I Tweet, You Tweet, we All Tweet for……..New Moon?

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The second movie in the Stephanie Myers Twilight series Twilight: New Moon was released at midnight today to an alarming amounts of fans and groupies a like. The movie looks to set all sorts of holiday records and already surpassed both The Dark Knight and Harry Potter in midnight sales, which means….cha-ching!

Only Angels Have Wings divx The box office isn’t the only place where the New Moon mania is. Besides the inside of middle school lockers, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and gang are being mentioned everywhere on Twitter. And in the masses.

Twilight has been getting about 81,000 tweets per day on Twitter making it one of the most trended topics on the popular social network. Insanity….yes.

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I read and saw the first Twilight and really didn’t think either were that good, much less Backstreet Boy band crazy. Granted I am not a middle school girl despite how people think I act at times but it’s crazy to see such alure for the teeny bopper vampire saga, especially when there is so much out there, and frankly so much better.

Maybe I am just not up for Twilight but I am a vampire fan. I loved the Swedish Let the Right One In and am a huge fan of the HBO show True Blood. Maybe I have matured to a high school girl’s status to some, who knows. But either way the reality is that this is big and growing. The movie may set some holiday records and will only make the hype for the remaining sequels grow even more.

Suffice it to say, stare out at the sky tonight because we got ourselves a New Moon Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade .

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Will you be seeing New Moon?

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Find More Movie Reviews on Twitter with TwitCritics

Posted by Craig Kessler on November 10, 2009 at 2:30 am

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Hero Wanted psp Twitter has suddenly become the new hit place to go to check out movie reviews. With real time movie review messages from fans and critics a like, this has replaced popular sites like RottenTomatoes

for some to get their inside information regarding the latest movies that come out. No shocker either as a lot of these reviews come out directly after people leave the theater, almost getting instant reviews on the latest flicks.

TwitCritics tries to organize all of the movie buzz for you. We all know that Twitter can have a true influence both positive like the viral buzz that spread with Inglourious Basterds as well with the negative for summer dumps like Bruno. TwitCritics takes the flow of the reviews

that are generated and chart it based on various categories for you in one centralized place. Now you can see the relative percentage of all the tweets that have been broadcast about the various movies that are playing in theaters.

TwitCritics gives you the most popular movies in order based off of the movie tweets that are referenced with it and by clicking on the movie you will be sent movie details and the poster as well as the most recent tweets about it. Now you can find up to date reviews about a movie you may be checking out. It’s not perfect of course but they are improving it every day.

Being a Twitter fan and a movie buff I think this is a Zach and Kelly pairing all over it, too perfect. A lot of times I find out about reviews first from other movie buffs I interact with on Twitter or from popular blogs who review movies. I go there first because I connect with them and trust their opinion and with up to date reviews I always know what they think right after they see the movie. And as a whole the collective group is usually right with the popularity ratings. This is a smart feature, something I may not use on a regular before deciding on a movie but interesting the least to see the percentage of people’s thoughts. Usually just one or two reviews from trusted sources or people is enough to please me but this is a nice way to get more information if you are looking.

What do you think of TwitCritics?

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Did Twitter Help Inglourious Basterds to Box Office Success?

Posted by Craig Kessler on August 25, 2009 at 8:18 am

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Twitter has been a force to to reckon with for some time now and is like a steam train building momentum with its impact on America. As a place where those interact and connect with one another, the “What are you doing?” question it ask users to respond to has taken multiple paths in its usage for everyone. No, I don’t care what you ate for lunch, or the fact that you have more writing to do at work. But I do want to be informed about great articles that may interest me, some breaking news, and whether or not I should see the brand new movie.

Twitter has led to box office success for the movie Inglourious Basterds. The viral buzz for Inglourious Basterds was basically all positive over the course of the weekend on Twitter

steadily continuing late into the weekend. This real time information helped a lot of users decide to see Basterds. The movie stayed in the top trends area for Twitter adding to the buzz and allowing more people to notice it to talk about it, sending links to positive reviews as well as their own thoughts in real time. This added to more conversations, and the whole shabang. This is Twitter social media marketing to a “T.”

Twitter has been a marketing force for movies lately and I don’t see this stopping any time soon. It hurt the movie Bruno The Fourth Angel movie download
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because a lot of people in real time were talking negatively about the movie, and Saturday’s number dropped a lot compared to Friday’s when the movie was released. A lot of that had to do with people talking about how the movie was the same as Borat and just wasn’t that good.

On the other end, positive Twitter talk helped District 9 out. Now all critics reviews and our District 9 review were all positive but it still probably had an affect. What’s made the Basterds affect more obvious regarding Twitter is the face that there were mixed reviews from critics going into the opening release.

How much of an affect did Twitter have? There is no way to determine the exact dollar figure but it clearly is something that may help or hurt a movie, especially a smaller one. It’s the type of service that can easily give a cult movie big time status.

I think Hollywood studios are going to directly be marketing through Twitter to generate viral buzz. There are going to be more movie campaigns directed towards users on Twitter to get the real time talk going hopefully driving links, retweets, and positive comments. Contests will pick up and already you have a few studios on Twitter showing their faces and interacting and connecting. This is smart by the studios and will continue to grow, as they Twittercraze and potential buzz grows. Costing relatively nothing to set up a campaign on Twitter could lead to huge profits.

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Jonah Hill#039;s Twitter Imposter

Posted by Craig Kessler on July 24, 2009 at 2:30 am

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To continue with my Twitter craze, here is a video of Jonah Hill being interviewed on Letterman. Jonah Hill the funny and chubby actor from Superbad, Knocked Up, and others was being interviewed by Letterman about how someone is acting as an imposter of him on Twitter. Hill takes it in stride and goes with it. The actor has never used Twitter and says he never will, yet some crazed bozo who clearly has a lot of time on their hands is going around the Twitterverse pretending to be him and even starting a Twitter war with John Favreau, one of the directors on Twitter

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Check out this funny interview and what Jonah Hill wants to do to his imposter.

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Movie Directors on Twitter to Follow

Posted by Craig Kessler on July 23, 2009 at 2:30 am

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Tons of Actors both higher profile and not, have taken to the whole social media Twitter craze. If you haven’t seen it enough on CNN, you’re going to read about it here. The 140-character based messages have been blowing up faster than a scene in a John Woo movie, and celebrities, athletes, and your basic chumps like myself have taken to it. Now movie directors are on Twitter.

Yes I am a Twitterholic and am proud of it. I want everyone to know what I am doing exactly at every point of the day. Nah, it’ not like that at all, it’s actually great for networking, especially with this blog. I connect with tons of other awesome movie bloggers out there. But that’s another post.

Now there are a handful of directors who are on Twitter which you can follow and check out how their upcoming filming shoots are going along and what not. No they won’t get back to you, but still pretty cool to get the inside scoop about their movies or other movie related dealings they got going on. Or if you are a real creeper and actually care what sandwich they had for lunch.

John Favreau

@john_favreau

Jon-Favreau

Director/actor/producer and overall lovable fun guy most know for Swingers, Made, and a favorite of mine The Replacements. If you really know your stuff you will know he was the tutor in Rudy (where he first met Vince Vaughn). He is the director of Elf and Iron Man and currently directing Iron Man 2. All around good guy seems very regular.

Kevin Smith

@thatkevinsmith

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King of the 90’s indie comedies with ‘Clerks,’ ‘Mallrats,’ ‘Chasing Amy’ and creator of the great on screen duo Jay and Silent Bob (he plays Silent Bob). He also directed the awesome action movie ‘Enemy of the State’ and the recent ‘Zach and Miri Make a Porno.’ Seems like a good dude, he has had Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in movies and is currently filming “A Couple of Dicks.”

Jason Reitman

@jasonreitman

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He directed ‘Juno’ and ‘Thank You for Smoking’ with some smaller stuff as well. He really likes taking the simple concept movie and putting this style of humor in it. He also tends to make the beginning of movies long and different to have the audience ease into their movie. Currently directing ‘Up in the Air.’

This is a handful of especially the more popular ones I think you would enjoy following. There are smaller directors as well who can be fun to follow. And I guarantee there will be more to follow real soon.

Check them out and let me know what you think?

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Flicktweets – Real Time Movie Tweets and Reviews

Posted by Craig Kessler on May 19, 2009 at 10:30 am

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