“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
Super Bowl Ads To Have a Right-Wing Skew February 2, 2010February 2, 2010Super Bowl XLIV isn’t until Sunday, but there’s already been a lot of talk about the Super Bowl commercials. Companies spend millions of dollars just to get their ads on the highest-rated telecast every year, and the commercials usually end up being more memorable than the game itself. In fact,… Read More
District 9 Tickets On Sale Now July 26, 2009July 26, 2009Just a quick little heads up on a Sunday afternoon, District 9 tickets have gone on sale at Fandango! There will probably be midnight showings, but that varies depending on what theater and where that theater is. The movie opens in just under 3 weeks, so you have plenty of… Read More
Check Out This Iron Man 2 Trailer Remix March 15, 2010Thanks to the wonders of cheap editing software, there countless videos on the Internet that cut up the two Iron Man 2 trailers for various reasons. Just last week, we saw a fan-created extended trailer that featured clips from both real trailer. However, I really like this remix of the… Read More