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Now Showing on Yahoo! Movies… The Ultimate Sundance Experience

Yahoo! Movies Sponsors ShowBIZData's World Wide Pitch Festival at Sundance and the Shooting Gallery Film Series at Loews Cineplex Entertainment


SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2000 - Film buffs worldwide will have the opportunity to experience all the fanfare of this year's Sundance Film Festival through several offerings from Yahoo!® Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com). Whether fans are at the festival in Park City, Utah or watching all the action on the Web, Yahoo! Movies provides the ultimate Sundance experience. In addition, critically-acclaimed independent films will be brought to the hometowns of fans nationwide through the Shooting Gallery Film Series at Loews Cineplex Entertainment, sponsored by Yahoo! Movies.

Here - On the Web
Film fans looking for comprehensive coverage of goings-on in Park City need look no further than Yahoo! Movies' one-stop festival resource at http://movies.yahoo.com/sundance. Updated throughout the festival, Yahoo! Movies' extensive site provides a global view of festival news, film reviews, photos and features from the best news and entertainment sources on the Web.

There - At the Festival
For those lucky enough to be at the festivities in Park City, Yahoo! Movies is providing streaming services and an interactive kiosk at ShowBIZData's World Wide Pitch Festival in the Interactive Lounge at Sundance. The Interactive Lounge, a resource for festival attendees, will take over the Harry O's club on Main Street in Park City from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MT each day, featuring kiosks and large screen monitors with e-mail, games, live Webcasts, digital films and interactive technology in a coffee house environment. At night, the venue will transform into the ultimate party destination, featuring some of today's hottest bands in exclusive concerts.

Everywhere - In Your Hometown
Yahoo! Movies is also a sponsor of the Shooting Gallery Film Series at Loews Cineplex Entertainment, a ground-breaking series which will re-create the film festival experience by presenting a slate of critically acclaimed independent films at Loews Cineplex Entertainment multiplexes in 17 major markets beginning this Spring. Yahoo! Movies is hosting the official film series Web site at http://movies.yahoo.com/sgfilmseries, and promoting the site and the series throughout Yahoo! Movies.

"The Sundance film festival is always tremendously popular, not only among the film industry but also the general public, and we are pleased to bring the best of the festival directly to the desktops of film fans," said Julie Smith, senior director of entertainment, Yahoo! Inc. "We are also thrilled to be working with ShowBIZData to provide consumers an interactive resource in Park City, and with Shooting Gallery to promote its critically acclaimed films and its film series to our worldwide audience."

About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to 120 million users each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance Yahoo!'s clients' Web services, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 21 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.

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