Thursday, March 19, 2009

Biggest – and greenest – movie premiere launched online

More than 16,000 people in 60 cinemas simultaneously attended the premiere of new environmental movie, The Age of Stupid, aided and abetted by internet technology created by a Belfast internet-streaming firm.
The film, which premiered on Sunday, also had a global audience of up to 100,000 people, who logged on to view the broadcast at www.ageofstupid.net
The online premiere was enabled by Switch New Media, a Belfast technology firm.
The film launch is being cited as the greenest-ever movie premiere as Age of Stupidgenerated just 1pc of the total average CO2 emitted by similar-sized Hollywood extravaganzas. Read More

Courtesy: Silicon Republic

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