MySpace in short (film)

Indie filmmaker David Lehre, 21, co-creator (with his friends) of the 11-minute parody MySpace: The Movie, just signed with MTVU.com for further film development, the Associated Press reports. The film has gotten the kind of marketing MySpace enjoys: viral. Since Lehre first screened it at his birthday party a month ago, the AP says, is has been viewed more than 6 million times and has received a complimentary email from MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson (who's very famous among MySpacers because he's the first "friend" who shows up after everyone registers). Fans have grabbed it from Lehre's site and uploaded it to various online-media host sites, e.g., YouTube.com (where – though about 20,000 videos are uploaded daily – this is the most-watched video, the AP says). It's probably all over the file-sharing networks too. It's not pretty but, like many parodies, there's a certain accuracy to its depiction.