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This summer movie season has been riddled with flops and underperforming films. With movies like Knight and Day and Grownups making their run, the only beacon of hope for a decent summer movie is Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Inception. Nolan’s newest offering has been receiving a lot of attention and is the only upcoming movie of the summer anyone seems to care about anymore.

But why? Very few details have been released about the movie’s plot and it is already generating buzz as an award winner. The answer is Inception’s brilliant advertising. In particular, their surreal building-sized optical illusion style billboards recently spotted in New York. Similar to the movie’s trailer, they do not give much away but definitely catch people’s eyes and continue to build hype for the upcoming blockbuster. I think these billboards are great; they are different and bring something new to the table with their optical illusion, three-dimensional look. I would much rather see more creative 3D posters than hastily thrown together 3D movies that have dominated this summer movie season.

Over the past seven years it has become increasing common and expected to see product and service commercials in the theater before the movie. This month AT&T has taken the next step in creating the first cinematic 3D spot intended for theaters with detailed animation, impressive visuals, and an original score for its new “Rethink Possible” campaign. The spot is available in other mediums but was produced with movie theater audiences in mind. It is currently being shown to the handful of people watching the 3D coverage of the World Cup and will be shown soon in theaters. This is interesting because it is an innovative step towards the new wave of inevitable 3D commercials that uses the new technology mainly for entertainment. It doesn’t allude to phone services at all when it shows a small fish chasing after an orange ball. Eventually bigger fish come and take the ball away then the small fish breaks away only to the surface to find an endless forest of trees that produce the orange balls and copy urging audiences to “Rethink What’s Possible”. It will be cool to see what other commercials are released in the near future made specifically in 3D for theater audiences.

“And Then There Was Salsa” is the new viral video from Frito Lay hosted on Vimeo. The video starts out as a normal web video then slowly expands out of the video frame and takes over the entire window giving the video a 3D look. Although similar viral videos with 3D elements have been done before, they haven’t looked this good. This new viral video is already creating buzz and is a good example of where the future of online advertisements and viral videos can go.