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Lionsgate Teams Up With Leading US Indie Label Wind-Up Records For Joint Publishing Venture

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Top40 Charts/ Lionsgate) - Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation filmed entertainment studio, has entered into a unique partnership with Wind-up Records, the leading independently owned and operated mid-size label in the U.S., the two companies announced today, signaling a continued expansion of Lionsgate's music publishing operations.

The deal kicks off with five of Wind-up's principal acts including the recent VH1 "You Oughta Know" artist Thriving Ivory, South African trio Civil Twilight, whose music has been featured on television series "House," "One Tree Hill," "Without a Trace," and "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles," and emerging rock band Tickle Me Pink, currently touring with Hawthorne Heights. Additionally, Lionsgate will exclusively use music from Wind-up Records for its VH1 reality show "Scream Queens," and prominently features Wind-up acts such as Seether in the upcoming action thriller PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, premiering December 5th, with the soundtrack dropping on November 26th.

Lionsgate Music President Jay Faires said, "Wind-up is the most influential rock-leaning independent label in America and a natural fit for our next generation consumers. We see this as the first in a series of deals with genre leaders, and we're very excited to be in business with them as our growing film and TV slate calls for more rock music."

Wind-up President Edward Vetri added, "Wind-up is very excited to be in this new strategic relationship with Lionsgate. Wind-up and Lionsgate are like-minded companies that are committed to developing and breaking artists. Lionsgate's belief in Wind-up's A&R and commitment to its artists, and our belief in Lionsgate's ability to use its film and TV properties and its corporate relationships to expose our artists, will ultimately and significantly increase the value of the publishing we hold together. This relationship is a key strategic driver in Wind-up's overall vision of success within our 360 artist structure."

In Wind-up's eleven years, the company has discovered and built the careers of Creed, Evanescence, Seether, Finger Eleven, and 12 Stones, has achieved cumulative sales exceeding 50 million albums and features such upcoming stars as Thriving Ivory, Civil Twilight, Company of Thieves, Endless Hallway, Stars of Track and Field, Tickle Me Pink and others.

Lionsgate Music oversees music for Lionsgate's film and TV slate, releases its soundtracks and scores, and signs artists for publishing and records. The music team has received two Oscar(R) nominations with Marco Beltrami's score for 3:10 TO YUMA and Bird York's song "In The Deep" for Best Picture Winner CRASH. On the film and TV music front, they have brought in new music from Linkin Park, Serj Tankian, The Flaming Lips, Dr. Dre, Elvis Costello, John Legend, James Blunt, Amy Winehouse, and Gladys Knight. Upcoming soundtracks include PUNISHER: WAR ZONE featuring cues from Justice and Seether, Vol. 2 of the critically-acclaimed television series "Mad Men," featuring songs from Chubby Checker and Peter, Paul and Mary and the next volume in the "Weeds" series. Building on Lionsgate's top 10 iTunes album for Paramount's IRON MAN, later in the year the studio will release the score for Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT. On the heels of signing Grammy(R) winning reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry, three-time International Bluegrass Music Association(R) award winners The Infamous Stringdusters, and breaking alternative act Glacier Hiking, the music team is releasing the upcoming album from Grammy-nominated Cajun act the Pine Leaf Boys.

About Lionsgate
Lionsgate is the leading next generation filmed entertainment 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 through a series of partnerships that include the operation of the highly successful FEARnet branded channel with Sony and Comcast, the recent announcement of the fall 2009 launch of a new multiplatform entertainment venture with partners Viacom, Paramount Pictures and MGM, investment in the leading young men's digital distribution platform Break.com, ownership of the premier independent television syndication company Debmar-Mercury LLC and an alliance with independent filmed entertainment production and distribution company Roadside Attractions.

The Company's feature films have generated more than $450 million at the North American theatrical box office in the past year, and Lionsgate has also forged leadership positions in television and home entertainment with the production of such critically-acclaimed television series as "Weeds" and "Mad Men," the distribution of "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," "Family Feud," "South Park," "Trivial Pursuit," "The Wendy Williams Show" and Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns," and approximately 8% market share 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 entrepreneurial innovation and original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.

About Wind-up Entertainment
Wind-up Entertainment Inc. is a privately owned company that was founded in March 1997. Wind-up Records, a division of Wind-up Entertainment is currently the largest independently owned and operated label in the United States. Wind-up Entertainment Canada Inc., Wind-up Nashville, and expansion across Europe reflect the growing global presence for the label and development of the company's repertoire to encompass most genres. The label's roster features Evanescence, Seether, Finger Eleven, the entire Creed repertoire, and more than a dozen developing artists which include Thriving Ivory, Civil Twilight, Pilot Speed and others. Wind-up Entertainment also houses the publishing concerns Sakyamuni Music Publishing, LLC, Bodhi Music Publishing, LLC and Renfield Music Publishing, Inc., in addition to Pronto Merch, LLC, a full-scale retail, on-line and touring merchandising company. Wind-up Entertainment also operates Wind-up Artist Development Corporation, and Wind-up Touring, LLC.






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