City Lights Home Entertainment Secures North American Distribution Rights to Academy...

City Lights Home Entertainment Secures North American Distribution Rights to Academy Award(R)-Winning Indie Classic ''Kiss of the Spider Woman''

Available on DVD and Blu-Ray for the First Time

Special Collector's Edition Video Package will include
never-before-seen footage and a full-length documentary: Tangled Web:
Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
City Lights Home Entertainment has acquired DVD, digital and
television distribution rights to Academy Award(R)-Winning Indie
Classic Kiss of the Spider Woman. The feature film starring William
Hurt, Raul Julia, and Sonia Braga, along with a surprising and
never-before-seen feature length documentary "Tangled Web: Making Kiss
of the Spider Woman", will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and digitally
for the first time in North America at a future date to be announced.

This groundbreaking film (the first independent ever to receive
the top four Oscar(R) nominations including Best Picture and Best
Director for Hector Babenco), adapted for the screen by Academy
Award(R) nominated screenwriter Leonard Schrader and produced by David
Weisman from Manuel Puig's novel set in a non-specific Latin American
country, takes a penetrating look at the role of sex and politics
under an oppressive right-wing regime. The timeless story, more
relevant today than ever, follows the complex relationship between two
distinctly different men with opposite views about life - building
with powerful emotional crescendo as they gradually come together in a
stunningly transcendental conclusion. Hurt delivers an
Oscar(R)-winning performance in this captivating tribute to the power
of film and fantasy as escape from inhumane conditions.

Sal Scamardo, President of City Lights Home Entertainment, said
""Kiss of the Spider Woman" is the award-winning feature film that
changed the industry against all odds and symbolizes the pure spirit
of independent filmmaking. As an emerging major independent film and
video studio, City Lights Pictures and Home Entertainment is thrilled
to preserve and promote that spirit by bringing this amazing film to
market on DVD and Blu-Ray for the first time in North America for
audiences to enjoy."

The deal was brokered by City Lights Home Entertainment President,
Sal Scamardo and negotiated by Mark Ragone, EVP, Business Affairs for
City Lights Media Group and attorney Chase Mellen III on behalf of the
film's producer, David Weisman.

City Lights Home Entertainment, in partnership with
Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation (WEA), acquires, produces, and
distributes high quality entertainment fare for DVD and digital
consumption. As an emerging independent theatrical and non-theatrical
supplier, City Lights Home Entertainment is in the unique position to
draw from its vast internal resources including its own theatrical
film, television and digital production divisions, in addition to
third-party co-production and distribution arrangements for video
consumption around the world. Recent releases include: "The Ten",
starring Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba and Winona Ryder, Rosario Dawson's
"Descent", "Brooklyn Rules" starring Alec Baldwin, Sundance Grand Jury
Prize winning documentary "Manda Bala", Holocaust documentary "A
Generation Apart", and the critically acclaimed foreign gem "The Year
My Parents Went on Vacation", Brazil's Official Selection for the 2008
Academy Awards. For more information please visit
www.citylightsmedia.com.

Rubenstein Public Relations
Isabel Quinteros, 212-843-8027
iquinteros@rubensteinpr.com

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