement behind [...]

Quick Takes: 12/17/04

Elektra
Various outlets have posted a new super-sized version of the new poster.
XXX: State of the Union
An incredibly lame trailer is now online at the official site.
Hostage
FilmForce has a teaser trailer available for this new Bruce Willis flick.
Weatherman
The site for this new Nicholas Cage/Michael Caine comedy (?) is now active but doesn’t contain much.
The Ring Two
More [...]

TV networks and movie marketing

MediaDailyNews 12-17-04
I wanted to make special notice of this article by Joe Mandese at MediaPost.com.
Mr. Mandese researches how much “A” network time is given to movie marketing and what, if any, correlation exists between a movie studio and TV network who share corporate parents. It’s a wonderful read and I hope you all check it [...]

Batman Begins theatrical trailer

To accompany the teaser posters that I linked to below there is now a Windows-formatted version of the theatrical trailer. Enjoy! (I know I did).

Quick Takes: 12/10/04

Batman Begins
The title of this post refers to the teaser poster now available for viewing at the above-linked official site. I shorted out three keyboards drooling over this one. I then went through two more over this international version.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
JoBlo has two new posters for this Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt caper.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series [...]

Quick Takes: 12/03/04

Fantastic Four
The official site has launched (click link above) but to date contains no actual FF material. According to IGN, the first teaser trailer should be attached to Elektra, another Fox/Marvel collaboration.
Bewitched
The site now contains a brief teaser trailer.
War of the Worlds
The second collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise now has a teaser site [...]

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