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Yahoo! Movies Launches Short Film Directory

SANTA CLARA, California

BUSINESS WIRE

Nov. 13, 2000

Yahoo! Movies to Provide a Single Place Online to Find Thousands of Short Films Through Agreements with AtomFilms, FilmFilm, Hypnotic, Icebox, and IFILM

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company, today launched the Yahoo!(R) Movies Online Shorts Directory, a single, central location where film fans can easily find the short film they are looking for in a fast and simplified way.

"Yahoo! Movies brings the popular Yahoo! model of a comprehensive and easy-to-use directory to the world of short films," said Matt Rightmire, vice president and general manager, media and entertainment, Yahoo! Inc. "We are providing a single place for people to be entertained through online shorts, one of the most dynamic entertainment vehicles on the Internet. In conjunction with our five leading content providers, this directory is another step toward our goal of delivering the best of online entertainment to Yahoo!'s global audience."
Short film fans can access the directory at Yahoo! Movies http://movies.yahoo.com/ and can search or browse short films by title, subject, or genre. Filmmakers and fans can also suggest shorts from the Internet for inclusion into the directory. Thousands of shorts are listed in the directory, including such noted films as Aardman Animations' Oscar-winning "Creature Comforts" from AtomFilms and IFILM's "405."

The featured providers to the Yahoo! Movies Online Shorts Directory include:

AtomFilms, a pioneer and leader in next-generation entertainment, focused on licensing, marketing and distributing high-quality short films and animations from around the world via offline and online channels

FilmFilm, the first complete Internet-based, global movie studio, offering development, production, promotion and exhibition/distribution services

Hypnotic, a new media film studio within a studio that discovers and develops the work of emerging artists, together with its partner Universal Pictures, by creating, acquiring and distributing quality content both online and offline

Icebox, a groundbreaking Web-based entertainment network that produces original animated series created exclusively for the Web by many of Hollywood's top creators, writers, and animators

IFILM, a leading film portal, hosts one of the largest, free on-demand libraries of film on the Web, and offers a comprehensive editorial guide to film

About Yahoo! Movies

Yahoo! Movies is the premier starting point for all things movies on the Web. Regularly ranked as one of the most popular movie sites on the Internet, visitors to Yahoo! Movies can type in their location to access local theater showtimes for more than 33,000 movie screens nationwide. Yahoo! Movies provides a daily mix of movie news and special features, culled from some of the most respected news and entertainment industry sources. Yahoo! Movies features a movie database of over 70,000 titles, as well as links to the best movie related content across Yahoo! and throughout the Web. Movies showtimes and theater listings are now also available on a variety of wireless devices.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 166 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, http://www.yahoo.com/ is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance the Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 24 local World properties outside the United States. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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