Ladies night at the BAFTAS

Congratulations to E1 and Carey Mulligan, whose breakout performance as schoolgirl Jenny in
'An Education' won her the BAFTA for Leading Actress. The flim, which has garnered universal critical aclaim, was also nominated for several awards, including Best Film and Best Director, but lost out to the night's big winner "The Hurt Locker'.

Kristen Stewart - star of E1's New Moon and the phenomenally successful Twilight Saga - took the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

K&M are, as always, extremely proud to be part of E1's continuing succsess. We have just completed work on the DVD and Blu-Ray release for both An Education and New Moon.

'An Education' will be available on March 8
and 'New Moon' will be out on March 22

East meets West End

Kennedy Monk are proud to have produced the packaging and print advertising for the new RTS title from Square-Enix. This heralds an exciting new relationship between Square-Enix and Kennedy Monk ltd.

Square-Enix were looking for an eye-catching visual style that would set Order of War apart from all of it's competitors. Order of War represents the first "western" title for Square-Enix and so it was important that a strong visual statement was made. We're very excited to be involved with such a ground-breaking release for Square-Enix.

Building on the success of Order of War K&M are now developing a further 2 titles for Square Enix. Watch this space!

The numb3rs don't 1ie

Knowing exploded onto cinema screens earlier this year, with a £6.5m take at the box office, so great things were expected of the DVD. K&M were there to lend a hand, designing the packaging and press. This cerebral sci-fi action flick, directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot) appealed to a primarily male audience, so long-lead press ads were placed in specialist film and sci-fi magazines.

The results? A fantastic opening day performance that put the film at number one in both the blu-ray and dvd charts. K&M are delighted to have been involved in another great success for E1.

K+M were delighted to help publicise the release of award-winning political shock-doc The Yes Men Fix The World.

The film begins with the Yes Men's famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow Chemical spokesperson on BBC World News, in which they took responsibility for the largest industrial accident in history – the Bhopal disaster – in a broadcast that reached 300 million people. Dow’s share price dropped by $2 billion in just 23 minutes as shareholders rejected the idea of compensating families who suffered death, disability and disease after 42 tonnes of toxic gas from a leaky chemical plant engulfed the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.

K+M came up with a new brand of bottled water, B'eau Pal, which the Yes Men took to the streets of London, offering samples to unsuspecting passersby. Later the same day, they visited the headquarters of Dow Chemical in Slough, to challenge a representative to drink the water.

The Yes Men Fix The World will be shown across the UK in participating cinemas on Tuesday, 11 August, via a nationwide satellite link-up.

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License to Thrill

Kennedy Monk were delighted to be commissioned by Penguin Books to design outdoor advertising for the paperback release of the latest Bond novel, Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming's Devil May Care.

Penguin were looking for a campaign that would deliver the requisite glamour and thrills that are hallmarks of the Bond movie franchise. Devil May Care was Penguin's fastest selling hardback ever, and great things are expected of the paperback, which won the prize for popular fiction at the Galaxy British Book Awards in April 2009.

Twilight DVD - Fans enjoy a feeding frenzy!

Twilight on DVD has hit the shops with incredible sales of over 200,000 copies on its first day of release, making it the third highest selling DVD of the year (chasing Quantum of Solace and High School Musical 3).

Following Twilight's huge theatrical success, K&M have continued to help E1 Films capitalise on the established brand (and the massive popularity of its teen stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) creating collectable posters, postcards and a targeted magazine advertising campaign. K&M also created all the DVD packaging, including an exclusive HMV sleeve featuring Edward himself.

K+M add some
Twilight sparkle

Twilight is arguably the most hotly anticipated film of winter 2008 and Kennedy Monk are delighted to be working with E1 Films (formerly Contender) on the print and press campaign.

The film, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer, has already stormed to number one in Italy and Mexico and great things are expected from its US and UK openings. In keeping with its themes, we supplied a dusky, brooding keyart - glowing out of the darkness as the autumn nights close around us!

With the Twilight brand now established, and a sequel greenlit, we’re looking forward to a New Moon…

We've been busy...

...winning the pitch to design the poster campaign for Pathé's hotly-anticipated new movie 'Blindness', directed by Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) and starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.

...delivering Universal Pictures' commission to design and produce their international print and POS campaign for the DVD release of Doomsday, the latest Neil Marshall film. This caught the attention of Universal's UK division, who asked us to service the UK online campaign as well.

...and we regressed back to the early 90's to design and create the UK website and online advertising campaign for Revolver Entertainment's 'dope' new cinema release, The Wackness.


Visit The Wackness site

Blowing a hole in the opposition

Battlefield: Bad Company explodes on to next-gen consoles this week. Kennedy Monk not only created the key-art and signature brand, but the developers loved the concept so much they actually re-modelled the
in-game grenades to match.
The ‘smiley grenade’ has now become the cornerstone for the entire marketing campaign across
all media.

Bad Company is the 5th Battlefield product K+M has worked on for EA as encumbent creative on the entire Battlefield franchise.

Battlefield: Bad Company is released on 27/06/08

The only perfect crime...

Gifted screen-talent Elijah Wood and legendary thespian John Hurt attempt to unravel a series of murders, seemingly linked by a series of mathematical symbols in 'The Oxford Murders' - a thrilling labyrinthine murder-mystery from Contender Films.

K+M designed and built the micro-site with the trailer, synopsis, cast info, code puzzle challenges and an enigmatic animated intro sequence.

Meet the new crew

The addition of Frank Sykes, Paul Boussard and Michelle Thomas.

Frank is a bit French, is master of le internet, and has some very funky dance moves.

Paul is completely French, and brings his own 'French touch' (said with a shrug and a drag on a Gitane) to the design studio.

Michelle isn't French at all, but has a French name, and replaces Richard Le Cocq, who has fled these shores for warmer climes.

Peter escapes wolf
to scoop
Academy Award^®

Kennedy Monk are delighted to
congratulate Producer
Hugh Welchman, Director
Suzie Templeton and everyone
at Breakthru films for winning the
Oscar® for Best Animated
Short Film.

Oscar winning Hugh Welchman said:
“Thanks to everyone at
Kennedy Monk for all their
help in bringing Peter
to the marketplace!”