Superman Released as Web3 Movie Experience

Iconic DC Super Hero Film, Superman, is being released as a multimedia living movie experience from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Eluvio.

The experience Includes 4K UHD Feature Film and Special Features, Interactive Themed Navigation, Explorable Image Galleries, Discoverable Digital Easter Eggs, and more.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in partnership with content blockchain pioneer Eluvio, announced the next instalment of the WB Movieverse with the iconic DC Super Hero film SupermanWeb3 Movie Experience.

The film is available for preview at https://web3.wb.com and opens for purchase on June 9, 2023.  

The release of the Superman Web3 Movie Experience follows the 2022 first-of-its-kind Web3 entertainment offering ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)’ Web3 Movie Experience.

The Superman Web3 Movie Experience is a multimedia non-fungible token (NFT) for fans to own and to engage with the 1978 Richard Donner film in a new and exciting way.

Through dynamic menu options based on iconic locations from the film, owners can watch the movie in 4K UHD on a desktop, mobile, tablet or TV device.

Viewers can access special features, view image galleries and artist renderings by notable DC artists, discover digital easter eggs, and sell the experience in a community marketplace.  

The Superman Web3 Movie Experience will be offered in standard and premium editions.

Standard Edition

$30 for one week from 8:00 AM ET on June 9 to 7:59 AM ET on June 16

Includes an interactive location-based navigation menu, Superman: The Movie Theatrical Version, previously released special features and an image gallery featuring stills and behind-the-scenes galleries.

Premium Edition 

$100 for 24 hours from 8:00 AM ET on June 9 to 7:59 AM ET on June 10

Includes three different variations separately available for purchase: Truth, Justice, and Hope. Each variation features an illustration of Christopher Reeves’ Superman from one of three DC artists – Ivan Reiss, Ben Oliver, or Bill Sienkiewicz.

Each variation includes an interactive and explorable location-based navigation menu and three versions of the feature film – Superman: The Movie Theatrical Version; Superman: The Movie Expanded Director’s Cut, and Superman: The Movie Extended TV Edition

Additionally, each is debuted with previously-released special features, image galleries featuring costume and detail images from the Warner Bros. archive, and stills and behind-the-scenes galleries.

The Superman Web3 Movie Experience will include a free voucher code for a DC3 Super Power Pack: Series Superman from the DC NFT Marketplace, offering three randomly selected Superman comics with rarities ranging from Common to Legendary.

These packs are time-gated, open-edition drops, limited to one per account. New themed packs will launch every few weeks, so stay tuned for updates.

Early access to all editions of the Superman Web3 Movie Experience will be available to DC Bat Cowl NFT holders at 8:00 AM ET on June 8, to DC3 holders at 11:00 AM ET on June 8, and to The Lord of the Rings Web3 Movie Experience holders at 2:00 PM ET on June 8.

Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Eluvio said:

“For fans of this beloved and iconic film, Superman: The Movie is being released as an exclusive Web3 film and immersive digital collectable for the first time.

As part of the WB Movieverse, consumers can easily watch, collect, and sell their film Web3 Movie Experiences on the blockchain in the Movieverse marketplace. For Warner Bros., and the broader industry, Eluvio is honored to back this novel digital sell-through experience for 4K films and premium video assets – all streamed from and backed by secure blockchain access and ownership on the Eluvio Content Fabric.”

The Superman Web3 Movie Experience will be available to the public on June 9, exclusively at https://web3.wb.com, and can be purchased by credit card or cryptocurrency.  

To participate in this novel experience, fans can create a secure, easy-to-use media wallet that acts as a digital vault and enables consumers to stream and purchase content via credit cards or crypto wallets. 

Superman Web3 Movie Experience Powered by Eluvio

Eluvio, a pioneer of Web3 innovation throughout the media and entertainment industry, powers the Superman Web3 Movie Experience.

The Eluvio Content Blockchain provides a high-performance, simple-to-use, cost-effective Web3 platform built for content. It enables Web3 native media experiences, allowing publishers and fans to directly enjoy and monetize shows, films, concerts, digital albums, digital collectables, interactive and metaverse experiences, and more. 

Content creators, and their communities, benefit from a significantly more carbon-efficient and high-performance alternative to traditional platforms for content streaming, distribution, and storage, including 4K streaming, ticketing, NFT minting, and trading of premium content. 

Notably, in this experience, the core digital assets and derivative NFTs are all on the blockchain, not just the token (NFT) itself. Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment and fans enjoy blockchain-backed access control and content rights enforcement, scalable attestation of ownership, smart contracts that enable distributed royalties, and content experiences that can evolve.

Eluvio’s Content Blockchain also provides a breakthrough in carbon-footprint efficiency in managing media, using blockchain technology, and on-chain content ownership. Through a novel compositional and just-in-time protocol, the Eluvio Content Blockchain does not make digital file copies. It significantly reduces network storage and usage requirements compared to traditional streaming and content distribution systems.

It uses an eco-friendly “proof-of-authority” consensus, which avoids the high energy consumption used in computational “proof-of-work” blockchains. 

About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) distributes award-winning movies, television, animation, and digital content produced by Warner Bros. Discovery to the homes and screens of millions through physical Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD retail sales and digital transactions on major streaming sites, video-on-demand cable, satellite, digital, and mobile channels.  

WBHE is part of Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales, one of the world’s largest distributors of entertainment programming.

About Eluvio, Inc.

Eluvio (https://eluv.io) is the content blockchain for the creator economy. The Eluvio Content Fabric is a utility blockchain network for owner-controlled storage, distribution, and monetization of large-scale digital content.

It provides live and file-based content publishing, transcoding, packaging, sequencing, dynamic and static distribution, and derivative NFTs minting for all content experiences.

Examples of companies and creators whose content blockchain initiatives have been powered by Eluvio include FOX Entertainment, Globo, MGM Studios, Microsoft, SONY Pictures, Telstra, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, WWE, The Masked Singer, Dolly Parton, Black Eyed Peas, Rita Ora, independent filmmakers, and many others. 

Eluvio is led by Emmy Award-winning technologists Michelle Munson and Serban Simu, founders and inventors of Aspera, a pioneer in digital video transport technology, and a core team of innovators.

Based in Berkeley, California, Eluvio has received numerous industry awards, including the prestigious Engineering Excellence Award by the Hollywood Professional Association and has been recognized with 11 US patents. 

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