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Rainmaker Post And Rainmaker Visual Effects To Be Acquired By DeluxeNov 29, 2007
VANCOUVER, B.C. November 29, 2007 – Rainmaker Income Fund (“Rainmaker”) (TSX: RNK-un) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell two divisions of its wholly owned subsidiary Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. (“Deluxe”). The purchase by Deluxe will include Vancouver-based Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post, and Rainmaker's London, England, visual effects facility. It will not include the Rainmaker Animation division based in Vancouver.
Rainmaker, an award winning pioneer with a 28-year history in the Canadian post production services industry, is an industry leader and the largest visual effects and animation company in Canada. The sale to Deluxe will allow Rainmaker Entertainment to concentrate solely on CG animation and content ownership. Rainmaker is in production on Escape From Planet Earth, a theatrical feature film for The Weinstein Company and in development on a 3D stereoscopic feature film trilogy based on ReBoot, Rainmaker’s classic television series. Deluxe, the leading provider of a broad range of entertainment services and technologies to the film industry, has been strategically adding to its slate of companies worldwide. Extending its laboratory, post production and visual effects capabilities to Vancouver and expanding to high-end visual effects resources in London, is the next logical step in Deluxe’s full-service offerings to customers throughout the global entertainment industry. With its many long-standing customer relationships, the acquisition of Rainmaker is ideally suited for Deluxe to better serve its client base in Vancouver and London. ”Rainmaker is a perfect fit for Deluxe. This acquisition will only enhance the stature of the industry in Vancouver,” says Warren Franklin, CEO of Rainmaker. “The completion of the sale to Deluxe will allow Rainmaker Entertainment to fully focus on becoming a world leader in computer animated films and to accelerate the development of its own film properties. Vancouver, with its strong talent pool, excellent training facilities and robust industry incentives is poised to be at the forefront of digital technology and creative growth.” “We are excited to be acquiring one of Canada's leading postproduction facilities. Entering the Vancouver market is a natural extension for us and who better to do it with than Rainmaker," said Cyril Drabinsky, CEO and President of Deluxe. “Clients shooting in Vancouver will now have the choice of processing or digitizing their dailies locally with Deluxe before completing their projects through any one of Deluxe’s film and digital finishing facilities worldwide,” adds Drabinsky. Completion of the acquisition by Deluxe is subject to the approval of Heritage Canada and to other customary conditions. The transaction is expected to be completed on December 31, 2007. About Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. Rainmaker, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is an award-winning visual effects, 3D animation and post-production company with a 28 year history of technical excellence and outstanding service in feature films, television, games and commercials. From its origins in the pioneering west coast post house Gastown Productions, Rainmaker has grown into one of North America's pre-eminent post-production service providers. Rainmaker has three divisions -- Rainmaker Animation, Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post. Rainmaker also operates a facility in London -- Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects UK Ltd. (Rainmaker UK). www.rainmaker.com About Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., is the leading provider of a broad range of entertainment industry services and technologies to major Hollywood Studios and an international client base. Services include motion picture film processing, printing and distribution; EFILM digital intermediates; post production and subtitling services; titles design and digital VFX; DVD compression, encoding and authoring; digital cinema services, digital asset management, digital distribution; and marketing fulfillment services. Deluxe facilities include: Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, and coming soon, New York. For more information, please visit www.bydeluxe.com ### Additional information regarding the proposed sale transaction and other publicly filed documents relating to the Fund, including the interim financial statements and management discussion and analysis are available through the internet on the Canadian Securities Administrators’ System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”), which can be accessed at www.sedar.com. The Fund is an unincorporated open-ended limited purpose trust located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Fund indirectly owns 100% of Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. (“REI”), EP Canada Limited Partnership (“EP”) and Canada Film Capital Limited Partnership (“CFC”). REI is an award-winning computer generated animation company providing superior service, innovative technology and world-class talent to produce animated feature films, television, direct to DVD, games and commercials. EP is a leading provider of payroll services for the film and television industry across Canada. CFC provides tax credit administration services and financing of tax credits through factoring for film and television productions across Canada. This press release and any related attachments may contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainty. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are difficulties, delays or the inability to obtain the approval of Heritage Canada or the failure of the parties to satisfy customary closing conditions, market and general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in the periodic reports and documents filed by the Fund with The Toronto Stock Exchange and other regulatory authorities. Forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions of management on the date the statements are made, and the Fund undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements should there be a change in conditions, or in management’s estimates or opinions. The contents of this press release have neither been approved nor disapproved by any regulatory authority. Media Contacts: Rita Cahill Ellen Pasternack 604-874-8700 pr@rainmaker.com |
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