Paradise's Picture Vision Earns Four Emmy Nominations For Janet Jackson HBO Special

Business Wire, August 2, 1999

Picture Vision Extends Collaboration

With Garth Brooks in "Chris Gaines" Project

Paradise Music & Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq:PDSE) announced that its film and television production division, Picture Vision, has received four Emmy nominations for its Janet Jackson HBO show. The nominations bring Picture Visions' total number of Emmy nominations to eleven. In 1998, Picture Vision received six nominations for the Garth Brooks HBO special "Live from Central Park" the most watched cable show in 1997, and one for the Garth Brooks NBC special, "Ireland and Back". This year's Emmy awards are scheduled for September.

"The Emmy nominations are an incredible honor that tops a year that is already one of our most prolific," said Jon Small, C.E.O. and founder of Picture Vision. "We have already completed thirty-four productions in 1999, including ten network specials. Among the ten network specials are John Tesh for PBS, Janet Jackson for HBO, three Garth Brooks specials for NBC and a series of specials for CBS's Country Music Television, featuring Country's top performers.

Jon Small and Picture Vision have been working closely with Garth Brooks in the development of his highly anticipated new project "Garth Brooks: In the Life of Chris Gaines". Chris Gaines is a fictional character adopted by Brooks who will have the lead role in "The Lamb," a movie being developed for Paramount Pictures by Red Strokes Entertainment, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Tracey Edmonds. The film's release is expected by December 2000.

Small just finished directing Brooks in the music video "Lost in You" from the Chris Gaines debut album, which provides the first look at Brooks as the character. The video is scheduled to air August 2, 1999.

Brooks and Small will continue to work together on the second video "It Don't Matter to the Sun," which will be featured in the upcoming Warner Bros film "For The Love of the Game" starring Kevin Costner. The video is scheduled for release in mid-August. Also in production is a Garth Brooks NBC special to be aired September 29th. This is the fifth collaboration between Brooks and Small.

Other projects in production for Picture Vision include an "Earth Day 2000" special, a video for DreamWorks recording artist Toby Keith, and a live country music special for CBS and Country Music Television to be aired in October 1999.

About Picture Vision

Founded in 1984 by Jon Small, Picture Vision produces televised concerts, other special events for television and home video as well as music videos. Picture Vision produced the highly acclaimed "Garth Live in Central Park" for HBO and "Garth Brooks Ireland And Back" broadcast on NBC in March of 1998. The company has also produced music videos for clients such as Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, Sting, Aerosmith and numerous other artists. The company has also recently expanded into the production of television commercials, recently completing commercials for MCI and NAPA auto parts, among other national advertisers.

About Paradise Music & Entertainment

Paradise Music and Entertainment, Inc. is an artist-centric producer of music, entertainment and media content. Its divisions include (i) PUSH Records (independent record label teamed with V2 Records), (ii) Picture Vision (film, television and music video production company), (iii) All Access Entertainment Management Group, Inc. (music artist management), and (iv) Rave Music (commercial music/film score producer). Paradise has also agreed to acquire Straw Dogs (television commercial production company) subject to execution of definitive agreements and stockholder approval.

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