Tues
21st Oct
2008
Pirates of the Caribbean / Shrek / National Treasure writer/producer co-helms series
London, United Kingdom and Los Angeles, California (16 October 2008): ROK Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB: ROKE), the global mobile entertainment group, announces that its subsidiary, Fun Little Movies (FLM), has been selected as a finalist for Best Original Programming, Mobile for the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards (www.mobileXawards.com ) presented by Mobile Monday Global. FLM, based in Burbank, California, specializes in the development, production and distribution of original video content for global distribution to mobile network operators.
"Fun Little Movies is very thankful, both for this recognition, and to the creators/writer/directors of the Turbo Dates series, Jocelyn Stamat and Terry Rossio. Rossio served as the writer and/or producer of several Hollywood hit film franchises including Shrek, Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, so it's quite natural for he and Stamat to create content that rises to this level." Jocelyn Stamat is both a former Chicago Second City writer performer, as well as an M.D., a Harvard Literature graduate, a Duke Medical School graduate, and former chief resident of Northwestern University.
"The companies chosen as finalists/winners for the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards are visionaries and creative leaders who are driving the transformation of the mobile entertainment industry," said Jari Tammisto, Founder and Chairman of Mobile Monday Global. "We are proud to have honored them as a finalist of the Best Original Programming category and look forward to a seeing more companies like them this coming year."
In 2008 Fun Little Movies was also recognized for beating Orange and MTV in Cannes for The Content Award sponsored by Nokia. Their next project, an environmental satire titled "No News is Good News," (starring Debra Skelton {formerly Debra Wilson} from Fox's Mad TV, Goodnight Burbank star Hayden Black, and the infamous Kato Kaelin,) can be seen alongside Turbo Dates on the www.FunLittleMovies.com/movies.html site.
About Fun Little Movies:
Short comedies made for the small screen: Female Funnies, Kids Comedy and Gags for Guys. They’re fun, funny films!
Mission statement:
Fun Little Movies produces, co-produces and licenses short comedy videos for distribution on mobile phones, the Internet, and portable devices worldwide. We call them "Fun Funny Phone Films."
Our mission is to contribute to love and to laughter by providing fun, funny, advertiser-friendly comedy to every person on Earth.
About FUN LITTLE MOVIES:
FLM specializes in the development, production and distribution of original content for global distribution on mobile phones, the Internet and portable devices. Its mission is to contribute to love and to laughter by providing fun, funny, advertiser-friendly comedy to every person on Earth. Fun Little Movies was the first U.S. company to produce comedic films for mobile phones worldwide, and launched as a channel on Sprint TV in 2004. FLM’s “Fun Funny Phone Films” have won 22 awards including CTIA's "World Smallest Film Festival" and two Golden Eagles at the American Cine’ Awards, as well as The Content Award at Cannes in 2008, over MTV and Orange. FLM was also a finalist at: The Cannes Film Festival for Best Short Film, the 2008 Mobile Content Award in London, and the 2006 and 2007 Mobile Entertainment Magazine Awards for Best Video. Fun Little Movies have played on numerous TV networks worldwide including HBO, Showtime, CBS, Playboy, MTV and Comedy Central. FLM’s mobile comedy can be watched on iPhones, Sprint, Verizon, Nokia, Motorola and ATT mobile phones, on Veoh.com, Revver.com, Vuze.com and many other top video sites, and on other mobile and Internet platforms worldwide. FLM has been a cover story or featured in Forbes Magazine, the L.A. Times, the NY Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, CBS and Wired Magazine. www.FunLittleMovies.com. FLM is a subsidiary of ROK Entertainment Group, based in London. See http://www.rokent.com/.
About Mobile Monday Global:
Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential executives fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. Among its objectives are to encourage innovation, facilitate networking between early stage and established companies across global borders, share innovative trends, forecasts and best practices with the community, facilitate and create partnerships, and to educate the general public about the mobile industry.
About Mobile Excellence Awards:
The 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards profiles the latest in mobile entertainment, including media, marketing and technology. We award excellence in execution of corporate approach, consumer services, consumer experiences, content creation, and marketing devices or revenue generators for the mobile entertainment industry. www.mobileXawards.com.
About ROK:
ROK Entertainment Group Inc., (OTCBB: ROKE) founded in 2004, is a global mobile entertainment company.
With approximately 200 staff worldwide, ROK has filed more than 40 international patents for its suite of innovative mobile technologies.
With 3.3 billion mobile handsets in use worldwide – forecast to grow to 5.8 billion within 5 years - the mobile entertainment industry is a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar business.
ROK TV enables the streaming of live and on-demand TV to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G, as well as over 3G and Wi-Fi.
Forward-Looking Statement
The information contained in this new release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these statements. Forward-looking statements regarding the timing of developing, testing and releasing existing and new products, of marketing and selling them, of deriving revenues and profits from them, as well as the effects of those revenues and profits on the Group's margins and financial position, are uncertain because many of the factors affecting the timing of those items are beyond the Group's control.
