Showing posts with label Super Bowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Fast & Furious 6 Trailer has Plenty of Cars, Girls and Crashes [Update: Extended Version]


The first official trailer of Hollywood's upcoming Fast & Furious 6 movie was released during Sunday night's Super Bowl XVLII and it has all the necessary elements for a blockbuster film: tough guys, sexy girls, tuned and exotic cars, lots of mayhem and…forgettable dialogues.

In the sixth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, the gang of slick drivers reunites, this time to help the U.S. government take down a new villain named Owen Shaw played by Luke Evans.

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Super Bowl XLVII MVP Joe Flacco Receives the Keys to a 2014 Corvette Stingray


After winning Super Bowl XLVII and scooping the MVP trophy for leading the Baltimore Ravens’ to a 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night, quarterback Joe Flacco was also awarded the keys to a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, worth somewhere between $50,000 and $60,000 (GM has not announced pricing yet). Read more »

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Fast & Furious 6 Trailer to Air During Super Bowl XLVII


It’s almost time for yet another installment of the Fast and Furious franchise to hit the silver screen. The sixth film of the series is scheduled for a cinematic release on May 24, 2013, but its creators will give us the opportunity to see the first official trailer during Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, February 3.

Fast & Furious 6 will join several other movie trailers that will air during the big game including "Iron Man 3", "Star Trek Into Darkness", "The Lone Ranger", "Oz: The Great And Powerful" and "World War Z".

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Latest Super Bowl Ads from Audi, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes, Subaru, Toyota and VW


During the time we were offline, a number of carmakers released a whole new string of ads that will run prior to kickoff and during this Sunday's Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans.

There's a little something for everyone, from Mercedes-Benz's new CLA spot with Kate Upton and Kia's Space Babies, to the re-appearance of Big Bang star Kaley Cuoco in Toyota's 2014 RAV4 spot and Subaru's dog friendly commercial for the 2014 Forester crossover.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

VW Believes its New Super Bowl Ad will Make You Happy, What Do You Think?


If you're looking for a Volkswagen car hidden somewhere in the German brand's new Super Bowl XLVII television spot dubbed "Sunny Side", sorry to say, you won't find one.

Instead, what we see in the online teaser video that was released by VW on Thursday is many, many happy people, some of whom you may recognize as they're protagonists of a number of viral internet clips.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Toyota Wants to Make a Big Bang at the Super Bowl with New TV Ad Starring Kaley Cuoco


The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco is the face of Toyota's new commercial named "I Wish" for Super Bowl XLVII.

Today, Toyota released a 36-second long teaser of the ad in advance of its television premiere during the big game scheduled to be played at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 3, 2013.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

After Ditching FaceBook Ads, GM Drops Out from 2013 Super Bowl as Well


With a very brief statement, General Motors, America's biggest automaker in terms of sales and third largest advertiser overall in the U.S., has announced that it will not buy any ads in the next Super Bowl in 2013.

"We understand the reach the Super Bowl provides, but with the significant increase in price, we simply can't justify the expense," said General Motors Global Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Acura Says it's Sorry for Seeking "Not too Dark" African American Actor in Super Bowl Ad


While Acura may have avoided calls when the story on a casting document that called for an African American actor who is "Not too dark" broke out Wednesday morning, the Japanese company has now issued a formal apology.

The document was allegedly leaked to gossip website TMZ by an African American actor "who didn't fit the profile, and who's pissed".

The ad asked for an African American to play the role of a car salesperson in Acura's Super Bowl commercial for the NSX concept featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.

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Acura's Casting Call for the NSX Superbowl Ad Asked for a "Not too Dark" African American


Most of you will recall Acura's commercial for the NSX concept from this year's Super Bowl starring Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno, but few will probably remember the car salesperson that appeared in the beginning of the clip.

Celebrity gossip and entertainment news site TMZ not only remembers the salesman but it also got its hands on the casting call document, allegedly from an aggravated African American actor who didn’t get the role.

And why is this unnamed actor angry, we hear you ask? Because, for the role of the African American car dealer, the casting call asked for a "Nice looking, friendly. Not too dark" actor.

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