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Moviefone Selects MovieTickets.com as Exclusive Ticketing Provider for Moviefone Web and Phone Services Including 777-FILM Service

MovieTickets.com Solidifies Its Leadership Role In The Online Movie Ticketing Category By Assuming Theatre Chain Contracts From Moviefone -- The Top-Ranked Online Movie Destination

Hotel Booking LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2004-- Through an agreement between MovieTickets.com, the leading Internet movie ticketing service, and America Online's Moviefone(R), the leading online movie destination, MovieTickets.com will assume the ticketing agreements that Moviefone had with movie theater exhibitors and will become the exclusive ticketing provider for Moviefone's online service and its signature 777-FILM(R) phone services. As a consequence of its deal with Moviefone, MovieTickets.com will further solidify its leadership position in online movie ticketing by now delivering online movie ticketing services to ensure optimum service and performance directly for 32 theater chains, double the amount of its nearest competitor. Moviefone will continue to focus its efforts on attracting Web traffic to its category-leading service, which received more than 12 million unique users in June according to the most recent ComScore Media Metrix report.
Moviefone consumers will continue to obtain tickets by calling Moviefone's telephone service, or by going to Moviefone.com where they will be seamlessly linked to a co-branded transaction page served by MovieTickets.com. MovieTickets.com users will benefit from broader access to tickets from 32 theatre chains. Separately, through a MovieTickets.com exclusive ticketing arrangement, Pacific Theaters becomes the newest theater chain to offer consumers tickets on MovieTickets.com, which are already available to Moviefone users via the co-branded arrangement.

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Travel Agent In 2001, Moviefone and MovieTickets.com launched an initial partnership that cross-linked the services' online ticket offerings - which helped to simplify the consumer experience by allowing access to each service's exclusive ticket offerings. Now, the ticket purchase experience is even more seamless for consumers. For example, MovieTickets.com users will no longer link to Moviefone.com for access to the new ticketing inventory, and visitors originating from Moviefone.com will be directed to co-branded pages powered by MovieTickets.com to complete those transactions.

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Online Booking The deal immediately follows the launch of a new, nationwide marketing campaign for Moviefone.com, which includes in-theater trailers; TV, radio, print and online advertisements; billboards; and in-theater signage and branding on concession stand items. MovieTickets.com continues to support its ticketing initiatives with nationwide programs consisting of various in-theater, TV, radio and outdoor campaigns.

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Hotel Reservation MovieTickets.com theater partners are among the strongest industry leaders nationwide. MovieTickets.com's average screens per theater are 11 versus the industry average of six, and more than 50 percent of MovieTickets.com's exhibitors' theaters are 14 to 30-plex, stadium seated mega-plexes.

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Discount Travel MovieTickets.com exhibitors currently include AMC Theatres, Consolidated Theatres, Consolidated Theatres Hawaii, Crown Theatres, Famous Players, Hoyts Cinemas, Krikorian Premiere Theatres, Marcus Theatres, Metropolitan Theatres, National Amusements, Northeast Cinemas, Pacific Theatres, Rave Motion Pictures, Ritz Theatres Sayville Theatre, Spotlight Theatres, Baederwood Movie Theatre Co., the Bryn Mawr Movie Theatre Co. and the Narberth Theatre. Cinemagic Movies has recently joined MovieTickets.com and is in the process of being launched. The Moviefone exhibitors include Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cinema Four-Quad, Classic Cinemas, Clearview Cinemas, Dickinson Theatres, Entertainment Retail (Hollywood Hits), Kew Gardens (Cobble Hill), KLM Theatres, Landmark Theatres, Mann Theatres, Reading Cinemas USA (City Cinemas), and Six West (Paris/NY Twin). Consumers can also purchase tickets through MovieTickets.com's array of high profile affiliates including MSN, Movies.com, Hollywood.com, NYTimes.com, the Excite Network, Lycos, a host of other Web sites, plus most of the nation's largest phone and mobile carriers. In addition to being a convenient way to buy movie tickets online or via wireless devices, MovieTickets.com offers moviegoers access to local showtime information for the U.S. and Canada, movie trailers, box office information, and movie reviews.

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New York Hotel MovieTickets.com (www.movietickets.com), the leading Internet movie ticketing service in terms of technical performance, percentage representation of the highest grossing theaters, and the number of movie theater exhibitors served when compared to its nearest rival, provides consumers with the ease of a virtual box office from the convenience of their home or office. Formed in Spring 2000, MovieTickets.com is a joint venture between AMC Entertainment (AMEX:AEN), Hollywood Media Corp. (Nasdaq:HOLL), National Amusements, Famous Players, Marcus Theatres (NYSE:MCS), Hoyts Cinemas, Viacom (NYSE:VIA), and America Online, and leverages the collective exhibitor expertise to deliver consumers a premium movie ticketing experience. MovieTickets.com enables consumers to buy tickets online for movie screens across the United States, Canada, and the U.K. Its elite collection of partner theaters consistently represents over 50% of the top 50 and over 50% of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend.

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