Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: 'Fighiting Temptations'

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-15-2003, 03:56 AM:

What's up with "Fighting Temptations"?
I haven't seen such billboardage & 1/2 page newspaper ads for a movie since the 70s. The promotion must be coming out of a burst dam of green crinkly money.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-15-2003, 11:48 AM:

Fighting what? Never heard of it.

Oh, wait ... that movie. He must have collected his inheritance.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 09-15-2003, 05:44 PM:

Paramount must have done more advertising in Alabama than usual. Based on the standee, The Fighting Temptations appears to be a gospel-themed musical -- and Alabama has a large black population.

From time to time you'll see ads for new releases on subway/bus cards and highway billboards. Where I live DreamWorks and Fox run a lot of outdoor advertising for their movies.

Adam: The Fighting Temptations had a sneak preview last Saturday and opens this Friday. It stars Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-15-2003, 06:01 PM:

I remember that picture now... it's got one of the dumbest standees I've seen in a while.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-16-2003, 01:05 AM:

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Paramount must have done more advertising in Alabama than usual. Based on the standee, The Fighting Temptations appears to be a gospel-themed musical -- and Alabama has a large black population.

Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - there's a HUGE billboard for it on Canal Street in New Orleans, where only liquor companies can afford them usually!

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 09-19-2003, 05:13 PM:

William--

Shhhhh..... Utah may be lurking! [beer]

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 09-28-2003, 01:19 AM:

Talking about standees, where do you guys get them? By the time second run comes along for us, we are lucky if they still have 1-sheets. We ran MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING and were told we could only have one 1-sheet. Asking for a standee from the studio's promotion dept and I frequently get "what is it you want?" with that sound in the voice which is reminiscent of someone who has just heard a question spoken in Martian.

Frank

Posted by Nicholas Roznovsky (Member # 861) on 10-06-2003, 05:00 PM:

Our discount locations have only had success in getting standees and other promotional materials by ordering them prior to their first-run release. Most have a corner of their storerooms reserved for standees and banners that sit there for a few months and then they use them once the features are booked. Not a perfect system, but one which works and helps them avoid being shut-out by distributor promo departments.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 10-08-2003, 07:39 PM:

Actually, since we play older titles that have already come out on video, I have been able to hit up our local independent video store to give us the standee for the video release. Usually we only have to block out a small reference to the video or add a line that says "DVD of this title available at Hollywood Video." But this system is only hit and miss.

I guess the best thing to do would be to order prerelease standees for films that I think even remotely will be something that I will want to play. That will be a lot of cardboard stored below the stage!

Frank