Tron Legacy Operative Phones Are Still In Play Dan Koelsch, August 17, 2010 Briefly: Tron Legacy really kicked off its viral campaign in February, when the Zero Hour website lead to coordinates in cities around the world, where players could pick up dead drop packages that included a pre-paid cell phone that lead to ANOTHER package that some other cool things inside. Now, thanks to players on Unfiction, we know that money has been added to the cell phone accounts, meaning there are more activities ahead. What could they be? Give us your thoughts in the comments below. Viral Marketing Flynn LivesTron LegacyZero Hour
Indie Director Makes “TwitFlicks” To Fund Movie October 27, 2011What do you do if your Kickstarter-like campaign to fund your independent short film isn’t working? If you’re Dutch director Eddy Terstall, you take requests for mini-movies on Twitter for a fee, calling them “Twitflicks”. By doing just that, Terstall raised about €120,000, way more than the €20,000 he was… Read More
Castle: “Heat Wave”, the Novel From the Series, is Now Available October 15, 2009October 15, 2009Even we at MovieViral miss good viral news sometimes, and this is one that I am personally upset about not knowing. ABC’s hit show Castle is about a well-renown writer of detective novels (played to perfection by Nathan Fillion) who follows around a real detective (portrayed by Stana Katic) who… Read More
Repo Men Motion Comic Debuts Online March 15, 2010March 15, 2010With only 3 days left to go before Repo Men hits your local cinemaplex, Universal has launched one last video, a Dennis Calero-illustrated motion comic debuting today SXSW and ready to download online. Find out more about this after the break. Read More
Money has been being dropped into the phones occasionally fairly regularly since they were originally distributed. Until something happens, it just means they’re still keeping them alive for something… sometime…