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[12/11/08 - 01:38 PM]
Lionsgate(R) Scores Five Golden Globe(R) Nominations for Its Acclaimed Series Mad Men and Weeds, Adding to Nods This Week from the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild
"We thank the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild for once again recognizing MAD MEN and WEEDS," said Lionsgate's Kevin Beggs.

[via press release from Lionsgate]

Lionsgate(R) Scores Five Golden Globe(R) Nominations for Its Acclaimed Series MAD MEN and WEEDS, Adding to Nods This Week From the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 11 -- Lionsgate's (R) (NYSE: LGF) acclaimed AMC drama MAD MEN and hit Showtime comedy WEEDS received a total of five Golden Globe(R) nominations today, including nods for Best Television Series - Drama, and Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical, respectively.

MAD MEN also picked up nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Jon Hamm and Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama for January Jones. Both MAD MEN and Hamm won Golden Globe Awards(R) last year.

WEEDS' star Mary-Louise Parker scored a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical. This marks the fourth consecutive nomination for Parker, who won a Golden Globe(R) Award for her work in the first season of the hit series.

Earlier this week, MAD MEN and WEEDS were nominated by the Writers Guild of America for awards in the Drama Series and Comedy Series categories, respectively. Both were also recognized with nominations from the Producers Guild of America, with WEEDS earning a nod for The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television -- Comedy, and MAD MEN receiving a nomination for The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television -- Drama.

"We thank the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild for once again recognizing MAD MEN and WEEDS," said Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate's president of programming and production, "and we congratulate our nominees and extraordinary creative teams who strive to set the bar higher each year."

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.





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