1. 2D animation
2. 2D animation.
3. 2D toon shading
4. 3D animation
5. Aaron Sowd
6. after school
7. animation
8. band
9. Black Comedy
10. cartoon
11. cgi
12. comedy
13. comic book
14. comic books
15. Curly Howard
16. cyber racers
17. Cyberacer
18. Cyberacers
19. Death
20. Detectives
21. extreme sports
22. Fire
23. Fresh in the butt
24. Girl Band
25. girlband
26. girls
27. graphic novel
28. graphic novels
29. Guy Henry
30. Harry Shaw
31. Humor
32. Jet ski
33. Knuckleheads
34. Larry Fine
35. Lucky Shop
36. Masterminds
37. matrix
38. Moe Howard
39. motorcycles
40. Mystery
41. Nascar
42. natural disasters
43. parachuting
44. Police
45. Presidential Debates
46. racing
47. Science Fiction
48. shark attack
49. sky diving
50. South Pacific
51. South Park
52. speed
53. speed racer
54. Spiderman
55. Stephen DeBonrepos
56. super hero
57. surfing
58. The Hulk
59. The Three Stooges
60. toon shading

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Famous Frames Mobile Interactive & M Channel Launch Famous Mobile.com

July 12, 2009

Famous Mobile brings together our state-of-the-art mobile nGen platform, F2D digital studio and deep roster of creative talent to offer a uniquely powerful set of mobile solutions and services. For agencies and brands, entertainment and new media, social communities and distributive web connections, Famous Mobile is where the action is …. engage your target audience with one-to-one marketing and multi-channel distribution.

Go mobile and take your message live 24/7/365!

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Palm Springs International Shortfest

FFMI Produces trailer for The 2008 Palm Springs International Shortfest

August 27, 2008

Famous Frames Mobile Interactive (www.FFMI.com), a first-wave "new media" company that produces, acquires and distributes original graphic content of all kinds, produced the animated trailer for The 2008 Palm Springs International Shortfest that will take place August 21-27, 2008, it was announced by Darryl Macdonald, Executive Director of The Palm Springs International Shortfest, and Mark C. Miller, CEO of FFMI.

The animated trailer presents a humorous succession of frantic physical transformations besetting a beleaguered pooch. With a concept and script that was developed by Shortfest contributing writer Michael M. Meade before being animated by Famous Frames Digital (F2D) and the artist Burpo, the trailer will appear at the beginning of all festival programs as well as in television advertising and for a variety of marketing applications.Read the article at: http://www.famousm.com/wp/index.php/2008/08/27/ffmi-produces-trailer-for-the-2008-palm-springs-international-shortfest/

FFMI logs mobisodes on devices

Content includes animated 'Three Stooges'

May 21, 2008

Famous Frames Mobile Interactive has launched its first model digital studio, featuring five new "mobisodes" available for download on various digital devices.

FFMI is a new media company, and an extension of Famous Frames, Inc.; an entertainment industry storyboarding agency. The media company specializes in in-house animation and also acquires several types of graphic content for production or distribution, including games, screensavers, mobile movies, animated messages, and graphic novels. One of the new featured mobisodes is an animated version of "The Three Stooges."

The content not only can be viewed online at www.ffmi.com but also on cellular phones, broadband TV, and other handheld devices. Because content is so easily distributed to such different platforms, FFMI is attempting to increase audience numbers, as well as how quickly content can reach those audiences.

"As the Old Media Model becomes history, FFMI will lead the charge," said Mark C. Miller, FMMI CEO. "We're talking one-to-one targeted distribution."

Read the article at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986291.html

Famous Frames Mobile Resurrects Stooges

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Moe, Larry and Curly are back and this time they're computer-generated in a new mobile series launching as one of several new animated offerings at www.FFMI.com. An initiative of new media company Famous Frames Mobile Interactive, the site beta launches today with previews of five diverse new toon mobisodes. Many in the industry know Famous Frames as a storyboard artist agency that has been in operation for the past 20 years.

Through an exclusive deal with C3 Ent., The Three Stooges returns after 50 years. The kings of slapstick run for president of the United States in 'The Grate Debate,' the first CG-animated episode, which is set to debut soon. Also to be featured on the site is CybeRacers, a CG futuristic action thriller co-produced by renowned Asian animation house Morph Studios, that will be offered in three minute mobisodes/webisodes and later as a full-length feature film.

FFMI has also acquired Aaron Sowd's Masterminds, an animated comic-book riff that features the voice of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee; Duff Clawson's The Lucky Shop of Xao Fung, a CG film noir series; and Guy Henry and Girlband, irreverent cartoon comedies from artist Burpo, also known as Stephen DeBonrepos.

"FFMI allows creative talent to distribute their works without the big budget 'it's who you know' barriers of old Hollywood," says FFMI CEO Mark C. Miller. 'The nGen platform powers up this process by allowing greater artistic control and profit participation. What 'new media' comes down to is an immediate interaction between you and your audience.'

Miller, FFMI president Steven Schmidt and their international team greenlit development of FFMI, its creative production slate and multi-channel digital delivery platform (nGen TV/nGen Mobile) in 2005. Last summer, FFMI won iHollywood Forum's Best of Show Award after being voted the most worthy partner and funding prospect by the audience at the 12th Mobile Entertainment Summit. FFMI's nGen platform also distributes animated messages and greetings, graphic novels, games, screensavers, wallpapers, ringtones and products across a wide range of formats.

Read the article at: http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/8364

Mobile phones emerging as new video distrib channel

'Mobisodes' becoming increasingly important

By Martin A. Grove

May 21, 2008

Mobile mobisodes: We've come to think of movies as the Big Screen and television as the Small Screen, but there's now an even smaller screen that's emerging as a new way in which to distribute entertainment content.

That screen, the so-called Third Screen, is the one on our mobile phones. It's a unique medium in that it's always with us no matter where we are. Our mobile phones, keys and wallets are the three things that virtually everyone takes with them when they leave the house. With the advent of new technology and larger phone screens, distributing entertainment content via mobile phones is now on its way to becoming an important new business for Hollywood.

A case in point is the Beta or soft launch May 21 of Famous Frames Mobile Interactive's model digital studio. FFMI, a first-wave new media company that produces, acquires and distributes original graphic content, has its first mobisodes of five new animated series available for free viewing online at www.FFMI.com. There are, for instance, new animated features starring The Three Stooges -- the first appearance by the legendary Moe, Larry and Curly in 50 years -- under the banner "The 3D Stooges." Among the site's other content is "CyberRacers," a CGI action thriller series of three minute mobisodes produced with the Asian animation house Morph Studios.

FFMI is a sister company to Famous Frames, Inc., the country's leading talent agency specializing in storyboards and comp illustrators for advertising, motion pictures and theme park entertainment, which is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary.

For some insights into how Hollywood and the mobile phone marketplace are working together, I was happy to have the opportunity to focus recently with Mark C. Miller, CEO of FFMI and President of Famous Frames, Inc , and FFMI president Steve Schmidt. In 1988 Mark and Janine Miller launched Famous Frames. In 2004 Famous Frames Digital (F2D) was created to produce animatics, animation, 3D and digital art and to extend Famous Frames into the next generation digital era.

"With Steve we created (in 2005) a whole new company, Famous Frames Mobile Interactive, as a digital new media studio," Miller explained. "What we are able to do is create our own graphic content of all kinds -- mobile movies, animated messages, games, graphic novels -- and through our own digital distribution platform we also have the ability to distribute it to broadband and mobile wireless devices.

"We originally just started as a mobile storefront selling wallpapers and ring tones, the very basics of this new industry. We were going through an aggregate phone provider out of Colorado. Before we could even launch, they were sold to a Canadian company and almost immediately they were sold to a Japanese company. While they were getting their business plans in order that's when we explored the possibility of building our own platform, which Steve oversaw, and that is our 'nGen™.' My definition of a studio is an entity that can produce its own work and has the ability to distribute it. That's what makes us a new media studio."

"In addition to FFMI branded content and content that we originally produce," Schmidt added, "the nGen platform, standing for Next Generation content distribution system, is intended as a distribution mechanism for partners. So we have content partners and content providers who are using and will be using our nGen distribution system to distribute original content in association with us. Our model is a new media digital studio for next generation Hollywood."

Asked why the mobile phone business is a good one to be involved with these days, Miller replied, "I think mobile's time has come. When we first started this the question was, 'Will people want to watch graphic content on the phone?' And often we were told, 'No, that is not the case.' But the iPhone totally changed our industry because now we can deliver our content and you see it in DVD quality. It has become an accepted form of entertainment where you can watch anything you want any time anywhere. People have become more selective. They are the ones in charge now. You don't have to watch what the few networks are offering when they are offering it. So the consumer is king in new media. We still have a long way to go, but we have more and more products being delivered on the mobile side and within the year it is going to become accepted. Advertising budgets are heading that way. There's far more graphic content being offered.

"Presently, most product offered for new media is rehashed from other forms of media. You see them on TV. You see them on cable. At the very end, they throw them on this trash heap of new media. What we're doing is turning that distribution platform upside down. We are creating original high quality content for new media and then we're exploring the more traditional channels of Hollywood."

"I think we are at a tipping point," Schmidt told me, "in that the download speeds that make data delivery possible -- which is to say (make) quality mobile video possible -- are just now coming to the point where the quality and speed of mobile video is sufficient for a breakout in the market. I always compare it to the breakout in the market on the PC side when we saw dial-up go broadband and then there was the boom of online video because the quality was there. The consumer no longer had to wait (a long time) for the download.

"Next February the country goes digital completely in terms of (television) transmission and that will be an accelerator as well as the wireless carriers each scrambling to out-compete each other in next gen 3G and 4G delivery speeds. The system that I think we all need to watch is the Sprint system with their new (Samsung touchscreen) Instinct phone, in particular, which is meant to be a phone 'killer,' as they call it, very much like the iPhone. But unlike the iPhone on the AT&T platform with its slow delivery speed, Sprint will be (providing a) much higher delivery speed. Sprint has just entered into a deal to deliver through WiMax the next generation competition to the carriers through their footprint that will be high speed in North America and then going beyond that."

There also is, Schmidt noted, "a breakout on the size of the mobile from the traditional brick phone (where) the 4 to 3 aspect ratio is giving way to a wide screen. You see that with the iPhone. Everybody when they first tilted it sideways was going, 'Whoo! Now we get it!' It's no longer a small screen. It has the wide screen aspect ratio. I think that is the other element that is making the tipping point obvious."

How is FFMI determining what kind of content people want to see on their mobile phones? "Over the years our artists have rendered the cinematic visions of every top industry director or art director," Miller replied. "This gives them the opportunity to really step out on their own, do their own projects and get what recognition they deserve. We built our company on a high level of artistic quality. We are not YouTube for the masses. We are very selective. We built our reputation on this high quality and that's what we're still adhering to.

"Along the way we have gone outside of the Famous Frames group and we've landed some very major projects. We have the exclusive digital rights to The Three Stooges, which we have repackaged as 'The 3D Stooges.' That's animated. The first one is called 'The Grate Debate.' We're bringing up these old Hollywood icons in new modern day settings and trying to introduce them to a whole new generation. We also are working with Morph Studios, one of the top special effects and animation houses in South Korea. We are co-producing together 'CyberRacers,' which is a feature length CGI film, which we'll be offering in three minute mobisodes or package downloads. We've also gotten some products coming from some very high quality content providers. We're going to let the public really decide (about content). That's what new media is about. The public will rate what they want to see and ultimately they are the judges. We are just the first round."

As for when and where people will want to view content on their phones, Miller observed, "I think it's going to become second-nature for people. I think people are going to start viewing on their phones on their bus and train trips, on holidays, in-between their classes -- whenever they have downtime. You now have access to the entertainment that you are going to want just as the Internet has become almost essential to people's lives where a couple of years ago it still was kind of unimagined that such a thing could happen. So I think the time has come for mobile entertainment. I believe it's actually going to be preferred (to have content always available) as opposed to being anchored at a certain time or place with a certain program which you have not chosen. It gives people a lot of freedom and I think that's what it's all about now."

When I mentioned that I rarely watch anything that's available on my own mobile phone's video channels, Miller emphasized, "The channels that are offered you can get other places. What's being offered now for new media is rehashed product from other media. You can watch it on cable (or) on TV and now they've got the mobisodes or repeats, which you can download from iTunes. But there's nothing original yet being made for new media unless it's amateur YouTube quality, which is not what we are about.

"'CyberRacers' is as high quality as anything that has been made for this new media. It's worthy of launching a new medium. That's how people are going to start treating new media. It is going to be an outlet for new content providers who can now overcome these barriers set up by the old Hollywood studios and actually produce their product, send it to the public and let the public decide. Watch 'CyberRacers' and you'll see what I'm talking about. We also have 'Masterminds' in development, which features (legendary Marvel Comics creator) Stan Lee, so that will be an exciting piece that we're looking forward to."

"I'd also point to handheld devices," Schmidt said, "because it's more than mobile phones. You pretty much have to look at the wireless category as handheld digital devices, which is very often used to describe phones that also are players. They're also digital systems that are used for downloading files and the change in memory and the change in the quality of the product makes for a very enjoyable (viewing) experience.

"You're going to have very happy consumers and you won't be looking at (what) people were saying three years ago -- 'You want to do what with mobile phones?' It's driven pretty much by (people) who are now using their mobile phones to upload videos to social sites like YouTube and MySpace. There are now for the first time awards contests like student film contests for video produced for mobile phones and handheld devices with built-in cameras. So the whole notion on the publishing side of people having their mobile phone with them and recording video and uploading it immediately and sending it to news organizations is becoming a very key element of that interest in mobile phones or handheld devices (because they are) ubiquitous and recording everywhere."

With FFMI's soft launch now underway, Miller told me, "We are presently in strong negotiations with certain phone carriers regarding our (official) launch and I would anticipate that around July." Looking ahead, he sees FFMI focusing on animated product, but doesn't rule out also developing some live action material such as short form stand-up comedian segments.

"Our intent is to really make FFMI an artists entertainment community where the public can eventually submit their own material and be rated by their peers," Schmidt said. "I think the beauty of new media is that interaction between the public and the provider."

"We're absolutely looking at our model and partnering and joint venturing with our platform with some major players," Miller added, saying that anything further on the subject needs to wait for future announcements.

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Martin Grove hosts movie coverage on the broadband television channel www.UpdateHollywood.com
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Mobile Show

May 19-25, 2008

For the past two decades, Culver City-based talent agency Famous Frames Inc. represented storyboard artists, getting them work on thousands of television commercials, video games and films, including box office hits 'Titanic' and 'Matrix'.

Using the artists as independent contractors, the company created a firm in 2005 that produces mobile content, Famous Frames Mobile Interactive. The original content includes short movies, animated messages, screen savers and games. FFMI released its first animated 'mobisodes', including 'The Three Stooges' this week. The company partnered with Morph Studios in Seoul to create the computer generated videos.

Mark C. Miller, chief executive of FFMI, said online videos [produced for mobile and the web] don't have a history of high production values, but his product will be different.

Most producers of mobile content have skimped on costs by using young film school grads instead of experienced pros because companies have not yet figured out how to monetize mobile content.

Miller said he expects to see revenues through sponsorships, advertising and download fees. Viewing clips is free but there is a nominal fee for downloads.

He acknowledges that trying to run a company in the mobile space is like travelling through the Wild West.

'We are taking a risk,' Miller said, 'but the industry is catching up. Since the company launched, you've seen a release of a bunch of sophisticated phones geared toward playing content. This is where it's heading.'

FFMI is using a digital delivery platform, called nGen^TM, which essentially plugs FFMI's content into the nation's top cell phone carrier networks.

Read the article at: http://www.labusinessjournal.com/industry.asp?cID=j

Famous Frames Mobile Launches Digital Studio To Create Mobisodes

Tricia Duryee
mocoNews.net
Friday, May 23, 2008

Famous Frames, a company that specializes in creating storyboards and concepts for advertising, film, television and multimedia projects, said it is launching a beta digital studio to create multimedia content for mobile phones. As part of the launch, Famous Frames Mobile Interactive, which is based in Los Angeles, is now providing a few "mobisodes" on its Web site, starting with The Three Stooges skit called "The Grate Debate," which has Moe, Larry and Curly running for president.

Famous Frames started off selling mobile content, such as wallpapers and ringtones, but it told The Hollywood Reporter that the timing is perfect to start producing mobile video. "I think mobile's time has come," said Mark Miller, FFMI's CEO and Famous Frames's President. "When we first started this the question was, 'Will people want to watch graphic content on the phone?' And often we were told, 'No, that is not the case.' But the iPhone totally changed our industry because now we can deliver our content and you see it in DVD quality. It has become an accepted form of entertainment where you can watch anything you want, any time, anywhere."

Famous Frame's has coined its new platform, "nGen," for next generation, which means it will be creating content for a wide range of formats to digital devices, including PCs, broadband TV, phones, and other handheld devices. It's joining a growing boutique industry of companies that are producing content that never gets big network or studio attention. The niche will be initially competitive as all those content producers clamour for audiences, and compete fiercely for a small amount of ad dollars.

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Read the article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052202217.html

FAQ

1. What is FFMI?

Famous Frames Mobile Interactive is a 'first wave' digital new media studio established to produce and acquire original graphic content of all kinds, and using a multi-channel digital delivery platform (nGen TV(TM) / nGen Mobile(TM)), distribute product across a wide variety of mobile and wireless devices. FFMI is a forerunner of next generation production/distribution as New Hollywood reshapes yesterday's entertainment and marketing world.

2. When did you first have the idea to form FFMI?

In 2004 Steve Schmidt, founder of M Channel, approached Mark C. Miller, co-founder and President of Famous Frames, with the idea of establishing a mobile storefront offering graphic designs created by the deep talent roster of Famous Frames, the country's largest storyboard artist talent agency. At first Mark questioned the upside potential of this new media. Then one evening in November, while walking along the Marina Village in Marina Del Rey, Mark couldn't help but notice every kid looking at his or her cell phone. They weren't talking on them. They were playing games, text messaging, watching whatever limited content was available at the time. It was an epiphany. The cell phone was becoming an intricate part of their life. It was a rite of passage. Mark read how kids were reluctant to pay 99¢ to download a song from the internet, but didn't think twice about paying twice as much for a twenty second ringtone. Mark took another look at his cell phone, its model and capabilities for the first time and called Steve and told him he was on... it was time to go mobile and take Famous Frames to the next level.

3. Why did you decide to launch this company?

It seemed like a natural progression for Famous Frames. Over a twenty year history, the company's services have expanded from storyboards for advertising, to providing art services for motion pictures, commercial production, video gaming and theme park design. Famous Frames evolved from marker comps to digital art, 3D and pre-visualization. F2D (Famous Frames Digital) was formed to produce animatics and animation in-house. For years, Famous Frames artists have rendered the cinematic visions of the industry's top directors. FFMI allows them the opportunity to step out from the shadows and get the recognition they deserve.

FFMI was officially formed in February 2005 as a mobile storefront offering screensavers, wallpapers, graphic novels and comics. Some utilized flash animation. Prior to launch, FFMI's aggregate mobile content provider, Cellus USA, was sold to a Canadian company, Airborne. Then a few months later, Airborne was sold to a Japanese company. As Airborne reworked its business plan, FFMI explored building its own digital delivery platform, which would eventually became the nGenTV/nGenMobile(TM) system.

4. Who has access to FFMI products?

Anyone who uses the internet or a mobile device with graphic capabilities. The worldwide web is appropriately named, wherever you are the web is there whether delivered via satellite, wired or wireless. The number of cell phones and handheld devices with these functions are rapidly increasing. Worldwide the numbers are in the billions. There are around three billion mobile phone subscribers. The figure will rise to 4 billion by 2010. By next year 1 billion cell phones will be sold a year. Around a billion can receive rich mobile content and most can handle data messaging and graphics. It's a new world out there whether you're, as economists say, in the advanced 'first world' or developing 'third world.' For that matter much of the world is out ahead of the US in wireless development and networking. Here in the center of 'the industry,' we have a ways to go to catch up.

5. What is your target demographic?

While the Famous group offers products that appeal across the art and entertainment spectrum, given the nature of new media technology, FFMI expects to be most popular with fifteen to thirty five year old consumers.

6. What products do you offer?

Famous branded content ranges from short-form animation to long-form SciFi. FFMI is heavy in comedy, peer to peer messaging, action and fantasy. The company is working with a wide range of creatives, production companies, agencies and clients. FFMI's next generation distribution multi-channel capabilities are designed to get your content message to your audience whenever, wherever and however you want it.

With YouGetFamous and Famous Space FFMI is offering a new vision of an art/entertainment community, kind of like Saatchi's STUART site for fine artists but for digital artists who are looking to be discovered. "Get Famous" is an online reality show, an "American Idol" with contestants submitting their best work and their peers voting and communicating online and wirelessly who should rise to the top and be signed to the majors.

FFMI specializes in animation of all styles in-house and offer a wide variety of graphic content including: mobile movies (some as time released serial content), animated messages and greetings, graphic novels, games, screensavers & wallpapers, ringtones.

The FAMOUS STORE(TM) (under construction) is an online mall and virtual shopping experience, escalator and all. You can wander around and consider a wide variety of Famous products, including art, posters, graphic novels and comic books, CDs, DVDs, and action figures, games, memorabilia, even Famous tee-shirts and coffee cups!

7. What cell phones and handheld devices can display the product?

It's a long list. The number of mobile phone manufacturers and models can make your head spin. We're talking worldwide and our mobile delivery platform is designed to target most all the popular ones. Beyond phones, handheld devices are reshaping gaming and video. Media from simple SMS messaging to MMS multimedia, to interactive and full-blown digital mobile TV, the wireless mix is rich and deep. Uptake of new phones is a significant part of our value equation as daily the web/wireless universe shifts. In the North American market there are approximately 350 phone models with graphic capabilities today and one of the points of differentiation that highlights the nGen mobile platform is the ability to deliver to all enabled phone models.

8. Can I watch the product on my computer?

Absolutely. For content delivered to the PC, users will be able to watch the content full-screen in FFMI's OVX(TM) (Optimized Viewing Experience) player. OVX is a full-screen player that is designed to simulate the theater-like experience.

9. If I buy (what you call) a mobisode for my cell phone, can I also view it on my computer?

Content can be viewed for free via the internet on FFMI's Famous TV network. Download fees apply to content viewed over a cell phone or sent as an animated message to another computer. All FFMI Content can be viewed for free on FFMI's website. However, if you would like to download it to your computer (as a .mov, .avi, or any other format that is suitable for you) or take it around on your iPhone, iPod, Zune or any other media device, you are able to purchase a "DRM-free" version. We also provide discounts for content purchased as a series. For example, "CybeRacers" can be purchased and viewed as a package rather than buying each episode one at a time.

For our animated messages, if you would like to send to a friend or friends with email, you can purchase them for a low price and send it to as many friends as you want.

10. Is iPhone the best cell phone to display FFMI product at the present time?

The iPhone offers a sneak peek at where the mobile screen is going - think a wide-screen ratio not a 'square' image as with first generation phones. Think high definition and quality audio. Of course, the iPhone is limited right now by their partner AT&T's network speed, but soon there will be high speed wireless delivery with all the tier 1 US carriers going with 3- and 4-G networks. EDGE replaced by EV-DO for example and frames per second getting better and better, delivering higher quality streaming. It's like how dial up went broadband and Internet video exploded as a result. The iPhone uses Apple-specific files, but beyond Apple are multiple file formats. Everyday there are new phones with features for nGen that rival iPhone. The CTIA show just introduced a number of these - one of the most impressive is Samsung's Instinct which picks up on Korea's leading edge when it comes to best-in-world mobile networking speeds and phone capabilities. iPhone changed the mobile landscape overnight and now there's going to be wave of new phones with extended video and multimedia capabilities.

11. How will the new "G Phone" interact with your product?

The "G Phone" now referred to as Android is designed as an open platform, allowing the user to import programs and software through a growing choice of phone carriers. This allows FFMI content to be imported through an option of popular phone plans and to play with the high quality visual experience currently seen on the iPhone.

12. Are there any difficulties that consumers may encounter when trying to purchase FFMI product?

Like most new technologies, there will be glitches and obstacles that will need to be overcome and refined. The new media industry has been making great strides in recent months, but it's generally understood that the U.S. is about two years behind the Asian and European markets when it comes to mobile entertainment and the handheld devices needed to support it. Presently, the U.S. only makes up fourteen percent of the mobile entertainment market. FFMI will continue to perfect its product to offer users the most enjoyable viewing experience possible.

13. In addition to producing original digital content, you also have the capability to distribute it?

That's correct. This is what makes FFMI more than just another content provider or a delivery platform. The company's definition of "studio" means the ability to produce your own content and the means to deliver it. Unlike other content providers, FFMI is not dependent on aggregate phone providers, wholesale service providers or individual carrier decks. The nGen(TM) delivery system provides greater monitoring control over graphics assets and multiple channels of distribution at a greater revenue share.

The digital delivery platform enables content producers and content aggregators to distribute their content easily and affordably. The nGen platform provides a turnkey digital solution for the asset libraries of content producers. The platform has the ability to manage and distribute content to PCs and mobile devices seamlessly.

Branded 'online theaters,' portals and storefronts are hosted online and accessible through users' web browsers. For content delivered to the PC, the user will be able to watch the content full-screen in the 'OVX'(TM) (Optimized Viewing Experience) player.

14. What is "nGen"?

The nGen, next generation, high speed engine, is a digital platform designed and built to deliver digital content including video, audio, animation, images, text and web-links. It can support nearly every popular file format and reach and play on most all web browsers. nGen incorporates industry leading standards, mobile/wireless capabilities and cross-carrier connectivity. FFMI's mobile/wireless extension of the nGen platform (nGen Mobile) offers capabilities that few content delivery networks are able to provide clients and audiences.

15. Describe how FFMI is a 'first wave' digital studio?

The leaders of FFMI are pioneers with a "digital new media studio" leading the charge into a new space no one has explored before. Our definition of studio is an entity that can both produce and distribute its own original content. Our depth of Famous Frames artists and animation talent is unique and our own digital delivery platform is out-in-front of multi-channel distribution. While most content currently available to new media outlets consists of recycled material offered previously through traditional media outlets (i.e. network and cable TV, theatrical releases, DVDs, etc.) or amateur 'YouTube quality' shorts, Famous Frames Mobile Interactive and our partners will offer original, exclusive content produced-for-new-media.

16. What are some of your first productions?

Among our slate of original entertainment shows is "CybeRacers," a FFMI full length CGI feature co-produced with Morph Studios of South Korea in association with Peconic Pictures. This animated sci-fi thriller is set in the distant future, where the fate of mankind rests in the death-defying skills of CybeRacers as the forces of good and evil collide in mid-air and at the finish line. Part One is thirty minutes and will be offered in three minute mobisodes or complete package downloads. "CybeRacers" is cutting edge animation worthy of launching a new media.

FFMI also has the exclusive digital rights to The Three Stooges. These legendary Hollywood icons with worldwide brand recognition are being reinvented as The 3D Stooges. These animated characters are pushing the edge of slapstick entertainment. The first episode, "The Grate Debate" has the Stooges running for President. In "Masterminds" five freakish felons have only one thing standing between them and global domination - each other! FFMI co-produces this animated series featuring the voiceover talent of Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman, the Hulk and Fantastic Four.

Acquired productions from Famous Frames artists include "Guy Henry" and "GirlBand" from 'Burpo,' as well as "The Lucky Shop of Xao Fung" from Duff Clawsen Studio. Also in production are 60-second shorts featuring "Rudy the Rude Rooster" from Lee Wilson, a visionary force behind Halo 1, 2 & 3 and Twisted Metal 1&2.

FFMI will also be launching with over fifty animated messages and greetings for significant as well as obscure occasions.

17. Will you ever produce feature films or television programming?

Many of our productions would carry over very well to long form and can find resonance with over-the-air, cable and satellite television. What we're doing is first producing for new media distribution then as part of our release strategy addressing 'old media.' In effect, we are turning the old Hollywood distribution formula around - we're premiering content for new media distribution and at a later date employing the more traditional channels.

18. Will FFMI make it easier for ordinary people to become filmmakers?

Absolutely. You have to envision what's happening now in schools and with tomorrow's artists. It's not about 'film' or expensive software editing. That's changed and with the tools of digital production now ubiquitous, almost everyone under 30 is coming of age familiar with digital. That's one of the wonders of new media. In addition to empowering the consumer to watch what they want...when they want to...where they want, "new media" empowers everyone to get creative and interact and communicate live and one-to-one. Cellphones have cameras and messaging capabilities. More and more we're seeing YouTube-esque uploading to platforms. Undiscovered and established sources of creative talent will distribute their works without the big "it's-who-you-know" barriers of the old Hollywood studio system. FFMI's nGen distribution platform allows for greater artistic control and profit participation. In the end, new media is an immediate interaction between the artist and the audience.

19. Mobile messages/greetings are super cool. Why hasn't anyone offered these before?

In the US the phone carriers are moving from SMS to MMS, in other words the billions of text messages have prompted new technology and advances. We're there on the front side of this development with our animated messages and greetings. As more cell phones and mobile devices offer graphic capabilities, more options will become available to the consumer. There are other companies emerging that offer similar product. One such company is MoGreet. They'll be launching soon and through our licensing agreement will offer FFMI messages as well.

20. Do you accept submissions or ideas for original content?

We will. Our Second Phase construction consists of FAMOUS SPACE and YOU GET FAMOUS. This allows the public to submit their graphic content of all types, and allows for interaction, critique and comments from the peer-to-peer public. Content that scores high, will be offered as part of FFMI's Famous TV/Famous Mobile network.

21. Where are your offices located?

FFMI is headquartered in Culver City, California, with branch offices in Tampa, Florida and New York City.

22. Is FFMI available on handheld devices in other countries?

It will be. FFMI content will be offered through license agreements with a number of foreign phone carriers (as well as iTunes). FFMI's production partners, Morph Studios in South Korea, have deals in place with the major Asian carriers. Through our gateway provider we expect to be able to eventually offer FFMI content through our nGen platform.

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