Paramount Offers Film Clips on Web

By Jenifer Baldwin on March 12, 2008 10:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Paramount Offers Film Clips on Web By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom, will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet.

Paramount is teaming with the Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to introduce the VooZoo application Monday on Facebook.

The service will give Facebook users access to footage from thousands of movies to send to others on the networking site.

The clips last from a few seconds to several minutes and cover the gamut from Eddie Murphy’s guffaw in “Beverly Hills Cop” to Audrey Hepburn’s pleas over her “no-name slob” cat in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

The studio will market DVDs of the movies after each clip is played, and hopes to use the service to market new releases.