Lionsgate Television International, Ish Entertainment, Uniqon and Paris Hilton Entertainment enter co-production agreement for 'Paris Hilton's My New BFF'

About Lionsgate:
Lionsgate is a leading next generation studio with a major presence in the production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment, video-on-demand and digitally delivered content. The Company is leveraging its content leadership and marketing expertise into a global multiplatform entertainment company through the recent acquisition of TV Guide Network, one of the 25 most widely distributed cable networks, and partnerships that include the FEARnet branded VOD and Internet horror channel with Sony and Comcast, the expected fall 2009 launch of EPIX, a new premium entertainment channel with partners Viacom and MGM, investment in the leading young men's digital distribution platform Break.com, the recent acquisition of the content and navigation portal TV Guide.com, ownership of the premier independent television syndication company Debmar-Mercury and an alliance with independent filmed entertainment production and distribution company Roadside Attractions.

The Company is an industry market share leader at the North American theatrical box office for calendar 2009 to date, propelled by such theatrical box office successes as TYLER PERRY'S MADEA GOES TO JAIL, MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D and THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. Other recent successes include SAW V, RELIGULOUS, FORBIDDEN KINGDOM, RAMBO and THE BANK JOB. Lionsgate has also forged strong positions in television and home entertainment with the production of such critically-acclaimed television series as "Mad Men," "Weeds" and "Crash," the distribution of Tyler Perry's "House of Payne," "Family Feud" and "South Park" and upcoming shows including Tyler Perry's "Meet The Browns" and "The Wendy Williams Show," as well as market share of nearly 7% and the industry's leading box office-to-DVD conversion rate in home entertainment. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 12,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the 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.

About Ish Entertainment:
Ish Entertainment was launched in April 2008 by former VH1 execs Michael Hirschorn and Stella Stolper. Ish, which has a first-look deal with MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo, operates as a joint venture with Lionsgate, which handles Ish's international distribution. The first projects to come out of that deal are "Paris Hilton's My New BFF," "50 Cent: The Money And The Power," "T.I.'s Road To Redemption" all for MTV; and a Christmas special starring Larry the Cable Guy for CMT. Also in production is a series starring DJ AM titled "Gone Too Far" for MTV and Untitled Antonio Sabato Jr. series for VH1. Ish Entertainment marries formats and talent focusing primarily but not exclusively on non-scripted programming, continuing a strategy that has helped VH1 launch an unprecedented string of hit shows with top talent. Ish Entertainment is based in Los Angeles and New York.

About Uniqon:
Uniqon Emirates & Uniqon (FZE) are a leading events, advertising and production company servicing the corporate and entertainment markets. Located in Dubai within Emaar's Gold and Diamond Park, Uniqon Emirates & Uniqon (FZE) have earned a national reputation as a creator and producer of key governmental strategic campaigns and prime time TV programs. They have been in the business for over 6 years.

About Viola Communications:
Viola Communications is a leading communications group headquartered in Abu Dhabi, with an office in Dubai. Viola is a multidiscipline group offering a wide spectrum of marketing communications services to address clients' individual needs. Viola's business units encompass various disciplines of the communication spectrum: V Advertising; V Public Relations; V Events; V Producers and V Outdoors. Its success has seen it become one of the fastest growing communications companies in the UAE supporting some of the most important clients and projects in the UAE.

V-Producers, the production arm of Viola Communications, is a full-service production company offering high quality production and post production services as well as original projects that include TV and radio commercials, documentaries, sound and video editing, virtual tours, music compositions and recording facilities.

V Final Cut was the result of a strategic alliance between V Producers and Final Cut, an Egypt based production house with more than 25 years of experience in the Middle East. It is headed by the renowned Director Amr Arafa who directed many award-winning films including Safara Fil Amara, Hamam Fi Amsterdam and Africano.


For more information, please contact:
Batool Hasan Nabhani
Account Executive
V.Public Relations
PO BOX 502265, Dubai, UAE
T:+971 4 369 38 91
F:+971 4 360 45 63

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