Random Thoughts: Beijing Olympics 2008

The Beijing Olympic Games finally concluded last sunday. Finally sound like such a heavy words, because like most of these moments, when it’s over, it always seem having passed too fast.
A few words can be considered to be intrisecate part of the 29th Modern Olympic Games:

Beauty.
Record-making.
Polemic.

- China’s representatives were trying really hard to [...]

American remake of “Life on Mars” recasting completed.

As entertainment news sources reported in the last couple of weeks Gretchen Mol is the new Annie, and Harvey Keitel is the new Gene Hunt.
The picture you find as the startup from this post is a promo pic featuring the original people cast in those roles.
After having watched the original version of the pilot episode [...]

Review: “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”.

It feels better the second time around. I was actually very skeptic towards the movie, since I was getting very excited about it after watching two of the trailers they’ve released, and when I raise expectations I tend to get disappointed. The Harry Potter movies been the best example of being very disappointing, even under [...]

Fox new marketing action: Was it really a success?

According to several (for example) websites Fox’s latest marketing campaigns was a huge success.
The tale in a nutshell, for people who don’t speak Portuguese, Fox launched (look how carefully I’m attempting to use classic Marketing tool words) a big promotional 3 day long campaign, called “Quero sair daqui” (I want to get out of here). [...]