“Chronicle” Viral Sends People Flying Over New York City Skyline Caleb Hamilton, January 30, 2012October 7, 2013 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Supe- nope, it’s a plane. Or is it? The found-footage film, Chronicle, opens this Friday and to get people even more excited, a viral marketing campaign started over New York City and parts of New Jersey that will make you think you’re seeing things! If you live in the area and you’ve seen “people” flying around in the sky, there’s a perfectly logical explanation. Find out what it is after the jump.20th Century Fox hired the New York City based viral marketing agency, Thinkmodo (the guys behind the Limitless Times Square hack) to design special aircraft to promote Chronicle. Michael Krivicka from Thinkmodo explains to TechCrunch:“Since the three main characters of the movie have the ability to fly, we came up with the idea of staging a few “flying people” sightings around NYC. We achieved that illusion by having 3 custom-made aircraft (which were shaped like human beings) fly above designated areas in NYC and NJ.”Below you can see a behind-the-scenes video documenting the flights: Chronicle opens in theaters this Friday, February 3rd! Viral Marketing Viral Videos 20th Century FoxChronicleFlying peoplePrankThinkmodoViral marketing
Surrogates Update September 1, 2009September 1, 2009Checking out ChooseYourSurrogate.com, I noticed that they have an update to the main page. VSI (Virtual Self Industries) is now on Twitter, under @VSILabs. Nothing has been tweeted as of yet, so I am led to believe it’s up too early on the main page and may be take off… Read More
Viral Video Round Up: Lost, Inception, Jeff Goldblum, And More! January 13, 2013The Internet is full of videos related to movies, whether they be fan made, studio made, or somewhere in between. We regularly bring you the best, most interesting, or just plain weirdest, and today we do it again. Check out the latest viral videos after the break. Read More
Iron Man 2 Clues Solved and First Trailer Revealed! December 16, 2009December 16, 2009Well, that was pretty simple. Latino Review received the fourth and final clue for the Iron Man 2 mini-viral, and the mystery was solved pretty easily. In the new photo (below), we have yet another word highlighted, this time “revealed”. That makes all the highlighted words put together mean “Stark… Read More