Thursday, November 20, 2008

Landmark Theatres Film Club makes blatant attempt to expand membership

By Pegasus News wire

The Landmark Theatre folks (representing the Inwood and the Magnolia here in Dallas) operate a film club which they call, appropriately enough, the Landmark Theatres Film Club (LTFC). To join, one must merely divulge their email address, after which they will receive notices of special screenings, weekly openings, merchandise giveaways and other film-related events.

In order to get you, Joe and Jill Plumber, to sign up for their film club (and thus in roundabout fashion entice you into buying tickets to movies playing at Landmark venues), the shifty promotional arm of the organization is offering the additional inducement of a weekly prize package giveaway. They're couching it in terms of "a holiday gift to you," but we recognize it as a blatant attempt to expand the ranks of their membership.

(Which doesn't negate the fact that they're giving away a bunch of really cool stuff!)

Just by becoming an LTFC member, you'll be automatically entered into weekly drawings for goodies from the following movies and movie-merchandise vendors:

Koch Entertainment

Faerie Tale Theatre DVD gift set

Operation Valkyrie DVD

Misty DVD

First Look Entertainment

Paris, Je T’aime – Limited Collector’s Edition Steelbook DVD

Priceless DVD

Transsiberian DVD

Sukiyaki Western Django DVD

Magnolia Home Entertainment

Gonzo DVD

Man On Wire DVD

Newmarket Press

Milk: The Shooting Script book

Synecdoche, New York : The Shooting Script book

Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script book

Paramount Home Entertainment

Son of Rambow DVD

Chicago 10 DVD

Foot Fist Way DVD

Godfather DVD

Image Home Entertainment/Criterion

Criterion Le Doulos DVD

Criterion Woman Under the Influence DVD

Criterion Seventh Seal DVD

Criterion T-Shirt

Eagle Rock Entertainment

Jeff Beck: Performing this Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s CD

We Wish You a Metal Xmas & A Headbanging New Year CD

Blind Boys of Alabama: Go Tell It On the Mountain: Live in New York DVD

Tracy Ullman’s State of the Union: Complete Season One DVD

Warner Home Entertainment

Mongol DVD

Snow Angels DVD

Run, Fat Boy Run DVD

Starz Home Entertainment

The Visitor DVD

Genius Products

Paranoid Park DVD

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days DVD

Flight of the Red Balloon DVD

Chapter 27 DVD

Universal Music

Nightmare Revisited CD

Nightmare Revisited T-Shirt

Disney Box Office Hits CD

Microcinema

From the Ground Up DVD

Facets Multi-Media

Troubadours DVD

QUANTUM SOLACE t-shirt, mouse pad & key chain

TWILIGHT t-shirt, Cap & Button

NOTE that if you win something, you'll be obligated to pick it up at the Landmark Theatre of your choosing. (Just another way to get you into their theatres. Damned clever, these Landmark promoters.)

posted by JM

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