Number One On Santa’s List: DVD Titles; Top Selling
DVD Video Titles Are Off the Charts

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 — Underscoring experts“ predictions, DVD Video was a favorite among holiday
shoppers. Total DVD Video discs sales for the five week holiday shopping period was nearly three million units (2,933,333
discs) according to VideoScan which reports sales figures from 75 percent of the retail market. This figure is almost twice what
sold through to consumers in all of 1997. With hardware unit sales equally strong, DVD Video is the fastest growing new
packaged media format in history.

With many new releases on the top list, the number one seller was New Line Home Video’s new release of “Blade”“. In its
second week of release, ”Lethal Weapon 4”“ from Warner Home Video stayed on top as consumers” second favorite disc.
Rounding out the top three is “The Negotiator” also from Warner Home Video.

The James Bond classic “Tomorrow Never Dies“” from MGM Home Entertainment tops the list as the best selling DVD of
1998. Columbia TriStar Home Video holds the next top two spots for the year with megahits Godzilla and Air Force One,
number two and three respectively. All this is according to charts released today from the DVD Video Group and VideoScan.

”These consumer purchases ratify our belief in and the reality that open DVD is and will continue to be the future of
pre-recorded home entertainment,“” said Paul Culberg, president, DVD Video Group and executive vice president, Columbia
TriStar Home Video.

The charts are based on sales data collected by VideoScan from retail locations nationwide, including Best Buy, Blockbuster,
Circuit City, Musicland, Tower Records and more, but does not include small specialty stores and mass merchants such as
Wal-Mart and K-Mart. The list also can be found on the DVD Video Group’s web site.

Since its inception in 1993, VideoScan has been providing timely video sales information and charting capabilities for major
studios as well as home video divisions specializing in non-theatrical areas of interest. VideoScan’s computerized point-of-sale
tracking system currently collects data from more than 16,000 retail locations. VideoScan utilizes the same technology for its
home video and DVD services, that its sister company, SoundScan, presently uses to compile music industry charts and date.

The DVD Video Group is a Los Angeles-based, industry-funded nonprofit corporation that exists expressly to promote
consumer awareness of the benefits of DVD Video and to provide updated information to the media and the retail trade about
DVD Video players, movies and music videos. Consumers can reach the DVD Video Group at (323) 845-0160 or through its
web site at www.dvdvideogroup.com.

TOP 20 BEST-SELLING DVD VIDEO TITLES

For the Week Ending December 27, 1998

1 – Blade – New Line Home Video

2 – Lethal Weapon – Warner Home Video

3 – Negotiator – Warner Home Video

4 – Mask Of Zorro – Columbia TriStar Home Video

5 – Deep Impact – Paramount Home Video

6 – Gone With The Wind – MGM Home Entertainment

7 – Godzilla – Columbia TriStar Home Video

8 – Good Will Hunting – Buena Vista Home Entertainment

9 – Top Gun – Paramount Home Video

10 – Six Days Seven Nights – Buena Vista Home Entertainment

11 – City of Angels (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

12 – Lost in Space – New Line Home Video

13 – U.S. Marshals (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

14 – Tomorrow Never Dies – MGM Home Entertainment

15 – Austin Powers – New Line Home Video

16 – The Wedding Singer – New Line Home Video

17 – Hunt For Red October – Paramount Home Video

18 – Star Trek: First Contact – Paramount Home Video

19 – Horse Whisperer – Buena Vista Home Entertainment

20 – Small Soldiers – Universal Studios Home Video

TOP 20 BEST-SELLING DVD VIDEO TITLES 1998

1 – Tomorrow Never Dies – MGM Home Entertainment

2 – Godzilla – Columbia TriStar Home Video

3 – Air Force One – Columbia TriStar Home Video

4 – U.S. Marshals (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

5 – Lost in Space – New Line Home Video

6 – Lethal Weapon 4 – Warner Home Video

7 – Starship Troopers – Columbia TriStar Home Video

8 – Mask Of Zorro – Columbia TriStar Home Video

9 – Gone With The Wind – MGM Home Entertainment

10 – L.A. Confidential – Warner Home Video

11 – Contact (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

12 – Fifth Element – Columbia TriStar Home Video

13 – As Good As It Gets – Columbia TriStar Home Video

14 – The Wedding Singer – New Line Home Video

15 – Austin Powers – New Line Home Video

16 – City of Angels (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

17 – Sphere (Special Edition) – Warner Home Video

18 – Con Air – Buena Vista Home Entertainment

19 – Top Gun – Paramount Home Video

20 – Twister – Warner Home Video

SOURCE: DVD Video Group