Just in case you're still on the fence about how 'real' the movie is, Jim Vejvoda at IGN.com has reported that Alaskan newspaper The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner admits that Universal Pictures has paid $22,500 to the Alaska Press Cub and a Calista Scholarship Fund to settle claims that the studio "created a number of Web sites purporting to be 'news archives'" in their viral marketing campaign for their new alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind.
OK, so Universal has admitted that it created phony news articles and claimed Alaskan journalists had written them, and also used real news stories without permission. Universal fabricated news articles and passed them off as being real articles from the Nome Nugget, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and the Anchorage Chronicle among other publications.
"Universal agrees to the permanent disabling and removal of, and represents and warrants that it has already permanently disabled access to and removed from the Internet, all news articles," the paper quotes the settlement as saying.
Bwah hahaha!! Busted! We're still confirming rumors about ET suing for slander... stay tuned
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It was so obvious to me that this was the case, and I was wondering whether or not they’d get taken to task over their fabrications. I’m sort of glad that they are because I really think they have hurt those who are trying to raise awareness for legitimate cases and, mostly, I hate wasting my time on trying to sort out fact from fiction.
‘There’s no such thing as bad press’ they say. I bet whoever had the idea for the phoney articles got a bonus!
i want my money back! i went twice!
Just because they fabricated a couple articles doesn’t make the entire movie, including the video footage and interviews, a fabrication.
And don’t give me Charlotte Milchard’s IMDB page. It’s user editable and Charlotte’s real site shows no record of her being in the film.
http://www.charlottemilchard.com/cv.shtml
People say I look like somebody they know all the time.