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Atlas Shrugged Part II is Hiring! No Résumés Required!

Remember the snoozy, clip-art-looking ad campaign for the low-budget Atlas Shrugged Part I ? Those days are over, if the producers — and maybe you or any designers you know — have anything to say about it : ART DIRECTOR Full-time position working on the Atlas Shrugged Movie Marketing team (may work remotely). Must be proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator and posses depth of knowledge in Web related Graphics and design. HTML, CSS, and Usability huge pluses. Experience with Adobe Premiere helpful. Responsibilities to include evolving the foundational Atlas brand, creating collateral and assets for print & web. DO NOT send resume. Not very Objectivist of them! Oh, and there’s a paid internship opening, too, for the enterprising youngster with the best “brief 3 paragraph essay answering the question ‘Who is Ayn Rand?'” In any case, please disregard that two more new jobs were just created on Obama’s watch. Thanks! [ Atlas Shrugged Blog ]

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REVIEW: Timberlake and Seyfried Make Glamorous Time Bandits in Sleek, Thoughtful In Time

Not even the most enormous movie marketing budget in the world could buy the perfect timing of Andrew Niccol’s In Time , an allegory about the disparity between the rich and the poor in this country that’s so confident it barely even bothers to masquerade as a thriller even though, supposedly, that’s the way to sell tickets. So what if the characters occasionally spout Marxist pamphleteering dialogue like “The truth is, there’s more than enough”? In Time has so much style and energy that it comes across as an act of boldness rather than just a liberal-minded tract, though of course, it’s that too. If there were ever a movie made for the 99 percent, this is it.

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REVIEW: Timberlake and Seyfried Make Glamorous Time Bandits in Sleek, Thoughtful In Time

NSFW: Sasha Grey Gets In on the I Melt With You Action

Thanks to near-lethal levels of abstraction, randomness, lack of context and all-around puzzlement, the five-part package that makes up I Melt With You ‘s awesome viral campaign is the most collectible set of movie marketing since Burger King offloaded Empire Strikes Back drinking glasses. And now, finally, it’s co-star Sasha Grey’s turn to get your brain cramping. Topless, of course. Did I mention this is NSFW ?

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