My latest column for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of the marketing for Sony Pictures’ Bad Boys For Life. With tracking estimating a $38 million to $50 million holiday opening weekend, Columbia’s campaign has positioned the movie as very much a throwback to the kind of movies associated with Michael Bay, who directed the … Continue reading Selling Bad Boys For Life
Selling Spies in Disguise
My latest column for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of the marketing for Sony’s animated Spies in Disguise. The movie is loosely based on a 2009 short film from Lucas Martell of animation studios Mighty Coconut titled Pigeon: Impossible that can be watched in its entirety on YouTube. Fox/Disney’s campaign has emphasized the humor … Continue reading Selling Spies in Disguise
Selling Jumanji: The Next Level
My latest post for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of Sony’s marketing campaign for Jumanji: The Next Level. Sony’s marketing for the film has sought to make the movie seem familiar to the audiences that made the first movie a success while also highlighting the changes to the story, especially the incorporation of DeVito … Continue reading Selling Jumanji: The Next Level
Selling Charlie’s Angels
My latest post for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of the marketing campaign for Charlie’s Angels. Sony’s second attempt at a big-screen Angels franchise (which is sitting at 59 percent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes) is hoping to entice audiences with a campaign that’s heavy on exotic locations, incredible dresses and a strong message … Continue reading Selling Charlie’s Angels
Selling Zombieland: Double Tap
My latest post for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of the marketing campaign for Zombieland: Double Tap. Sony’s marketing campaign for the film has leaned into the points that connected with audiences a decade ago while also offering more than a little self-aware humor to connect with those looking for a good laugh with … Continue reading Selling Zombieland: Double Tap
Selling Men In Black – International
My latest post for The Hollywood Reporter is a recap of the marketing campaign mounted by Sony Pictures for Men In Black: International. Sony’s campaign for Men In Black: International features the same slick technology and humor the franchise is known for. A $30 million stateside opening weekend tracking estimate (which would mark a franchise … Continue reading Selling Men In Black – International
Selling Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
You can read my full recap of Sony's marketing campaign for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse at The Hollywood Reporter. To launch the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sony has built a campaign around getting fans talking about its most unusual and unexpected Spider-Man project to date. Screenings, fan Q&A sessions and convention appearances have … Continue reading Selling Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Movie Marketing Madness: Baby Driver
Director Edgar Wright is back, bringing his unique cinematic storytelling sensibilities to this week’s new release Baby Driver. Far from his collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, this new movie isn’t a genre satire but instead a crime thriller with musical sensibilities. The story follows Baby (Ansel Elgort), a savant behind the wheel of … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Baby Driver
Movie Marketing Madness: Life
We’re heading back to space with this week’s new release Life. The movie, starring Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and others, follows a crew of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. That crew has a very specific mission: Retrieve a probe that’s on a return mission from Mars with the first sample of … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Life
Movie Marketing Madness: T2 Trainspotting
Mark, Sick Boy, Spud and the rest of the crew from the 1996 original are back in T2 Trainspotting. The new movie, appropriately, picks up 20 years after the events of the first, which ended as Mark absconded with the entirety of the money the crew had gotten as the result of a drug deal … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: T2 Trainspotting
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