- LOS ANGELES Business Wire)
-- Twentieth Century Fox makes history by transmitting the first motion
picture in to deep space, making THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL the world's
first galactic motion picture release. The first deliberate deep space
transmission of this highly anticipated science fiction thriller will begin
this Friday, December 12, 2008, to coincide with the film's opening day
on Planet Earth. If any civilizations are currently orbiting Alpha Centauri,
they will be able to receive and view the film approximately four years
from now in the year 2012.
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- In a time when global movie launches are now commonplace,
Fox is raising the bar by spearheading, with Deep Space Communications
Network located at Cape Canaveral, the ultimate in "wide release"
platforms. As millions of Earthbound movie fans get their first look at
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly,
the film will be zipping through space at 186,000 miles per second to a
heretofore untapped possible consumer base orbiting the three star system,
Alpha Centauri.
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- Industry watchers and film historians will note that
due to the distance between our solar system and the Alpha Centauri system,
it will take over eight years (accounting for a roundtrip communication)
to receive any Alpha Centauri reviews. The transmission is not a single
beam aimed at just the Alpha Centauri system, but can be received by any
advanced technologically capable civilization along the way to Alpha Centauri,
and beyond.
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- Prior to its arrival at Alpha Centauri, the transmission
of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL can be intercepted and viewed at various
points in our own solar system (Distance from Earth at the speed
of light and transmission time, as follows):
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- Moon: 0.000000038, 1.1991888 seconds Sun: 0.000016, 8.41536
minutes Mercury: 0.0000095, 4.99662 minutes Venus: 0.00000476, 2.5035696
minutes Mars: 0.0000076, 3.997296 minutes Jupiter: 0.0000666, 35.028936
minutes Saturn: 0.000135, 1.18341 hours Uranus: 0.000285, 2.49831 hours
Neptune: 0.00046, 4.03236 hours Pluto: 0.0006183, 5.4200178 hours
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- "We are thrilled about beaming this film into space.
This will be our first full length movie transmission. And what could be
more relevant to send into Deep Space than a movie about the Earth's acceptance
of visitors from outer space," commented Jim Lewis, Managing Director,
Deep Space Communications Network
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- About DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:
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- Deep Space Communications Network is a private organization
located east of Orlando. DSCN was formed specifically to communicate with
outerspace by a group of broadcast engineers and communications experts
who regularly transmit from the space center.
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- The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is
by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling
waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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- About Fox Filmed Entertainment
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- One of the world's largest producers and distributors
of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes
motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced
or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000
Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic, and Twentieth Century Fox
Animation.
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