Prometheus Facebook App releasing still images from movie

As I posted previously, 'Prometheus' has a facebook app which will reveal images from the film every week. This week the app revealed a mural and a ship. While this still has no insight into what the film is about, it looks awesome.

Cast Your 2012 Oscar Ballot, Win an iPad

Vote for your favorite Oscar nominees on The New York Times' website and you could win an iPad.  The rules are simple enough:

1. Pick your favorites. 
2. Make a pool with your Facebook friends. 
3. Watch the Oscars on February 26th at 7pm ET and see how your ballot measures up. 

If your ballot has the most correct picks, you're entered in for a chance to win an iPad, so make your votes count!

Marvel To Launch “Avengers Alliance” Facebook Game

Marvel announced in early January that it was releasing a "massive, combat role playing game" through Facebook. I figured this was a pretty atypical way to market a movie, since I haven't heard of this being done before. The fact that so many people have a Facebook and are likely to see it upon its release certainly makes it seem like a good marketing idea on paper.

"The Hunger Games" Poster Puzzle

This article discusses an interesting strategy by Lionsgate to get people engaged in the coming film, The Hunger Games. For the full poster for the film, the studio has broken it up into 100 separate pieces and sent them to eight different websites, including Entertainment Weekly. The reasoning behind the 100 pieces is, from December 15th, it was 100 days to the release of the film.

To find the pieces, search the tag, "#HUNGERGAMES100," on Twitter. Once someone has finished the poster, they are encouraged to take a photo of it all together and post it to Facebook.

Movies That Creatively Used Facebook for Film Marketing

This article is a bit old, but it highlights some of the more clever uses of Facebook for film marketing purposes in recent years.

Check it out, it might help you spark up an idea or two for marketing "People v. The State of Illusion."

Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, Most Important Man in Music?

Spotify’s Daniel Ek created a free, Facebook-enabled platform that could save the recording industry from piracy–and iTunes.