Lionsgate Signs International Sub-Publishing Deal With Fintage Music Including Film, Television, and Catalog Rights

Lionsgate Signs International Sub-Publishing Deal With Fintage Music Including Film, Television, and Catalog Rights

AMSTERDAM and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, has signed an agreement today with Fintage Music to handle all international music sub-publishing for current and upcoming Lionsgate music rights, it was announced today by Bruce Lampcov and Niels Teves of Fintage Music and Jay Faires, Lionsgate President of Music and Publishing.

The deal includes such Lionsgate films as AKEELAH AND THE BEE, EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH, and the upcoming release BUG, in addition to Lionsgate television series such as Weeds and Wildfire.

"Having an organization with global reach like Fintage Music, which combines 20 years of expertise in both film and music rights collection, was very important to us," said Faires. "They provide a secure and reliable service and have the flexibility to accommodate all of our needs."

Fintage Music is part of Fintage House, the leading provider of customized financial solutions for the film, television, and music industries. Fintage has recently expanded its music division, closing deals with high profile catalogs and artists such as 8 mile style (Eminem), Crosstown Music, Robbie Williams, Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), and ABC Television.

"Lionsgate's list of film and television productions is impressive in both its international scope and tremendous success with audiences," said Lampcov. "Fintage Music is looking forward to working with Jay and his team and maximizing the earnings potential on their entire list of productions."

"We have been dealing for many years with Lionsgate at Fintage Film & TV and are delighted that we can extend our relationship to music publishing for Fintage Music," Teves added. "We strongly believe that our combined knowledge, experience and business model for these industries provide a very solid basis for our clients to maximize their cash revenues."

Fintage Film & TV clients include companies such as Beacon, RTI, WWE, and Yari Film Group. Fintage House currently has offices in the Netherlands, Hungary, and London with representatives in Australia, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United States including a recently opened representative office in Toronto.

Lionsgate is the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, winning this year's Best Picture Academy Award(R) for CRASH, generating two consecutive years of $300 million-plus domestic theatrical box office, operating a $500 million-plus home entertainment business, and producing a broad slate of prime time television series for fiscal 2007. It is a premier 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 7,800 titles is a valuable source of stable, recurring revenue and a foundation for the growth of the company's core businesses. The Lionsgate brand is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.

For further information about Lionsgate, please visit: www.lionsgate.com

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

FINTAGE MUSIC LIONSGATE

Niels Teves, CEO Fintage Music Sarah Greenberg
Telephone +31 71 565 9999 310-255-3856
E-mail niels.teves@fintagehouse.comsgreenberg@lionsgate.com

PRESS & PR Stacey Mooradian
John Durie 310-255-4921
STRATEGIC MUSIC MARKETING smooradian@lionsgate.com
Cell +44 (0) 7802 482 426
E-mail john@strategicfilm.com Ron Shapiro
212-337-2034
ronshapiro@ronshapiro.com

Patti Conte
212-337-1406
patticonte@nyc.rr.com

EDITOR'S NOTES - FINTAGE MUSIC
October 2006

Fintage Music is part of Fintage House which for the last 20 years has been maximizing the 'entertainment assets' for their clients in the film, television, music, and sports industries.

Since its inception in 1997, Fintage Music has developed a unique method in publishing rights administration and/or neighboring rights administration. Fintage offers fast, accurate, and transparent administration of music rights, utilizing a network of direct memberships of worldwide collecting societies and advanced technology.

Fintage Music clients include Daniel Bedingfield, Cher, Duran Duran, REM, Papa Roach, Daniel Powter, Alicia Keys, Fountains of Wayne, Robbie Williams, Pam Sheyne, Guy Gross, and many others.

Fintage Music recently signed with Crosstown Songs for an exclusive worldwide sub-publishing agreement covering their current and future music publishing catalogues and will license and administer all of Crosstown's copyrights which include the following catalogues: Gregg Alexander, Deston Songs, Rive Droite, and Robert Clivilles. These catalogues contain songs performed by Cher, Enrique Iglesias, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, Kelly Clarkson, Baha Men, Ronan Keating, and Robbie Williams.

Fintage's head office is in the Netherlands with two additional offices in Budapest and London, plus representative offices in Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Canada, and the USA.

For further information about Fintage Music, please visit: www.fintagemusic.com

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact: ajackson@lionsgate.com

Source: Lionsgate

CONTACT: Niels Teves, CEO of Fintage Music, +31 71 565 9999,
niels.teves@fintagehouse.com; or John Durie of Strategic Music Marketing,
+44 (0) 7802 482 426, john@strategicfilm.com, for Fintage Music; or Sarah
Greenberg, +1-310-255-3856, sgreenberg@lionsgate.com, or Stacey Mooradian,
+1-310-255-4921, smooradian@lionsgate.com, all of Lionsgate; or Ron Shapiro,
+1-212-337 2034, ronshapiro@ronshapiro.com, or Patti Conte, +1-212-337-1406,
patticonte@nyc.rr.com, both for Lionsgate

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

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

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