Paramount to produce mobile comics
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The studio’s Paramount Digital Entertainment unit has pacted with Singapore-based toon house Omnitoons to deliver Manga-styled series based on Gurinder Chadha-helmed Brit hit “Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.” That will be followed by others adapted from September release “Eagle Eye” and the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.
Comics will be available as single panel; comics, four screens per comic strips and short stories with more than 20 screens in each episode. Currently, these comics are available in MMS and J2ME formats in the U.S., Australia, Europe and India. The mobile comics will be made available by download through key carriers and major content distributors worldwide.
- from Variety