Following on the heels of last month's SLiTHER trailer competition, Lucasfilm's THX announces their
Create a THX Trailer Contest.

A chance to create your very own winning take on the classic THX logo and sound brand in a 20 to 60 second spot. Finalists will be selected and the Top 10 will win an "authentic, exclusive THX Director's Chair". More of an editor's contest, but whatever, woohoo!, branded goodies for eBay!

As usual, read the rules and agit carefully. Good luck and let me know what you come up with!

And bonus! SAG Members and such not welcomed!

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FACT:

Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB was George Lucas's student film project.

Movies | Trailers | Contests | THX

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Don't know much about Dutch Schultz, the legendary hardcore gangster who was shot to death on October 23, 1935 and left this world with the infamous last words "A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim..."?

No, doesn't ring a bell? Well, then I'll lay odds that you're a little rusty on Freemasonry, Robert Anton Wilson, the Principia Discordia, the Sacred Feminine, the Illuminati, Solomon's Temple, Emperor Norton or Where's George?.

If you're drawing a complete blank, that's probably a good thing. These connections have almost occult-like power to take possession of helpless every-day-folk with their awesome dark revelations.

For instance, back to mobster Dutch Schultz. Seems Schultz was good friends with the Mathematician cum Mobster "Nick the Greek" Dandolos. "Nick the Greek", being like a magician in figuring odds in his head, had lots of others friends including Ava Gardner, King Fuad I, Jack Dempsey, and most importantly for our purposes, our beloved-half Groucho Marx. And alcohol! Did Schultz know Groucho via Dandolos? It seems probable but so far, undocumented to my poor resources. These things tend to be murky.

It's like the Illuminati cocktail party game, The 33 Degrees of Initiation, lots of kowtowing to coincidence and circumstance. As I come across further intersections, I'll post them here and we'll see what patterns emerge.

I mean, what else don't we know?

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FACT:

Thackery, Ted Jr. Gambling Secrets of Nick the Greek. Rand McNally and Co., Chicago, NY, San Francisco; 1978.
- A profile of Nicholas Andrea Dandolos, also known as Nick the Greek, and the games he played. Includes sections on Craps, Blackjack, Faro, Shimmy, Roulette, Poker, Horses and side action games. Good history and color. Includes an introduction by Groucho Marx.

Conspiracy | Connections | Crime
Dutch Shultz | Groucho Marx

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Captain Clark welcomes you aboard!

Last night's The Sopranos returned Sunday Nights ownership to Time Warner's HBO. And likely, the much anticipated episode's choice of music also reintroduced a huge audience to William S. Burroughs. Housewives and executives have been infected with the bizarre sounding Burroughs reading to music. Infected all right. Most likely from outer space...

For those just joining the party grim, here's some broadstroke FACTs, clench teeth and stick your needle in:

• Seven Souls
  
• William S. Burroughs
  
• William Seward Burroughs
  
• Excerpt from "The Western Lands" by William Burroughs
  
• Recordings
  

Now 23 skiddoo!

Viral Marketing | The Sopranos | William S. Burroughs

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Finally, someone had an interesting idea of how to market a movie.

The upcoming Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films release of SLiTHER, a comedy-horror-scifi low-budge monster movie by James "Scooby-Doo" Gunn, offers a contest to "Slug It Out" and edit your own trailer to win $25K.

The movie's site provides you with about 230MB worth of movie clips, dialogue snippets, music scores, sound effects and fonts to create your very own TV spot trailer for SLiTHER. You'll find the selection of clips is a bit limiting but with some creative effort, you should be able to create a half-decent trailer. Of course, half-decent won't win, but at least you had fun. Be sure to read the contest rules closely so you don't disqualify yourself.

Now for the downside. You only have until this Thursday, March 9 at 11:59:59 pm PT to get your entry in.

I'll post my version of the trailer as soon as I discover it's kosher to do that. Have fun and Good Luck!

Marketing | Movies | SLiTHER

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