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"The folks at Habbo Hotel are considering the release of an animated feature film based on the virtual world.  Habbo and the independent film studio Lionsgate want to gauge interest in the release, and over the next two weeks they'll invite Habbo Hotel users from all of the worldwide sites to view ten different animated shorts based on Habbo.  These range from CGI to basic 2D animation, and Habbo users will have the option to vote on whether or not Lionsgate should turn one of these \"Habbo-sodes\" into a full length film.  The feedback will also help them to decide what style of movie to release.  If a feature film goes ahead, it'll be released on DVD and online (seemingly not in theaters).\nLionsgate have used Habbo Hotel as a screening room for movies before - in July 2006, they showed the first 10 minutes of \"Ultimate Avengers 2\" in-world to get feedback from the movies' target audience and get some publicity for the release.  That was a direct-to-DVD release, it seems.  Meanwhile, Lycos Cinema is also using social software - a YouTube-type video player combined with a chatroom - to get feedback on movies from visitors.\nYouTube, The Movie\nObviously the most interesting element here is a social site becoming a movie - the question is, what next?  Will there be a Second Life movie?  How about \"YouTube, the Movie\"?  Our vote also goes to MySpace (screen goes blank every 5 mins due to a \"technical error\"), Bebo, Facebook, Friendster (a tragedy) and Orkut (in Brazilian Portuguese, with English subtitles).  Any more suggestions?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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