One of the Best Films of the Year

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ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR.”

– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“AN ASTONISHING MOVIE, A TRUE STORY ABOUT COURAGE, UNDYING DETERMINATION, AND HOPE. IT IS UNFORGETTABLE.”

-Jeffrey Lyons, ”Extra”/ WCBS Radio

Academy Award® Nominee Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor Star In The Critically Acclaimed Film Based On ATrue Story, Arriving On Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View April 23

Early Digital Window Begins April 2

SANTA MONICA, CA, February 4,2013 –A family faces unbelievable odds in the celebrated drama The Impossible,starring two-time Academy Award®nominee* Naomi Watts, Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) and newcomer Tom Holland.Directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage) and based on the harrowing real-life experience of one family during the Indian Ocean tsunami, the film arrives on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), DVD (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View April 23 from Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE company. The Impossible will also be available on EST April 2, three weeks prior to the Blu-ray, DVD and Video on Demand release.

Garnering Academy Award®, Golden Globe® Award, Broadcast Film Critics Award® and Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations for her powerful performance, Watts portrays Maria, a mother fighting to reunite her family after one of the largest disasters in recent history. Tom Holland, in his astonishing film debut, also earned a Broadcast Film Critics Award® for his performance in the daring drama as her eldest son. The ImpossibleBlu-ray and DVDbonus features includedeleted scenes, two behind-the-scenes featurettes and an audio commentary with the director, writer and producers of the film along with María Belón, the woman whose family experience is the story on which the film is based.Apublic service announcement (PSA) from the Happy Hearts Fund is also included on the Blu-ray and DVD. The Happy Hearts Fund is a non-profit foundation dedicated to rebuilding schools and restoring hope and opportunity in the lives of children after natural disasters. The Impossible Blu-ray and DVD and will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.

The Impossible is the unforgettable account of a family caught with tens of thousands of strangers in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria (Watts) and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives. Both epic and intimate, devastating and uplifting, The Impossible is a journey to the core of the human heart.

*Actress in a Leading Role, The Impossible, 2012 and Actress in a Leading Role, 21 Grams, 2003

BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*

Audio commentary with director J.A. Bayona, writer Sergio G. Sánchez and producer Belén Atienza and María Belón
“Casting The Impossible” featurette
“Realizing The Impossible” featurette
Deleted Scenes

*Subject to change

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

Street Date:April 23, 2013

Price:$39.99 Blu-ray / $29.95 DVD

Rating: PG-13 for intense realistic disaster sequences, including disturbing injury images and brief nudity

Run Time: 114 minutes

Type:Theatrical Release

Genre:Drama

Blu-ray Closed Captioned:English SDH

DVD Closed Captioned:English

Subtitles:English and Spanish

Blu-ray Format:1080P High Definition 16x9 Widescreen (2.35:1)

DVD Format:16x9 Widescreen (2.35:1)

Blu-ray Audio Status:English 5.1 DTS Master Audio and Spanish 5.1 DTS Master Audio

DVD Audio Status:English and Spanish5.1 Dolby Digital

ABOUT SUMMIT

Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE® company, is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio. The company handles all aspects of marketing and distribution for both its own internally developed motion pictures as well as acquired pictures.

ABOUT LIONSGATE

Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of primetime cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 23 shows on 16 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men, the critically acclaimed series Weeds, Nurse Jackie, the comedyAnger Management, which has been picked up for another 90 episodes by FX, the network series Nashville, picked up for a full season of 22 episodes by ABC, the syndication successes Tyler Perry's House of Payne, its spinoff Meet the Browns, The Wendy Williams Show, Are We There Yet? and the upcoming Orange Is The New Black, an original series for Netflix.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, the 13th highest-grossing domestic box office release of all time, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn – Part 2, which has grossed more than $800 million at the worldwide box office, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Possession, Sinister, The Expendables 2, Cabin in the Woods, Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection and Arbitrage. With the January 2012 acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the Company has now added the blockbuster Twilight Saga, which has grossed more than $3.3 billion at the worldwide box office, to its current slate, giving the Company the two premier young adult franchises in the world. Recent Summit hits include Red, Letters to Juliet, Knowing and the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, The Hurt Locker.

Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 15,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses.The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.

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