Platinum Studios (PDOS)

[BrianAltounian]

Yeah, don't we wish! While we would love to have been involved with the Iron Man movie, you folks all know we were not. It is amazing to me what passes for journalism today. What happened to the days of fact-checking, or heaven forbid someone should write an article with fair and balanced reporting! This article was great press for our CBC contestant - we helped to coordinate local hometown coverage for all of the contestants, actually - and we hope it propels them to the next level in pursuing their dreams. The journalist just needed to get some facts straight.

Anyway, to answer your questions about CBC and ComicCon, our development team and some of our Wowio folks will be down in San Diego next week to usher in the new era for Platinum Studios. We won't have a booth (and I may have discussed this in an earlier post) because the San Diego ComicCon is primarily a consumer show and until we have a product that we are marketing to the public, we would rather focus on meetings with publishers and the comic industry. The timing of the relaunch of Wowio may not coincide with the Con this year as we just completed the transaction yesterday so we didn't want to have a poor showing. We'll do a bigger splash at the upcoming comic and book shows and obviously online.

The CBC wasn't a public event in the past - it was held in a hotel just outside the convention center and closely contained. We discovered that since there are over 150,000 people attending the Con, our contestants had a hard time finding affordable travel and lodging, which precluded some from entering the contest. So, we opened it up by having the submissions entered online and the top 50 will be submitting their 3- to 4-minute pitch via uploaded video content. Our judges will review the pitches and we will film that process and that footage will become part of a larger plan for online voting. It should be a better experience for the contestants as they won't have to stress about a face-to-face confrontation with the judges. We'll see how it goes.

Hope that helps clarify.

-Brian