Fandango to Appoint Christopher Cunningham as Vice President of Business Development

Fandango to Appoint Christopher Cunningham as Vice President of Business Development

Cunningham Capitalizes on Seventeen Years of Experience in Business Development to Grow Current Fandango Partnerships, Develop New Relationships

LOS ANGELES, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Fandango (www.fandango.com), the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing service, is naming Christopher Cunningham vice president of business development, Fandango president and CEO Art Levitt announced today.

In his new role, Cunningham will be responsible for overseeing all of Fandango's business development and corporate development initiatives, with a focus on syndication programs, mobile strategies and multi-platform distribution.

Cunningham brings to Fandango more than seventeen years of diverse experience in business development, strategic planning, corporate development and product management in digital entertainment, technology, and new media. Throughout his career, he has negotiated new media partnerships with numerous Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Yahoo! and Nielsen, as well as structured and managed content and distribution partnerships with broadcasters, studios and networks such as ABC, Sony and Comcast.

Cunningham most recently held the position of Vice President of Strategy & Product Development for YaYa Media, Inc., a leading interactive entertainment consultancy and agency. Prior to YaYa, he served as Vice President of Business Development for Wink Communications, Inc., a leader in interactive television services. Previously, he was Director of Business Development for DVR pioneer, ReplayTV, Inc, and has also held senior management positions with OpenTV, Inc. and Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Cunningham earned his master's of business administration in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Mayer Scholar, and a bachelor's of science in Psychology with High Distinction from Duke University.

According to Levitt, "Christopher is a well-known go-getter in the industry and he's a fantastic addition to our team. He has invaluable connections in both the technology and entertainment communities and we're looking forward to leveraging those relationships to make our services even more accessible."

Cunningham said, "I look forward to helping expand Fandango's availability to all moviegoers across the country. My goal is to build wide-ranging relationships with new companies while enhancing our current relationships with our outstanding partners. Moviegoers should be able to access Fandango ticketing through all media."

About Fandango

Fandango, the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing service, sells tickets to approximately 1,100 theaters and 12,500 screens (nearly 70 percent of theaters in the U.S. enabled for remote ticketing) and to four out of the five largest U.S. theater chains. Fandango's convenient service lets moviegoers quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and buy tickets in advance on www.fandango.com and at 1-800-FANDANGO. Fandango sells tickets to more theaters than all of its competitors combined and is the exclusive ticketing service for the largest North American exhibitors: Carmike Theatres, Century Theatres, Edwards Theatres, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Regal Cinemas and United Artists Theatres, as well as to Brenden Theatres, CineArts, Cineplex Odeon Cinemas, Cobb Theatres, Crown Theatres, Eastern Federal Theatres, Kerasotes Theatres, Magic Johnson, Majestic Crest Theatre, R/C Theatres, Signature Theatres, Star Theatres and Wallace Theaters. Fandango allows customers to bypass the box office with in-theater ticket pick-up kiosks and Print at Home ticketing, and offers the "gift of the movies," Fandango Bucks, and an e-mail invitation tool, Evite Friends.

Source: Fandango, Inc.

CONTACT: Harry Medved of Fandango, Inc., +1-310-451-7690 ext. 112, harry.medved@fandango.com

Web site: http://www.fandango.com/

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