latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/25/2008
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When my colleague John Horn took his two young boys to see a matinee showing of Disney's "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" in Pasadena the other day, he was in for quite a surprise. It wasn't enough that Disney got to promote...
latimes.com - 10/25/2008
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latimes.com —
Walt Disney Pictures has gone to great lengths
to promote its Nov. 21 animated movie "Bolt." But...
when the studio attached a six-minute-long promotion for the 3-D family flick -- about a superhero dog -- to film prints of its box-office hit "Beverly ...
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Movie theaters balk at lengthy 'Bolt' preview - Los ...
apple.com - 10/19/2008
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apple.com —
For super-dog BOLT (voice of JOHN TRAVOLTA), every
day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue -...
at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he ...
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Movie Trailers - Bolt
youtube.com - 10/30/2008
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Miley Cyrus & John Travolta | Walt Disney
Pictures' Bolt Original Soundtrackhttp://disney.go.com/disneypictures/bolt/...
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I Thought I Lost You (video)
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Bolt promo annoys theatre owners
FilmChat —
... and Patrick Goldstein, both writing for the Los Angeles Times, report that theatre owners are upset with Disney for running such a lengthy promo -- thus eating into time that could have been available for other advertisers -- and for getting the MPAA to classify the promo as a "short film", complete with PG rating, rather than as an ad. ...
Slapping At Bolt
The Hot Blog —
... yesterday about Disney attaching a 6 minute Bolt preview/EPK to Beverly Hills Chihuahua and getting some pushback from exhibitors... though apparently not enough pushback to make it a story before Horn saw the segment in a theater with his kids and asking questions. (Ironically, this blog-like bit of reporting-after-personal-experience was exposed by BFF Patrick Goldstein in his blog entry.) ...
Bolt Sountrack Teams Cyrus/Travolta
TheBadandUgly.com —
Our ears are bleeding!
Well, not really. But, as evidenced above, Disney is really pushing Bolt. Like, hard.
The Nov. 21st animated film starring the voices of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus has been catching some flack from theaters for airing a six-minute promo transparently described as a short film.
The LA Times Blog writes:
It turns out that John wasn’t the only one a little bit peeved at having to sit through such an obvious and lengthy ...
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