Tuesday, 3 July 2007

Movies go online

Movies on the net! No. We’re not talking about pirated versions available in the internet to be downloaded. The new era of online-movies is in. Gone are the days of never-ending queues to book a ticket, and for that matter, online ticket booking too. The future is online-movies.

With the record number of views that Sivaji promo managed in Youtube.com the film industry is all set to explore internet as a medium to release movies. UTV the global distributors of “Fear” will release the movie online on July 13, 2007. The film is directed by Vikram Bhat and produced by Rohan Sippy.

Another movie of the same genre is Heyy Babyy, which will be released on August 24th, 2007. Directed by Sajid Khan, starring Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Vidya Balan the movie pulled-off a staggering 10,000 hits within two days its promo was released in Youtube.com.

Some of the benefits of online movies include large viewer-ship needless to say that it saves time and cost. With some biggies looking to get a pie of the digital space, the others may soon follow.

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