There's a new film coming out on the 27th November called Nativity and we've only gone and got our grubby internet paws on an exclusive clip from it.
It's one of those cool partly improvised films (a bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm is on the tv) and has got Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wooton and Alan Carr in it. Martin's character Mr Maddens has given up his career as a frustrated, under-achieving actor and has become a frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher. We've checked. This hasn't actually happened to Martin 'Tim Off Of The Office' Freeman, he's not gone into teaching he is definitely still an actor.... But he does come across as a very good teacher indeed. So if things dry up we think he'll be alright.
Anyway have a look at our exclusive clip. Here are three reasons why we like it.
1. Good child actors.
2. Martin Freeman's glasses.
3. We really really like blue jumpers.
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Can you believe we're now on our 4th round of guess the ear? Nope. Us neither. Anyway... we're keeping going with this piece of internet funtimes gold.
For the first time, it's an animated ear. So answer us the question, whose ear is this?
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It was The Blair Witch Project that broke the rules. Back in the days when the internet was boxfresh, the horror pic made the most of the web's global community by hitting the message boards big-time. Coupled with rumours that the events in the movie were actually true, word spread big time. The film itself was creepy because of its lo-fi technique but it would never have been one of the most profitable films of all time if it wasn't for the hype surrounding it.
Hype doesn't always work. Pearl Harbour was billed as the new Titanic.
Er... it wasn't. After much slating it was also billed as 'the film the critics hate but the public love' which was sort of anti-hype, but still hype. Confusing. Snakes On A Plane, meantime, showed that lots of buzz on the internet, laughing at its rubbish trailer, doesn't necessarily mean we're gonna shell out a tenner to see the whole thing.
New Moon's hype is different as it's coming from the already-converted.
The fans. They're going to love it, whatever. With Paranormal Activity we're back to Blair Witch - an unknown quantity that's intriguing people by its online presence.
It's obviously a great - and cheap - way of marketing but let's hope it doesn't backfire. Paranormal Activity isn't a big, loud, gruesome horror movie. It's the quietest scary thing you'll ever see. Hype is all well and good on major motion picture events but when something's charm is its minimalism, that's more difficult to get across.
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