Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending May 25, 2008 and National Lampoon and Dice.com Roll Out a Cast of Characters in New WebTV Series, ''National Lampoon's The Lemmings'' on maniaTV.com

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 05/30/2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Rentrak Retail and Home Video Essentials, business units of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), today announced the Top 10 DVD sales and rentals for the prior week. Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.


Lionsgate(R) (NYSE: LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, continues to be a growing force in the family home entertainment space, announcing today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with leading consumer entertainment products company MGA Entertainment for the ever-popular Little Tikes(R) brand. The deal was announced today by Lionsgate Executive Vice President of Marketing and Family Entertainment, Anne Parducci. Under the terms of the multi-year deal, Lionsgate has secured the home entertainment distribution rights, including electronic sell-through and VOD, for the United States and Canada to product created under the all-new Animated Little Tikes Entertainment label. Consisting of four CGI-animated stories, the first release under the new label -- Little Tikes Land -- is scheduled to hit retail this fall.

National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX: NLN), the most widely recognized brand in comedy, and maniaTV.com, a leading provider of long and short form internet television, today announced Dice.com as the official sponsor for the new sketch comedy show, "National Lampoon's The Lemmings". As part of the cutting-edge branded entertainment sponsorship package, show producers have created a character that embodies Dice.com's virtues, as the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals and the companies seeking to employ them.

EPIC Corporation (OTC: EPIO) (the "Company"), a multi-media communications and broadcasting company, announced that two shareholders have returned 15 Million shares of EPIC's common stock to the Company and the shares have been cancelled and returned to authorized but unissued shares. The issued and outstanding shares of the Company is now 11,262,023 shares. The Company, in exchange for the cancellation of the shares, agreed to issue the shareholders shares in the newly formed EPIC Communications Corp., a majority owned subsidiary of the Company, which is to become the multi-media communications and broadcasting operating company.

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