Essential to release digital JACKASS 3.5 March 2011
As reported last month, there was enough unused material Jackass 3D to create a new movie and Johnny Knoxville and company plan to do just that. It does not specify which digital platforms will have the film (eg iTunes, Xbox Live, etc.).The press release does not mention pricing for the segments of the week or the total package. According to the press release, the plan is to have “new tricks and antics of Jackass 3.5 released online a week and then packaged together as a feature film digitally distributed followed by other platforms including home video. Paramount plans to launch in March 2011 Jackass 5.3 to the digital version.
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Here is the press release:
PARAMOUNT DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT AND DIGITAL FEATURE launch MTV, JACKASS 3.5, March 2011
JACKASS 3.5 follows World JACKASS Box Office success of 3D with all the new antics of Johnny Knoxville and crew to be released digitally
LOS ANGELES, CA (November 30, 2010) – Paramount Digital Entertainment in association with MTV, part of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), today announced plans to add another original project to its popular line digital programming up: Jackass 3.5, which will premiere in March 2011.
JACKASS The third installment of Paramount Pictures and MTV Films – 3D JACKASS – theaters beaten on 15 October 2010 and has already raised more than $ 155,000,000 at the box office worldwide. Jackass 3.5, which was tailor-made for release in digital media, will feature all new content as never before seen stunts, pranks and antics of other division side Jackass crew. The film stars Johnny Knoxville and the boys and was produced by Jeff Tremaine dickhouse Production and Spike Jonze, along with Knoxville. New tricks and antics of JACKASS 3.5 will be released weekly online and then packaged together as a feature film distributed digitally followed by other platforms, including home video.
In JACKASS 3.5, you will see it is worth a whole movie new tricks, new jokes new, on any screen you choose. “”Not that JACKASS guys invented the Internet, but they were making viral videos before most people had heard of the term. “When the boys went to make JACKASS JACKASS 3D, which proposes to shoot a sequel to the hit Jackass 2.5 digital function with him, and all the world to her. This distinguished heritage JACKASS franchise makes ideal for digital,” said Thomas Lesinski, President Paramount Digital Entertainment.
“For 3D JACKASS filmed footage for two films so a lot of great things they do in the film. Woo Hoo, “said co-founder and JACKASS star Johnny Knoxville.Fortunately you get to see the bits in 3.5. I have staples in my head right now to prove it. Also shot some additional footage in Europe, specifically for 3.5.
“It’s been ten years since first launched JACKASS on MTV and there are even more shit, tricks and fun for everyone in every screen imaginable,” said Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music / Logo / Films Group. “More than meets JACKASS crew, you know there will be a lot of valuable pieces of entertainment to satisfy their fans, and JACKASS 3.5 will not let you down in the latest installment of the franchise well.”
In the first weeks of its release, the digital property received more than 20 million hits and was the title of # 1 on iTunes the week of its release.In 2007, Paramount Digital Entertainment and MTV launched Jackass 2.5, the first digital film released by a study which quickly became the most successful launch non-theatrical history of the study.
JACKASS franchise first debuted as a television series on MTV from 2000 to 2002, launching the careers of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and other popular figures show now perform outrageous stunts and hysterical jokes. Jackass: The movie grossed more than $ 64 million in the United States, and finished at No. 1 at the box office in its opening weekend. Jackass Number Two was released in September 2006 and like its predecessor, led the box office in its opening weekend and eventually earned more than $ 72 million in cumulative box office revenues. JACKASS 3D, released this October 2010 dominated the weekend box opening of these 50 million dollars in ticket sales, setting several records, including becoming the biggest opening ever for a movie non-scripted/documentary-esque, comedy the opening of more than 10 of all time, notching a record gross midnight October with $ 2.5 million, which is a special event to crowds of spectators.Since 2002, three stage hit JACKASS movies have been produced and published by MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.
The franchise also includes a JACKASS Jackass: The Game video game for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. His numerous DVD releases include JACKASS: VOL. 1, JACKASS: VOL. 2, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass: VOL. 3, Jackass: The Box Set, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, JACKASS WORLD PRESENTS: MATT HOFFMAN TRIBUTE TO EVIL Knievel, and Jackass: the lost tapes