Tag: beer

Estrella Galicia Beer in Money Heist

Product placement has long been a popular advertising strategy in the entertainment industry, with companies paying top dollar to have their products appear in popular TV shows and movies. Spanish brewery Estrella…

Product placement in pictures: The Intern

A few weeks ago I received a tweet from a colleague asking me if I had seen The Intern, the latest Robert De Niro movie. He was appalled by the huge number…

Product placement in pictures: Furious 7

Furious 7, the latest in the Fast&Furious series, was a massive success at the box office. With the reported budget of $190 million it grossed more than $1.5 billion, which is more…

Product placement in pictures: Gone Girl

Gone Girl was one of the most anticipated movies of 2014. It’s based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck (Nick Dunne) and Rosamund…

Product placement in pictures: Neighbors

Neighbors is one of those Judd Apatow movies: a raunchy, profane comedy with sex, T&A, drugs and a lot of four-letter words. I have to admit that I like Apatow-ish movies, but…

Product placement in pictures: Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars is a fictional character from the television series, Veronica Mars, which aired on the UPN and CW networks from 2004 to 2007. It is also a title of the 2014…

Lone Star beer in True Detective

True Detective is a new TV show on HBO with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in the leading roles. The story is set along the coastal plain of South Louisiana, where it…

Product placement slideshow: The Canyons

When it comes to the list of the worst movies that I saw in 2013 The Canyons comes second. The clear winner is the incredibly awful Movie 43, which will be at…

Product placement in pictures: Man of Steel

In the era of superhero remakes it was expected that we would get a Superman movie too. Even though we had Superman Returns in 2006, Hollywood just had to make it. We…

Product placement in pictures: Fast and Furious 6

Let me borrow some words from James Berardinelli, my favorite movie critic: Fast & Furious 6 is “mindless entertainment”. The plot feels like warmed-over bad James Bond. Think of the worst 007…

Product placement slideshow: Iron Man 3

What can you expect from one of this year’s blockbusters? Big budget, great success at the box office and lots of product placement? Well, you’ll get everything. Iron Man 3 lived up…

Budweiser’s product placement: Flight vs That’s My Boy

Perhaps you’ve read about Budweiser’s complaint over their appearance in the latest Robert Zemeckis’ movie Flight, starring Denzel Washington. If not, here’s a short recap: Anheuser-Busch (the owner of Budweiser brand) has…

New beer in New Girl

Do you know which beer is present in almost every episode of TV series New Girl It’s a strange beer in bottles with a red label. It’s called Heisler beer. Heisler beer…