ShowBIZData.com and Entertaindom.com Make Dot-com History At Sundance Film Festival 2000.

Business Editors/High Tech &Entertainment Writers

PARK CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2000

Festival Buzz Centers Around The Overwhelming Success Of The

First-Ever Interactive Lounge

History was made during this year's Sundance Film Festival as ShowBIZData.com and Entertaindom.com's first-ever Interactive Lounge served as the new gathering point for festival goers, media and celebrities (including cast members and representatives from Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winner GIRLFIGHT, Dramatic Audience Award Winner TWO FAMILY HOUSE, and many other hits including LOVE AND SEX, GROOVE and AMERICAN PSYCHO) to celebrate the convergence of filmmaking and technology.

Conceived by ShowBIZData.com Founder and President Oliver Eberle, the Interactive Lounge reflects the company's philosophy and unwavering commitment to level the playing field by bringing film facts and crucial data to everyone.

&uot;The Interactive Lounge was created to serve as the premier location where the independent film community could meet Hollywood at the new frontier of technology,&uot; said Eberle. &uot;We are thrilled with the overwhelming success of the Interactive Lounge and are proud to have been the pioneer of such a newsworthy event. ShowBIZData.com will continue its efforts to celebrate the convergence of film and technology.&uot;

&uot;'Work-Play-Network' was our motto here at the Interactive Lounge,&uot; said Jim Banister, Executive Vice President of Entertaindom.com. &uot;Our goal was to show the entertainment business how the Internet can be used to enhance business-to-business activities; and illustrate in full living color how talent can create and distribute pure made-for-the-web entertainment. Based on offline and online visitor response, we surpassed our expectations.&uot;

Sun Microsystems also had a strong presence in the Interactive Lounge highlighting new technology that helps filmmakers take the leap to digital. Additional sponsors of The Interactive Lounge include Internet notables such as premier online chat site Communities.com (host of daily Internet celebrity chat events), Dell Computer Corporation (providing desktops for the lounge), eBay (providing celebrity auctions for amfAR), Firstuse.com Online Registry (providing digital fingerprinting, timestamping and on line registration original pitch ideas for the World Wide Pitch Festival), LOADtv (online video broadcast network) and Hitachi (supplier of plasma display screens and premium quality UltraVision branded televisions). All were thrilled with the response generated from the event.

Also looking for ways to further their involvement in the new technology revolution were the following Interactive Lounge sponsors: Gathering Of Developers (aka God Games, the cutting-edge creator of numerous film-based video games and one of Entertainment Weekly's &uot;Top 10 E-Companies of the New Millenium&uot;), RedEnvelope (the exclusive online gift retailer), Tribe and The Asylum's innovative First Rites program (which exclusively distributes films by first-time American directors in roughly half of Hollywood Video's 1600 stores nationwide), AXE Digital Television (broadband television distributor)and Burly Bear (the nation's largest college cable network and Internet destination). Jamba Juice and Bad Ass Coffee also reaped the benefits of a full house every day.

&uot;The reaction we received at the Interactive Lounge exceeded our wildest expectations. I think everyone in Park City passed through the doors at one time or another,&uot; said Sherri Strain, part of the First Rites team, &uot;We have received more tapes from first time filmmakers than anticipated and we are going through them, impressed by the level of talent.&uot;

&uot;A dynamic addition, the Interactive Lounge changed the texture of the Sundance Film Festival of today and the future,&uot; adds film producer and Internet executive Stuart Volkow. &uot;The Lounge provided the largest most intense fusion of filmmakers and Internet entrepreneurs that I have ever seen.&uot;

The Lounge was located in the heart of Main Street and featured kiosks and large screen monitors with email, games, live webcasting, digital films and interactive technology in a coffee house environment.

The ShowBIZData website provided a special section that featured screening schedules and information on all the festivals in Park City: Sundance, Slamdance, Slamdunk, Lapdance and No Dance, among others. This served as a supplement to the site's expansive content of daily box office reports, development, market share analyses, daily entertainment headlines, and film development and production information.

The Interactive Lounge was not affiliated with any particular film festival in Park City.

About ShowBIZData.com

Funded by Southern California Zone Ventures, ShowBIZData.com has quickly become one of the most comprehensive entertainment information database on the Internet. Anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser can log onto http://www.showbizdata.com and receive instant box office information, production news, industry headlines, film market calendars, release schedules, market analysis and much more. Users include film executives, producers, production companies and personnel, actors, industry analysts, banks and anyone who wants instant and convenient access to the latest news and information relating to the entertainment industry.

About Entertaindom.com

Entertaindom has become the preeminent new media entertainment venture on the Internet, embracing short-form entertainment, along with entertainment news, information, services, fan pages, community, and e-commerce relating to branded entertainment. Entertaindom is a Time Warner Entertainment Company and is accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.entertaindom.com.