“Tower Heist” Facebook App Lets You Steal Facebook Credits Dan Koelsch, October 16, 2011October 16, 2011 Universal Pictures’ Tower Heist is an action comedy about workers of a high-rise who conspire to steal $20 million from their employer who swindled them out of their life-savings. You can start your own heist on Facebook with the film’s Heist It Back Facebook App. Get the details after the break. There are one million Facebook credits up for grab, and you can easily steal some for doing even simple tasks. This official press release sums it up pretty tightly in this snippet: Fans are rewarded with Facebook Credits when they click a “Heist” button, get their friends to join the heist, or share a story of how they got their own brand of payback. Facebook Credits received through the “Heist it Back” promotion will be immediately deposited into the user’s Facebook account, and can be used in Facebook games and apps to buy virtual goods. So, get your Facebook fortune and blow it on Farmville supplies! Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner, is in theaters nationwide November 4th. The film’s star-studded ensemble cast includes Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe. Follow the film on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Social Networks Viral Marketing FacebookTower Heist
Viral Video for “In Time” Feels Familiar…For A Reason October 28, 2011March 4, 2013 A video hit the Internet this week that showed a guy taking a chainsaw to a parking meter. While this was definitely a cool sight, many people thought it was fake. Either way, the video got over half a million views on YouTube. So, what makes this MovieViral material? The… Read More
The Time Has Come: Avatarize Yourself January 7, 2010November 16, 2010 As if Happy Meals weren’t enough, McDonald’s is now offering the chance for internet users to “avatarize” themselves. Simply upload a picture from your computer or Facebook page, follow a few steps in the program, and you’ll see what you’d look like if you were blue and lived on Pandora. The program… Read More
Review: District 9 – Fresh, Exciting and Visually Fantastic August 14, 2009September 7, 2009 Editors note: This review is spoiler free! In 1982, they arrived. The world wondered who, or what, was inside this giant spaceship now hovering over Johannesburg, South Africa. When the government of Johannesburg ordered the military to enter the ship, the world found out that what was in this craft… Read More