Image Entertainment to Release Groundbreaking ``Lyricist Lounge: Hip-Hop Video Classics'' July 8th on DVD; Features the Biggest and Most Influential Hip-Hop Music Videos!

Business Wire, May 7, 2003

Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2003

Revolutionary Continuous Mix-Tape Format!

Image Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq:DISK), a leading licensee and distributor of DVD programming, announced the July 8th DVD release of "Lyricist Lounge: Hip-Hop Video Classics," a collection of the most popular, widely seen and often imitated hip-hop videos from the genre's birth in the 1980s to the present day.

From its early underground days to explosive mainstream popularity, hip-hop music has been strongly defined by the music videos chosen to visualize this dynamic, constantly evolving musical form. Entire programs like "Yo! MTV Raps" have brought hip-hop video into homes around the world, while hip-hop artists have become high profile spokesmen for a wide range of products and advertisers.

See the names that made history with these 13 classic videos: "Walk This Way" (Run DMC), "Treat 'Em Right" (Chubb Rock), "Roxanne, Roxanne" (UTFO), "The Freaks Come Out at Night" (Whodini), "Electric Relaxation" (A Tribe Called Quest), "Resurrection" (Common Sense), "Shook Ones" (Mobb Deep), "How About Some Hardcore" (M.O.P.), "Just a Friend" (Biz Markie), "Passin' Me By" (Pharcyde), "Cream" (Wu-Tang Clan), "Sound Bwoy Buriell" (Smif n Wessun), and "Going Way Back" (Just-Ice). The program was licensed through MIC Media Corporation.

The first ever "continuous mix-tape" DVD, Hip-Hop Video Classics is the first in the exciting, ongoing "Lyricist Lounge" series released on DVD from Image Entertainment and produced by MIC Media. The DVD features a full mix by DJ Spinbad, with an option to play the videos mixed or unmixed. Extras include optional lyrics, which can scroll onscreen; commentary by "Yo! MTV Raps" host Ed Lover and a look at DJ Spinbad live and doing his thing at the Turntable Lab in New York City.

About Image Entertainment:

Image Entertainment, Inc. is a leading licensee and distributor of DVD programming in North America with in excess of 2,400 exclusive DVD titles in domestic release. The Company also has exclusive videocassette, broadcast, video on demand, audio, streaming video and download rights for many of its exclusive properties. The Company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California and maintains a domestic distribution facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Image maintains international distribution through its sublicense agreements for available programming on DVD and videocassette as well as broadcast. The Company has one of the largest selections of DVDs available online through its e-commerce subsidiary, DVDPlanet, at www.dvdplanet.com. For more information on Image Entertainment, Inc., please go to www.image-entertainment.com.

LYRICIST LOUNGE: HIP-HOP VIDEO CLASSICS
Order Date: May 27, 2003
Street Date: July 8, 2003
Catalog #: ID9506LGDVD
UPC #: 014381950625
DVD SRP: $19.99

LYRICIST LOUNGE: HIP-HOP VIDEO CLASSICS
Order Date: May 27, 2003
Street Date: July 8, 2003
Catalog #: ID9500LG
UPC #: 014381950038
VHS SRP: $14.98