Lionsgate Scores THE PERFECT GAME and New Tools Help Parents Manage Online Play

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 05/19/2008 - Entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. City of Industry, CA - May 19, 2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. LIONSGATE(R) (NYSE: LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, announced recently that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights, excluding Mexico, from HighRoad Entertainment to THE PERFECT GAME, the true story of a scrappy Mexican Little League team that became the first non-American team to win the league's World Series.


Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL), a leading global character-based entertainment and licensing company, recently announced that Peter Cuneo, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and John Turitzin, Executive Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive and General Counsel, will present at the 6th Annual Wedbush Morgan Securities Management Access Conference on Thursday, May 22, 2008. Messrs. Cuneo and Turitzin will provide an overview presentation on Marvel's strategy and business which will commence at 9:30 a.m. EDT and will be available live via the Internet. The conference, which is being held at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City, is for institutional clients of Wedbush Morgan. The webcast is available to all listeners.

Disney Club Penguin.(NYSE: DIS) ,(www.clubpenguin.com), one of the most popular and fastest-growing virtual worlds for children, is offering parents new tools to provide greater control of, and involvement in, their child's online entertainment experience. Club Penguin's new parent features allow adults to logon and view their child's account history (including any bans and account payments), change their child's password and choose whether their child can chat by selecting from pre-approved phrases or by typing in their own messages. An integrated timer, which lets parents set the time of day and duration of their child's visit to Club Penguin, will be released later this month.

EPIC Corporation (OTC: EPIO) (the "Company"), a multi-media communications and broadcasting company, announced that two shareholders have returned 15 Million shares of EPIC's common stock to the Company and the shares have been cancelled and returned to authorized but unissued shares. The issued and outstanding shares of the Company is now 11,262,023 shares. The Company, in exchange for the cancellation of the shares, agreed to issue the shareholders shares in the newly formed EPIC Communications Corp., a majority owned subsidiary of the Company, which is to become the multi-media communications and broadcasting operating company.

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