Archive for November, 2005
Ultimate Avengers cross-marketing
To promote the upcoming Ultimate Avengers DVD release, Lions Gate and Marvel Comics are ramping up the marketing efforts. Not only will comics shops get artwork-quality posters but there will be a massive TV/print/online/DVD effort. The DVD of The Fantastic Four will feature a trailer, as will other Lion's Gate releases. Cartoon Network and [...]
Narnia cereal tie-in
In the U.K., cereal boxes from Nestle will include figurines of the characters from The Chronicles of Narnia. Those figures turn colors to resemble stone when placed in the freezer and then turn back when taken out and breathed on, apparently mimicing an aspect of the movie/story. I agree with Mack, this is kind of a cool idea, but I'm not sure [...]
Deep Sea 3D poster
I have numerous problems with the poster for Deep Sea 3D, the new IMAX film trying to do for underwater life what March of the Penguins did for...err...penguins. In no particular order: It would have been much more effective if it had used an actual shot from the movie and not a collage of images that look they were cut out of a National [...]
MMM Quick Takes: 11/29/05
I may not have time today for a series of posts but there was some good stuff waiting out there that I wanted to pass along. Boston.com posted a slide show of the history of Aeon Flux that deals with not only the upcoming movie but the entire run of the character. (via Jeffery Wells) Speaking of Flux, the latest Netflix envelope ad was for [...]
Ant Bully teaser trailer
Kind of funny teaser trailer for The Ant Bully, a new animated flick from Warner Bros. The spot shows a series of ants and other insects auditioning for the film, each with some sort of wacky personality or characteristic. Not bad, but the character design looks awfully similar to that in Antz.
