From NBC.com and the makers of CG-animated series Afterworld, comes a new online series Gemini Division, starring actress and comic book creator Rosario Dawson!
Blending live actors with CG backgrounds and effects, Gemini Division stars Dawson (Grind House, Sin City) as a New York City detective whose investigations uncover a global conspiracy.
Check out a sneak peek of the trailer that will be featured at this year’s Comic Con!
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Deleted: The Game said
August 19 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Its so important for the interactive TV genre that Gemini Division puts on a good showing. This is the kind of innovative product that exploits the interactivity of the internet and changes the lean back viewing experience of traditional TV into something far more engaging. Its success would bring much needed attention to the indie interactive web scene.
Signing Rosario Dawson is a great choice, a neo sci-fi plot is a great choice, the one gripe I have though is geo-blocking the show limiting it only to a US audience, I think its a cop out and a failure to fully embrace the internet. NBC, why get only half pregnant?! In mitigation, I suppose with a huge marketing budget, Gemini Division does not have to rely on viral distribution like indies do. And it probably has found revenues in international distribution.
The $1.75M budget is HUGE for the web TV world but my hope is that a nice chunk of that is allocated to marketing (and you can count Rosario’s paycheck in that) to bring attention to the nascent interactive web series genre … indies like ours will gladly ride this coat tail.
Kenna McHugh said
August 19 2008 @ 9:18 pm
You have some good points. Although like any new medium, it’s going to take some getting use to. Big names like Rosario will help. I am sure eventually the show will go international; it only takes time.