JOURNEY BACK TO OZ

This year (2006) celebrates the 150 anniversary of L. Frank Baum's birth, and surprisingly enough, Andy Mangels and the BCI entertainment team has released onto DVD, what is known as one of the sequel's to the M-G-M classic, "The Wizard of Oz", with the 1970s classic Oz film, "JOURNEY BACK TO OZ". Their care and display of the quality of the animation now that they have restored it, is beautiful and all of the special features are well put together and very informative. Good work, in brining Oz back in this way! Aaron Pacentine of VideosForFamily.com

Los Angeles, CA – There’s perhaps no greater fantasy film than “The Wizard of Oz.” In the early 1970s, the brilliant creators at Filmation Studios updated this movie classic, incorporating their magical animation skills, and created “Journey Back to Oz.” This animated film classic, featuring the voices of such legendary stars as Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas and Milton Berle, will be available on October 24^th at the suggested retail price of $14.98, from BCI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, and UK media company and underlying rights owner, Entertainment Rights Plc (“ER”).

Liza Minnelli recreates the role of Dorothy made famous by her legendary mother, Judy Garland. Joined once again by the Scarecrow (Rooney), Tin Man (Thomas), The Cowardly Lion (Berle) and new friend Pumpkin Head (Paul Lynde), Dorothy travels back to Oz, and encounters a whole new set of adventures when she meets up with Mombi (Merman), the cousin of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Making a cameo voice appearance as Aunt Em is Margaret Hamilton, the original Wicked Witch of the West.

“Journey Back to Oz” features songs and music by Walter Scharf and Academy Award^®and Emmy Award winners Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen.

Producing the special features, documentaries and most of the extra content is entertainment writer Andy Mangels, a best-selling novelist, and author of Animation on DVD—The Ultimate Guide.

Navarre Corporation is a publisher and distributor of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC software, CD audio, DVD video, video games and accessories. Since its founding in 1983, the Company has established distribution relationships with customers across a wide spectrum of retail channels which includes mass merchants, discount, wholesale club, office and music superstores, military and e-tailers nationwide. The Company currently provides its products to over 19,000 retail and distribution center locations throughout the United States and Canada. Navarre has expanded its business to include the licensing and publishing of home entertainment and multimedia content, primarily through the acquisitions of Encore, BCI, and FUNimation. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.navarre.com.

BCI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is an independent entertainment video and audio supplier. BCI has continually redefined the standards and concepts of this industry, often introducing national success categories through its intuitive mass marketing skills. Its vast collection of titles represents both exclusively licensed titles from around the world, as well as in-house produced CDs and DVDs.

· Entertainment Rights Plc (“ER”) is one of the UK’s leading specialist media groups focused on the ownership of high quality children’s and family programming, characters and brands

· ER owns or controls the rights to many global characters including Basil Brush®, Postman Pat®, Jess the Cat™, Little Red Tractor™, Rupert Bear®, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe®, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids™, She-Ra®, Ghostbusters and Jim Jam & Sunny™

· Since 1999, when ER owned rights to just 50 hours of programming, ER’s library has grown to circa 2,000 hours of high quality children’s and family characters and brands. This includes certain rights to global brands such as Mattel’s Barbie™, Scholastic’s Clifford^TM, Hasbro’s Transformers™, Harveytoons Casper the Friendly Ghost and Classic Media’s Felix the Cat

· ER’s wholly owned subsidiary Tell-Tale Productions, created and produced The Tweenies, one of the UK’s most successful pre-school brands

· ER has grown rapidly. Annual revenues have increased from £1.8m in 1999 to £30.7m in 2005, the last reported financial year www.entertainmentrights.com