This Week In Viral: Week of 6/8/09 Dan Koelsch, June 15, 2009June 15, 2009 This was a good week for viral, especially for District 9, which saw more posters, an official website (finally), and now more footage. Matt will have a full breakdown of the footage screened in front of Pelham 123 in some theaters tomorrow. The clips showed more of the aliens (including full body and action shots) and gave a bit more info on Mult-National United.This Week In Viral covers viral news from the week that for whatever reason didn’t make it into it’s own post. TotalFilm has a review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and apparently there’s a Cloverfield poster in Sam’s room. Pretty cool.Speaking of Transformers, TheRealEffingDeal is pumping out daily posts now, so check out the site for some interesting theories and observations, including this savory video:Also, GiantEffingRobots finally posted for the first time in month, and it was actually three posts in one day. They have their own tasty vid:In more District 9 news, MNU continues to urge tweeters to report alien sightings.I don’t think I mentioned this before, but the Surrogates viral site now has an entry page which lets you view and download the trailer, once again breaking what I’m going to start calling the “Viral 4th Wall”.We finally got a picture from the Michael Moore theater stunt:Tobias Richter, Trekkie and CG artist, created this awesome animation for FedCon 2009, showing a meeting between the USS Kelvin and the USS Enterprise. You may know Richter from his pre-release CGI renderings of the new film’s Enterprise.That’s it for this week’s TWIV. As always, our staff can only cover a fraction of the news, so to keep up-to-date, go to our Official Forum. Keep searching for viral, you never know where you’ll catch it. Viral Marketing District 9Michael MooreStar TrekSurrogatesTransformers
DVD Tuesday: Sci-Fi Blu-rays Under $10 October 27, 2009October 27, 2009New DVD and Blu-ray movies usually release on Tuesdays, so most of the film blogs will promote and review them. We, as usual, like to take a different approach, so we’ll try to find the more obscure deals out there. Today, we bring you Sci-Fi films that are now on… Read More
“Super 8” Deleted Scene Features Rocket Poppeteers June 27, 2011We know that the Rocket Poppeteers side of the Super 8 viral campaign has a sponsoring tie-in with 7-Eleven. What we didn’t know is that the partnership originally made its way into the film itself. After the break, check out a deleted scene from Super 8 that has the kids… Read More
Predators Website Has New Features and Games June 30, 2010A while back, the Predators website debuted with the promise of interesting features. There has been some anticipation on exactly what these features were. Fortunately, two have been activated, and both are definitely not for anyone who doesn’t like highly NSFW images. Get ready to slash a site and loose… Read More
The second TF video the robot in their looks like Jazz for some reason, it’ll proberly be sideswipe my guess is. The Star Trek video is cool also