Creating content exclusively for the web is a growing area for mega TV and film personalities — just this week Larry King launched an online news network and Jerry Seinfeld’s web series is also coming soon — but the latest to join in the interactive content game is Tom Hanks, whose new animated web series, Electric City, premiered on Yahoo! Screen Tuesday.
The series is set in a seemingly peaceful but troubled city, a settlement that has sprung up in the aftermath of a series of ecological and human-caused disasters. Hanks, who also wrote the series, voices Cleveland Carr, a mysterious man of mixed morals,...
The series is set in a seemingly peaceful but troubled city, a settlement that has sprung up in the aftermath of a series of ecological and human-caused disasters. Hanks, who also wrote the series, voices Cleveland Carr, a mysterious man of mixed morals,...
- 7/18/2012
- by Emily Rome
- EW.com - PopWatch
Mumbai, 1st October 2010: Reliance Big Entertainment (Rbe), the flagship media and entertainment arm of India's Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group today announced a joint-venture with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's production company Playtone. Rbe together with Playtone will create Electric City a multi-platform digital experience covering a multi-episode animated internet series, online social game and mobile application. Conceived and written by Tom Hanks, Electric City will offer a tantalizing view of the future of civilization, presented through the lens of provocative themes such as energy consumption, freedom of information, crime and punishment. Electric City is being specifically designed as a multi-platform, multi-screen unified digital experience. A Social Game, a mobile Game, web episodes and mobile episodes will be interlinked creating a unique digital experience. The storyline lends itself perfectly to a multi-player browser game application for social networking sites and mobile devices. Zapak, the gaming division of Rbe,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Mumbai, 1st October 2010: Reliance Big Entertainment (Rbe), the flagship media and entertainment arm of India's Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group today announced a joint-venture with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's production company Playtone. Rbe together with Playtone will create Electric City a multi-platform digital experience covering a multi-episode animated internet series, online social game and mobile application. Conceived and written by Tom Hanks, Electric City will offer a tantalizing view of the future of civilization, presented through the lens of provocative themes such as energy consumption, freedom of information, crime and punishment. Electric City is being specifically designed as a multi-platform, multi-screen unified digital experience. A Social Game, a mobile Game, web episodes and mobile episodes will be interlinked creating a unique digital experience. The storyline lends itself perfectly to a multi-player browser game application for social networking sites and mobile devices. Zapak, the gaming division of Rbe,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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