Paramount Pictures To Host Live Webcast From Set Of ""Tomb Raider"" In London

Land Rover And RealNetworksÆ Team Up With Paramount Pictures For Live Webcast With Chat Powered By Yahoo!

2-Nov-00

Paramount Pictures announced it will work with Land Rover and RealNetworksÆ, 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' RealVideoÆ 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 AwardÆ 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 and 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 (www.tombraidermovie.com) or by going directly to tombraider.real.com. To view the live Webcast, users will need RealPlayerÆ 8, available for free download at www.real.com. The live Webcast will take place on Thursday, November 9, 2000 at 2:30pm EST, 7:30pm GMT and 11:30 am PST. The event will be rebroadcast in its entirety at 10pm EST, 7pm PST for those who couldn't make it earlier in the day. Yahoo! Chat (chat.yahoo.com) will conduct a live chat during the Webcast. Web users will be able to use YahooÆ! 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 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."" Source: Paramount Pictures

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