Online Service Paltalk Partners With Best-Selling Horror Author Stephen King for First-Ever Fan & Media Press Conference Live on November 12th

Online Service Paltalk Partners With Best-Selling Horror Author Stephen King for First-Ever Fan & Media Press Conference Live on November 12th

Stephen King Discusses His Novella, THE MIST & the Film Adaptation Headed for the Big Screen

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first-time, Paltalk, the leading real-time, video-based online community, is taking online viewers worldwide into an exclusive press conference with best-selling horror and fantasy author Stephen King on Monday, November 12th at 2PM EST, through its latest interactive video platform, PaltalkScene.

Stephen King -- author of 200 stories, including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels -- has exclusively invited Paltalk to participate at the press conference in New York for the upcoming film adaptation of his 1980 novella The Mist. At the conference, viewers will have the opportunity to ask their own questions alongside those of professional seasoned journalists.

"Paltalk's participation at Stephen King's press conference for The Mist is not only a first, but a significant breakthrough for our company," said Joel Smernoff, Paltalk's President and COO. "This event demonstrates how Paltalk's interactive video technology adds a unique dynamic to press and other live events, bringing in a global audience that can participate in real time through video chat."

Paltalk's one-of-a-kind technology will allow viewers to communicate directly with King himself, as well as the show hosts and other viewers, in real-time using voice, video and text chat as the shows air, providing a first-of-its-kind interactive and participatory user experience. Paltalk's pioneering brand of socialcasting combines elements of broadcasted video content, social networking and live interactive video communities to form the next evolution of visual entertainment.

The Mist, which hits theaters on November 21st, tells the story of a strange storm that arrives at a small town in Maine. As the storm worsens, deadly creatures begin attacking the town's citizens. A group of them take shelter in a supermarket and fight for survival.

Past PaltalkScene featured guests have included platinum-selling R&B sensation JoJo; rock icon Slash of Velvet Revolver; Jimmy Jean-Louis and Jack Coleman from the hit NBC-TV series Heroes; actor Rex Lee, acclaimed for his portrayal of agent Ari Gold's assistant Lloyd on HBO's smash hit show Entourage; filmmaker John Waters; actress and comedian Amy Sedaris of Strangers With Candy fame; actor Chevy Chase; actor and comedian Richard Belzer; musician Paul Shaffer; and popular indie band BitterSweet, whose music has been featured on Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, Men In Trees, and Brothers & Sisters as well as the film The Devil Wears Prada.

For more information on PaltalkScene and Paltalk programming, please visit www.paltalk.com.

About Paltalk

Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based community pioneering the new socialcasting movement. Paltalk's platform brings together traditional broadcasting media, social networking, user-generated content and video chat to pioneer a new form of online entertainment. With more than 4 million active users, Paltalk hosts the world's largest interactive video community, offering thousands of users the ability to watch and interact with online video programming that includes serialized shows, live events and user-generated content, while interacting with each other through real-time voice, text and video chat. Paltalk's diverse programming includes original shows with celebrities, radio personalities and newsmakers such as the radio jocks Opie and Anthony and Samantha Daniels. The company also broadcasts live interactive video chat events such as musical performances and comedy variety shows. Paltalkers can interact with the featured hosts and performers as well as other members in real-time chat rooms. Paltalk also offers its users the ability to create and share their own user-generated video content with each other and to the broader community.

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