Chris Thilk is a long-time movie blogger and has added Director of Marketing here at Spout to his list of life achievements, where it joins appearing on "Bozo's Circus" at age 10, being told to take off an apparently offensive shirt before entering Six Flag's Great America and deciding that two kidneys were one more than he actually needed. He currently writes the Movie Marketing Madness blog (http://www.moviemarketingmadness.com/blog) and has previously contributed to Cinematical.com during the Karina Longworth Era. Chris has also contributed columns on movie marketing and related topics to iMediaConnection.com, Brandweek and MediaBullseye.com and has written about advertising and marketing for the now-defunct AdJab and the still-somehow-functioning-without-him MarketingVox.com. He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his family, including two boys who he tries to school in the ways of the Marx Brothers whenever possible
If you’re looking for one place to tune into online for commentary and reactions to this year’s Oscars broadcast your search is now over: Karina and the rest of the SpoutBlog team will be live-tweeting the Oscars this year, sending in their thougts on who won, who didn’t and all the rest of the goings-on.
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We’ve got two DVD copies of Body of Lies that we’re looking to give away today.
The official synopsis:
Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe star in Body of Lies. The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, scrambling to stay ahead of [...]
As a quick follow-up to my earlier post on Karina appearing in an ad campaign for Liz Claiborne, the campaign’s launch got a write-up in The New York Times the other day. Karina doesn’t get name-dropped, an obvious huge editorial oversight, but does appear in the picture attached to the article.
(The following was written by Adam Forrest, SkyPilot on Spout, who works on the Marketing and Publishing team. - CT)
He’s Just Not That Into You may look like just another romantic comedy based on a book, but it’s a different animal altogether. Let’s ride on its coattails and build a list of potential Self-Help Blockbusters.
I [...]
If you want to know what the coolest thing to hit my Inbox today was, it’s the news that the first part of an ad campaign for Isaac Mizrahi’s new line for Liz Claiborne has launched.
Why am I writing about the launch of a new campaign on Inside.Spout? Because this is no ordinary ad campaign: [...]
Spout has a whole stack of DVDs that we’re raring to send out to some lucky winners today. Here’s what’s stacked up on our desk:
Being There, the comedy classic starring Peter Sellers as a simple gardener mistaken for a high-society intellectual. If you’ve never seen it you’re missing out on one of the all-time great [...]
As Christi said, better late than never:
Lists-
Doc, You Meant Airy? (299)
Puppets (53)
Cinnamon Tography (73)
Saw the Film First but Still Need to Read the Book (3)
Discussions-
Top Trailers of 2008
Latest unknown fave
Predictions and Commentary, 2009
Please Explain to Me Why Slumdog Millionaire Does Not Suck
I don’t want to publish the Twitter identities of those who have won tickets to see The Dark Knight on IMAX, a contest we announced yesterday, but I will tell you what movies they told us, via Twitter, what movies they’d like to see released on the IMAX screen:
Caligula
Blade Runner
Mulholland Drive
Once Upon a Time in [...]
As I said more than once during Spout’s sponsored day at the Slamdance Film Festival, I just dig getting a bunch of people in a room and talking about what works and what doesn’t, regardless of the topic. I don’t care if you’re discussing lawn care solutions, social media marketing or, as was the case [...]
Paul and Kevin have got a great contest running through Spout’s FilmCouch podcast that couldn’t be easier to enter: Just send filmcouch-@-spout-.-com an email with the best product you’ve ever seen the face of revolutionary Che Guevara on. The iconic figure’s face has been plastered on countless items so surely you’ve come across - or [...]
Spout has 10 tickets to giveaway to see The Dark Knight on IMAX. The movie, which just this morning received an Oscar nomination for Heath Ledger as Best Supporting Actor, is returning to the big big screen tomorrow, January 23rd on 143 IMAX screens across the country.
All you have to do to win is [...]
There’s a movie that, unless you live on the bleeding edge of the foreign film world, you probably haven’t heard about. It’s called Three Monkeys. Here’s the description of the movie as it appears on its Spout movie detail page:
A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to [...]
So much good stuff happening in the Spout discussion and group communities lately.
Discussions:
The Worst of 2008
Movies Spout Needs to Watch
Oscar Buzz and Awards Season 2009
APPALOOSA DVD Giveaway
Best Movie Lists — DVD giveaway
Lists:
L.A. is Like . . . Nowhere (36)
Golden Globes Winners, 2009 (12)
Films featuring Hillary Clinton (34)
Breaking the Fourth Wall (8)
Top 5 Female Lead Performances for 2008 (11)
As you might have noticed lately, Spout is working on a number of fronts to further the connection between awareness (the goal of a marketing campaign) and consumption (the goal of a distribution strategy) for filmmakers and other stakeholders in a film’s success.
It’s important to remember, though, that continued conversation plays a big role in [...]
What better way to get in the mood for the double-barrelled shotgun blast of Sundance and Slamdance than by entering to win one of five copies of The Deal on DVD. Here’s what the movie is all about:
A struggling film producer (William H. Macy) teams up with a beleaguered studio executive (Meg Ryan) who is [...]
Kevin Buist
FLAME + CITRON Review
Christopher Campbell
Happy Halloween Links. Today in Film...
Brandon Harris
5 80s Literary Adaptations Worse Than...
Kevin Kelly
John Krasinski, Brief Interviews With...
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog, Now Available in Book Form
Paul Moore
October 31, Karina’s Last Day
Lauren Wissot
Sasha Grey Interview
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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