Because of Winn-Dixie
Current Content: The placeholder site was around for a long time, but the flash site finally went live this week. The site has all the usual features, synopsis, cast and crew bios, etc. and a few extras like character bios, educators guide and soundtrack information, (marked coming soon.) Add in some animation and background music and you have an effective site.


Boogeyman
Current Content: Got the flash game to work and it's very well done. Moody and atmospheric enough to get the player interested in the movie.


Bride and Prejudice
Current Content: The trailer is online and while I enjoyed Bend it Like Beckham and Bollywood Hollywood, this one left me cold.


Elektra
Current Content: The crew bios and production notes were added, as were half of the cast bios. That leaves just the clips and soundtrack left to be added.


In Good Company
Current Content: The final game was added to the site, Are you Grounded? Apparently I'm grounded by technology, which makes this quiz a lot more accurate than most I've taken.


Kingdom of Heaven
Current Content: One of many new flash sites this week, and like most of the rest this one is low on content, but at least this one shows much promise with background animation and sound. The trailer is particularly impressive, or at least it would be if there weren't so many Sword and Sandal epics released recently.


The Longest Yard
Current Content: There's a lot of multimedia on the site, mostly in the form of behind the scenes clips. There are six such clips as well as the trailer, image gallery and a short synopsis.


The Merchant of Venice
Current Content: No change since the site first launched.


Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Current Content: Just the synopsis and the trailer so far. This could be a really good movie despite the presence of Angelina Jolie.


The Pink Panther
Current Content: The trailer was added to the site, (or to be more specific a link to the trailer was added to the site.) And quite frankly, I'm disappointed. I don't know what I was expecting from this movie as the original was a classic but the franchise got progressively worse from there. Unfortunately, this film looks more like the latter films than the earlier ones.


Rebound
Current Content: Just the synopsis and the trailer, neither of which did a strong job of selling the movie.


The Ring 2
Current Content: The flash site launched this weekend and while it may be light on content, it is heavy on style. Of the regular features, just the synopsis, small image gallery and teaser trailer are currently on the site. The only extras on the site are four sections, (water, mother presence and symbols) three of which are marked coming soon. Water just shows a series of short clips featuring water, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense right now. But like I said, it is definitely stylish. Stylish enough that it is this week's winner of the tape delayed Weekly Website Award.


The Upside of Anger
Current Content: The flash site launched and while there's little in the way of content, it's a great start. Each of the four sections, (home, trailer, synopsis and downloads) on the site have several section you can click to change pictures, wallpaper patterns or play a short audio or video clip.


Submitted by: C.S.Strowbridge

Date posted: 2004-12-30