Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and GUBA Pioneer Online Movie Distribution Deal; Over 100 Sony...

CULVER CITY & SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) and GUBA (www.guba.com), a leading online multimedia entertainment site, today announced the immediate availability of more than 100 feature-length movies from Sony Pictures on the GUBA Premium online video service.

The launch makes GUBA the first video sharing community to distribute Sony Pictures movies online. Among the diverse slate of more than 100 titles that will be available for digital downloading at GUBA.com are "Underworld: Evolution," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Hitch" and the classic "Bridge on the River Kwai." SPHE will steadily increase the number of films available for Internet sales over the coming months, with an expected 500 films, including day and date releases, being offered to consumers within a year.

GUBA users can purchase films as of today on a download-to-own basis. New releases are priced at $19.99 and catalog titles will retail from $9.99. All video content can be downloaded and played on compatible home computers. Some titles will also be available for rental on a Video-on-Demand (VOD) basis.

"We are open for business on the Internet. GUBA is a powerful user-generated community and this deal demonstrates our strategy to find the best ways to make our content available to consumers online," said Benjamin S. Feingold, President of Worldwide Home Entertainment, Digital Distribution and Acquisitions, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. "This is consistent with our studio's history of bringing the finest entertainment to people through new technologies and channels."

"Our partnership with Sony Pictures is another major validation of our platform and a significant effort by Sony to make online distribution of film attractive to the Internet audience," said Thomas McInerney, CEO of GUBA. "Sony has shown a clarity of vision when it comes to portable media and entertainment. GUBA was one of the first companies to make user-generated videos available for the PlayStation Portable. We look forward to further collaboration with Sony Pictures and to making movies and TV shows distributed online, easily viewable in the home and on portable devices."

Sony Pictures Entertainment continues to be a leader in digital entertainment and distribution. Sony Pictures was one of the first to move to DVDs and to offer television shows for sale online, one of the creators of Movielink, the first studio to sell movies to consumers to watch on mobile handsets and the first and only studio to offer movies embedded on PC hard drives.