Sophia Coppola returns to the director’s chair with this week’s The Beguiled. A remake of the 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, this one features Nicole Kidman as Martha Farnsworth, the headmistress of a school for girls in Civil War-era Virginia. One day one of her students comes across a Union soldier named … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Beguiled
Movie Marketing Madness: The Book of Henry
Director Colin Trevorrow made some minor waves with his debut movie Safety Not Guaranteed, at least enough that he was next offered Jurassic World, the relaunch of the popular dinosaur-based franchise. Now he’s back into smaller territory with this week’s The Book of Henry, starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay. Watts plays Susan … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Book of Henry
Movie Marketing Madness: A Monster Calls
Connor (Lewis MacDougall) is having a rough time of it in the new movie A Monster Calls, based on the book of the same name. His mother (Felicity Jones) is sick and dying from cancer and he’s being bullied at school. He’s also spending more time with his grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) as his mother becomes … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: A Monster Calls
Movie Marketing Madness: Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals, the new movie from writer/director Tom Ford, has not only a provocative story an unusual structure. The first part of the follows Susan (Amy Adams), as she reconnects with her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), who provides her with a manuscript to a novel he’s written that seems to be processing some of the … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Nocturnal Animals
Movie Marketing Madness: Loving
When Richard and Mildred Loving fell in love in the 1950s it was against the law. That provides the drama for the new movie Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton and directed by Jeff Nichols. See the two were of different races - she was black and he was white - which in 1958 … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Loving
Movie Marketing Madness: Kubo and the Two Strings
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. The heroes's journey, as it's traditionally defined, is a pretty standard thing. A young character must rise above the station he or she is born into, embarking on a grand quest during which they will not only achieve the impossible but also learn … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Kubo and the Two Strings
Movie Marketing Madness: Search Party
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Look, you help your friends out, but it depends. There are friends who you’ll lend $12 bucks to, no problem. There are friends you’ll help move but they better be there for you when you need … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Search Party
Movie Marketing Madness: Race
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. We Americans are, I’ve always felt, inconsistent in our appreciation for and embrace of our own history. On the one hand we look back so we can see how far we’ve come and try to learn … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Race
The Constant Gardener – Marketing Recap
Ralph Fiennes has had an unexpectedly uneven career. He followed up his breakout performance in Schindler’s List with Quiz Show (alright, I can see that) and then with Strange Days (what the…). Since then he’s bounced between prestige projects and, well, The Avengers. That’s not pretty. The early buzz on The Constant Gardener, an adaptation … Continue reading The Constant Gardener – Marketing Recap
