Play The ‘Source Code’ Social Media Game Dan Koelsch, March 10, 2011May 12, 2011 Duncan Jones’ Source Code is a sci-fi thriller about a soldier who crosses over into train passenger’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life in order to figure out who set off the bomb that killed him so that another attack can be prevented. Summit Entertainment has taken the film viral by creating a social media game in which you help find the bomber, just in time for the film’s SXSW debut this weekend. The Facebook-centric game is called “The Source Code Mission” (and they say Hollywood isn’t original), and is located on a subpage of the film’s official site. You can find the site thanks to the Microsoft Tag (it’s a like proprietary QR Code) that’s on the film’s poster, as seen below. Summit worked with The Visionaire Group, whose work we’ve seen in many viral marketing campaigns, including Surrogates, The Last Exorcism, and The Expendables. If you play the game, you get entered into a sweepstakes to win a trip to the SXSW festival in 2012. Thanks to @Clendanielc and Mashable. Source Code is set to release in theaters across the country on April 1st, and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Captain Colter Stevens. Contests Social Networks Viral Marketing ContestsFacebookonline gameSource CodeThe Visionaire Group
What IF: Se7en September 26, 2009January 23, 2010It’s 1995, and all that anyone is talking about is Se7en. This film, like so many before and after it stunned the audience with its twist ending. People still talk about it to this day and after the question recently put to me by Nick about cult classics during our… Read More
Viral Marketing Check Out The “TRON: Legacy” Light Show In Norway December 13, 2010Disney is pulling out all the stops in promoting Friday’s theatrical opening of TRON: Legacy around the world. Last weekend saw a projection light show in London, and now the Mouse House has put on another light show in Norway, this time at the Indekshuset building in Oslo. Check out… Read More
Watch Episodes 4 and 5 of “The Inside Experience” August 3, 2011No, we didn’t slack off and miss an episode. The team behind the interactive web series The Inside Experience has posted two episodes back-to-back. Check them both out after the break. Read More
Brilliant use of social media. Of course it may simply be for art’s sake unless it actually results in increased traffic at the box office.-Steve