ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA OPENS SOUTHERN EUROPEAN OFFICE - GWENDAL AUFFRET APPOINTED AS MANAGING DIRECTOR

LONDON, 14 June, 2007 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital distribution services, has announced the opening of a new office in Paris, which will be the headquarters of the company’s digital cinema operations for Southern Europe. The new office will cover territories including France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, and will support AAM’s European-wide commercial digital cinema rollout.

Gwendal Auffret has been appointed to lead the operations of the new base. Auffret, who was previously CEO of Éclair Digital Cinema, will work with a team based in Paris to coordinate installation and operation of DCI-compliant digital cinema equipment in cinemas across Southern Europe, as well as negotiating with distributors and exhibitors across the region. The base will provide local support and expertise for AAM’s planned future growth and expansion of operations, following the expected agreement of Virtual Print Fee (VPF) deals with studios and exhibitors.

Howard Kiedaisch, CEO of Arts Alliance Media, said “It’s great to be able to announce this big step forward in AAM’s pan-European digital cinema rollout, and we’re thrilled that we have someone as experienced in European digital cinema as Gwendal to run our new operation.”

Gwendal Auffret commented “Arts Alliance Media is a very forward thinking company which has all the cards in hand to really make digital cinema happen in Europe and I am delighted to be working as part of the team”

Auffret has been working in the digital cinema industry for many years, and has extensive experience of negotiating with studios, European distributors and exhibitors for the transition to digital cinema in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, and also forming strategic partnerships with manufacturers and service providers for deployment operations in Europe. Gwendal holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC, France). He started out his career at the Forum des Images, were he was responsible for the digitization of a film archive (over 6700 films) and the modernization of the fully automated video consultation services.

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For more information, please contact:

Kate Pidgeon, Arts Alliance Media

kate@artsalliancemedia.com / +44 (0)20 7751 7512

Notes to Editors:

About Arts Alliance Media:

· Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London, is Europe's leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.

· For digital cinema, AAM provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.

· Arts Alliance Media has recently completed the installation of all 240 screens of the UK Film Council’s Digital Screen Network.

· AAM is participating in Odeon’s commercial digital cinema trial in the UK, and also operates a digital cinema circuit in Norway.

· For Download-to-Rent and Download-to-Own, AAM provides ISPs, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and securely distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences, powered by the Vizumi Network.

· Arts Alliance Media has digital distribution deals with Universal Pictures, Sony, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Momentum, Icon, Fremantle, Tartan, Discovery Networks, and Revolver Entertainment, amongst others.

· AAM owned LOVEFiLM.com, Europe's largest online DVD rental company, until the LOVEFiLM/Video Island merger in April 2006. AAM remains the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, the merged company, and provides the technology and content for digital distribution.

· For more information, visit: www.artsalliancemedia.com and www.vizumi.com

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