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Groups angry about ad campaign for suicide film
CNN - Mar 26, 2007
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) -- Suicide prevention groups are dead set against the proposed ad campaign for the comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story," which ...
Suicide Prevention Groups Steamed Over 'Wristcutters' Ad Campaign Cinematical
Suicide Experts Upset About Film Ads Post Chronicle
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A New Force in Advertising -- Protest by Email
Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY - Mar 21, 2007
Following complaints from consumers and suicide-prevention groups -- many of them by email -- General Motors Corp. re-edited a US ad that came out during ...


New York Times
Critics to Marketers: Suicide Is No Joke
New York Times, NY - Mar 14, 2007
Indeed, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a campaign with a suicide theme is planned by a small film studio, AfterDark Films, for "Wristcutters: A Love ...


Bay Area Reporter
Bittersweet vista
Bay Area Reporter, CA - Mar 22, 2007
The DVD package also includes a guide to The Golden Gate Bridge suicide-barrier campaign. Like another great San Francisco film, Francis Coppola's The ...


BBC News
Cricket-mad India laps up World Cup
BBC News, UK - Mar 15, 2007
Amidst all this cricketing craze and advertising blitzkrieg, ad film maker Prahlad Kakkar says everyone has "completely lost the plot". ...

Where did it all go wrong?
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Mar 21, 2007
... Gillian McKeith, a self-styled straight-talking nutritionist better known as the Awful Poo Lady, dropped her "doctor" title from an ad campaign after a ...


Silicon Valley's Metro
Cinequest 2007: The Films
Silicon Valley's Metro, CA - Feb 28, 2007
Set against the 2004 campaign, the film follows the elections at middle schools in Austin, San Francisco, Marin County and Atlanta. ...

Badly Drawn B(h)ummer
LA Weekly, CA - Feb 28, 2007
You see, last night I saw an ad that crushed some small part of me (perhaps the pinkie finger of my soul): Elliott Smith's "Something to Talk About" used in ...

Closing night gala
San Jose Mercury News, CA - Mar 1, 2007
A drama showing the failed relationships that prompt a 19-year-old to commit suicide on his birthday. Preceded by ``I Was a Dancer,'' a short about an ...

Television movies for the week of March 25
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Mar 24, 2007
An older Bobby Darin tells his own life story, beginning with his youth in the Bronx through his extraordinary career in music and film. ...

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After Dark Slits Their Wrists
Of course that hasn't stopped After Dark from doling out the sleaze in the marketing campaign. According to CNN, the film's marketing has outraged anti-suicide groups. In particular, they cite posters featuring kids jumping from bridges ...

Suicide marketing for Wristcutters?
Nonetheless, suicide prevention groups are dead set against the movie's proposed ad campaign which will feature illustrations of people jumping off bridges, electrocuting and hanging themselves in traffic-style signs with a bar and ...

Groups angry about ad campaign for suicide film
Ads for "Wristcutters: A Love Story" under fire • Film about suicide victims in purgatory • Film was honored at 2006 Sundance festival.

Suicide Prevention Groups Steamed Over 'Wristcutters' Ad Campaign
Those raising the complaints have not seen the film and are not objecting to the movie itself, but they are concerned about the possible effect such an advertising campaign could have on the public. The letter from the AFSP to Solomon ...

Groups angry about ad campaign for suicide film
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AfterDark Films Already Enjoying Free Advertising For Upcoming ...
He said the campaign may change before its mid-July rollout. "The movie takes place in purgatory, and its message is that love is better than suicide," Solomon said, adding that the film may even help prevent suicide. ...

Women as targets of violence online
There is another outrage with the promotion of another movie called, "Wristcutters: A Love Story" which suicide prevention groups are saying that its campaign is glamorizing suicide. Some say that any controversy is good because people ...

Wristcutters: A Love Story - Ad Protests
I think we all can agree that suicide is hilarious and is a breath of fresh air to the buzzkill genre known as the Romantic Comedy. Sadly the film is already getting flack for its ad campaign... "Due to constant content theft, ...

Offensive BillboardWatch: Coming Ad-Removal Attractions Edition
The suicide comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story" will be released in August, with a marketing campaign featuring cardboard cutouts of characters jumping off a bridge, electrocuting and hanging themselves. ...

Groups angry about ad campaign for suicide film
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'Wristcutters' readies suicide ad campaign
AfterDark Films, the distributor of the film Wristcutters: A Love Story, either hasn't heard the recent fuss about suicide images in advertising, or it doesn't care. From The Hollywood Reporter: "A potentially controversial marketing ...

Sundance Hit 'Wristcutters' Being Promoted With Suicide Marketing
The film itself is making its way to theaters way down the line in August, with one hell of an interesting marketing campaign by means of AfterDark Films, who have the North American rights. Along with an Internet and college campus ...

Suicide Prevention Groups Go Nuts Over 'Wristcutters' Ad Campaign
And now even more scandal is stemming from the marketing campaign for Sundance hit Wristcutters: A Love ---- link BlogDance: The best film / movie blog posts from around the web The best film / movie blog posts from around the web.

Super Bowl advertising revisited...
It also noted an issue that arose from the ad campaign for the new Hannibal movie. Let's address each complaint: 1. "GM became the subject of sharp criticism when The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention complained about the ...

Media Briefing for Thursday, March 22, 2007
The creator of the anti-Hillary Clinton video ad on YouTube has been unmasked, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The creator worked for a firm that consults the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, says the New York Times. ...

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