2005 August : Movie Marketing Madness

One-sheet musings

Seems there’s a bit of commentary going on over the sorry state of movie posters. The main complaints (and they’re justified) is that they are boring, uninspired and often focus solely on the celebrity-of-the-moment that happens to be in the movie.
I have to admit that they do have a point. Truly original and [...]

Mini MMM: A Sound of Thunder

“What if…?” conjecturing always makes good fodder for story tellers. Take a simple concept, preferably something historical and alter just one decision or action and all of a sudden you have a whole new outcome and situation. The key is you have to do it well or it just comes off as half-assed hackery.
Which brings [...]

The Week in MMM: 8/26/05

In lieu of a podcast I’m just going to do a weekly wrap up what’s been happening. Turns out AudioBlogger only allows for about a five minute recording session, which is about 25 minutes shorter than I was planning on. I may investigate a better way to do this but will have to figure that [...]

Think I’ve sorted this out…

First off let me just say thank you to the many people who responded to me as I tried to sort out this whole blogging mess. Your input was greatly appreciated and did influence my thinking.So here’s what I’ve decided:

Movie Marketing Madness is staying where it is on Blogger. It’s fine and the functionality of [...]

Movie Marketing Madness: The Brothers Grimm

These are becoming more and more far between but FilmThreat has now published my 50th Movie Marketing Madness column, this time a look at The Brothers Grimm.
I want to make my point on the site’s blog/news updates section a little more strongly. The content of that area of the site, listing updates on the site’s [...]

Getting restless

I’ve so far been very happy with Blogger’s functionality. Sure there’s some room for improvement but overall it’s worked rather well for me. The thing is I am, as I said to someone earlier, an organizational drifter. I always think there’s a better way to do stuff, a prettier way to present [...]

Mini MMM: The Baxter

The story of what happens to the nice guy who never gets the girl, The Baxter is an unconventional romantic comedy. Perenially unlucky in love, accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) meets his dream girl (Elizabeth Banks) only to find out she’s settling for him because she doesn’t think she can be with the love of [...]

Podcast coming

I was going to do a podcast this morning but I keep getting - of all things - a busy signal when I try to call AudioBlogger’s number. I’ll keep trying but I might not get to it till later. I know you all are waiting on pins and needles but please try [...]

Mini MMM: The 40-Year Old Virgin

Steve Carell has emerged as one of the funniest deadpan comedians currently working. He never seems to show emotion, whether it’s as Brick Tamland in Anchorman or as Michael Scott in the U.S. version of “The Office“. But while he’s been very funny in supporting roles and on TV it remains to be seen whether [...]

Movie Journal Quick Takes: 8/17/05

P.S.: Much better than Birth while covering some of the same ground. The improvement is largely because of the manner in which the material is treated, with Laura Linney and Topher Grace giving believable performances as opposed to Nicole Kidman’s awkward and stilted one. I like this one more and more as I [...]

Mini MMM: Red Eye

I’m generally not a fan of the horror genre. There’s very little original content out there and quite frankly it just doesn’t interest me. I know I should take the time, based on the recommendations of Vonder Harr and Cregar, to seek out the worthy entries but I just can’t work up the strength. That [...]

Mini MMM: Asylum

A man is appointed to a position of responsibility at a mental asylum and is accompianied by his wife and child. Stella, his wife (played by Natasha Richardson) is drawn over time to one of the inmates and begins an affair with him that is noticed by one of the asylum’s staff doctors (Ian McKellan). [...]

Welcome to the podcast

So I’m trying this out finally. Can’t guess whether it will be a success or not but it’s sure to change focus a couple times as I get a feel for it and go through a dozen different organizational techniques until I find one that works.

As I say in the audio post feel [...]

Using and abusing the Wikipedia

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while but still wanted to address it. Chris Abraham wondered whether the Wikipedia would be the next front for promoting new TV shows, movies or other popular culture. For anyone who may have read Abraham’s post and thought it sounded like a good idea I [...]

Answering Private Ryan

Ryan Anderson has been good enough to give me two mentions in the last couple days. Most recently he quotes from my latest FilmThreat MMM column, the one on Pretty Persuasion.
On Tuesday, though, he (rightly) questioned the logic Buena Vista is dispaying by releasing four different variant covers for their upcoming Sin City DVD release. [...]

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