BigStar Entertainment Announces Significant Expansion of Broadband Content.

Business/Entertainment & Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000

Bigstar.com Announces Content Deals with Wirebreak.com,

IFILM.com, reelshort.com, MovieFlix.com and InsideReel.com

BigStar Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: BGST), which operates www.bigstar.com, a leading Shop-A-Tainment(tm) filmed entertainment destination site, today announced that the company has signed partnership deals with five leading online broadband long- and short-film content providers to significantly enhance the company's state-of-the-art BigStar Broadband Theater area, located at www.bigstar.com/bbt/. Content from these partnership deals with leading film and entertainment sites Wirebreak.com, IFILM.com, reelshort.com, MovieFlix.com and InsideReel.com, will soon be integrated into the Broadband Theater section of www.bigstar.com.

BigStar's CEO, David Friedensohn said, "These important content partners will provide BigStar's audience with the best and largest streaming movie site on the Web. We are proud to bring this filmed entertainment to our 1.7 million - and growing - subscriber base."

BigStar and Wirebreak Entertainment will partner on the distribution of original and interactive animation taken from several of Wirebreak's Digital Shows. WireBreak's Backdoor Hollywood, an irreverent and witty movie/video/DVD review show and WireBreak Shortz, the company's unique and exclusive collection of short digital films, will be the programs showcased through Big Star's Broadband Theater.

"We are thrilled to be a part of Big Star's Broadband Theatre initiative in offering our unique brand of digital entertainment," Jamie Hooper, Wirebreak Vice President of Business Development and Sales. "WireBreak and Big Star are pioneering the convergence of true entertainment and commerce on the Internet."

The partnership with IFILM.com will allow IFILM to contribute short-form, digital content to bigstar.com, enabling BigStar to offer movie buffs a selection of the best short films on the web. BigStar will also build an IFILM area to showcase the most-viewed and highest-rated IFILMS, as well as the IFILM of the day.

Through the partnership with New York-based reelshort.com, BigStar will feature a selection of six original short films from reelshort.com's exclusive entertainment library of eclectic shorts from a variety of talented young filmmakers. The reelshort.com area on BigStar will feature a new cutting edge short-film each month.

BigStar is partnering with Inside Reel to produce unique celebrity interview content, which will stream through the BigStar Broadband Theater. Each week, BigStar will feature a new celebrity interview segment including preview footage from a current theatrical release. Some of the first interviews to be incorporated into bigstar.com will feature Kevin Spacey discussing "American Beauty" and Tom Hanks and Frank Darabont talking about "The Green Mile." Inside Reel is a multimedia company with an archive of over 500 video interviews that provides a fresh look at film and filmmaking.

MovieFlix maintains a library of 750 full-length, short and independent films and television shows and will make available 10 select full-length features to BigStar on a rotating basis. The films that will debut on BigStar will include director Sergei Eisenstein's acclaimed "Battleship Potemkin" and "The Man with the Golden Arm" starring Frank Sinatra.

These partnerships accelerate bigstar.com's long-term strategy of electronically delivering entertainment into the home through digital downloads. In December 1999, bigstar.com announced that it had formed an alliance with ValueVision, soon to be renamed SnapTV, to develop The BigStar Show, which will air on ValueVision and be streamed simultaneously through cable television, satellite television and the bigstar.com Web site. In addition, bigstar.com launched a multi-year strategic alliance with INTERVU Inc., now Akamai, to host BigStar's broadband content. BigStar has also created what is believed to be the largest collection of movie trailers on the Web, with well over 6,000 titles covering movies from the 1930's through to current releases.

About BigStar Entertainment

BigStar Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: BGST) operates bigstar.com (AOL keyword: BigStar), a leading Shop-A-Tainment(TM) destination site, based on internal analysis of traffic, sales and other metrics. Bigstar.com is exclusively dedicated to filmed entertainment products and sells more than 40,000 titles of videos and digital video discs (DVDs). BigStar has forged strategic alliances with companies including ValueVision (Nasdaq: VVTV), StarMedia (Nasdaq: STRM), AOL Moviefone (NYSE: AOL), Shop-at-AOL, Earthlink (Nasdaq: ELNK), Yahoo! Chat (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Flirt.com, among others.

This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of BigStar Entertainment. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in BigStar Entertainment's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.