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Q & A with an Argentinian Film Student

A couple of months ago, I received a request to respond to an online interview. Having reflected, responded and revised, I’m posting my answers to my interlocutor’s questions, hoping that they might prove salutary to other readers. Thanks to Mr. … Continue reading

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BEST AND WORST MARKETED MOVIES OF 2013? — Easy to say; hard to prove

COULD THIS TRAILER (#4) HAVE CHANGED THE OPENING WEEKEND OF THE LONE RANGER? Scott Mendelson, a Forbes.com entertainment marketing blogger, recently posted his assessment of the best and worst marketed films of 2013. (See article here.) It’s the kind of … Continue reading

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Market Research & Testing: Reports from the Frontlines of Movie Advertising

This quarter, in the graduate seminar I teach on movie trailers, I invited a senior executive from Nielsen NRG (part of the Nielsen Group, famous for its ratings measurement and entertainment research) to visit our classroom and speak about the … Continue reading

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