Category Archives: Observations and Provocations

Things worth saying about movie trailers.

Trailer Audience Research Survey #2 now live at WatchingtheTrailer.com

Dear readers: As promised, my UK collaborators and I have just launched our 2nd Annual Trailer Audience Survey. We’ve updated our questions and migrated from Web Monkey to a more robust platform. Here is the link: http://www.watchingthetrailer.com/audience-survey-2.html We invite you … Continue reading

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New “in-theater” Movie Marketing Guidelines from NATO: Shake up? Shake Down? Shake Out.

By now, you may have read about the new “In Theater Marketing Guidelines” promulgated by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO). In this post, I review and evaluate these Voluntary Recommendations for film distributors and film marketers. What was … Continue reading

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CHEVROLET STINGRAY (2014) LAUNCH TRAILER: Movie Previews for Products

I was in the theater to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, when, prior to the movie trailers, the product “trailers” screen. I resisted the seductions of sound, image, sound and story for just long enough to register that the … Continue reading

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