PARAMOUNT
PICTURES TO HOST LIVE WEBCAST FROM SET OF
"TOMB RAIDER" IN LONDON
Land Rover and
RealNetworks Team Up With Paramount Pictures for
Live Webcast With Chat Powered by Yahoo!
Paramount
Pictures today announced it will work with Land
Rover and RealNetworks® , Inc. to
present "Tomb Raider Live," the first
up close look at "Tomb Raider," one of
next summer’s most anticipated films. This
event will take place LIVE on Thursday, November
9, 2000 from the set of the "Tomb
Raider" production currently filming at
Pinewood Studios in London.
This interactive
event, broadcast exclusively in
RealNetworks’ RealVideo® 8
format, will start with a tour of the film’s
magnificent sets. Users will then be able watch
an interview with the film’s director Simon
West and pose questions with key members of the
"Tomb Raider" production staff, take an
exclusive look behind-the-scenes, and have an
opportunity to win a copy of the new Tomb Raider:
Chronicles console game from Eidos Interactive.
Paramount
Pictures’ eagerly anticipated screen version
of "Tomb Raider," starring Academy
AwardŇ winner Angelina Jolie, is
directed by Simon West ("The General’s
Daughter," "Con Air"). The
live-action feature film is inspired by the most
popular interactive video character in history
– Lara Croft. Beautiful and brainy, Lara is
the heroine of Eidos Interactive’s
phenomenally successful "Tomb Raider"
video game series. The film is produced by
Lawrence Gordon ("Die Hard,"
"Predator," "48 Hours"),
Lloyd Levin ("Boogie Nights") and Colin
Wilson ("Jurassic Park: The Lost
World"). Charles Cornwall, Eidos’ chief
executive officer, is the executive producer, and
Bobby Klein is the co-producer. The screenplay is
by Patrick Massett & John Zinman and Laeta
Kalogridis and Simon West.
"Tomb
Raider" is being co-financed by Paramount
Pictures and Mutual Film Company. Paramount
Pictures will release the film theatrically in
the U.S. and Canada in the summer of 2001. Mutual
Film Company will distribute internationally in
Germany, Japan, Italy, and Korea through its
local partners, and in the rest of the world
through Paramount/UIP.
Director Simon
West said, "Conducting a live Webcast from
the set of ‘Tomb Raider’ is the kind of
cutting edge technology we've come to expect from
Lara Croft. We’re all very excited about
it."
Internet users
can attend Tomb Raider Live by logging on to the
official movie Web site
(http://www.tombraidermovie.com) or by going
directly to http://tombraider.real.com. To view
the live webcast, users will need RealPlayer®8,
available for free download at
http://www.real.com. The LIVE Webcast will
take place on Thursday, November 9, 2000 at 2:30
p.m. EST, 7:30 p.m. GMT and 11:30 a.m. PST. The
event will be rebroadcast in its entirety at 10
p.m. EST, 7 p.m. PST for those who couldn’t
make it earlier in the day. Yahoo! Chat
(http://chat.yahoo.com) will conduct a live chat
during the Webcast. Web users will be able to use
Yahoo®! Chat to pose questions to the
crew as well as to discuss this fantastic event
as it happens.
Tomb Raider fans
should pay close attention to the broadcast times
as an archive of this Webcast will not be
launched until early next year.
RealNetworks
(Nasdaq: RNWK), the recognized leader in media
delivery on the Internet, will broadcast the
event via its hosting solutions division, the
Real Broadcast Network™.
"We are
thrilled to be the exclusive hosts for
Paramount’s interactive webcast for
‘Tomb Raider,’" said Lucy Mohl,
Programming Director, RealNetworks, Inc.
"We’re equally excited to be making
this available for free to our more than 150
million unique registered RealPlayer users
worldwide."
Land Rover
(http://www.landrover.com) is also a sponsor of
the event. The Land Rover Defender appears in the
film and users who attend the Webcast will be
able to see one of these vehicles from the set.
Lara Croft
(Angelina Jolie) stands in the High Council
Chamber in "Tomb Raider," one of the
magnificent sets toured in "Tomb Raider
Live." The first up close look at "Tomb
Raider," one of next summer’s most
anticipated films, the event will take place live
on Thursday, November 9, 2000 from the set of the
"Tomb Raider" production currently
filming at Pinewood Studios in London. Paramount
Pictures’ "Tomb Raider," starring
Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie, is
directed by Simon West. The live-action feature
film is inspired by the most popular interactive
video character in history – Lara Croft, the
heroine of Eidos Interactive’s phenomenally
successful "Tomb Raider" video game
series. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon,
Lloyd Levin and Colin Wilson. Charles Cornwall,
Eidos’ chief executive officer, is the
executive producer, and Bobby Klein is the
co-producer. The screenplay is by Patrick Massett
& John Zinman and Laeta Kalogridis and Simon
West. "Tomb Raider" is being
co-financed by Paramount Pictures and Mutual Film
Company. Paramount Pictures will release the film
theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in the summer
of 2001. Mutual Film Company will distribute
internationally in Germany, Japan, Italy and
Korea through its local partners and in the rest
of the world through Paramount/UIP. This film is
not yet rated.
The exterior of
Croft Manor in "Tomb Raider," one of
the magnificent sets toured in "Tomb Raider
Live." The first up close look at "Tomb
Raider," one of next summer’s most
anticipated films, the event will take place live
on Thursday, November 9, 2000 from the set of the
"Tomb Raider" production currently
filming at Pinewood Studios in London. Paramount
Pictures’ "Tomb Raider," starring
Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie, is
directed by Simon West. The live-action feature
film is inspired by the most popular interactive
video character in history – Lara Croft, the
heroine of Eidos Interactive’s phenomenally
successful "Tomb Raider" video game
series. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon,
Lloyd Levin and Colin Wilson. Charles Cornwall,
Eidos’ chief executive officer, is the
executive producer, and Bobby Klein is the
co-producer. The screenplay is by Patrick Massett
& John Zinman and Laeta Kalogridis and Simon
West. "Tomb Raider" is being
co-financed by Paramount Pictures and Mutual Film
Company. Paramount Pictures will release the film
theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in the summer
of 2001. Mutual Film Company will distribute
internationally in Germany, Japan, Italy and
Korea through its local partners and in the rest
of the world through Paramount/UIP. This film is
not yet rated.
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