TiVo mentions in Tropic Thunder
I just caught a showing of Tropic Thunder the other day, a goofy comedy about the movie industry and there's a running gag between one of the stars and his agent about getting a TiVo. It came up so many times I thought I should try and get a copy of the film and do a TiVo montage from it. After about an hour of editing, I give you every mention of TiVo in Tropic Thunder (spoiler alert: including a scene from the climax of the movie and the audio is NSFW):
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I wonder if TiVo paid for all that product placement?
BTW, the Holywood exec in that movie is Tom Cruise. Very difficult to recognize.
Posted by: John Smith | November 01, 2008 at 07:05 PM
You wonder? Seriously? I thought it was embarrassing.
Posted by: Chris C. | November 01, 2008 at 08:25 PM
They did not. As I heard it, they were approached about it by the movie folks.
Posted by: me | November 02, 2008 at 01:28 AM
As I recall from interviews by Ben Stiller and others at the time of the release - no, TiVo didn't pay for it. They wrote it into the movie themselves without any input or payment from TiVo.
TiVo has said on other occasions that they don't pay for product placement and the mentions they get in TV and movies are organic, because of their popularity amongst those who create the content.
Posted by: MegaZone | November 02, 2008 at 03:00 AM
what video editing software did you use to create this?
Posted by: robert | November 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I just cut clips in QuickTime Pro, trimming down the 5-6 mentions into 20 sec clips, then I tossed all those into VisualHub to combine into one movie file, then converted that in VisualHub to flash flv.
Posted by: Matt Haughey | November 19, 2008 at 12:32 PM