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Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. The American people are often quite divided on what they hold dear as "values." On any number of issues you can get both extremes and shades of nuance that add up to dozens, if not more, … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: War Dogs
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Comic books are filled with high-premise, ridiculously unreal stories. The format is basically built on them. You have to believe that a billionaire playboy would decide that wearing a bat suit was the best way to … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Suicide Squad
As Online Video Surges, Publishers Turn to Automation (The New York Times, 7/10/16) This is so awful I barely know what to do with it. Automating content is bad enough since you lose the heart and soul of the producer, but how these companies are talking about cobbling together videos from existing wire service photos … Continue reading Quick Takes 7/13/16: FTC Fines Warner Bros., Twitter Livestreams and More
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. I wish the Johnny Weissmueller Tarzan movies had been my first introduction to the cinematic versions of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic character. While I certainly saw at least most of them later on (I don’t think … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Legend of Tarzan
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Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Can I confess something? I’ve been watching a lot of “The Rockford Files” episodes lately. The show is perfect for Sunday night catching up on RSS and email for its light attitude, lack of binding narrative … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: The Nice Guys
Want to get Movie Marketing Madness via email? Sign up here. Then connect with MMM on Twitter and Facebook. Between 2005 and 2008 I did a lot of training of people at the agency I was working for at the time on how to use RSS readers. This was when RSS was still the hot … Continue reading Movie Marketing Madness: Keanu
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