Public Enemies Bank Raid Game

A new online game created by Universal Pictures International to promote upcoming movie Public Enemies is using Facebook Connect and Twitter to create a new form of social gaming experience.

Bank Raids challenges you to match 1930’s John Dillinger for criminal ambition, recruiting gang members, robbing banks to try to become Public Enemy No. 1.

This is one of the first film marketing campaigns to incorporate Facebook Connect, using it to enhance the gaming experience by seamlessly integrating your Facebook account with game-play. You can use your Facebook login to sign in, save your progress and recruit friends to your gang.

When you finish playing you can automatically post updates to Facebook and popular micro-blogging site Twitter, sharing exploits with friends as your notoriety rises, including how many banks you’ve raided and how much money you’ve stolen.

You can play the game in 2/3 minutes for a quick fire experience or you can play over a number of days and weeks, immersing yourself in the world and building up your fortune. A scoreboard will show your position in relation to other gang leaders.

Public Enemies is the true story of John Dillinger. He was a charismatic 1930’s Chicago gangster who outwitted and outgunned the law in a series of wild chases and outrageous bank raids. He was branded as America’s Public Enemy No. 1 by the police, but regarded as a hero by the general public. Directed by Michael Mann, starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies opens internationally from 1st July 2009.

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Thanks to Pam and Marc for letting me know about the game.

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5 Word Film Reviews

It has been a long time since I last posted some 5 word reviews but I thought I would start it up again. There may be spoilers.

Deliverance: Nightmare canoe trip with banjos - PaulaDauncey

Star Trek: Very good but not great - CaptArschkarte

The Day the Earth Stood Still: It should have kept moving - lenimandell

An Amercian Crime: Definitely not Juno, Keener great - UncompletedWork

Groundhog Day: Same Same Same Same Different - cultlabs

Pet Sematary 2: Worst film made bar Waterworld - allthingshorror

X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Bad Past, Avenge Past, Forget - Hollywood_Trey

Sex & the City: Five undead women eat shoes - cultlabs

Role Models: Mentoring screw-ups with heart - lenimandell

Superman Returns: Superman perfect & everything else wrong - DVDsnapshot

Goodfellas: Pasta plus Cocaine equals jail - cultlabs

Twilight: Wow, Sunlight doesn't kill us - Hollywood_Trey

Crank: High Voltage - Spaz electrocutes himself, kills Chinese - CinemaSuicide

Memento: Boy kills girl, doesn't remember - moviegrrl

Perfect Storm: Rock the boat and swim - cybeam1

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Johannson and Jackson have begun filming on Iron Man 2

Today, according to MTV , Jon Favreau has provided fans with two bits of information about filming on Iron Man 2 — the first of which involves the film’s new female lead.

“Scarlett’s first day on set in the Black Widow outfit,” the director wrote today on Twitter. “You’ve never heard a crew get so quiet so fast.”

Scarlett Johansson’s involvement in the movie as Natasha Romanoff has already been well publicized — but the character was originally referred to as Tony Stark’s assistant, leading some to wonder if we’d even see her action-packed persona. Yet Favreau’s comments confirm what everyone has hoped to hear: Johansson will definitely appear as a fully costumed version of the Black Widow.

In addition to verifying the arrival of an in-costume Black Widow, Favreau also confirmed that Samuel L. Jackson was filming his role as Nick Fury on the “Iron Man 2″ set. The secrecy surrounding the S.H.I.E.L.D. director’s cameo in the first film is clearly out the window, as Favreau not only revealed the character’s involvement — he spilled the beans on who he’s filming with.

“Now shooting first scene with Tony Stark and Nick Fury,” declared Favreau.

Great news indeed. Also as the Tweets were sent within a few hours of each other it could be assumed that the three actors may also have a scene or two together. I can't wait to see some photos of Jackson and Scarlett on set.

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Star Trek - Live Interactive coverage for the premiere. You can submit questions via Twitter

Paramount Pictures International (PPI) today announced plans to bring live interactive coverage from the world premiere of J.J Abrams’ hotly anticipated movie STAR TREK at Sydney Opera House – the first time a film has premiered in the Concert Hall of Australia’s most iconic building.

The premiere is taking place on Tuesday April 7th and PPI will have a team of bloggers using the latest mobile technology & social media to bring the red carpet event to life, alongside a fan-submitted Q&A from the press junket.

Fans are invited to submit questions for film-makers including director J.J Abrams’ and cast members Eric Bana, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto via Twitter using an #asktrek hashtag.

Video responses to a selection of these questions will be published to a dedicated Star Trek channel using social multimedia network Phreadz, alongside a live Twitter feed and photos served via Flickr (see http://startrek.phreadz.com).

This channel will also feature a live Ustream feed direct from the red carpet, bringing the premiere to life for fans in all four corners of the web. This will be going live at 7am GMT on Tuesday, and will be archived and available to view throughout the day.

As well as creating this social media back-channel PPI will be capturing more traditional audio-visual red carpet publicity edits for subtitling and syndication via a global network of sites and online services including MSN and Real Player.

This initiative is being co-ordinated by Picture Production Company who previously collaborated with PPI to bring film-makers to online platforms including virtual worlds Second Life, PlayStation Home and video-blogging community Seesmic.


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My Twitter Mosaic of Followers

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Thanks to everyone who follows LFF on Twitter sorry that this mosaic program can't include you all.

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