Daily Archives: May 7, 2009

Sony Home Entertainment, Maxim Tout Bullet-Riddled DVDs

Targeting one of the most important sectors among consumer groups, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has partnered with Maxim to offer a free one-year subscription to the magazine with the purchase of any one of Sony’s newly re-branded “Action Unleashed!” DVDs. “We wanted to create a campaign to leverage some of our existing male-focused catalog,” explained Marc Rashba, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, in a press release. “The Action Unleashed! campaign is designed to create awareness, and through our partnership with Maxim we hope to connect to this very important audience.”

So what does this all mean? Errr… just re-packaged DVDs in new slipcovers with faux bullet holes, it seems. Which makes some sense for both Bad Boys flicks, say, but not so much for Rocky Balboa. The discs — including the aforementioned titles, xXx: State of the Union, Black Hawk Down and Ghost Rider, among other movies — hit major retail outlets, as well as drug and grocery stores, on May 12.

Carousel Gives Martin Scorsese and Alfonso Cuaron Erections

Technically, Adam Berg’s short film Carousel is “just” an ad for Philips’ flat-screen Cinema 21:9 TV. But in terms of technical achievement, it’s an eye-opener — a 139-second tracking shot of a sprawling heist shoot-out between cops and bad guys dressed as clowns, in which the characters never move, but the camera does. Somewhere, Martin Scorsese and Alfonso Cuaron jizz in their pants.