To: LWolf who wrote (2981 ) 4/29/1999 6:54:00 PM From: Jenne Respond to of 5843
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AVAILABLE TO US INTERNET VIEWERS EXCLUSIVELY VIA PR NEWSWIRE - April 29, 1999 14:57 LiveOnTheNet.com Entertainment Site Named Exclusive Video Partner of the Official US Website of the Festival of Cannes HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveOnTheNet.com, the Internet's premiere entertainment destination, has entered an agreement with France's World Media Live to exclusively bring the 52nd Cannes Film Festival to US viewers via the Internet from the 12th to the 23rd of May, 1999. World Media Live hosts the festival's official website, festival-cannes.org . Visitors to the site will find a Live On the Net link on the site's Live Video page, and LiveOnTheNet.com will in turn link from its front page (http://www.liveonthenet.com ) and other pages to the festival's official site. According to WML spokesperson Vicki Gerber, "World Media Live brings the hottest events in Europe to Internet users around the world. Coming this May, World Media Live and our exclusive US distribution partner, LiveOnTheNet will offer you front-seat tickets to the Cannes Film Festival. We look forward to seeing you there." "LiveOnTheNet is committed to bringing the story of Cannes to US viewers" states Tim Erwin, President Of LiveOntheNet.com. "This is a chance for us to show how the Internet can be used to explore a lengthy event in multimedia. During the festival, our site will offer commentary, context and content from and about Cannes. We know that the Cannes Festival is well known to North Americans, but not well-understood. We'll use the Internet to change that for our viewers." The 12-day festival will be distributed via RealSystem G2 technology from RealNetworks(TM) (Nasdaq: RNWK) and will be available to any recent version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscape's Navigator and AOL browsers. Festival coverage will begin on May 12th, the opening day of the festival, and will close with the festival on the 23rd. Live On the Net's programming will follow a noon-and-evening format. At 12:00 in all time zones, North American audiences will be introduced to the issues of the festival day with a live feed Live On the Net's film commentator, with presentations from its on-site correspondent and other celebrity- and news-seekers. The noon presentation will feature location interviews and will end with a preview of the evening presentation, available at 7:00 p.m. in all times zones. The evening program will feature official video from Cannes, bolstered by commentary by LiveOnTheNet film commentator.