Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns to Present at Jefferies Media Conference on Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns to Present at Jefferies Media Conference on Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Webcast of Presentation Will Be Available Live and by Replay

SANTA MONICA, Calif., and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 5
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, today announced it will webcast its audio and slide presentation at the upcoming Jefferies & Co. Gaming, Lodging, Media & Entertainment Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns will provide an overview of the Company and its business model to the conference at 1:30p ET/10:30a PT on Wednesday, May 10, 2006.

A webcast of the presentation will be available live and by replay. Interested parties may access both the live and archived webcast by going to http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jeff8/lgf/. The archived replay will be available shortly after the live presentation and will be accessible for 60 days. The Jefferies webcast link will also be posted on Lionsgate's corporate Web site at www.lionsgate.com beginning next Wednesday, May 10.

Lionsgate is the leading independent filmed entertainment studio. Fresh off the Best Picture Academy Award(R)-winning CRASH, the Company is a premier independent producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content. Its prestigious and prolific library of more than 5,000 titles is a valuable source of stable, recurring revenue and is a foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate brand name is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.

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www.lionsgate.com

For further information please contact:

Peter Wilkes Kelli Easterling
Lionsgate Lionsgate
310-255-3726 310-255-4929
pwilkes@lionsgate.comkeasterling@lionsgate.com

Source: Lionsgate

CONTACT: Peter Wilkes, +1-310-255-3726, pwilkes@lionsgate.com, or Kelli
Easterling, +1-310-255-4929, keasterling@lionsgate.com, both of Lionsgate

Web site: http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jeff8/lgf

Web site: http://www.lionsgate.com/

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