Stories from Chris Thilk

  1. Ces 2012

    Chris Thilk &bull Jan 17, 2012

    Last week I had the experience of attending the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, my first time at CES. I was there assisting a client who had a major presence there with their live publishing from the show floor to their… Full Story »

  2. "Who am I, Haslam?"

    Chris Thilk &bull Jan 13, 2012

    My response to Voce's Matt Podboy when asked whether I knew which movie he was quoting. Full Story »

  3. Piling On

    Chris Thilk &bull Jan 6, 2012

    The other day Gini Dietrich was wondering if more harm than good is done when writers regurgitate someone's latest failings in the realm of public relations in general and social media public relations specifically. I'm going to come down very much in the "harm" column on this… Full Story »

  4. Closing the book on MMM

    Chris Thilk &bull Jan 3, 2012

    After doing some thinking about priorities, time available and generally what I want to be spending my time on I've decided to, for all intents and purposes, mothball and shut down Movie Marketing Madness. Sometime in March moviemarketingmadness.com will simply… Full Story »

  5. Here's why there's little the government can do about jobs

    Chris Thilk &bull Jul 30, 2011

    The current debt-ceiling drama is in many respects about the role of the government in the nation's economy and, subsequently, about job creation. But this story shows quite starkly why that's kind of a ridiculous conversation to have since it's… Full Story »

  6. Success spared us these headlines

    Chris Thilk &bull May 9, 2011

    Let's be thankful Thor did pretty well at the box-office in its opening weekend otherwise we would have been subjected to some variation on the following headlines: "Thor Can't Defeat Low-Key Audience Interest" "Midgard Audiences Do What Midgard Serpent Couldn't"… Full Story »

  7. What's the after-Like plan?

    Chris Thilk &bull May 6, 2011

    One piece of advice I often come back to is something a drama coach said to a bunch of us who were involved in a summer production in high school: When you go out there tonight the people in the… Full Story »

  8. Less angst, more Skrulls

    Chris Thilk &bull May 3, 2011

    Comic book movies have, to date, been very human endeavors. Even when there are more cosmic components to the story in such movies - the imprisonment and escape of Zod and his cronies and things like that - the primary… Full Story »

  9. Missed timing opportunity

    Chris Thilk &bull Apr 29, 2011

    I still think it's a shame Marvel/Paramount isn't releasing Thor on Thursday of next week. I know that only about 250 people in the country would find it funny and most of them would be professors of ancient mythology but… Full Story »

  10. What does "indie" mean?

    Chris Thilk &bull Apr 22, 2011

    Filmmaker Magazine has a good story on the psuedo-indie moves being made by large studios, some of which ring more true than others. Full Story »

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