Robert De Niro stars as Jackie Burke in this week’s new (limited for now) release The Comedian. Burke is an aging comic, well-known for an old TV show and now on the standup circuit. He’s deeply unhappy about his position, though, and that comes out one night in a mean-spirited set that culminates with him … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Comedian
Movie Marketing Madness: The Hollars
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. The new movie The Hollars covers a familiar topic: That of the problems of dealing with family. In the movie John Krasinski (who also directed) plays John, the son of Don and Sally (Richard Jenkins and … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Hollars
Movie Marketing Madness: Equity
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Tech and finance are two industries that, rightly or wrongly, are seen as being male-dominated in the worst possible ways. The technology sector is rife with examples of the “bro” culture that puts a premium on … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Equity
Movie Marketing Madness: Miles Ahead
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. When Steve Jobs came out last year many people took issues with the number of artistic liberties the story took with what they were apparently expecting to be a straight biography of the Apple founder, particularly … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Miles Ahead
Movie Marketing Madness: I Saw The Light
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. The “troubled genius” is usually a good target for a biopic. Filmmakers - and the resulting audience - get to revel in the things we know about that person from whatever it is they contributed to … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: I Saw The Light
Movie Marketing Madness: The Bronze
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. You work all your life, you devote all your resources and energy, all toward a goal that seems like the pinnacle of your existence. Nothing could ever top that, so you sacrifice and push yourself in … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Bronze
Saraband – Marketing Recap
A woman reunites with the husband she left 30 years ago along with as well as his grown son and granddaughter in Ingmar Bergman's latest directorial effort, which was actually a Swedish made-for-TV movie. Like so many before this is rumored to be Bergman's last movie but I seem to think I've heard that before. … Continue reading Saraband – Marketing Recap
The Beautiful Country – Marketing Recap
This, like many other high-quality flicks, was first brought to my attention by Jeffery Wells. Where would films like this be without someone like Wells championing them? A Vietnamese twenty-something "bui doi" (Vietnamese for "less than dust", a slur aimed at those with American parentage) embarks on a quest to America in search of his … Continue reading The Beautiful Country – Marketing Recap
Apres Vous – Marketing Recap
A French film about a man who saves a stranger from killing himself, only to get caught up in a romantic triangle with that stranger and the woman he sets him up with. The Poster Showing all three main characters is essential since this is a character drama/comedy. It looks like it's set against or … Continue reading Apres Vous – Marketing Recap
