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PRODUCT PLACEMENT A - Z
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One of the film franchises with a long history of product placement is James Bond. In a recent twist of the story our hero changes his favorite Vodka-Martini drink for a Heineken. Presumably, not shaken or stirred.
This is an A to Z listing of some of the best advertising in movies using carefully placed products to raise brand awareness, mostly adding to the storyline.
Generally speaking, manufacturer's will encourage the placement of their products in appropriate movies, contributing to the production costs, where it shows such merchandise in a good light. Indeed, we live in a society where branding and being seen in the right apparel is part of any story, telling us a bit about the characters being portrayed.
Without such promotions some films would never see the light of day. On occasion a film is so packed with product placement, to some viewers it may seem like one long advertisement. In other films the placing of products help to improve the story.
Product placement in movies turned into a sizeable industry a long time ago. Big brands sometimes sign long-term contracts with film studios, and scripts are adapted from the get-go to incorporate brand exposure. Otherwise, movie studios are happy to collaborate with brands as embedded advertising can make up to half of the average blockbuster budget.
Apple (Beats) - Transformers (Age of Extinction) Aston Martin - James Bond AT&T - Back to the Future Ben & Jerry's - Minority Report BMW - James Bond (Skyfall) Budweiser - Star Trek (Into Darkness), That's My Boy, Top Gun Burger King - Iron Man Cadillac - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Chevrolet - Captain Marvel Coca Cola - Superman, Just Like Heaven, Blade Runner, Jurassic World Converse (All Stars) - I Robot Dell - Doritos - Wayne's World Dr Pepper - Forrest Gump Etch A Sketch - Toy Story Fedex - Castaway Ford Fusion - James Bond & New Girl Ford Mustang - Bullitt Gargoyles - The Terminator General Motors - Transformers Geostorm - Mercedes Google - The Internship Guinness - Minority Report Harley Davidson - Terminator 2 Hasbro - Battleship Heineken - James Bond (Skyfall), Austin Powers Hershey (Reece's Pieces) - ET Hewlett Packard - Real Steel Hyundai - Knives Out IHOP (International House of Pancakes) - Superman (Man of Steel) IKEA - Fight Club Jack Daniels - Basic Instinct Jaguar - The Italian Job, James Bond, Austin Powers Jeep (Fiat Chrysler) - Hard Target, Bourne Identity Kawasaki - Top Gun Krispy Kreme - Power Rangers Lamborghini - The Italian Job Land Rover - Lego - The Movie Lexus - Minority Report Lotus - James Bond MacDonalds - Mac and Me, Kingsman Manalo Blahnik - Sex & The City Mattel (Barbie Doll) - Toy Story Mercedes - Jurassic World Mini Cooper - The Italian Job Nike - Back to the future, White House Down, The Terminator Nintendo - K9, Sweetheart, Captain Marvel, Back to the Future Nokia - The Matrix, Minority Report Old Forester - Kingsman (The Golden Circle) Panasonic - Joker Pepsi Cola - Back to the Future, Minority Report Pizza Hut - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wayne's World, Back to the Future Playstation - Fast & Furious, Runaway Jury Prada - The Devil Wears Prada Quality Street Ray-Bans - Top Gun, Risky Business Reebok - Jerry Maguire Royal Caribbean International (Allure of the Seas) - Jack and Jill Samsung - Jurassic World Sony - Jumanji (Welcome to the Jungle, The Next Level) Starbucks - Austin Powers Toshiba - The Terminator Toyota - Back to the Future Twinkies - Zombieland US Navy - Top Gun Verizon - Jurassic World Wilson - Castaway Xbox - Hair Care Products, Real Steel Yellow Pages Zerox
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Studios are not required to ask for permission to include every little brand in their movies - even if some companies believe that is the case.
Trademark law isn't about making sure you're always happy about how your product is displayed, provided there is no misrepresentation. For example, alcohol taken in sufficient quantities will get you drunk, but if portraying a real life drunkard who only imbibed one make, then the film makers would have to stay in brand, or show no brand at all. Sometimes the truth hurts, such as with Marlborough and smoking causing cancer. A trade mark protects against third parties passing off goods as their own in the course of selling physical products directly to the public at sales outlets.
According to a quote from Daniel Nazer (Stanford Law School Fair Use Project): Trademark laws "don't exist to give companies the right to control and censor movies and TV shows that might happen to include real-world items." "It is the case that often filmmakers get paid by companies to include their products. I think that's sort of led to a culture where they expect they'll have control. That's not a right the trademark law gives them."
According to Jay Dougherty, a professor at Loyola Law School (director of the school's Entertainment & Media Law Institute): the use of brands in films has generally been protected by the courts, even when the companies aren't pleased with the portrayals such as in Flight (Denzel Washington). "It wouldn't have been as effective a film if they used a bunch of non-generic brands." "In a normal situation, if the alcohol were just there as a smaller part of the movie, they might have created an artificial brand for it."
Obviously, no film company is going to go out of their way to misrepresent the facts and in most cases where a company makes a request (and provided there are no untoward costs attached) film producers will work with firms to strike a balance. It is always better to negotiate than litigate. Indeed, litigation may have the opposite effect that a company seeking to preserve or create a good reputation, is working towards.
There are directors, like Quentin Tarantino or David Lynch, who will not work with this approach where they claim it distracts the viewer from the story and brings no artistic value. Tarantino invented his own cigarette brand, Red Apple, which appears in many of his films. But is that in itself a distraction or a statement!
LINKS & REFERENCE
https://movavi.io/product-placement-in-movies-2/ https://productplacement.biz/ https://marketsplash.com/product-placements-in-movies/ https://screenrant.com/movies-2019-most-shameless-product-placements/
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