Macrovision Signs DVD Copy Protection Agreement with Lions Gate Home Entertainme

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Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) announced today that Lions Gate Home Entertainment, a division of Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE:LGF) (TSX:LGF) has signed a multi-year agreement that extends their use of Macrovision's technology to copy protect DVD releases. Lions Gate Entertainment is a leading independent producer and distributor with new movies such as Open Water, The Cookout and Fahrenheit 9/11, television series such as "The Dead Zone" and "Missing" and one of the largest home video libraries containing titles such as Cabin Fever, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper and "Will and Grace." Lions Gate also manages a broad distribution system that delivers home video product directly to over 12,000 retail stores in the United States.