Archive for February, 2006
Picking a name is hard
Whether the title comes from the writer, director, producer or marketing department, naming a movie can be hard work. It has to be the right mix of descriptive as well as lyrical. It needs to explain the central premise of the movie as much as it needs to drip off the tongue.
Two items have come [...]
Spider-Man 3 teaser image
Does anyone not think this is a teaser poster for Spider-Man 3? If so I’d like to hear from them. I know various sites have said it’s just a photo (unretouched and not black-and-white - that’s an actual image from the film) but the “3″ in the corner makes it, to my eye, [...]
Cars Daytona 500 TV spot
Edmunds.com is hosting the TV spot for Disney/Pixar’s Cars that debuted during last Sunday’s Daytona 500. It was a good spot so surf over and check it out in either Real Player or Windows Media Player formats.
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movie marketing, disney, pixar
Clerks 2 trailer coming soon
The official theatrical trailer for Clerks 2 will be coming soon. According to Kevin Smith himself the plans are to attach it to the front of Scary Movie 4, which opens April 14th. Since this is being put together by an actual trailer house it should be a little less self-indulgent than the [...]
Don’t Come Knocking poster, trailer links and official website
Got a bunch of stuff for you for Don’t Come Knocking from Sony Classics including the link to the official website, a synopsis, trailer links in the usual variety of formats and the poster, which is so cool it’s almost ridiculous.
Synopsis: Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. When he was younger he was [...]
Brief thoughts on Superman Returns blog
I’ve been meaning to comment again on the Superman Returns blog Warner Bros. setup. It’s been used primarily to tell us when international versions of the trailer or website have been created and when director Bryan Singer has a new video journal up. The most recent entry is a press release for the [...]
Lonesome Jim poster
Nice poster for Lonesome Jim, the next directorial effort from Steve Buscemi. I like the visual gag of the one grey cloud over Casey Affleck’s head and you’ll never have a problem from me putting Liv Tyler on a poster. The only issue I have is that Tyler looks badly pasted into the picture and [...]
Running Scared email from Netflix
Got an email today from Netflix that was an ad for New Line’s upcoming flick Running Scared. Screen grab below.
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movie marketing, new line
Movie trailers on CD-ROM via the Dallas Morning News
Picking up on the same story Tom Biro mentioned on TMD: The Dallas Morning News will include a CD-ROM containing an interactive magazine titled Hollywood Previews in its April 30th edition. The CD will contain quite a bit of material, including movie trailers and other entertainment information, as well as hyperlinks to purchase some [...]
The Heart is Deceitful posters
Funny post about how the posters for The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things are dealing with the fact that the guy who wrote it turned out to be a woman. More on the Leroy controversy here in case you’re unfamiliar with it.
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movie marketing
l’enfant trailer, poster and synopsis
Check out the poster, trailer and synopsis for the French drama l’enfant.
Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia’s unemployment benefits along with the panhandling and petty thefts committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever [...]
The Wild poster
Got the new poster for The Wild, the latest animated feature from Disney featuring a bunch of anthropromorphic animals on some sort of adventure. Not too much else to say. It’s not a bad poster, considering the goal of this campaign is to continue thinking talking animals getting into all sorts of [...]
A ton of Oscar ads in newspaper
Click through to AdJab for a piece I wrote about the increased number of “For Your Consideration” ads in newspapers.
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movie marketing, oscars, academy awards
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 character posters
There are now two character-centric posters for Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. One is a big version…oh who cares about that one. The other is a big honkin’ picture of Kiera Knightly in a cleavage-enhancing dress. I may need to take a moment.
There’s nothing overtly original about the posters since the images [...]
Illusion trailer
I’m not sure what to make of this trailer for Illusion, a drama starring screen legend Kirk Douglas. He plays a director who, on his deathbed, finds that the lives of he and his children are being presented to him as a movie. Since he has not been involved in their lives much [...]
