‘Movie Marketing Madness’ Archives
Movie Marketing Madness: Going the Distance
Long-distance relationships are hard. Something about never being able to actually see the person you're dating and communication being awkward after a while…it all sounds, quite frankly, ghastly. I've never been in one myself, but that's what I hear at least from the few friends who were in some kind of long distance relationship. These [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: The American
Last year we saw George Clooney play a man who enjoys being a lone wolf. His character in Up in the Air, Ryan Bingham, spent 320+ days in the air flying from one place to the next working on laying people off, for which he needed to be as dispassionate as possible about not just the damage he was inflicting on others but also his own life, [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: The Switch
There's a great line from When Harry Met Sally about waiting too long to have a baby. While she's telling her girlfriends over lunch that she's left her longtime boyfriend because he didn't want a family, one of Sally's friends points out that her biological clock must be ticking. But Sally corrects her and points out that, no, the clock [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
I'm guessing that many guys in the audience - and even some of the girls - have in their past a person who they wanted to date but who was completely uninterested in them, someone who they thought was absolutely right for them but who remained unconvinced as to the utter rightness of this plan. Or perhaps it was someone who you were interested [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: Flipped
We all remember the first person of the opposite sex that started us thinking that girls did not, in fact, have cooties or that boys, despite conventional wisdom, were all gross. Suddenly overnight someone in particular - maybe the girl the other guys have been teasing you about during recess because you sit next to her in class - appears in a [...]
