Image Entertainment, Inc., a Chatsworth-based independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming has announced plans to license and distribute the 2005 Austin City Limits Music Festival on DVD and CD with Capital Sports & Entertainment, an entertainment and sports management and marketing company. The DVD and CD releases are scheduled for this summer, and will both be special edition 2-disc sets with highlights from the festival. Capital Sport & Entertainment and KLRU-TV are co-producers of the Austin City Limits Music Festival which features over 130 bands on eight stages in a three-day period. Among the bands featured have been Coldplay, Widespread Panic and The Black Crows. The Festival premiered on PBS from Austin’s Zilker Park. Image has distributed other concert events under titles “Cher: The Farewell Tour”, “Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire: Live at the Greek”, and “Rockin’ the Corps”, a concert given in tribute to the U.S Marines returning from Iraq. Founded in 1981, Image Entertainment Inc. offers over 3,000 exclusive DVD titles and over 200 exclusive CD titles in domestic release. It has a domestic distribution facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. It distributes worldwide through its direct relationships with major North American retailers and foreign sublicensees such as Sony/BMG and Warner Music.
Image Entertainment and Capital Sports & Entertainment distributing Austin City Limits Music Festival
