FANDANGO LAUNCHES FANDANGOLABS, A NEW RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP DEDICATED TO INNOVATING THE MOVIEGOING EXPERIENCE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fandango, the nation's leading digital destination for moviegoers and fans, announced today the formation of FandangoLabs, the company's new research and development unit dedicated to innovating moviegoing products and services.  FandangoLabs will explore bringing to market exciting new ways for consumers to experience movies on the big screen and share new audience conveniences to grow advanced ticketing and drive theater attendance.

"At Fandango, we're at the intersection of entertainment, technology and consumers and we are excited to help drive innovation for the industry," said Paul Yanover, Fandango President. "We've formed FandangoLabs so that the industry and consumers can benefit from our unique position in the movie ecosystem to foster the development of engaging new products and experiences for the millions of moviegoers and fans who use Fandango."

FandangoLabs will work with multiple facets of the film and technology industries, enlisting a diverse and experienced array of leaders as inaugural members to its advisory board, including Dave Hollis, Walt Disney Studios EVP, Theatrical Distribution; George Dewey, Head of Digital Marketing, 20^th Century Fox; David Doyle, Chief Information Officer, SVP, Regal Entertainment Group; Alwyn Hight Kushner, President and COO, TCL Chinese Theatres; Jason Blum, Founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions; and Jennifer Panasik, Portfolio Director, Media & Technology, IDEO.  Global design firm IDEO will serve as a Fandango innovation partner in this new venture.

FandangoLabs will seek to accelerate moviegoing experiences that will delight fans, utilizing new technologies and business models.  It will explore new possibilities across location-based services, social commerce, augmented and virtual reality, interactive video, and personalization, among others.  FandangoLabs hopes to release its first moviegoing products in 2016.

Driven by a relentless desire to serve film audiences, Fandango has implemented a first-to-market strategy to deliver ticketing, trailers and other movie-related content on multiple emerging platforms on mobile, Web, TV and connected devices. The company has partnered with technology leaders like Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon and others that share like-minded goals to super-serve its consumers. 

Fandango has created market-leading apps for Apple's iOS devices, Passbook, Siri and Apple Watch and Google's Android platform, Google Plus and Google Now, and operates the #1 movie trailers and content channel on YouTube with Fandango Movieclips.  The company powers a movie trailer service with embedded ticketing functionality on Samsung Smart TVs, phones and tablets, and has movie trailer and video channels on Hulu, AOL and Roku.  Fandango also provides ticketing to movie content hubs including IMDb, Yahoo! Movies, Moviefone, MSN, and others.

About Fandango

Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, sells tickets to 27,000 screens nationwide. Fandango entertains and informs consumers with reviews, commentary, celebrity interviews and trailers, and offers the ability to quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and conveniently buy tickets in advance. For many theaters, fans can print their tickets at home or receive them as a paperless Mobile Ticket on their smartphones. Fandango's top-ranking movie ticketing apps, with 49 million downloads, are available on the iPhone and iPad, Android and other platforms.  Fandango is enjoyed by more than 42 million online and mobile visitors each month, according to comScore.  Film fans also find Fandango on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fandango and on Twitter @Fandango.

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