Category "product-placement"

First movie with product placement?

We were watching The Goonies (1985) tonight and I noticed that in the initial scenes one of the characters is rather prominently holding a Pepsi in his hand.

Did the tobacco industry fund MIB 1 and 2?

I just saw Men in Black 3 and enjoyed it immensely. There was practically no smoking in the film. In MIB 1 and 2, there was a lot of smoki

How did Starbucks, Fuddruckers, and Carl's Jr. respond to Idiocracy?

In the movie Idiocracy (2006), several real-life name brands are made fun of. The three I remember: Starbucks gives hand jobs Fuddruckers changes its name to

Why is a special company's product shown through out a film?

Today I completed Bourne Trilogy and noticed a thing very interesting. They used Motorola as cell phone for each person in the movie which is very impractical.

Does Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) use a Microsoft Surface™?

On the American broadcast of the Elementary episode "You Do It to Yourself", there was a product placement scene where Sherlock Holmes prepares his Microsoft Su

Can Product Placement in Movies break the 4th Wall?

Alrighty. I noticed when watching Red Planet the other day, that there is advertising on the suits worn by the ground crew that travels to the Martian Surface.

Is every appearance of a product in a movie sponsored?

Inevitably products that are on sale pop up all the time like cars, whisky and phones. If the props department happens to use an Audi, Jack Daniels or an iphone

Why is it always the same type of beer cup used in college-style movies/series?

This has been a mystery to me for quite a while. I'm talking about this cup: The screenshot is from the 2008s movie Fanboys. The exact same cup also appears in

Why does Arrow have so much Microsoft product placement?

Numerous times have I seen a Microsoft tablet running windows 8 and Bing search engine is used by Diggs to search the internet. Did Microsoft have a product pl

Are the brands worn by the stars in a movie part of promotions?

Are the products of different famous brands like 'Converse', 'Nike', 'Diesel', 'Calvin klein' (to name a few), be it shoes or clothes, worn by the stars in Holl

Are weapon manufacturers investing in product placement?

Basically in every movie or tv series we can find product placement. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and many others are promoting their products throu

Was this episode of Community sponsored by Honda

In Season 6 Episode 7 of Community (Advanced Safety Features), the plot involves Britta agreeing to a guerilla marketing campaign and they manage to suggest to

Apple products in movies

Does Apple Computer ever use paid Product Placement in movies or TV shows? While Apple laptops appear frequently in The Big Bang Theory I have never seen any of

Authentic Standard Life campaign?

One of the many haunting images from the nuclear post-apocalyptic film Threads is folk shuffling around a poster for Standard Life (a genuine, famous, UK insura

What is the significance of Shasta soft drinks?

In the movie, Signs, there is a scene depicting an old man who is an owner of a book store complaining about soda commercials and the frequency that they are be

Were there any legal issues due to McDonald's references?

In The Wolf of Wall Street 2013, we see many references to "Working at McDonald's" all throughout the film: My question here is: Were there any legal issues du

Why is Applebee's in so many movies?

I generally presume when a product is featured in a studio film that it is an intentional product placement. It seems like a lot of movies in the last decade ha

Why do so many people have a Toyota Prius in La La Land?

Remember the scene where Mia is asking her car keys to Sebastian at the end of the party, and there is only Prius keys in the box? Why are there so many Prius

Curious bit of production design in the cars in Lemony Snicket

In the 2004 movie, "A Series of Unfortunate Events", on the dashboards of both Olaf's and Poe's cars is what appears to be a small open reel tape player. While

Product placements in I, Robot [closed]

Probably most of the viewers of the movie I, robot noticed the Audi product placement. Also converse are pretty visible. But I wonder it the m