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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Hollywood.com, Inc.
Hollywood.com to be A Featured Content Provider on RealNetworks' Real.com Take5 Service For RealPlayer 8.0
Hollywood.com to Provide Entertainment Content and Streaming Video For RealPlayer's 130 Million Unique Registered Users
Movie Previews, Celebrity Interview Clips & More Will Be Provided For Real.com's 'Take5' Entertainment Service on RealPlayer & RealPlayer Plus
HOLLYWOOD, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- HOLLYWOOD.COM, INC. (Nasdaq: HOLL - news), a comprehensive, entertainment-focused Internet company, today announced that it will provide entertainment content and streaming video to RealPlayer® 8 from RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - news). The content will come from the Company's premier movie and entertainment Web site, Hollywood.com (www.Hollywood.com), and will include movie previews, celebrity interviews and more.
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Hollywood.com will be a featured provider of entertainment video clips as part of Real.com's(TM) Take5 entertainment showcase. Take5 is a streaming media ``best of the Web'' selection of daily news and entertainment, which can be accessed only through the RealPlayer.
For Real.com and Take5, Hollywood.com will offer all the original content featured in the Web site's Video Exclusives section, which online visitors can access at: hollywood.com. The content featured includes an extensive collection of movie trailers, video clips and celebrity interview segments.
``Our relationship with RealNetworks elevates Hollywood.com's content distribution to a new level,'' said Mitchell Rubenstein, Chairman and CEO of HOLLYWOOD.COM, INC. ``With more than 130 million unique registered users of RealPlayer, our branded movie and entertainment content will achieve much higher visibility as we reach the RealPlayer audience.''
``We're pleased that Hollywood.com will now be contributing to Real.com Take 5,'' said Mark Hall, Vice President of Media Publishing for RealNetworks, Inc. ``With Hollywood.com's extensive video content, RealNetworks will be able to make available to our Take5 users the exciting entertainment programming that they both expect and demand.''
About the Company
HOLLYWOOD.COM, INC. is a leading comprehensive entertainment portal on the Internet, with a broad and deep collection of entertainment content. On the strength of its established platform of recognized brands, strategic partners and unique content, the Company has launched numerous successful Web sites that capitalize on the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. HOLLYWOOD.COM, INC. includes significant Web sites and several Business-to-Business (B2B) divisions:
Web Sites
-- Hollywood.com (www.Hollywood.com) is the leading movie-related site on
the Internet, featuring over one million pages of in-depth movie
information, including movie descriptions and reviews, showtime
listings, entertainment news, and an extensive multi-media library.
-- Broadway.com (www.Broadway.com) offers the most comprehensive online
coverage of live theater in the world, including online theater
tickets, showtimes for more than 1,900 separate venues in the top 100
U.S. markets, theater news and interviews, opening night coverage and
video excerpts from selected shows.
-- MovieTickets.com (www.MovieTickets.com) offers movie tickets for sale
online and is a joint venture with partners AMC Entertainment Inc.,
National Amusements, Famous Players, Viacom and several other
exhibitors which collectively operate theaters located in all of the
top 10 markets, approximately 70% of the top 50 markets nationwide,
and approximately 50 of the 100 top grossing theaters in North
America.
Business-to-Business
-- Baseline (www.HollywoodPro.com) is possibly the world's largest and
most comprehensive database of movie information, geared to studio
executives and industry insiders, and available online by subscription
only. Baseline subscribers include major movie studios, investment
banks, news agencies, consulting firms and other professionals in the
entertainment business.
-- CinemaSource is the largest supplier in North America of movie
showtimes and related content, based on a highly-efficient data
gathering infrastructure which maintains a database of movie showtimes
for virtually every cinema in the United States and Canada, totaling
approximately 36,000 movie screens. The Company syndicates this
information to approximately 200 Internet outlets, including seven of
the 10 most visited sites on the World Wide Web. Customers include
Yahoo!, Excite@Home, Ticketmaster-CitySearch, the New York Times Web
site, LATimes.com and USAToday.com.
-- EventSource licenses to Web sites and wireless providers the first and
only nationwide online database of general events information, ranging
from live theater and concerts to local book-signings. Customers
include AOL's Digital City and the New York Times Web site.
The matters discussed herein that are forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that may result in such expectations not being realized. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks described in Hollywood.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
RealNetworks, Real.com and RealPlayer are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.
SOURCE: Hollywood.com, Inc.
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