Four Talking Posters From The Spirit
When I first heard that Yahoo had talking posters from Frank Miller’s The Spirit, I thought to myself “Cool, this is the future of movie marketing”. I mean, eventually one-sheet displays will be replaced with flatscreen televisions which can easily switch in and out various movie posters. Say a screening of The Happening just gets out, the theater can load movie posters of films that people who went to see an M Night movie would also enjoy. As you leave The Dark Knight, posters from other comic book movies would light your path of exit. And this new technology would allow for animated and interactive posters.
So when I clicked over to Yahoo I was very disappointed to find four standard character posters. The talking gimmick is just a gimmick. You move your mouse over a poster and a sound clip from that character is played. Sure, it’s interaction, but pretty lamely executed. I was expecting for the characters to come to life. I was expecting their lips to move. Was I expecting too much? Check out the lameness for yourself on Yahoo. Or you could star at the four posters above and pretend they are saying the superimposed quotes. It’s probably just as good.
Joaquin Phoenix Is Upset With Eva Mendes
Joaquin Phoenix Is Upset With Eva Mendes
It’s so interesting to see the off-screen interaction between two actors that have worked together. While they had some pretty intense love-scene-moments in “We Own The Night,” Joaquin Phoenix and Eva Mendes aren’t showing much love in real life.
It all started at the Cannes Film Festival. The “Hitch” actress made a comment that the “Walk the Line” actor didn’t appreciate.
She told an interviewer, “Working with Phoenix was kind of like working with a puppy dog or a 2-year-old.” And that turned out to be a bad move.
Joaquin fired back in a recent interview with Playboy magazine. “Had I known I was supposed to be a puppy dog, I would have been much more cute and more consistently attentive. My apologies, Eva, but I had a few other scenes that you weren’t in. This puppy dog had a lot of work to do.”
Ouch.
Hayden Panettiere: Keynote Speaker?
Hayden Panettiere: Keynote Speaker?
Adding to the already overflowing list of celebrity sightings at LAX this week, Hayden Panettiere showed up at the airport yesterday with her mother in tow.
The “Heroes” actress was all nice and bundled up, headed for our nation’s capitol, Washington D.C., for “The Forecast Earth Summit.”
And Hayden isn’t just going to observe, she’s one of the speakers at the event. She’s scheduled to talk about her involvement in the Save the Dolphins campaign, as well as the Declare Yourself voting initiative.
The Weather Channel actually created the Forecast Earth Summit in order to focus on environmental education and provide interaction with environmental leaders, enthusiasts and scientists.
Madonna Adoption a Done Deal
Madonna and child are finally, officially, together.
A Malawi judge has at long last officially approved the singer and Guy Ritchie’s adoption of David Banda more than a year and a half after the duo picked up the boy at an orphanage in the south African nation.
Neither Mr. or Mrs. Ritchie was present in courtor the countryfor the final ruling, which did see the government staffer who monitored the duo’s interaction with the boy present for the sign-off.
“We are very happy with what the judge has ruled,” Madonna’s lawyer, Alan Chinula, said outside the courthouse. “Finally the court has granted Madonna full adoption rights of the boy…It’s all over, thank God.
“It is a positive and beautiful judgment that will have an impact on Malawi’s adoption laws.”
While the parental action kicked off a global controversy back in late 2006, the process ended quite quietly in Lilongwe High Court Wednesday, when the final hearing for the adoption ruling took place without much fanfare.
Originally scheduled to take place last month, the official court OK has been delayed several times, both due to conflicts with the Material Mama’s promotional schedule and to allow time for the judge to once more humor a humanitarian group that has long, and loudly, argued that Madonna’s adoption violates current adoption law and opens the door for less well-intentioned foreigners to adopt from the nation.
The Ritchies have been caring for David, who turns 3 in November, in their London home since October 2006.