Holding(s) in Company

TR-1 (i) NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached (ii):

CINEWORLD GROUP PLC

2. Reason for the notification                                     State       
                                                                   Yes/No      
                                                                               
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                         Yes        
                                                                               
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which                      
may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to                      
which voting rights are attached                                               
                                                                               
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                               
                                                                               
Other (please specify):                                                        

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification        The Goldman Sachs 
obligation (iii):                                               Group, Inc.    
                                                                               
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (iv):    Goldman Sachs   
                                                               International   
                                                                               
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold   8 October 2007   
is crossed or reached if different) (v):                                       
                                                                               
6. Date on which issuer notified:                             10 October 2007  
                                                                               
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:                     7%         
                                                                               
8. Notified details:                                                           

A: Voting rights attached to shares

 Class/type of  Situation previous     Resulting situation after the triggering   
   shares if     to the Triggering                transaction (vii)               
possible using   transaction (vi)                                                 
 the ISIN CODE                                                                    
                                                                                  
                Number of Number of Number of   Number of voting     % of voting  
                 Shares    Voting     shares       rights (ix)         rights     
                           Rights                                                 
                           (viii)                                                 
                                                                                  
                                      Direct   Direct (x) Indirect Direct Indirect
                                                            (xi)                  
                                                                                  
 GB00B15FWH70   9,885,994 9,885,994 10,462,851 10,462,851           7.38          
                                                                                  

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)

  Type of     Expiration      Exercise/       Number of voting     % of voting 
 financial   date (xiii)  Conversion Period  rights that may be      rights    
 instrument                 / Date (xiv)       acquired if the                 
                                                instrument is                  
                                             exercised/converted               

Total (A+B)                                                                    
                                                                               
Number of voting rights            % of voting rights                          
                                                                               
10,462,851                         7.38%                                       

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are
effectively held, if applicable (xv):

The interest in 10,462,851 shares arose from a beneficial interest held by     
Goldman Sachs International, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS Inc.     
These shares are, or will be, registered at CREST in account CREPTEMP.         

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:                       N/A                        
                                                                               
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease N/A                        
to hold:                                                                       
                                                                               
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold   N/A                        
voting rights:                                                                 

13. Additional information:            General email contact:                  
                                                                               
                                       [e-mail]           
                                                                               
14. Contact name:                      Joanne Wall / Sean Rogers / Alan Cox    
                                                                               
15. Contact telephone number:          0207 051 1704 / 0207 552 9205 / 0207 774
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