Please Silence Your Cell Phones, but Don’t Put Them Away: Kino, Killer Cyborgs and a Roomful of Bad Decisions From a Czech experiment to Japanese rap battles, interactive movies have been around for decades. Kino thinks their moment has arrived.
You are in control. You make the decisions. You write the story. CtrlMovie’s fully patented and seamless technology combines the realism and production values of film with the interactivity of a videogame to create an exhilarating entertainment experience that is qualitatively distinct.
CtrlMovie is the only interactive technology that is playable theatrically as a collaborative experience. Using a simple voting system on your phone, you can make key decisions during a screening and change the outcome of the story.
To participate in a screening, download the CtrlMovie app.
No platform or system is too big or too small for the CtrlMovie experience. From gaming systems to streaming hardware, CtrlMovie can easily integrate into any home distribution platform. With the click of a button a CtrlMovie project can be published on mobile devices, home entertainment, and in movie theaters around the world.
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