For Immediate Release

Hollywood Heartthrobs Arrive on VHS and DVD

In SUMMER CATCH and AMERICAN OUTLAWS

Star Powered Drama THE MISTS OF AVALON and
Acclaimed Indie Thriller 4 DOGS PLAYING POKER

Also Available in December

BURBANK, Calif., October 1, 2001 -- Warner Home Video (WHV) announces its December line-up with six compelling titles available on VHS rental and DVD including Summer Catch, American Outlaws, TNT's The Mists of Avalon, 4 Dogs Playing Poker plus Fine Line Home Entertainment's Sundance Film Festival Audience Favorite, Hedwig & the Angry Itch. Cora Unashamed from PBS will be available on VHS rental only.

SUMMER CATCH - AVAILABLE DECEMBER 4

Summer heats up when a blue-collar kid with major league aspirations falls in love with a wealthy debutante during a Cape Cod vacation in Summer Catch, a romantic comedy in the tradition of Bull Durham, starring today's top teen-appeal talent including FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. (I Know What You Did Last Summer, She's All That), JESSICA BIEL (7th Heaven) and MATTHEW LILLARD (Scream, She's All That, October's 13 Ghosts).

Summer Catch is rated "PG-13" (sexual content, language and some drinking) and will be available for rent on VHS and for sale on DVD, priced at $19.98 SRP. The DVD will include the following special features:

• Additional scenes
• Feature-length commentary by Jessica Biel, director Mike Tollin and writer John Gatins
• Original theatrical trailer
• Cast/director film highlights
• Languages: English and French (dubbed in Quebec)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio and 16x9 widescreen format-more-

AMERICAN OUTLAWS - AVAILABLE DECEMBER 4

The legend of Jesse James gets a fresh spin in this action comedy featuring hot, young actors COLIN FARRELL (Tigerland, this winter's Hart's War), SCOTT CAAN (Gone in 60 Seconds, Enemy of the State, Boiler Room, December's Ocean's 11) and ALI LARTER (Legally Blonde, Varsity Blues, House on Haunted Hill).

When the citizens of a Midwest town learn that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs and ultimately become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West. As their fame grows, so does the legend of their leader, the young outlaw Jesse James.
American Outlaws also stars screen veterans KATHY BATES (Titanic, The Waterboy, Misery) and former James Bond TIMOTHY DALTON and is directed by LES MAYFIELD (Flubber, Miracle on 34th Street).

American Outlaws is rated "PG-13" (western violence) and will be available for rent on VHS and for sale on DVD, priced at $24.98 SRP. The web-enabled, feature-packed DVD includes the following:

• Four featurettes: The Making of American Outlaws, Creating the Old West, How to Be an Outlaw and Costuming the Cowboys
• Deleted scenes
• Feature-length commentary by director Les Mayfield, editor Michael Tronick and co-writer John Rogers
• Storyboards
• Publicity gallery
• Production stills
• Original trailers and TV spots
• Cast/crew biographies and film highlights
• Languages: English and French
  
• Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
  
• Three English audio tracks: DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0
  
• Interactive animated menus
• 16x9 widescreen format
  
• Additional enhanced features for DVD-ROM include screenplay viewer with storyboards, the original theatrical website and web links

THE MISTS OF AVALON - AVAILABLE DECEMBER 11

The San Francisco International Film Festival Best Television Drama Miniseries award winner, The Mists of Avalon, was watched by more than 30-million viewers during its premiere run, the largest audience ever for a TNT miniseries.

A riveting retelling of King Arthur's Camelot, based on the bestseller by Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon features the female star power of Academy Award® winner ANGELICA HUSTON (Ever After, The Adams Family), JULIANNA MARGULIES (ER, Dinosaur) and Academy Award® Best Actress nominee JOAN ALLEN (The Contender, Pleasantville) and boasts an illustrious production team including L.A. Confidential producer DAVID L. WOLPER, Close Encounters of the Third Kind's Oscar® winning cinematographer VILMOS ZSIGMOND and three-time Best Costume Design Oscar® winner JAMES ACHESON.

The Mists of Avalon will be available for rent on VHS and for sale on DVD, priced at $19.98 SRP. The DVD will include the following special features:

Additional scenes

• Gallery of photos, storyboards and costume/production designs
• Camelot characters family tree
• Cast/director film highlights
• Languages: English and French
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio and 16x9 widescreen format

4 DOGS PLAYING POKER - AVAILABLE DECEMBER 11

A film festival favorite, 4 Dogs Playing Poker is a captivating story of four friends who, after participating in a heist gone awry, are forced to devise a desperate payback plan by taking out one million dollar life insurance policies and drawing cards to see who lives … and who dies.

An explosive thriller in the style of Reservoir Dogs and The Usual Suspects, 4 Dogs Playing Poker stars OLIVIA WILLIAMS (The Sixth Sense, Rushmore), STACY EDWARDS (Driven, The Next Best Thing), BALTHAZAR GETTY (Natural Born Killers, fall's Deuces Wild), DANIEL LONDON (Patch Adams, September's Big Trouble), TIM CURRY (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), FOREST WHITAKER (Phenomenon, Species) and is directed by PAUL RACHMAN (Drive Baby Drive).

4 Dogs Playing Poker is rated "R" (language, drug use and some sexuality) and will be available for rent on VHS and for sale on DVD, priced at $19.98 SRP ($14.95 MAP). The 4 Dogs Playing Poker DVD is available in Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio and 16x9 widescreen format and includes the original theatrical trailer, cast/director film highlights, as well as subtitles in English, Spanish and French.

With operations in 78 international territories – more than the video division of any other studio – Warner Home Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. WHV's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Home Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.

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