New Repo Men Director’s Cut Trailer Dan Koelsch, March 10, 2010 The Repo Men official website now has a Director’s Cut Red Band trailer. While Director’s Cuts are common in DVD releases of films, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of one for a trailer. You can definitely tell the difference between director Miguel Sapochnik’s take verses a marketing team’s take. Check out the trailer after the break, courtesy of FirstShowing. What do you think? There’s also a stylish TV spot on Facebook. Repo Men is based on Eric Garcia’s novel The Repossession Mambo. Garcia and Garrett Lerner (“Smallville”, “House”) wrote the Universal film, opening everywhere March 19th. News Viral Marketing Repo men
Conan Supporters Get Their Revenge on Hulu May 24, 2010May 24, 2010The war may be over, there are still soldiers fighting on. The NBC Late Night fiasco that kicked off at the beginning of the year demonstrated the passion of Conan O’Brien’s fans. While the comedian has a new show on TBS, and doesn’t have anything to fear from George Lopez,… Read More
James Cameron Interviewed Underwater for “Sanctum” February 5, 2011With the underwater cave thriller Sanctum getting mixed reviews at best on its opening weekend (including our own), it’s no surprise that Universal Pictures and producer James Cameron are trying crazy promotional stunts to get people excited for the film. That apparently includes having Cameron get interviewed while in a… Read More
The Boondock Saints: Viral Made Simple February 9, 2010February 9, 2010Back in December, I wrote an article discussing the old school word of mouth viral for the film The Boondock Saints, and how it was relying strictly on how bad it’s fans wanted to see the first film in the theaters. No flashy gimmicks. No websites with secret passwords (although… Read More
Proof that a director should always edit the trailer himself !Makes me wanna see this film much more than the “regular” trailers..