Weeks without a Desert Eagle Friday! As already noted, The Losers, opening this weekend, is in love with the Desert Eagle’s characteristic brand of hand-cannon. In both the trailer title sequence and the film, the DE makes a prominent appearence.

EXCLUSIVE: Must Cite Abe Sauer’s shitty little diary blog.
Extensive research into the recently released Forbes Magazine Forbes Fictional 15 shows that Forbes magazine failed to disclose a former relationship with Fictional 15 selection Adrian Veidt. A photograph of Veidt’s desk from an unknown period (below) indicates Veidt appeared on a former Forbes cover. The nature of the Forbes/Veidt relationship over the exclusive cover is unknown, and undisclosed.

ALSO: This thing.
Get Him to the Greek has Macs. Not at all surprising.

Most of Hot Tub Time Machine may take place in the 1980s but it looks like Apple gets its iPhone some screen time before the time traveling actions starts.

The poster for Middle Men certainly appears to boast a little Apple Product Placement.

After the jump, the Mac keyboard fro the poster.
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Queen Latifah’s new romantic comedy Just Wright gets its Mac product placement just right.


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Earlier I looked at how Audi is using heavy product placement of its R8 sports-car model to lift the brand’s overall image and how those placement were ramping up in 2010 with The Joneses and Date Night. Add one more; with the new Iron Man 2 trailer, it looks like Audi has Tony Stark in the brand’s driver’s seat once again.

A while ago I took a look at the Righteous Kill watch product placement screw up and noted how watches, in general, make for bad product placements.
It appears Breitling not only seems to not care about this but also, with help from John Travolta, has taken bad watch product placement to a whole new level. And, despite my earlier claims about why watch placements are bad — “The brands don’t show up and even when they do they are onscreen for such a short period that there is just no way an audience is going to leave the theater an hour later remembering if Capt. Awesome wore a Seiko or a Swatch.” — Breitling has engineered a plan to help audiences recall its brand. Too bad the plan sucks.
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