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Picking Up the Spare – Detroit, Lady Bird, Wind River and More

Detroit

Part of John Boyega’s appearance during the Star Wars publicity cycle also touched on this movie’s rerelease into theaters for an awards season push.

Lady Bird / Get Out

Directors Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele, both of whom broke out as significant behind-the-camera talents this year, were the subjects of a Vanity Fair photo shoot/cover story talking about their career journeys to date and what might be next.

Lady Bird

Saoirse Ronan talked more about working with Gerwig and what drew her to the story here.

The actor also hosted last week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” where Gerwig dropped by for one of the digital shorts.

Good Time

I didn’t write about the movie’s campaign, but Krstina Monllos at Adweek has a story on how A24 is promoting its home video release with a pizza box campaign in New York City.

Wind River

Director Taylor Sheridan was so outraged by the news about Harvey Weinstein that he called to extract the rights to the movie and have them revert to the Tunica-Biloxi tribe, which has taken over awards season promotions. Proceeds from the film are also being sent to an organization that tracks abuse of Native American women, something that’s drastically uncounted currently.

Coco

The movie has continued receiving plenty of TV advertising, including spots like this that encouraged families to see it in IMAX.

The Frozen short that was shown before the movie was much-derided by just about everyone, so when it was announced it was being removed it seemed to be in reaction to that criticism. Disney soon claimed, though, that a limited run was always the plan.

LBJ

More from director Rob Reiner here about why he wanted to tell Johnson’s story and how he made the movie happen.

Alien: Covenant

Director Ridley Scott spoke briefly about the future of the franchise, assuring fans there would be more movies coming but that they take a different approach.

Wonder Woman

Not that surprising, really, but Wonder Woman is the most-Tweeted about film of 2017.

I, Tonya

Makeup artist Deborah La Mia Denaver talked about how she turned star Margot Robbie into the much different looking Tonya Harding. And director Craig Gillespie spoke about how a career shooting commercials – including one starring Nancy Kerrigan – prepared him for the movie.

Darkest Hour

Costar Lily Collins has done some media to promote the film now that it’s in theaters as well as talk about other upcoming projects.

Wonderstruck

Production designer Mark Friedberg talks here about creating the miniatures and dioramas that were used in the film to bridge the story’s two time periods.

Chris Thilk is a freelance writer and content strategist who lives in the Chicago suburbs.

Picking Up the Spare: Hidden Figures, What Happened to Monday, Patti Cake$

Catching up on recent marketing moves from films including Hidden Figures, Wind River and others.

Hidden Figures

  • The movie and its message of promoting STEM education for girls and women has inspired the “#HiddenNoMore” campaign from the U.S. State Department bringing female professionals in those fields from around the world to the U.S..

What Happened to Monday

  • Noomi Rapace gave an interview where she talked about taking on a role requiring her to play seven siblings, how that role was originally written for a man and more.
  • Tommy Wirkola also talked about how, despite “Orphan Black” being an obvious point of comparison for the story, he didn’t seek out or watch that show so as to avoid any influences or unintentional repetition. He was also interviewed about filming action sequences, what he hope audiences get out of the story and more.

Patti Cake$

  • A well-known verse from a 1998 rap from Big Pun was apparently instrumental in star Danielle Macdonald getting into character.
  • Rolling Stone goes in-depth on the making of the movie and the journey it took from script to festival to release.
  • Meanwhile Jason Bailey at Flavorwire asks if being a feel-good crowd-pleaser that accumulates some decent buzz at festivals is all there is and if it’s enough to call a movie a success.

Fun Mom Dinner

  • Star Toni Collette gave a recent interview talking about how much fun the set was as everyone was having a great time telling the story.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  • IDW is publishing a new graphic novel adaptation of the film’s story. The new edition is scheduled to come out this December.

Alien: Covenant

  • Fox has continued to spend big on TV ads for the movie to keep up interest in its home video release.

Logan Lucky

  • Very cool new poster for the movie that has some great visuals and sense of style.

Ghost In the Shell

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

  • Karen Gomez at Film School Rejects calls attention to the meta turn later TV spots for the movie took, including having Reynolds and Jackson snipe at each other through narration in the commercials.

Wind River

  • TWC released another “online” trailer for Wind River that dispenses with much of the intrigue around the secrets being hidden and just focuses on the tension of the investigation into the killing.