Brands & Films

Reflections on product placement in movies, music and on TV

Category: set-jetting

Brands & Films in Ekran magazine

The latest issue of Ekran, Slovenian monthly magazine for film and television, featured my story about set-jetting “Where lives … Lisbeth Salander?”.

In the article I’ve described this relatively new phenomenon and present some positive effects of appearing in movies on the number of tourists and visitors. Some of the most interesting cases include Rosslyn Chapel [...]

James Bond Crush chapter 2: James Bond Island, Thailand

Phang Nga Bay, depending on the day you go, can be either an eerie otherworldly obstacle course of unforgiving rocks shooting dramatically out of choppy, swirling waves, or an awe-inspiring landscape of mystical green turrets that seem to float serenely on the surface of the water.  Tenacious trees and plant life take root in every [...]

James Bond Crush chapter 1: Café Martinique, Bahamas

The helicopter skims over the waves of the translucent aqua waters, as James hovers precariously at the open door, binoculars trained unerringly on the sea bottom. The missing nuclear-missile equipped plane is somewhere beneath, carefully hidden beneath the curling waves and shifting white sands far below. The plane must be somewhere below…  But, how to [...]

Where is Lisbeth Salander’s home? A review of Millennium Tour in Stockholm

Every Saturday at 11:30 a bunch of people from all over the world gather in front of the yellow building at Bellmansgatan 1 in the capital of Sweden. There are locals, Norwegians, Finns, Germans, Americans, Italians, Venezuelans … and sometimes even visitors from Slovenia. :)
The purpose of coming to this unspectacular place is a bit [...]

Set jetting in Berlin: Run Lola Run

Do you remember the movie Run Lola Run, a hugely successful German movie from 1998 directed by Tom Tykwer and with Franka Potente as a leading character? The story follows a girl (Lola) who needs to get 100,000 German marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend Manni’s life.
She starts her quest at her apartment [...]