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'Harry Potter 5' International Website and Poster Up
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The advertising juggernaut for the Harry Potter franchise is moving forward with a new international poster and international website for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This poster has a much more "in your face" attitude than the most recent American counterpart that Ryan blogged about here. Unlike the rather passive figures in the U.S. version, the international poster features our heroes Harry, Ron, and Hermione aggressively pointing their magic wands at the camera, with Neville Longbottom and Ginny Weasley (fellow members of Dumbledore's Army) bringing up the rear. The blonde girl in the back I suspect may be Luna Lovegood, but I'm not positive, so someone please confirm or correct me in the comments section. Both posters are effective, but I prefer the dynamic figures of the international version.The U.K. website goes directly into the international trailer. I don't recall seeing any dementors in the U.S. preview, but there's one here looking even more ghoulish than the ones we saw in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The site has a cool Flash design that's different from the U.S. site but is neither better nor worse. If you've downloaded all the wallpaper images from the U.S. site there's a bunch of completely different ones here as well as buddy icons and a photo gallery. Clicking on the "DA" icon (for Dumbledore's Army) takes you to a U.K. variation on the DA website that Patrick Walsh blogged about a few weeks ago where you can sign up and compete in online wizarding battles. Of course, this all serves to remind me how much I'm dying to see this flick once it hits U.S. theaters on July 13.
Hostel II: The Website
Filed under: Horror », Remakes and Sequels »
The website for Hostel II is now up and running, and in keeping with the atmosphere established in the original film, it's downright disturbing and sure to offend somebody (which, of course, is the point). The slick-looking Flash driven site opens with the sounds of a female voice begging for mercy, and with an apparently nude women hanging upside down with veins in her neck pulsing noticeably, and a strand of animated mucus dangling from her nose. Whether or not you check this out at work is up to you, but I suggest at least turning the sound off so your cubemates aren't wondering what manner of depravities you're scoping out on the net. Once the page is loaded the trailer, which hit the web a while ago, begins to play automatically. Mousing over the passport in the upper right corner launches the site's menu, and brings up a random passport picture of one of the characters. A plot synopsis is available, plus cast and crew bios. The download section offers several desktop wallpaper designs, including the raw meat closeup taken from one of the teaser posters and the aforementioned upside down victim among others, and there are a handful of instant message icons. The gallery section features a baker's dozen photos from the movie and the menu item called "bid," whatever that may mean, is marked "coming soon." The design is pretty sharp, but here's a hint: once you've selected an item from the menu and it has loaded, you'll need to move the mouse away from the menu so the passport will retract and you can read the content.
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