Movie Website Updates for April 22 - April 28
April 28, 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, Unleashed - Official Site.
3-Iron
Batman Begins
Bewitched
The Brothers Grimm
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Citizen Verdict
Death of a Dynasty
The Devil's Rejects
Disaster! The Movie
Finding Home
Funny Ha Ha
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Goal!
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Holy Girl
House of Wax
Kingdom of Heaven
Ladies in Lavender
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
The Libertine
Lords of Dogtown
Night Watch
Pure
Saving Face
Secuestro Express
Serenity
Twin Sisters
An Unfinished Life
Unleashed
XXX: State of the Union
Simple site with most of the regular features, (only the director has a bio) with very little animation and no sound. The trailer does a very good job of selling the picture to the art house crowd.
There's a new trailer over on Apple.com. I should be really excited about this movie, but I'm not. Not sure why but none of the trailers have made me want to see the movie yet.
First new flash site of the week and quite frankly the nicest thing I can say about it is there's two month till the movie opens so there should be plenty more features added till then. Right now there's just the bare minimum without any features marked coming soon, very little sound and animation, but at least they are using the source material to add a little style.
Typical Miramax website with just the synopsis.
This site launched in just a few minutes this week, so I decided to give the new video clip another try. It talks about the locations and sets and is quite interesting but it didn't do a great good at selling the movie.
Big update to the site this week with most of the old feature added back to the site as well as some more video clips, the results of the votes and more.
No real changes since the site first launched.
New trailer was added to the site, but I'm still ambivalent towards the film.
A word of warning, this site contains foul language and naked action figures, which is not only offensive, but also really fun to say. Naked action figures. The rest of the site contains the synopsis, character bios, a couple of clips and more.
A subdued site that has all the usual features plus plenty of style, but it does it in a way that doesn't overcrowd the content. Synopsis, cast & crew bios, image galleries, trailer, making of featurette and more. That making of featurette is excellent and makes the site worth checking out all by itself.
There have been no changes to this site in quite a while.
Typical Universal placeholder site with the synopsis, cast and crew list, small image gallery and the trailer. Or to be more precise, a link to the trailer. It's effective as teaser trailers go, but I'm waiting till the final trailer before I get too excited on this one.
Just the synopsis, select bios and links to various soccer related sites.
The movie opens tomorrow but a couple of features are still marked coming soon, (the clips and two games.) I wasn't expecting the clips to be added before the movie opens, but the final two game were another matter. Although it is pretty early in the morning so I'll check again before I upload the column. … Sure enough, they were added sometime in the afternoon. If you only check out one feature on the site, check out the Dolphin Sing-a-long.
No real changes since the site was last on the list.
The crew bios were added to the site.
Roaming the Kingdom was added to the site, but instead of talking about the places and people in the movie, it's a bunch of products you can buy for your cell phone. Overall the recent updates have reduced the epic feel that this site should have.
No changes since the site was first on the list.
Just the trailer so far, but hopefully they can really do something entertaining with this site.
Typical Miramax website with the synopsis and cast & crew list.
New webisode was added, this one on the big bus stunt.
The flash site launched this week and it definitely has some style but little in the way of extras. Outside a couple of clips marked coming soon, there are no unusual features.
In every great site there's a hook, and with this site it's the audio clips. More than two dozen quotes from the movie are on the site as well as clips from 18 songs. The site also has a huge amount of information on Paradise Myths, Myths touched on the in movie and quote from various people on various topics. The site also has plenty of the usual features, but it's these extras that make the site stand out.
The main site launched this week and while it has most of the usual features, although only a few members of the cast and crew have bios while most just have filmographies. The way the background images come together adds a bit of style, but without any sound the site is still lacking in that area.
Typical Miramax website with the synopsis and cast & crew list.
The first update to the main site in a while. We now have half-a-dozen images, some downloads, oh yeah, and the trailer. Woo hoo! The Browncoats section also had an update including information on the special screenings. But if you want to pick up tickets it's too late, they all sold out in under two hours.
Typical Miramax website with the synopsis and cast & crew list.
Typical Miramax website with the synopsis and cast & crew list.
This site is divided into two main section, Tame and Savage. Not only are the background music and images different for the two sections, but some of the content is also different. For instance, the image gallery has different pictures. All the usual features are here, synopsis, cast & crew bios, production notes, image gallery and trailers. Plus extras like the two videos, hangman game and three features marked comings soon, (Pit Fight, Clips and Behind the Scenes.) Add it up and you have the winner of the dissociative Weekly Website Award.
This site does an excellent job at selling the movie with just the right level of sound and action for its target audience. The site not only has all the usual features but plenty of extras like a three part game, look at the weapons and vehicles in the movie and more, (although that last part did feel like a product placement and disrupted the overall style of the site.)
Submitted by: C.S.Strowbridge
Filed under: Movie Website Updates, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Batman Begins, Bewitched, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kingdom of Heaven, The Brothers Grimm, House of Wax, XXX: State of the Union, Serenity, Danny the Dog, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, The Devil’s Rejects, Lords of Dogtown, An Unfinished Life, Ladies in Lavender, Goal! The Dream Begins, Nochnoy dozor, Saving Face, The Holy Girl, Bin-jip, Pure, Funny Ha Ha, Death of a Dynasty, Twin Sisters