Tag Archives: Trailers

Avengers AND Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows post-release TV Spots: Jump on the Bandwagon!

AVENGERS TV SPOT, Released May 8th. Last week, after AVENGERS shattered opening weekend box office records in the United States, the trailermakers cut a :17 spot to exploit the extraordinary news. Presumably, the distributor had contingency plans for just this … Continue reading

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THE AVENGERS: IGN Rewind Dissects the Trailer for fun, fans, profit and promotion

Recently I wrote about trailers for trailers, using Prometheus as my example. One of my small, but devoted readers sent me a link to full page advertisement that 20th Century Fox purchased in UK newspapers announcing the release of its … 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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