Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003 |
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Variety
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Cinema Info-Tech - Internet Discordant Love Song Pratap Ravindran
Pune , Sept. 9 THE course of true love, to paraphrase a cliché, rarely runs smoothly. Nor, it would seem, does cinematic innovation online. This is Not a Love Song, a low-budget British thriller directed by the writer of The Full Monty Simon Beaufoy, had been heavily hyped as the world's first movie to be premiered online... but things didn't quite work out that way. The film was to have been streamed online late last week from its site at between £2 and £3, but a few seconds into its debut, servers crashed and mainframes malfunctioned. A message was then posted, urging viewers to be patient and stating that service would be resumed shortly. It is understood that roughly 75,000 people logged on to see the film and that the sheer volume of the traffic brought the servers down. According to Beaufoy, he had written the film for the Net because of the increasing difficulty in getting distribution deals for smaller films.
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