Thursday December 13, 9:58 pm Eastern Time

Press Release

ADVISORY/The Premiere of Revolution Studios/ Columbia Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott's ``Black Hawk Down,'' Tuesday, Dec. 18, 7:00 p.m.

WHAT:    Premiere of Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures, Jerry
         Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down"

WHEN:    Tuesday, Dec. 18, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE:   Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
         8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills

WHO:     Attending from the film:

         Josh Hartnett               Jeremy Piven
         Ewan McGregor               Brendan Sexton III
         Tom Sizemore                Johnny Strong
         Eric Bana                   Brian Van Holt
         William Fichtner            Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
         Hugh Dancy                  Ian Virgo
         Ron Eldard                  Thomas Hardy
         Thomas Guiry                Orlando Bloom
         Charlie Hofheimer           Kent Linville
         Jason Issacs                Enrique Murciano
                                     Michael Roof

Filmmakers in attendance will be director Ridley Scott, screenwriter
Ken Nolan, Mark Bowden, author of the book upon which the
movie is based, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, executive producers Simon
West, Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Branko Lustig, production designer
Arthur Max and composer Hans Zimmer.

         Other celebrities expected to attend are:

         Jerry O'Connell             Jon Voight
         Wayne Gretzky               Will Smith
         Anthony La Paglia           Jada Pinkett Smith

From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry
Bruckheimer, based on actual events, "Black Hawk Down" is the heroic
account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu,
Somalia, in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their
mission: to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlord,
Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and
famine that is ravaging the country.

Young Rangers and veteran Delta Force soldiers fight side by side
against overwhelming odds. For 18 harrowing hours, they remain trapped
and wounded in the most hostile district of Mogadishu until a rescue
convoy can be mounted to retrieve them. Outnumbered and surrounded,
tensions flare, friends are lost, alliances are formed and soldiers
learn the true nature of war and heroism.

"Black Hawk Down" is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of
America for intense realistic graphic war violence and language.

         OPENS LIMITED IN L.A. AND N.Y. ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28
                     AND NATIONWIDE ON JANUARY 18