Well folks, some of this should put a smile on your face. The fist spy is the lead drummer for the Juicy Fruits (name that movie) and he attended one of them there 'summit' thingees where ya get to see cool stuff like 10 minutes of footage and so on... Well here's his report with images...
I will tell you two things that I learned from this 'summit'. The first, Lucasfilm is not fooling around with this film. The amount of time and research that has gone into marketing this thing is incredible. Lucas is not treating this as just a summer movie. This is the beginning of an eight year journey. This will not be another Godzilla. One important point made - no merchandizing advertising can begin until two days after release date.
The second thing and most important is that this film looks amazing. The ten minutes of footage that was showed has pretty much dispelled any negatives feelings that I had towards this film. Admit it, it could have been bad - still could I suppose. I was never concerned that the quality of the special effects would be bad but that the acting and writing would leave something to be desired. Of the five scenes showed three of them were straight acting. The important one being between Anakin saying goodbye to his mother Shmi. The kid was not half bad.
By the way Pepsi will be supplying, to their larger accounts, (to support the collector cans) full sized 3D figures of the major characters. They will be made with glass eyes and latex skin and fully costumed.
Anyway on too the next piece of information. As you can see the bottom scans are taken from a sell sheet for said product. Do they know how to market or what.
Release date May 4th. That means at least the music will be available that much sooner.
THen Lincoln over at Countingdown.com sent me this image of the sacred Yoda gold Pepsi can that if you find... is allegedly worth $20 american dollars. Though... I'd be willing to bet, that some sort of second hand market on unopened Yoda Gold Cans will inevitably drive the price up to something really stupid over on Ebay... We'll see...
