A promotional bookmark made from a film strip of a key scene in the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie has been auctioned off for $3990 USD (356,000 Yen) on Yahoo! Auctions Japan. From ANN:
YenThe auction for a film strip randomly given to a repeat viewer of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie just ended on Monday evening at 356,000 yen (about US$3,990). To encourage fans to watch the movie again, the producers launched a “Film Bookmark Repeater Campaign” late last month. Fans can redeem the two movie ticket stubs …

New 15 and 30 second versions of a commercial for the Haruhi Suzumiya movie have been posted at the haruhi.tv website.  The song in the background is the official theme for the movie, “Yasashii Bokyaku” by Minori Chihara.  The end of the commercial lists a DVD release date: Feb. 26, 2010 (Edit: correction, the date is for the DVD release of Suzumiya no Gensou)  This could be very good news for the Haruhi fan community as fansubs will certainly follow. Not yet anyways.

Thanks to jstarz and sonicdaman for sending in …

In case anyone forgot, the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie premiered this past Saturday in movie theaters across Japan to great fanfare. At the Sunshine Cinema in Tokyo, die-hard Haruhi fans began lining up 8 hours prior to the first screening in the cold of the early morning (source); the line-up eventually stretched up to 500 people. As common to many anime movie events, Haruhi merchandise and special promotional items were readily available to be gobbled up by avid Haruhiists. Some photos of the movie premiere can be …

Following their last video to promote the soundtrack for the new Haruhi Suzumiya movie, Lantis has today posted a music video promoting the main theme song that will be used in the movie. The song, named “Yasashii Bokyaku” (Kindly Forget) is sang by Minori Chihara, who is the Japanese Seiyuu for Yuki Nagato. The gentle and somewhat sad tune comes off as a fitting melody for the events of ‘Disappearance’ from Yuki’s point of view. There are less than 10 days now until the movie premiers in Japan.

A new trailer for the upcoming movie has been released and streaming from Lantis (producer of movie soundtrack) on Youtube, it’s a five minute clip show featuring never before seen animation stills from the Disappearance movie. There are BIG SPOILERS in here if you haven’t read the fourth novel yet, so watch at your own discretion. The CD shown in the trailer is the new Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya soundtrack set to be released January 27th, Pre-Orders are available. EDIT: Lantis removed the spoiler-rich video from their channel a day …

A short 15 second commercial for the upcoming Haruhi movie, and less than 30 days until the movie debuts in Japan. It’s mostly recycled footage from the last trailer and has the same music, but the video is high quality so I took some screenshots. Thanks to Dazza of Fighting for Nippon blog for sending this in.