It’s been a while since I did an InstantSurvey, and it’s about damn time. While I realize that Iron Man opens on Thursday, I figured it’s not too late to get your feedback on the best and worst of the movies coming to theaters this summer. Which summer movie will be the best? Which summer movie will be the worst? What do you think of Speed Racer? The X-Files movie? How many movies are you going to see this summer, in theaters? (more…)

Thanks to an abundance in DVDs, I’ve been provided with several more copies for some movie giveaways that I recently ran in my movie contests section. As such, this means that instead of one or two winners for each of the following DVD giveaways, I’m instead able to give away three or four DVDs. All but one of the giveaways are already closed, so you don’t have to do anything if you’ve already entered. Just click on the links below to see if you won.

Here are the DVD giveaways that were expanded:

• PTU: Police Tactical Unit - from 1 to 3 DVDs
• 13: Game of Death< - from 2 to 4 DVDs/li>
• Legend of the Black Scorpion - from 1 to 3 DVDs
• Automation Transfusion - from 2 to 4 DVDs
• Lions for Lambs - from 2 to 3 DVDs - This contest is still open!

You can view all of my current DVD giveaways here.

I normally don’t promote contests that take people away from my own website, but Run, Fatboy, Run looks pretty funny, and the studio (or the marketing firm that is working with the studio) has developed a game widget that allows you to get excited about the movie - and to win a private screening for you and your friends. Personally, I don’t like playing these kinds of online games, but a lot of people do. From a marketing perspective, I really need to learn how to make some of these things, as they are very effective marketing teams.

Either way, you could win a private screening of Run, Fatboy, Run for you and your friends. Just play the game below - all you have to do is score 400 or more points and you’ll be entered in a random drawing. The contest ends March 30, 2008.

And the winners of the Paranormal State Prize Pack are…

Before we get to that, this contest was designed in anticipation of Paranormal State, which premiered December 10th at 10 PM ET/PT on A&E. The two winners listed below will receive a prize pack containing an A&E American Apparel Track Jacket, Paranormal State t-shirt, flashlight, mug and sling bag. What’s a sling bag? We’re not quite sure, but it probably carries stuff.

And without further ado, here are the winners…

Wait, first: There were 1,264 entries for the contest, which means that odds were pretty good (relatively speaking) that you could win. Don’t forget, we have tons of other movie contests running right now, including DVD giveaways for The Bourne Ultimatum, Halloween Unrated Director’s Cut, The Nanny Diaries and Arctic Tale (HD-DVD and DVD). You can also subscribe to our movie contest RSS feed so you always have the latest contests right in your browser!

So anyway, here are the two winners of the Paranormal State prize packs…

Oh, and the correct answer to the mandatory question, According to the Paranormal Insider which well known celebrity claimed to have had a “pre-birth experience”? was Richard Dreyfuss. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Seriously this time, here are the winners:

• Robert McGrew, Collinsville, Mississippi
• Carol Baker, West Columbia, South Carolina

Congrats to our winners! Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

Paranormal State premieres December 10th at 10 PM ET/PT on A&E, and we’re giving away prize packs in anticipation.

Two winners will receive a prize pack containing an A&E American Apparel Track Jacket, Paranormal State t-shirt, flashlight, mug and sling bag. The contest ends December 13th, so make sure you enter soon (only one entry per person, open to U.S. and Canadian residents).

Paranormal State, from the producers of Laguna Beach, is a dramatic new A&E Real-Life series that chronicles the case files of the Paranormal Research Society (PRS), a renowned paranormal investigation team comprised of Penn State University college students. Paranormal State follows Ryan Buell (founder/director of PRS) and his college-age team of paranormal investigators as they set out on cases throughout the country. The PRS team, which Ryan started in 2001, has worked on cases involving demonic possession and exorcism, assisted law enforcement on missing person’s cases, and have brought peace to frightened families. Through the use of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) recordings, client interviews, video documentation, old-fashioned research and the help from outside experts such as renowned psychics, demonologists and Penn State University psychologists and counselors, the PRS team delve dangerously into other worlds to try and help people who have no one else to turn to.

For more information about the series visit http://paranormalstate.com. Want to learn more about the paranormal? Check out the Paranormal Insider blog at http://paranormalinsider.com

View the contest winners

Thanks to the 1,500+ who took my horror movie survey last month! I’ll publish the results soon (there are some obvious results and a few surprises), but I just wanted to say congratulations to Karen Mead of Wingdale, New York, as she is the winner of the six horror DVDs. Karen, I’ll be sending out the prize package this weekend.

Check back soon, as I’ll be launching a new survey with new DVD giveaways shortly. For other movie contests, including El Cantante, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and other DVD giveaways, please visit my movie contests page. I currently have 12 different giveaways running (and ending soon).

No Country for Old Men is now out in select theaters and expanding over the next month, and I must say that this movie looks to be one of the coolest this year. Watching Javier Bardem walk around killing people with a coin flip and an air compressor is like butter on toast: perfect. Honestly, this movie looks absolutely spectacular, my only concern being that I might be hyping it up just a bit too much.

But it’s about damn time the Coen Brothers did a truly dark crime caper a la the old days (read: Blood Simple), and judging from reviews, No Country for Old Men certainly delivers.

Even better, I’m giving away an autographed No Country for Old Men movie poster over at my Movie-Source.com website - the contest expires at the end of November, but please enter to win the poster. It’s autographed by both Joel and Ethan Coen! Enter now!