Jackass 2.5 - Hitting An Internet Near You

 

The Jackass boys are coming back with a new movie filled with all those painful hard to look at stunts and pranks they enjoy doing so much.  Except this time instead of going to theaters it will go straight to the internet. 

Jackass 2.5 will instead be released to the Internet and will combine unreleased footage from “Jackass Number Two” and new content. It will be a joint venture between Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures and MTV Networks.

Starting December 19 through December 31 Blockbuster Inc. will present the film, free of charge, at blockbuster.jackassworld.com.   Then on Dec. 26 it will become available on DVD.  The film will also be available for download at iTunes, Amazon.com and other sites — at a price.

“It’s the first broadband movie ever distributed by a major studio,” said Thomas Lesinski, President of Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment. 

When this idea first came up, it was clear that `Jackass’ had a lot of potential on the Internet,” Lesinski said. “First of all, the demographics are just right. And, if you go on to Youtube today, you can see there’s lots and lots of (people) doing stunts … a lot of those people are just copying what the `Jackass’ guys developed a long time ago.”