UNIVERSAL CITYWALK UNVEILS "THE BEST MOVIE-GOING EXPERIENCE IN L.A." WITH AN UNPRECED

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., -- April 20, 2007 -- Universal CityWalk Cinemas celebrates its sweeping top-to-bottom re-launch with an unprecedented "Open House" at the movies offering guests a free day of movie-going complete with free popcorn and free soft drinks and introducing audiences to "The Best Movie-Going Experience in L.A." on Thursday, May 3, beginning with the first late-morning screenings and continuing through the last regular showtimes of the day.
Guests will enjoy a free "first look" at the Universal CityWalk Cinemas' (CityWalk Stadium 19) comprehensive re-do, featuring technically advanced screens, a sophisticated, state-of-the-art sound system, an "eye-popping" interior and exterior design and the widest, stadium-style seating available in any U.S. theatre.
"Open House" guests will find lavishly remodeled theatres and will be seated in custom-made, ergonomically-designed stadium-style "rocker seats," measuring 26" in width with first-class spacious leg room. They'll watch movies on new, wider, curved wall-to-wall movie screens, and enjoy perfectly balanced digital surround-sound systems.
Living up to its billing as "The Entertainment Capital of L.A.," Universal Studios Hollywood celebrates summer 2007 with the "New CityWalk," featuring a lively mix of new dining choices, a collection of contemporary retail favorites, an exciting range of entertainment that includes free concert performances and free outdoor movie screenings as well as the ever-popular mechanical bull-riding at Saddle Ranch Chop House, virtual NASCAR racing, salsa dancing at the Rumba Room, and the newly revitalized 18-screen and IMAX theatres.
Universal Studios Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of L.A., includes a full-day, movie-based theme park and Studio Tour, the CityWalk entertainment, shopping and dining complex, the Universal CityWalk Cinemas and the Gibson Amphitheatre concert and special event venue. The theme park features such groundbreaking attractions as

"Revenge of the Mummy—The Ride," "Shrek 4-D," "Jurassic Park—The Ride" and the world-renowned Studio Tour, which takes guests behind-the-scenes of such landmark TV and movie locations and sets as Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds." CityWalk features 65 entertainment-themed restaurants, nightclubs, shops and dynamic entertainment options. The Universal CityWalk Cinemas (CityWalk Stadium 19), which includes California's largest IMAX venue, features the best movie-going experience in .L.A.
Universal Studios Hollywood, http://www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com, is a unit of Universal Parks & Resorts, a division of Universal Studios, a part of NBC Universal. NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May of 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric, with 20% controlled by Vivendi.