Avenue Entertainment Group's ``Hollywood Collection'' Coming to Home Video.

Business/Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000

One of the most comprehensive collections of biographies ever compiled on many of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures stars, including Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Alan Ladd, will be available from MPI Home Video beginning this spring.

"The Hollywood Collection" features 28 titles produced by the award-winning husband-and-wife team of Gene Feldman and Suzette Winter. The video biographies, some narrated by the stars themselves, include interviews with friends, family members and colleagues, as well as clips from their most memorable films, and -- in some cases -- rare home movies.

"Over 350 actors, writers, directors, producers, make-up people, publicists, agents and family members all gave of themselves to help make these shows possible," said Feldman, producer/director of the series and president of Wombat Productions, a division of Avenue Entertainment Group (AMEX:PIX).

"This was the way it was in Hollywood in the very recent past and these were the stars who so captured us. MPI shares our passion for those days."

Individual programs from "The Hollywood Collection" have appeared on A&E, PBS, TNT, Lifetime and AMC.

The programs will be available through video stores and MPI's 800 number via its Web site, www.mpimedia.com, which is also connected through the Yahoo! Web site.

Avenue Entertainment Group is an independent entertainment company that produces features films, movies for television and cable, television series and 1-hour biography programs.

Avenue Pictures, a division of Avenue Entertainment Group and the company's president and chief executive officer, Cary Brokaw, have produced the Academy Award(R)-winning "Restoration," as well as Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" and "The Player," the latter being nominated for five Academy Awards(R), including best picture.

Brokaw and Avenue have also produced such features as "Finding Graceland," "Drugstore Cowboy," "After Dark, My Sweet," "The Object of Beauty," "American Heart" and the upcoming "Wayward Son," starring Harry Connick Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite.

Avenue Pictures Television has produced eight movies for television and cable, including "Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight" (TNT) and "Path to Paradise" (HBO).