Ridley Scott is back on the commercials scene with a vengeance after decades making big budget movies. The director of Apple\s ‘1984’ and before that Hovis’ rural idyll helmed a recent epic for Turkish Airlines, which we didn’t like much ...
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It’s been decades since Ridley Scott worked in commercials but the great man is back for Turkish Airlines. Teased during the Super Bowl it’s an ode to, among others, the spanking new Istanbul airport. And that’s the trouble: there’s absolutely ...
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Campaign reckons that celebrated film director and production company owner Ridley Scott of RSA was the secret weapon in WPP’s successful pitch for VW creative in North America. It also speculates that WPP CEO Mark Read spent between $500,000 and ...
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Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise he instigated with that scary, scary film; this time it’s Fox’s Alien: Covenant featuring Michael Fassbender as android Walter. Surely the ever-dependable Fassbender doesn’t come hurtling out of someone’s innards? The film’s ...
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Over at AdScam, because of my huge global audience (It’s my blog, so I can make shit up, OK?) I get many inquiries from wankers who want me to run ads, or host sponsored posts. I turn most of them ...
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Mother is making its debut for Hovis (won from JWT last year) with an ad that bravely references Ridley Scott’s epic for CDP 40 or so years ago. It’s for Hovis ‘Good Inside’ which has Omega 3 and stuff (doesn’t ...
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Why on earth is Albert Bartlett potatoes tying up with Ridley’s Scott’s forthcoming blockbuster The Martian? It’s not the most obvious brand connection after all. But The Martian stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars and struggling to ...
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Happy 30th birthday Apple Macintosh – named after the famous Scots designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh I believe – which has, well, made things different and, mostly, better. Here’s Apple tribute to its mould-breaking machine: We all know that it really ...
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OK, here’s the Sainsbury Christmas ad that we referred to this morning. It seems to be a cut from a documentary Sainsbury has commissioned showing how ‘real people’ celebrate Christmas. This is due to be aired on November 29, directed ...
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