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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Image Entertainment Acquires
Spine-Chilling TV Show
"THRILLER"
For 2010 Release
Hailed by writer Stephen King as "the best horror series ever to make it to TV."
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:DISK), a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, announced today that it has acquired the North American rights to the television program Thriller from NBC/Universal. The program ranks with The Twilight Zone as one of the most influential and best-remembered fantastic shows from TV's golden age, and has never been released before on DVD anywhere in the world.
The anthology series was aired from 1960 to 1962 and hosted by horror legend Boris Karloff, famous for such films as Frankenstein and Black Sabbath. Stories featured a wide array of stars including William Shatner, Leslie Nielsen, Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Montgomery, Rip Torn, Richard Chamberlain, Cloris Leachman, Robert Vaughn, John Carradine, Ursula Andress, and many more. These blood-curdling tales were based on the works of several noted horror and mystery writers including Robert Bloch (Psycho) and Edgar Allan Poe.
The entire remastered series will be released next year as a deluxe collector's box set containing all 67 episodes. Extensive special features are currently being developed including numerous illuminating audio commentaries for many of the best-loved episodes along with other never-before-seen extras.
About Image Entertainment:
Image Entertainment, Inc. is a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, with approximately 3,200 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 340 exclusive CD titles in domestic release and approximately 400 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 approximately 2,000 video programs and over 300 audio titles containing more than 5,100 individual tracks. The Company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California.
  
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