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Everyone loves movies. Even that weird kid you grew up with who
ate paste and made his own Smurf village in the backyard loved movies
(especially the Smurf movie). And no matter what new fangled technological
whatzamajigger come along, the movie theater will be a place where
people come together, one of the last true communities around when
you think about it. And at Pecan Pie Productions, we want to help
your business reach that community. The audience is there and they're
glued to the screen. Why not give them something to look at about
your business?
Pecan Pie Productions got its genesis, as fate would have it, with
a dream in the movie theater. And like most of our dreams, Raquel
Welch was involved prominently (it was a good dream!). It all began
at a midnight showing of ‘One Million Years BC’. We
were in our seats waiting for the lovely Miss Welch to adorn her
bikini made of the finest wooly mammoth, eating a piece of pie (pecan
of course) and downing our fifth Slurpee of the day (cherry of course)
when we noticed the onscreen ads and one thought went through our
head ”man those are bad! We could do that so much better!”
And like that, a bolt of lightning packing AT LEAST 1.21 Jiggawatts
of power struck us, “hey, we could do this” we thought.
And since we are neither handsome nor able act, this was our only
shot to be around the movies. At dawn the next day we packed up
our vintage El Dorado and along with our lawyer/nutritionist and
our trusty pet llama Dwight, we went on a whirlwind tour of theaters
across the country, doing research about onscreen ads. On this road
trip a few things became clear. First, very few theaters allow llamas
inside even if they do have legal representation present (with the
exception of Wyoming where it is actually fairly standard to see
llamas in the theaters). Second, every demographic in a community
is represented in the movie theater. It's one of the last places
in America that truly has something for everyone. It doesn’t
matter if you’re a lover of art house flicks where the main
character spends two hours suffering only to die a horrible, painful
death or a connoisseur of kick-ass action flicks where the good
guy causes many explosions, catches the bad guy, gets the girl,
sticks it to everyone who didn’t believe in him and rescues
a puppy from certain doom the movie theater has something for you.
The third thing we noticed was the small businesses were getting
squeezed out of a great opportunity to reach a captive audience
by corporate giants. That’s where we come in.
Our goal is really pretty simple we want to give the locally owned
businesses the same opportunity to reach the people in their community
as the big boys in one of the last places everyone gathers‹the
movie theater. And that’s the best part, the audience is there
(and they’re not going anywhere), they can’t turn the
channel or fast forward on their Tivo and everyone's eyes are always
on that great big screen. So if you’re looking for a great
opportunity to brand your business and reach the members of your
community for a fraction of the cost of TV or more traditional advertising,
give us a call. Our trusty pet llama Dwight is making up a fresh
batch of pecan pies as we speak (his pies are dynamite!) and we
want to make sure everyone gets their fair shot at a piece of the
pie.
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