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Lionsgate's(R) MAD MEN Triumphs at Primetime Emmys(R) with Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing
Series Receives Total of 6 Emmy(R) Awards and Makes History as First Basic
Cable Program to Win Top Drama Series Prize
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 22 -- LIONSGATE'S
(NYSE: LGF) acclaimed AMC drama MAD MEN triumphed at the 60th Annual
Primetime Emmy(R) Awards on Sunday, September 21 with wins for Outstanding
Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. This marks the
first time a basic cable program has ever claimed the top drama series
prize.
Sunday's wins brought MAD MEN's total number of Emmy(R) Awards to six.
The series picked up trophies for Art Direction, Cinematography,
Hairstyling and Main Title Design at the September 13 Creative Arts
Emmys(R) and received 16 total Emmy(R) nominations - the most of any drama
series this year - and of any basic cable program in history.
"We're extremely proud of MAD MEN and want to thank the TV Academy for
this tremendous recognition," said Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate's president of
programming and production. "We salute Matt Weiner, the outstanding cast
and all the other exceptional artists involved in the making of this
groundbreaking show."
MAD MEN's Primetime Emmy(R) Awards are:
* Outstanding Drama Series - Matthew Weiner, Executive Producer; Tom
Palmer, Co- Executive Producer; Scott Hornbacher, Lisa Albert, Andre
Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Producers
* Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" -
Matthew Weiner, Written By
Produced by Lionsgate in association with AMC, MAD MEN is currently in
its second season. The series has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim since
its premiere and has earned a host of honors, including Golden Globe Awards
for Best Television Series - Drama, and Best Performance by an Actor in a
Television Series - Drama (Jon Hamm); an AFI Award as One of the Top 10
Outstanding Television Programs of 2007; a Peabody Award; a Writers Guild
Award for Best New Series; a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Dramatic Series; an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence
in Production Design; and TCA Awards for Program of the Year, Outstanding
New Program and Outstanding Achievement in Drama.
Set in early 1960's New York, the series follows the lives of the
ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.
Produced by Lionsgate in association with AMC, the series is created,
written and executive produced by Matthew Weiner ("The Sopranos") and stars
2007 Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL),
Elisabeth Moss ("The West Wing"), Vincent Kartheiser ("Angel"), January
Jones (THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA), Christina Hendricks ("Kevin
Hill") and John Slattery (FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS), and guest stars legendary
stage and screen actor Robert Morse (HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT
REALLY TRYING). Also starring are Michael Gladis ("Third Watch"), Aaron
Staton (AUGUST RUSH), Rich Sommer (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA) and Bryan Batt
(JEFFREY).
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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 highly successful FEARNet branded VOD and
Internet horror channel with Sony and Comcast, the recent announcement of
the fall 2009 launch of a new premium entertainment channel 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
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the UK, Hoyts and Sony in Australia and Eros International in India.
The Company has generated more than $450 million at the North American
theatrical box office in the past year and has released a string of hits
including The Forbidden Kingdom, Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns, The Bank
Job, Rambo, The Eye, Saw IV, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?, Good
Luck Chuck, 3:10 To Yuma and War, most of which have opened at #1 or #2 at
the box office. The Company 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 and The Dead Zone, among others, 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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