RANGO, SUPER 8 AND LIKE CRAZY LAUNCH FIRST EVER DIGITAL STREAMING PROGRAM FOR AWARDS CONTENDERS
Paramount Teams with Deluxe to Debut Pilot Program Providing “For Your Consideration” Online Screeners to the Visual Effects Society
HOLLYWOOD, CA (October 11, 2011) – Paramount Pictures announced today that it has teamed with Deluxe Entertainment Services Group to provide “For Your Consideration” online screeners for the 2011-2012 awards season, making it the first major studio to stream its awards films online. The studio will present its awards contenders, including RANGO, SUPER 8 and LIKE CRAZY, and potentially additional titles later this season, via Deluxe’s proprietary platform. The Visual Effects Society (VES) will be the first recipient of the online screeners, receiving them as early as October 14th.
The Deluxe solution allows Paramount to securely stream films backed by unique watermarking of the content tied to the individual recipients with DVD quality picture and a controlled window of availability. Content can beplayed back on a variety of PC and Mac devices, including the iPad and iPad2, as well as home entertainment systems with compatible HDMI cable connection.
“We are excited to present these films for online streaming and are hopeful that this will be a quality experience allowing us to offer more opportunities for our filmmaker partners to reachappreciative viewers,” said Paramount’s President of Domestic Marketing & Distribution Megan Colligan.
“We are delighted Paramount chose Deluxe’s digital screener platform. By continually expanding and customizing our services we are able to best support the rapidly changing needs of our entertainment industry clients,” said Michael Alvarez, President Deluxe Media Management.
“As the leading technology artists in the entertainment industry, we at VES are pleased that Paramount thought to come to us first to inaugurate this process,” said VES Executive Director Eric Roth.
Both Paramount and VES highly encourage films to be seen in the best possible environment – a theatre. Understanding this is not always possible; using Deluxe’s service provides members with an additional method to screen films in a secure and timely manner.
There’s not much point in making online screeners available to AMPAS, seeing as half of them probably don’t even know how to turn their computers on.
IMO, if you can’t be bothered to support your industry and pay the admission price to see a film in the cinema, you shouldn’t even be voting for something like the Oscars, so I don’t much like the idea of screeners.
There’s not much point in making online screeners available to AMPAS, seeing as half of them probably don’t even know how to turn their computers on.
IMO, if you can’t be bothered to support your industry and pay the admission price to see a film in the cinema, you shouldn’t even be voting for something like the Oscars, so I don’t much like the idea of screeners.
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Unclear whether the online screeners might be made available to critics and PR circles too.
But this press release specifically says the online screeners will be provided to the VES. Very few of the VES members are Academy members.
I’d guess they will keep a really tight reign on who can access these screeners. But it’s a lot easier to send out 10,000 access to SAG members than to mail out 10,000 physical discs.
h,
Unclear whether the online screeners might be made available to critics and PR circles too.
But this press release specifically says the online screeners will be provided to the VES. Very few of the VES members are Academy members.
I’d guess they will keep a really tight reign on who can access these screeners. But it’s a lot easier to send out 10,000 access to SAG members than to mail out 10,000 physical discs.
There’s not much point in making online screeners available to AMPAS, seeing as half of them probably don’t even know how to turn their computers on.
IMO, if you can’t be bothered to support your industry and pay the admission price to see a film in the cinema, you shouldn’t even be voting for something like the Oscars, so I don’t much like the idea of screeners.
There’s not much point in making online screeners available to AMPAS, seeing as half of them probably don’t even know how to turn their computers on.
IMO, if you can’t be bothered to support your industry and pay the admission price to see a film in the cinema, you shouldn’t even be voting for something like the Oscars, so I don’t much like the idea of screeners.
so are these just for academy members?
h,
Unclear whether the online screeners might be made available to critics and PR circles too.
But this press release specifically says the online screeners will be provided to the VES. Very few of the VES members are Academy members.
I’d guess they will keep a really tight reign on who can access these screeners. But it’s a lot easier to send out 10,000 access to SAG members than to mail out 10,000 physical discs.
so are these just for academy members?
h,
Unclear whether the online screeners might be made available to critics and PR circles too.
But this press release specifically says the online screeners will be provided to the VES. Very few of the VES members are Academy members.
I’d guess they will keep a really tight reign on who can access these screeners. But it’s a lot easier to send out 10,000 access to SAG members than to mail out 10,000 physical discs.
Can’t stand in the way of progress!
Can’t stand in the way of progress!