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Virgin Comics & Tiger Hill Launch John Woo's Seven Brothers in Yahoo!'s Time Capsule.


Electronic Anthropology Archive Captures Spirit of Life in 2006

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Virgin Comics and Tiger Hill Tiger Hill may mean
  • Tiger Hill, Suzhou at Suzhou in People's Republic of China
  • Tiger Hill, Darjeeling at Darjeeling in India
  • Tiger Hill, Kargil near the Kargil region of Indian-administered Kashmir
  • Tiger Hill (horse), Thoroughbred racehorse
 Entertainment announced today that their ground breaking new comic John Woo's Seven Brothers is available online exclusively through Yahoo!'s Internet Time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks.  Capsule, an electronic anthropology archive expected to be the world's largest time capsule and designed to celebrate and document life in 2006.

Developed by acclaimed Director John Woo For other uses, see .

John Woo Yu-Sen (Chinese: 吳宇森; Pinyin: Wú Yǔsēn 
 (Face Off, Mission Impossible 2) and Tiger Hill Entertainment in collaboration with Sir Richard Branson's newly formed comic book comic book

Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums.
 media company, Virgin Comics, the inaugural issue of Seven Brothers takes place in contemporary Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  and follows a global epic spanning seven centuries and seven continents featuring a cast of international characters, each with supernatural abilities. Seven Brothers is the initial launch in Virgin Comic's "Director's Cut director's cut
n.
The version of a film in which the editing process is overseen, executed, or approved by the director, usually including footage not included in the standard release.
" imprint, which for the first time allows the world's top filmmakers to incubate incubate /in·cu·bate/ (in´ku-bat)
1. to subject to or to undergo incubation.

2. material that has undergone incubation.


in·cu·bate
v.
1.
 stories and characters in comic book form for further development into film and animation.

While the debut issue of Seven Brothers will be released nationwide October 18th, an exclusive digital version of the comic book will be offered through the Yahoo! Internet Time Capsule, which will be featured on localized Yahoo! home pages around the world, including the most popular home page on the Internet, www.yahoo.com.

"Graphic novels are an exciting new medium for me and I am excited to work with Yahoo! to bring this comic book series to audiences around the world and to preserve it for the future," said John Woo, the series creator.

"John Woo is an international icon who stands at the forefront of creative innovation," said Sharad Devarajan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Virgin Comics. "Yahoo! is an excellent partner to help us share this milestone entertainment event with a worldwide audience."

In collaboration with John Woo, Seven Brothers is written by renowned comic book author, Garth Ennis. Ennis, whose work includes the action comic titles Punisher and Preacher, is regarded as one of the industry's bestselling and most critically acclaimed writers.

Since October 10th, Yahoo! has been inviting users to be part of one of the world's largest time capsules with their own multimedia submissions from around the globe. For 30 days, people everywhere can contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, prayers, home movies and art to this online anthropology project designed to celebrate and understand life and global culture in 2006. By visiting the time capsule microsite at timecapsule.yahoo.com, users can submit materials on topics such as love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, past, now, hope and "you." All users' contributed multimedia content will be woven it into a single piece of digital art online, and participants are given the opportunity to choose from seven global charities, which will each receive a donation from Yahoo! at the end of the project.

The time capsule will be stored and sealed on November 8 and later opened at Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. on the company's 25th anniversary in the year 2020. John Woo's Seven Brothers comic is currently available online by searching for "7 Brothers" on Yahoo! until the capsule is closed.

About Virgin Comics:

Virgin Comics LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 (www.VirginComics.com) was founded in November 2005 by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Enterprises Ltd. (www.virgin.com), alongside author Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and Gotham Entertainment Group LLC (www.GothamComics.com), South Asia's leading publisher of comic magazines. The company has offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, Santa Monica and Bangalore, India.

About Tiger Hill Entertainment:

Tiger Hill is the sister company to Lion Rock Productions, Woo and Chang's feature film and television company responsible for such films as BROKEN ARROW, FACE/OFF, THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, THE CORRUPTOR, THE BIG HIT, ANNA AND THE KING, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II, WINDTALKERS and PAYCHECK. Known for pushing new ground in action combined with intense drama when their collaboration began in Hong Kong, Chang and Woo are right at the forefront of the digital action arena and flexing their producing muscles in both animation and video games. Tiger Hill is run by Lori Tilkin whose slate includes the next-gen videogame release STRANGLEHOLD for Midway in 2007. Also set to debut next year is the company's first anime EX MACHINA, the sequel to the 2005 feature anime APPLESEED by Shirow Masamune (GHOST IN THE SHELL This article is about the manga and anime franchise. For other uses, see Ghost in the Shell (disambiguation).

Ghost in the Shell (Japanese: 攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai, i.e.
) and directed by Shinji Aramaki (ROBOTECH). Feature animation projects are also in development for family entertainment alongside the edgier anime.
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