The Producers Guild Awards, an often-watched list for Oscar predictions, has published their nominations for best produced films, and films we have been following, District 9 and Avatar amongst others, have made the grade. For years the Producers Guild Awards have been a great precursor to the Oscars, with several films going onto win the [...]

On the seventh day of viral, my movie gave to me….. Facebook interaction. I am picking three films to discuss on this day, because those three films use Facebook in such an interesting way. The most common thing to do nowadays is to post the exact thing, on all forms of social networking. It gets [...]

On the second day of viral, my movie gave to me….. A Twitter account with the truth. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Well, maybe a little more. At least this seems to be the way to go with newer Twitter accounts. You can go back to some of the older [...]

Shane Acker’s 9 has been in theaters for a couple weeks now (read my review here). The viral has since died down, so it looks like it’s about time to review it. Sites used: Scientist’s Facebook Scientist’s laboratory 9′s viral campaign initially kicked off back in mid-June with the scientist’s Facebook page, as well as [...]

Join Dan, Nick, Ian, and Iain, as we talk about the movies of the summer, review Shane Acker’s 9, and discuss much more on our 19th ViralCast. Subscribe to the podcast on Temporary Direct Link: http://movieviral.com/music/podcast/ViralCast19.mp3 or HERE

Shane Acker’s new film, 9, produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, is finally out in theaters today. 9 tells the story of 9 little ‘puppets’ that a scientist has created in hopes that they can help defeat the turned-evil machines that said scientist earlier created (he was originally developing them for good purposes, but [...]

Shane Acker’s 9 releases today on the perfectly-timed date of 9/9/09. The Tim Burton-produced CG animated film has earned a lot of buzz due to it’s stunning visuals and an impressive teaser trailer, which you can check out below: The film centers around a group of dolls that have been given the power of life [...]

Our friend Alex from First Showing was able to get 10 minutes in the same room with director Shane Acker and asked some great questions about his movie 9, to be released on Wednesday. In the interview, Shane talks about his influences, the trouble he had getting the film picked up by a studio and [...]

There is a cool little addition to the 9 viral this morning.  In an alternate approach to a time-capsule, you can go and save your talisman for the future, should anyone see it. The site takes your pictures and positions them together in a collage to make one picture of you (of your choosing). You [...]

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