21 Jump Street is a 2012 remake of the popular ‘90s TV show of the same name. It stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two young-looking cops who were transferred to…
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Blog posts about product placement in movies.
Chronicle is a 2012 science fiction movie that represents one of the finest movies from the “found footage” subgenre. The definition of found footage from Wikipedia states that “found footage is a…
The only reason I watched This Means War was one notice I found on the internet about a lot of product placement in that movie. To be honest, there was some product…
Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the fourth installment of the popular series and it’s actually quite good (if you like these kind of movies, of course). M:I series is also traditionally…
We Bought a Zoo is the latest Cameron Crowe movie in which Matt Damon plays the lead character, Benjamin Mee. After his wife died, Benjamin and his family moved into a rundown…
One of the most interesting and funny commercials from the last Super Bowl was Audi’s ad for the new Audi S7 called Vampire Party. New Audi shows up at a vampire party…
Intouchables is a French film that premiered in November 2011 and in two months it became the second most successful French film of all time (in number of spectators in France). It’s…
First of all I have to admit that I made a mistake in my annual blog post The Best of 2011. I gave the Product placement surprise of the year award to…
Let’s clear one thing first: product placement prostitution occurs when corporate money directs the movie. We’ve seen cases of that phenomenon before, with some very blatant examples, e.g. Sex ant the City,…
The Help, one of the most successful movies of 2011 is set in 1963, so I hadn’t had high expectations regarding product placement. However I was pleasantly surprised with the number of…
Drive was one of the best and most critically acclaimed movies of 2011 (with a 12-minute standing ovation in Cannes). It was also one of my favorites too. The movie doesn’t have…
Crazy Stupid Love, an American romantic comedy, opens up with a shot of different shoes and legs in a restaurant. After a minute of watching nice shoes and people playing with each…
I rarely enjoy movie comedies, mainly because they’re just not funny and the majority of their jokes are recycled and boring. Horrible Bosses falls in the category of fairly good comedies with…
No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits are two Hollywood movies within a year with the same concept and with lead actresses that had important parts in the brilliant Black Swan. Natalie…
The Smurfs is an animated television series that was hugely popular during my childhood. It was first introduced as a series of comic books by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1958. The…