ESPN to televise part of Wimbledon through 2013 and National Lampoon to Release Healthcare Comedy ''National Lampoon Presents RoboDoc''

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 04/21/2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) will televise part of Wimbledon through 2013, agreeing to a six-year contract extension with The All England Club. The network announced Thursday that ESPN2 will air about 100 hours of the tournament each year, including one men's and one women's semifinal. As part of the new deal, ESPN will show matches online. Last year, NBC and Wimbledon agreed to a four-year contract extension through 2011.


Peace Arch(R) Entertainment Group Inc. (AMEX: PAE), an integrated global entertainment company, recently announced that it closed major television and DVD deals on 18 titles in 14 territories at April's MIPTV market held in Cannes, France, the best showing in the Company's history. "We are pleased to report robust sales on a wide variety of new and catalogue titles at this important international television market," said Peace Arch Entertainment President-COO, John Flock.

National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX: NLN), the most widely recognized brand in comedy, announced recently that it would release and distribute the feature film, "National Lampoon Presents RoboDoc". The comedy was written by two practicing medical doctors, brothers Doug and Scott Gordon, M.D. and directed by Stephen Maddocks, and co-produced by Donald Tynes. The film was developed and produced in conjunction with National Lampoon.

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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