ESPN and Disney to Present X Games 3D the Movie

First Sports-Based Feature Film in Digital 3D Highlights Action Sports Icons

LOS ANGELES, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ESPN and Disney will release the first
sports-themed 3D film this summer with a special, limited one-week theatrical
run starting August 21. ESPN Films will produce and Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures will distribute X Games 3D the Movie nationwide into digital 3D
theaters around the country. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve
Lawrence (Down the Barrel), the film will use groundbreaking digital 3D
techniques to immerse sports fans into the world of action sports and its top
stars. Iconic action sports personalities chronicled in the film are: Shaun
White, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Ricky Carmichael and Bob Burnquist.

"ESPN is extremely proud to join Disney in bringing the 3D experience to
action sports fans," said Ron Semiao, senior vice president, ESPN Films. "The
proximity of the cameras to the action combined with the amazing performances
by the athletes provides a mind-blowing, jaw-dropping storytelling encounter
for fans of all ages."

Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, said,
"There is absolutely no sporting event better suited for the Digital 3D medium
than X Games. ESPN continues to break boundaries by using digital 3D to put
sports fans literally in the center of the action: preparing to launch down
the big air ramp with Danny Way, racing downhill on Shaun White's snowboard
and flying through the air in Travis Pastrana's Rally car. And Disney is
proud to add X Games 3D the Movie to its robust, industry-leading slate of 17
other upcoming Disney Digital 3D(TM) releases."

The full-length feature film will capture the drama and spectacle that play
out every year at the X Games events and will also tell the stories of the
featured athletes showing the sacrifices they make in pursuit of glory and
progressing their sport on the industry's biggest stage.

Featured athletes:

-- Shaun White (Skateboard, Snowboard) - Defending X Games Skateboard
Vert
gold medalist; seven-time Winter X Games Snowboard gold medalist; 2006
Winter Olympic gold medalist
-- Travis Pastrana (Moto X, Rally Car Racing) - Fourteen-time X Games
medalist, nine of which are gold, for Moto X and Rally Car Racing; X
Games 14 Rally Car Racing gold medalist
-- Danny Way(Skateboard) - Four-time X Games Skateboard Big Air gold
medalist and pioneer of the Big Air ramp
-- Ricky Carmichael (Moto X) - X Games 13 Moto X Racing gold medalist;
10-time AMA Motocross Champion; five-time AMA Supercross Champion; 102
AMA Motocross/Lites Wins

-- Bob Burnquist (Skateboard) - Four-time X Games Skateboard Vert gold
medalist; X Games 13 Big Air gold medalist

ESPN Films

Launched in March 2008, ESPN Films presents quality scripted and documentary
film projects for television and theatrical release. Documentaries include the
critically acclaimed and Peabody Award-winning Black Magic (March 2008), The
Streak (April 2008), the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection The Zen
of Bobby V (May 2008),the Sundance and Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival
selection Kicking It (September 2008), The Greatest Game Ever Played (December
2008), A Woman Among Boys (December 2008) and the upcoming 2009 Tribeca/ESPN
Sports Film Festival selection Kobe Doin' Work. Motion picture projects
already in development include the untitled Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey
story in collaboration with Wildwood Enterprises and Baldwin/Cohen Productions
in which Robert Redford will portray Rickey, and the two recently announced
films about the life, struggles and triumphs of Jim Jones Jr., and the Louis
Mulkey story, about a fallen firefighter and high school basketball coach
whose team accomplishes extraordinary things in his memory. In October 2009,
ESPN Films will launch a major initiative with "30 for 30," a celebration of
the last three decades of sports timed with ESPN's 30th anniversary.

About Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ("WDSMP") is the domestic marketing and
distribution arm of The Walt Disney Studios responsible for all aspects of
marketing, publicity, advertising, promotion, and distribution for motion
pictures released under the Walt Disney Pictures, Disneynature, Touchstone
Pictures and Hollywood Pictures banners. WDSMP also leads the industry in
digital 3D releases, having released to-date six digital 3D films, and now
plans, with X Games 3D the Movie, eighteen upcoming Disney Digital 3D(TM)
films, more than all other Studios combined.

SOURCE Walt Disney Studios

Katie Moses Swope, ESPN X Games, +1-310-642-1507, Katie.moses@espn.com, or
Alison Lazar, ESPN Films, +1-212-448-4804, Alison.lazar@espn.com; or Heidi
Trotta of The Walt Disney Studios, +1-818-560-7280, heidi.trotta@disney.com