Someday we’ll use the Internet to watch movies just the way we now use the TV, VCR, DVD player, satellite dish and other toys. And if Stephen Dorff can help it, that day is today. Dorff, he of “SFW” fame, can be downloaded (for a $3.95 fee) tonight at 9:01 Pacific Standard Time, along with Fay Masterson, John Cleese and the rest of the cast of “The Quantum Project,” which is being hyped as the first movie made specifically for distribution on the World Wide Web.
Movies are nothing new on the Internet; there are seemingly dozens of Websites where you can download shorts, and feature films. This one, say its producers, is different because it was produced and filmed with the Internet in mind. Toolbars appear on the screen during the story, and the characters are steeped in cyber-babble.
“The Quantum Project,” which runs 30-1/2 minutes, can be downloaded from the SightSound.com Website.
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