If you haven’t heard of District 9 yet, the marketing team behind Tristar Pictures is doing their best to inform you in some unique ways. Similar to the Cloverfield viral marketing campaign, District 9′s official site is supposedly run by Multi-National United, a fake company that will be featured in the film. There are also more fake websites, billboards, and other advertisements popping up as the release date gets closer. District 9 is set for release on August 14th, 2009 and is being directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson who were supposed to be working on the Halo movie, but due to a disagreement over distribution rights suspended production. Hit the jump for pictures, links and HD trailers.

There have been two trailers released for the movie, the first shows the alien but with its face blurred out. The second trailer shows the alien without its face blurred and with subtitles. I’ve posted both, you pick which one you want to watch.

Here is the first censored HD trailer:

Here is the second uncensored HD trailer:

The Movie Blog has posted pictures of ads on billboards and benches that have started to pop up in cities.

There’s also a number of websites created by the studio:
The Official District 9 Site

Multi-National United

MNU Spreads Lies

Maths From Outer Space