JimK:  I’m torn about all this embeddable video for Wanted.  I want people to see the movie, as I love the stars in it, the graphic novel and the director.  As soon as I saw Nightwatch I knew this guy - visually, at least - had something interesting.  I want to help get people excited to see the movie, and I want it to have a decent showing at the box office.  That may be a moot point, considering the competition it is about to face, but…I’d like to see it do well.

The question is, does dumping all this video on the web really help?  I mean, all told there must be a good five minutes of the meat of the film cut up into various trailers, extended scene previews and so forth.  At what point do you start to feel that you’ve already watched everything worth watching?  What’s the tipping point?  Since it’s already out there, I may as well embed it all, but my point to Hollywood is this; If you want a thing to feel fresh while still exciting me about it, you have to tease me with an awesome moment or two…not the gist of most of the hot sequences.  Just run the ads with subtle variations.  I really don’t think you need all new clips over and over again to generate interest.

Anyway, here is a massive amount of video on Wanted, including previously posted stuff like the red band and Russian trailers. (ed. note: Most of the video was from Hulu and has since expired - which is annoying - so I pulled the code.)  They have about a week to grab as much box office as they can, so go see it before The Dark Knight comes out and crushes it beyond all recognition.

Interview - Angelina Jolie

Interview - James McAvoy

Red band trailer (pops new window)

Russian trailer: