KELSEYVILLE — Production company Harvest Films and video game giant Nintendo joined forces with award-winning actor Seth Green in a national advertising campaign, featuring Lake County rock band, The Lost Boys.
The storyline for the initial television advertisement will take place at the Henry Fonda Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood and will focus on friends attending a concert by The Lost Boys.
The teenage quintet will be rocking the iconic venue, while fans play the new Nintendo video game, DRAGON QUEST IX “Sentinals of the Starry Skies” on the Nintendo DS portable gaming system.
The commercial will be shot at multiple locations in Hollywood today by Harvest Films and will air nationally during the summer.
Harvest Films is a production company from Santa Monica, founded by Executive Producer Bonnie Goldfarb and Director Baker Smith.
Nintendo Co., Ltd is located in Kyoto, Japan and is a multi-national company, founded in 1889, it initially produced handmade hanafuda cards. During the 1970s Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan”s third largest company, with a market value of more than $85 billion. According to Nintendo”s Touch!Generations Web site, the name “Nintendo” translated from Japanese to English means “leave luck to heaven.” As of fiscal year, 2009, Nintendo sold more than 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units.
Actor Seth Green, featured in the promotional campaign, was named Best TV Actor by Entertainment Weekly magazine and E! Green is involved in a multitude of television and film projects and does voices each week for “Robot Chicken,” on Cartoon Network”s Adult Swim.
Green co-starred with Robin Williams and John Travolta in Disney”s, “Old Dogs.” He is the voice of Chris on Family Guy. Green was the lead in the comedy, “Without A Paddle” an indie film “Party Monster,” “Knockaround Guys,” “Can”t Hardly Wait,” “The Italian Job,” “America”s Sweethearts,” and “Rat Race.” He was in all three “Austin Powers,” movies. Multiple action figures have been made in his likeness by the industry”s top toymakers.
For more information about The Lost Boys visit www.2lostboys.com or www.myspace.com/lostboyscali.
