2007 September : Movie Marketing Madness

Photos from BlogOrlando

Yesterday I finally got around to uploading my photos from BlogOrlando, both the event itself and the previous day’s tour of Kennedy Space Center, to Flickr and you can now view my BlogOrlando2007 photo set. I met a lot of great people, most of whom I snapped pictures of.
Constantin Basturea and Joseph Thornley.

John Frost from [...]

Movie Marketing Madness: The Darjeeling Limited

No one, I don’t think, has ever accused director Wes Anderson of having a lack of vision. The guy has churned out a series of films that are almost all vision. Movies like Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums and The Life Aquatic are all lavishly detailed, portraits of a world populated by people who who can’t [...]

Shared items on the side

I’ve decided to put clips from my Google Reader link blog over on the sidebar. I’m just going to keep it there from now on. There was no way I was going to get through to write posts on all the stuff I’d seen over the last few days so this was just easier. Regular [...]

Your blogger at BlogOrlando

BlogOrlando

Originally uploaded by whiteafrican.

This insanely good picture of me (bringing the grand total of such pics from my entire life to five) was taken at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday while we were touring around. The picture was taken by Erik Hersman (www.whiteafrican.com) who’s also done here. It was just too good not to share.

@karinalongworth: You’re my hero

I say this as a completely hetero guy who is a big fan of Natalie Portman, but I completely agree with Karina’s commentary on the “Hotel Chevalier” short that was just released. I especially love this part, if only because she’s actually calling half the internet a bunch of whores:
But what can I do? I’m [...]

Rendition poster in Chicago

Rendition poster in Chicago

Originally uploaded by cethilk.

On my way to BlogOrlando

Orlando departure

Originally uploaded by cethilk.

This was taken early this morning and I’ll write more later. The first day down here in Orlando has been a blast, with more to come tomorrow.

Quick Takes: 9/26/07

Watchmen directory Zach Snyder has posted a video greeting from the set of the movie that, while interesting, doesn’t include any glimpses from the film so you can all settle down, thank you very much.
The issue of Lust, Caution and the MPAA gets another look from the LA Times, taking the point of view that [...]

Off to Orlando

So I’ve got one more Quick Takes post queued up for later tonight and then will be off to BlogOrlando for the next couple of days. That means posting will be even lighter than it has been recently. I’ll likely be doing some event-blogging both here and at my work blog, OpenTheDialogue, from the shindig, [...]

Posters for foreign Oscar hopefuls

Gus over at Movie Poster Addict has been putting up a number of good posts highlighting the posters for movies likely to be in contention for a Best Foreign Film Oscar. You can (and really should) check those out here, here and here. There are a number of good ones but this one for Days [...]

Quick Takes 9/25/07

IFC Films has tapped two films of theirs to to break the release window by hitting theater screens and video-on-demand at the same time. Far from two also-rans, these flicks star known names and are generally anticipated by movie lovers.
Nikke Fine points out the constant barrage of hinder-covering by The Weinstein Co. and MGM as [...]

Simpsons Movie postlude in TV season opener

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead poster

I’ll turn you over to Jeff Wells for the breakdown of all the references to previous poster art in this new poster for Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, but suffice it to say I think it’s really cool.

Resilience poster

I like this poster for Resilience, a movie about how one man deals with the ethical dilemmas we all face at some point or another. It’s simple but sells the movie as that one man’s story. I think, though, that my favorite part is the inclusion of a pull-quote from Doug Brunell’s review at FilmThreat. [...]

How online ads influence movie-going

Both Kirk and Ian pointed to a story about a Google/Nielsen survey on how online advertising drove movie-going behavior. Exit polls conducted outside movie theaters during June showed 66 percent of patrons were influenced in what to see by the Internet, second only to TV’s 68 percent. Print and radio were influential to just 44 [...]

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