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Interactive cinema: the Russian audience will appreciate the novelty in November

Within the KinoPoisk Film Market premiere of “Night game”, which offers an absolutely new format of interaction with the audience. On screens of the Russian cinemas the film will be available November 24 – first in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and from January – in other cities-millionaires. The uniqueness of this project is that it is fully interactive – the development of the story will be invited to influence by the audience (this will only need to install on your phone a special application).

Interactive cinema: the Russian audience will appreciate the novelty in November

The plot of “Night games” is plain and simple: the main character – a student Matt works as a security guard in the Parking lot. By fate, he becomes involved in a robbery of the auction house, in which a young man and his accomplices kidnapped an ancient bowl being hunted by very powerful people. To help Matt get out alive from this mess, some of his decisions will make for him an audience.

Movie trailer “Night game”

In the cinema hall the audience will need to install a special mobile app available in the App Store and Google Play, and then, for correct operation, you will need to connect to the selected wi-fi network. The application can be run immediately, but better to do it when the movie starts. New interactive technology you can try out already in the first minutes of the picture – you will be prompted to choose one of several possible variants of actions of the protagonist.

Movie trailer “Night game”
“Night game” – the first film, which implements the technology of interaction of the viewer with the plot. It is known that the timing tape is from 80 to 100 minutes, depending on how the story develops. All in all, was installed about 250 minutes of footage. As the viewers get to choose the path in which will the main character, they are also will depend on the ending of the work: a total of seven, but only one ends with a happy ending. As shown by personal experience, all strongly depends on the mood of the audience: a seemingly frivolous answers still influence the course of events. If you are asking whether to trust his forced companion, and the audience vote for the option “no”, then the story will turn in one direction, but if they choose “Yes”, then everything will go in a different way.

Producer Nikolay Kudryashov rentals “game Night” in our country, spoke in detail about the project and its main intrigue:This format is invented by a Swiss company, and it took the first film. In 2016, was finished production, then the picture was shown at several festivals. “Night game” will be released almost simultaneously in England, Russia, Italy and Germany. What we will see in the hall, will last from 80 to 100 minutes, depending on which scenario we choose. So many different story branches inside and only one happy ending. This movie is not a game where you can fly to Brazil. In our case, there are seven completely different endings: the death of all the main characters to a happy ending. But there were elements of inviolable: the robbery still happens, and then, depending on exactly how it’s done, events will in some way grow.”
Trailer for interactive applications “Night game”
Tickets for screenings of “Night games” can be purchased at the price of tickets for regular theatrical sessions. In Russia, the rental kicks off on 24 November, but in Moscow and St. Petersburg and only in cinemas “Karo”. About a year later this project will become available as games on phones and tablets as well as interactive applications for set-top boxes Apple TV and Google Chromecast, but the exact timing of the distributor not yet called.

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