Weinsteins, RHI Announce Alliance

NEW YORK/SANTA MONICA, December 11: The Weinstein Company
(TWC) has inked a deal to co-produce and co-finance a slate of series,
mini-series and TV movies with RHI Entertainment.

TWC and RHI will co-produce a range of titles over the next
five years. Genius Products, in which the Weinsteins own a 70-percent stake,
will handle the worldwide home video rights, while TV rights will be
represented by RHI.

In addition, under a separate multi-year distribution
agreement, Genius Products has become the North American home video distributor
of RHI's library of series and film programming, totaling more than 600 hours.
Genius will also distribute on home video in the U.S. new titles from RHI
outside of the TWC alliance, including some 40 TV movies for the U.S. cable
networks Spike TV, SCI FI and Hallmark.