Not Watching the Dark Knight in Los Angeles with Techcrunch? You Have a Chance of Watching It the Next Day in San Francisco.
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on July 14, 2008,
I have received an invitation for our readers to attend private screening of the Dark Knight at the Matreon in San Francisco on July 17 (this Thursday) and the after party at the DNA Lounge (which is pretty good, this is where the VIP party for Web 2.0 Expo exhibitors and sponsors took place back in April so highly recommended). The previous day (Wednesday) MySpace and Techcrunch are hosting an exclusive screening in Los Angeles but for those living in San Francisco there will be an event organized by three prominent startups - Xoopit, Powerset, and Zivity as well.
Honestly, I myself find this practice of startups organizing pre-screening of movies for promotion to be a pretty peculiar one but this may be what it takes to reach mainstream users these days so I'm actually glad they think of such ways to increase brand awareness. As the organizers put it themselves, "The movie and party are aimed at building relationships with San Francisco's web creative and engineering communities.".
The after-party is actually open to anyone who sends an email batmanevent@gmail.com so I think you should shoot one if you live in San Francisco and have no plans for Thursday night. Getting to the movie is more complicated - since the three startups organizing the event are constantly hunting for new qualified developers to join their teams, they are going to offer interested developers a chance of watching the movie and winning some additional prizes. So if you are thinking about changes in your career and possibly joining Xoopit, Powerset or Zivity (and watching the Dark Knight in advance as well), send your CV or a link to your LinkedIn profile to batmanevent@gmail.com. And even if you don't win the pass to the movie itself, I'm sure that attending the after-party will be worth it anyway - you will meet great people and see how creative startups can be not only in their web projects but in throwing parties as well.
