Paramount peddles flicks on Facebook
p2pnet news | Movies:- Paramount Pictures has zeroed in on Facebook to market its flicks.
It’s launched something called VooZoo to post clips from ancient movies such as the 1956 Ten Commandments and Beverly Hills Cop.
"The short clips for a movie that you’ve already seen before helps you relive the moment," the Associated Press has Paramount’s Derek Broes said.
Do they really think people actually believe that kind of phony PR-babble?
"The studio will market DVDs of the movies through a button that appears after each clip is played," says the story, adding:
"It eventually wants to use the application to virally market upcoming releases."
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
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Also See:
Associated Press – Paramount making movie clips available as Facebook messages, March 10, 2008
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
BooZoo?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:51 am
ancient movies? Dude…my parents are older than those films and if I called them ancient…
uh-oh! Will my kids be reading an article like this (on their mobile-holo-phone) in 60 years time, about those ‘ancient’ Star Wars films?
Beverly hills cop is ‘ancient’? Thats it…I’m officially past it!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Why gripe about it? Isn’t it their product. If they own it, let them market it however they want. Not only will they offer the movies via DVD but eventually will most likely be offering the entire movies for digital download. I read an article in the NY Times about this and the Paramount rep isn’t trying to hide that fact.