Archive for May, 2008
New Bangkok Dangerous poster
Is anyone else completely creeped the heck out by this new poster - the third by my count - for Nicolas Cage’s upcoming action flick Bangkok Dangerous? I’m not quite what’s more disturbing about it. Is it the odd position of his right hand and arm that seem to be coming out of his body [...]
Star Wars: Clone Wars poster and trailer announcement
Warner Bros. and Lucasfilm have sent out the official poster for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the animated series that’s also getting a theatrical release.
As you can see, the poster introduces the main characters that will be the focal point of the movie and the later series. Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda and the Padawan learner of [...]
New Accidental Husband trailer and posters
Yari Film Group has sent out a new trailer and a bunch of new teaser-type posters for their romantic comedy The Accidental Husband, starring Uma Thurman, Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The three posters all represent the idea that a book by Thurman’s character - a relationship advice specialist with a regular radio show - [...]
New The Love Guru trailer
Paramount has released a new trailer for the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru that you can view below.
I haven’t been as harsh on the campaign for this movie as some others have been. The first trailer in fact worked quite well for me and I genuinely laughed at more than a couple parts. There [...]
Become a new media douchebag
Via Cathy Taylor comes this spoof of the Common Craft videos, this one dubbed “New Media Douchebags in Plain English.” While I know a lot of people who fit the description provided in this video, Rex Hammock - whose site is shown as a printout at one point - is most assuredly not one of [...]
Cultural status check
Just in case you were wondering where our society is at currently, two movies this spring had trailers that included “pee in the sink” jokes.
Baby Mama
What Happens in Vegas
What Happens in Vegas gets help from TruTV; Wants to help you remember what happened
TruTV, the rebranded CourtTV, will be airing a series of vignettes featuring Ashton Kutcher and Rob Corddry, with commentary from Cameron Diaz, as part of the promotional push for What Happens in Vegas.
What the channel is calling “Reel Movie” segments run about two minutes and are then followed by a 30-second spot for the movie. [...]
Postal trailer
Oh sweet gravy-filled boat of crap. This trailer for director - and I use the term loosely - Uwe Boll’s satire - and I use the word loosely - Postal is so awful as to not be believed. There’s a rough semblance of a plot in there somewhere but it’s so covered over by the [...]
The target audience’s reaction to the Sex and the City trailer
Karina, in a post that you need to click through to so you can read the whole thing, says this about being in attendance at a Sex and the City-promoting press event with Sarah Jessica Parker:
About half-way through the show, the lights go down so we can watch the Sex and the City trailer. I’ve [...]
Marvel brings Hulk statues to Iron Man theaters
To continue the cross-pollination of Iron Man’s audience with the Incredible Hulk’s marketing campaign, Marvel has put life-size Hulk statues like the one it debuted at the New York Comic-Con in theaters across the country.
I’m not sure if the statues will continue to be in theaters or for how long, but the story says they [...]
Twilight teaser trailer and poster
Summit has released the first teaser trailer and a poster for Twilight, the studio’s young vampires and the girls who love them flick.
The poster, which comes to us via MTV, doesn’t worry about anything as silly as subtlety and goes straight for selling the movie as a romance between the beautiful teenage girl and the [...]
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan standee to give out Bluetooth-enabled ringtones
A theatrical standee for Adam Sandler’s new comedy You Don’t Mess With the Zohan will be equipped with Bluetooth technology that lets patrons grab voicetones for their mobile devices. Six voicetones will be available for download from the standees, which will appear in 25 Regal Entertainment theaters across the country. Instructions will prompt [...]
Beverly Hills Chihuahua trailer
In case you still held out some hope that Beverly Hills Chihuahua wouldn’t be an absolutely awful trainwreck after you saw the poster, I now present the movie’s teaser trailer. Yes, the movie is built around the idea that chihuahuas are some sort of noble warrior class of creatures that get carried around [...]
Mummy 3 trailer coming in June
Director Rob Cohen has revealed that the first trailer for Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor will likely appear some time in June. That’s cutting it extremely tight considering the movie opens in August. But Cohen says the shots Universal wants to include contain effects that aren’t quite done, so they’re opting to get it [...]
Automakers fueling in-theater advertising surge
Car companies are flocking to in-theater advertising this summer, driven (heh) there largely by their desire to capture the attention of the audience coming out for the season’s biggest movies. Both National CineMedia and Screenvision, the two biggest theater ad network operators, are seeing numbers this year far in excess of last year. [...]
