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Friday, April 07, 2006

Filmnight Digital Partners With T-Mobile to Provide Film Portal

Filmnight Digital Partners With T-Mobile to Provide Film Portal

LONDON, April 7/PRNewswire/ --

Filmnight Digital, the interactive content arm of Filmnight Group, today
announces a content partnership with T-Mobile UK to provide on-portal film
content. The service will also extend to T-Mobile's web 'n walk customers.

Filmnight Digital will create a full end-to-end experience allowing
T-Mobile customers to view high quality movie downloads, review films and
purchase not only movie games and ringtones, but also DVDs.

The agreement will see Filmnight Digital aggregate all studio content to
provide a fully interactive, end-to-end service.

As part of this service, T-Mobile customers will be able to experience
rich and interactive content, as well as benefiting from services including
membership of the film club and location-based services, such as find my
nearest cinema and DVD rental store. The film portal will be renamed 'Film'
and will offer community interaction with rate and review services, as well
as Hollywood news and gossip.

Shashi Fernando, managing director of Filmnight Digital commented:
"Packaging high quality content with value added services enables us to
provide a full end-to-end solution for T-Mobile customers. By adding layers
to content, such as drilling down into film genres like Bollywood and Horror,
and offering rate and review interaction, consumers can find what suits their
taste better, and it becomes easier to create a community feel."

Fernando continues: "We are working closely with T-Mobile to understand
their customers needs to ensure that we deliver the best service possible and
reward loyal T-Mobile users with an ever expanding and evolving content
offering."

Phil Chapman, marketing director at T-Mobile UK commented: "We constantly
update our available content to ensure customers have a wide and varied
choice of entertainment on their mobile phones. Filmnight Digital understands
what consumers want from this unique form of content and so is in a great
position to provide us with this entertainment service."

About Filmnight Group Limited

Filmnight Group Limited was founded in 2003 and has two subsidiary
businesses, Filmnight.com and Filmnight Digital, which work across the
company's three distinct business areas.

Filmnight.com encompasses two of these business areas; www.filmnight.com
provides online DVD retail from the Channel Islands with a selection of over
28,000 DVDs, while on the high street, Filmnight.com provides DVD rental and
retail via a network of over 200 stores, which, following the acquisition of
Prime Time, is one of the UK's largest high street rental operations.

Filmnight Digital is the interactive content arm of Filmnight Group
Limited focussing on the third business area, content provision and DVD
retail across several mobile networks in the UK and internationally.

Source: Filmnight Group Limited

For further information, on Filmnight Digital please contact: Kate Stevens/Rebecca Welsh, GCI, kstevens@gciuk.com/rwelsh@gciuk.com, Telephone: +44-207-072-4052

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