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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