Bigstar.com And IFILM Announce Agreements

Bigstar.com (NASDAQ: BGST), the premier Shop-A-Tainmentô movie site, and IFILM.com, the leading Internet resource for film fans, filmmakers, and film industry professionals, announced that the companies have entered an agreement that will allow short-form, digital content from IFILM to be video streamed on a co-branded section of bigstar.com beginning spring 2000. IFILM will contribute both content and streaming-related technologies, which will enable the two companies to offer movie buffs a rich, Web-based short-form entertainment experience, as well as providing a key component to bigstar.com's growing digital content business. The IFILM site will be included in the BigStar Broadband Theater area on the bigstar.com Web site. ""This announcement is an exciting next step for bigstar.com as we continue to provide quality, in-home entertainment through electronic delivery to our online audience,"" said David Levitsky, Executive Vice President and Co-founder of bigstar.com. ""Bigstar.com recognizes IFILM as a leading provider of online, streaming media and views this relationship as a unique opportunity to jointly benefit from new content and complementary expertise."" In addition, BigStar will build a movie store on the IFILM Web site. The store's video and digital video disc (DVD) offerings will include independent and art films, which complement the demographics of the IFILM audience. The site will be available to IFILM users by early April 2000. The alliance is a logical step in expanding bigstar.com's film offerings and in expanding the company's customer base. It also provides insight into bigstar.com's long-term strategy of electronically delivering entertainment into the home. In December 1999, bigstar.com announced that it had formed an alliance with ValueVision, soon to be renamed SnapTV, to develop The BigStar Show, which will be streamed simultaneously through cable television, satellite television and the bigstar.com Web site. In addition, bigstar.com launched a multi-year strategic alliance with INTERVU Inc. to host BigStar's broadband content. Also in December, bigstar.com announced an agreement with StarMedia Inc. to build a multi-language movie portal site. BigStar has also created what is believed to be the largest collection of movie trailers on the Web, well over 6,000 and growing at last count covering movies from the 1930's through to year 2000. At the Slamdance Film Festival in January, BigStar launched an online showcase for independent film makers at www.digitalfirstlook.com, a worldwide online distribution channel for feature films made by independent filmmakers as well as featuring proprietary content and news about independent movies.About BigStar EntertainmentBigStar Entertainment Inc. operates bigstar.com (AOL keyword: BigStar), a leading Shop-A-Tainment destination site, based on internal analysis of traffic, sales and other metrics. Bigstar.com is exclusively dedicated to filmed entertainment products and sells more than 40,000 titles of videos and digital video discs (DVDs). BigStar's offerings of more than 8,000 movie clips is the largest on the Internet. BigStar has forged strategic alliances with companies including ValueVision (NASDAQ: VVTV), StarMedia (NASDAQ:STRM), AOL Moviefone (NYSE: AOL), Shop-at-AOL, Earthlink (NASDAQ: ELNK), Yahoo! Chat (NASDAQ: YHOO), FortuneCity.com and Flirt.com among others.

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