Verizon Wireless showcases wireless tech services at Variety Screening Series

Verizon Wireless is stepping onto the red carpet, allowing certain customers to use their mobile devices as ticket entry to this year’s Variety Screening Series. Verizon Wireless customers who are invited to the series can receive their screening series tickets directly on their mobile devices for 10 different films.
Mobile ticket holders will also receive an MMS video welcome from Variety’s Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart, prior to the 10 screenings. The movie series highlights more than 40 different films.
In addition, Verizon FiOS and Vcast customers can also get in on the action. After each screening, various directors, writers, producers and actors will sit down for a live Q&A with the film’s audience. Following the 10 Verizon Wireless-sponsored screenings, these Q&A sessions will be available on Vcast, Verizon FiOS TV’s FiOS1 and video-on-demand services.
“Variety is excited to have Verizon’s technologies help expand the success and impact of the Screening Series,” said Neil Stiles, president and publisher of Variety. “Verizon provides a powerful and unique way to not only reach attendees at the screenings but consumers as well.”
The screenings and Q&A sessions will take place in November and December at the Arclight Theatre in Los Angeles and the Sunshine Theatre in New York. Verizon Wireless mobile tickets will be accepted at the films Australia, Milk, Doubt, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Defiance, The Reader, The Wrestler and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.