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Kung Fu Panda 2nd Trailer

In: Hollywood Animated Films

How do you mess up a good buzz for a film? Release a trailer like this one for Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks Animation film comes out June 6th. more...

Igor Trailer

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Check out the funny teaser trailer for Igor, the upcoming flick from Exodus Film Group and The Weinstein Company. Movie hits theatres September 19th. more...

Disney's Nine Old Men: Eric Larson

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Who were Disney's Nine Old Men? I run down the careers of the influential animators. This installment honours Eric Larson (September 3, 1905 - October 25, 1988). more...

Nine Old Men: Ward Kimball

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Who were Disney's Nine Old Men? I run down the careers of the influential animators. This installment honours Ward Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002). more...

Disney's Best Animators: Milt Kahl

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Who were Disney's Nine Old Men? I run down the careers of the influential animators. This installment honours Milt Kahl (March 22, 1909 - April 19, 1987) more...

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May 7, 2008

WALL-E Versus Headphones

Yet another WALL-E clip, this time featuring our robot meeting a set of headphones, aired online. WALL-E comes to theatres June 27th.


Call it the summer of viral marketing. The big studios have been using the Interweb to promote their big summer films, and now that the live-action flick Iron Man pulled about $100 million in its first weekend, that's been seen as a sign that "Internet viral marketing" works.

Disney/Pixar has jumped on the viral bandwagon to promote their upcoming film WALL-E in a big, bad way but are going about it a little more differently than the other studios.

While everyone else is releasing trailers and clips at a furious rate (Sturdy at JoBlo.com recently complained that, thanks to constant viral marketing, "I felt like I'd already seen (Iron Man) a month before it was released."), Pixar's viral campaign doesn't use actual clips from the movie. Instead they're showing vignettes of WALL-E (the character, not the movie) interacting with common household items, like magnets, vacuum cleaners and hula-hoops.

Now the folks at Movieweb have scored a clip of WALL-E meeting up with a pair of wireless headphones. Like the previous clips, it shows the bumbling robot interacting with the 'phones in unusual ways. Definitely some laugh-out-loud moments, but there's a real been-there-done-that feel starting to creep into these clips

Yes, they're still funny, but Andrew Stanton and the Emeryville gang need to change things up for the next one, should they make another clip. There's a sense that the "WALL-E versus ____" scenario is wearing out its welcome.

You can check out the latest WALL-E clip by clicking here. The Disney/Pixar film opens June 27th.

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