Quick Takes: 2/14/07

Deep Focus’ Eric Druckenmiller tackles the issue of appealing to a young audience that is building its own buzz and creating its own spheres of influence.
A scanning company has created technology that embeds video within a poster sheet to create a fully-animated movie poster.
New Line is apparently pestering people with emails about things in the world involving the number 23 in anticipation for The Number 23.
The Little Miss Sunshine creative team is going mobile for their next effort, creating a series of mobile-friendly webisodes.
McFarlane Toys will be creating a line of figures that tie in to the Simpsons movie.
Netflix is producing and distributing a new documentary about Tony Bennett.
The Madman comic and potential movie are both getting a lot of hype from creator Mike Allred.
CK has a new round of the book discussion club going on, this time with Al and Laura Ries. If you don’t know who those people are you’re obviously not in advertising or marketing.
Visual search engine Pixsy is creating a site devoted to this year’s Oscar nominees. The site creates these sorts of sites as proof of concept examples of the kind of vertical-themed sites it can do for marketers.
The complete convergence of movie and video game is getting closer with Ubisoft’s announcement of a new unit to create short films. Those films will at first simply be promotional spots but that will likely change shortly.
Blockbuster has a list of the top rentals among Oscar nominated flicks.