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Film to get joint N.Y. theater-Internet premiere. via Reuters >NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - With ticket prices pushing $10 in Manhattan, filmmakers and technology experts have pooled their efforts, and on Wednesday they will screen the first feature film to premiere simultaneously in a theater and on the Internet. ''Electronic cinema has arrived,'' said Rodger Raderman, founder and CEO of iFilm Network, an on-line community of independent filmmakers and film fans (http://www.ifilm.net) where users can view over 125 short films. ''Dead Broke,'' starring Paul Sorvino, Tony Roberts and John Glover, will be available to computer users via the iFilm Web site at 2 p.m. EDT, the same time that the Tribeca Film Center will download the feed and route it through a digital projector to a screening room. The film's director and writer, Edward Vilga, said once the low-budget film was finished, he could not afford ''the time or money to spend the next year on the festival circuit, shopping it around'' to find a distributor. ''I knew the technology was in place to premiere it right now to an enormous audience of people,'' he said. His 30-minute film ''Peephole'' was screened on the iFilm Network in March. ''Nobody's ever used the Internet to deliver the world premiere of a full-length feature film while screening it in a movie theater,'' Raderman said. ''We knew it was time to show the world what this new medium can really do for the film industry. ... We've entered an era where independent filmmakers, artists with exceptional vision but little financial support, can bypass Hollywood and pump their movies directly to the consumer.'' ''Dead Broke'' is the first of four films slated for simultaneous Internet and in-theater screenings as part of a project called ECINE. The second, ''Chalk,'' will debut on June 5 at 2 p.m. EDT, while ''1999'' will run in early July. The fourth film has not been announced. Globix Corp. (GBIX - news), a leading provider of Internet service, has signed on to ensure smooth delivery and display of the ECINE films, which Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Center will download and screen in its theater. The Internet feed will be displayed via Microsoft's (MSFT - news) Windows Media Player, iFilm Network said.<