Viral Video: Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer Dan Koelsch, March 11, 2010March 10, 2010 Have you ever felt like every movie campaigning for an Academy Award was the same, or at least promoted the same way? Well, the guys behind Britanick Comedy think so, so they put together a faux trailer that shows just how easy it is to make an Oscar-worthy ad. Check…
Stan Lee’s Oscar Campaign Craig Skinner, March 7, 2010March 7, 2010 There are currently a lot of categories in the Oscars and I suspect that a lot of the votes are pretty random rather than seriously considered. Do the Academy members actually watch all the short films? Do the Academy voters all know the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing?…
Viral Video: Thankful Oscars Dan Koelsch, March 6, 2010March 6, 2010 With the Academy Awards just one day away, the Oscars have a hold on the industry right now. Fortunately, all that coverage can give us some funny viral videos, like this one from Whirled Interactive, which creates a remix of several long Oscar acceptance speeches. With the producers of the…
Instant YouTube Sensation Gets a Documentary Dan Koelsch, March 3, 2010March 2, 2010 It’s usually hard to guess what’s going to become a viral sensation on YouTube, but sometimes a video will skyrocket to the top, even making regular TV news broadcasts. Such is the case for the video uploaded two weeks ago in which an elderly white guy beats up an African…
Viral Video: Tim Burton’s Secret Formula Dan Koelsch, March 1, 2010 While I like some of his works, I’m not really a fan of Tim Burton as a director or a writer. All of his movies seem to look and feel the same, and now I know why. He has a very specific formula. Check out this hilarious College Humor video…