Advertising & Media (Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures)

It's one thing to see a flying car whisk by a Coca-Cola ($KO) sign in Blade Runner 2049. Or Vin Diesel crush a Corona ($BUD) before crushing a skull in Fast and the Furious 2049 (how many of these are there?). Or Mark Wahlberg mention a motorcycle he likes in Big Daddy. It's pretty obvious that those are placement ads. But its an entirely different stor…