Movie Website Updates for October 14 - October 20
October 20, 2005
During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. Here the list of this week's releases, a couple of new sites and few updates, including this week's winner, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Official Site.
Ask the Dust
Breakfast on Pluto
Casino Royale
Charlotte's Web
Clerk 2: The Passion of the Clerks
Doom
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
Emmanuel's Gift
Freedomland
Good Morning, Night
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Jesus Is Magic
Kids in America
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Last Holiday
National Lampoon's Barely Legal
North Country
Running Scared
Saw 2
Shopgirl
Stay
Stoned
Walk the Line
X3
Yours, Mine and Ours
The placeholder site was redesigned with a little bit of animation, but the main site is still marked coming soon.
The site has all the usual features plus plenty of video clips. However, I don't like the way they done the bios as you have to scroll through one to get to the others. I much rather have menu options to chose which bio I want to read.
The site launched with a brief animated introduction and a casting announcement. Since the movie hasn't even started filming yet, so there's plenty of time to add new content.
So far the site just has cast list, image gallery and some downloads.
There are five more entries this week, including four clips. Well, three clips, one has since been pulled from the site for containing a spoiler they didn't want to get out.
The timeline was added to the site leaving clips, interviews and Basic Training marked coming soon. However, it is early in the day and I'll check back later to see if they have been added.
The activities section was added but it was mostly printable study guides and not games as I was hoping.
It has been a while since the site was last on this list, but not much as changed since then.
Typical placeholder site with just the trailer. It could be good, but Samuel L. Jackson isn't known for his discerning taste in scripts. Hell, he's making a movie called Snakes on a Plane, (I thought it was a joke too, but apparently that's the real title).
Typical Wellspring movie site.
A new section on Mad-Eye Moody was added to the site this week, or perhaps it was last week, I may have missed it last time.
A bio for Sarah Silverman was added to the site, as were some downloads and press.
There were no changes in about a month. It's not a bad site, but it lacks style.
Fun site with a great sense of style, even if that style seems to be borrowed from Waiting...'s Official Site. The site has all the usual features, (synopsis, cast & crew bios, production notes, image gallery, trailer) as well as extras like tons of audio quotes. A lot of the audio quotes are supplied by Robert Downey, Jr as the site's narrator, but some are from the movie and other's make absolutely no sense. ("I prefer Gennaro's. But what do I know? I'm a bear!") It's an interesting combination or substance and style, with a heavy emphasis on the latter, but it works for the film. The only complaint I have is the clips are still marked coming soon, however, that's not enough to stop the film from winning the repetitive Weekly Website Award Award.
The trailer is online, but it looks like it is full of cliches.
All the usual features are here plus a little bit of animation, but not nearly enough to sell the film.
There have been no changes in about a month.
Just the synopsis, image gallery and trailer so far. I can't say I found the trailer particularly intriguing, but there is some potential there.
Two more screens were added, but they're no longer effective. The mood has already been set and these are simply not interactive enough.
Another site that hasn't changed in a while.
The only unusual feature on the site, (besides the podcast) is called Collaborative Subconscious Experiment, and while I can see what they were going for, it doesn't quite get there.
The main section of this site helps the film stand out a bit with its sense of style, but the rest of the site is too average. Also, this is another site where the bios are in one big text block and not separated one for each person.
The flash site is up, the first section containing all the usual features, the second describes some of Johnny Cash's exploits. The final section, Cash Family Tree, is marked coming soon, but if you click it, it will try to load and then hang.
There's a short animated intro, and that's it. But the film doesn't come out for 8 months or so, so there's plenty of time for additions.
The second trailer is up, and well it does a marginally better job at selling, it is woefully inadequate.
Submitted by: C.S.Strowbridge
Filed under: Movie Website Updates, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, X-Men: The Last Stand, Casino Royale, Walk the Line, Saw II, Charlotte's Web, Yours, Mine and Ours, Last Holiday, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, Doom, Clerks II, North Country, Freedomland, Shopgirl, Running Scared, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Stay, Breakfast on Pluto, Ask the Dust, Emmanuel's Gift