Star Wars Promotions 26
Lincoln wrote in to tell us
the Promotional Campaign for Phantom Menance. He writes "I just received a secret memo from a large media organisation that revealed all of Lucasfilm's promotional plans for Episode One!
It is every Star Wars geek's dream come true:
8 billion Star Wars cans of Pepsi
New 5 minute Trailer coming soon (there's a new version posted at my site as well)
100 million gaming cards
$1 million in cash to be won
Episode One video releasein 2000
Episode One on 3,000 screens" It wouldn't be Star Wars
without mega promotions.
Ugh (Score:1)
Pepsi? What the Hell?
Faith in mythic consciousness again! (Score:1)
may not be good, but won't be a flop (Score:1)
New version of the starwars trailer (Score:1)
Also, why would someone who's practically begging for bandwidth submit a link to slashdot?!? It seems like some kind of ritual suicide or something.
Ugh (Score:1)
I am thankful everyday that "nothing else is a Pepsi",
and I must say that "Coke is it".
(and Pepsi is way too sickeningly sweet,
and there is no worse soda than any variant of "Diet Pepsi")
Star Wars=Star Trek? (Score:1)
I have a couple of anecdotes to support this:
1. Here in Washington, D.C. we have a theater called the Uptown. It was constructed in the late 1940s and has not been substantially changed since. It is an old-fashioned movie theater with a single, huge screen. It is THE place to see the "summer blockbuster" type of movie. When Jurassic Park came out, the lines stretched halfway around the block. I think I saw somewhere that people come in from out of town just to see a movie at this theater.
Anyways, when the Star Wars Special Edition rereleases came out, people camped out in front of the theater to secure opening day tickets. The entire first day of shows sold out (with the possible exception of the 12:30 A.M. show, although I guess that technically is the next day.) I went down the next day with a couple of friends to try and get tickets, and there were two lines. One was for the 10 a.m. show only and had about 5 people in it. The other was for all later shows for the day and went halfway around the block. Seems that a lot of people were dropped off to get tickets for later shows. If the turnout for the RERELEASES of the older movies was this big, the new movies should be even bigger. (By the way, it was definitely worth the trouble to see the movies at the Uptown. If you live in the D.C. area, plan to see the new SW movies at this theatre - there is no other place to see them.)
2. When the trailer came out, the local Fox station ran it on their evening news. (This is probably the only quality content, less weather, ever shown by this newscast.) Someone taped it and brought it into school the next day, where a crowd of ten gathered within 5 minutes of the tape's arrival at school in the TV studio to watch the trailer. I think more people saw it after school. If people are like this to see a 60-second preview for a movie (and if the stories of people paying for a movie ticket with the intention of leaving the movie theater after the previews are true) then there is going to be no shortage of audience for the new Star Wars movie, no matter what the reviews say.
5-minute trailer mirror network (Score:1)
Stop apologizing and use a cookie (Score:1)
(sorry forgot that nasty passwd again. sigh)
So, a) USE A COOKIE; or b) CHANGE THE PASSWORD TO SOMETHING YOU CAN REMEMBER.
Either of those two options should take you less time than it took for you to type the apology above.
Beowulf Danish? (Score:1)
Marketing tie-ins exploded with Star Wars (Score:1)
That's why you don't remember much from the Star Wars time - it wasn't happening (in any great amount) yet, and in any event SW was a small time movie from an unknown director in an unprofitable genre. After Star Wars, of course, things were a little different.
sPh
Back to the 80's (Score:1)
Unless you were in any way involved in computer science or system administration from ~1980 to ~1990. Then you might have seen just a little crossover. And a Star Destroyer is just a little bit larger than a NASA Orbiter, too.
sPh
Render Unto Me a Break (Score:1)
Hey, I'm a huge Star Wars geek. I'm sure there's lots of crossover between Star Wars and computer users. I can see where certain "events" like the release of the Episode 1 trailer are if not strictly appropriate, at least "close enough" to report.
But don't you think the Episode 1 marketing machine goes a bit beyond the computer-geeky this site represents?
I have a bit of faith in Lucas (Score:1)
The Babylonians had Gilgamesh, the French The Song of Roland, the Danes Beowulf, the English everything Tolkien ever wrote (that was his goal in starting the whole thing! really!), and we Americans have Star Wars. I wouldn't say we did half bad, neither.
PepsiCo/Frito-Lay/TacoBell/KFC/PizzaHut (Score:1)
Coke sucks anyway - it used to be good until they stopped using real sugar as a sweetener. What do they use now, corn syrup?
L. Ron
5-minute trailer during Super Bowl? (Score:1)
If you knew anything about... (Score:1)
I've read a couple reviews by people who have the actual script. They are very critical and overprotective about Star Wars and how the story will develope. These people were not dissapointed.
As for the graphics and cinematography, George Lucas is nothing short of a genius. He employs some of the most creative and talented people in the world. This won't be some lame-ass FX movie with a lacking plot. ALl the time and effort put in FX is equally distributed into the plot and storyline. You have to remember, Star Wars is another world. Not just some 2 hour natural disaster/amazing animal blah blah blah type thing.
I've read some of the spoilers here and there. But nothing that is obvious to a Star Wars geek. I'll tell you what, these movies will be more complex. But the beauty part is, all of the intracacy is woven very neatly behind the main plot. The other tilogy currently out was complex, but Lucas made them simplistic, and only the more detailed viewer would catch onto sub-plots and clues to origins of the characters and so forth.
The tricky part with these types of movies is satisfying the typical movie-goer and the fanatic.
This I would beleive would be no easy task for any director/producer. G. Lucas did it w/ the Episode 4, and his successors did it w/ 5 and (well, maybe) 6. Rumors have it Lucas will dirst all three of these new movies. For sure of course the first one, but will have alot of control in the next two if he doesn't direct them.
But I can sit here and ramble on and on, but the true test is when you sit your butt in the chair with some popcorn and coke and watch it, and make the decision for yourself. I am just conveying (and hopefully calming some anxiety)that Star Wars is far from Deep Impact or Mighty Joe Young.
a better solution (Score:1)
Star Wars 5min trailer (Score:1)
Woo-hoo! (Score:1)