ENTERTAINMENT DRIVE® INDUSTRY FIRSTS
One of the longest-running entertainment websites online, Entertainment
Drive®, "Your Backstage Pass to Entertainment®," has been a one-stop online
location for movie news, reviews, celebrity profiles, Q&As, and much more!
Since 1993, over 1 million consumers and 100 media companies have
participated on eDrive. Among eDrive's many industry firsts:
* FIRST to introduce digital movie previews online for Walt Disney
Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and many other domestic and
international companies (over 250,000 files);
* FIRST to go live online from the Oscars®, Daytime Emmys®, Sports Emmys®,
Primetime Emmys® and the Antoinette Perry (Tony®) Awards;
* FIRST new media outlet to join the exclusive movie junket circuit;
* FIRST new media outlet to provide international translation and community
management services - in Japan on Nifty Serve, in Latin America on
StarMedia;
* FIRST to offer online fans an easy way to view QuickTime movie scenes
with one-button installation: The eDrive Movie Viewer (Patented);
* FIRST to conduct live celebrity chats from its New York chat studio. Alec
Baldwin, Mathew Broderick, John Carpenter, Geena Davis, Richard Donner,
Terry Gilliam, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Mick Jagger, Spike Lee, Jenny
McCarthy, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, and many others have gone live
with eDrive; and
* FIRST to premiere comprehensive celebrity website production and
management for superstars, including subscriptions, fulfillment services,
unique creative content, community management, ecommerce services and
metric measurements, including for Cindy Crawford, Daisy Fuentes, Marilu
Henner and Britney Spears.
An industry pioneer in connecting fans with entertainment news, events and
celebrities online, Entertainment Drive was cited as an innovator by the
Smithsonian Computerworld Awards, and is included in the Smithsonian
Institution's National Archive on Information Technology, Entertainment
Drive was featured on the cover of PC Magazine as part of "The Changing
Face of Online" issue; and was named one of "12 Great Online Areas" by
Compute Magazine. The eDrive website at http://www.eDrive.com was named one
of the "Top 100" by PC Magazine in their "Best of the Web" issue; was a
Premier Active Channel on Microsoft Internet Explorer; and has received
many awards, including the coveted "Webby."
Michael Bolanos, President and CEO of Entertainment Drive, has been named
one of the "Cyber 60" by New York Magazine and has been honored as a "Cyber
Star" by Virtual City magazine. Visit www.michaelbolanos.com for more
information.