Movie Website Updates for March 3 - March 9
March 9, 2006
During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. This week's winner was one of last week's best sites, She's the Man - Official Site, which added a lot of content this week including some old stuff that was off site for previous weeks.
American Gun - Official Site
Ask the Dust - Official Site
Cars - Official Site
Clerks 2: The Passion of the Clerks - Official Site
Duck Season - Official Site
Failure to Launch - Official Site
Game 6 - Official Site
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things - Official Site
The Hills Have Eyes - Official Site
Ice Age: The Meltdown - Official Site
Kinky Boots - Official Site
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector - Official Site
The Libertine - Official Site
Little Man - Official Site
Lonesome Jim - Official Site
Lucky Number Slevin - Official Site
La Mujer de Mi Hermano - Official Site
The Notorious Bettie Page - Official Site
A Prairie Home Companion - Official Site
R.V. - Official Site
Scary Movie 4 - Official Site
The Shaggy Dog - Official Site
She's the Man - Official Site
Simple Things - Official Site
Slither - Official Site
Stay Alive - Official Site
V For Vendetta - Official Site
X-Men: The Last Stand - Official Site
So far it is just a re-direct to the Participant Films movie site, but with just two weeks till the film opens, there's not much time to create a full site.
The rest of the content was added, cast & crew bios, image gallery, and trailer. The clips are still marked coming soon, but it's common for sites to not add those till after the movie opens.
The flash site launched this week, and there's a lot of potential here. There is also a lot marked coming soon, so it is too soon to tell if the site will be an award-worthy site. (If I was to take an educated guess, I would say yes.) On a pleasant note, there appears to be plans for weekly updates from now till the movie hits theatres.
Yet another clip online, this one following Trevor as he tries to get kisses from the female members of the cast and crew.
No changes since the site was first on the list.
This isn't a bad site with all the usual features and a few extras, but didn't do enough to sell the film, at least not to me.
No real changes since the site was first on this list, and like the first time it was on this list, it is having issues, (missing images, slow load times, etc.).
The trailer is online, but you have to go to Apple.com to see it, and you need iTunes to view it.
Good site with all the usual features plus enough extras to keep the surfer interested, but not enough to set itself apart from the rest of the pack.
The flash site is up with all the usual features for an animated film, character bios, cast bios, trailer, etc. But there are several games for the kids to play. On the other hand, the background music is a really short clip from Ice, Ice Baby and gets really repetitive really fast.
The movie has a North American release date, what it doesn't have is a new website. Hopefully that will change soon, and hopefully it will be as good as the U.K. site.
The flash site is up, but outside the trailer, everything is marked coming soon.
Typical Weinstein Co. movie website.
Just the trailer so far.
All the usual features are here but not enough extra to stand out compared to most movie websites. The trailer should sell the film well to the indie crowd, but it will likely not find an audience till the home market.
Last week the site had just the name, and it wasn't even done in an interesting font. This week it turned into the usual Weinstein Co. website with the synopsis, trailer, and links to the cast's pages at IMDb.
This site has all the usual features, each of which pops up in its own window. Now sure why they did that as it doesn't add anything to the site. Also, I couldn't get the trailer or the two music videos to work, but I'm not sure if that's a problem on my end or their end.
The flash site is up, but outside the usual features, (synopsis, production notes, cast & crew bios, trailer), there's not much to see.
So far it's just the synopsis, the trailer, and some information on the director.
Slight change in the look of the placeholder sight with the synopsis, worldwide release dates, tour schedule added.
The flash site is up, and there's a stronger emphasis on background animation than there is on actual information about the movie.
All the features were added today, just in time for tomorrow's release. It's a huge site with plenty to do including a few games / activities, eight movie clips and a behind-the-scene featurette. However, the server is getting pounded at the moment and that is causing problem. That really hurts the site's effectiveness.
The week before last I mentioned that having the same clip of Amanda Bynes intro each section was too repetitive. The next week there were different clips with different actors for each section. Last week I mentioned that this was a huge site but since a lot of the content was spread out so many sites that I really couldn't give the main one the Weekly Website Award. This week all of the content was added to the main site. Now I'm saying the only way to improve the site is if I get an autographed picture of Amanda Bynes sent to me. (I'll tell you next week if it works.) Along with all the old content making its appearance on the site, there's a new music video as well as a MySpace profile. The only content still marked coming soon is the one called My Universe under the Special Features section and with the movie only a week away, it should be added soon. In the meantime, the site with its mix of regular features, and massive collection of video clips is the winner of the Shakespearean Weekly Website Award.
Simple site will all the usual features, (synopsis, cast & crew bios, gallery and trailer). There's not much animation, but the background music helps set the mood nicely.
Big update this week with most of the features added both regular features like production notes and TV spots as well as extras like Brenda Pet, (yuck), and Hunting Season. Hunting Season is a fun action game that I was doing really well in till my hand started cramping up, then one of the little guys got me. The only things still marked coming soon are the cast & crew bios and the film clips. On the down side, Greetings from Wheelsey is no longer on the site.
The flash site is up, but like most new flash sites on this week's list, there's not much new content. The Synopsis is there, as are some images, but the cast & crew bios and the production notes are still marked coming soon. Also, if there's anything truly unique, it's not even hinted at on the site. Lastly, I have to say that the tagline, "You Die In The Game - You Die For Real" is awful. Just terrible. It doesn't flow, it doesn’t sell the movie's potential creativity, it's not scary.
Better clips of the soundtrack were added, as was a talk back feature.
New intro, new trailer. I'm starting to get excited about this movie.
Filed under: Movie Website Updates, Cars, X-Men: The Last Stand, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Scary Movie 4, Failure to Launch, R.V., V for Vendetta, The Shaggy Dog, Little Man, The Hills Have Eyes, She’s the Man, Clerks II, Stay Alive, Lucky Number Slevin, A Prairie Home Companion, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Slither, The Libertine, Kinky Boots, The Notorious Bettie Page, Ask the Dust, Lonesome Jim, Temporada de patos, Game 6, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, American Gun