Sharknado: The L.A. Chainsaw Massacre

As you probably know Sharknado is this year’s talk of the summer and totally unexpected hit. The movie was produced by TV network SyFy and cost somewhere between $1 million to $2…

Product placement in pictures: Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers is an interesting movie by an interesting director Harmony Korine. It follows four college-aged girls (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) on their spring break. However, the…

Die Hard is 25 years old

Have you read About page on Brands & Films? Among other things it says: my favorite movie is Die Hard. Sounds funny? It probably is, but the movie is sooo good and…

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…

Hershey’s in Mad Men: The currency of affection

There was an interesting product placement in Mad Men’s season 6 finale. It involved Hershey’s, the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. Hershey’s is one of the oldest chocolate companies in the…

Product placement in Miley Cyrus’ We Can’t Stop

We Can’t Stop is the first single from the upcoming fourth album by Miley Cyrus and was released on June 3, 2013. Within 10 hours of its release, the song topped the…

Brands&Films was featured on Apparatus podcast

On June 19, 2013 Anže Tomić published his latest Apparatus podcast and I can proudly say that I was his guest. We talked about product placement (of course) and other business aspects…

Nokia Lumia 925 in Man of Steel

We have read that Lumia 925, Nokia’s latest mobile phone, will have a part in the upcoming Superman movie Man of Steel. Below you can see Lumia 925’s product placement from the…

Jura coffee machine in Modern Family

There was an interesting object in the 18th episode of Modern Family‘s fourth season: a coffee machine in Jay’s and Gloria’s kitchen. At the first glance I thought: it must be Jura.…

Product placement prostitution: J.Lo’s Live It Up

Live It Up is a new single by Jennifer Lopez from her upcoming eighth studio album. It features guest vocals by Pitbull and represents their third collaboration – following “On the Floor”…

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…