Movie Marketing

You can scratch another remake off the list of fifty or so that are in the works because the trailer for The Taking of Pelham 123 is playing in front of The International and officially has a poster. It’s coming for us all soon.

You knew that it was coming — countless spinoffs and reenactments of the Christian Bale tirade on the set of Terminator Salvation. This time it is Michael Cera and director Miguel Arteta capitalizing on Bale for a little viral marketing spot for their upcoming film Youth in Revolt, which is based on a wildly popular book by C.D. Payne.

Fellow Americans, in order to better understand the forthcoming Watchmen, you must watch the latest video concerning The Keene Act. Beware, this video contains obscene amounts of truth!

It’s been a while since we heard anything about Bruce Willis’ latest movie, Surrogates, but with the start of NY Comic Con comes a viral site for Virtual Self Industries at Choose Your Surrogate.

A major piece of the comic puzzle will fall into animated place for Watchmen just a few days after its release. Luckily, that place is on DVD, and there are a few teaser images to give us all an idea of what to look forward to.

That’s right. There’s another Watchmen poster out there for all of us to drool over. This time, it’s IMAX style.

You’ll probably want to get used to posts like this from now until March 6th when Watchmen hits theaters. The Warner Bros. marketing machine is working overtime to ensure that Zack Snyder’s love letter to fanboys will also appeal to guys that have girlfriends.

Get excited for a totally pimped out slasher getting ready to cut his way onto DVD from Anchor Bay Home Entertainment.

The producers of Coraline have unleashed a fantastic series of posters that promises to teach us an adventurous set of ABC’s.

The more I see and hear about the upcoming live-action G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie the more I think it’s actually an unofficial sequel to the 1982 classic Megaforce.

So there was a FedEx package at my door this morning, and inside of it was a little lockbox with a 50 Swedish Krona bill and a note.

Now that 2009 has fully began to set in, we should get on with some marketing materials for some of those 25 Most Anticipated Movies that we’ve been going on about. Up first is the teaser art for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to the 2007 boomfest that introduced the world [...]

The man with the creative juices that spilt all over The Nightmare Before Christmas is back to direct an original work of Neil Gaiman’s — a real geekgasm if ever there was one. And while you sit and ponder whether or not you thought Tim Burton directed Nightmare, as that is what you’ve always thought, please enjoy these brilliant behind the scenes featurettes.

Step inside The Curious Production of Benjamin Button, with insights from the producers, actors, and writer of the Holiday Oscar contender.

Universal Studios has unleashed posters for two of their 2009 tentpoles, the Will Ferrell led adaptation of Land of the Lost and the fourquel known as Fast and Furious.

Sure, it may be suspending our disbelief (among other things), but the second theatrical poster for Paul McGuigan’s Push is pretty wicked, is it not? It features Chris Evans’ character Nick using his power to move objects with his mind.

Recent marketing materials — both official and otherwise — from two of Paramount Pictures’ highest profile 2009 movies tell us one thing: they are really into the whole black and white poster aesthetic.

The folks at Paramount Digital Entertainment were kind enough to send us over some information on a little iPhone/iPod Touch game they knew we would just love. Or at least, they much know how much I love my iPhone — so it was a guaranteed coverage sort of situation.

The new international poster for David Goyer’s upcoming ghost movie, The Unborn, has just been released at Empire Online, and it’s a stunner. By “it” I’m referring strictly and solely to star Odette Yustman’s ass.

The new Japanese trailer for the eagerly awaited Dragonball movie has arrived, and it looks amazing… had it come out in the mid to late nineties.