People are reporting and posting photos on Twitter of Ender’s Game marketing all over the place!
Spotted in Highland Park, California on York Blvd and Branch Street. Thanks to Daniel for the photo!
Spotted in the London Underground:
Spotted on a London bus:
The marketing push is finally on! Photos of Ender’s Game AMC cups have been showing up on Twitter. With cast touring Europe and doing a Q&A tomorrow in London, plus TV spots being shown on various network channels, it’s starting to look like we’ll soon be seeing Ender’s Game everywhere!
Photo by @blakelouup.
Photo by @carriebthh87.
As we reported earlier today, Harrison Ford was a guest on German TV show Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”) Host Marcus Lanz interviewed him on Ender’s Game, and they showed some awesome, beautiful, mind-boggling new footage! Check out the clip below!
Translation:
Graff: The first alien attack found us unprepared. Millions of innocents lost their lives. That can never be allowed to happen again. We fought the enemy with everything we had and in the middle of the final battle a legendary hero emerged. The courage of Mazer Rackham should be an inspiration to all of you. We need minds like yours, Ender. Young people process complex data much easier than adults.
Ender: So I’m not the first?
Mazer: No, but you will be the last.
Petra or Ender: In 3 – 2 – 1.
Graff: And you will be the best commander we ever trained.
And we finally get to see the images that go with some of the score we posted about a couple of days ago. This explains why the “Battle Room” track is so light-hearted. Look how happy Ender is!
Hope you enjoy! We’ll post a vid of the interview that goes with this clip tomorrow! — Dee
Source: ZDFneo
British Magazine EMPIRE just exclusively revealed what seems to be the final UK poster of Ender’s Game. This format is apparently called a “quad.” Check out EMPIRE’s accompanying little article HERE. We’ll let you know as soon as a hi-res version of the poster becomes available.
Source: EMPIRE Online
It looks like Summit is slowly picking up their marketing pace for Ender’s Game. You can now pre-order the official soundtrack written by Steve Jablonsky HERE on Amazon.com. It will be released on October 22 and will cost around 17 USD (16.77 at Amazon, 17.98 retail price estimated by record label Varese Sarabande). There are no audio clips available yet, but the record label has published the back cover of the CD with its track list. (Check out their official EG soundtrack page HERE!)
Sources: Amazon, Varese Sarabande
The new Battle Room Training game is sponsored by ICEE, so the first thing I thought was, where can I get an Ender’s Game ICEE? (Come on, you thought the same right?)
Turns out, it’s totally happening!
Go to ICEE.com and you’ll see early details for their ‘Train Like an Astronaut Sweepstakes’. It looks like codes will be available on special Ender’s Game ICEE cups that you can then use to enter the sweepstakes to win an astronaut training experience at the Kennedy Space Center.
The Ender’s Game ICEEs will come in two flavors: Battle School Blastberry and Orbital Orange.
The rules don’t appear to be online yet, but you can check out the entry page here.
Last week we told you about Ender’s Game: Battle School, a board game to be released by Cryptozoic. Now we have a hi-res version of the image Cryptozoic is using to advertise their new game. You can even read the words on the cards! Click the image for the hi-res version.
In case you don’t remember, here is the description of the game again:
Ender’s Game: Battle School is a two-player game set in the zero-gravity arena of the International Fleet’s Battle School. Players take the role of either Ender Wiggin and the Dragon Team or Bonzo Madrid and the Salamander Team, and then use Commander cards with special abilities (some for the whole team, some that only help the commander) to attempt to capture the other team’s gates or freeze opposing team players with laser-light guns. The player who completes either of the goals first (capturing all the gates or freezing the opposing commander) wins.
Source: Board Game Geek
Constantin Film in Germany is almost ready for the start of their Ender’s Game Lasertag competition and they’ve been posting photos of their setup process on Facebook.
This totally needs to happen here in the US!
German movie distributor Constantin Film is organizing an Ender’s Game inspired laser tag tournament for Gamescom 2013 taking place August 21-25 in Cologne. Gamescom is the world’s largest games event/trade fair and is regularly used by game and gaming hardware developers to introduce new and exclusive products. Check out their website HERE.
For those of you who don’t know any German, the graphic above reads “FOUND YOUR OWN TEAM AND APPLY FOR A SPOT AT THE 2013 GAMESCOM LASER TAG TOURNAMENT!” and “Fight together with 4 of your friends to win awesome prizes at the 5on5 Laser Tag Tournament, 21-15 August, gamescon 2013”. German Ender’s Game fans can pre-register for the tournament HERE.
Also, check out Constantin’s (as of now still pretty slow) Ender’s Game facebook page and their Ender’s Game movie site.
Source: Ender’s Game – Das große Spiel on Facebook