TRIBECA ENTERPRISES AND LIONSGATE TO LAUNCH “TRIBECA SHORT LIST” BRANDED SVOD PLATFORM

Service Will Launch in First Half of Calendar 2015

Vancouver, BC, Santa Monica, CA, and New York, NY – October 20, 2014 – In a move to offer premium content to a growing online audience, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a premier next generation global content leader, and Tribeca Enterprises, a diversified global media company which owns and operates the Tribeca Film Festival, have partnered to launch a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, the two companies announced today.

The service, called Tribeca Short List, will encompass a prestigious selection of Lionsgate and Tribeca titles as well as critically-acclaimed films drawn from around the world.  The films will be curated by Tribeca and leading voices in contemporary culture and refreshed on a weekly basis.  The service is slated to launch in the first half of calendar 2015.

“The launch of the Tribeca Short List service unites two powerful brands and underscores our commitment to collaborate with blue-chip partners around the world to deliver premium content to online audiences,” said Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer.  “The Tribeca name resonates with movie aficionados everywhere, and our service will encompass a highly curated, diverse and prestigious portfolio of quality films.”

“We are pleased to join with Lionsgate, a world-class brand synonymous with innovation and exciting, quality entertainment, to create a highly curated experience that disrupts the ‘more-is-more’ model in today’s streaming on-demand landscape,” said Jane Rosenthal, CEO of Tribeca Enterprises. “Tribeca Short List aims to be a service where you can see films you never got to watch, forgot to watch, and want to watch.”

The new service will be based in New York and will be led by a General Manager and a Board of Directors comprised of Lionsgate and Tribeca executives as well as an Advisory Board that encompasses some of the leading names in American entertainment and culture.

ABOUT TRIBECA ENTERPRISES

Tribeca Enterprises is a diversified global media company based in New York City. Established in 2003 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, the company currently operates a network of branded entertainment businesses including the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival International, Tribeca Cinemas, Tribeca Digital Studios, and Tribeca Film, a distribution label. The Tribeca Film Festival is a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors and also runs the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival and the newly created Tribeca Innovation Week. The company’s mission is to provide artists with unique platforms to expand the audience for their works and to broaden the access point for consumers to experience independent film and media.www.tribecafilm.com

ABOUT LIONSGATE

Lionsgate, home to The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergent franchises, is a premier next generation global content leader with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. Lionsgate currently has more than 30 television shows on over 20 different networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the broadcast network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically-acclaimed hit seriesOrange is the New Black.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger ames franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the first installment of theDivergent franchise, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions' A Most Wanted Man, Lionsgate/Codeblack Films’ Addicted and Pantelion Films' breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S.

Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 16,000 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 and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.

Faith based Hollywood

IN JESUS TIME: GOD and Hollywood

"In Jesus time" is how actress/producer Meagan Good signs her personal emails. It always makes me smile when I receive one because it's a reminder that this successful actress ("Anchorman: The Legend Continues" opposite Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig and lead character Detective 'Joanna Locasto' in the new NBC drama “Deception") is proud of her faith and is one of several, high profile Hollywood players that let their "faith flag fly!"

This past weekend those faith power players broke "spiritual, creative and financial bread" at the Merge Summit, one of the largest events for people of faith and it's multifaceted programs.

Held in Los Angeles, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel nearly 100 of the industry’s top entertainers and executives, including Ms. Good and her husband, DeVon Franklin (SVP of Production, Columbia Pictures), lead more than 20 interactive panel discussions, workshops and Master Class sessions covering music, television, film, creative development, branding and new media.

The Summit, co-founded by Dr. Holly Carter and Robi Reed, is presented in association with Walgreens, Wellness Interactive, Inc. and Entertainment One.

The celebrity roster included Anthony Anderson (ABC’s “Black-ish”), Laurence Fishburne (ABC’s “Black-ish”), Tracee Ellis Ross (ABC’s “Black-ish”), Boris Kodjoe (BET’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood”), Common (Rapper/Actor), Lala Anthony (“Think Like A Man Too”), Terrence Jenkins, Erica Campbell (Mary Mary), Derek Luke (“Baggage Claim”), Clint Culpepper (President, Screen Gems), Dondre Whitfield (ABC’s “Mistresses”), Yvette Nicole Brown (NBC’s “Community”), Bishop Charles E. Blake (West Angeles Church of God In Christ), Lynn Whitfield (Emmy Award-winning Actress), Suzanne de Passe (de Passe Jones Entertainment), Harry J. Lennix (NBC’s “The Blacklist”), Edwina Findley (Tyler Perry’s “If Loving You Is Wrong”), Cast of Oxygen’s “Preachers of L.A.,” to list a few.

My chats with Megan center on the subject of balance and how she maintains her sincere love of God, career and being married to a Hollywood insider, who is also a minister.

Correct, DeVon Franklin, SVP of Production, Columbia Pictures/producer is also a minster.

In Jesus time—indeed.

"My love for GOD makes everything possible," shared Megan. "My life keeps getting fuller and I love giving back. I'm filled with joy, the kind you can only get from knowing The Lord (GOD)."

In addition to acting, Meagan runs her own production company and is involved in the independent film community. Some of her producer credits include "Miles From Home," which she starred in opposite actor/director Ty Hodges and "Video Girl," in which she also stared.

"I have a dream project brewing," Megan teased. "It involves music and faith. I'll share more. Until then, In Jesus time."

"In Jesus Time."

NEW YORK CITY EARNS 22 Emmy Awards and makes the city proud!

"If you can make it here," the popular ballad exclaims, "you can make it anywhere. New York, New York."

The popular phrase seems to be ringing true, especially with the recent wins that the city racked up at the 2014 Emmy Awards. A whopping 22 Primetime Emmies were earned by productions that are shot in New York City.

That's news that deserves celebration especially since the film and television industry contributes approximately $7.1 billion to the local economy annually.

That's billions of dollars trickling down to every sector of Gotham. The wins clearly made Mayor Bill De Blasio and the Media & Entertainment Commissioner Cynthia Lopez, "Made In New York" proud.

“Thousands of New Yorkers work in front of the camera and behind the scenes on ‘Made in NY’ TV shows," said the Mayor. "Were proud to see so many of our hardworking residents recognized by the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. From The Good Wife to The Colbert Report, our city’s thriving production industry is made up of countless award-winning actors, directors, costume designers, sound mixers, set decorators and others. Today’s 22 Primetime Emmy Awards confirm once again: New York City’s TV industry is growing more talented every day.”

Commissioner Cynthia López, recently appointed to her job as "media czar" for the

Mayor’s Office, shared De Blasio opportunistic view that the big Emmy win is an indicator of better financial days ahead for this growing sector of the city.

“The ‘Made in NY’ series honored by this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards show just how talented NYC’s creative community truly is," gushed Lopez, she continued.

"This year’s Emmy Award winners run the gamut from digital series like "Orange Is the New Black" to cultural institutions like "Saturday Night Live," "The Good Wife" to "The Normal Heart," with countless others in between. We've never been more proud to have these iconic productions call New York City home.”

To see the full list of winners go to -

http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news2014/080114emmyawards2014.shtml.

TRAILER JUST RELEASED: HBO's TERROR AT THE MALL to debut Mon. Sept. 15 at 9 PM

This morning HBO Documentary Films released the trailer and poster for its outstanding new docu TERROR AT THE MALL (Debuts Monday, Sept. 15 at 9 PM debut on HBO).

TRAILER: http://youtu.be/ZH5G9snHzc0 

Primetime Emmy-nominated filmmaker/director Dan Reed, who is based in the UK, will be available for interviews while in the U.S. for the premiere. He’ll be in NYC onSeptember 8 and 9 and in Seattle on September 10 and 11.

Here’s the poster and a draft announcement (a more formal announcement will follow).

HBO's TERROR AT THE MALL
Debuts Monday, September 15 at 9:00 PM on HBO

HBO's TERROR AT THE MALL, from director Dan Reed, follows from the filmmaker’s previous HBO films on urban terrorist attacks including Terror in Moscow and Terror in Mumbai (nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming). The documentary examines the Islamist group al-Shabaab’s storming of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which resulted in 67 deaths and over 200 injuries on September 21, 2013. The four terrorists who committed the attack were subsequently killed.

TERROR AT THE MALL provides the most complete record to date of what happened in the Westgate. With incredible editing and first-hand accounts from those involved, Reed pieces together riveting footage, allowing the viewer to follow the events around the mall, from camera to camera.

The film features previously unseen footage – including closed-circuit television footage from locations throughout the mall – and photographs of the tragedy. It also features exclusive interviews with survivors of the attack, including some who are now in the United States, a handful of heroic citizens and police officers, as well as Goran Tomasevic, chief photographer for East Africa for global news agency Reuters.

Incredibly, Reed and his team sorted through thousands of hours of footage from over 120 cameras that captured the attack happening in real-time. In my view, the film raises troubling questions about the handling of the event and response time of the Kenyan government, military and police force. And it offers lessons for the future.

NOTE: After its debut on Sept. 15th at 9 PM, TERROR AT THE MALL will have numerous additional airings throughout September and October on HBO and HBO2. It will also be available on HBO GO and HBO On Demand.