2006 December : Movie Marketing Madness

Quick Takes: 12/28/06

Happy Birthday to me. 12/28/74.

Keith O’Brien is also talking about the intersection of video games and movies. Like Keith, I marvel that there hasn’t been a Big Lebowski video game to date. It would have to, of course, include the phrase, “Don’t mess with the f****n’ Jesus.”
The Newsarama blog passes along some predictions from The [...]

Movie Marketing Madness: Children of Men

“In a world…” is the worst possible way to start off a trailer or, Heaven forbid, an actual movie. Maybe it was alright once, a long time ago, but that phrase has now become so cliched thanks to its use in so many spoofs and parodies of trailers and movies that it’s now meaningless.
But [...]

White Noise 2: The Light trailer

Cinematical points out that the teaser trailer for White Noise 2: The Light is up on the UK official site for the flick. Just brief glimpses of the characters are shown with an extraordinarily clunky voice-over that sets up the plot.

Sony goes mobile for The Messengers

ClickZ has the news about a mobile promotion Sony is launching to promote their new horror flick The Messengers. The studio as created a microsite where teenagers can download some of those ringtones that are only hearable by teens. Also on the microsite will be a number of instant messaging and other social media tools [...]

End of the year housekeeping

Just wanted to drop a few notes here at the end of the year about the site.
First off, I’ve turned my Amazon Store into a sort of list of my recent readings. You’ll see I’ve been quite busy reading some very good books. Some I’ve reviewed some I haven’t but they’re all absolutely worth checking [...]

I Think I Love My Wife trailer and official website

The very cool official website for I Think I Love My Wife, which stars Chris Rock, who also wrote and directed the flick, has the trailer which is not bad. It basically shows Rock’s character as a contented family man who, after running into an ex-girlfriend, begins to question just how content he actually is. [...]

RIP Gerald Ford

I just happened to be watching my new Simpsons: Season Eight DVDs this morning and saw this, which I felt it appropriate to share.

Quick Takes: 12/26/06

The DVD release of Alex Rider: Stormbreaker has been branded with a “Blockbuster Exclusive” sticker since this is from the Weinstein Company.
Jeff Wells doesn’t like the 2007 Oscar poster either, saying all the lines on it are ones that he’s already sick of. Completely agree.
See a suitably whacked-out online ad for Pan’s Labyrinth.
Official websites have [...]

Paying for advergames

I’d originally intended to write this up for AdJab but, the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was a better fit over here.
eMarketer has a report on advergames and how effective they can be as marketing tools. Specifically they focus on Burger King’s $3.99 Xbox games featuring their King mascot. The [...]

2007

Not looking pretty for the theater chains. DVD releases are happening sooner because studios are desperate to recoup the money they didn’t make during the theatrical release, the audience is increasingly choosing to stay home and play video games and prices are just too high for people to go out. That could lead to 2007 [...]

Black Snake Moan trailer

I don’t even know what to do with this trailer for Black Snake Moan.
Samuel L. Jackson plays a rural Southerner who keeps to himself and Christina Ricci plays a sex and drug addict who winds up in his care after he finds her passed out on his driveway one morning. She spends the majority of [...]

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer trailer

The trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer has finally hit the net and it’s pretty cool. As previous descriptions have said, the centerpiece of the trailer is a chase around the city of the Surfer by the Human Torch, one that goes around and through buildings and around and through cars and [...]

Ocean’s Thirteen poster giveaway

Alex at FirstShowing.net pinged me to let me know that the site is hosting another poster giveaway contest, this one for the atrocious Ocean’s Thirteen one-sheet. Not that my opinions should stop you from entering, but…well…yeah, I think my opinions should stop you from entering.
At least I’m honest about my narcissism.

The Tiger and the Snow trailer

Well, I guess when all else fails you go back to the well. Roberto Benigni taking the central premise from Life is Beautiful and, based on this trailer for The Tiger and the Snow, shifting it from World War II to the Iraq War. He plays another eccentric character who this time must get to [...]

Kingdom trailer

OK, I’ll admit I wasn’t hopeful at first about The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx as an FBI agent who investigates a series of murders of U.S. personnel in the Middle East. But after watching the trailer I think it looks really good. Foxx looks like he turns in a solid performance and the supporting cast, [...]

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