William D. Ellis Appointed General Counsel Of Reading International, Inc.

Reading International, Inc.

announced today the appointment of William D. Ellis as its General Counsel and Secretary. In this position, Mr. Ellis will oversee all legal affairs of the Company. Mr. Ellis has more than thirty years of hands-on legal experience as a real estate lawyer. He has spent the last sixteen years as a partner in the real estate group at Sidley Austin LLP. Before that, he worked at the law firm of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. Mr. Ellis began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer (handling corporate acquisitions, IPO's, mergers, etc.) and then moved on to real estate specialization (handling leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development, and land use and entitlement across the United States). He had a substantial real estate practice in New York and Hawaii, which will help us with our real estate and cinema developments there. Mr. Ellis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College with a B.A. degree in Political Science; thereafter, he received his J.D. in 1982 from the University of Michigan Law School.