ORTSBO LIVE AND GLOBAL PRESENTS
STAN LEE AND GENE SIMMONS AT SUNDANCE STREAMING LIVE OVER THE WEB IN YOUR CHOICE OF 53 LANGUAGES
Rock Icon Gene Simmons of KISS will host a Live Q&A with Comic Book Legend Stan Lee Featuring Web
Video with Real-Time Translation for Audiences Worldwide to Log On and Ask Questions
NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES / SAN MATEO / TORONTO - January 19, 2012 - Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or the "Company") (TSXV:INT / OTCQX: ITMTF / FRA: I4T) announces that its social media, real time, experiential communications platform, Ortsbo.com is teaming up with two of pop culture's legendary names Stan Lee and Gene Simmons for "Ortsbo Live and Global at the Sundance Film Festival". The event will be live to audiences worldwide on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 from the Canyons Grand Summit Resort in Park City, Utah. For people wanting to watch or join the conversation they can do so via www.Ortsbo.com, details below.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:45 p.m. MT (2:45 p.m. EST; 7:45 p.m. GMT; 8:45 p.m. CET)
Log on to www.Ortsbo.com
As part of Ortsbo's new platform viewers can watch the Q and A live via an online broadcast video stream with multi-lingual closed captioning in the broadcast language of their choice. Fans and media alike can be a part of this worldwide event by logging on at Ortsbo.com and submitting questions to Lee and Simmons. Available in more than 50 languages, the live Q and A will be instantly translated by the Ortsbo service, to enable users from around the world to send and receive messages in their native language.
"I'm delighted to know that people around the world will be able to participate in this live discussion in their native language," said Stan Lee, Chief Creative Officer and Chairman of POW! Entertainment. "Comics have been translated into numerous other languages and it will be great to communicate with those readers directly. I haven't ever been a part of something quite like this before, it's going to be sensational!"
"Stan Lee is one of today's most iconic creators, the characters and comic books he has been involved with are known around the world and have had a huge impact on society, he will make a perfect guest for our global event," said Simmons. "Ortsbo is amazing technology, it breaks down the language barriers and allows us to chat with our families, business contacts and anyone we need to around the world without delay."
"We're excited to host this event from Sundance Film Festival, it provides even further proof of concept of the Live and Global platform," said David Lucatch, CEO of Ortsbo Inc. "We are thrilled to have this powerful combination of Gene Simmons and Stan Lee and certain that it will be a spectacular event."
Lee and Simmons will be on hand to tell stories, take questions from fans and discuss Lee's documentary, "With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story," which will premiere during the festival. The documentary uncovers Lee's journey from the early days of his Depression-era upbringing through the Marvel Age of Comics to his current company POW! Entertainment. The story is told through the words of Lee himself, accompanied by numerous interviews with comic book creators, actors, film producers, family and friends.
Simmons is fluent in five languages, including English, Hebrew, Hungarian and German, some Japanese, and he's working to add Mandarin to his repertoire. The global entertainer and entrepreneur has lent his legendary personality to help spread the word about Ortsbo's unique translator experience.
Ortsbo has over 40 Million monthly users in over 170 countries and territories. Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com) enables real-time conversational translation in over 50 languages and seamlessly integrates with today's most popular social media platforms. Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV Ortsbo successful premiered the Language Captioning System, which allows viewers to watch video broadcasts, and also view an accompanying language real time text stream, like closed captioning found on television broadcasts, but in their personally selected choice of over 50 languages.
About Stan Lee
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Stan Lee, Founder of the Company, Chairman of the Board of
Directors and Chief Creative Officer Stan Lee is the Founder
of POW! Entertainment and has served as its Chairman and
Chief Creative Officer since inception. Known to millions as
the man whose Super Heroes propelled Marvel to its preeminent
position in the comic book industry, Stan Lee's
co-creations include Spider-Man™, The Incredible Hulk™,
X-Men™, The Fantastic Four™, Iron Man™, Daredevil™, Silver
Surfer™ and Dr. Strange™. Now the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel
Media, Lee first became publisher of Marvel Comics in 1972.
He is recognized as the creative force that brought Marvel to
the forefront of the comic publishing industry. In 1977, he
introduced Spider-Man as a syndicated newspaper strip that
became the most successful of all syndicated adventure strips
and now appears in more than
500 newspapers worldwide -- making it the longest-running of
all Super Hero strips. From June 2001 until the formal
creation of POW in November 2001 Stan Lee worked to form POW
and to create intellectual property for POW and start the
development of various POW projects.
About POW! Entertainment
POW! Entertainment, Inc., a multi-media and entertainment company, was founded by noted comic book and entertainment figure Stan Lee, together with award-winning producer Gill Champion and intellectual property specialist Arthur Lieberman. POW!'s principals have extensive backgrounds in the entertainment industry encompassing the creation, production and licensing of original intellectual properties, including some of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time. POW! is capitalizing on this combined expertise to create and develop both the legacy and digital media components of the entertainment industry. This includes animation and live-action feature films, plus television, DVDs, multi-media, merchandising and related ancillary markets. POW! has established partnerships across the entertainment industry, including studios and networks, for the creation, licensing and distribution of new POW! character franchises. For further information visit www.powentertainment.com
About Gene Simmons
Rock legend, TV star, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, writer,
lecturer, and guest of financial and news programs, Gene
Simmons
is one of the world's most recognized personalities. With
millions of fans on Twitter and Facebook and fluent in five
languages, Simmons is the personification of today's globally
connected citizen. Simmons co-founded the legendary KISS over
38 years ago. The band has sold over 100 million CDs and DVDs
worldwide, and continues to sell out stadiums and arenas
around the world, breaking box-office records set by Elvis
and the Beatles, and boasting over 3,000 licensed/merchandise
items. In addition to performing, Simmons has his own record
company, and is known internationally as the star the longest
running celebrity reality show of all time, A&E's Gene
Simmons' Family Jewels. In addition to his work on television
and movies, Simmons is a Co-
Founding Partner in Cool Springs Life.com, a venture that
provides estate planning for high net worth individuals
exceeding $20
Million. His book imprint, Simmons/Phoenix books, published
his NY Times Best Seller, SEX MONEY KISS, the LA Times Best
Seller, LADIES OF THE NIGHT and the upcoming new book, GENE
SIMMONS ART OF WAR. Simmons tours internationally on the
lecture circuit. For more information visit www.genesimmons.com
With over 40 Million monthly users in over 170 countries and
territories, Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com) enables
real-time conversational translation in over 50 languages and
seamlessly integrates with today's most popular social
media platforms.
Ortsbo's flagship product for social media
(www.ortsbo.com) supports global communications
with instant translation capability, real time multi-lingual
social media chat connects to PC and Mac computers, mobile
browsers as well as all major chat platforms including MSN,
Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo! and others.
Ortsbo allows users to communicate with family, friends and
colleagues around the world, providing users with the ability
to break down language and cultural barriers through its easy
to use, language centric interface.
Ortsbo also provides plug-in email translation capabilities
for Microsoft Outlook.
Ortsbo's Live & Global platform offers a unique solution for
broadcasting events to a global audience, with video and real
time, multi-lingual chat. Ortsbo currently hold the Guinness
World Record for the most nationalities in an online
chat.
International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur
and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene
Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed on as a
business partner and to serve as Ortsbo's official
spokesperson.
Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash to become an official
spokesperson for Ortsbo. Leading Ortsbo's global sports fan
program, Nash will present and participate in a number of
online fan chats with international athletes from a number of
sports disciplines.
With headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Toronto, Canada
region, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA, Ortsbo
Inc. is a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc. a publicly
listed company on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the
symbol "INT" (TSXV:INT) and traded in the US on the OTCQX
under the symbol "ITMTF". ". Intertainment is also traded in
Europe, on the Frankfurt Exchange on the XETRA trading
platform under the symbol "I4T".
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David Lucatch, CEO
Tel: 800-395-9943 / 905-763-3510
Email: info@intertainmentmedia.com
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