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Author Topic: 'Fighiting Temptations' - what's up? William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2003 03:56 AM                        What's up with "Fighting Temptations"? I haven't seen such billboardage & 1/2 page newspaper ads for a movie since the 70s. The promotion must be coming out of a burst dam of green crinkly money.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-15-2003 11:48 AM                     Fighting what? Never heard of it. Oh, wait ... that movie. He must have collected his inheritance.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 09-15-2003 05:44 PM                     Paramount must have done more advertising in Alabama than usual. Based on the standee, The Fighting Temptations appears to be a gospel-themed musical -- and Alabama has a large black population. From time to time you'll see ads for new releases on subway/bus cards and highway billboards. Where I live DreamWorks and Fox run a lot of outdoor advertising for their movies. Adam: The Fighting Temptations had a sneak preview last Saturday and opens this Friday. It stars Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-15-2003 06:01 PM                        I remember that picture now... it's got one of the dumbest standees I've seen in a while.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-2003 01:05 AM                        quote: Paramount must have done more advertising in Alabama than usual. Based on the standee, The Fighting Temptations appears to be a gospel-themed musical -- and Alabama has a large black population. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - there's a HUGE billboard for it on Canal Street in New Orleans, where only liquor companies can afford them usually!  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-19-2003 05:13 PM                     William-- Shhhhh..... Utah may be lurking!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-28-2003 01:19 AM                        Talking about standees, where do you guys get them? By the time second run comes along for us, we are lucky if they still have 1-sheets. We ran MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING and were told we could only have one 1-sheet. Asking for a standee from the studio's promotion dept and I frequently get "what is it you want?" with that sound in the voice which is reminiscent of someone who has just heard a question spoken in Martian. Frank  |  IP: Logged Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-06-2003 05:00 PM                        Our discount locations have only had success in getting standees and other promotional materials by ordering them prior to their first-run release. Most have a corner of their storerooms reserved for standees and banners that sit there for a few months and then they use them once the features are booked. Not a perfect system, but one which works and helps them avoid being shut-out by distributor promo departments.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-08-2003 07:39 PM                        Actually, since we play older titles that have already come out on video, I have been able to hit up our local independent video store to give us the standee for the video release. Usually we only have to block out a small reference to the video or add a line that says "DVD of this title available at Hollywood Video." But this system is only hit and miss. I guess the best thing to do would be to order prerelease standees for films that I think even remotely will be something that I will want to play. That will be a lot of cardboard stored below the stage! Frank  |  IP: Logged

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