2005 March : Movie Marketing Madness

Hotel Rwanda DVD Contest

Movie Marketing Madness: Movie Marketing Madness Contest
OK, so there were no responses to yesterday’s contest post. I’m not saying there were no correct responses, I’m saying there were NO responses.
Because of that I am leaving the contest open over the weekend. Remember, folks:
-We’re giving a copy of Hotel Rwanda on DVD, courtesy of MGM Home [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide…errr…Guide

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - A Yahoo! Movies Exclusive
Yahoo! has a nifty Flash-based guide to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which is designed to act as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s pretty cool since most of the text is lifted straight from the novel but ultimately doesn’t do very [...]

Wedding Crashers Posters

JoBlo.com Movie News: Crashers posters
I love these posters. Between them and the trailer I’m very excited about this movie.
–Chris

It’s All Gone Pete Tong Viral Campaign

Adrants: Quirky Movie Gets WTF Viral Treatment
Adrants has the details on a full-fledged viral campaign underway for the upcoming I’ts All Gone Pete Tong. They list a raft of sites that have been setup to play off the movie. Check it out.
–Chris

Movie Marketing Madness Contest

Movie Marketing Madness
Welcome to the first contest from Movie Marketing Madness! The winner will receive a brand-spanking new copy of Hotel Rwanda, courtesy of MGM Home Video. All you have to do to enter is answer me these questions three. Send your response to moviemarketingmadness-at-gmail.com. A winner will be selected from [...]

Movie Marketing Madness - Exorcist: The Beginning

As I mentioned yesterday, I wrote a MMM column for Exorcist: The Beginning but for some reason never submitted it for publication. Here’s the column in its entirety.

–Chris
My, what wandering paths films sometimes take from the pitch (which for me will always be mentally visualized with Buck Henry pitching The Graduate: Part 2 to [...]

Fantastic Four ShoWest Trailer

Superhero Hype! - The latest superhero movie news and rumors
Click through the links to find the FF trailer that was shown at ShoWest recently. This is probably the best of the trailers to date and actually has worked in upping my anticipation of this movie.
–Chris

Bewitched Trailer

Sony Pictures - Bewitched
I’m officially on board with this one. It’s premise (that an actor is making a film adaptation of the television show Bewitched and inadvertently casts a real witch as Samantha) at first had me wondering if this would be a train-wreck but it looks like Will Ferrell is letting loose and Nicole [...]

Domino Trailer

Domino – A Yahoo! Movies Exclusive
The trailer for Domino answers a question that has been buzzing around in my mind for a while now: When is Keira Knightly going to get a role that demands something of her other than to just look incredibly beautiful?
This is a great trailer and even has lifted a bit [...]

Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party Trailer

Apple - Trailers - Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party
Now this one looks funny. Stephen Tobolowsky (whose name, I admit, I did not know) interviews people asking them if they know who he is. I’m assuming the movie has more than just this as I don’t think the joke can sustain itself that long but the trailer [...]

The Perfect Man Trailer

Apple - Trailers - The Perfect Man
Well, this looks like a load of crap. Heather Locklear plays a dumb-blonde with a daughter who gets into one self-destructive relationship after another. In the real world this would cause any children involved to become neurotic and incapable of forming any lasting relationships. In the [...]

Mad Hot Ballroom Trailer

Apple - Trailers - Mad Hot Ballroom
Errmmm. A documentary about the preparations for a children’t ballroom dancing competition. Christopher Guest makes this, I’m there. A straight, serious take on this and I’m not so sure. Then again there was that doc about the spelling bee that won all kinds of [...]

It’s All Gone Pete Tong Trailer

Apple - Trailers - It’s All Gone Pete Tong
This one looks intriguing, but I apologize if any of the information contained herein is inaccurate. The trailer makes the movie look like a psuedo-documentary - with bits of an actual movie dropped in between commentary - on the rise and fall of a famous musician/DJ/producer.
The [...]

Cinderella Man Trailer

Apple - Trailers - Cinderella Man
While the trailer seems perfectly fine in and of itself here are few questions raised in my mind:
1. Will Ron Howard be able to resist his urge to tug at every available heartstring until there is nothing left?
2. Do Renee Zellweger’s eyes actually open anymore or are we doomed to [...]

The Island International Trailer

Apple - Trailers - The Island
The international version of The Island’s trailer plays out mostly the same as the domestic one. There is a bit more of the plot spelled out but not so much as to really differentiate one from the other.
The one exception is that there’s a wierd spot about [...]

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