Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Rejects Five Lions Gate Nominees to Image Entertainment Board.

ISS Declares That Lions Gate Has "No Vision" For Image

CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Image Entertainment (Nasdaq:DISK) announced today that Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has issued its analysis of the proxy contest initiated by dissident shareholder Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE:LGF), which recommends that Image stockholders reject five of Lions Gate's nominees to Image's Board of Directors at the Company's upcoming October 10 annual meeting. In recommending that shareholders withhold their votes from all but one of the dissident nominees, ISS -- which Lions Gate itself acknowledges is "the leading independent proxy voting advisory service" -- further advises that "shareholders must be willing to have faith in the incumbent's vision," including Image's upcoming release of major motion pictures on DVD and the monetization of the extensive library of digital rights of Image's wholly-owned subsidiary Egami Media. "Any vision," says ISS, "is arguably better than no vision, which is what LGF has offered to date."

ISS also expresses particular concern that Lions Gate may be attempting to use its board nominees to "stack the deck" in favor of its inadequate bid to acquire the company "regardless of whether such bid is in the best interests of shareholders." ISS further cautions that "the dissidents have not presented shareholders with a detailed operational plan, including those that would run the company if current management were to be removed (or leave) or even proposals for specific governance changes."

The Company recommends that stockholders use Image's WHITE proxy card to vote "FOR" all of Image's nominees and NOT sign or return Lions Gate's blue proxy card, which stockholders should discard.

About Image Entertainment:

Image Entertainment, Inc. is a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, with over 3,000 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 200 exclusive CD titles in domestic release and approximately 300 programs internationally via sublicense agreements. For many of its titles, the Company has exclusive audio and broadcast rights and, through its subsidiary Egami Media, Inc., has digital download rights to more than 1,500 video programs and over 150 audio programs containing more than 2,500 tracks. The Company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California, and has a domestic distribution facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Company's subsidiary Image Entertainment (UK) maintains a content acquisition office in London, England. For more information about Image Entertainment, Inc., please go to www.image-entertainment.com.

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