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To: phil who wrote (58)	10/26/1999 5:21:00 PM
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Good news, you think? Wonder how the stock will do.

To: phil who wrote (58)	1/11/2000 8:47:00 AM
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BigStar Number One Movie Site Entertainment Weekly RanksBigStar Number One Movie Site; Newsweekly ValidatesShop-A-Tainment-TM- Strategy January 11, 2000 08:23 AM NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000-- Movie, Film, Entertainment, Ecommerce, Internet, Technology and Finance Editors In its January 14 issue, Entertainment Weekly has ranked bigstar.com as number one in its list of the Top 10 online movie sites for film lovers. Bigstar.com ranked ahead of Moviefone.com, Hollywood.com, imdb.com and Reel.com. Bigstar.com, a leading Shop-A-Tainment(TM) destination and online movie store, is operated by BigStar Entertainment Inc. BGST . The Entertainment Weekly "Hot Websites" list ranks the Top 10 movie sites by unique visitors and total time spent at a site, based on statistics obtained from a Web ratings source for the week ending December 26, 1999. BigStar's unique visitors were listed as 600,953, almost twice as many unique visitors as the number two-ranked site moviefone.com, which had 355,585 unique visitors for the same week. CEO of BigStar Entertainment David Friedensohn said, "This ranking shows that BigStar's Shop-A-Tainment strategy works. Our content offerings on movies and movie stars incorporated into a fun shopping environment attracts users again and again." Shop-A-Tainment is the new Internet term that describes the combination of a fun online shopping experience with an entertaining, interesting and informative environment. Bigstar.com's Shop-A-Tainment strategy integrates captivating information about movies and movie stars within a fun shopping site resulting in one of the most entertaining shopping experiences for movies online. About BigStar BigStar Entertainment, is a leading Shop-A-Tainment(TM) filmed entertainment destination site, based on internal analysis of traffic, sales and other metrics. www.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 Value Vision VVTV , StarMedia STRM , AOL's MovieFone AOL , Shop-at-AOL, Earthlink ELNK , Yahoo! Chat YHOO , fortunecity.com 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 that 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. CONTACT: RLM PR, New York Linda Stephen, 212/741-5106 x17 linda@yeahwhatever.com