Debra Winger and Tracey Letts star in the new slightly-dark romantic drama The Lovers, getting a limited release this week. The pair play Mary and Michael, a long-married couple whose relationship has grown comfortable and stale, predictable and uninspiring, with each one feeling like the other barely sees him or her. It’s gotten to the…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Lovers
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Movie Marketing Madness: Free Fire
The meeting between two or more groups of gangsters or other questionable characters is usually just one small part of a larger story. This week’s new release Free Fire, though, makes that the central element of the entire story. The movie stars Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Sharlito Copley and others are mobsters and…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Free Fire
A24 Teases Untitled Project
Wrote a post for Adfreak about the mysterious “untitled” trailer that came out yesterday and which has everyone talking. Yesterday, A24—the studio behind recent eccentric word-of-mouth-driven movies like The Lobster, Moonlight and Swiss Army Man—released a mysterious trailer. Listed simply as “Untitled,” there’s little else that’s known about the movie, or whatever this is, other…… Continue reading A24 Teases Untitled Project
Movie Marketing Madness: 20th Century Women
Stories of clashing generations are nothing new, but the trope is getting a fresh take at the box off with 20th Century Women, the new movie from writer/director Mike Mills, who based it off his relationship with his own mother. Set during the turbulent 1970s, the movie stars Annette Bening as Dorothea, a woman born…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: 20th Century Women
Movie Marketing Madness: Moonlight
Trevante Rhodes plays Chiron in Moonlight, the new movie from writer/director Barry Jenkins. Chiron is a young man struggling with identity and his place in the world. The movie follows him from his troubled youth through his teen years and into adulthood as he first deals with the imperfect parents to the problems he faces…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Moonlight
Movie Marketing Madness: Morris From America
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. There’s a lot that goes into building an identity for ourselves. Where is it we call home? What kind of movies or music do we like? What are our values and traditions? What hobbies do we…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Morris From America
Movie Marketing Madness: Equals
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. We’re in – actually we might just be coming out of – a golden age of dystopian fiction. Or so we’re told. Stories like The Hunger Games, The Giver and more all present societies that have…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Equals
Movie Marketing Madness: Swiss Army Man
What are your desert island necessities? What, if you were stranded by yourself without access to all the conveniences of modern life, would you want to make sure you still had with you, assuming you have the choice? These could be be records, books, movies or other items that are so important to you, you…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Swiss Army Man
Movie Marketing Madness: The Lobster
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Usually when someone says they “need” to find a person to be with and love it’s a bit of an overstatement, an exaggeration to make a point. They may be lonely and really desiring someone to…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Lobster
Movie Marketing Madness: Green Room
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. The main idea behind most horror films is that danger can come from anywhere. It could be from something obvious like a big, nasty looking cave in the middle of the woods outside an abandoned village.…… Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Green Room
