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The Tornante Company to Take Vuguru's 'Prom Queen' & 'Prom Queen: Summer Heat' International with Distribution Deals in France and Japan



    The Tornante Company's new media studio for Internet production,
    Vuguru (www.vuguru.com) announced today, two first-of-its-kind
    agreements to distribute the original and spin-off Prom Queen series.
    The first, with French company Cyber-Group Animation is to distribute
    the series dubbed in French for wireless mobile, broadband, TV, and
    home video. The Tornante Company is represented by Cyber-Group
    Animation at this year's MIPCOM. The second is a distribution deal
    that has been brokered with Japanese based Rights Entertainment to
    distribute the US series in Japanese and produce a localized version.

    Both deals, which were brokered by Douglas Miller representing The
    Tornante Company, mark the first time distribution rights to a
    fully-scripted and produced short form internet product is sold and
    reformatted for foreign audiences outside the United States. It is
    anticipated that Prom Queen and Prom Queen: Summer Heat will become
    available for Japanese and French audiences in 2008.

    "The international demand for Prom Queen is a testament to quality
    online content," said Michael Eisner. "These deals signify new and
    exciting opportunities for this evolving media landscape. We're
    excited to work with these companies and look forward to achieving
    great success together."

    Prom Queen and Prom Queen: Summer Heat, produced with the
    production company Big Fantastic, were originally created for internet
    exhibition only, but due to global demand for the series, were
    modified to allow for local language and multimedia distribution
    flexibility worldwide.

    "We are thrilled to be associated with Tornante and Michael Eisner
    in the international development of Prom Queen. Following Prom Queen's
    success in the US, this is a very exciting venture into the emerging
    form of entertainment on new platforms, of which we are only
    witnessing the beginnings today," added Pierre Sissman, Co-founder and
    CEO of Cyber-Group Animation.

    "It is a high quality program with good story and structure suited
    for new media such as mobile, online and others, with strong potential
    for cross media promotion, merchandising and distribution," said
    Martin Roberts, COO of Rights Entertainment.

    Prom Queen was viewed by over 15 million people during its
    original run. The series was such a huge success, it spawned a fifteen
    episode spin-off series, Prom Queen: Summer Heat which is approaching
    2.5 million views in its initial run.

    ABOUT VUGURU

    Vuguru is a new media studio for Michael Eisner's The Tornante
    Company. The studio produces and distributes innovative story-driven
    content for current new media and emerging platforms. Vuguru's
    production of Prom Queen is the first of many shows developed and
    produced by the studio. Privately held, The Tornante Company makes
    investments in and incubates companies and opportunities in the media
    and entertainment space. Tornante, which recently acquired The Topps
    Company Inc., (NASDAQ: TOPP) holds ownership stakes in Veoh Networks
    and Team Baby Entertainment.

    RIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT Inc.

    Rights Entertainment Inc. is a new company to produce and
    distribute content to all media that was formed by key people with
    experience in advertising agency produced TV programs and related
    mobile content, NTT DoCoMo mobile content production/distribution, pay
    and free TV distribution of Hollywood product and commercial
    productions. Rights Entertainment was set up by Rights Trust Inc., one
    of first to receive a license from the Government to work in public
    funding for intellectual properties.

    CYBER-GROUP ANIMATION

    Cyber-Group Animation is an independent French production and
    distribution company targeting kids and teens with high-end animation
    productions in 3D and 2D and live action entertainment. Founded by
    former top executives of the Walt Disney Company in Europe Pierre
    Sissmann and Dominique Bourse and famous French TV host for kids
    Billy, Cyber-Group Animation develops audiovisual intellectual
    properties based on new or existing characters with an international
    appeal, maximizing their distribution potential, on all types of
    formats.