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[nialla42]

Confessions of an Aca-Fan: District 9 (Part One): Can a Bench Be a Transmedia Extension?

It's interesting to me to read about the "viral marketing" approach taken with District 9 and how it "snuck into theaters" according to some reviewers because they weren't targeted by regular marketing as they normally would be. The reason it's so interesting

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[wildcard_sej]

Completely unrelated, but...

Happy Birthday! :)

[nialla42]

Thank you!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Oh, dear: decisions, decisions. November 10 sounds clearly like time to buy for Christmas, but that means we have to endure an additional six weeks of whining! (Or more, since if she asked tomorrow, I certainly wouldn't say, "Well, if nothing else you'll get it for Christmas.") Maybe I can hope she'll just forget about it. Or that BBCA will show the second series. I'd rather just skip Syfy entirely.

[nialla42]

I wouldn't completely set my calendar to that release date quite yet.

I haven't seen an official press release, nothing at TV Shows on DVD or Amazon pre-orders, but at least someone's talking about it. I was beginning to wonder.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I just have hope now that even an unofficial announcement has been made. It's so long after the series aired, though, that I do wonder if there was some uproar about rights that might also be interfering with US showings.