Revelations Entertainment is an
independent movie production company
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founded by
actor
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Morgan Freeman
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and business partner
Lori McCreary in 1996. Its mission statement, to "reveal truth," drives the company to produce thought-provoking entertainment with artistic integrity and "soul."
In 2006, Revelations became the first film production company in history to distribute a film (''
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online
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while the movie was still playing in theaters. This was achieved by using
ClickStar (also founded by Freeman and McCreary as a joint venture with
Intel Corporation
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) as their online distribution site.
Productions
Revelations Entertainment is behind several well-known
movie
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and
TV productions, including:
These productions have involved established actors such as
Monica Bellucci,
Kirsten Dunst,
Danny Glover
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,
Gene Hackman,
Holly Hunter,
Thomas Jane,
Paz Vega, Zina Pistor and
Billy Bob Thornton
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.
Investments
In 2009 Revelations Entertainment signed on to financially back
Digiboo, a digital Kiosk company. Digiboo's touch-screen kiosks can hold more than 1,000 movie and TV shows, which can be downloaded to USB 3.0 flash devices within a minute. Revelations Digital CEO Samuel Edge will serve as the chief technology officer at Digiboo.
Digiboo delivers movie kiosks at the mall
''Star Tribune''; Steve Alexander; October 11, 2012
The ClickStar online movie service, a joint venture between production company Revelations Entertainment and chip-maker Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing ...
, stopped operations in 2008.
See also
Official website
*http://www.imdb.com/company/co0075256/?ref_=fn_al_co_1
Clickstar Shuts Down
Digiboo website
References
Film production companies of the United States
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