I’m a MASSIVE fan of the McDonald books, and any time there was movement on the FLETCH front, my Spidey sense tingled. The trailer for CONFESS made me gleeful, and now that I know this is about as loose an adaptation of the book as the first Chase flick was to its source material (no Flynn to speak of, for starters) my expectations are properly set.
As to “why does no one know this movie is happening?” I think the reaction to Paramount’s lack of publicity is doing a solid anti-job (this makes sense in my head, and I swear I’ll figure out how to say it later). Word of mouth will have to do the rest of the work. --- Pax, Devin Pike mailto:justde...@gmail.com <mailto:justde...@gmail.com> > On Sep 19, 2022, at 5:04 PM, Rose Ellen Auerbach <auerb...@armory.com> wrote: > > I've been working in the ticketing world for a while, and the past few months > have been a mess of... let's say "interesting" publicity decisions. Paramount > is the distributor on this one, and all I can think is that they're just not > used to promoting titles with a release pattern like this. > > Confess, Fletch is in about 500 theaters nationwide, and probably on the on > demand service of your choice. It has an 85% critics' score and 78% audience > score on Rotten Tomatoes, so it's probably worth your time. (Disclosure: > Rotten Tomatoes is owned by the same corporate overlords as my employer.) > > --Rose > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 6:54 PM danny burstein <dan...@panix.com > <mailto:dan...@panix.com>> wrote: > typical comment: > > Alan Sepinwall > @sepinwall > Related: did you know there is a new Fletch movie out starring Jon Hamm, Roy > Wood Jr, Kyle MacLachlan, Marcia Gay Harden & other super charming people? > That > it is in theaters and on VOD right now? That Hamm & Slattery swap insults in > multiple scenes? Miramax is betting you don't. > ...... > Ken Goodrich > @KenGoodrich > Replying to > @sepinwall > What is the point of making a movie, paying to cast well-known actors, and > then > not promoting that movie? > ..... > @jrs101780 > Replying to > @sepinwall > I had no freaking idea this came out. I've been waiting for this ever since > Kevin smith had the rights. What the hell are they doing? > ====== > https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/1571492000653770752 > <https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/1571492000653770752> > > it's "Confess, Fletch" > > Gotta wonder if they included the key plot device > of his checking the Boston Globe and not the NYT, > or maybe the reverse... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confess,_Fletch > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confess,_Fletch> > > Oh, on the plus side, NO Chevy Chase > On the minus side, no Geena Davis. > > > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > dan...@panix.com <mailto:dan...@panix.com> > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAFc2C0byMCUtop%2BBUQUZF17749_OYjsWw11rhh2AO13PRoN4jQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAFc2C0byMCUtop%2BBUQUZF17749_OYjsWw11rhh2AO13PRoN4jQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/DFED5117-99C1-48C2-A55C-DBB97D74F191%40gmail.com.
