Links for 2005-10-05
- I'm famous! Check out the front of the DVD kiosk at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco! It's a review I wrote for the BBC's film website several years ago. Not my finest piece of work, although it looks pretty classy like that. Wasn't for BBC News though...
- Today the Guardian carries an obituary for... er... Tom Coates?! But that's me?! Surely?! "People recognised his quiet, seemingly effortless ability to influence others." How true.
- Serenity takes $10 million in it's opening weekend - not enough to topple Flightplan from the top of the charts Will it build momentum on word-of-mouth? Will this be enough to ensure it a sequel? I'm not convinced at the moment. Get people to go and see it! It's good! Really!
- The new Guinness advert "Evolve" is pretty bloody awesome - although this tiny tiny version doesn't really do it justice You know what I don't understand - people pay a fortune to put the ads on TV, but normally they don't make it possible for people to find them, watch them and link to them online. Seems like it would be an easy win...
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Ooh, that Guinness add is great. And the first guy you see drinking is my good friend Richard Glover which I find quite exciting.
→ Posted by: James at October 5, 2005 2:05 AM
The Guiness advert was obviously done by someone who had just read The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
→ Posted by: Geoff at October 5, 2005 8:17 AM
Re: Serenity box office on the first weekend - it appears from the figures that you linked to, to have taken 2/3 of the sum that Flightplan did. But then it was also open on less than 2/3 as many screens. So proportionately, it did as well as Flightplan... Annoyingly it doesn't open here in NZ until bleedin' November!
→ Posted by: AndrewNZ at October 5, 2005 8:58 AM
I see the BBC iMP trial has started, and is based around the Windows Media DRM. They say the supplier (Kontiki) is "working towards supporting Mac and Linux". What would be great would be for a knowledgeable tech evangelist or two within the organisation to make sure that our public service broadcaster's most significant new project in years isn't locked in to Windows :)
→ Posted by: Max at October 5, 2005 12:00 PM
1. love the guinness ad - probably the best thing on tv right now.
2. thanks for the link a couple of days ago (stupidity, god etc)
3. my sincerest commiserations on having died. still, you had a good innings...
→ Posted by: minfig at October 5, 2005 5:13 PM
Yeah I'm hoping word of mouth really helps Serenity too. I loved it and mentioned it (and your original post) on my site a couple days ago. In fact I liked it so much I ordered Firefly on DVD a couple hours ago. And now... I shall get back to work. ;)
→ Posted by: jacob harvey at October 5, 2005 9:10 PM