“Children of the Machine” sci-fi series to premiere pilot on BitTorrentJuly 16, 2014 - 14:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A new sci-fi series from Marco Weber (“Igby Goes Down”) and Jeff Stockwell (“Bridge to Terrabithia”) aims to marry the innovations of crowdfunding and streaming television using BitTorrent's Bundle platform, the writers announced, according to TheWrap. Produced by Rapid Eye Studios, “Children of the Machine” will premiere a pilot on BitTorrent, and then offer fans the opportunity to pre-order an entire first season for $9.95 via the Bundle platform. Once Rapid Eye receives 250,000 orders, it will go into production on the entire season, which will feature eight more episodes. In this way, the series will be crowd-funding — a la Kickstarter — and be available only online, like Netflix. Perhaps best known for its prominent role in the battle Hollywood is waging on piracy, file-sharing service BitTorrent has worked to prove its legitimacy to the industry in recent years. The Bundle, launched in 2013 was designed to allow artists to make work available to fans with fewer gatekeeping restrictions; by June, it had amassed over 100 million downloads and streams, the company said. BitTorrent has over 170 million users. Some of the higher-profile artists to work with BitTorrent include legendary rap group De La Soul, which put its back catalog on the service, as well as Madonna, who worked with Vice on a free 17-minute documentary about free speech. “Children of the Machine” will also run on Cinedigm's new Comic-Con programming network. Cinedigm has also worked with BitTorrent in the past, making for a comfortable partnership. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |