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Author Topic: Incredible newspaper ad for 'FENCES' Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 12-04-2016 06:54 PM                     I deliver newspapers for a living. It pays twice as much as my management position at a movie theater I've been at for 10 years. [/bitter] Anyway, This was the FRONT cover ad for the New York Times. I've never seen anything like it in my 5 years of delivery. The thing is huge. 48"x22". Sorry for the poor quality photos. I love it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2016 09:50 PM                        Well, that looks expensive.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2016 10:25 PM                        I'm sure it cost more than my theatre will gross all year.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 12-05-2016 02:50 AM                     Oh I can't even imagine. Full color, full 8 page COVER ad on the New York Times on a SUNDAY? That's some crazy crazy money there.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-05-2016 10:06 AM                     Geez. I saw a few ads for the Friday and Sunday New York Times that spanned two full pages when I lived in NYC. But nothing quite like that. It's kind of a shame that a huge newspaper ad like that has no big 70mm logo.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2016 10:18 AM                        And not even 3D?!?! Why bother  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 12-05-2016 03:24 PM                        This is the first time I've seen anything resembling a description of the movie. Up until this point, all Paramount has to say is: quote: FENCES is directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, adapted from Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The film stars Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sydney. The trailer just seems to portray that this is a movie about a very bitter man and his issues with his son and wife. Maybe I'm just unaware of this "Pulitzer prize-winning play" but it seems like they're leaning too heavily on the fact that Denzel Washington is in it and people should see it because of that fact alone.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2016 07:22 PM                        Well he IS a draw, so there's that. Generally though when people direct themselves in movies, the movies suck. The one reliable exception is Clint Eastwood.  |  IP: Logged Rex Oliver Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Greenville, NC. USA Registered: Apr 2013 posted 12-06-2016 03:20 AM                     That "Fences" ad is sort of clever!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-06-2016 05:49 AM                     Delivering papers pays more than theaters nowadays? That's pretty sad- I've moved on to accounting, one area where it's actually OK to care mainly about money and little else.  |  IP: Logged

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