I don’t follow either conversant, but this came to my attention. I still defend Digital Theatre’s marketing of The Crucible on Screen, but this, I don’t get – a producer urging a Richard Armitage fan site to promote a work that has nothing to do with Richard Armitage. Compare to Yaël Farber, A.J. Hartley, Ian McKellen, Graham McTavish, and others who just promote their own work, and trust that followers who are also Armitage fans might investigate. At least Sarah Dunn, who has similarly reached out to the Richard Armitage fandom, gives us a photo of him.
Armitage Agonistes 
Don’t like this at all. I also don’t see the the army demographics to be Mall Cop watchers. My 13 /o son, yes, me..No!!
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I think the idea is for ” the army” demographics to take their children to the film.
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Well, this “army” member was asked several weeks ago by her 13 y/o to take him. Told him it wasn’t my type of movie and I would be happy to drop him off.
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Sounds right to me.
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Oh, brother. Twitter-jacking at its worst.
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Twitter-jacking!! I love it. Never heard it before.
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Todd is a nice guy who has seen from his experience with Into the Storm that this fandom is incredibly dedicated & supportive. There were quite a few RA fans tweeting him when he was promoting Here Comes The Boom. That was prior to ITS being finished & released so you could just chalk it up to “sucking up” in hopes of more RA behind the scenes stuff or such. That particular fan page pulled in a few favors from him when ITS opened. I don’t see the harm in asking for a little favor in return.
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I recall now that he managed some tkts for a local screening of ITS for that fan page. But I still don’t like the idea. I think it’s tacky. That being said, I don;t think there’s “harm.”
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What do you expect from a guy that didn’t know his lead man was attending CinemaCon until he bumped in him? And ITS explains it all. Someone able to produce that thing…
Everyone can do as they like, in asking or doing. I have seen more ridiculous thing asked by this fan group. Don’t know if laugh or cry. Anyway, they are free to ask, we are free to ignore them. Are there really people following Garner? I’m trying to forget everything connected with ITS.
I find DT and Audible perfect in their marketing. Garner and Denison are the worst. Dunn… oh well, after all she only asked Likes.
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I think it’s the difference between finesse and no finesse. But you’re right of course, anyone can ask, and anyone can comply. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
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Oh, me too. I was only trying to be “polite” 😀
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He’s way off topic. No harm in asking but it is not a classy move.
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My thoughts exactly.
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Agreed.
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True! The off topic–not an RA film–marketing is kind of like asking a vegan to eat meat. So not happening.
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