Motion Pictures
July 19, 2001
Website For Warner Bros. Pictures Upcoming Comedy “Osmosis Jones” Delivers An Unprecedented Interactive Experience For Film Fans
(July 19, 2001 – Burbank, CA) – The “Osmosis Jones” Website, currently online at www.osmosisjones.com (AOL Keyword: Osmosis Jones) offers fans a chance to explore the concept behind the Warner Bros. Pictures feature comedy, opening nationwide August 10th, at a level of interaction previously unseen on a film-related website.
Translated from real to Flash animation, the site recreates some of the elaborate vistas from the film, as seen from inside the human body, and provides both a game mode and tour mode for visitors to creatively sample the “Osmosis Jones” experience.
A unique blend of live action and cutting-edge animation, “Osmosis Jones” is an epic adventure of microscopic proportions about one white blood cell’s race against the biological clock to hunt down and destroy a lethal virus that has infiltrated the body of Frank Detorri -- or, from Osmosis’ internal perspective, The City of Frank.
Visitors to the film’s site who select game mode will sign on as cops on the same immunity police force that employs Officer Osmosis, chasing down a lethal virus through the richly animated arteries of The City of Frank, investigating suspects and tackling games of skill in a special arcade. Those who take the tour, narrated by the City of Frank’s own Mayor Phlegmming, will be guided through the City as infiltrating organisms in a way that parallels the “Osmosis Jones” story.
Both website adventures feature original dialogue, music and voices, as well as selections from the movie’s high-energy soundtrack.
Piet Kroon, one of the two animation directors on “Osmosis Jones” says, “This imaginative site takes the Osmosis Jones concept and runs riot with it. It’s everything you always wanted to know about the body and, as in the movie, a bunch of things you’d maybe rather not know about.”
“The site has humor, great graphics and Flash animation,” adds Tom Sito, another of the film’s animation directors. “The game really captures the world and spirit of the movie. It was the most fun I’ve had since disrupting my homeroom with my armpit rendition of ‘In-a-Gadda-Da-Vita.’”
Starting August 10th, online users will also be able to access the Osmosis game on the “Originals” tab at the Warner Bros. Online site, or www.warnerbros.com/osmosisjones.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Conundrum Entertainment production, “Osmosis Jones,” directed by Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly; animation directed by Piet Kroon and Tom Sito; with the voice talents of Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood and William Shatner; and live-action stars Molly Shannon, Chris Elliott and Bill Murray. The film is produced by Bradley Thomas, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Zak Penn and Dennis Edwards, and written by Marc Hyman. The director of photography is Mark Irwin, C.S.C., A.S.C., and the production designer is Sidney Bartholomew, Jr. Music is by Randy Edelman. “Osmosis Jones” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company.
This film has been rated “PG” by the Motion Picture Association of America for “bodily humor.”
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