Even though the movie industry has experienced some slowdown in the past two years, the outlook is very optimistic for the near future. The success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and other…
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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…
Spectre is 24th James Bond movie and one of the biggest, most anticipated movies of the year. Daniel Craig is still agent 007 and Christoph Waltz is the main villain Ernst Stavro…
I first heard about the TV show Orphan Black through a friend of mine who raved about it, saying that it’s a must see. I hesitated but gave it a go. At…
The title says it all: it’s a disgrace. Even if Avril Lavigne & co. wanted to show the irony of product placement in music videos, it doesn’t look like it. It’s just…
After Netflix released its TV series House of Cards a lot of unsatisfied viewers vented their frustration on Twitter. Messages such as two below continue to appear on my Twitter feed: “Worst…
The Avengers was the highest grossing movie of 2012 and one of the biggest box-office hits of the past few years. Below you can see the highest grossing movies (worldwide) in 2012…
I published a lengthy piece on product placement in the latest Bond movie a couple of months ago in the blog post Product placement in pictures: Skyfall. At that time I could…
A lot has been written about excessive and blatant product placement in the latest Bond movie Skyfall. But let me say somethingdifferent: product placement in Skyfall wasn’t excessive and wasn’t blatant. Actually…
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…
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,…
Here it is: the annual review of the best of the best in product placement and branded entertainment. In my previous feature The Best of 2010 I chose iPad’s placement in Modern…
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…