Bond Drinks Beer

Heineken is the best selling foreign beer in our bar....so I'm not in that camp which objects to some product endorsement that will last a few seconds at most.

No Heineken = no worldwide ad promotion and less dollars in the overall production costs.

If EON decided to veto product placement revenue and lose maybe 1/3 of its budget....resulting in a Bond film with noticeably less oomph...the fans will be the first to object. Of course, the alternative is to put a PAYPAL link on the fansites so generous fans can put up and contribute $45m or so and be rid of the evil subliminal advertising.... :face:

Oh, and here's what a couple of my dozen or so (and counting) USB pen-drives looks like...we sell about 30-40 a week

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

No Heineken = no worldwide ad promotion and less dollars in the overall production costs.

If EON decided to veto product placement revenue and lose maybe 1/3 of its budget....resulting in a Bond film with noticeably less oomph...the fans will be the first to object. Of course, the alternative is to put a PAYPAL link on the fansites so generous fans can put up and contribute $45m or so and be rid of the evil subliminal advertising.... :face:

Well, if all that talent they've got is living on dried bread 'cos none of 'em are getting a wage they need to live on, fair enough.

'cos the best Bond films have often been those with lesser stars and locales.

And do I also get 1/3 off my ticket at the pictures?.... Thought not.

Heineken starts going down like Sprite if you've been drinking enough.

It's only fitting that Dog like Heinie.

Mr. Brown wrote:

Heineken starts going down like Sprite if you've been drinking enough.

Actually if you mix lemonade and beer, you get something very close to this...another seller over here...

Beer is for pussies, anyways. If James Bond were a real man, he'd be chugging Everclear or something.

Quote :

Heineken prepares James Bond push

The marketing drive begins next month (September 29) when the brewer debuts its Skyfall spot, the latest instalment in the brewer’s ‘Legends’ series.



It will feature Daniel Craig’s James Bond as Heineken’s ‘Man of the World’ character and marks the first time that the spy will appear in the brand’s advertising since it signed as a sponsor of the franchise in 1997.

The spot will be supported by Facebook and Google activity as well as an on-pack competition which fans can enter for a “1 in 007” chance to win Skyfall tickets. That effort will include Bond-theme promotional packaging on 12-, 18- and 24-packs of Heineken beer. The brewer will also roll out promotions in pubs and clubs over the next several weeks as part of the push.

Heineken says the move marks “phase one” of the “biggest ever 007 activation” in its 15 year association with the series and adds that its main is aim to drive incremental sales of the beer leading up to the film’s release.

It is likely to follow the initial burst of marketing with further activity on its Facebook page as well as promotions around the film’s home release early next year.

The brewer first revealed details of the tie-up, which will also see Bond drink the beer during the film, earlier this year when it said the sponsorship push would act as the next part of its ‘Open Your World’ campaign.

Heineken is also planning to roll out further activity later this year as part of the franchise’s 50thyear anniversary celebrations.

The campaign will run alongside Bond-themed campaigns from fellow sponsors including Coca-Cola and Honda. The former is readying a marketing blitz including TV, PR and outdoor activity to mark its Coke Zero brand’s partnership with the movie after signing a new deal with the franchise’s owners EON productions.

Honda is launching its sponsorship campaign next month to showcase it first partnership with James Bond, that will also see the brand’s motorbikes appear in the film.

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/heineken-prepares-james-bond-push/4003241.article

'Man of the World.'

If blueblood were here he'd some interesting things to say about the globalisation of Bond.

Before there was "global," there was "international," and Bond has always been international, albeit with his feet firmly planted in the Commonwealth.

International whore. Nasty piece of work.

Signed,

John le Carré.

Not to crap on this, but if you drink 4 pints of Heineken, and not eat, you will puke in the toilets.

However if you drink 4 pints of Foster, you will not feel like puking.

Just saying.

Had a schooner of Kosciuszko pale ale at uni the other day. It was dee-licious.

Perhaps we need a beer thread.

Pollack beer, eh? Never heard o' such a thing.

It's an Aussie beer, I believe. Named after our highest mountain (which itself is named after a Pollack).

Oz's highest peak named after a bludging Pollack poofter? Why that's mighty queer.

The mountain was first discovered by Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish geologist working on behalf of the British government in Australia in the 1840s. He was carrying out mineralogical surveys of the area at the time, but many of his discoveries were kept secret because the colony of New South Wales was afraid that the presence of gold in the area would trigger a mass migration that would shift the political power away from the colony of Sydney towards Melbourne. Strzelecki named the mountain after the Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko because he believed the mountain resembled Kościuszko Mound, a memorial to Kościuszko in Krakow.

And that's the story of how Australia's highest mountain was named after a Polish war hero who served in the American War of Independence. I'm not sure if that's the same Kościuszko you were referring to as a "bludging Pollack poofter", though.

Jack Wade wrote:

If James Bond were a real man, he'd be chugging Everclear or something.

But certainly not listening to it.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Oz's highest peak named after a bludging Pollack poofter? Why that's mighty queer.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

The mountain was first discovered by Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish geologist working on behalf of the British government in Australia in the 1840s. He was carrying out mineralogical surveys of the area at the time, but many of his discoveries were kept secret because the colony of New South Wales was afraid that the presence of gold in the area would trigger a mass migration that would shift the political power away from the colony of Sydney towards Melbourne. Strzelecki named the mountain after the Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko because he believed the mountain resembled Kościuszko Mound, a memorial to Kościuszko in Krakow.

And that's the story of how Australia's highest mountain was named after a Polish war hero who served in the American War of Independence. I'm not sure if that's the same Kościuszko you were referring to as a "bludging Pollack poofter", though.

EON should've taken up PM's offer to write a Bond screenplay. He would've made QOS look like a screwball comedy in comparison.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

The mountain was first discovered by Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish geologist working on behalf of the British government in Australia in the 1840s. He was carrying out mineralogical surveys of the area at the time, but many of his discoveries were kept secret because the colony of New South Wales was afraid that the presence of gold in the area would trigger a mass migration that would shift the political power away from the colony of Sydney towards Melbourne. Strzelecki named the mountain after the Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko because he believed the mountain resembled Kościuszko Mound, a memorial to Kościuszko in Krakow.

And that's the story of how Australia's highest mountain was named after a Polish war hero who served in the American War of Independence. I'm not sure if that's the same Kościuszko you were referring to as a "bludging Pollack poofter", though.

Try, please try, to cultivate a modicum of a sensayuma, mate.

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Oz's highest peak named after a bludging Pollack poofter? Why that's mighty queer.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

The mountain was first discovered by Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish geologist working on behalf of the British government in Australia in the 1840s. He was carrying out mineralogical surveys of the area at the time, but many of his discoveries were kept secret because the colony of New South Wales was afraid that the presence of gold in the area would trigger a mass migration that would shift the political power away from the colony of Sydney towards Melbourne. Strzelecki named the mountain after the Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko because he believed the mountain resembled Kościuszko Mound, a memorial to Kościuszko in Krakow.

And that's the story of how Australia's highest mountain was named after a Polish war hero who served in the American War of Independence. I'm not sure if that's the same Kościuszko you were referring to as a "bludging Pollack poofter", though.

EON should've taken up PM's offer to write a Bond screenplay. He would've made QOS look like a screwball comedy in comparison.

Man, no shit.

CJB wrote:

EON should've taken up PM's offer to write a Bond screenplay. He would've made QOS look like a screwball comedy in comparison.

That's actually what happened. The rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne is well-documented - Canberra was built halfway between the two cities because neither could agree on who was to be the capital.

We saw what happened with the gold rush and the Eureka Stockade, with thousands of people converging on Victoria. The government in Sydney was legitimately concerned that any discovery of gold in the Snowy Mountains would trigger a gold rush. With thousands of people moving away from Sydney, the colony of Melbourne could easily absorb the population and become the de facto captial of Australia. Perhaps their concerns were unfounded, because fifteen years later, there was a gold rush at Ballarat, and Sydney didn't lose its political status - but two gold rushes (one in the Snowy Mountains and the other at Ballarat) might have influenced it. So the government in Sydney decided not to publish Strzelecki's findings.

Then needn't have bothered. A century later, work began on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and there are no records of vast mineral deposits having been found. It appears that whatever Strzelecki found was all that there was to be found.

If j7 isn't spamming us with 100+ thumbnails of Victoria's Secret models, there's always Prisoner Monkeys to bombard us with general trivia against our will.

All is right in the world.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

CJB wrote:

EON should've taken up PM's offer to write a Bond screenplay. He would've made QOS look like a screwball comedy in comparison.

That's actually what happened. The rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne is well-documented - Canberra was built halfway between the two cities because neither could agree on who was to be the capital.

We saw what happened with the gold rush and the Eureka Stockade, with thousands of people converging on Victoria. The government in Sydney was legitimately concerned that any discovery of gold in the Snowy Mountains would trigger a gold rush. With thousands of people moving away from Sydney, the colony of Melbourne could easily absorb the population and become the de facto captial of Australia. Perhaps their concerns were unfounded, because fifteen years later, there was a gold rush at Ballarat, and Sydney didn't lose its political status - but two gold rushes (one in the Snowy Mountains and the other at Ballarat) might have influenced it. So the government in Sydney decided not to publish Strzelecki's findings.

Then needn't have bothered. A century later, work began on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and there are no records of vast mineral deposits having been found. It appears that whatever Strzelecki found was all that there was to be found.

You forgot the bit about the dingo and the baby.

Bond needs to be drinking a real man drink!!

CJB wrote:

You forgot the bit about the dingo and the baby.

Eh. I reckon the Chamberlains did it.