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To: Eric Fader who wrote (3930)	2/18/2000 8:49:00 AM
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NSKY News . . . ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2000--NEW SKY COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (OTCBB:NSKY) announced today that its Movieplace.com Web site has acquired the rights to video interviews with over 3,000 stars and celebrities conducted over the last 17 years and that it will add them as a new feature to the Movieplace.com Web site. New Sky also announced that the Movieplace.com Web site will debut this week its "Movieplace Radio Hour," the Internet's only regular streaming-audio program devoted exclusively to film news, views, interviews and movie music. New Sky also announced today that Movieplace.com has signed deals with 16 newspapers, with a total circulation of 667,000, to run "Mike @ The Movie Place," a new weekly newspaper column on film news authored by Movieplace's own Mike Cidoni. Carl R. Reynolds, President of New Sky said today, "We are pleased to have acquired this library of interviews with stars and celebrities. It continues our efforts to expand the content of Movieplace in new and unique directions with the goal of attracting new traffic to the Web site. Also, the promotion-for-content arrangement with these 16 newspapers is another step in our continuing effort to promote the Movieplace.com Web site and establish Movieplace as a brand-name in the market. These arrangements will extend the market for content from Movieplace and provide promotion for the Web site." Movieplace.com is a Web site featuring full video streaming interviews with the stars of current films, a regular television program, "The Critics," reviewing current film releases, movie music videos, movie news, interactive audio message boards and financial commentary focusing on the entertainment, media and Internet industries. New Sky also announced that, effective March 1, 2000, Movieplace will establish an office in Los Angeles to be headed by Mike Cidoni, which will allow him to develop and produce more exclusive features for the Movieplace.com Web site. New Sky Communications, Inc. is a producer of independent motion pictures, including "FREAK TALKS ABOUT SEX" and the previously released "LADY IN WHITE" and owns forty percent of the Movieplace.com Web site. --30--sdg/ny* CONTACT: NSKY, Rochester Colleen Tiffany, (716) 423-9388