Movie Marketing and PR News

McDonald’s and Fox are movie promoting buddies, having signed a deal that would allow the fast food chain to market characters from its upcoming animated (in addition to the recent Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. [Commercial Exploitation]

Get the lowdown on what it was like to attend VoceNation. [Movie Marketing Madness]

Warner Bros has high hopes for The Hangover. [Risky Business Blog]

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson spotted getting rather comfortable with one another, while we’re getting closer and closer to the much-looked-forward to Twilight sequel. Plus planted stories and unsourced press releases such as this one. A publicity stunt, or a Tom Cruise-Kathy Holmes-like coupling? [LA Examiner]

Is movie piracy wrong? Well is it? Two high school-attending members of the latter rungs of Generation Y debate on the matter. [Silver Chips]

Why the General Motors bankruptcy is bad news, very very bad news for the television industry. [Deadline Hollywood]

The Smithsonian Museum may house artifacts, but its marketing team is definitely with the times.

The renowned museum planned some promotions around the movie A Night at the Museum 2 to draw in visitors it probably wouldn’t have gotten had it not been a school field trip: the widely-targeted but mostly elusive younguns. [Kansas City Star]

If your mail is taking longer than usual to get there, Netflix and Blockbuster just might be the ones to blame. They may possibly be getting some favoritism mailing speed from the postal office. [Hacking Netflix]