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Press Release

World Premiere of 'A Beautiful Mind' Set for Thursday, December 13 At The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

WHAT: Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present the World Premiere of "A Beautiful Mind."

WHO: ``A Beautiful Mind'' cast members Russell Crowe, Jennifer

Connelly, Ed Harris and Adam Goldberg, director Ron Howard,

producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, executive

producers Karen Kehela and Todd Hallowell and composer James

Horner.

               PLUS Amy Brenneman, Sheryl Crow, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Dennis
               Dugan, Carrie Fisher, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Ralf Moeller,
               Giovanni Ribisi, Marissa Ribisi, Michael Richards, Marion Ross,
               William Lee Scott and many others.

    WHERE:     The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
               8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California.

    WHEN:      7:30 PM screening Thursday, December 13, 2001
               6 PM call-time for arrivals.

               "A Beautiful Mind" opens in exclusive engagements on
               December 21, 2001 and nationwide on January 4, 2002.

    CONTACTS:  Television, William Hendley, +1-818-777-1392
               Print, Amanda Scholer, +1-818-777-0641
               Photographers, Bette Einbinder, +1-818-777-3226
               On-Line, Hilary Hattenbach, +1-818-777-1946

SOURCE: Universal Pictures