Enough Publicity?

heartbroken_mr_drax · November 2006

Do you guys think that there is enough publicity of CR?

I dont know about the rest of the world but in new zealand i havent heard much at all on TV etc.

Is there much in UK & US?

Mr Martini · November 2006

Here in my neck of the woods (West Coast USA) I see publicity all over. Posters on the side of buses. And I've yet to watch TV and not see at least 4 commercials for CR. That's in a 4 to 5 hour period. I think CR is getting lots of publicity.

Dan Same · November 2006

In Australia, I have seen just one preview for CR and was before Da Vinci Code. I'm sure however there will be plenty more publicity before the film finally opens (in December.)

heartbroken_mr_drax · November 2006

Dan Same wrote:

In Australia, I have seen just one preview for CR and was before Da Vinci Code. I'm sure however there will be plenty more publicity before the film finally opens (in December.)

yea its decemeber 7th for me too X-( im gonna have to avoid the forums from when it realeases in US and UK till it realeases here. lol

Napoleon Plural · November 2006

Blanket magazine coverage over in London, posters have just gone up. However, Craig is his usual unphotogenic self and the posters of Bond walking into himself are very drear.

Moonraker 5 · November 2006

It's more or less becoming a constant stream in the UK. Ford dealerships are plastered with Casino Royale and 007 logos, other promotional tie ins are lifting off - Sony Ericsson, Heineken, Smirnoff. It's making a lot of magazine covers, not just film magazines, and interviews with cast and crew members are popping up everywhere. Was also quite surprised to hearing it being discussed on Radio 1 the other day between DJ Edith Bowman and film critic James King as the "can't wait for" movie of November, and also the theme tune which neither seemed to have heard yet.

It's starting to make ripples, which going by tradition will become a media tidal wave in the UK come November 16th.

Lady Rose · November 2006

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Blanket magazine coverage over in London, posters have just gone up.

Yes, there is plenty in the magazines at the moment, especially the film mags, but there is also the TV and radio ads.The cinemas also seem to be full of posters for CR. There is also the David Walliams tv programme on Bond next week which is no doubt designed to coincide with the release of CR.

There seems to be plenty around and most people I know certainly are aware CR is coming to a cinema near them shortly

Nightshooter · November 2006

In NYC you can't walk a block without seeing a poster. On telephone booths, buses, buildings, everywhere. Haven't seen any of the trailers or anything on TV though.

emtiem · November 2006

Moonraker 5 wrote:

Was also quite surprised to hearing it being discussed on Radio 1 the other day between DJ Edith Bowman and film critic James King as the "can't wait for" movie of November, and also the theme tune which neither seemed to have heard yet..

Did they play it? It really does seem to not be getting any kind of action, that song. DAD was released on Nov 22 and the single had been released on Oct 31 or thereabouts. This song hasn't even had any radio play yet; it's weird.

As for other publicity- yeah; it's all over. They've even got TV ads going, which I don't remember seeing for any other Bond until after the film opened.
Plus the Harrods Casino Royale window display is up!

Moonraker 5 · November 2006

emtiem wrote:

Did they play it? It really does seem to not be getting any kind of action, that song. DAD was released on Nov 22 and the single had been released on Oct 31 or thereabouts. This song hasn't even had any radio play yet; it's weird.

No, they didn't. Edith said something along the lines of "..and of course the title theme is performed by Chris Cornell, can't wait to hear that I'm sure it'll be massive".

Or maybe not, Edith

Ironically, I don't see it making Radio 1's playlist at all.

emtiem · November 2006

I'm actually beginning to doubt it'll even get a single release here- they are leaving it very late to promote it.

Hardyboy · November 2006

Here in the U.S., the TV spots have been airing (though not as often as the ones for Happy Feet, which opens the same day), and Daniel Craig has been on a few magazine covers. He's also set to do the U.S. talk show circuit, so it looks like the publicity is well under way.

Loeffelholz · November 2006

Eon have cannily decided to air TV spots during coverage of American football games, and also got a spot during each of the five World Series games; they seem to know who their target audience is in the states...still, if I were them, I think I'd be banging the PR drum a bit more loudly...but coming up next are the talk shows, so I'm sure the film will be a secret to no one by 17 November.

Ashenden272 · November 2006

Craig is appearing on Letterman on Nov. 7. Unfortunately, that's election night here in the U.S. From Nov. 6 to 7, and probably for the rest of the week, TV stations will have an onslaught of election coverage. The Letterman appearance (and any other talk show appearance he may have for that week) may not get strong attention in all that coverage.

I saw a Smirnoff commercial the other night and it was fairly useless. It didn't show any clips from the film, there was no mention of Daniel Craig, but the narrator made references to Bond and his penchant for vodka, and the Casino Royale/007 logo popped up at the end with the caption that the movie will be in theaters on Nov. 17. I agree with Loeffelholz that EON should bang the PR drum a bit louder.

A7ce · November 2006

Enough Publicity?
Not enough apparently. We've had a new graduate girl (30 years old) start where we are and we went to Brussels together on Monday for a Tuesday meeting.
At B'ham Airport Duty Free shop I saw three film mags covers in a row with Bond on the front from afar and said to her, 'what do u think of the new Bond'
Surprised reply, 'There's a new James Bond ???"

After I got back to my feet and asked her where she had been, I asked her if she knew who Pierce Brosnan was, Sean Connery, Roger. She said I know all them, whose the new one. I dragged her to the mag rack and showed her the covers.
'That's not James Bond' was the answer. And this with DC looking sharp and made up in the cover. If she had seen his ealrier ragged day to to day shots, she woud have fainted.

arthur pringle · November 2006

I think they'll amp it up over the next few weeks with the tv specials etc. I saw a trailer on television for the first time yesterday and today I flicked through the latest GQ as I waited in a supermarket qeue. In the interview Craig says that his reaction to being asked if he was interested in Bond was "You must be having a f*****g laugh!".

That was my exact reaction on hearing he was a candidate too

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heartbroken_mr_drax · November 2006

A7ce wrote:

Enough Publicity?
Not enough apparently. We've had a new graduate girl (30 years old) start where we are and we went to Brussels together on Monday for a Tuesday meeting.
At B'ham Airport Duty Free shop I saw three film mags covers in a row with Bond on the front from afar and said to her, 'what do u think of the new Bond'
Surprised reply, 'There's a new James Bond ???"

After I got back to my feet and asked her where she had been, I asked her if she knew who Pierce Brosnan was, Sean Connery, Roger. She said I know all them, whose the new one. I dragged her to the mag rack and showed her the covers.
'That's not James Bond' was the answer. And this with DC looking sharp and made up in the cover. If she had seen his ealrier ragged day to to day shots, she woud have fainted.

Who cares, I know lots of ladies that think hes the best looking one, its just anti tradition, hes not smooth, hes fleming smooth. :007)

walther p99 · November 2006

i know alot of my girlbuds are crazy for Pierce, but i dont think they know Craig.....

heartbroken_mr_drax · November 2006

Who cares? What are we gay? Roger Moore wasnt hot as so and hes made some of the best.

Lets just see it first.

James Bond tends to be treated with Tall Poppie Syndrome. Not from fans i mean.

Pierce007 · November 2006

I think theres a considerate amount. I had to smile to myself earlier becuase I actually saw this thread while I was at home on Long Island. To make a long story short I was home for Halloween but I had to head back to college today. I go to school in Jamaica,Queens in New York so I had to take a train and then a bus to get back, and my train, bus and several of the stations had CR advertisements. I must have seen 10 posters today at various points on my journey back to school, so I'd say at least in my neck of the woods advertising has kicked in.

Nightshooter · November 2006

And really, the only person in this world who knows how good Craig is as Bond is that newswoman, as she's seen the movie already. 8-)
Puhleeeeze.

Number24 · November 2006

In Norway, all the major newspapers had interviews with Craig and articles about CR. The Headlines where for some reason all bad for Craig, but the articles were good....
There was also a piece about CR on the 7 pm news on NRK1 last friday(THE most important news source in Norway - a bit like the 9 o'clock news on BBC)

spectre7 · November 2006

I saw The Departed last night and World Trade Center a few weeks ago and the CR trailer was absent from both which I was very disappointed about, I'm tired of viewing it in Quicktime.

As CR will be the next film I see at the cinema I'll never know what impact the trailer had when shown on the big screen.

emtiem · November 2006

Moonraker 5 wrote:

emtiem wrote:

Did they play it? It really does seem to not be getting any kind of action, that song. DAD was released on Nov 22 and the single had been released on Oct 31 or thereabouts. This song hasn't even had any radio play yet; it's weird.

No, they didn't. Edith said something along the lines of "..and of course the title theme is performed by Chris Cornell, can't wait to hear that I'm sure it'll be massive".

Or maybe not, Edith

Ironically, I don't see it making Radio 1's playlist at all.

BBC News chappie here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/video/64000/bb/64074_16x9_bb.ram
says there are no plans to release the song as a single.

cosmo · November 2006

i heard the theme song this morning on bbc radio 2 on the ken bruce show.he said it was the 1st airing on bbc radio and he quite liked it as well.

highhopes · November 2006

Eye Of The Tiger wrote:

As I mentioned in my other post in this thread, I have seen a lot of TV commercials for CR, but I'm not hearing anyone talk about the film.

I still come across a lot of people who still don't even know that there is a new James Bond, which might actually be a blessing for EON? And I also come across a lot of people who say that they can't understand "how this new guy can be Bond?"

A couple of weeks ago there was a quick story on one of the news broadcasts here in Cleveland about how EON are claiming that Daniel Craig is the best Bond yet, and the news woman basically came out and said that thats a bunch of BS, only in a more TV friendly way.

EON are getting lucky with the fact that there aren't any big movies going up against CR in Mid-November thru early December!

I really don't think Bond movies are the "events" we Bond fans think they are for the general public. If people hear CR is a good movie, they'll go -- it's as simple as that.

Nightshooter · November 2006

HH, I disagree. Just because we're crazy Bond fand, many people are just fans of Bond and get excited about it, whether or not they come to a forum to discuss the brand of underwear Craig wears in the film. Sunspel, right?

heartbroken_mr_drax · November 2006

Just went to see Jackass 2 and the last trailer in the trailers was for Casino Royale, my heart was racing and i could hear everybodys reaction, thier reactions were surprising, things like "Bond!" even the ladies went ooooooo to the craig in the water thingy, and the guys went ooooo to Eva Green, people are getting into it, and they kinda know whats going on, at least there isnt much competition this time, DAD had LOTR and others, this time its kinda on its own. {[]

Moonraker 5 · November 2006

I don't know if it's been posted elsewhere, but the Ford/Bond campaign has now reached TV in the UK, in the shape of an ad for the Focus. Cue, obviously, some snippets of the '07 Mondeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRAVMCnhni4

Moonraker 5 · November 2006

Daniel's got a face like the back end of a bus!!

I saw two First Glasgow double deck buses in the city this morning with ads covering the full rear end for Casino Royale - they have the poster artwork of Bond walking away from the casino with Vesper on the steps, and look pretty cool as mobile billboards!

Willie Garvin · November 2006

highhopes wrote:

Eye Of The Tiger wrote:

As I mentioned in my other post in this thread, I have seen a lot of TV commercials for CR, but I'm not hearing anyone talk about the film.

I still come across a lot of people who still don't even know that there is a new James Bond, which might actually be a blessing for EON? And I also come across a lot of people who say that they can't understand "how this new guy can be Bond?"

A couple of weeks ago there was a quick story on one of the news broadcasts here in Cleveland about how EON are claiming that Daniel Craig is the best Bond yet, and the news woman basically came out and said that thats a bunch of BS, only in a more TV friendly way.

EON are getting lucky with the fact that there aren't any big movies going up against CR in Mid-November thru early December!

I really don't think Bond movies are the "events" we Bond fans think they are for the general public. If people hear CR is a good movie, they'll go -- it's as simple as that.

I agree.Like HH,I was also around in the 1960s(I was a teenager then) and I started watching the Bonds at that time.They really were EVENTS--and each film was different than the last one.Dr No was the mad scientist movie,From Russia With Love,a suspense thriller.Goldfinger was a perfect crime story and Thunderball was an epic.

For their period,the elements of sex and sadism(mild by today's standards,yes-- but very powerful stuff in the repressed 60s)displayed in the early Bonds marked a new direction for adventure films.Aside from the serials of the 1930s,along with such movies as Foreign Correspondent and North by Northwest,nothing like the James Bond films had really been made before--much less as an ongoing series.

The first four Bond films were exceedingly popular with the public and as a result,Sean Connery became an international superstar overnight.Those original four movies even came out once a year--and without a drop in quality--something we'll never see again.

Casino Royale may well be a kind of throwback to the earlier 60s movies stylistically,yet regardless of it's many qualities, it probably doesn't seem as important to general filmgoers as the original 007 films did to their audiences decades ago.But that's really because the series has now been around for over 40 years, with five actors offering markedly different--but equally valid--interpretations of James Bond.The series is something of an institution today--but that wasn't always the case.

However,if CR is a good film(and it sure seems like it will be), it should definitely attract plenty of people--including a few who may have intentionally ignored some of the recent 007 movies in favor of the more so-called "realistic" spy movies,like The Bourne Identity,for example.

Pierce Brosnan was a popular 007-and so was Roger Moore.Timothy Dalton has his fans, as does George Lazenby.And Sean Connery was incredibly popular.They are all very different types--as is Daniel Craig, who unlike his predecessors, is obviously not a traditional leading man.Frankly,I don't think James Bond always has to be one of the handsomest men in the room in order to be an interesting character.

And I think it'd be a shame if Craig was simply dismissed out of hand by some potential audience members based entirely upon his face,as opposed to his acting ability--but that's just me.

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