ADVISORY/Using the Star of the Movie, a Mysterious Videocassette, DreamWorks Hosts a One-Of-Kind Survival Contest Celebrating VHS and DVD Release of 'The Ring'.

Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday (March 3)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

More Than 10,000 Videocassettes, $10,000, Hundreds of Fans & 30

'Unlucky' Contestants Surrounded by World's Largest Ring of Light

Searching for Their One Chance to Win Cash & Stop Curse of 'The Ring'

 WHAT:        DreamWorks Home Entertainment will host a unique
               "survival contest" centered around the primary theme of
               the $160 million smash hit "The Ring"...if you watch a
               VHS featuring eerie footage of a ring of light, you
               must make a copy to survive!

              Marking the March 4th VHS and DVD release of the
               psychological thriller that made people think twice
               about the unmarked videos in their collections, more
               than 10,000 blank videotapes will be piled in the
               middle of a gigantic ring of light surrounded by 30 TV
               and VCR combo units.  Within this massive heap of tape,
               only ONE will feature the mysterious images that
               guarantee an almost certain death in seven days.
               Hundreds of "hopeless" fans will converge on the
               Equestrian Center in Burbank to vie for a spot as one
               of thirty contestants randomly selected to compete for
               $10,000 in cash. Once the video viewers take their
               positions, Samara the institutionalized young girl who
               was responsible for unleashing the deadly tape, will
               crawl out from her well wielding the cursed VHS and
               ignite the 160-foot blinding ring of light to signal
               the beginning of the contest.  The contestants will
               make frantic dashes from the mound of videos to their
               VCRs in hopes of finding the ominous-image-laden video.
                Once the tape is exhumed, the contestant must run to
               Samara's well, make a copy of the tape to win the cash
               and avoid an untimely demise in seven days...

              All unused tapes will be recycled or repurposed.

WHO:              --  Star of "The Ring" Daveigh Chase (Samara) will
                   randomly draw names of 30 contestants and sign
                   autographs.

                  --  Hundreds of fans of the movie

WHERE:        The Los Angeles Equestrian Center
              480 Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA

WHEN:         Monday, March 3
              6:15 pm: Contestant arrivals
              7:00 pm:  Contest start

Media coverage of this event is invited