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Pontiac G8 Spy Hunter commercial: the making of

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Remember when we showed you that fantastic Spy Hunter commercial? Well, we got the making of, and the guys at
Sway, who made it, are super impressive.
Watch the awesome making of and the commercial after the jump!

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Tags: Car Chase · Stunt · TV ad · video · video games

Is GTA IV crushing Iron Man?

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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We’ve heard that before: studio head honchos don’t like to release their movie the same week a blockbuster video-game is released. Some even blame video-games for the poor results of theirs. GTA IV hit the shelves the day before Iron Man [...]

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Speed Racer: the videogame

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Coming up with a racing video game a couple weeks after Gran Turismo 5 hit the shelves can sounds like a risky idea, but when you’re wearing the Speed Racer name and have all the buzz generated by the movie with you, it [...]

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Tags: Mach 5 · Merchandising · Movie car · News · cult car movie · marketing · video games

Sunday Ads: Iron Man game trailer

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

The Iron Man video game will soon be in store, and Sega has rolled out some commercials on TV. Here’s the video!

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Gran Turismo 5: bridging the gap between video games and movies

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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A couple years ago, the video games industry started bringing more money than the movie industry. Now, it’s starting to look just as real. The new Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is the most realistic game on the market (it will be [...]

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Tags: News · Product placement · video games

Play Spy Hunter with the 2008 Pontiac G8 GT!

March 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/03/14/play-spy-hunter-with-the-new-pontiac-g8-gt/’;We absolutely LOVE the new Pontiac G8 commercial. So much, we couldn’t wait for our next Sunday Ads to share it with you (by the way, next Sunday Ads will focus on Michael Bay). Inspired by the 80’s video game
Spy [...]

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Tags: Car Chase · News · TV ad · video games

Far out! New Speed Racer trailer.

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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Wow… Nope, you’re not hallucinating, it’s a real trailer. It immediately made us think of the the
Hot Wheels AcceleRacers series and of video games like
Trackmania. It feels like the Wachowski brothers were tripping pretty well when making this. They [...]

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Tags: Mach 5 · News · video games

Sunday Ads: 1980’s Atari’s Pole Position

February 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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In 1982, Namco released Pole Position, it’s famous racing simulation (yes, it was considered a simulation at that time…). The game was available on all Atari game systems and the brand was taking care of the promotion. They came up with [...]

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