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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Movie Marketing Explosion

    The cost to market movies is exploding: it’s now common for blockbusters to have marketing budgets of well over $200,000,000. But in a world of ballooning marketing budgets, have studios backed themselves into a corner? If they have to spend that much to get the word out about a movie, will studios be forced to make fewer movies?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 1, 2014 • 1 min read

    The cost to market movies is exploding: it’s now common for blockbusters to have marketing budgets of well over $200,000,000. But in a world of ballooning marketing budgets, have studios backed themselves into a corner? If they have to spend that much to get the word out about a movie, will studios be forced to make fewer movies?

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    Immigration Bills Stall, the Suicide Gene and Movie Marketing
    1. 0:00Congressional Inaction on Immigration
    2. 9:50Congressional Action Elsewhere
    3. 16:19The Suicide Gene
    4. 26:13Movie Roundup: Biopics and Superheros
    5. 41:25Movie Marketing Explosion You’re reading this
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Mark Gill

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    Immigration Bills Stall, the Suicide Gene and Movie Marketing
    1. 0:00Congressional Inaction on Immigration
    2. 9:50Congressional Action Elsewhere
    3. 16:19The Suicide Gene
    4. 26:13Movie Roundup: Biopics and Superheros
    5. 41:25Movie Marketing Explosion You’re reading this
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