Quick Takes: 2/9/07

Newsarama says Ghost Rider started development not as a movie but as a TV series. That’s interesting since I’ve been thinking for a while now that it would be a fairly easy franchise to transition to an ongoing series.
There’s a new website out there that is designed to help parents and other moviegoers figure out why moves are rated as they are.
Ford’s F-Series pickup gets some product placement in Eddie Murphy’s Norbit.
The Carpetbagger rightly calls the marketing support for The Painted Veil “a study in miniature” and wonders where it is in the Oscar discussion.
Editor & Publisher dives into the ridiculous decision behind Factory Girl‘s team to call Hayden Christensen’s obviously Bob Dylan character “the musician.”
Terry Heaton creates an Alexa graph that shows just how far up their own hinder Viacom has inserted their own head.
Kathy Sierra reminds us that huge spending on advertising does not come close to having the impact simple inspiration of a passionate community can have.
Knowledge hoarding is dead. So speaketh David Armano.
Josh Hallett points out that big media companies looking to get in on the social media conversation need to first realize that their audience is made up of people with names.