What 2000 movie starring a veteran of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" was promoted using fictionalized reviews attributed to "David Manning"?
David Manning (fictitious writer) David Manning (sometimes "Dave") was a pseudonym used by a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation around July 2000 to give consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Several fictional review quotes attributed to "David Manning" were used in the promotion of medieval action/drama "A Knight's Tale" (describing Heath Ledger as "this year's hottest new star!") and Rob Schneider's comedy "The Animal" ("Another winner!"), the latter of which generally received mixed to poor reviews by real critics.
Hotel Hell Vacation Hotel Hell Vacation is an American online comedy short film released on February 7, 2010 on HomeAway's website. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold. It was the first time Clark and Ellen had been seen in a "Vacation" film since 1997's "Vegas Vacation"; they later appeared together again in 2015's "Vacation". The fourteen-minute short premiered as a series of commercials during the Super Bowl to help promote HomeAway, Inc. Although sanctioned by Warner Bros. (which holds the underlying rights to the "Vacation" series characters and concepts), this film was not sponsored by National Lampoon, Inc., which initiated the "Vacation" series.