woensdag 28 november 2007

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is Eric D. Wilkinson and I am the producer of a small independent film called “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth” (our review).

I am sending you this email after realizing that our website has had nearly 23,000 hits in the last 12 days, much of it coming from your website. In addition, our trailer, both on the www.manfromearth.com site and other sites like YouTube, MySpace and AOL has been watched nearly 20,000 times AND what’s most impressive is our ranking on IMDb went from being the 11,235th most popular movie, to the 5th most popular movie in 2 weeks (we are also the #1 independent film on IMDb & the #1 science fiction film on IMDb). How did this all happen? Two words: Torrent / File Sharing sites (well, four words and a slash).

More specifically, RLSLOG.net. Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and put the movie online for all to download. After that happened, people were watching it and started posting mostly all positive reviews on IMDb, Amazon and other places. Most of the feedback from everyone who has downloaded “The Man From Earth” has been overwhelmingly positive. People like our movie and are talking about it, all thanks to piracy on the net!

Am I upset… surprisingly no. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded this torrrent and watched the film, our awareness level is through the roof. For that I say, “THANK YOU”!

What you guys have done here is nothing short of amazing. In the future, I will not complain about file sharing. YOU HAVE HELPED PUT THIS LITTLE MOVIE ON THE MAP!!!! When I make my next picture, I just may upload the movie on the net myself!

As found here

1 opmerking:

Eric D. Wilkinson zei

This is FANTASTIC. I LOVE AMSTERDAM (I visited there back in April of 1984). Thanks for reprinting my story. "Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth" is arguably one of the most talked about movies on the 'net! You owe it to yourself to see it!

PLEASE come check out our website at www.manfromearth.com, our MySpace page at www.myspace.com/manfromearth or come on over and post your comments at our IMDb page athttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/board

PLEASE, COME TO IMDb and POST YOUR COMMENTS. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

Thanks again for your support.

Sincerely,

Eric D. Wilkinson
Producer
Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth

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