Try to ‘Take and Escape’ With Takers Online Game Dan Koelsch, June 29, 2010June 29, 2010 Sony Pictures has been really trying to create a strong online presence with their upcoming bank robbery film Takers. We’ve already seen a Facebook app for the action crime ensemble piece, and now we have an actual game. Get the details below. The Takers Game site features an online game called “Take & Escape”. The game is split into two parts. In the first, “The Take”, your bank robbing crew has hit a bank and you need to keep hostages from getting out of hand. In the second part, “The Escape”, you have to take out thugs, phones, and cameras as you make your escape. These games are mindless fun, which has sort of become Sony’s trademark (read: Day X Exists). Takers, directed by John Luessenhop and starring a slew of young actors, is out in theaters on August 27th. Viral Marketing GameSonySony PicturesTakers
Peter Jackson Starts Production Vlogs For “The Hobbit” April 15, 2011When Peter Jackson was directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy starting in 2000, he would periodically post video blogs from the set of the films. At the time, it was a rather innovative idea, considering YouTube was years away, and video sharing on the Internet as a whole was… Read More
Get Ready to Be “Green with Envy” May 23, 2011Over the weekend, audiences who saw Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides were shown a trailer for a film called Green with Envy starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel as a young couple who take a romantic trip to Hollywood for their anniversary. But all is not what it… Read More
Big Tron Legacy Update: Many Viral Sites, Countdown for Space Paranoids Online April 29, 2010October 18, 2011There has been an explosion of viral sites for Disney’s Tron Legacy lately, and thanks to Firstshowing, we are able to connect them together to make sense of it all. Try to follow the full story after the break. Read More