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Rainmaker Entertainment Appoints Former MGM Executive Steve Hendry to Board of Directors
[July 21, 2014]

Rainmaker Entertainment Appoints Former MGM Executive Steve Hendry to Board of Directors


(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/21/14 -- Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. ("Rainmaker" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: RNK) has appointed former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. ("MGM") executive Steve Hendry to the Board of Directors. The decision was made at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on July 17, 2014, and announced today by Rainmaker's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Craig Graham.



"Steve's background in the entertainment industry and wealth of financial knowledge are of tremendous value to Rainmaker, particularly as we expand our focus beyond work for hire projects towards developing our own intellectual property, as well as building our slate of television content under our Mainframe Entertainment division," commented Graham.

Hendry joins Rainmaker's current Board of Director's Tim McElvaine, Craig Graham, Jeff Sackman and Patrick Ryan.


Hendry currently serves as an Advisor to several media companies, as well as a visiting Professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior, he served as Senior Executive Vice President of Television Operations at MGM and was responsible for financial operations, forecasting, planning and analysis for the division, which encompassed Television and Digital Distribution, Television Production and Worldwide Channels. His September 2011 appointment to that position followed a 13-year career with the company in various senior finance roles, including Senior Executive Vice President, Finance and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Hendry was instrumental in the financial and corporate restructuring of the studio from 2005 to 2010. Previous career highlights include Vice President, Worldwide Planning, at Virgin Interactive; and Executive Director, Financial Reporting at Paramount Pictures.

Hendry began his career in the Entertainment Group of Ernst & Young. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia. Hendry is a CPA (California) and a Chartered Accountant (British Columbia).

Rainmaker Entertainment is currently working on its second theatrical feature, Ratchet and Clank®, in partnership with Blockade Entertainment, based on the bestselling PlayStation® video game franchise published by Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) and developed by acclaimed game developer Insomniac Games. The film is slated for release in 2015. Rainmaker's film unit also continues to provide CG animation production services to partners, and is currently in production on a feature-length Barbie DVD movie for Mattel. Since announcing its return to television development and production in 2013 under the Mainframe Entertainment banner, two animated series are currently in the pipeline. In Fall 2013, the company announced its plans to develop a new version of its iconic CG-animated ReBoot series, and in April 2014, began production for HIT Entertainment of 104 10-minute episodes of the new CG-animated Bob the Builder series.

About Rainmaker Entertainment Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. is a multifaceted animation studio and one of Canada's largest producers of CG animation. On February 15, 2013, Rainmaker's first feature film, Escape From Planet Earth (distributed by The Weinstein Company), opened on 3200 screens across North America. Originally established as Mainframe Entertainment, the company produced the first ever CGI animation series, ReBoot, and over the course of its 15+ years of innovative history, Rainmaker has continued to break new ground in animation, telling engaging stories and creating compelling characters for all media. In addition to projects Rainmaker has produced with partners and clients including Mattel, The Weinstein Company, Hasbro, Lionsgate and Sony, Rainmaker also develops proprietary projects for both film and television. For more information, visit www.rainmaker.com.

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Contacts: For Media: Carol Holdsworth/Michelle Orsi Three.Sixty Marketing & Communications [email protected]/[email protected] 805.252.1848/310.418.6430 For Investor Relations: Bryant Pike, CFO Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.

[email protected] 604.714.2600 Source: Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.

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