MOMA: Movies & Marketing: Recent Episodes
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The Movies & Marketing podcast is an effort to dig deep on movie marketing, trying to get a sense of why some movies find an audience and others don’t.
We talk about movie trailers, what works and what doesn’t; dive into some box office numbers, both US & international; revisit the marketing campaigns for some classic films (or what we consider classic films anyway); analyze the marketing narratives surrounding movie award nominees and winners; and talk about movie posters, viral marketing, social media, and a whole lot of other fun stuff.
If you love movies or marketing—or both—this is definitely a podcast you should check out and subscribe to wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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Like a ballerina firing a naked gun, we take our first steps toward rebirth by saluting the dramatic conclusion of the summer movie season.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #SUMMER #MovieTitles #MovieAwards #2024 #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
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We dive into the cinematic magic (and madness) of one actor pulling double duty as their own sibling.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2025 #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #BestOfList #ActionMovies
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Because action is best delivered with a perfectly timed quip, we unleash the deadliest, most explosive wisecracks in the history of cinema.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2025 #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #BestOfList #ActionMovies
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From the world of MOMA: Two jurassic supermen go full final reckoning, getting freakier and more fantastically fourward as they train dragons, dodge zombies, and try not to get M3GAN’d while drafting the summer’s biggest box office hits.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2025 #SummerMovies #F1 #MissionImpossible #Superman #LookUp #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #Future #Draft #LiloStitch #JohnWick #TheNakedGun
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We dig into the marketing efforts that helped turn pixelated blocks into a blockbuster success.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #BoxOffice #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #MOMA #Retrospect #Opinions #Reviews #Minecraft
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Titanic 2? Bob Marley: One Love: Part Deux? We pitch ideas for film continuations no one saw coming.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #BoxOffice #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #MOMA #Retrospect #Opinions #Reviews #Sequels
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From spine-tingling orchestral swells to unforgettable anthems, some movie soundtracks don’t just complement the film—they elevate it to a whole new level. In this episode, we compile a list of iconic soundtracks that transcend the screen, embedding themselves into pop culture and our collective memories.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Soundtracks #BoxOffice #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #MOMA #Retrospect #Opinions #Reviews
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We rank the major movie studios based on who has the most mojo right now.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Holidays #trivia #BoxOffice #Retrospect #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #MOMA #SpeakingHuman
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From “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “Red One”, join us in testing our knowledge of classic Christmas flicks.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Holidays #trivia #BoxOffice #Retrospect #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #MOMA #SpeakingHuman
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We celebrate the month of November by serving up some delicious box-office bombs.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Turkeys #BoxOfficeBombs #BoxOffice #Retrospect #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Reviews #MOMA #SpeakingHuman
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It ends with us: We close out the blockbuster season by extending our longlegs to honor the movies that made us ride or die.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #SUMMER #MovieTitles #MovieAwards #2024 #Cinema #Theaters #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
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Is Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice one of the best names for a sequel in history? We have the answer.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #MichaelKeaton #MovieTitles #sequels #beetlejuicebeetlejuice #timburton #beetlejuice #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
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In honor of Labor Day, we look at how movies show and sell us the agony and glory of work.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #LaborDay #WorkMovies #MenAtWork #WeekendAtBernies #HorribleBosses #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
The legendary comedian and star of the new “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” faces off against various versions of himself throughout his career.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2024 #SummerMovies #EddieMurphy #BeverlyHillsCop #AxelF #Comedy #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
We talk about the marketing for Bad Boys 4 and share our picks for best on-screen pairings.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2024 #SummerMovies #BadBoys #RideOrDie #TangoCash #MovieDuo #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #BoxOffice
Two despicable deadpool bad boys team up, get twistered and turned inside out, and let their furiosa fly me to the moon as they compete to predict the top movies at the summer box office.
Warning: This episode will not be a quiet place (but you may feel trapped).
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #2024 #SummerMovies #QuietPlace #Deadpool #InsideOut2 #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #Future
You’re just trying to play roller hockey in a burnt out wasteland with your orphan friends when you find a weird ball of light… that’s this episode.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Solar #SolarBabies #PostApocalyptic #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review #Future
Have we ever seen anything like Mark Wahlberg’s performance in The Happening?
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #MarkWahlberg #MarkyMark #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review
We try not to sink under “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” as we balance our list of greatest Nicolas Cage co-pilots.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #NicholasCage #Cage #SpeakingHuman #Opinions #Review
In a wasteland bereft of big movie releases, the world awaits the arrival of a blockbuster bearing a bizarre promotional popcorn bucket.
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Movies #Marketing #Podcast #Dune #Sandworm #Popcorn #Hype #DaveBautista #ChristopherWalken
We spotlight movie title sequences that continue to kick around our hippocampuses long after the end credits have rolled.
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Movies #Marketing #Credits #StarWars #CatchMeIfYouCan #ScottPilgrim #Watchmen #Podcast
Over 400 new movies hit theaters or streaming this year. Only four made our list of favorite movie poster art.
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Movies #Marketing #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Barbenheimer #Spiderverse #Podcast
We look back on the summer movie season to see which movies turned out to be Barbies and which ones were just Kens.
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Movies #Marketing #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Barbenheimer #Spiderverse #Podcast
Anyone can make a sequel, but a great threequel is a rare feat. We pay tribute to some part threes that took trilogies to triumphant new heights.
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Movies #Marketing
Two iconic 90s B-movie action stars enter the THUNDERDOME! Only one will emerge victorious.
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We all know Harrison Ford for playing iconic characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, but how does his career hold up without those franchise staples?
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It's a dead reckoning when two rivals navigate mermaids, spider-verses, and transformers to predict the biggest box office hits of the summer movie season and meet their dial of destiny.
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Can today's advanced AI generate blockbuster movie concepts? We test it to find out.
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We watch every trailer that aired during Super Bowl 57 and rank them based on how much hype they produced.
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Movie trailers don’t always paint an accurate picture. But when do they cross the line?
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When it comes to home video cover art, you be hard-pressed to find more muscle than the films of Sly Stallone.
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We honor the winners and losers of a rollercoaster movie season that delivered us everything from mavericks and minions to carnivores and crawdads.
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Play along as we answer trivia questions about movies released in the month of August over the past 40 years.
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Two maverick podcasters must confront the ghosts of their past to complete a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice: predicting the box-office winners of a thin 2022 summer movie lineup.
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Nine Batman movies enter Thunderdome. Only one survives.
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From Super Mario Bros. to Uncharted, dozens of video games have tried jumping to the big screen. But would they be better in multiplayer mode?
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We’ve all been there: you go to rent “Transformers” and you accidentally rent “Transmorphers”. Welcome to the wonderful world of Mockbusters.
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35 years ago a movie hit theaters that wildly blended genres and delivered an iconic Kurt Russel performance. It crashed and burned at the box office... but it's legend has lived on.
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We look back on lessons learned from a weird season at the box office and award the champion of our annual summer movie draft.
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In honor of “No Time to Die” finally hitting theaters, we share our picks for top named films in the James Bond franchise.
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We look back at a movie over twenty years old and rewatch Nic Cage and Angelina Jolie heist a ton of cars in one high-octane night. The verdict? It might just be our favorite guilty pleasure.
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He’s been making movies for 20 years. But how strong is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film career?
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After a year without summer movies we’re back drafting our (suicide?) squads of summer movies we think will make the most bank at the U.S. box office.
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They’re dying to save the franchise. Can the marketing for The Suicide Squad (2021) make us forget the horrors of watching Suicide Squad (2016)?
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Many people rely on Rotten Tomatoes for their movie-watching decisions. But what does a Tomatometer score really mean? We conduct a test.
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He’s made more than a dozen movies in the past three years—most of them completely bonkers. But what if Nic Cage’s recent films had to fight each other to the death?
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We talk about our personal experiences renting out movie theaters for private watch parties.
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No, we’re not talking about the biggest birds to ever grace the big screen. We’re talking about movies that crashed and burned the hardest at the box office.
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Sometimes you don’t even have to see the movie to scream. In honor of the Halloween season, we share our picks for the four most frightening movie trailers of all time.
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We travel through time with Bill & Ted’s latest adventure—sharing our excellent expectations before the movie, some radical reactions while watching, and our post-viewing takeaways on whether this trip was worth the 30-year wait.
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Since the pandemic has put the brakes on the current summer movie season, we decided to look back on some of the high and lows of summer movies past.
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With the short- and long-term future of summer movies currently hanging in the balance, we forecast whether the blockbuster season can return to its former glory.
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With the coronavirus throwing the film industry for a loop in 2020 and possibly well beyond, we talk about what the future of movies might look like (on an old voicemail messaging system) and why we enjoy them in the theater.
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Do you have questions about The Rise of Skywalker? While we love us some Star Wars, we couldn’t help but question this movie at a breakneck pace, in honor of the movie itself.
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With society disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, what else can we do except talk about movies where viruses break out and disrupt society?
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From The Hustler to Hoosiers to Happy Gilmore, we make our picks for the all-time greatest sports movie ad slogans.
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Will The Hurt Locker get blown away when we rewire the 2010 best picture race a decade later?
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As we move into a new decade, we explore how movies from previous decades imagined the future.
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Any movie can be about Christmas, but what movies have done the best job injecting the holiday spirit into their trailers?
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From Friday The 13th to Flatliners to The Darkness, we reflect on the meaty movie career of actor Kevin Bacon.
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As the blockbuster season comes to a close, we crown the champion of our annual box office challenge and discuss the summer’s hits and misses.
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https://thinkmonsters.com/speakinghuman/media/moma-movies-and-marketing-podcast-2019-summer-movie-champion/
After 30-plus years of service, Maverick flies back into our lives with a new Top Gun trailer. Does the trailer match our sky-high expectations?
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Alien and the return of Men in Black, we dissect some of the best & worst space creature movie marketing.
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From Godzilla to Spider-Man to The Lion King, we draft our summer blockbuster teams to see who can rake in the most green.
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Does this first glimpse of the new Wick relight our interest in returning to the world of neon, assassins, and non-stop action?
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As the 21st Marvel movie hits theaters, we share our picks for the five MCU pictures with the most powerful posters.
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Sorry, Shakespeare in Love. With 20 years of hindsight, we can now more confidently say what movies should have really won Oscars in 1999.
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In 1991, the greatest movie ever made about surfing bank robbers slammed into theaters like the 50-year storm hitting Bell’s Beach. We revisit the marketing behind the movie and talk about why this flick has held up as a classic.
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Two movies featuring otherworldly title characters are released on the same day, seemingly aimed at the same audience. Which one had the better marketing?
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We’ve got a new podcast coming your way for 2019. The name of the podcast? Drum roll please… Movies & Marketing.
If you’ve ever listened to the Speaking Human podcast, you know we frequently reference movies and use movie marketing as a macrocosm for what many brands are dealing with on a much smaller basis. We’ve done episodes of the show where we've handed out movie marketing awards and made predictions for the summer box office, and those episodes have consistently ranked among our most popular. We figured the time was right for a spin off...
So what will happen on the Movies & Marketing podcast? We’re going to dig deep on movie marketing to try to get a sense of why some movies find an audience and others don’t. We have a lot of interesting things planned. We going to talk about trailers, what works and what doesn’t; dive into some box office numbers, both US & international; revisit the marketing campaigns for some classic films (or what we consider classic films anyway); analyze the marketing narratives surrounding movie award nominees and winners; and talk about movie posters, viral marketing, social media, and a whole lot of other fun stuff.
If you love movies or marketing—or both—this is definitely a podcast you’ll want to check out. Look for Movies & Marketing coming soon to SpeakingHuman.com, and iTunes, Google Play, Speaker, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.