Archive for July, 2007
Quick Takes 7/27/07: Comic-Con round-up
You know, in a way I’m glad I was gone while Comic-Con, something Nikke Finke called “the ultimate Hollywood orgy,” was going on. I think I would have felt too much pressure to cover all the really cool announcements - and swag - that were coming out of the event as they were happening. [...]
Friends of MMM Update 7/28/07
Karina Longworth is reminding her readers that she hasn’t completely forgotten her main personal blog, it’s just that being sooooo famous is taking its toll.
Todd Anderlik is announcing that his Power 150 roll of marketing-related blogs is joining up with Advertising Age. This is fantastic news and a big bit of validation for Todd, who [...]
Quick Takes 7/28/07: The Simpsons Movie catch-up
Thought I’d pull the items I’d accumulated in my link blog relating to The Simpsons Movie (which I saw yesterday and which is absolutely excellent) and put them over here to book-end my MMM column on the flick’s marketing.
Ellen Ryan Mardiks at Golin Harris does her own brief recap of some of the campaign’s high [...]
Cloverfield has a poster
And Entertainment Weekly has it.
There were a number of others released at Comic-Con but this is the main image. Variations just differ in color and such. I’m just disturbed by the similarity to the one-sheet for The Day After Tomorrow.
Ask’s missed opportunity
Ian Schafer finds a glaring omission in the paid placement Ask.com secured in the new Lindsay Lohan movie I Know Who Killed Me, a movie that will probably go a long way toward killing Lohan’s career. It is kind of a huge thing that was overlooked and kudos to Schafer for being tenacious (D) enough [...]
Audi provides cars for Iron Man
Audi has signed a product placement deal with Paramount and Marvel to put their cars in the big-screen Iron Man flick hitting in 2008, reports Variety.
Audi’s R8 supercar will appear in the film as the favorite of Shellhead’s alter-ego Tony Stark, as well as the S5, A6 and Q7 SUV models, all of which will [...]
The Dark Knight teaser trailer and new websites debut at Comic-Con
One of the biggest new marketing pushes to come out of Comic-Con is the new marketing material that’s been released from Warner Bros. in support of next year’s The Dark Knight. Apparently some one-dollar bills (via Ian Schafer) bearing the Joker’s visage were spread throughout the event and got people involved in an online hunt [...]
Back home from vacation - catching up as we speak
So I’m back with the rest of the family after a long, relaxing and more or less completely offline vacation. I’m catching up and have shared a bunch of things over on the link blog to the right. I’ll be going through those items and probably cherry-picking some I want to write up myself in [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: The Simpsons Movie
I think the first time I heard rumors of a big-screen version of “The Simpsons” being produced was around 1992 or so. It was probably something I read in Entertainment Weekly, since it was my main source of entertainment news in the days before the Internet. The show had been on the air for around [...]
Sharing items while on vacation
Assuming I have internet access while I’m on vacation I’ll probably only have time to do some reading and not a whole lot of blogging. I know I just said I might do some link round-ups but even that might not happen. That’s because, you know, I’m on vacation.
But I do want to keep sharing [...]
Taking the week off
I’m taking the week off and going on vacation with the family. I might post a link round-up or three but I don’t know what the web connectivity situation is going to be. So go read some of the other worthy folks that are covering your niche of interest.
The only thing I’ll tell you is [...]
Quick Takes: 7/20/07
Studios are warning TV writers that a strike by them over contract negotiation impasses might only further the consumer viewing shift to online. This is a legitimate concern and one that all parties need to take very seriously.
Jack Feuer is decrying the lack of a happy ending he’s experienced after watching “The Sopranos” finale and [...]
No Country For Old Men poster
I love this poster for the Coen Bros.’ No Country For Old Men. It’s not only visually arresting but it does such a good job of setting up the tone of the movie it’s almost ridiculous. [via CBN]
The Darjeeling Limited poster
Best. Poster. Ever.
Note how the title font very - VERY - closely resembles that used for The Life Acquatic. That can’t be a coincidence. [via]
Critics unite!
Seems that critics and their associations from all over the country are weighing joining Chicago critics in their boycott of Fox film coverage. The boycott is coming on the heels of 20th Century Fox deciding that critics needed to separated by media and treated differently because of that. It’s a short-sighted move by the [...]
