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FAST & FURIOUS 6 TEASER TRAILER: Stars, Spectacle & Social Media

A few days back, the New York Times wrote about the social media savvy of the marketing team behind Universal’s Fast and Furious 6, a hugely successful franchise relegated to “second class citizenship” because it lacks the “cultural cachet” and … Continue reading

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MANDINGO (1975) Trailer: Exploitation & Advocacy

Like the trailer for The Arena (1974), that for Mandingo (1975), a Paramount Studios release of a Dino DeLaurentiis production of the bestselling 1957 novel by Kyle Onstott, constitutes a provocative and well-chosen thematic and film-historical introduction to Quentin Tarentino‘s … Continue reading

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KICKSTARTER FUNDRAISING VIDEOS: Financing and Marketing Coming Attractions

Hollis Sherman-Pepe, an actor friend of mine recently told me about her plans to make a short film from a screenplay she’d written.  Then, I received the Kickstarter presentation about her project, VALEDICTION, where I read a logline and watched … Continue reading

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