LIONSGATE(R) Feasts on THE HUNGER GAMES

    Studio Acquires Worldwide Distribution Rights To Color Force's Film
Version Of Suzanne Collins' Best Selling Futuristic Young Adult Novel

    Collins To Pen Screenplay Based On First Novel In Her Projected Trilogy

    SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LIONSGATE(R)
(NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation studio, announced today that it has
acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins'
best selling futuristic young adult novel THE HUNGER GAMES.  Collins will
adapt the screenplay from her novel, the first in a trilogy.  Nina Jacobson is
producing through her Color Force shingle.  The announcement was made by Joe
Drake, Lionsgate President, Motion Picture Group, and Co-Chief Operating
Officer.

    "The Hunger Games" was published by Scholastic last year, and has been
singled out for raves by "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer.  The trilogy's
eagerly anticipated second installment, "Catching Fire," is due out September
1, 2009.

    Lionsgate President of Motion Picture Production, Alli Shearmur, will
oversee the production for the studio, along with Lionsgate Senior Vice
President of Motion Picture Production, Jim Miller.

    Said Shearmur, "THE HUNGER GAMES is an incredible property and it is a
thrill to bring it home to Lionsgate.  This is the exactly the kind of movie I
came to Lionsgate to make: youthful, exciting, smart and edgy.   We are
looking forward to working with Nina and Suzanne to create a movie that
satisfies audiences' hunger for high-quality entertainment."

    Said Jacobson, "I am thrilled to have Lionsgate as a partner in THE
HUNGER GAMES. The suspense of THE HUNGER GAMES is heightened by its spirit of
moral inquiry, and Suzanne has entrusted Lionsgate and me to bring that moral
perspective to the adaptation - a charge we fully intend to honor."

    The deal was negotiated for Lionsgate by Miller and Robert Melnik,
Lionsgate Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs; and by Jason
Dravis of Monteiro/Rose/Dravis, on behalf of Collins and Color Force.

    SYNOPSIS

    A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay
tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in
the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.  When Katniss
Everdeen's little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take
her place.  Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss,
she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life
against love in order to win the games and return home.

    Since its publication in September 2008, Suzanne Collins's award-winning
novel "The Hunger Games" has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list
for 25 consecutive weeks to date, and rights for 32 foreign-language editions
have been licensed.  "The Hunger Games" won the 2008-9 Cybils Award for Young
Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction.  It was named a New York Times Notable Book
of 2008; a 2008 Horn Book Fanfare Book; a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008;
a School Library Journal Best Book of 2008; a 2008 Booklist Editors' Choice; a
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; and a Kirkus Best Book of 2008.

    ABOUT LIONSGATE

    Lionsgate is the 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 through a series of partnerships that include the
operation of the FEARNet branded VOD and Internet horror channel with Sony and
Comcast, the expected fall 2009 launch of EPIX, the new premium entertainment
channel with partners Viacom and MGM, investment in the leading young men's
digital distribution platform Break.com, ownership of the premier independent
television syndication company Debmar-Mercury and an alliance with independent
filmed entertainment production and distribution company Roadside Attractions.
Lionsgate also has forged partnerships with leading content creators, owners
and distributors in key territories around the world, including Televisa in
the U.S. and Latin America, StudioCanal in the UK, Hoyts and Sony in Australia
and Eros International in India.  Most recently, Lionsgate acquired the TV
Guide Network and TVGuide.com, in a transaction that closed as of February 28,
2009.

    The Company has generated one of the industry's leading North American
theatrical box office market shares for calendar 2009 to date, propelled by
successes such as Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail, which achieved the largest
opening weekend in Lionsgate history, and My Bloody Valentine 3D.   Lionsgate
has forged strong 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," and "The Dead Zone," and nearly 7% 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.

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    For further information, contact:

    Sarah Greenberg
    310-255-3856
    sgreenberg@lionsgate.com

    For corporate inquiries, please contact:

    Peter D. Wilkes
    pwilkes@lionsgate.com
    310-255-3726

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