PRESS RELEASE

January 28, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:
Terry L. Cyrus, Chief Operating Officer
DINK Entertainment
P.O. Box 2570
New York, NY 10108
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(212) 591-6033 FAX
E-mail: terry.cyrus@dinkentertainment.com
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DINK Entertainment presents, "Arthur! A Celebration of Life."

New York City, NY (January 28, 2006) DINK Entertainment pays tribute to the incomparable Arthur Ashe as a salute to the African-American legends of the sports world and beyond. Joseph H. James, Jr., producer, director, and actor portrays a strong resemblance of Arthur Ashe. At a very young age, Mr. Ashe influenced James both on and off the tennis court to pursue greatness. More than twenty years later James, the Hampton Roads, VA native pays tribute to the legacy of Arthur Ashe. Joseph H. James, Jr. wrote, directed, produced as well as starred as the Hall of Famed tennis great, author, philanthropist, and activist in the docudrama, “Arthur! A Celebration of Life.” Mr. James reinvented his hero’s trials and tribulations on screen and leaves viewers amazed. The film celebrates Ashe’s life and achievements from childhood to his unfortunate passing.

Arthur Ashe, a tennis star of the 1960s and 1970s was also an African-American pioneer. He was the first black man to win at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. Ashe scored many other firsts in his career, including becoming the first African-American on the U.S. Davis Cup team in 1963. He played tennis at UCLA and was national collegiate champion in 1965. Mr. Ashe won three major tournaments in his career: the U.S. Open (1968), the Australian Open (1970) and Wimbledon (1975). Ashe retired in 1980 and was elected to the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1988 Arthur discovered that he had AIDS. It is believed that his illness was the result of a contaminated blood supply received during a transfusion after his heart surgery in 1983. Ashe made the news public at a 1992 press conference and died the next year.

Ashe served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, reaching the rank of second lieutenant. Ashe’s three-volume history of African-American athletes, A Hard Road To Glory, was published in 1988. His book Days of Grace: A Memoir was published in 1993. The main court of the National Tennis Center (home to the U.S. Open) is named Arthur Ashe Stadium. Ashe is sometimes compared with another tennis star that broke racial barriers, Althea Gibson.

DINK Entertainment is a production company based in New York City that specializes in quality films. Joseph H. James, Jr., founded the company in order to help facilitate his creative efforts. The executive profile of the Company includes entertainment executive Terry L. Cyrus, investment strategist Sonny J. Howard and veteran administrator Mary S. Newman. DINK is built on the foundation of its motto: Drive Increases New Knowledge.

The debut project of the Company is the aforementioned “Arthur! A Celebration of Life.” The eighty-minute docudrama premiered at the Nauticus: National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Virginia in May of 2005. It won Joseph H. James, Jr. the YOUnity Guild Award for “Best Producer, Director and Actor in a Docudrama.” The project has been shown at various film festivals throughout the country. The docudrama has received worldwide acclaim from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Toronto, Australia and South Africa. In fact, Prince Albert of Monaco sent a letter of support after viewing the docudrama trailer. The success of the project has caught the attention of various film and television executives. The Company is currently evaluating distribution prospects for the docudrama and development opportunities for the feature film presentation of “Arthur! A Celebration of Life.” DINK has already asked Grammy Award Winning Singer Alicia Keys to co-star in the film.

The 2006 screenings of Arthur! A Celebration of Life will start in Philadelphia, Saturday Feb 4 and Sunday Feb 5 at 1:30 p.m. at The Independence Visitor Center, 6th and Market St. The LA Film Festival Screenings: Pan African Film Festival in LA at the Magic Johnson Theatres Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. Main Festival Dates: Friday, February 17 at 1:15 p.m. and Monday, February 20 at 4:05 p.m. Student Festival: February 10 at 10:00 a.m. and February 14 thru February 17 at 10:00 a.m. daily. Magic Johnson Theatres or Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles, California, one block west of Crenshaw Blvd., and King. In New York City, it will appear at The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY, the screenings will take place on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. and Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 p.m.

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