Disney really wants you to see its new John Carter movie.
Having irked fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs by cutting the title down from ‘John Carter Of Mars’ to a generic eponym and then releasing a rather lacklustre first trailer, the marketing machine has now changed tack, using a full ten minutes from the start of the film as a promo, just in case you thought it was going to be, you know, too Disney.
Good move. By the look of things, it’s quite the blockbuster.
Midnight productions company has become embroiled in a row over the “sexist and dangerous advertising” of one of its nights at the club Alchemy. The night in question, run with the byline ‘If You’re Not Up for It, Don’t Cum’, takes place on Monday nights in the Temple Bar venue.
The offending promo (left) appears to have been replaced with something less, eh, explicit. The comments section over at TUT continues to steam up.
Previously: Mondays At Alchemy
Alchemy Promoters in Sexism Row (The University Times)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqE-G73F960
Future members of the legal and political establishment (and their teachers) in a promo for the 2012 ball that shall haunt them forever.
Astonishing.
Some are actually hot.
Sheila Flynn sez:
Am I the only one disturbed by this?
Discuss.
A clever kinetic typography promo for You Are Not So Smart, a new book by David McRaney which you can buy, later, if you can be arsed.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71YsRO6G7Ks
Cowboys And Aliens director Jon Favreau invited VFX wizard Freddie ‘insane violence’ Wong to make a promo, giving him free rein as long as it somehow tied in with the movie (released August 19).
This is what he got.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3M6EB8kmk
The nice people at GoPro, hawkers of the 1080p Hero put together this nifty promotional montage of action footage shot with their HD helmet-cam.
