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Leaked MGM Memo: Everyone Loves the ‘Valkyrie’ Trailer!
Vulture — ... According to an internal MGM memo leaked by Nikki Finke, we're all very, very excited about Tom Cruise's forthcoming Nazi movie, Valkyrie. The memo, which was clearly written by a digital-marketing employee who conducted all of his research using some bizarro version of the Internet, states that a "favorable tone dominates trailer buzz" within "Entertainment, Fan-Boy, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks, and Fan communities," and that a mere 5% of discussion of the movie found throughout the Web can be considered unfavorable. Granted, not one of ...

Leaked: MGM Internal Memo About Valkyrie’s Breathtaking Buzz Surge
/Film — ... from Harvey Weinstein, vigilante blogger Nikki Finke has published an MGM internal memo that breaks down the online perception of Valkyrie 2.0 aka “Play down the eye patch and Valley Boy voice, win over graphic designers.” It makes for a pretty fascinating—if typical—look inside the Hollywood hype machine and how the Internet is a giant, throbbing Krang-like barometer. Make no mistake, all of those “awesome”s and “FAIL”s add up. Here are some enlightening highlights from ...

MGM Excited Over Valkyrie Online Buzz - Quotes FS.net
FirstShowing.net — ... seem to be in agreement with my excitement, give or take complains about the accents, but it looked like Valkyrie might finally be gaining some much needed early buzz. Earlier today, Nikkie Finke over at Deadline Hollywood ran an article about an e-mail that was being sent around by a Digital Marketing rep at MGM, one of the studios involved in distributing the film (in addition to United Artists). The e-mail was discussing the "online buzz" generated by the release of the trailer and the poster, and remarkably, it quotes one of my articles extensively. ...

Achtung! Here's the new trailer for Tom Cruise's Valkyrie
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — It perhaps says something about Valkyrie that MGM execs have been getting so excited about a little bit of decent advance buzz. The sense of shock is palpable in this leaked memo that the film could win critical praise from serious journalists. Of course, no one's actually seen it yet. It's not even the incongruity of Tom Cruise playing the German wannabe killer of Hitler with a New York accent that bothers me here: no-one sounded particularly European in Amadeus, but that doesn't make Milos Forman's Oscar-winning Mozart biopic a bad film, or even affect one's enjoyment of ...

Leaked: Enthusiastic Internal MGM Memo About ‘Valkyrie’ And Its Chances At Box Office Success
Fataculture — [image] Pot-stirrer, Nikki Finke is at it again. The shit disturbing blogger of Deadline Hollywood has published an internal MGM memo about the public perception of Tom Cruise’s upcoming WWII Nazi film, “Valkryie.” The memo basically shows MGM all gung-ho and enthusiastic that the new trailer for the Bryan Singer directed film is going to play well with audiences and result in big box-office returns. It’s pretty hilarious to see a studio take the online temperature reaction to a film. Are they paying someone to troll blogs and message boards? Absolutely.“Currently, reactions ...

EXCLUSIVE: Internal Memo from Disney RE: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Cinematical — Not ten minutes after this scintillating story hit the wire, I came across this similar item on my very own desktop. Read on to see how the movie marketing machine really works: ...