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To: The SPHINX who wrote (32327)	12/22/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: JoAnn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

bige.com, A Division of Big Entertainment, Offers Entertainment Products on Excite PR Newswire, Tuesday, December 22, 1998 at 07:16 World's Largest Online Entertainment Studio Store and Leading Portal Team to Offer Holiday Shoppers a Wide Assortment of Products from Hollywood's Studios and Popular Culture BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- bige.com, a division of Big Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIGE), today announced an electronic commerce alliance to offer entertainment merchandise to Excite's online audience, initially to be available at Excite's "The Holiday Shoppe." Product will encompass a wide array of movie merchandise as well as products from popular culture. The Holiday Shoppe has been uniquely assembled for consumer online shopping around the holidays. bige Chairman and Co-Founder Mitchell Rubenstein stated, "Teaming up with Excite will propel our e-commerce business. This offers bige.com the opportunity to provide Excite's consumers with merchandise specially selected for gift giving and the holidays." "bige helps round out our Holiday Shoppe offerings, and bige's up-to-the- minute merchandising of top entertainment releases and classic properties will mean exciting merchandise for Excite customers," said Andy Halliday, vice president, commerce, Excite. "Entertainment merchandise has been a key category in retail stores for years, but it has not been presented as well online before bige.com opened shop. We're pleased to partner with a leader such as bige to give our consumers some of the best entertainment merchandise available." About bige.com and Big Entertainment bige.com is owned by Big Online, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Entertainment, Inc. bige was founded by Rubenstein and Laurie Silvers, the founders of the Sci-Fi Channel(TM). In addition to its relationship with Excite, bige.com is the exclusive e-commerce movie merchandise store for usatoday.com, Film.com, and hollywood.com. (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 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.) SOURCE Big Entertainment, Inc. -0- 12/22/98 /CONTACT: Mitchell Rubenstein, CEO of BigE, 561-998-8000, or m_rubenstein@msn.com; or Mark Cohen of Pinnacle Group, investor relations for BigE, 516-773-2477; or Lois Whitman of HWH, public relations for BigE, 212-355-5049, or loisw@hwhpr.com; or Melissa Walia, for Excite, 650-569-2213, or mwalia@excitecorp.com/ /Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 094769/ /Web site: bige.com Companies or Securities discussed in this article: