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EZ2 Companies, Inc. Subsidiary, UplinkUSA, Signs Digital Movie Deal


MIAMI -- (Business Wire) -- Jan. 10, 2005


EZ2 Companies, Inc. (OTCBB:EZTO), subsidiary, UplinkUSA

Inc., has obtained digital distribution rights to promote TLA

Releasing Independent films. Integration of an online movie theater

into http://www.ez2movies.com has begun where website users can view a

selection of movies in their browser in a secure environment.

¶ "This is just one of many such relationships rapidly unfolding,"

says Otto Bethlen, CEO EZ2 Companies. "We're in negotiations with

other studios and expect to complete more deals in the coming months.

The expansion of broadband combined with movie studios now realizing

new revenue streams are possible from the same content being resold

over and over, online."

¶ Proprietary media delivery developed at

http://www.flashvideostream.com ensures full Digital Rights Management

(DRM) for protection of data. Movies are delivered securely to a PC in

a matter of seconds, even for 2-4 hour movies, in a user friendly DVD

menu format.

¶ TLA Releasing brings out noteworthy films from the international

film festival circuit on DVD/VHS every other month. Many films are

multiple-award winners or nominees, such as France's A Matter of Taste

(five Cesar nominations) and Km.0 (six film festival Audience Favorite

Awards). TLA Releasing has built its home entertainment library to

include a rich variety of genres, dramas, thrillers, documentaries,

biographies, comedies, gay/lesbian and even a Christmas movie. TLA

produces over 3.2 million direct-mail video catalogs, and presents two

film festivals annually, operating stores in Philadelphia and New York

City, with at least 20,000 rental and 2,000 retail titles.

¶ Otto Bethlen stated: "Since the users of www.ez2movies.com are

avid movie watchers, it is a natural next step to view titles there

and then, either while waiting for ordered DVD's to arrive, or perhaps

to watch others or preview before renting. Online Pay per View is a

rapidly growing segment of the internet, with examples such as

CinemaNow. It has a subscriber base of 1 million, and in the U.S.

market enjoys volume of at least 2.5 million transactions with

revenues totaling just under $10 million, triple last year's total."

¶ EZ2movies.com includes a streaming solution starting at 99 cents

per title and in the near future, downloads using the EZ2View(TM)

installer.



¶ EZ2 Companies, Inc.



¶ EZ2 Companies, Inc. is a provider of Internet based services to

its clients, ranging from dating and relationship services, rental

services, internet search and national mortgage services. The Company

operates several Internet portals: EZ2Rent.com, EZ2Ask.com,

EZ2Date.com, EZ2Mortgage.com, EZ2Movies.com and EZ2Vacation.com. The

offerings are focused on building traffic and allowing targeted

permission based, opt-in email solicitation to users to co-brand

products.



¶ Forward-Looking Statements



¶ This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning

of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These

forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Factors

that could cause actual results to differ materially from those

predicted in any such forward-looking statement include our ability to

continue to lower our costs, our timely development and customers'

acceptance of our transportation products, including acceptance by key

customers, pricing pressures, rapid technological changes in the

industry, growth of the transportation and third party logistics

market, increased competition, our ability to attract and retain

qualified personnel, our ability to identify and successfully

consummate future acquisitions; adverse changes in customer order

patterns, adverse changes in general economic conditions in the U.S.

and internationally, risks associated with foreign operations and

political and economic uncertainties associated with current world

events. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in EZ2

Companies, Inc. periodic reports filed with the Securities and

Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its report on Form

10-KSB for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2003.
Contacts:

EZ2 Companies, Inc., Miami

Otto Bethlen, 305-577-5990